I hope people realize how absolutely fucked this situation is.
This isn’t normal. People are resigning all over the place because the government is mishandling our data, ruining our public health services, and generally making Americans less safe.
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First, they came for John Bolton
And I did speak out
Because even though I'm not a nutty right-wing warmonger with a ridiculous mustache,
I am an American who is horrified by a simple-minded tyrant using our Justice Department to avenge his petty, personal grudges.
Trump’s hypocrisy hits new high as this draft-dodging self proclaimed “war hero” — who called our fallen “suckers & losers” — salutes our military in a baseball cap while DEFUNDING VETERANS AFFAIRS!!! Read on below:
Frey: And don't just say, this is about thoughts and prayers right now. These kids were literally praying. It was the first week of school. They were in a church.
War is still raging in Ukraine. Measles outbreak. US cities under siege. Gas, coffee, grocery prices are all up. No tax on tips. Value of the US dollar down. Radioactive shrimp? Millions thrown off health insurance while the plague makes a comeback... And still no Epstein files.
NOW: Pete Hegseth just amplified a preacher who thinks women shouldn’t be allowed to VOTE.
This from the man who commands thousands of women in uniform from his Pentagon office.
Is he drunk?
"Trump also seeks political control over agencies that have long operated at arm’s length from the White House, like the Bureau of Labor Statistics and Federal Reserve. That, too, has echoes of China where the bureaucracy is fully subordinate to the ruling party..."
www.wsj.com/economy/the-...
@allegralawhardy & I have this new piece up on the fate of the Voting Rights Act slate.com/news-and-pol...
Let's focus on qualifications: Antoni finished grad school 5 years ago at Northern Illinois with no distinction. Dissertation: No focus on labor or data collection. Zero publications. One lifetime citation (by a former colleague).
This record would not earn you a job as junior economist at BLS.
If you think same sex marriage is safe, consider that in his Dobbs concurrence, Justice Alito wrote
“we should reconsider..Obergefell. Because any substantive due process decision is ‘demonstrably erroneous,’..we have a duty to ‘correct the error’..overruling these demonstrably erroneous decisions”
Sending the National Guard into DC because of crime -- when crime is down 25% -- is simply abuse of power to DISTRACT FROM EPSTEIN.
And where was the National Guard on Jan 6 when we truly had a crisis?
While you were doing laundry….it was already happening elsewhere.
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Stop what you're doing and listen to this warning from @marcelias.bsky.social about the real reason for Trump's National Guard deployment in DC.
The new head of US labor statistics recorded a podcast promoting Project 2025.
There you have it.
Obergefell v. Hodges made me believe in the whole "arc of history bends towards justice." In the 90s, I didn't think gay marriage would be legalized in my lifetime because homophobia was so deeply ingrained. We would have never gotten here without the decision and now it may be overturned.
Here’s a 🔥🔥exchange between me and Mick Mulvaney during @mehdirhasan.bsky.social's brilliant interview of Mulvaney on Al Jazeera's Head to Head. The whole episode is worth a watch, and you can find it on @aljazeera.com's YouTube channel.
dan balz upon retiring his column after 47 years at the washington post:
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Thank you, Sen. Schiff, for staying focused and seeking always to hold him accountable.
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) announced today that it will begin an orderly wind-down of its operations following the passage of a federal rescissions package and the release of the Senate Appropriations Committee’s FY 2026 Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies (Labor-H) appropriations bill, which excludes funding for CPB for the first time in more than five decades. For nearly 60 years, CPB has carried out its Congressional mission to build and sustain a trusted public media system that informs, educates, and serves communities across the country. Through partnerships with local stations and producers, CPB has supported educational content, locally relevant journalism, emergency communications, cultural programming, and essential services for Americans in every community. “Despite the extraordinary efforts of millions of Americans who called, wrote, and petitioned Congress to preserve federal funding for CPB, we now face the difficult reality of closing our operations,” said CPB President and CEO Patricia Harrison. “CPB remains committed to fulfilling its fiduciary responsibilities and supporting our partners through this transition with transparency and care.”
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting is shutting down operations after loss of federal funding:
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting announced today that it will begin phasing out its operations, following Congress’s recent decision to revoke previously allocated federal funding. CPB said it is initiating an “orderly wind-down” after nearly six decades.
We are losing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which has helped educate, inform, and entertain millions of Americans.
Instead, we’re getting a vulgar new gold ballroom, which none of us will ever see.
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“Small children from poor or middle-class families who watch ‘Sesame Street’ do better on cognitive tests and in first grade than children who do not watch it,” Renata Adler wrote, in 1972.
Deranged chaos agent RFK Jr is planning to fire all 16 members of an advisory panel that decides which cancer screenings and other preventative health measures are free. This comes a month after firing all 17 members of a CDC panel of vaccine experts.
Yes, this is called murder.
Outside of Mar-a-Lago at the moment.
If you’re a former cop or prosecutor & your allegiance to Trump has you buying into this recasting of Maxwell, a prolific trafficker & rapist, into a victim, you have some soul searching to do about your political choices.
