aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

My husband was detained by ICE today

Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away

I have had zero contact or updates since

#SOS
@duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov

genuinely crazy that this is happening on behalf of charlie kirk of all people

It needs to be said that by rebranding Charlie Kirk's views as moderate by both right wingers and liberal cowards resets the extremist views he held as normal and pushes the Overton window to the far right

Use of the word "evil" in official congressional e-newsletters, over time, by party

California’s $23 Billion Plan to Restore Federal Cuts to Scientific Research

California is devising a plan to create their own National Institutes of Health to counter federal cuts to science research.

TAPPER: Hepatitis A, whooping cough, & chickenpox cases are rising in Florida. Before you made this decision to lift vaccine mandates, did your dept do any analysis of how many new cases there will be?

LADAPO: Absolutely not

T: You didn't even do a projection?

L: It's an issue of right & wrong

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🗓️ Today in one sentence for Wednesday, September 3, 2025.

Day 1687: "This is a train wreck."

Joachim Frank, a German American biophysicist at Columbia and 2017 Nobel laureate in chemistry, said he was outraged by Columbia’s unwillingness to litigate instead of negotiate. The stance, he said, had emboldened Mr. Trump to ask for even more money from other universities. Dr. Frank called the administration’s decision to withhold funding over accusations that Columbia had tolerated antisemitism a “ruse for the government to take control of the universities, in a model essentially similar to what happened in Hungary and Turkey.”

I stand with Joachim Frank. I would hope that others would have had a better understanding of history.

2/2

RFK Jr.’s damage to the CDC is ‘past the point of no return,’ Dr. Demetre Daskalakis warns “The CDC you knew is over,” the infectious diseases doctor told The Advocate. “Unless someone takes radical action, there is nothing there that can be salvaged.”

there is no question in my mind that rfk jr is the most dangerous person in this administration and that his eugenicist ideology threatens the lives of millions of people www.advocate.com/politics/dem...

Former CDC Director William Foege: How public health can fight back in a time of dangerous nonsense “Kennedy would be less hazardous if he decided to do cardiac surgery. Then he would kill people only one at a time,” writes former CDC Director William Foege.

“Kennedy would be less hazardous if he decided to do cardiac surgery. Then he would kill people only one at a time,” writes former CDC Director William Foege.
www.statnews.com/2025/08/18/r...

RFK Jr. saw 20 million lives saved by mRNA vaccines and thought, 'let's try the opposite!'

Every reputable expert I know considers mRNA vaccine technology to be one of the most revolutionary advances in medicine in our lifetimes. Its inventors won the Nobel Prize in 2023. Shutting it down now is pointless self-harm to humanity.

Health secretary RFK Jr. shuts door on U.S. investment in mRNA vaccine research Vaccine experts and people steeped in pandemic preparedness expressed horror at the news that RFK Jr. has shut the door in U.S. investment in mRNA vaccine research.

WHAT, WHAT, WHAT ARE WE DOING!!!
“Vaccine experts and people steeped in pandemic preparedness expressed horror at the news.” www.statnews.com/2025/08/05/m...

He doesn’t want to “reduce chronic illnesses,” he wants to reduce people with chronic illnesses

Project 2025 is gutting medical funding that helped Russell Vought's own kid Its architect's daughter has cystic fibrosis—and benefits from a "miracle drug" backed by an agency he's attacking.

Russell Vought claimed on CNN this weekend that NIH funding is corrupt.

As @juliametraux.bsky.social reported this February, his family has directly benefited from the NIH.

Photo of the screen of a parking validation machine that says "please pay displayed amount: five dollars", and underneath that, "change is possible."

I appreciate the optimism of this parking validation machine

YouTube video by Zohran Mamdani for NYC What we won on Election Day

How and where we won.

Democrats need more Mamdani and substantially less Jeffries/Schumer/Pelosi

Murray: This bill polls like garbage because it is garbage. That's why it should go nowhere except a trash bin

Just a reminder of who Thom Tillis is:

In 2013, as N.C. House Speaker, he passed a massive voter suppression law that was struck down because it targeted Black voters "with almost surgical precision.”

In the Senate he voted against the Freedom to Vote Act and the John R. Lewis Voting Right Act.

I’m once again reminded of all the people who accused us of “fear mongering” about the Supreme Court in 2016.

Zohran’s results so far just show how tired Americans are of the status quo, how we need creative, people-first campaigning and governance, and why positive, progressive politics are the future.

Hate to get ahead of myself before results are called but I’m so freakin happy right now.

Hopium wojak

Mamdani won the NYC mayoral primary and California is passing real reforms to allow more housing.

"This is what you get when you order your 79th birthday celebration from Temu, but didn't pay the tariffs."

This is like playing Taylor Swift's "We Are Never Getting Back Together" at a wedding.

Sad to see this, especially because an institution could instead say:

1. The new grant terms & conditions are strictly about *illegal* equity-related programs and practices.

2. What was legal pre-Jan 20 is still legal now.

3. We accept the funds b/c our pursuit of equity has always been legal.

YouTube video by Senator Elizabeth Warren Republicans snuck a line into their bill that could CLOSE nearly 200 Planned Parenthood locations.

Republicans snuck a line into their "big beautiful bill” that could CLOSE nearly 200 Planned Parenthood locations.

And guess what? 90% of those centers would be in states where abortion is LEGAL.

It’s one step closer to banning abortion nationwide.

I feel like we aren’t making a big enough deal about how insane this is

Trump preparing large-scale cancellation of federal funding for California, sources say | CNN Politics The Trump administration is preparing to cancel a large swath of federal funding to California, an effort which could begin as soon as Friday, according to multiple sources.

"Sources said the administration is specifically considering a full termination of federal grant funding for the University of California and California State University systems."

Pure vandalism.

This could never happen in a country with functioning checks and balances.