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The 17 experts who were ousted from an HHS vaccine committee have published a commentary on Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine, saying that Robert Kennedy, Jr., and his self-picked panel are abandoning rigorous scientific review and open deliberation. 
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Here's How They Ban Birth Control 7.31.25

A Washington State church just got the green light to continue challenging a state law requiring employers to cover contraception open.substack.com/pub/jessica/...

‘I Need This to Be a Homicide’ Prosecutors who want to look tough on crime may be tempted to treat the death penalty as a political tool.

The death penalty, "theoretically reserved for the worst of the worst" may in fact be "exploited by prosecutors for political advantage, even in cases where guilt is unclear," argues Elizabeth Bruenig:

I'm sorry, nine HUNDRED former DOJ lawyers all signed this letter opposing Emil Bove's nomination to be an appellate federal judge?

900?!

No kidding

GOP megabill littered with special tax breaks GOP lawmakers said the provisions provided needed economic relief for some industries, while they took fire from deficit hawks.

What does it cost to buy a vote to make America weaker?

Here’s a (super sad) list:

www.politico.com/news/2025/07...

The actual name of the 1st concentration camp.

Trump’s pick to lead whistleblower office shared 9/11 truther video | CNN Politics He’s 30, loyal to Trump and pushed election lies. It’s a role designed to be politically independent.

NEW: The nominee to run the Office of Special Counsel shared a 911 truther video last year on *911*, has ties to a holocaust denier, and said in a video we uncovered that straight white men are the smartest group and should be prioritized. He’s 30.

www.cnn.com/2025/07/02/p...

Trump's Attack on Citizenship Escalates With New DOJ Denaturalization Plan Read about the fight for democracy from activists, elected officials, legal experts and others.

NEW: A through line of Trump’s second term has been to change who is, and who can become, an American. That now includes threatening to strip naturalized Americans of citizenship, building a citizenship database and pushing $170B for mass deportations.
By: @Jaknutson.bsky.social

And obviously uninformed about resistance HERE.

Circling back to the separation of powers principles covered earlier in this decision, the Executive Branch is vested with the power and is imbued with the responsibility to faithfully execute the laws which govern the governance structure of our country. The Executive Branch does not have the authority to order, organize, or implement wholesale changes to the structure and function of the agencies created by Congress. As Judge Smith in this district court recently warned when presented with the declining depth of civics education in public schools, “we may choose to survive as a country by respecting our Constitution, the laws and norms of political and civic behavior, and by educating our children on civics, the rule of law, and what it really means to be an American, and what America means. Or, we may ignore these things at our and their peril.”

NEWS

A federal judge blocks RFK Jr. from dismantling U.S. healthcare agencies, finding the plan violated the Administrative Procedure Act.

She ends the ruling with these thoughts on the separation of powers.

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There are 335,00,000 in this country. More than half didn't vote for this and don't approve of it. The majority of this country believes in the rule of law. That does not include violently protesting.
YOU seem to want to create the conditions to invoke martial law and suppress ALL our rights.

Reposted THIS by accident. This commenter is pretty caustic.

We did not. About 33% DID. YOU apparently can't tell the difference.

Nope. Almost 75 MILLION PEOPLE voted against this. We KNEW what they would do. WE were called hysterical and overreacting.
FAFO

GOP Lawmakers in Swing States Are Still Working To Suppress Voting Read more here.

Voting rights groups are calling on the governors of Wisconsin and Arizona to block GOP-backed bills that would limit voting access. One bill would delay voting rights restoration in Wisconsin, while the other would cut early ballot drop-off days in Arizona.

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They Didn’t Have to Do This By passing Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act, congressional Republicans have talked themselves into an incomprehensibly reckless plan.

“Congress is about to impose massive harm on tens of millions of Americans,” @jonathanbchait.bsky.social writes, “in order to benefit a handful of other Americans who least need the help. The bill almost seems designed to generate a political backlash”:

YouTube video by The Bulwark Stephen Miller's Real And Insane Agenda (w/ Adrian Carrasquillo) | Bulwark on Sunday

Combine Trump's love of the exercise of authoritarian power with Stephen Miller's hatred to non-white immigrants, and you get the terrible sight of of U.S. troops deployed here at home in the service of mass deportation.

@adriancarrasquillo.bsky.social and I discuss

www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLd7...

‘Nonlethal’ Anti-Protest Weapons Can Cause Serious Harm Rubber bullets and tear gas are billed as relatively safe. They're anything but.

In LA, officers deployed tear gas and shot rubber bullets at protesters fighting against ICE raids.

Here’s a reminder that those anti-protest weapons—which are billed as relatively safe—can actually cause serious harm.

Trump Is Using the National Guard as Bait Don’t give him the pretext he wants.

"Sending in the National Guard is meant to provoke, not pacify, and his power will only grow if he succeeds in tempting Americans to intemperate reactions that give him the authoritarian opening he’s seeking." @radiofreetom.bsky.social

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MORE BULLSHIT!

The same is true for raids on restaurants—rounding up people who are working hard and contributing to their community.

The EPA didn't release its annual U.S. greenhouse gas emissions report, but we got the data. Here's what we found The Environmental Defense Fund published the Inventory of U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks after filing a Freedom of Information Act request last month.

For the first time in nearly 30 years, the Environmental Protection Agency did not publish a mandatory annual report detailing the pollution produced in the United States that contributes to climate change.

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STOP THROWING THINGS AT THE COPS AND NG!
Stop OTHER PEOPLE from throwing things at them.
THAT will get us MARTIAL LAW.
STOP IT!

Big point that is being missed: without the insurrection act, the activated Guard troops are now federal army and cannot
Do law enforcement.

Period

Meanwhile Trump has threatened people wearing masks -- if they are protesters, anyway

Why do these agents need masks and flak jackets to raid a nail salon? Are they afraid someone will threaten them with a pedicure?

Cannot stress enough that this is a pitiful action by a weak, scared, pathetic group of insecure, wannabe authoritarians, and they should be mocked until the end of time for wanting to bring in the military over some people protesting them at a Home Depot.