yes, there are no real signs of any big change in DHS activity here yet. In Chicago there really was after Bovino left and they basically ended "Midway Blitz" not so here so far.

This is extortion! #trumpcrimes

Hi @schumer.senate.gov, hope you got my letter! You may have overlooked it since it was mixed in with some of my friends’ (see above). ICYMI:

NO FUNDS FOR DHS.

Disband the whole rotten DHS infrastructure of overreach. End ICE & CBP. I am older than DHS, we can live without it.

over 1000 letters from voters demand Chuck Schumer publicly state the specific demands to curb ICE, for which there is broad consensus

text of the constituent letter that demands Chuck Schumer publicly state the specific demands to curb ICE, for which there is broad consensus

The 15+ NYC @indivisible.org & allied groups who rallied at @schumer.senate.gov's home & office DAILY LAST WEEK (even in a blizzard!) now hold >1K signed letters from voters.

We urge Chuck to declare the **specific, feasible demands** with broad consensus support to curb ICE or vote NO on DHS $$.

Right there r two parts to the funding process in Congress. 1. authorization which gives congress the permission to fund something. 2. appropriations, which basically puts the money in the bank. So we can get them at the appropriations process, which is where we are now. And yes put pressure OMB!

I can 100% prove u wrong because we did protest at Malliotakis’s office in the last six months plus!! get your facts straight.

We urge Sen. Chuck Schumer to fight Trump's ICE gestapo - he has the leverage and must act!

Please, everyone contact Schumer's office
Keep calling, keep writing until we get #IceOutForGood

A freezing 🥶 day 2 outside @schumer.senate.gov’s (but rage 🤯 keeps you warm!)

Will he fight ICE terror by actually using the budget leverage he has?? 👀

@indivisible.org @handsoffnyc.bsky.social @50501movement.bsky.social @50501newyork.bsky.social @riseandresist.bsky.social

Community Unites to Drive Out ICE GOONS ✊

Huge high five to @bkindivisible.bsky.social for the #NoTroopsInOurCities sign over the Prospect Expressway in Brooklyn! Thread of photos to follow! cc @indivisible.org

Neil deGrass Tyson: "How sad it must be believing that scientists, historians, scholars, economists, journalists devoted their entire lives to deceiving you, but a reality-TV star proven in court to be a lying felon is your beacon of truth & honesty"

Hi, immunologist here:

(a scientist who studies immune & inflammatory processes)

RFK Jr is talking absolute bullshit when he says he can “see in kids faces that they have inflammation”

That’s NOT how immunology works.

He is an anti-science profiteer.
Start calling him such.

The CDC quietly scaled back a surveillance program for foodborne illnesses As of July 1, a critical surveillance program is monitoring for only two pathogens instead of the usual eight.

The CDC is gutting a program that monitors foodborne illnesses. The program will now only track infections caused by two pathogens, rather than eight.

Hello? How does this “Make America Healthy Again”?

Un. USED. Unused. Kidneys.

I’m going to start screaming and never stop.

Excellent question.

Mural by JDL Street Art in Roubaix, Lille, France, depicting the Statue of Liberty covering her face with both hands in a gesture of shame. The figure is painted in shades of grey with teal accents on the torch and crown, set against a muted background with a golden halo-like circle. The artwork spans the side of a tall brick building, contrasting modern street art with historic European architecture in the surrounding cityscape.

"A mural of the Statue of Liberty in shame" by JDL Street Ar in Lille , Roubaix France 🇫🇷

Crisis within CDC is spilling into real world, experts say "I’ve never heard as many colleagues saying things like 'CDC is dead’ as I have today," an agency employee told STAT.

someone should put together a "kennedy death count" for everyone who dies of a preventable disease and just plaster it everywhere www.statnews.com/2025/08/28/c...

Sicko

Missouri Gov. Calls Special Session to Ram Through Gerrymander, Strip Citizen Power Read more here.

🚨BREAKING: Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe (R) reinforced GOP power grabs sweeping the country, calling a special legislative session Friday to redraw congressional districts and weaken the ability of voters to pass laws through ballot initiatives. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

"Literally no one thinks prayer is a substitute for action."

Then why is prayer, literally, *always* the substitute for action, you willfully obtuse asshole?

Netflix co-founder drops $2 million into Gavin Newsom's redistricting campaign Reed Hastings is a longtime Democratic donor and Newsom ally.

Just another reason to keep giving Netflix my money.

Yes and I’m one of the world’s foremost professional basketball players.

NEW: Texas Governor Greg Abbott has signed into law a new, deeply gerrymandered congressional map that disenfranchises voters of color for political gain.

All voters deserve to be heard. This is an affront to our democracy.

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.

100%!

Like a deadly virus, created in the lab of bad public policy at the Heritage Foundation, Project 2025 has been let loose on our nation with impacts we are all just beginning to comprehend. My latest on Substack: open.substack.com/pub/jimacost...

Health officials from Massachusetts, Maine, Vermont, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania met this week to consider coordinating their own vaccine recommendations, separate from the federal government.

Good.

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...

The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns.

The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate.

Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care.

The list goes on and on.

Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.