Gregg Levine

Yes, but also, Covid killed more in the US in the year after 1/21/21 than it did the year before—and that's after we had an effective vaccine—and it kept killing 100s-1,000s/week through the Nov election & still kills today.

Covid was AND STILL IS an electoral issue, even if no one talks about it.

I'd defer to your insight, but the current epoch has me cynically expecting the latter.

Wasn't there some sort of "instructional" video a few years back that blurred the difference between human trafficking, sex work & immigration?

The progression reminds me very much of the way Covid quickly went from a danger, full stop, to everyone, to our current, dismissive, “well, those with disabilities can worry, but the rest can just go back to normal” because somehow a universally infectious disease is someone else’s problem.

EPA AQI app shows unhealthy air quality in NYC. Orange zone numbers on a blue background. Text reads: 三 EPA AirNow Current Air Quality 129 AQI Unhealthy for Sensitive Groups Details > New York, NY 4 PM EDT AUG 05, 2025 Last 24 Hours [mostly orange with some higher yellow lines overnight]

I remember just 2 yrs ago how the haze from Canadian wildfires was a big story in NYC. The news regularly mentioned the haze (& not just on those bad orange sky days).

Today is noticeably darker because of the smoke, but reporting is like 🤷‍♂️ w/ a downplayed, marginalized caution for “sensitive” ppl.

Wouldn’t it be funny if the result of the “Epstein files” scandal is not accountability for elite abusers nor justice for survivors, but another excuse for police & paramilitary to grab people off the streets, invade homes or drag people out of cars?

And by “funny,” I mean not at all funny.

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Trump takes surprise visit to the roof of the White House President Donald Trump took a surprise trip to a place that might be a first for a president: the roof of the White House.

Oh, sh******t! Trump’s on the roof!

Maybe there’s a better punchline than I expected.

There’s an old joke shorthanded as the “mom’s on the roof” joke—do you know it?

Trump, here, is telling the mom’s on the roof joke; let’s not wait around for the punchline.

Watch as America boils the frog, AKA the Constitution.

“Comer has indicated he is willing to delay [Maxwell’s] deposition until after the Supreme Court decides whether to hear an appeal to her conviction.”

Delay, Deny, Defend—How the Roberts Court will make child sex trafficking great again

Hysterical if you know anything about how a nuclear power plant works... which Sean Duffy DOES NOT!

Dozens of women would say the same

The guy who picked Hochul, Andrew Cuomo, gave NY the districts it has today through his intentional choices of conservative judges & his redistricting reforms. He imagined he’d be king of a system he could control.

Instead, his judges rejected the Dem maps & redrew NY, which cost 4 Dem House seats.

Seeing lots of 👍 posts for Hochul’s comments today—this wont be one of them.

War analogies enable anti-democratic putsches & ratchets up the potential for violence.

It may make for good campaign ads—that’s what Hochul hopes—but it doesn’t acknowledge how we got here or how we make systemic change.

So, again I say, if you were waiting till the midterms to fix everything, you’ve already waited too long.

Flood the zone!

“Flood the zone” comes to science town.

Honestly, the more I think of this, “the son, king” sees himself as “The Sun King.”

Let them eat zeppole!

Someone else pointed out Calibri is the default font for PowerPoint.

I heard some of the audio from this point—Cuomo said the city needs to do this because the protests “are only going to get worse.”

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Funny, I just got that he wants to be crowned king by birthright…

… which makes this some spot-on graphic design.

He’s honoring his Italian heritage 🙄

Well, props, I guess, for giving us a clear choice:

Doubling down on past failures or a new approach? Andy says double down!

Careful, RFK Jr will hear you and it will be given a $600 million grant to find the grind size that works best as a cure.

a close up of a woman 's face with the words hit me with your best shot written above her . Alt: a close up of a woman 's face (Pat benetar) with the words hit me with your best shot written above her .

I’d rather have a bottle in front of me than a blunt force injury.

Trump probably should have waited until Monday to fire this one off, but if Stormy Daniels taught us anything, it's that Don tends toward premature shooting.

Trying to introduce yet another distraction into the news cycle on a Saturday when the news is still talking about the ones introduced on Friday seems like a wasted shot, imo.

Safety of JN.1-Updated mRNA COVID-19 Vaccines This cohort study investigates the association between booster vaccinations containing the JN.1 lineage and 29 serious adverse events in Denmark.

“No statistically significant increases in the rate of hospital contacts for any of 29 adverse events were observed during the 28-day risk period after receipt of a JN.1-containing mRNA vaccine….”

Which has me wondering—where is the US re: approving/manufacturing/distributing a new 25-26 Covid vax?

And here I was thinking my mouth ate them!

Every day is a gift… that I’m giving.

… or don’t want to, for fear of pissing off potential big-dollar donors… or under the absurd assumption that they’ll get the same obeisance “when” they’re back in power.

(“When” in quotes because that’s how they see it. It should be a cautionary “if.”)