We are A Nation At Risk ❌👑🧡

When Heather Cox Richardson called for concerned artists to come up with images to fight this administration, I came up with this, an encouragement to the millions of Americans who have taken to the streets to fight for Democracy. Thanks, Heather! (Feel free to share.)

Make Americans sick...dead
thanks to RFK Jr/Trump & #republicans 👿☠️

kennedy is going to kill a lot of people

Florida officials warn about risks of drinking raw milk after 21 infections There have been 21 cases of campylobacter and shiga toxin-producing E. coli infections linked to raw milk from the same farm, health officials said. Six have been in children under age 10.

RFK jr is shutting down exceedingly promising vaccine research even as his dumbass ideas sicken children

www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

Quick take on Jack Smith investigation www.instagram.com/reel/DM_E0nT...

White House Orders NASA to Destroy Important Satellite The White House has instructed NASA employees to destroy two major, climate change-focused satellite missions.

And hopefully that continues, but one of the functions of this satellite is agricultural planning.

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It’s a pro-death administration.

Where’s that money going to go?? 💰

RFK Jr. Cancels $500 Million In Funding For Vaccine Development The mRNA vaccines are credited with slowing the 2020 coronavirus pandemic.

Link:

Trump administration violated impoundment law by canceling NIH grants, slowing new awards, GAO finds The Government Accountability Office found that the Trump administration, by abruptly canceling NIH grants, had violated a 1974 federal law

The Govt. Accountability Office issued a report today finding that the Trump admin has violated a law blocking presidents from withholding funding Congress has approved

@mmolteni.bsky.social & I break it down:

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One in Five ICE Arrests Are Latinos on the Streets with No Criminal Past or Removal Order New data obtained from ICE drives home how frequently Latino immigrants are arrested off the streets without any recent prior contact with law enforcement.

ICE is arresting thousands of people in random locations—what it calls “non-specific” or “general” areas—who had no prior contact with law enforcement: the telltale sign of illegal profiling www.cato.org/blog/1/5-ice...

We Will Not Be Complicit In The Destruction Of Our Own Communities How Texas Democrats are putting their bodies between us and authoritarianism.

Breaking quorum is permitted by the Texas Constitution.

If there is a chance of saving the remnants of representative democracy we will have to do some things. Texas Dems are doing some things. Stand with them. Here’s a very good piece by @lonestarleft.com. www.lonestarleft.com/p/we-will-no...

They lost their jobs and funding under Trump. What did communities lose? We asked those affected by federal climate and environment cuts to reach out. Their stories illuminate how these losses are reverberating across the country.

They lost their jobs and funding under Trump. What did communities lose?

We asked those affected by federal climate and environment cuts to reach out. Their stories illuminate how these losses are reverberating across the country.

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#Jobs #Climate #Policy #Politics #DOGE

The rich must be incentivised; the poor must be disciplined.

The political economy of the super-elite in one headline.

Millions more would've died during the covid pandemic without the mRNA discoveries and developments of Kati Kariko and Drew Weissman. And now millions will die in the future because of this decision.

The US Department of Health and Human Services is pulling funding to develop RNA vaccines, another step in the agency’s changing practices under Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

"The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) today announced the beginning of a coordinated wind-down of its mRNA vaccine development activities...."

cc: Sen. Bill Cassidy

Link to the report here: www.ssa.gov/oact/solvenc...

SOCIAL SECURITY Office of the Chief Actuary August 5, 2025 The Honorable Ron Wyden United States Senate Washington, DC 20510 Dear Senator Wyden: I am writing in response to your request for our estimate of the financial effects on the Social Security trust funds of Public Law 119-21, the "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" (OBBBA), which the President signed into law on July 4, 2025. Among many other provisions, this law makes permanent the lower ordinary income tax rates and adjusted tax brackets originally enacted under the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) and temporarily changes certain standard and itemized deduction amounts. Because the revenue from income taxation of Social Security benefits is directed to the Social Security and Medicare trust funds, implementation of the OBBBA will have material effects on the financial status of the Social Security trust funds. The balance of this letter provides our understanding of the provisions of the OBBBA with material effects on Social Security program cost, followed by estimates of the program cost effects of the law change. All estimates reflect the intermediate assumptions of the 2025 Trustees Report. Effects of the OBBBA are determined by comparing to the law in effect prior to its passage (i.e., a current law baseline). Specification for and Effects of the Law Change Before the OBBBA was signed into law, the marginal tax rates and tax bracket amounts were set as specified in the 2017 TCJA; those values were scheduled to revert to pre-TCJA levels in 2026. However, implementation of the OBBBA makes permanent the rates and bracket amounts specified in the TCJA. The OBBBA also increases the standard deduction amounts for those age 65 and older for years 2025 through 2028 and includes other tax changes with relatively smaller effects on Social Security beneficiaries. The combined net effect of these income tax provisions results in less overall tax liability for Social Security beneficiaries. In turn, the trust funds will …

Page 2 - The Honorable Ron Wyden Given the uncertainty about possible future effects on Social Security due to other provisions included in the OBBBA, we have limited our analysis to the effects of the income tax changes and their resulting effects on taxation of benefits revenue to the trust funds. We will continue to monitor incoming experience and modify our projections as appropriate. DASDI Program Cost Effects We estimate that implementation of the OBBBA will result in net increased program cost starting in 2025. Over calendar years 2025 through 2034, the total net increase in OASDI program cost is estimated to be $168.6 billion. In addition, the timing of combined OASI and DI Trust Fund reserve depletion is accelerated from the third quarter of 2034 under the 2025 Trustees Report baseline to the first quarter of 2034 following implementation of the law. Considered alone, the reserve depletion date for the OASI Trust Fund is accelerated from the first quarter of 2033 to the fourth quarter of 2032. DI Trust Fund reserves are not projected to become depleted during the 75-year projection period. Over the long-range projection period, implementation of the OBBBA will decrease (worsen) the 75-year OASDI actuarial balance by 0.16 percent of taxable payroll, from -3.82 percent under the 2025 Trustees Report baseline to -3.98 percent following implementation of the law. Table 1, attached, indicates that the net effect of the changes in the law will decrease annual balances for the OASDI program from 2025 through the end of the 75-year projection period, decreasing the annual balance for the 75" projection year (2099) by 0.17 percent of taxable payroll. Tables 1b and lb.n show the effects of enacting the OBBBA in present value dollar and nominal dollar amounts, respectively. Finally, note that we will be using the results provided in this letter as an updated baseline for evaluating the effects of proposals that affect the OASI and DI Trust Funds, and particularly prop…

NEW: @wyden.senate.gov asked the Social Security Admin’s Office of the Chief Actuary what Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” would do to Social Security’s solvency — and as expected they said it will cause Social Security to run out of money more quickly: 2032Q4 instead of 2033Q1 (4-5 months earlier).

WASHINGTON (AP) — Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announces he will cancel $500 million in vaccine development projects.

Oh lord, how's Trump trying to dodge his Epstein scandal today? President Donald Trump really, really wants everyone to stop talking about his dead friend and fellow convicted felon , Jeffrey Epstein. Fortunately for Trump, he runs the whole of the government ...

That is quite the list.

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A must-hear conversation with @pkrugman.bsky.social and @jaredb-econ.bsky.social from today’s Let’s Do Lunch on Trump administration’s attempt to corrupt the BLS, and more economy questions answered.

Available to all for free for the next 24 hours, watch now: contrarian.substack.com/p/lets-do-lu...

Well this doesn't look great

Trump EPA proposes revoking pollution limits based in part on document authored by 5 climate contrarians | CNN If successful, the repeal could strip away the federal government’s most powerful way to control the country’s planet-warming pollution and fight climate change.

The communities hit by pollutants and worsened fires, floods, and storms know how real climate change.

But the Trump admin is once again denying it. Repealing this finding would weaken the fight against the crisis.

All to help Trump’s corporate polluter friends. www.cnn.com/2025/07/29/c...

Ghislaine Maxwell, in DOJ interview, said nothing that would be harmful to Trump: Sources During her interview with the DOJ last month, former Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell said nothing that would be harmful to President Trump, sources say.

NEW: Here's the quid! Maxwell swears Trump did nothing wrong! Then trump waived her sex offender status and moved her to club fed without notifying the victims. SHOCKED I TELL YOU! abcnews.go.com/US/trump-adm...

NEW EPISODE: @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social is this week's guest on The Best People with @nicollewallace.bsky.social.

They discuss his reporting on Trump’s mass deportation crackdown.

WATCH: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jb-E...

The Supreme Court Prepares to End Voting Rights As We Know It http://news.usaunify...

Canadians’ opinions of the U.S. and its president are at or near historic lows About a third of Canadians (34%) have a favorable opinion of the United States today. This is down 20 percentage points since last year.

Canadians’ opinions of the U.S. and its president are at or near historic lows
www.pewresearch.org/...

This references satellite technology - not a nuclear reactor on the moon

TEXAS IS JUST STEP ONE

Trump plans to take redistricting fights nationwide—and now he’s gaslighting, claiming blue states gerrymander more than red ones.

FACT: House Dems are on record backing a national ban on gerrymandering. Republicans blocked it.

Democrats should fight fire with a blowtorch.