Michael

I hope California or another large blue state steps up to hire the entire MMWR staff and keep their work going. Harder to produce MMWR without the direct access to info, but it would be out from under the thumb of these lunatics.

They have fired the staff of the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report and 70 Epidemic Intelligence Service officers, who are disease detectives that respond to outbreaks around the world.

I cannot emphasize enough how dangerous it is to dismantle our disease surveillance infrastructure.

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

This whole thread is important.

We continue losing civil society for the foreseeable future.

How many rights need to be taken before you say enough is enough?
#GeneralStrike

"Dems will get blamed for a shutdown" as opposed to what, all the friendly coverage and positive credit they'd get for caving yet again? This whole premise is built on a delusion about what the alternative is. There's no cowering in the corner and being so inoffensive they won't still attack you.

“We are under invasion from within, no different than a foreign enemy, but worse—they don’t wear a uniform.”

This is the President of the United States, who ordered the entire leadership of our military to sit and listen to him, speaking a few minutes ago.

If any other president in all of history said the military should use American cities as a training ground he would be removed from office that same day. The hardest thing to tolerate in all this is how relatively silent elected democrats are. It’s ridiculous.

I don’t talk about this publicly, but hegseth drives me out of my silence.

I attended West Point from 1998-2000. I left, along with about 5 other young women, as a direct result of the military’s then-shameful (non) policies addressing sex harassment and assault.

When someone is this incapable of leadership and this devoid of judgment, their lack of fitness for office is obvious. The failure of the cabinet and of Congress to remove him from office is a betrayal of their oath to our nation.

#impeach

It seems so clear that Trump has hit the stage of being swayed by whoever has his ear most recently. The winner will be whoever has the greatest access. The loser will be every single one of us who care about other people and the planet, because the people with the greatest access are sociopaths.

Apparently some, but not all, good people were raptured. Because so many didn't make the first cut, there will be another opportunity in a few years. Please pay more attention to welcoming ALL the strangers, caring for ALL the poor and ill, and feeding ALL the hungry. All means all. #heaven #rapture

I have never believed the rumor that Don Jr. is actually a human-shaped sculpture made entirely out of cocaine.

The Dominican Republic says they have recovered hundreds of pounds of cocaine from one of the boats we recently blew up in international waters.

Has anyone seen Don Jr. since then?

YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert Disney’s Message To Employees: Shut Your Trap

Oh my god. This musical number by a famous #Disney character is savage. Thank you @colbertlateshow.bsky.social. #Disney #ABC #DonaldTrump and #BrendanCarr won't be happy if you widely circulate this. So shut your trap. www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMGD...

They just tear-gassed us. They tried to run us over in a van holding a peaceful protester. They shot us with pepper balls. They dragged another protester into the facility.

/end

Footnote: For anyone who is unclear whether Trump cares about anyone but himself, here's Trump today on Air Force One after his helicopter made an emergency landing:

"Fly safely," he said. "You know why I say that? Because I'm on the flight. I want to get home, otherwise I wouldn't care."

The thing about informed consent and vaccines is that informed people consent.

But that pain and anger are also there for those who care about anyone and want Trump to care as well. That's been true for years for many of us who care about people who have been Trump's targets. Now it's also true for those who cared about Kirk, and Kimmel's sin is making them face that truth.

Trump will never reciprocate love or care.

Of course those who love him and care about him are angry. It hurts to not have that reciprocated.

And that hurt about Trump not caring will always become anger, because they know that hurt won't go away. Trump is near the end of his life, and has never cared about anyone—wives, children, friends, colleagues, employees, supporters, people. And he will never start.

Anger is fear that a hurt won't go away. It's easy for the hurt of a loss to become anger, which is why anger is one of the (non-linear) stages of grief. But there is also terrible hurt that Trump evidently doesn't care about Kirk (who he was close to), and by extension doesn't care about you.

And Kirk's supporters are furious at Trump for caring so little about Kirk. But that challenges their devotion to Trump, so they displace their anger onto Kimmel, and imagine that Kimmel somehow criticized Kirk.

Trump is furious about being laughed at. And he is abusing his power to get revenge.

Trump's supporters are furious that Trump is being laughed at. But they know that's a sign of weakness, so they are pretending to be furious about what Kimmel said about Kirk.

Kimmel didn't say anything negative about Kirk's life and he was clearly appalled by Kirk being shot. Kimmel did mildly criticize Trump's lack of empathy and humanity BY SHOWING TRUMP'S OWN WORDS, and got his audience to laugh at Trump in the process.

This regime and its enablers desperately want to silence everyone who dares to say, write, or think anything they don't like.

They know how weak they are.

They can only hold power if we give up ours.

My son was 1 when leaders gathered in Paris & pledged to keep warming BELOW 1.5C.

He’s now 11, & we’re spending our second year ABOVE 1.5C.

They’ve doomed all our children because preserving a suicidal economy is more important.

We. Should. Be. Furious.