SB SB Spoke to my dems. This weekend. Boy are emotions running high 11:11:10 pm Steve Bannon Going to blow him up right out of the box-- WH has zero plan to punch back-- Fort Apache with no cavalry enroute 11:14:37 pm And no soldiers in the fort. He is really borderline. Not sure what he may do. 11:18:35 pm Steve Bannon I think it's beyond borderline - 25 amendment 11:42:29 pm 2019/01/01 Sent an attachment Filename: IMG_5931.mov Path: IMG_5931.mov Size: 6 MB Type: video/quicktime 12:30:46 pm Steve wynn. Wants an intervention 01:14:56 pm It won't work. He respects no one at the moment. 01:15:24 pm EFTA01615546

SB SB SB Steve Bannon "She has a way about her!...!! 01:17:31 pm Saving the world in my view 01:17:51 pm Steve Bannon Then we really need an intervention 01:18:18 pm EFTA01615547 Would just increase his paranoia 01:18:40 pm Very dangerious 01:19:45 pm He needs a bigger bully than himself. This is what you have to do .!! Don't ask his advice. Once you do that, he thinks you're a dope 01:20:50 pm Once you treat him with respect he thinks youre a dope 01:21:20 pm And immediately loses respect for you 01:21:46 pm Thats why he listens to Ivanka. She knows he is a dumbfuck 01:25:18 pm But is on his side 01:25:27 pm Mulvaney is as close to the nonexistent cos you predicted.. someone on his side that has disdain for him. Can turn it 01:26:26 pm Barrack is too much of a suck up. I think Reid Weingarten could help him.. 01:30:23 pm Steve Bannon Would Reid even take this on??? 01:30:45 pm EFTA01615548

Steve Bannon talked about invoking the 25th Amendment with Jeffrey Epstein.

The conversation happened over New Year’s in 2018/2019 and included talk about how Madeleine Westerhout, the director of Oval Office ops, was “saving the world” by giving Trump oral sex.

(www.justice.gov/epstein/file...)

Robert Duvall
“I love the smell of napalm in the morning.”

The man who was an actor, who was a legend — who even became a meme, and leaves this world as a myth.
Seven decades of career, from Apocalypse Now to The Godfather, from To Kill a Mockingbird to Falling Down, simply gigantic.

They're really just trying to push the Overton Window into authoritarianism every day, aren't they? You can see them moving the messages out, even if they don't resonate and public opinion doesn't actually move. It's weird.

There are allegations that Epstein and Maxwell used the property as a burial ground.

Don Huffines and family changed the name and address of Jeffrey Epstein’s sprawling 10,000 acre ranch in New Mexico after using an LLC to purchase it anonymously.

The ranch has reportedly never been searched as part of any criminal investigation related to Epstein (www.krtv.com/us-news/crim...).

Smith (1776)

This post is … not sarcasm. It’s an accurate summary of the whole thing. It sadly is.

This paragraph here? It’s not actually a paragraph. If you read it aloud, each phrase more cursed than the one before it, you’ll summon a Great Old One.

And the paragraphs that follow are, somehow, crazier still.

This image is a Wall Street Journal opinion piece criticizing Dr. Vinay Prasad, leader of the FDA's vaccine division, for rejecting Moderna's mRNA flu vaccine application without a full review. FDA Criticism: The article accuses Dr. Prasad of damaging medical innovation through "arbitrary government" by blocking new vaccines and therapies. Moderna Rejection: The FDA reportedly rejected Moderna's flu vaccine, despite its demonstrated effectiveness in trials, because Dr. Prasad disagreed with the trial's control group design. Broader Impact: The text claims these regulatory actions are causing low morale at the FDA, an exodus of veteran staff, and reduced investment in innovative drugs from companies like Moderna and Regenxbio.

"It’s hard to recall a regulator who has done as much damage to medical innovation in as little time as Vinay Prasad."

What an opening sentence!

Today’s edition of the Article I Crisis.

i don't like "steelmanning" but i do want to say that the discussion around "we have to vote all the time to keep out fascism" has never really addressed the core of the issue, which is that it gets tiring for every election to be "the most important election of our lifetimes."

Yes,,, your boy has taken a ride in the 4 man bobsled,,, but im an adrenaline junkie and needed to try skeleton. And now I’ve officially joined the team and am gonna try to start competing.

66 years old going 66 mph.

The Trump Administration Is Waging a Global War on Children | Common Dreams ​By cutting aid abroad and the social safety net at home, while spreading vaccine skepticism, the administration is ensuring that more children will suffer and die.

The Trump Administration, including RFK Jr., claim they care about children’s health, but their actions reveal quite the opposite.

Wrote this with my friend @jimalwine.bsky.social, a virologist.

“Marrazzo believes she was removed partly because of her defense of vaccines, & for speaking out against the cancellation of NIH research. She filed a whistleblower complaint in September, then sued NIH & HHS in December, alleging that her firing was illegal & asking to be reinstated with back pay.”

His pledge was, of course, gaslighting

What happened, under his leadership, is that:

“many types of health information that steadily flowed from the government for years or decades has been delayed, deleted & in some cases stopped all together”

This was part of his dismantling of public health 😢

RFK Jr. pledged more transparency. Here's what the public doesn't know anymore Health experts say the federal government now shares less public health data, even after Robert F_ Kennedy Jr_ promised “radical transparency.”

RFK Jr. pledged more transparency. Here's what the public doesn't know anymore abcnews.com/Politics/wir... via @mikestobbe.bsky.social

A racist tweet by Elon Musk: For a country to survive, there has to be a common culture. Nobody dies to defend a "multicultural economic zone!" American culture, with its English-Scootts-Irish origin, is great and worth fighting for. Some may not realize it, but that's why people come here.

My English-Scots-Irish ancestors didn't die for multiculturalism; they killed for it. Killed Confederates who said shit exactly like this.

GEORGE RETES: “My name is George Retes. I was born and raised here in Ventura, California. I’m 26 years old and I am an Iraq combat veteran. I was going to work like normal. I show up. ICE is there. There’s kind of like a roadblock. I get out. I identify myself — that I’m a U.S. citizen, that I’m just trying to get to work. I’m trying to leave. I’m getting ready to leave and they surround my car, start banging on it, start shouting these contradictory orders. Even though I was giving them no reason, they still felt the need to — one agent knelt on my back and another agent knelt on my neck. And during that time, I’m just pleading with them that I couldn’t breathe. I was in isolation. I was in basically this concrete cell. I was stripped naked in like a hospital gown. And they leave the lights on 24/7. They just came out and they said that I was violent and that I assaulted agents. Why lie when it’s on video of everything that happened? Why lie?”

PBS News Hour: U.S. citizens detained by immigration agents describe how they were treated.

Watch the segment here www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMgC...

I'm clipping transcripts of the citizens speaking in this thread 1/3

elon RTing Nazi slop

it should probably be a bigger story that the richest man in the history of humanity is, objectively speaking, just a straight up Nazi

also the next democratic administration needs to throw him in prison

Joan Armatrading, To the Limit

Sunday night listening

IMHO, Joan Armatrading’s 4 album run in the late 70s (Back to the Night in ‘75, Joan Armatrading in ‘76, Show Some Emotion in ‘77, & To the Limit in ‘78) is one of the greatest

Propaganda, Rather than Pandemic Policies, Caused the War on Public Health The backlash narrative ignores basic facts of the case.

More from @liberalcurrents.com, from November by @zeblarson.bsky.social. It deserves to be widely read. It's the most sober-minded version of how liberal backlash to COVID mitigation measures set the table for the take-over of public health by the far-right. www.liberalcurrents.com/propaganda-r...

Thank you to @gtconway.bsky.social for lifting this up. American science is in free-fall, pushed off the cliff by Russell Vought, RFK Jr., Jay Bhattacharya and Matthew Memoli.

OMG

Pazdur objected to a press release from Makary containing a proposal to require only 1 clinical trial for drug approvals (down from the usual 2)

"Without addressing Pazdur’s concerns, Makary went public with the proposal"

What a wildly authoritarian set of MDs running the US health system😔

Portugal tops latest EU leaderboard for renewable energy - report Portugal’s electricity production last month was largely led by hydro and wind power, according to a new report.

Lots of room for solar+storage to grow still. “Portugal’s electricity production was led by hydropower, which accounted for 36.8 per cent of its overall mix. This was closely followed by wind (35.2 per cent) while solar represented 4.4 per cent.”

With Latest Rollback, the U.S. Essentially Has No Clean-Car Rules

And so the U.S. auto industry’s death spiral accelerates. This is the manufacturing equivalent of the FDA allowing packaged food companies to mix in broken glass and dog shit, in order to protect the packaged food industry.

It’s amazing watching the U.S. cede the global auto market to China. We’re 24–36 months away from utter devastation in U.S. vehicle exports, because both automakers and the U.S. are scared of EVs, because a dozen petroleum executives have a whole political party at their beck and call.

All of them

A paragraph from the New York Times: "The Department of Homeland Security has hired a social media manager from the Department of Labor for a key communications job, despite posts he made on Labor Department media accounts that raised internal alarms over possible white-nationalist messaging." "Despite" has been crudely crossed out and replaced with "because of."

FTFY, @nytimes.com

A screenshot of a New York Times headline, with the first word, “Despite,” crossed out and replaced with “Because of.” Despite Epstein's Toxicity, Steve Bannon Stood by Him, Texts Indicate Mr. Bannon, a MAGA podcaster, developed a seemingly chummy relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. He said it was in the name of getting Mr. Epstein to open up.

FYFY, @nytimes.com

Desert Plant Thrives at Gemini Solar Site, Showing Resilience and Growth - Common Good News Scientists found that the rare threecorner milkvetch thrived at the Gemini Solar site, defying expectations.

Utility solar power landscapes can be beneficial to desert ecosystems when installed with intention.

Deeply ashamed to live in a country where tweeting this isn’t instant career suicide