Dr. Erika Frances

Opinion | Six surgeons general: It’s our duty to warn the nation about RFK Jr. We took an oath to declare dangers when we found them. We’re doing that again today.

“Never before have we issued a joint public warning like this. But the profound, immediate and unprecedented threat that Kennedy’s policies and positions pose to the nation’s health cannot be ignored.”

You know what I’m prime for? Supporting independent bookstores over billionaires this week (and always) 💜

Is a 41-year-old who has spent decades crafting the victim role until showered with cash to target those whom she selected to be the enemy. State-run media needs this dedication to propaganda.

I’ll say it as clearly as possible: when capitalism requires fascism, moderates and wealth class adjacent figures and groups and media side with the fascists over leftists calling for reform.

That’s where we are and as leftist sentiments grow the violence and collaboration will grow in response.

Please stop platforming and lending credibility to the most obvious shapeshifters.
This is an example of how ego drives ambition. Anyone else would have picked up their ball and gone home after being publicly schooled and revealed to have no moral compass.

Black Liberation Activist Assata Shakur, 78, Dies in Cuba After Decades in Exile The Cuban government has announced Assata Shakur died in Havana on Thursday at the age of 78. Shakur was a legendary figure within the Black Panther Party and the Black Liberation Army.

BREAKING: Black Liberation Activist Assata Shakur, 78, Dies in Cuba After Decades in Exile

Assata Shakur, political activist and ex-Black Liberation Army member, has died Assata Shakur “died in Havana, Cuba, as a result of health conditions and her advanced age,” according to Cuba’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Assata Shakur has "died in Havana, Cuba, as a result of health conditions and her advanced age."

She was 78.

People missing an important point about folks getting fired for whatever they said about Charlie Kirk: Americans are being conditioned to be snitches on their fellow citizens who don’t toe a party line on what is “allowed” to be expressed. And employers are going along. It’s the new secret police

Senate Democrats: DO NOT FUND the government when the current continuing resolution expires at the end of the month. SHUT IT DOWN unless DC is funded, the troops are withdrawn from our cities, elections are protected, the Epstein files are released in full... SHUT IT DOWN.

Anywho, moving on...

Michael J Stern posts: While I think in many ways Nate Silver is an idiot, there is a lot about far left progressivism that is a complete turn off to many centric Democrats and left leaning Republicans. It makes it more difficult for us to win elections. We can begin with “defund the police.“

Maybe begin with a thorough reading of “letter from a Birmingham jail” instead.

At a time when we have a president who wants to halt Black progress, silence Black voices, and erase Black history…

I’m thankful for this 🙏🏽

Small Kindnesses by Danusha Laméris I’ve been thinking about the way, when you walk down a crowded aisle, people pull in their legs to let you by. Or how strangers still say “bless you” when someone sneezes, a leftover from the Bubonic plague. “Don’t die,” we are saying. And sometimes, when you spill lemons from your grocery bag, someone else will help you pick them up. Mostly, we don’t want to harm each other. We want to be handed our cup of coffee hot, and to say thank you to the person handing it. To smile at them and for them to smile back. For the waitress to call us honey when she sets down the bowl of clam chowder, and for the driver in the red pick-up truck to let us pass. We have so little of each other, now. So far from tribe and fire. Only these brief moments of exchange. What if they are the true dwelling of the holy, these fleeting temples we make together when we say, “Here, have my seat,” “Go ahead—you first,” “I like your hat.”

This helped me today. Small Kindnesses, by Danusha Laméris

Jeffries is an establishment Democrat. He will always work for the establishment. He is not a disrupter or innovator or individual thinker. Within that framework, his gutless behavior toward Mamdani or any progressive candidate makes a lot of sense.

If I were to open my HS yearbook today, I could easily start sorting. Most of us always knew…

Summers Are Brutal in New York’s Prisons. This Year Is Worse Than… Short-staffed since a strike this winter, the prison system is keeping people locked in their boiling cells and dorms for upwards of 21 hours a day.

State Senator Julia Salazar (@juliasalazar.bsky.social) said in a statement that the roughly $20 price tag necessary to purchase a fan “is more than most incarcerated people can afford,” and that permits for fan access can take weeks to approve. nysfocus.com/2025/08/04/s...

- cutting NPR & PBS
- rewriting Smithsonian exhibits
- suing and extorting colleges
- suing and extorting media companies
- restricting curriculums in public schools to erase the contributions of marginalized communities

Please do not treat these as separate.
Pay attention.

It is not only that this is not the leader for this moment. Dems KNEW what was coming & the majority chose another status quo centrist to offer the same feckless chatter that allowed for this moment to arrive. He will always fight against those who want to invest in helping the masses.

Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Brendan Loper. #NewYorkerCartoons

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When authoritarians get desperate they get violent. They lash out. Arrest political opponents. Brutalize the people.

As things continue to deteriorate we are entering a very dangerous moment.

Better headline: “GOP takes further steps to limit exposure to only state-run media.”

MSG 👐

Words are empty when they come from those who are paid by the same right-wing PAC that funds the other party. Birds of a feather…

Susan and Lisa decide who wears the cloak of “moderation” by coin-toss and a count of votes to ensure the regime gets their numbers. This game is transparent, predictable, boring, and insults the intelligence of their constituents.

America does not lack abundance.

America lacks politicians, pundits, and political parties that are willing to oppose the billionaires hoarding all the abundance while everyone else suffers.

YouTube video by The Intercept Five Things You Can Do When ICE Comes To Your Neighborhood #politics #trump

You're not powerless when ICE comes to your neighborhood. Follow these steps.

Read more: interc.pt/4lJuUKg

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Skateboards and Livestreams: DHS Tells Police That Common Protest Activities Are ‘Violent Tactics’ DHS is urging law enforcement to treat even skateboarding and livestreaming as signs of violent intent during a protest, turning everyday behavior into a pretext for police action.

The Department of Homeland Security is telling police to treat mundane activities like skateboarding or live-streaming at a protest as "violent tactics."

This is disturbing, dangerous, and could easily lead to excessive force against people who are simply exercising their First Amendment rights.

the mask is coming off

The way this part took me back! 🔥