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What we’re witnessing in America is what happens when disordered discourse captures a political party, then the state itself. The Republican Party was the first to fall - abandoning truth for conspiracy, ideology for grievance, and policy for performative outrage.

“Don’t protest.” Not great when federal law enforcement leaders start directly and openly denying the existence of the literal and explicit First Amendment.

"A quarter of the way through" is starting to feel like hopeful fantasy...

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Hi Sally. When Weiss published a supposed expose on the death of George Floyd, a veteran criminal justice reporter showed in deep detail that the piece was not just wrong but filled with falsehoods and misrepresentations. Weiss did not retract the piece. What do you think of that?

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

I know this case is all over - & it should be - but Turning Point USA has waged a harassment campaign against faculty for more than a decade. I know of at least a half dozen other faculty, personally, who have received death threats and several of those who felt so unsafe they too left their homes

Trump says he’ll send troops to Portland, authorizes ‘full force’ The president said the feds will provide “all necessary Troops” and called Portland “War ravaged.”

Sending troops with orders to use “full force” on a civilian population is political violence.

This is your regular reminder that Covid is airborne.

It’s not over. It’s still killing and disabling people.

It’s a novel virus and we still don’t know the full long term effects, but what we do know is not encouraging.

Wear a mask. Clean the air. Stay home when sick.

Protect one another.

Is anyone here suggesting not doing both? Surely you've seen many people vaccinate and consider it done, with no thought of any other mitigations.

Trump is ordering the military to use “full force” against an American city, while the Supreme Court declares him the Sun King and Congress hides under a pile of coats.

The checks and balances only work when the institutions aren’t run by utter cowards and the complicit

Or "The city's mayor says..."

Last week, Disney/ABC caved to Trump administration pressure. Millions of Americans helped them find their backbone.

Whether you watch Jimmy Kimmel or not, today's decision is a victory for free speech.

We've reached out to WABC to reschedule the town hall.

In the aftermath of Jimmy Kimmel’s program getting shelved by ABC/Disney, FCC Chairman Brendan Carr will give his first interview on Sean Hannity’s Fox News program tonight.

Statement from @postguild.bsky.social on the firing of Karen Attiah:

Looked at my data collections for state-backed activity. If the report were a picture:

He wAs A seEkrIT iMforMAnT!!@

In what way was that "his work"?

Sad to say that how Fox and other media cover RFK Jr's performance will determine if Trump continues to support him. Media...the ball is in your court if you want to save the lives of millions of people

Trump/RFK are decapitating our public health system, a pillar of American greatness. So Dem Govs should scour every corner of the law for creative new ways to defend their people from this madness.

Dems should polarize this debate to the max.

Thoughts on this here:

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There's no guarantee that hospitals that have chickened out will resume care once a Dem enters office. The threat of a future GOP administration will always hang over them. That's why the next Democratic admin needs to also find a way to punish the cowards. Or at least reward those who held strong.

What’s Life Like in Washington, D.C., During Trump’s Takeover? Late-summer days and nights amid troops on the streets of the nation’s capital.

President Trump’s federal takeover of D.C.’s local police is unprecedented. “The last person who asserted the authority to use military personnel for routine law enforcement anywhere in the country for any reason was King George,” a legal scholar said.

If a Democratic president starting sending Blue state national guard troops to occupy a red city as a power grab, the GOP officials in that state would arrest the invading guard troops to send a message that they are defending their sovereignty.

Republicans: disappear people off the streets and rendition them to El Salvador, crash the economy, build concentration camp in the Everglades, declare martial law in DC, eliminate cancer and vaccine research, align with Russia, disenfranchise Black people, tank in the polls

Political pundits:

Gavin Newsom will be interviewing the old Cracker Barrel logo on his podcast.

Tom Cruise as Norm Macdonald

The tenets of Scientology allow for the transmutation of Norm Macdonald.

that's the Chicago Sun-Times and the Tribune getting rid of their film critics within six months of each other. If they made Siskel and Ebert today it would be two empty chairs.