Michele Waggner

I’m 71 years old and I can’t remember a time when the government EVER minded its own business about popular music. It’s just all over social media now.

Well said!

Trump Is Shutting Down the War On Cancer America’s cancer research system, which has helped save millions of lives, is under threat in one of its most productive moments.

“It will take decades to recover from this, if we ever do.” America’s cancer research system, which has helped save millions of lives and is in one of its most productive moments, is under threat by the Trump administration.

Connecticut DMV Committee Expands Study of Towing Law to Help Low-Income Residents Get Their Cars Back The working group was created as part of a towing reform law passed in response to a ProPublica and Connecticut Mirror investigation into towing practices in the state.

A Connecticut DMV working group will examine portions of the state’s towing law, potentially leading to more extensive reforms.

The move comes after a yearlong investigation by @ctmirror.org and ProPublica found that the state’s laws favored towing companies at the expense of low-income residents.

Robert Reich Why Big Money Supports Trump | Robert Reich

Big Tech CEOs took turns lavishing praise on Trump at a White House dinner this week.

Fascism backed by Big Money is one of the most dangerous of all political alliances.

It happened in 1930s Germany, and it’s happening again today. https://youtu.be/0LEnI9THvLA?feature=shared

Why ICE has had a bigger presence in Connecticut in recent weeks A total of 65 people were arrested in a four-day sting operation in Connecticut.

11. As the office of Connecticut Attorney General William Tong has said, the Trust Act “reflects the unremarkable proposition that immigration enforcement is the responsibility of the federal government.”
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Cheshire CI 900 highland avenue Cheshire ct 9/3/25 6-8pm. Rally agains5 doc torture at Cheshire ci. Lockdowns continue, suicides occurring, mental health and medical still understaffed, people still on hunger strike!!!!! Let's keep the pressure on as we head into the special session in September at the state capitol

Next wednesday CT DSA will join activists supporting the people who have been on hunger strike for over a month at the Cheshire Correctional Institue, following new reports of suicide inside the prison.

Opinion | Bernie Sanders: Kennedy Must Resign The health secretary is endangering the lives of American people now and into the future.

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com

“Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the secretary of health and human services, is endangering the health of the American people now and into the future. He must resign,” Senator Bernie Sanders writes in a guest essay.

The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns.

The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate.

Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care.

The list goes on and on.

Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.

That’s what was being negotiated in the limo.

The cynical tin foil hat wearer might think that this “Ukraine Summit” was just a chance for Donnir and Pootie to jump in limos to talk privately about the whole Epstein mess threatening to bring their high-rolling, child-molesting, billionaire-buddy juggernaut to a screeching halt.

Veterans’ Care at Risk Under Trump as Hundreds of Doctors and Nurses Reject Working at VA Hospitals Amid concerns about the stability of the agency, records show nearly 40% of the doctors offered jobs at the VA from January through March of this year turned them down — quadruple the rate of…

About 90 VA staffers in the Texas region turned down job offers “due to the uncertainty of reorganization,” officials wrote.

What’s more, low morale was causing existing employees to not recommend working at the medical centers, they added.

The upward redistribution of wealth over the past 50 years has shifted $80 trillion from the bottom 90% of Americans to the top 1%. 

That’s $80 trillion that would have gone into the paychecks of the working class.

The greatest trick of all is trickle-down economics.

Donald Trump Is Mostly a Crypto Billionaire Now, Group Says Traditional business ventures now make up less than half of Donald Trump’s wealth compared to crypto, says a new analysis from Accountable.US.

Trump tirelessly exploits power for personal profit—including crypto—the public interest be damned. He’s grifter-in-chief, in an Administration filled with them. theintercept.com/2025/08/09/t...

It’s Back-To-School Month! Remember, reading is fundamental for ages 5 through 79!

The EPA is preparing to cancel $7 billion in grants intended to fund rooftop solar projects for low- and middle-income households. Officials plan to send notices to all 60 recipients in the Solar for All program, spanning 49 states, informing them that their funding has been revoked.

Birds of a feather…..
This mother fuc*er is part of a huge flock.

Based on what we know about sex-trafficking of children, why has this abomination fallen between the cracks?

Where are the children zip-tied and abducted by ICE?

Who are they? Where are they?

Epstein confidante Ghislaine Maxwell transferred to lower-security prison in Texas Move comes after Maxwell met with deputy attorney general about those involved in late sex offender’s crimes Ghislaine Maxwell has been transferred from a federal prison in Florida where she was serving her 20-year sentence for sex trafficking as an associate of Jeffrey Epstein to a lower-security facility in Texas, the US Bureau of Prisons said on Friday. “We can confirm, Ghislaine Maxwell is in the custody of the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) at the Federal Prison Camp (FPC) Bryan in Bryan, Texas,” a spokesperson said. Continue reading...

Epstein confidante Ghislaine Maxwell transferred to lower-security prison in Texas

That explains why she arranged impregnation by the rich old guy.

Hey, everytime this is brought up, people assume that Vought loves his daughter.

Maybe he is bitter than NIH kept her alive?

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What in the Putin is this?

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Did Sevilla save multilateralism — or just survive the heat? Did Sevilla save multilateralism — or just survive the heat?

Devex Associate Editor Thomas Cserep sits down with reporters Elissa Miolene and Jesse Chase-Lubitz to discuss some of the key takeaways from the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development.

I blame the Clintons for destroying what the Democratic Party stood for.

We Spent a Year Investigating How the FDA Let Risky Drugs Into the U.S. Market Our investigation exposed a little-known practice inside the FDA that allowed more than 150 drugs or their ingredients into the U.S. over the past dozen years even though they were made at factories…

In our investigation, we interviewed more than 200 people, obtained troves of documents and filed suit against the FDA after the agency said it would take years to turn over public records.

More on how we conducted our reporting, which spanned more than a year: