Too bad there isn’t a vaccine for stupid.

Tom Nichols@radiofreetom.bsky.social · 2d ago

Millions of Americans literally bet their life that RFK Jr, a complete crackpot, knew science better than the CDC and Jonas Salk and just about every living doctor

Troy Jackson: "The gentleman's name was Johan Sebastian Guerrero. He had a 3 year old daughter. The only mistake he made that morning was going to work. Because Sen. Collins is not willing to stand up to Donald Trump, he was murdered in the streets of Biddeford for doing nothing wrong."

Just despicable people. All of them. It’s not just that they’re corrupt and shitty at their jobs - they’re terrible humans.

This should outrage everyone.

Jack Jenkins@jackjenkins.me · 3d ago

“A member of Congress at the scene confirmed to The Intercept that there was a child in the victim’s car when ICE agents shot at it.” theintercept.com/2026/10/08/i...

I'd be crazed if I were still an op-ed editor and had to examine all incoming pieces to discern if they were by human experts or AI imposters. 🤷‍♀️ My husband deals with this daily and it's nervewracking. Good analysis here from @columjournreview.bsky.social. www.cjr.org/analysis/fak... 🤷‍♀️

Fake Caroline.

Editors are facing an influx of AI-written pitches, including at science publications like mine. What now?

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The head of the Fraud Task Force unaware of corruption inside the Trump administration, despite it being widely covered in the media. All by design: The Public Integrity unit in DOJ was gutted and has been told to focus on welfare fraud in blue states. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/stop-paper...

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3d ago

Q: Do you have any reaction to a US ambassador asking someone to pay off debt in exchange for access to other government officials? VANCE: Well, so -- with that hypothetical, obviously I don't love that, but I, you know, I don't know exactly who you're talking about, I don't know the full details

Exactly right-how does my marriage hurt anyone else’s practice of their religion. Why should any religion stop me from getting married and making a life commitment to the person I love.

Jeff Roush@jeffroushwriting.bsky.social · 4d ago

I am hopeful that years from now the jurisprudence of Samuel Alito is pushed to the same corners as Plessy and Korematsu. His notion that “religious freedom” requires elevating a brand of Christianity above criticism turns the First Amendment on its head. abcnews.com/Politics/thr...

It’s simply unimaginable that CDC Director Dr. Erica Schwartz has just bowed to RFK Jr. and approved funding for an utterly unethical clinical trial that will withhold the birth dose of HepB vaccine in Guinea Bissau. It is to be conducted by researchers accused of academic misconduct.

CDC Is Moving Forward With a Previously Shelved Controversial Hepatitis B Vaccine Study

“It’s a wholly unethical trial, and it shouldn’t be allowed,” says Dr. Paul Offit of Guinea-Bissau study

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Today we got access to a smoking gun document from ICE that shows how it is weaponized against progressive groups registering voters while building a voter suppression database.

@simonwdc.bsky.social has done a fabulous interview with ex-GOP strategist @stuartpstevens.bsky.social, who has unexpected and IMO very wise advice for Democrats on how to close their campaigns: Don't go positive! 💪 Well worth a listen (or a transcript read). www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/master-str...

Master Strategist Stuart Stevens On How Dem Candidates Should Close Out Their 2026 Campaigns

I asked Stuart to play a Dem strategist and walk us through how he would close out a major Dem Senate campaign. It’s a great discussion. Get to it when you can!

hopiumchronicles.com

JD Vance is sizing up a $9 million Virginia estate while preaching to the rest of us that housing is more affordable than ever. No one believes him.

The richest man owns X. The second richest man owns The Washington Post. The third and fifth richest men control Google. The sixth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. And the eighth richest man now owns both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?

Paramount takes over Warner Bros in $110bn Hollywood merger

The merger of two of Hollywood's biggest movie studios comes after months of legal disputes and concern over competition

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@billkittle.bsky.social · 4d ago

Men,we must change the culture . This is not a political issue. It is a MALE issue. Too many men still think it is ok, and the abjudicated rapist in the White House does not help. This 11 year old study, and anecdotes going back decades on social media, confirm a prevalent toxic culture

Study: 1 in 3 men OK raping if it’s not called rape

According to a study from the University of North Dakota, 31.7 percent of the men surveyed said they would force a woman to have sexual intercourse.

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Christopher Webb@cwebbonline.com · 4d ago

You cannot convince me that frat brothers organically walked into separate police interviews using the same word, “consensual,” and that it wasn’t coordinated. Especially after a witness told police there was allegedly a fraternity meeting to get everyone “on the same page”.

NORM EISEN: “This is shocking… ProPublica reports Susan Collins told the company ‘You’ve seen me deliver’ and then a six-figure sum, according to ProPublica, also moved to the Collins super PAC... This has to be investigated, these are very serious allegations of corruption." #Blues

The Trump regime wants to dismantle the International Criminal Court because it plans to continue committing war crimes. The Trump regime is refusing to allow international election monitors because it plans to continue committing election fraud. They are not being subtle.

They aren’t pretending. They are sycophantic morons. 

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 4d ago

It's almost kind of sad how these pols feel compelled to pretend to be sycophantic morons

This! A must-read @jilldlawrence.bsky.social

Jill Lawrence@jilldlawrence.bsky.social · 4d ago

If you think Trump’s “musings” and “jokes” are not worth headlines, no matter how shocking or offensive they may be, then you haven’t been paying attention. The past decade and past week show they're too dangerous too ignore. My new piece at @contrariannews.org www.contrariannews.org/p/dont-dismi...

10 years ago today GOP Sen. Mike Lee: “If anyone spoke to my wife, or my daughter…the way Mr Trump has spoken to women, I wouldn’t hire that person, wouldn’t want to be associated with that person, and I certainly don’t think I’d be comfortable hiring that person to be the leader of the free world”

If your election-security plan begins by removing independent observers, the optics department has already called in sick.

A day after Trump publicly said his super PAC would pay for ads that had been funded by taxpayers, White House officials confirmed the PAC will NOT reimburse the government for more than $10 million it had already spent on the ads. Trump is also still running these ads. substack.com/profile/2357...

Amee Vanderpool (@shero)

A day after Donald Trump publicly said his super PAC would pay for television ads promoting him that had been funded by taxpayers, White House officials confirmed the PAC has no plans to reimburse the...

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🚨BREAKING: ICE collected tens of millions of voter records, explored undercover investigations against voter registration groups and considered feeding election data into a system used to locate people for deportation as part of an effort to find voter fraud. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

ICE amassed millions of voter records in sweeping fraud hunt, documents reveal

It's one of the clearest pictures yet of how deeply Trump's immigration enforcement apparatus has become involved in elections.

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As Trump demonizes cities, remember this: Residents of "blue" states send more tax money to Washington than they get back in federal help, while residents of “red” states send less money to Washington than they get back in federal help. Just thought I should point that out.

How Blue States Help Red States | Robert Reich

Robert Reich explains how states that vote Democratic send money to states that vote Republican.Watch More: The Monopoli

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Hegseth also removed the olive branches, a traditional symbol of wishing peace, from the Department of Defense seal. This, in addition to changing the name to "The Department of War," shows the dangerous belligerency that comes from appointing a frat bro who values testosterone over statesmanship.

Alt National Park Service@altnps.bsky.social · 6d ago

FFS… Is it really an accident anymore at this point?

At least one paper gave this beyond-the-pale, impeachable-on-its-face Trump statement the prominence it deserves. The Los Angeles Times. #2 (!) in top stories.

Jill Lawrence@jilldlawrence.bsky.social · 5d ago

Why is this not a huge headline everywhere?

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@saletan.bsky.social synthesizes Jack Smith testimony from last week and earlier to create the J6 "trial that could have been." Some points are familiar, others are revelatory. All woven into a very strong case. Fascinating. Video and transcript here: www.thebulwark.com/p/jack-smith...

Jack Smith Reveals the Words That Could Have Buried Trump

Will Saletan lays out the case against Donald Trump that Jack Smith never got to present at trial.

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