"Today #Trump has claimed the power to take over an American city, casting the cityβs leadership as inept and its police as powerless βbecause of woke,β which is another way of saying because the right white people are not in charge."
https://newrepublic.com/article/199001/trump-dc-takeover-police-racist
#racism
#Trump really does want to go full #fascist. https://www.commondreams.org/news/pentagon-plan-civil-unrest?utm_source=Common+Dreams&utm_campaign=91e8265b77-News+Alert+%7C+Trump+DC+Trial+Balloon_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-35ede9c646-600541243
#RFKJr gives the game away: He's going to "find" that #vaccines cause #autism by lying about the research. This rather complex but important article unpacks his latest round of lies. https://theunbiasedscipod.substack.com/p/dont-be-foiled-by-rfk-jrs-rebuttal
Former US Surgeon General on the #CDC shootings: "This tragedy is not an isolated event. It is a dire reflection of ever-escalating threats public health workers face in a climate increasingly shaped by misinformation, politicization, and inflammatory rhetoric. Worse still, it took more than 18 hours for Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to issue a public statement condemning the violent act." https://www.statnews.com/2025/08/09/cdc-shooting-anti-vaccine-violence-rhetoric-public-health-workers/
#RFKJr #GunViolence
#Columbia really should rename itself Neville Chamberlain University.
https://theintercept.com/2025/08/07/columbia-gaza-student-protests-expulsions-trump/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=The%20Intercept%20Newsletter
#Hawaii #COVID19 cases are trending upward. Be careful! https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/covid-19-cases-hawaii-still-040100711.html
Never forget that some of the most vocal opposition to the Israeli #genocide in #Gaza is coming from the #Jewish community: https://www.democracynow.org/2025/8/5/if_not_now
#Trump continues thrashing the #Constitution. Didn't the U.S. once pretend to care about stuff like this? https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-census-plan
#Census
βWe have electricity prices going up, we have #electricity demand going up and we have the federal government preventing developers and individuals from accessing the lowest-cost #energy available [from renewable sources] and wanting to sort of turn back the clock to where we were all dependent on coal and oil and gas. That just makes no sense unless your ultimate goal is to support the oil and gas industry and to reduce competition with those industries.β
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/06082025/federal-rooftop-solar-for-all-program-potential-cuts
#solar
THIS is how you write a headline about #RFKJr's reign of error: https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/hhs-scraps-further-work-life-saving-mrna-vaccine-platform