"Another child has died from measles in Canada, this time a premature infant from Alberta, which has been experiencing a steep rise in cases since the spring, Canada-based Global News reported yesterday. ...
Alberta has recorded 1,914 measles cases since March, of which 1,706 involved unvaccinated children."
~ Lisa Schnirring
#measles #Canada #vaccines
/1
Simon Rosenberg comments on Russia's drone invasion of Polish air space:
"Trump’s outrageous, traitorous appeasement of Putin has brought what appeasement, servility, and weakness always does - escalation and danger. ... Our adversaries have been emboldened by Trump’s idiocy, buffoonery, cowardice, greed and self-sabotage - as they should be."
#Putin #Trump #PutinsPoodle #Russia #Poland #China
https://www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/trumps-disastrous-appeasement-of
"There are not many words you can use to describe how much influence Jeffrey Epstein accumulated among the country’s power elites without doubling or tripling your entendres. ...
We should all have learned by now that the owners and operators of major Wall Street banks have the ethics and public morality of Gaboon vipers."
~ Charles Pierce
#Epstein #Trump #GhislaineMaxwell #pedophiles #CoverUp #JPMorgan
/7
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a66028618/epstein-jp-morgan-corruption/
"It wired his funds overseas. It even paid him millions of dollars."
#Epstein #Trump #GhislaineMaxwell #pedophiles #CoverUp #JPMorgan
/6
"[Epstein's birthday book is] an indication of the actual network that they built, of how they found these girls. They brought them in as massages. They groomed them. They developed them. Some of them landed up becoming the people who were the predators later on. But this is the organization they built. This is not just... one person craving teenage girls."
~ Zev Shalev
#Epstein #Trump #GhislaineMaxwell #pedophiles #CoverUp
/3
https://thelefthook.substack.com/p/the-epstein-scandal-got-much-worse
"His close ties to JPMorgan had been invaluable in his quest for money, influence and legitimacy. The bank lent him money. Staley dished confidential information to him. At Epstein’s behest, JPMorgan set up accounts — into which he routinely transferred huge sums — for young women who turned out to be victims of his sex-trafficking operations."
~ David Enrich, Matthew Goldstein, and Jessica Silver-Greenberg
#Epstein #Trump #GhislaineMaxwell #pedophiles #CoverUp
/5
"[Epstein's birthday book is] an indication of the actual network that they built, of how they found these girls. They brought them in as massages. They groomed them. They developed them. Some of them landed up becoming the people who were the predators later on. But this is the organization they built. This is not just... one person craving teenage girls."
~ Zev Shalev
#Epstein #Trump #GhislaineMaxwell #pedophiles #CoverUp
/3
https://thelefthook.substack.com/p/the-epstein-scandal-got-much-worse
"This was a network, an organized criminal network, bringing in girls from across the world and grooming girls at an underage, developing them into prostitutes, basically, that they could then sell or use to blackmail other people."
#Epstein #Trump #GhislaineMaxwell #pedophiles #CoverUp
/4
"When asked about it last month, he said, what was the falling out between you and Epstein? He said, he stole property from me. And the property he was referring to was teenager Virginia Giuffre who worked at Mar-a-Lago."
~ Wajahat Ali
#Epstein #Trump #GhislaineMaxwell #pedophiles #CoverUp
/2
https://thelefthook.substack.com/p/the-epstein-scandal-got-much-worse
"[Epstein's birthday book is] an indication of the actual network that they built, of how they found these girls. They brought them in as massages. They groomed them. They developed them. Some of them landed up becoming the people who were the predators later on. But this is the organization they built. This is not just... one person craving teenage girls."
~ Zev Shalev
#Epstein #Trump #GhislaineMaxwell #pedophiles #CoverUp
/3
https://thelefthook.substack.com/p/the-epstein-scandal-got-much-worse
"Epstein’s story personifies a cultural system in which wealthy white men can laugh about the horrific and illegal abuse of children—female children—comfortable in the knowledge the system will never hold them to account."
~ Heather Cox Richardson
#Epstein #Trump #GhislaineMaxwell #pedophiles #CoverUp
/1
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-9-2025
"When asked about it last month, he said, what was the falling out between you and Epstein? He said, he stole property from me. And the property he was referring to was teenager Virginia Giuffre who worked at Mar-a-Lago."
~ Wajahat Ali
#Epstein #Trump #GhislaineMaxwell #pedophiles #CoverUp
/2
https://thelefthook.substack.com/p/the-epstein-scandal-got-much-worse
"Epstein’s story personifies a cultural system in which wealthy white men can laugh about the horrific and illegal abuse of children—female children—comfortable in the knowledge the system will never hold them to account."
~ Heather Cox Richardson
#Epstein #Trump #GhislaineMaxwell #pedophiles #CoverUp
/1
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-9-2025
"And, you know, that is going to look like people unable to get the vaccines that they want. nd I think that that's going to be highly problematic. And depending on what happens with these infections, COVID-19 specifically, you know, there may be potentially some pretty significant human toll if children and older adults end up getting hospitalized,
going to the ICU or worse outcomes."
#Trump #RFKJr #Republicans #vaccines #Covid
/3
Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, who resigned from the CDC recently, explains RFKJr's game plan with vaccines:
"What this means is that there is going to be a clear effort to limit access to vaccines. It's not going to be about improving the ability or freedom for people to choose. It's going to be about the inability to access vaccines."
#Trump #RFKJr #Republicans #vaccines #Covid
/1
https://www.meidasplus.com/p/meidas-health-dr-daskalakis-speaks
"There may be bottles on the shelf, right? There may be bottles, needles, whatever on the shelf, that vaccine exists, but this is undermining two things. It's undermining access from the perspective of coverage, and I'll talk about that in a second, but it's also undermining trust and confidence in vaccines. ...
The way that we're going, there is going to be a clear decrease in access for vaccines."
#Trump #RFKJr #Republicans #vaccines #Covid
/2
Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, who resigned from the CDC recently, explains RFKJr's game plan with vaccines:
"What this means is that there is going to be a clear effort to limit access to vaccines. It's not going to be about improving the ability or freedom for people to choose. It's going to be about the inability to access vaccines."
#Trump #RFKJr #Republicans #vaccines #Covid
/1
https://www.meidasplus.com/p/meidas-health-dr-daskalakis-speaks
"Few communities in America prospered as much as Texarkana during President Joe Biden’s four years in the White House, and few communities were more ungrateful than the voters of that region, which is anchored around twin cities spread across the Texas-Arkansas border."
~ Thomas B. Edsall
#Trump #MAGA #racism #immigrants #Arkansas #Texas
/1
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/opinion/liberalism-texarkana-economy-democracy.html
(continued from /5)
according to Israeli jurist and genocide expert Daniel Blatman, Amos Goldberg, Lee Mordecai, Omar Bartov, … Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, Doctors Without Borders, you name it.
There's not one entity and institution that including the United Nations rapporteurs, they said that what's happening meets the threshold of a genocide."
#Israel #Gaza #genocide #starvation
/6
"What Israel is doing with, you know, with deeds and words is exactly what meets all the perfect definition of genocide in service of ethnic cleansing.
What Israel is doing, according to the International Court of Justice, according to 800 genocide scholars and jurists, according to every human rights organization, B'Tselem, Israeli One, Medics Without Borders, according even to Israeli newspaper Haaretz," (continued in /6)
#Israel #Gaza #genocide #starvation
/5
"In Gaza, survival has been redefined. It is no longer just about fleeing bombs — it is about keeping ourselves from dying of hunger. The echoing question — 'Where do we go?' — has now been compounded by another, more desperate one: 'What can we eat so we don’t collapse?”
~ Hend Salama and Abo Helow
#Israel #Gaza #genocide #starvation
/1
I read a report like this and understand why people keep saying on social media, "We're living in the stupidest timeline." Robyn Pennacchia writes,
"[Candace Owens] has spent over a year 'transvestigating' France’s first lady Brigitte Macron — intent, for whatever reason, upon proving she was assigned male at birth. Actual hours of videos, based on zero evidence whatsoever, putting together her 'case.'"
#CandaceOwen #Macron
/1
"The mRNA Covid vaccines are estimated to have saved 2.5 million lives globally, with 9 out of 10 of those lives being people over the age of 60. ...
In withholding funds appropriated by Congress, Kennedy is engaging in the same conduct that the GAO ruled was illegal when performed by Trump."
~ Robert B. Hubbell
#RFKJr #vaccines #HHS
/2
https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/democrats-refuse-to-flinch
"The UN expert who first warned that Israel was orchestrating a campaign of deliberate mass starvation in Gaza more than 500 days ago, has said that governments and corporations cannot claim to be surprised at the horror now unfolding."
~ Nina Lakhani
#Israel #Gaza #starvation #genocide
/1
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/04/gaza-starvation-un-expert-michael-fakhri
"The banality of evil doesn't do justice to DHS and ICE; it's more like the brutality of the morally feeble. ...
This isn’t about border patrol. It is about who is permitted to walk (or, in many cases, ride in a car) freely about society, and who is presumed guilty because of their surname and skin."
~ David Shuster
#Trump #StephenMiller #ICE #DHS #MaskedThugs #cruelty #immigrants #deportations #kidnappings
/1
https://www.blueamp.co/p/dhs-trumps-bungling-despots-of-deportation
"Tech giants have flattened the global narrative about Gaza on social media. You can post a thirst trap. You can post a Sephora haul. But if you post the word GAZA, you’re shadowbanned, demonetized, or dropped from brand deals. Sometimes all three. Every creator sees it happening. No one in power will admit it."
~ The Feed
#Israel #Gaza #starvation #genocide
/2
https://beagoodinfluence.substack.com/p/the-one-word-that-can-get-you-banned
"In an audio-only press gaggle on Air Force One, Trump confirmed that Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre worked for him when she was sixteen years old. Trump also complained that Epstein 'stole her' from him."
~ Scott Dworkin
#Epstein #Trump #pedophiles #CoverUp #VirginiaGiuffre #GhislaineMaxwell
/1
https://www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/great-news-thats-horrible-for-trump-22d
"I have been on Truth Social to cover Trump since the first day it became active, and have read every post. The people on that platform are hardcore MAGA cultists who are typically intensely loyal. But his dismissive post on Epstein drew a tidal wave of angry responses like I have never seen before. So far, Trump has received over 45,000 replies, over 90% negative."
~ Ron Filipkowski
#Trump #Epstein #MAGA
/1
https://www.meidasplus.com/p/disillusioned-trump-fans-respond
This AP video captures what happened on 8 July at Ontario Advanced Surgery Center in California. Masked men claiming to be ICE agents suddenly appeared and began chasing 30-year-old Denis Guillen-Solis and two other men working with him as landscapers on the grounds of the surgical center.
#Trump #StephenMiller #MaskedThugs #ICE #immigrants #violence #kidnapping #deportations
/1
Why do many Americans who will now be badly hurt by the big, beautiful bill's ripping of necessary support networks from them cheer the bill? To answer that question, Katherine Stewart turns to Wilhelm Reich's Mass Psychology of Fascism.
As she notes, Reich was preoccupied with the question of why working-class Germans succumbed to Hitler.
#Trump #StephenMiller #ICE #BigBeautifulBill #PoliceForce
/7
https://writekaths.substack.com/p/bbb-and-the-psychology-of-fascism
"Anyone could be a target for harassment, imprisonment, or disappearing.
ICE is the president’s personal army to carry out his authoritarian will."
#Trump #StephenMiller #ICE #BigBeautifulBill #PoliceForce
/6
"Following this [ Skrmetti] ruling, not only are trans kids at risk, but so is the bodily autonomy of any member of any community who finds themselves in the sights of the hard right. Our freedoms are now up for 'fierce debate,' subject to the 'sincere concerns' of those who want to do us harm."
~ Meagan Hatcher-Mays
#Juneteenth #AfricanAmericans #trans #LGBTQ #HumanRights
/22
https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/supreme-court-tennessee-transgender-youth
"The reality is that Trump only ever thinks about himself, and has infinite faith in his ability to win in any conflict (literal or figurative). That’s why he thinks he can simultaneously bomb Iran into oblivion and make a deal with Ayatollah Khamenei that would avert long-standing U.S. military involvement in the region. It is reckless, and it is stupid…."
~ Alex Shephard
#Netanyahu #Trump #TulsiGabbard #Israel #Iran #MAGA
/33
https://newrepublic.com/article/196945/trump-iran-war-israel-iraq
As Ella Baron's cartoon suggests, Netanyahu's attack on Iran is diverting the world's attention from the continued killing in Gaza.
#Netanyahu #Trump #Israel #Iran #Gaza #MAGA
/33
"The reality is that Trump only ever thinks about himself, and has infinite faith in his ability to win in any conflict (literal or figurative). That’s why he thinks he can simultaneously bomb Iran into oblivion and make a deal with Ayatollah Khamenei that would avert long-standing U.S. military involvement in the region. It is reckless, and it is stupid…."
~ Alex Shephard
#Netanyahu #Trump #TulsiGabbard #Israel #Iran #MAGA
/33
https://newrepublic.com/article/196945/trump-iran-war-israel-iraq
"On Thursday (June 12), Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu went to the Western Wall to place a note between the stones. The site, also called the Wailing Wall or the Kotel, is part of the ancient retaining wall built at the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. Today, Jews (and others) place prayers in cracks between the large stones —"
~ Brian Kaylor
#Netanyahu #Trump #Israel #Iran #MAGA #bible
/1
https://publicwitness.wordandway.org/p/operation-mauling-scripture
"The US flag does not belong to the military, the Army, the Navy, the Marines, or the National Guard. It does not belong to Republicans, MAGA extremists, or white supremacists. It does not represent America’s mythological past that is the object of the hate-fueled motto, 'Make America Great Again.'
Rather, it belongs to all Americans, a symbol of their collective struggle for the future of America….'"
~ Robert B. Hubbell
#Trump #parade #NoKings
/7
Trump's deployment of armed forces to suppress citizens' free speech and undermine the authority of their duly elected leaders constitute one serious problem. Another is this:
“[W]hat is the impact on readiness for the entire military when we start taking large formations like this out of the existing infrastructure?”
#Trump #military #LosAngeles
/6
"America will have more anti-trans bills in 2025 than actual trans athletes. The Trump Administration literally attempted to erase the existence of transgender and nonbinary people from public view, even scrubbing the word 'transgender' from government websites."
~ Wajahat Ali
#Trump #Republicans #trans
/1
https://thelefthook.substack.com/p/america-2025-a-cautionary-tale-for
As Pride Month begins, I thought I'd share a small story from yesterday. My husband Steve and I are in Hamburg to celebrate the 80th birthday of our friend Wolfram, whom we've known over 40 years. We've visited him and his wife Karin in Germany over the years, and they've made visits to us in the US a number of times.
Wolfram's birthday party was yesterday. As people milled about talking, a friend of his came to talk to us.
#Pride #PrideMonth #LGBTQ #Trump #Republicans
/1
"The Trump administration has ordered US embassies globally to immediately pause scheduling visa interviews for international students as it prepares to introduce sweeping social media monitoring for these applicants.
The directive, first reported by Politico and since confirmed by the Guardian, could severely hold up visa processing and hit universities financially."
~ Clea Skopeliti
#Trump #universities #fascism #ForeignStudents #visas