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"Given this... the Court respectfully submits that it is unhelpful and unnecessary to criticize district courts for 'defy[ing]' the Supreme Court when they are working to find the right answer in a rapidly evolving doctrinal landscape, where they must grapple with both existing precedent and interim guidance from the Supreme Court that appears to set that precedent aside without much explanation or consensus."
https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/09/harvard-beats-trump-as-judge-orders-us-to-restore-2-6-billion-in-funding/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
#Trump&Epstein #Epstein&Trump #Harvard #Research #Grants
#RFKJr grilled on #AntiVax policy in
combative #Senate hearing
In a contentious hearing, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. defended his tenure as *#health* secretary, as #Republicans joined #Democrats in questioning his moves to discredit & limit access to #vaccines.
#Trump #PublicHealth #science #medicine #ConspiracyTheories #disinformation #BrainWorm
https://apnews.com/live/donald-trump-news-updates-9-4-2025?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-09-04-Live+updates
#RFKJr, appearing on Thursday before a #Senate panel, offered a combative defense of his approach to #VaccinePolicy & his record as #Trumpâs *#health* secretary, while actually blaming the #CDC for the number of #US deaths during the #Covid-19 #pandemic.
âThe people at CDC who oversaw that process, who put masks on our children, who closed our schools, are the people who will be leaving,â Kennedy said in his initial remarks.
#PublicHealth #science #medicine #ConspiracyTheories #disinformation
The hearing also focused on #VaccinePolicy, with members of both parties grilling him on whether he misled them in his confirmation hearings in January.
When #RFKJr appeared before the #Senate Finance Cmte in Jan, he repeatedly
promised to âdo nothing as #HHS secretary that makes it difficult or discourages people from takingâ #vaccines.
#Trump #PublicHealth #science #medicine #ConspiracyTheories #disinformation #BrainWorm
Since then, #RFKJr has installed skeptics to guide #vaccine policy, restricted access to #Covid-19 #vaccines, canceled #grants & contracts for vaccine development & given a begrudging endorsement of the #measles vaccine.
Senator #BillCassidy, Republican of Louisiana & a #physician who voted to confirm RFKJr on the condition he wouldnât disrupt access to vaccines, said that Kennedy was in fact doing so through his actions as #health secretary.
âWeâre denying people #vaccines,â #BillCassidy said as he concluded his line of questioning.
#RFKJr responded: âYouâre wrong.â
In an exchange w/ Mark Warner (D-VA), RFKJr said he DIDNâT EVEN KNOW how many people died of #Covid & whether the vaccines prevented Covid #deaths because âthey didnât have the data.âđ€Ż
In fact, hundreds of reports have tracked the efficacy of the vaccines, finding that the shots have saved millions of lives in the #US & elsewhere.
When #Trump targeted #homeless people in DC with his #Illegal2BHomeless EO and the guards jumped in without hesitation, no one seems to care.
After almost 14 years on the streets AND being a #veteran, I swore to defend the US Constitution in 1990 and haven't stopped. No one else is standing up for homeless people but we now have the biggest target on our backs as ever. Every day, I wait to be shot for simply not having a "house".
https://beamship.mpaq.org/@bob/115142192607413472
Ich habe nicht den Eindruck, dass @Bundesregierung sich dem Ernst der #Lage bewusst ist - egal ob #Russland [Âč] oder #USA [ÂČ], denn #AgentKrasnow sitzt im WeiĂen Haus.
Âč https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTilR30XCT0
ÂČ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pL5_QQLnrAU&t=650s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRqy4YDQnLA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AF9ozOFdE48
#DEpol #EUpol #USpol #RUpol #AgentKrasnov #Trump #Putin #HybrideKriegsfĂŒhrung
Here come the #stormtroopers
#Pentagon approves use of #Navy base for #Chicago #ICE operations
â©*#Defense* officials have said the installation also could be used by #military forces who are called on to *assist* ICE.
#law #PosseComitatusAct #Trump #MilitaryState #MartialLaw #fascism #autocracy #authoritarianism #tyranny
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/09/04/chicago-navy-base-great-lakes-pritzker-trump-ice/
The #Pentagon has approved the use of a #Navy base on the outskirts of #Chicago as a staging ground from which the #Trump admin can [purportedly] launch operations against undocumented immigrantsâŠ.â©
#NavalStationGreatLakes will serve as a hub in upcoming operations overseen by #DHSâŠ.
â©It could also potentially be used as a place to house #NationalGuard or active-duty #military #ServiceMembers, if #Trump orders a surge of #US #troops to the city, as he did in #LosAngeles & #WashingtonDC.
Thursday September 4 2025.
Day 462 of #president #trump as a #convicted
#felon.
#guilty
#election2026
#2026election
"We have each had the honor and privilege of serving as director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, either in a permanent or an acting capacity, dating back to 1977. Collectively, we spent more than 100 years working at the C.D.C., the worldâs pre-eminent public health agency."
~ William Foege, William Roper, David Satcher, Jeffrey Koplan, Richard Besser, Tom Frieden, Anne Schuchat, Rochelle P. Walensky, and Mandy K. Cohen
"What the health and human services secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has done to the C.D.C. and to our nationâs public health system over the past several months â culminating in his decision to fire Dr. Susan Monarez as C.D.C. director days ago â is unlike anything we had ever seen at the agency and unlike anything our country had ever experienced."
"Mr. Kennedy has fired thousands of federal health workers and severely weakened programs designed to protect Americans from cancer, heart attacks, strokes, lead poisoning, injury, violence and more. Amid the largest measles outbreak in the United States in a generation, heâs focused on unproven treatments while downplaying vaccines."
"He canceled investments in promising medical research that will leave us ill prepared for future health emergencies. He replaced experts on federal health advisory committees with unqualified individuals who share his dangerous and unscientific views. He announced the end of U.S. support for global vaccination programs that protect millions of children and keep Americans safe, citing flawed research and making inaccurate statements."
"How do we understand and talk about the unprecedented holistic design by the Trump administration to seemingly inflict harm on American business, health, knowledge production, science, and everything else that made us 'the envy of the world,' to quote an October 2024 essay in the Economist?
The classic autocratic goal of consolidating power is part of it."
~ Ruth Ben-Ghiat
#Trump #RFKJr #destruction #chaos #FederalGovernment #autocracy
/7
https://lucid.substack.com/p/saboteurs-destroying-america-for
"If you intend to rely less on elections to stay in power, you are not afraid to slash funding for disaster relief, child cancer, or basic social assistance. ...
But domestic power consolidation is only half of it. The most shocking and tragic part is that this sabotage of America by a sitting U.S. president is also designed to benefit Americaâs adversaries âcountries that for years have sought to displace America as a global military and economic power."
Dean Obeidallah thinks that if "people die due to Kennedyâs rejection of science to make the MAGA political base happy, Kennedy must be charged with manslaughter or even murder. Trump might be above the law thanks to the corrupt GOP Supreme Court, but no one else is. And they must be held accountable."
#Trump #RFKJr #CDC #healthcare
/9
https://deanobeidallah.substack.com/p/rfk-jr-must-be-charged-with-manslaughter
âEpstein surrounded himself with the most powerful leaders of our country and the world. He abused not only me but countless others, and everyone seemed to look away. The truth is, Epstein had a free pass. He bragged about his powerful friends, including our current president, Donald Trump. It was his biggest brag, actually.â
~ Epstein abuse survivor Chauntae Davis
#Epstein #Trump #GhislaineMaxwell #pedophiles #CoverUp
/15
https://newrepublic.com/post/199950/epstein-survivor-detail-friendship-trump
"[The survivors who spoke today] all knew Ghislaine Maxwell. She, in many cases, groomed them. In some cases, abused them herself. And, of course, brought them to Epstein. They don't understand why the DOJ, why the Trump administration would move her to essentially a country club prison.
And we are in a position now asking these tough questions. Who made that call?"
~ Rep. Robert Garcia
#Epstein #Trump #GhislaineMaxwell #pedophiles #CoverUp
/16
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/epstein-survivors-speak-out-rep-robert
Trump is the oldest person to be elected to the White House.
With one foot in the grave he doesnât give a ratâs ass about the future of the country or the future of the world. He only cares about himself and the next news cycle.
The more you know.
@openrightsgroup @jim GOOD VIDEO...
SHORT VERSION REPLY
The #Answer is building another "society" ON TOP OF #MASTODON - rather than just develop more tech.
We're mostly just developing tech and not developing people
(and then complaining about #society and people falling for the same traps used by tech ).
Without organised #circles or dedicated #talks IN MASTODON (on any #decentalised or #centralised #platform) people do not know how to be nice / what to consider / what to look out for that's normal in new relationships / what do if this or that... / how to do it WITH someone there / where to go regularly...
Ok some chat happens... but is that it for Mastodon as a #movement? â
Such a lack of depth...
Without some training, we're lost / undirected online. Sorry.
And let chat (positive ending / action needed).
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LONGER VERSION:
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Rather than using social media for mostly #hating or fearing things (#Trump #Musk #Bezos #apple #news etc)... build our own society or just increment friendships and trust (must be a way).
Develop better people AT THE SAME TIME. Not just develop tech...
Time to invest in people.
Time invested in people gives back in ways to #community [opportunity, work, listening, tutoring/teaching, other coincidental help / better examples / daily place to go to].
Developing people is the solution now we have the #Technology ....
âĄïž (i.e. #MASTODON + #JITSI is ENOUGH to heal / speak / listen / send / receive))
OR #MASTODON = TEXT / PIC
+ #JITSI = AUDIO / VIDEO
+ #NEXTCLOUD = FILES
Develop caring CIRCLES OF people and everything else will come better with it. Might seem a long investment but we have to do the long work anyway because cutting corners and is cutting ourselves off with #short #textism.
Need to be dedicate to people PERSONAL #CARING IN #CIRCLES.
â âïž đ
The Answer is NOT JUST MASTODON and leaving people to their quite poor levels of friendliness and own fear... !
(that's why scratching the surface you can find people are JUST LIKE ON #twitter sometimes once we get deeper in #comments and #suggestions).
it's emotional intelligence & incrementing the #art of #friendship and #courage... at the same time as having Mastodon... CIRCLES. â âïž đ
( using Jitsi #chat rooms for example https://jitsi.freifunk-duesseldorf.de/chatroom12345 )
Building #Emotional #Intelligence + Friendships
= #Intelligent People
= #Better #humanity
#FREESCHOOL ANYONE?
People need to come #together (#decentalized or not that's the aim!)
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P.S # JITSI CHAT = INSTANT!
2 CLICKS, NO INSTALL, NO REG, NO GOOGLE ACC, NO ZOOM INSTALL, ANY PLATFORM!
AUDIO OR VIDEO CHATTING!
TEST IT ALONE - EXAMPLE HERE...
"Alas, #Trump is still alive, but there is a consolation prize for those who were holding vigil: He and the White House reacted with over-the-top defensiveness, removing all doubt that the infamous narcissist was feeling deeply embarrassed by the gleeful speculation of his demise."
https://www.salon.com/2025/09/03/trumps-long-weekend-of-humiliation/
"While #Trump himself is tired, lazy and erratic, his underlings are not. National Guard troops are on the streets for no legitimate reason, ICE agents are doing their best to turn into an American Gestapo, Robert Kennedy is gutting public health and a trade war continues to threaten the ability of Americans to afford everyday goods. This is all very bad, and it also helps to explain why so many people reacted so warmly to the wild speculation of Trumpâs death."
#Trump again calls #Epstein case a âhoaxâ as #survivors demand #accountability
Trump decried the #JeffreyEpstein scandal as a "Democrat hoax" on Wednesday, saying, "Really, I think it's enough."
Trump said that "thousands & thousands of documents" had been released but that the "Democratic hoax" would continue.
"No matter what you do it's going to keep going," Trump said, adding, "Really, I think it's enough."
#law #SexualAssault #Rape #BelieveSurvivors #RapistInChief
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/watch-trump-again-calls-epstein-case-a-hoax-as-survivors-demand-accountability
"The flyover that Trump ordered to mute the survivors speaking out now on Capitol Hill just happened. Make note of the time 11:27 AM... what a piece of shit!"
~ Teresa Garcia Giron
The Silence Continues (Just Bob 538 @ https://venmo.com/code?user_id=3063551149211648869) #Portland #PDX
The silence is deafning. Always hearing about this country or that one, this group or that one but the silence continues for #homeless people.
(Amendment I) Sorry, you don't have the right to assemble in public space even in protest because your homeless.
(Amendment IV) Sorry, you don't have the right to be served a search warrant when we steal your only way to stay warm and dry.
(Amendment VIII) Sorry, your under arrest for trying to survive in public spaces in the middle of winter/heatwave after the city/state/federal has taken everything from you and there is absolutely no place to go to get out of the weather.
A short time ago, #Trump decided that 770,000 people have no US Constitution rights when he declared it #Illegal2BHomeless across the entire country. Not only do we now have to be on the lookout for city cops, shariffs, state cops, National Guards that also forgot the oath we say when joining the US Military, we have to be looking for every day haters who won't hesitate to kill us for simply not having paid for place to live.
But the silence continues.
âAround 14 percent of the US population, nearly 50 million people, identify themselves as white evangelical Protestants. âThough [white evangelicals] make up just 14% of Americans overall, they remain the largest single religious group among Republican voters with the power to sway party priorities,â noted reporter Becky Sullivan on NPR's Morning Edition."
~ Talia Lavin, Wild Faith: How the Christian Right Is Taking Over America (NY: Legacy, 2024), p. 15
"The politics of evangelicals are overwhelmingly conservative. Though a minority, they punch far above their weight politically, with reliable votes, full coffers, and lockstep political ideology, pulling the nation ever further toward a straight, white theocracyâ (p. 15, quoting Becky Sullivan, âThe Proportion of White Christians in the US Has Stopped Shrinking, Study Finds,â NPR, July 8th, 2021).
https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/talia-lavin/wild-faith/9780306829192/