Reposted by Zahra Nasrazadani🎃Uncle Ulfkrahe👻 @ulfkrahe.bsky.social · 16/10/2025That's because it's illegal. The Executive branch is not supposed to have the power of the purse. That explicitly belongs to Congress. 922768
Reposted by Zahra NasrazadaniMehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 16/10/2025Imagine if KJP or Psaki had said this about the Republican base: not just that half of them were “deplorables” but that the GOP’s “main constituency is made up of domestic terrorists, white supremacists, and violent criminals”? The media, not just Fox, would be in meltdown. GOP would be screaming! 2933365803
Reposted by Zahra NasrazadaniAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16/10/2025Chris Murphy: "This is a country that's falling apart because Trump is in the middle of an authoritarian takeover. We're not on the verge of an authoritarian takeover. We're in the middle of it ... I have no moral obligation to vote for a budget that literally funds the destruction of our democracy" 430195035966
Reposted by Zahra NasrazadaniJessica Tarlov @jessicatarlov.bsky.social · 17/10/2025Remember when this was just “one narco-terrorist boat”? Now it’s multiple strikes, foreign nationals dead, and no oversight. At what point will Congress demand answers from this Administration? 575111273036
Reposted by Zahra NasrazadaniThe Associated Press @apnews.com · 09/10/2025Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer. In his first teaching document Thursday, Leo confirms that he is in perfect lockstep with Pope Francis on matters of social injustice.bit.lyPope Leo blasts economy that marginalizes poor while wealthy live in bubble of luxuryPope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer. 503202425081
Reposted by Zahra NasrazadaniMehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 10/10/2025They didn’t just NOT give Trump the Nobel Peace Prize, they wrote a citation that reads like an anti-Trump rallying cry. (He’s gonna extra-tariff Norway now, isn’t he?) 29564581427
Reposted by Zahra NasrazadaniRyan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 08/10/2025Federal law prohibits ERs from treating people differently based on their ability to pay or citizenship status. 2243568
Reposted by Zahra NasrazadaniDr. Tara L. Conley @taralconley.com · 08/10/2025“The show then cut to a break and later resumed the interview with Miller. Sanchez told the audience, ‘wires got crossed’. Neither Sanchez nor Miller mentioned Trump wielding ‘plenary authority’ again.” WHY AREN’T JOURNALISTS ASKING BASIC FOLLOW-UP QUESTIONS?? 33514
Reposted by Zahra NasrazadaniAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/10/2025NN: Dems say you won't swear in Grijalva bc you don't want her vote on Epstein JOHNSON: No. It's scheduling NN: But there have been Rs sworn in during pro forma sessions MJ: Only reason was bc they flew in their family NN: So if she flies in her family you'd do it? MJ: Again, it's a distraction 1334135964354
Reposted by Zahra NasrazadaniZohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 08/10/2025TONIGHT (and especially for followers outside of NYC who want to get involved): Join @brennanleemulligan.bsky.social on a special phonebank at 6pm! Sign up: volunteer.zohranfornyc.com/phonebank-fo... 513624829
Reposted by Zahra NasrazadaniAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/10/2025Johnson: "He has defunded our education system. He has defunded our transportation system. He's firing black women across this country. He's defunding our healthcare system. This president is absolutely out of control... Chicago is going to stand firm in protecting humanity." 429249117406
Reposted by Zahra NasrazadaniAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2025Jeffries: "Mike Johnson and this group continue to cover up for the pedophiles. That's crazy." 13644421060
Reposted by Zahra NasrazadaniAlt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 08/10/2025Oh look, vaccines work. 13681193
Reposted by Zahra NasrazadaniAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/10/2025Pritzker: "He said he was going after the worst of the worst. It's not going after the worst of the worst when you're just literally stopping children who happen to be brown & asking them for papers as if they're gonna have proof they're a citizen. Pull out your phones and film everything you see" 250175475685
Reposted by Zahra NasrazadaniAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2025"While ICE is invading immigrant neighborhoods and kidnapping people by the thousands, the fact that a hugely popular artist would sing in Spanish at the Super Bowl is a sign that America is still a polyglot nation. And that is unacceptable." — @paulwaldman.bsky.socialpublicnotice.coWhiny MAGA freaks out over Super Bowl halftime showSongs in Spanish? In America? 561509265
Reposted by Zahra NasrazadaniMehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 09/10/2025I love that we live in a world where we're all supposed to now praise Trump for his peace-making and ignore the fact that at least 20,000 Palestinians have been killed on his watch, with bombs & bullets - & rhetorical support! - that he supplied to Israel. That's all erased now. 1412624521
Reposted by Zahra NasrazadaniAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/10/2025Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds." 82348961720
Reposted by Zahra NasrazadaniGeorge Chidi, Evil Reporter @neonflag.bsky.social · 08/10/2025Plenary power: a complete and absolute power to take action on a particular issue, with no limitations. Get used to seeing this term in the media for a while, after Stephen Miller accidentally used it in public with reference to the military. harvardpolitics.com/national-sec...harvardpolitics.comWhere the Law is Silent: Plenary Power & the “National Security” Constitution - Harvard Political ReviewThe unspoken truth is that the Constitution can be ignored in the name of “protecting” it, and thus the nation, from minorities. 18541
Reposted by Zahra NasrazadaniWashington Post Opinions @postopinions.bsky.social · 07/10/2025"Never before have we issued a joint public warning like this." The latest from former U.S. surgeons general Jerome Adams, Richard Carmona, Joycelyn Elders, Vivek Murthy, Antonia Novello and David Satcher: wapo.stOpinion | Six surgeons general: It’s our duty to warn the nation about RFK Jr.We took an oath to declare dangers when we found them. We’re doing that again today. 9307152
Reposted by Zahra NasrazadaniSherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 05/10/2025So say it, Hegseth. President Truman desegregated the military in 1948. That would be when the “wokeness” began, huh? Say it. 521919487
Reposted by Zahra NasrazadaniAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/10/2025"If they can arrest James Comey, they can definitely arrest Google CEO Sundar Pichai. But the rest of us now have to live in a country that is much closer to oligarchy, thanks in large part to the quiescence of the tech bros who fashion themselves as defenders of free speech." — @lizdye.bsky.socialpublicnotice.coGoogle joins presidential bribe clubIt's a "settlement." WINK WINK. 15534251218
Reposted by Zahra NasrazadaniMichael Ian Black @michaelianblack.bsky.social · 02/10/2025"So when the First Amendment is under attack here, what do these free speech warriors do? Stay here and speak up or jet off to Jeddah to collect that bag?" michaelianblack.substack.com/p/who-exactl...michaelianblack.substack.comWho, Exactly, Is The Joke On?I didn't want to write about the fucking Riyadh Comedy Festival but I did. 1928442
Reposted by Zahra NasrazadaniMegan Ranney MD MPH @meganranney.bsky.social · 02/10/2025“Combination vaccines were developed to reduce missed opportunities, increase coverage and minimize the trauma of multiple injections … Undoing that progress would put children at risk." *ps, my editorial note: they are also SAFE www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-s...cbsnews.comTrump's call to split up the MMR childhood vaccine revives long-settled debatePresident Trump's suggestion that the combination measles, mumps and rubella vaccine should be separated marks a sharp break from decades of immunization practice. 514757
Reposted by Zahra NasrazadaniAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/10/2025REPORTER: Should ERs check immigration status before treating a dying patient? LEAVITT: That's probably not a question for me to answer. That's a question for healthcare professionals and legal experts to answer. (That's not a no!) 76041141035
Reposted by Zahra NasrazadaniKelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 03/10/2025Disabled and Covid Cautious people: “Don’t ban masks we’re in a pandemic and they’re a critical tool to protect ourselves” Government: “Too bad. Masks are criminalized”. ICE: “Don’t ban masks we need to hide our faces while we torture people” Government: “Mask bans are unconstitutional” 10993305
Reposted by Zahra NasrazadaniGod @thegodshow.com · 02/10/2025The people who’ve been calling you baby murderers your whole life want you to turn down the temperature. 12470361474
Reposted by Zahra NasrazadaniAshley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 02/10/2025I say it all the time, but imma say it again: a lot of very book smart people lack the emotional education and communication skills that would allow them to generate the courage they want to embody in their work. They are incurious about their own emotional lives, and consequently, those of others. 91751263
Reposted by Zahra NasrazadaniIda Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 02/10/2025In case it wasn’t clear, the anti-DEI crusade has never been about merit. Zero news experience. Never been a reporter. Elevated to Editor in Chief of CBS News, one of the most storied news institutions in the nation. www.mediaite.com/media/news/p...mediaite.comParamount Officially Acquiring The Free Press and Making Bari Weiss CBS News Editor in Chief: ReportParamount Skydance will be officially acquiring The Free Press and hiring its founder Bari Weiss as editor in chief of its CBS News division, with the deal to be announced this coming Monday, accordin... 823161465900
Reposted by Zahra NasrazadaniCasket Based @cineblah.bsky.social · 02/10/2025"Immigration will destroy British culture" Woah, I'm already pro-immigration, you don't have to keep selling it to me. 625135
Reposted by Zahra NasrazadaniAlt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 02/10/20251/8 Evidence keeps piling up: Medicaid work requirements do not increase employment. They just make it harder for people to get health insurance. Latest evidence comes from a BMJ study on Georgia. 🧵bmj.comInsurance coverage and employment after Medicaid expansion with work requirements: quasi-experimental difference-in-differences studyObjective To understand how health insurance coverage and employment changed among working age adults with low incomes in Georgia, the first state to implement Medicaid expansion with work requirement... 12282108
Reposted by Zahra NasrazadaniAlt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 02/10/2025TL;DR Republicans are lying about the shutdown. 🚨 Undocumented immigrants have been barred from fed health care subsidies since 1996. The fight is over DACA recipients, refugees & temporary protected status holders. GOP bill blocks them; Dem bill restores access + Medicaid funding.nbcnews.comGOP misleads with claim that Democrats shut down to give health care to 'illegal immigrants'U.S. law prohibits federal health care benefits for undocumented immigrants. Democrats want to return benefits for those with lawful presence, like DACA recipients and asylum-seekers. 14264104
Reposted by Zahra NasrazadaniRyan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 01/10/2025ER doc here! This is a lie. Wait times are up because the American healthcare system is an unsustainable business model and a for-profit national healthcare system just doesn’t work. These problems will continue to get worse until we change that system. It literally has nothing to do with immigrants 335146655193
Reposted by Zahra Nasrazadaniderek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 02/10/2025Can you guess which buttonhole is handmade? 🧵 50158099
Reposted by Zahra NasrazadaniAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/10/2025STEPHANOPOULOS: Hold on a second. Answer the question. As Speaker, do you believe it's appropriate to use American cities as training grounds for the military, calling those people 'the enemy within'? JOHNSON: I'm not comment on your characterization of what the president said. S: Those are quotes 2451204836424
Reposted by Zahra NasrazadaniAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/10/2025Q: How did the White House decide it was appropriate for Jared Kushner to be working on matters that involve Qatar, the UAE, Saudi Arabia -- 3 countries combined that have given him more than $2.5b LEAVITT: It's frankly despicable that you're trying to suggest that it's inappropriate 2335127334250
Reposted by Zahra NasrazadaniElizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 01/10/2025RFK Jr. still hasn’t signed off on the ACIP recommendations for COVID19 vaccines. It’s been almost 2 weeks. The impact of his continued maliciousness is that these shots still aren’t available to families for their kids through the Vaccines for Children program, which about half of US kids use.statnews.comLow-income children lack access to Covid vaccines because of approval delayTwo weeks after vaccine advisers approved new Covid recs, Kennedy still hasn’t given his approval, leaving states unable to order updated shots for low-income kids. 19548255
Reposted by Zahra NasrazadaniAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/10/2025Raskin: "It's not lost on anyone that shutting the government down allows them not swear in our new colleague, Ms Grijalva from Arizona, who would be the 218th signature to discharge the Epstein files and to put a vote on that on the House floor." 9903572212715
Reposted by Zahra NasrazadaniAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/10/2025COLLINS: So you're telling me you're willing to vote no every time? BERNIE SANDERS: Damn right 720247105435
Reposted by Zahra NasrazadaniMehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 27/09/2025If ever there was a time not to normalize Trump’s authoritarian fever dreams, this is it. This should be impeachable. ‘War ravaged’ Portland? He’s insane - & insanely power hungry. The script is set - call an imaginary group a terror group and then send in the troops. 49681122548
Reposted by Zahra NasrazadaniWHO @who.int · 28/09/2025Today is International #SafeAbortion Day. Access to safe abortion protects the health of women and girls. As with all other health services, women and girls should be able to access safe and respectful abortion care, when they need it, without fear of harm, punishment or recrimination. 11754292
Reposted by Zahra NasrazadaniPopehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 28/09/2025We have to stop dehumanizing ICE agents while they are doing their important job of dehumanizing us 19966921970
Reposted by Zahra NasrazadaniSnitty 🎃 @clofsnitville.bsky.social · 27/09/2025In case you missed it: an essential piece from Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò from earlier this week: www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...bostonreview.netHow Can We Live Together? - Boston ReviewEzra Klein is wrong: shame is essential. 528780
Reposted by Zahra NasrazadaniWHO @who.int · 28/09/2025📢 Access to medical abortion saves lives. The medications used – #mifepristone and #misoprostol - are included on WHO’s list of Essential Medicines. 🔗 bit.ly/3OynjiA 231382
Reposted by Zahra NasrazadaniKat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 27/09/2025Trump just ordered the military into Portland, and he’s giving them the green light to use lethal force on American citizens. Authoritarianism is an abstract concept but Trump is making its impacts real and tangible. Let’s be real about it: This is the beginning of dictatorship in America. 18143390410487
Reposted by Zahra NasrazadaniDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 25/09/2025Scenes from an authoritarian regime 56945207
Reposted by Zahra Nasrazadanijosh farkas 💊 @pulmcrit.bsky.social · 25/09/2025if a patient with opioid use disorder is admitted to ICU (eg for pneumonia) & they clearly tell you their dose of buprenorphine or methadone, we should just believe them and give it to them in my experience they’re always correct & delaying tx to try to verify their perscription just causes miserymedia.tenor.coma man is sitting at a table with a sign that says `` change my mind '' on it .ALT: a man is sitting at a table with a sign that says `` change my mind '' on it . 7589
Reposted by Zahra NasrazadaniChristopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 25/09/2025Speaking of voices under attack…can we be just as loud about Black journalists and comedians who are silenced, even by our so-called liberal outlets. • Joy Reid • Don Lemon • Melissa Harris-Perry • Tiffany Cross • Jemele Hill • Marc Lamont Hill • Karen Attiah • Amber Ruffin 571180457463
Reposted by Zahra NasrazadaniMehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 26/09/2025“The time of…Benjamin Netanyahu coming to this city and then making military decisions from this city to kill civilians…has to come to an end.” I asked @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social if he still plans to arrest Netanyahu if he comes to New York. Full interview: zeteo.com/p/exclusive-... 632875611