Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social

14 hours ago

This should be the lead story in all major national news outlets. Public health people prefer to stay out of the limelight unless there is no other choice. I can’t overstate how bad things have to be for 9 former CDC directors to band together and pen an op-ed in the NYT warning the entire country.

Atul Gawande @agawande.bsky.social

15 hours ago

9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American."

It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...

Opinion | We Ran the C.D.C.: Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health

Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social

14 hours ago

A Labor Day reminder: today there isn't a single city, metro area, or state in the U.S. where a full-time minimum-wage worker can afford a modest 2-bedroom apartment.

Millions of people with jobs—even multiple jobs—aren't safe from homelessness in this country.

Opinion | America Is Pushing Its Workers Into Homelessness

jamelle @jamellebouie.net

2 days ago

trump can issue as many executive orders as he wants, perhaps coverage should reflect the fact that a lot of these have the legal force of a child's wishlist for santa

Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social

2 days ago

This “explicit” is a weird editorial choice. The constitution gives the president no power over this at all. It’s not ambiguous.

Benjamin Wittes @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org

2 days ago

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

The Situation: Hopscotch is Now Illegal on D.C. Sidewalks

And the United States Secret Service is out there to enforce

ProPublica @propublica.org

2 days ago

More than 1,000 people currently imprisoned in Louisiana were convicted by split juries — ruled unconstitutional in 2020.

Yet the state Supreme Court has declined to grant new trials, and lawmakers have repeatedly denied a reexamination of their cases.

With @veritenews.org

An Unconstitutional “Jim Crow Jury” Sent Him to Prison for Life. A New Law Aims to Keep Him There.

Five years ago, the Supreme Court decided that nonunanimous jury verdicts are unconstitutional. But for this Louisiana prisoner — and hundreds of others — “tough on crime” state leaders have ensured t...

Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social

5 days ago

remember folks, we cant have gun restrictions because if we do the federal government will occupy our streets, imprison people without due process, ship dissidents to foreign gulags and things of that nature