Our California healthcare provider just announced they were giving free COVID vaccines to all members 6 months old and older.
Viva la revolution.

A Republican is somebody who couldn't enjoy eating unless he knew somebody else was hungry.

(From Mary Karr's The Liars' Club.)

The Trump group of five #climate contrarians that authored the deeply flawed, heavily criticized DoE report questioning the severity of climate change has been dissolved. The legality of the group had been challenged as a violation of the Federal Advisory Committee Act.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/10/climate/trump-dissolves-contrarian-group

Yes, some of us "old guard" are on the front lines because we cut our teeth on the Vietnam war and that earlier corrupt Republican president, Richard Nixon.

https://www.berkeleyside.org/2025/09/09/retired-berkeley-residents-advocate-for-immigrants-rights

Incredibly important, superb article and independent journalism on the impact of ICE raids on access to safe #water in frontline farming communities in California.
Mainstream media should report this with attribution to @circleofblue.bsky.social; Will they?

https://www.circleofblue.org/2025/water-policy-politics/water-rights-access/ice-raids-in-california-block-farmworker-access-to-clean-water/

This, by Musk, is the height of stupidity and ego.

The idea that X is a source of news so we don't need actual media and reporters is like saying we don't need weather satellites, climate scientists, and weather models because your phone has the weather on it.

The stupid, it burns.

The most important modern improvement in public health has been the provision of safe #water and sanitation. The second most important is the development and roll out of vaccines.

The CDC doesn't understand disease control.
The EPA doesn't understand environmental protection.
Now it's clear the Dept of Energy doesn't understand energy.

This administration is populated by imbeciles.

Yes, we already live in a fascist country.
The President is mobilizing the US military against US citizens.
The Vice President admits to the government committing war crimes and doesn't care.

The full name is Trump's Department of War Crimes

https://theintercept.com/2025/09/05/pentagon-official-trump-boat-strike-was-a-criminal-attack-on-civilians

Apropos Trump trying to rename DOD to the Dept of War, in 1982, Reagan's Secretary of the Interior James Watt changed the department's logo from a left-facing bison to a right-facing bison.
That didn't last long either.
These are petty, childish, trivial people.

Department of War? Let's do them all.

Dept of Agribusiness
Dept of Ignorance
Dept of Industry
Dept of Fossil Fuels
Dept of Human Disease
Homeland Gestapo
Dept of Private Parks
Dept of Unpaid Labor
Dept of State Control
Dept of SUVs & Trucks
Dept of Bankrupt Treasury
Dept of Veterans Abuse
Center for Disease

Dear Nobel Peace Prize committee,
It now appears likely that one of the people nominated for your prize just committed a war crime. Thought you should take that into consideration.

https://www.justsecurity.org/119982/legal-issues-military-attack-carribean/

The graph shows what happened when the #polio vaccine became available. Deaths and illness stopped. People begged to get it when it became available.

Reversing this is what Florida just announced it intends to do.

The stupid, it burns.
This guy is US Secretary of Energy and blithely puts certifiably and grossly and embarrassingly incorrect statements on social media.