The Tortured Progressives Department

doing the work in between the perpetual Most Important Election of Our Lives. progressive memes. eldest daughtering a little too close to the sun along the way.

[Walter Masterson @waltermasterson]

Just got back from Michigan.

Haley Stevens’ campaign does not exist IRL. She has an army of online bots making it seem like she’s sweeping the nation. Those people are not real. Her voters are not real.

AES has a genuine campaign driven by the people of Michigan. Once you see his rallies and canvass pre-launches, you will see that he’s going to kick Mike Rogers 🫏 this November.

Medicare for all, money out of politics. Let’s go Michigan!

[Christopher Hale @ChristopherHale]

Let’s play this out.

Let’s say you skip the MMR shot for your kid. He catches measles at school.

A kindergartner down the hall is between chemo treatments for leukemia. Her doctors can’t vaccinate her, no matter how much they want to.

Measles floats in that classroom’s air for two hours after your son leaves, so she never has to be in the room with him to catch it.

Her immune system can’t fight off what a healthy kid’s body handles in a week.

Same danger for the six-month-old child down the street, because they’re too young for their first dose.

They’re only alive because everyone else in that building stayed vaccinated.

One infected kid in a full room can infect twenty others. No common infectious disease spreads faster.

Your decision about your own child just endangered other people’s children.

This poor child is dead in Texas because her parents are idiots who think they’re smart.

Full story below.

[Negan @Roger_Negan]

This

[Xrayman @5xvxvxvxv]

@d_h_sanders People forget the Italian Army was doing body disposal. The Indians had corpse Burn pits, the chinese used disinfectant drones, Sweden didnt do lockdowns and then apologized for how many people it killed. GOP thinks Fauci made it up but also killed a lot of people

[Matthew Cortland, Esq. they @mattbc]

There’s E. coli In The Berries:

Publix just expanded its recall of GreenWise Organic frozen blueberries and mixed berries (sourced from Chile) after 12 people got sick and 4 were hospitalized. Sold in AL, FL, GA, KY, NC, SC, TN, VA. Check your freezer. Throw them out or return them.

This is happening while food-safety staffing and surveillance at FDA/CDC have been cut under Trump, MAGA, MAHA

https://t.co/wWYN7srumP

[Thag Simmons @d_h_sanders]

There is some kind of mass psychosis that has convinced millions of people that the United States was the only country in the world that enacted protective measures in response to the global pandemic that occurred in 2020

[Wiz Fajita @trillary_banks_]

97% of the US population got the vaccine so I really just want to know why so many of you are lying about it. Is it for attention?

[Toby Dycus @Castlecomics11]

@mehdirhasan Fauci, however you feel about the man, had ZERO authority to implement ANYTHING. Restrictions precautions, etc, were largely left up to states who did or didn’t take their cue from the feds. And who was in charge of the federal government at the time? I can’t seem to recall…

[Covie @covie_93]

Fauci served under so many presidents and no one had a problem with him except the one who wanted people to inject disinfectant to wash out their lungs or shine UV light inside their body.

[Jamie Bonkiewicz @JamieBonkiewicz]

Fauci was caring for AIDS patients when others wouldn’t even touch them. He fought harmful misinformation. He warned about the risk of a pandemic for years. You’re never going to convince me he’s a terrible person.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Hey, remember when Fauci privately told a reporter on Feb 7th 2020 that Covid was "more deadly than even your strenuous flus... This is deadly stuff" but then told a public press conference on Feb 27th 2020: "This is a flu. This is like a flu"?

Oh wait! That was... Donald Trump.

[MP Arizona☀️🏳️‍🌈💙🌵🐕🐕‍🦺🫂💦🏜🐟🌴🎙🌎🌻♍️🌊 @AzPetrich]

For those of you who are OUTRAGED Dr. Anthony Fauci plead the 5th during the grilling over his over COVID-19, I'd like to remind everyone that Trump himself plead the 5th 440 times during a single deposition, AND 97 times during his 1990 divorce proceeding. SIT THE FUCK DOWN.

[Cassandra screaming into the void @JellyKind]

I feel like I'm going insane. Do people genuinely not remember how terrifying the beginning of the pandemic was? How many people died and how little we knew about it? I sure remember my husband coming home from the hospital every day worried he'd bring a virus that would kill us.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

The apology should obviously come from the president at the time, Trump, who completely botched the handling of the pandemic and lied about the severity of the threat.

We live in the most upside-down and ridiculous and Orwellian of timelines!

[The Tortured Progressives Department @TorturedProg]

@fanoftheband1 @StalkingKyle This 100%. Fauci “had a lot to say” during COVID because he was :::checks notes::: a high-ranking government official responsible for infectious disease control. He’s now a private citizen under constant fire from partisan wackos on the right. Not a great take from Kyle tbh.

[David Hogg 🟧 @davidhogg111]

I’m old enough to remember when Carville called me a twerp for challenging asleep at the wheel Democrats and now I’m his DNC pick. What a year.

[robert jon anderson @R_JonAnderson]

So, 9/11 victims are upset that New York has a Muslim mayor but are completely silent about the fact that Saudi Arabia (home to most of the 9/11 hijackers) is getting nuclear secrets from Trump.

Wake me up when the stupid hypocrisy ends.

[ray (parody) @yafriendray]

richest neighborhood in the city claiming oppression lol

[Art Vandelay @LJS527]

This is gross. I don't like the guy, but can we stop with this performative bullshit? When 9/11 happened he was a kid. He's never said anything disrespectful about it. Being a Muslim doesn't automatically make someone guilty of anything.