“We almost had a midair collision up here,” the JetBlue pilot said, according to a recording of his conversation with air traffic control. “They passed directly in our flight path. … They don’t have their transponder turned on, it’s outrageous.” www.cnn.com/2025/12/14/p...

Once more before Sunday ends, here’s today’s thread. Please share all this great work, & enjoy! @hcrichardson.bsky.social 🗃️

When Charlie Kirk was shot, he did a full oval office address. When it's college kids on campus it's "things can happen." What a sociopath.

Brennan eventually acknowledges that gynecologists and obstetricians have determined mifepristone is safe — but then demands again to know why the government isn’t launching a study to crack down on its usage. We are watching a storied news organization deteriorate steadily, day after day.

This is fucking grim. Somebody invented a white guy, an "IT professional" named Edward Crabtree, who stopped the Bondi shooting and spread it all over the internet, which was picked up by AI agents and slop aggregation sites. The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.

In a highly unusual move, the EPA is revising an assessment of the health dangers posed by formaldehyde, a widespread pollutant that causes far more cancer than any other chemical in the air. By @fastlerner.bsky.social

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Please read this interview - if you haven't yet. It is truly useful :)

The Mar-a-lago Christmas party is off to a flying start. #DonaldTrump #MerryGriftmas

They'll do this shit and then insist they're there to make us safer.

Our NYT piece examines Hamm's determined, 15-year campaign to reshape US energy policy. Why? He wanted to extend out the life of fossil fuels to allow his family-controlled company to keep drilling. He argued this is essential to US. energy security. A free link: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/b...

A familiar pattern. Trump's sycophants only cherry-pick positive news to show him because they are afraid to show him the truth, providing rocket fuel to his natural predisposition to lie about everything. bsky.app/profile/atru...

This Weekend in Politics, Bulletin 270. Everything you need to know about what happened this weekend in politics. open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...

ICE PEPPER SPRAYED A ONE-YEAR-OLD because her mother was filming them.

Elon's little serfs are quite literally begging journalists to come back because every publicly available source of data shows people have fled the platform and young people won't use it. They are literally begging regular people to come back. Don't do it! It is a website by and for actual Nazis!

You know things are bad when Trump changes his trademark “Two weeks” to “6 months to a year.”

Under Trump, the SEC has eased up on more than 60% of the crypto cases that were ongoing when he took office in January. Many of the firms that benefited from the leniency had financial ties to the Trump family. The SEC is no longer pursuing any cases against crypto firms with Trump ties.

Not schools but www.bbc.com/news/world-u...

Consoler-in-chief.

Person of interest in the Brown University shooting has been taken into custody, according to police.

really weird -- Margaret Brennen presses Bill Cassidy on why the White House isn't doing more to crack down on mifepristone and what he's doing to encourage them to do it

The Bulgarian people have spoken loud and clear against a corrupt regime. The government has resigned.

That's how it's done 🔥

here's today's post: "we need to talk about how completely crazypants all this shit is" — none of it is normal. thanks for reading, and please sign up for my daily newsletter to keep getting the good stuff —

The orange felon says he will begin ordering military land strikes on Venezuela. And you can bet these attacks will begin as soon as the Epstein Files are released because he’s a criminal who’s desperate and he’ll do anything to distract away from his most heinous crimes.

Amidst all the various threats, unknowns, sturm und drang of our age, is it possible that this ends not with a bang, but with a pandemic? open.substack.com/pub/charlies...

"It's becoming a, you know, a department of deportation as opposed to homeland security, which is a whole series of missions." Jeh Johnson and @johnavlon.bsky.social discuss the concern over the Trump administration undercutting cybersecurity around elections.

From Elon Musk’s Grok declaring itself "MechaHitler" to ChatGPT users spiraling into dangerous delusions, artificial intelligence wreaked havoc with humanity on an unprecedented scale in 2025. Read: www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

"Weissman was in her dorm room at Brown when a friend called to warn her that a shooting was under way. Her initial feelings of panic soon turned to anger, she told NBC. “I’m angry that I thought I’d never have to deal with this again, and here I am eight years later,” Weissman told NBC News."

After Kilmar Abrego Garcia was released from custody, ICE was almost immediately back on his trail. Why? An immigration judge, reporting to the DOJ, retroactively “corrected” a 2019 ruling prohibiting the Maryland man from being deported to El Salvador.

The hero who disarmed one of the terrorists in Sydney turned out to be 43-year-old Ahmed al-Ahmed — a fruit shop owner and father of two. He was shot twice and is currently in hospital. He is scheduled to undergo surgery. He had no experience with weapons of any kind.

We sadly know Zoe Weissman because of Parkland. In fact, our families are so close, that she has been there for my wife and I after Parkland and helped with our foundation Orange Ribbons For Jaime. America, are you ok with this?

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This guy disarming the terrorist at Bondi Beach, Australia, can only be described as hero.

This x 1,000,000

As we remember the Sandy Hook shooting today, as I reflect on how we have failed our children by failing to do more since then, as I sit here thinking about my daughter Jaime & all victims of gun violence, my only question is when will this country have had enough? www.wmur.com/article/brow...

Today, on what should have been a day of celebration, the Jewish community is instead mourning once again after a horrific attack at Bondi Beach, Australia, where two men opened fire and killed at least 12 people in a targeted terror attack against Jews celebrating Hanukkah. Antisemitism is evil.

The hero of Bondi: Ahmed el Ahmed, a 43 year old fruit shop owner from Sutherland. He grabbed the gun off one of the terrorists shooting at Jews during a Hanukkah celebration. Ahmed was then shot in the leg and shoulder by another terrorist. He’s being treated in the hospital and expected to be OK.

Murphy: "We need to understand the choice we've made in this nation to subject our kids to daily exposure to violence is not just about what happens inside schools. For many kids in our violent urban neighborhoods, it's about trauma that's breaking their brains & causing them to be unable to learn"

Jim Banks on Republicans from his own state of Indiana defying Trump: "I supported the president ... you don't want to be on the other side of Donald Trump."

Warnock: "Any nation that tolerates this kind of violence year after year, decade after decade in random places, on our college and school campuses, without doing all that we can to stop it is broken and in need of moral repair."

Lindsey Graham on the attack on US troops in Syria: "God bless President Trump for wanting to retaliate"

Warnock: "Cynicism & despair sets in & rather than people turning toward each other they are tempted to turn on each other, & that creates just the kind of atmosphere where strong men emerge promising to solve all of our problems in one fell swoop. We have to resist that."

Warnock: "If you live in Claxton, Georgia, if you live in rural America, even if you have wealth and resources and you're having a stroke and there's no ICU within a reasonable distance because of these draconian cuts, your life is in peril. We can do better than this."

Rand Paul: "My plan is this -- let people on the Obamacare market, which is about 4% of America, a small number of people, let them buy their insurance through Costco, Sam's Club, Amazon ... "

OK then, what was the action? What has the Trump admin done? What proposals have they made? They have only ever offered “thoughts and prayers” on social media. Nothing else.