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To be very clear, Kennedy's team is messing with a vaccine which has led to a 99 percent drop in the incidence of hepatitis B, which kills, early and painfully, 25 percent of the people who get it as children. lnk.thebulwark.com/3Xt957M

Hard to overstate how damning it is they've spun their wheels trying to come up with their strongest possible argument and the best they can do, the rationalization for it Hegseth actually put in writing, is "we can kill shipwrecked survivors if they try to call for help."

The entire U.S. population is in the low hundreds of millions (340m), meaning that according to NoemMath, nearly all of us were on track for a cocaine-related death. I am so grateful to have been saved.

Good news on The Resistance

The notion that the shipwrecked calling for help is a "hostile act" b/c it might enable salvage of part of the cargo (supposedly a military objective) strikes me as absurd. And would risk gutting the protection of the shipwrecked. (This is not an armed conflict.) www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/u...

Trump's attacks on Somalis are disgusting. WA has one of the largest Somali populations in the U.S. and I am proud to have worked for decades with this community. As an immigrant, I reject this hate and stand proudly with immigrants from all over the world. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/u...

The USG has a new explanation on why they (now admittedly) intentionally killed 2 shipwrecked men. It does not pass the laws-of-war smell test Worse for Hegseth, NYT: "Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth approved contingency plans for what to do if an initial strike left survivors." 1/🧵

“Delaying the first hepatitis B vaccine dose beyond the newborn period introduces risks that have lifelong detrimental consequences and no measurable health benefit.” Important and timely piece by an amazing team - Mike Abers, Angela Ulrich, & Rochelle Walensky. 👏👏 jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Diversity Day, 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.

"A military that trades the Constitution for personal loyalty ceases to be American."

The rhetoric today is nearly indistinguishable from Know-Nothing rhetoric about the Irish, the Italians, and the Jews.

One night years ago I did a “ride along” with 2 police officers in my city. They arrested a man for assault. One of the first things that happened when we arrived at the jail was that the arrested man met with a nurse who asked him questions like if he had diabetes.

fyi

Good that this back in the news though I’m guessing Fox News will not be telling its viewers www.cnn.com/2025/12/03/p...

FLASHBACK: “I think we get like 40% of our budget from the federal government.” Sen. Jack Johnson is bragging about how independent Tennessee is again, so here’s a reminder we are one of the most federally dependent states— and Lamberth blew a gasket when Hodges brought it up.

ICYMI — HEGSETH IN 2016: “There have to be consequences for war crimes… that’s why the military said it won’t follow unlawful orders from the commander-in-chief. There’s a standard. There’s an ethos.” Where did this guy go? Is this also treason or nah? 🤷🏼

Agents in Key Largo, Florida ripped this woman wearing medical scrubs out of her car as she screamed she is a US citizen. Agents cuffed her and put her in one of their cars. She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:

A federal judge late Tuesday blocked the Trump administration from making widespread immigration arrests in the nation’s capital without warrants or probable cause that the person is an imminent flight risk. https://to.pbs.org/4pMcomn

Comer incorrectly refers to Minnesota's Somali community as "illegals"

Who says dermatologists are not funny????? youtube.com/shorts/KY_F4...

His staff need to start microdosing Trump with Red Bull

Federal Government Announces Racial Profiling Campaign, Explains It’s Because of the President’s Personal Bigotry

JUST IN: One Big Beautiful Bill ban on Planned Parenthood is blocked again by Judge Indira Talwani (MA/Obama), this time on suit brought by 22 states & DC. Judge says ban's lack of clarity imposes unconstitutional burden on states. w/ @alicemiranda.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2025/12...

I will never again buy a Dell laptop

I don’t want to see him saying anything other than an apology for HCA stealing taxpayer money when he ran HCA.

I texted a screenshot of this to my relative who voted for Trump. I never get a reply to these texts but feel a moral obligation to provide some actual news since my relative watches Fox

In a functional vaccine regulatory system there would be full data transparency & structured review of vax benefits & harms. That's not what we have now in the US. 👉FDA & ACIP have abandoned science for ideology. It will take many years to rebuild the regulatory infrastructure & regain public trust

Typo or dog whistle?

The fog of what now? When did the United States Congress declare war on Venezuelan fishermen?

Sen. Murphy: We've never seen an FBI director care so little about his job as Kash Patel. He's be spending most of his time visiting his girlfriend, going on golf trips, getting as close to the MAGA celebrity world as possible. And he's racking up all these huge bills on us, the taxpayers.

What?????????

There is really an unsustainable level of bigoted gutter trash in the United States.

Trump is fighting to keep his eyes open while Scott Turner talks

Alienating our enemies

“I ask questions” - no he answers questions “solve your little problems” - condescending, derisive

Trump: Let's call it the fat drug, the fat drug. F-A-T. For fat people.

None of Trump’s people will explain math to him

what

Give a death cult power and they start killing babies and children. Weird how that happens.

The grievance blog masquerading as a "journal" founded by Trump HHS appointees (The "Journal" of the "Academy" of Public Health) is now publishing lengthy screeds about how HHS secretary RFK Jr is being treated unfairly by the BMJ and calling it a literature synthesis...

He was campaigning in Tennessee. That’s why he was too busy to do his job. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Must read by @marknevitt.bsky.social on why killing survivors at sea is a moral & strategic disaster for all of us: "If America chooses a path where killing defenseless survivors becomes acceptable, American servicemembers will pay the price for that choice." www.justsecurity.org/125998/boat-...

Since I haven’t seen anyone mention this: When the U.S. commits war crimes it puts our troops in danger also, as it gives a green light to other countries that they can do the same to us

Goddess bless Jimmy Kimmel whose monologue about current events makes me smile despite the horror of Trump as president

Yes, both of them

WAPO: “.. Officials in Congress and the Pentagon said Monday they are increasingly concerned that the Trump administration intends to scapegoat the military officer who directed U.S. forces to kill two survivors of a targeted strike ..” www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

A Cooper's Hawk perches in the Central Park Ramble.

My 1948 house has a crawl space. I’m glad I live in the middle of a big city youtu.be/FV04aJmN5Xo?...