Have you attended a "How Things Work at the #Ohio Statehouse" training yet? @howthingsworkoh.bsky.social Join us at noon tomorrow (Thursday 1218)! Register: bit.ly/StatehouseLu...

This is horrible. Trump and his crew shut down USAID, which has led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people, and they had no idea what they were doing or what would be the consequences. Completely immoral. (From the VF story on Susan Wiles.) www.vanityfair.com/news/story/t...

Unitary executive theory assumes that the President is not just a King, but has deep knowledge of the working of agencies, or delegates to people who will act consistently with his preferences to the point that they should be allowed to ignore the law. USAID illustrates why this is nonsense.

Drill baby drill is back. What did Trump promise to Putin in Alaska? Wake up America. Trump revokes Biden-era limits on drilling in Alaska. westernpriorities.org/2025/11/trum...

GOP Rep. Ryan Mackenzie signs the Democratic discharge petition for a 3-year ACA funding extension. He's #218. This now has enough to end-run Republican leadership and get a House vote.

Everytown just released its annual Crime Gun Recovery Report, which found that just four gun manufacturers – Glock, Taurus, Smith & Wesson, and Ruger – produced more than half of all guns recovered in crimes in 2024, despite the existence of more than 6K active licensed gun manufacturers nationwide.

Claims of drug interdiction, standing alone, do not substitute for lawful authorization to use military force. The law is explicit. If U.S. forces are introduced into hostilities, Congress must approve. Absent that approval, the War Powers Resolution requires withdrawal within 60 days.

#Pinks #ProudBlue Dec. 16 2025 Call your reps now and tell them to vote yes on the war powers resolutions to stop trump’s war on Venezuela. We do not want our troops in another forever war over oil. www.nationofchange.org/2025/12/16/p...

Not for nothing but federal law contains several statutory provisions that restrict, if not outright prohibit, this unilateral action by the senile dementia patient in the Oval. War Powers Act. War Crimes Act. Anti-Piracy Act. Neutrality Act. All still on the books.

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I mean everyone voted for fewer jobs, more war and more expensive healthcare, right?

In 1951, a Black teenager led a walkout of her segregated Virginia high school. On Tuesday, her statue replaced that of a Confederate general in the U.S. Capitol. apple.news/AgQoHlptDRC-...

NEW: An MIT professor has been fatally shot inside his home near Boston. Nuno F.G. Loureiro, director of MIT’s Plasma Science & Fusion Center, died after emergency surgery. Authorities say they have no suspect in custody and the gunman is still at large. #BlueSky #NewsSky #MIT

Trump posted that he was declaring a blockade of sanctioned oil tankers coming in and out of Venezuela. Fact check from @markhertling.bsky.social: "It is illegal to threaten this or attempt to do it."

That we have to legislate this….

Earlier this year, ProPublica found that the sepsis rate in second-trimester pregnancy loss hospitalizations increased by more than 50% under Texas’ abortion ban. Here’s how we did our analysis. (Published Feb. 2025)

If you want to murder people without trials you render them as terrorists. Handy.

Can the CDC survive under the ledership of the "flock of quacks" Donald Trump has put in charge of it? Dr. Debra Houry, former CDC official and new senior medical adviser to the California Dept. of Health, is losing hope: "I don't know if the CDC will survive this year if it continues like this."

"Today, the Trump meme coin has lost 88% of its value... "First Lady Melania Trump’s meme coin suffered even steeper losses. Today it’s worth just 11 cents, which means anyone who bought at the top and held on has lost 99% of their investment..." www.cnn.com/2025/12/15/b...

Creepy af obsession with our genitals.

Louisiana this weekend... www.wbrz.com/news/protest...

Southlake Texas Apple Store this weekend -- sound on...

"The standout in Burlington started with two people and has grown to as many as 750..." gazettenet.com/2025/12/12/a...

For the first time, Columbus has a specific commission to uplift and support the voices of LGBTQ+ people in Columbus. https://bit.ly/4oZNEGC?utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky_

There is nothing that can be done to stop a data center from coming to northern Pickaway County, according to the Ashville village administrator. https://nbc4i.co/3XX5ZJw?utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky_

Deranged Donald defunds the VA and abuses our troops.

Apparent ICE operation targeting 2 men on roof in Chanhassen draws crowd of protestors. | KSTP kstp.com/kstp-news/to...

One of our Shakopee observers witnessed ICE pepper spray a baby today in Chanhassen. (Yes. You read that right.) The agent knew the baby was there. ICE does not make our communities safer. End Operation Metro Surge NOW!

ICE blocked from grocery entrance ✊ 12/11/25 St.Paul, Minnesota

Get to know the far-right "Center For Christian Virtue" www.cincinnati.com/story/news/p... They're one of the most powerful lobbying organizations in #Ohio. They write many of our laws

🩸🩸🩸 I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what the 34x POS convicted felon who incites political violence, adjudicated rapist & pedophile Trump did 🩸🩸🩸

INCREDIBLE STORY: Rural Ohio trans candidate nearly drops out of race after being targeted online, wins seat in Republican stronghold. thebuckeyeflame.com/2025/12/15/a...

Sounds about right.

CDC ACIP meetings are over for the year, but now, RFK's anti-vax goons are demanding that the FDA pull covid vaccines on a technicality: "Children's Health Defense, the organization founded by Kennedy, this week filed a citizen's petition asking FDA... 🧵1/3 www.axios.com/2025/12/11/k...

🚨"Let her go, she's pregnant! They've got their fu*king knees on her with her stomach on the ground!" Minneapolis residents scream as ICE agent kneels knee into woman despite being told she's pregnant. ICE agents then dragged the woman in the middle of the street. FULL VIDEO ⬇️

Yes, but no. This is beyond ghoulish and we haven’t the means to describe how deeply dysfunctional and wounded we are that we let someone this damaged continue to lead us. I do not say this lightly, the man is evil. He is biblical-level evil.

Getting a COVID Vaccine while Pregnant Slashes Risk of Premature Birth, Major New Study Finds www.scientificamerican.com/article/gett...

Take a moment to meet FDA Commissioner Marty Makary. He is the guy who is leading the agency that is working overtime to enrich his MAHA patrons by taking away your kids’ access to vaccines & essential medicines. He’s replacing evidence-based regulation with corruption.

I learned that Makary & his top vaccine regulator Vinay Prasad forced FDA scientists to withdraw a paper from Vaccine. I am co-Editor-in-Chief of Vaccine. The data had been presented publicly. It showed the benefits outweigh the risks of COVID vaccines for all ages. bsky.app/profile/save...

The same ppl who staged an insurrection when djt lost in 2020 are attempting to create a narrative that our elections can’t be trusted in 2026.

One hundred children rode away from a Chicago Ridge Raising Canes on a chilly Monday with new bicycles and helmets, courtesy of the fast food chain and Chicago’s Chance the Rapper.

Brown shooting victim was pursuing dream of becoming brain surgeon www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

Warriors’ Steve Kerr pleads for ‘common sense’ gun laws after Brown mass shooting trib.al/bLcMhTg

Yesterday’s attack at Brown University is just the latest example of the country failing its children, Xochitl Gonzalez argues.

Foreign aid keeps Americans safe in ways the nuclear bomb never could.

The human cost of Trump's gutting of USAID: By the time Tor Top’s mother was sick with cholera, the nearby clinic had been shuttered for weeks. He bundled her into a canoe & paddled toward the nearest hospital, 8 hours away. Less than halfway into the journey, his mother died. New, @propublica.org

"Every single act of gun violence is 100% preventable." Brown University student Mia Tretta talks about the fear and uncertainty of living through Saturday's mass shooting on campus. It was her second school shooting after she survived being shot in the stomach at age 15.

Humanity.🥰

Zoe Weissman - survivor of 2018 Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, FL Mia Tretta - survivor of 2019 Saugus High School shooting in Santa Clarita, CA Both are now students at Brown University in Providence, RI.