“.. Hiring sputtered. The unemployment rate rose. 2025 put a decisive end to the hottest job market in a generation.” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/economy/jobs...

The job market “is struggling, and the broader economy is fragile, in big part due to U.S. tariffs .. the fastest way to boost the job market would be for the Supreme Court to declare the reciprocal tariffs unlawful and for lawmakers to let them become a thing of the past.” @markzandi.bsky.social

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I wrote up my analysis of what Ross's movements and actions reveal about whether or not he had a "reasonable belief that he was in imminent danger of death or serious bodily injury" (the legal standard). I list 7 crucial moments that suggest he did not. asharangappa.substack.com/p/friday-rou...

Germany generally shows better patient outcomes than the U.S. in key areas like life expectancy, infant mortality, and preventable deaths, despite the U.S. spending significantly more on healthcare

GREENLANDERS: “Trump, if you’re watching this— don’t come. Don’t buy Greenland. Greenland is not for sale.” (From Sky News) Again: Putin wants NATO to evaporate. Too much *analysis* ignores the potential of his hand in making Trump do this to hurt our interests and help his.

Today, this artist, Noval Noir, was painting a stunning portrait of Renee Good at the site of where she was killed

"In the final full year of President Joe Biden’s term, the economy added an average of 168,000 jobs per month. Throughout Trump’s second term in 2025, the number shrank down to 49,000 jobs added per month..." www.thedailybeast.com/trump-goon-k...

We got “liberated”, alright. 🤡 @wsj.com www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

(AP) - Russian officials indicated in 2019 that the Kremlin would be willing to back off from its support for Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela in exchange for a free hand in Ukraine, according to Fiona Hill, an adviser to President Donald Trump at the time. apnews.com/article/russ...

I am pleased to announce that I have commandeered my neighbor's home. This home will be sold at its Market Price, and that money will be controlled by me, to ensure it is used to benefit my neighbor and me! Thank you for your attention to this matter!

Watch @mehdirhasan.bsky.social prove in 60 seconds that the Right loves fraudsters, just not when they’re Somali.

Five years ago, Donald Trump instigated a violent insurrection in the Capitol to prevent Congress from certifying Joe Biden the winner of the 2020 election. The fact that the GOP coddled him, protected him, renominated him, and now support him in office, is a stain that will never be erased.

NEW: Sen. Mark Kelly RESPONDS to Pete Hegseth for censuring him, cutting his military pension, threatening to demote his rank, and warning of possible criminal prosecution for telling soldiers to obey their oath.

The cynics think today's attack on Venezuela is staged and transactional. Maduro is allied with Putin, but in 2019 Putin offered Trump a swap: Russia cedes Venezuela and gets Ukraine. (See Fiona Hill's testimony in Trump's first impeachment trial, h/t @davetroy.com). Even Maduro may be in on it. 2/

... which serves to highlight MY argument that M4ALL (as proposed) won't work - and we have the evidence of this w/ Maryland. Medicare PRICING (as it is) will not work - SO - any path forward requires substantive debate over FIXED/SINGLE pricing. hc4.us/oneprice

"Please be kind enough to explain when and where and under what authority you gained access to this material.” Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse & Sen. Dick Durbin write letter to White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, asking how she's "read the Epstein files"

"Vaccines are a triumph of human ingenuity, modern medicine and public health. With them, we have beaten back smallpox, chickenpox, yellow fever, polio, measles, mumps, rubella, hepatitis B, Covid, meningitis and more." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/30/o...

Zelenskyy calls Russia’s claim of a strike on one of Putin’s residences a “complete fabrication,” a lie designed to sabotage diplomacy, justify more attacks on Kyiv, and excuse Moscow’s refusal to end the war. He warns the world must not stay silent as Russia tries to derail peace.

The first time I searched Trump, there were over 900 records found. I also confirmed there are now 332.

Absolute Fing traitor

In 1932, FDR was elected with 57.4% of the vote. He brought us the New Deal. In 1964, LBJ was elected with 61.1% of the vote. He brough us the Great Society. In 2025, Trump was elected with 49.8% of the vote. He's attempting to destroy everything FDR & LBJ built. The rest is commentary.

In February, Elon Musk posted on his site that another lawyer and I are “undermining civilization.” He asked if we suffered childhood trauma and concluded by suggesting we are suffering from “generational trauma.” This was my response. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/my-o...

Read this. Merry Christmas indeed

"We should try to understand why one of the most prominent anti-vaccine misinformation gurus is now leading health in America." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/o...

Wow. Last used ~1934, inherent contempt would in effect bring Bondi to trial in the House & by majority vote empower the House to put her in jail. Far more effective than other options (criminal referral to her own DOJ or endless civil litigation), it'd be a huge bipartsan stand against the Admin.

NEW: World Without Exploitation, which works with a number of survivors, has come out blasting the Trump Administration's release of the Epstein files.

"All nonsense!": Michael Jackson’s former bodyguard slams the Trump administration for releasing a deceptive photo of Jackson and Epstein to try to make it appear that the two had ties.

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Worst ever? This Senate is a non-stop, multiple-choice horror show, from dangerous appointees to health care failures to dereliction of its constitutional duties. I talk with Senate expert @irashapiro.bsky.social about its betrayals in my latest at @thebulwark.com www.thebulwark.com/p/worst-sena...

The Trump Admin's unrealistic caps on student loans for nurses will worsen the health care workforce shortage in our country. Nurses are the backbone of our health care system—these caps will deprive them of critical support.

12 former commissioners of the FDA came together to write a Perspectives piece for the New England Journal of Medicine; raising our concerns about recent changes to vaccine approval policy at the FDA and its implications for patients and public health.

Senator Kelly is correct. Plus a Public Service Announcement: KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1. The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal: "orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."

MEDICARE FOR ALL IS POPULAR: “A new poll finds 65% of voters support a Medicare for All system. That includes 78% of Democrats, 71% of independents, and 49% of Republicans.” Making a broken system less bad is not enough. #MedicareForAllNow jacobin.com/2025/11/medi...

I bet in all of history we could count on one hand how many US Attorneys, whether properly or improperly appointed, have been sanctioned for nearly $1 million for arguing frivolous legal theories for a political purpose. In fact, bet it is even on just one finger.

The SecState explanation of the essence & origin of the 28 pt plan presented to Ukraine BY THE US is a strong indicator of the lack of competence of those representing our nation in these efforts. Russia does these things. It’s well known. Smart negotiators know not to let them happen.

You know what started all this BS? A paper published in The Lancet in 1998 by Dr. Andrew Wakefield. In 2010, The Lancet retracted the study and Dr. Wakefield lost his medical license. EVERY large study has demonstrated NO CONNECTION between vaccines and autism.

You know what started all this BS? A paper published in The Lancet in 1998 by Dr. Andrew Wakefield. In 2010, The Lancet retracted the study and Dr. Wakefield lost his medical license. EVERY large study has demonstrated NO CONNECTION between vaccines and autism. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/o...

Terrific

This past week there was a photo from Trump's gala of a barely clad woman frolicking in a giant champagne glass. She looked like a teen. It made me think of Jane Doe-another young woman who attempted to shine a light on the darkness in Trumpland. My latest. charlieangus.substack.com/p/trumps-hea...

It’s time for EVERY American to shed their politics and confront our grim reality. Donald Trump is a mentally unhinged authoritarian. He wants to burn down everything good and decent in our Republic for daring to hold him accountable. He is a threat to America…and the world. 3/3

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Please note the entire answer. It is not too late. But it will be.

We cannot be a meaningfully representative democracy until we replace the Senate & single-member districts as currently structured with actually representative & democratic institutions

Not a surprise but still alarming www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

"If we had a contingency fund." You mean like this contingency fund the Trump Administration just deleted off their website? The one they are legally required to use to keep SNAP funded? www.notus.org/trump-white-...

Which is it, Mike?

The federal criminal justice system is being systematically dismantled and destroyed piece by piece and turned into a mob boss’s network of corrupt consiglieres and thugs, where good people simply doing their jobs are rooted out and eradicated.

Every once in awhile, I completely agree with Josh Hawley www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/o...