Nature Begins Reclaiming Chuck Grassley

*Halftime, Palantir Meta Contact Lenses Bowl, 2033* And now, two six year old children will attempt to putt a golf ball into the giant Donald Trump Mouth for a chance to win a polio vaccine

Top Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee on Monday opened an investigation into multiple flights that Patel took last month with a $60 million government jet. The visits were reportedly to visit his girlfriend. trib.al/bZoPHwq

Hegseth’s own “fog of war” excuse fully contradicts this new excuse, which they have clearly just come up with to try to keep him out of the Hague

EXCLUSIVE: Pete Hegseth ordered the U.S. military on Sept. 2 to kill all 11 people on a suspected drug-smuggling boat because they were on an internal list of military targets, the commander overseeing the operation told lawmakers, according to multiple sources.

A Palantir billionaire just called for public hangings. “It's time to bring back masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable,” writes Joe Lonsdale. This is where Silicon Valley authoritarianism is heading: www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale...

Pam from The Office: "They're the same picture." #AmericanPsycho

An honorary gold medal for outstanding achievement in the field of excellence is being minted as we type. #FIFA #FIFAPeacePrize #TheOlympics #Olympics bsky.app/profile/andr...

160 years ago, the 13th Amendment was ratified, ending slavery. But that amendment came with a sinister loophole: a Slavery Clause that allowed for slavery “as punishment for crime.” We need to pass @repnikema.bsky.social’s and my Abolition Amendment to #EndTheException once and for all!

Katie Miller, Stephen Miller's wife & EIon Musk's sidepiece, is such a deranged monster that she's *proud* of having voted *explicitly* for giving hepatitis B to babies. There is no bottom. #Hepatitis #HepatitisB #antivax #antivaxxers #stephenmiller #vaccines #vaccinessavelives #vaccineswork

She voted for hepatitis?

Our food banks do amazing work, but the SNAP cuts that Miller-Meeks voted for in the Republicans’ budget bill are going to overwhelm Iowa’s food bank capacity.

Headline translation: Miller-Meeks allows Iowans’ healthcare premiums to skyrocket. No one is saying that our healthcare system is perfect. My family knows that all too well. But extending the ACA subsidies is how we can lower healthcare costs TODAY.

The over 2,000 hardworking nurses at UnityPoint deserve a seat at the table and more agency over their working conditions. I commend their organizing efforts and will always stand firm in their right to organize and join a union.

“The Trump administration has effectively outsourced soaring disaster costs to ill-equipped states, profit-seeking insurers, and, ultimately, helpless individuals.” When the next hurricane hits, these cuts will prove disastrous. From Kenny Stancil: trib.al/OAJD6Ij

ACA marketplace subsidies, which allowed millions of people to afford private health insurance, are set to expire by the end of this year. For contractors and freelancers in particular, the expiration of these enhanced subsidies could decide whether or not they can afford health insurance.

Pam exclaims, "They're the same picture." bsky.app/profile/wera...

This is why, when President Slurs McSundown passes away, it's going to be a battle royale as all these selfish grifters shank each other before the funeral is over.

Once again, Western Isolationism only benefits Russia and China. There's a reason they're pushing the shit. They want to expand and take Ukraine/Taiwan and a divided EU and US makes it easier to do that.

Elon Musk is pushing a Russian talking point about the dissolution of the European Union on X. (The man agreeing with him is a former president of Russia and current deputy chair of the Security Council of the Russian Federation.)

Everything you need to know about the US’ slow turn against the EU.

A new report from payroll processor ADP found that private employees lost nearly 32,000 jobs in November, far off analyst projections that they would add 10,000 jobs. The data is a sharp decline from October. trib.al/sLyTx4f

SCOOP: Bipartisan group of nearly 100 former legislators call for a ban to individual stock trades by current members of Congress. Among them: Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle, House Majority Leader Dick Gephardt, Olympia Snowe and Fred Upton. www.opensecrets.org/news/2025/12...

NEW: Nearly 100 former lawmakers are calling on Speaker Mike Johnson and Rep. @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social to advance legislation banning members of Congress from trading individual stocks. Via @opensecrets.org: www.opensecrets.org/news/2025/12...

The Republican Party really only has one core principle now: Everything the government does must either benefit Donald Trump and his allies or punish his enemies.

If you see this, repost with your model of positive masculinity.

Remember: RFK Jr. fired his last CDC director because she refused to ram through his anti-vax agenda. Yesterday, RFK Jr.’s handpicked vaccine skeptics threw out DECADES of settled science — and Donald Trump gave a thumbs-up. This will hurt American kids and families.

@handsoffnyc.bsky.social is training thousands of New Yorkers on how to protect their neighbors from ICE. Today, they are currently running two trainings in Brooklyn and the Bronx, both of which hit capacity because interest was so high. This is the way, y’all—we protect each other, and we know it.

I sat down with Ohioans who are terrified about what 2026 means for their health care costs. When Jon Husted had the chance to get them help, he voted 8 times not to.

What an interesting coincidence.

if i was still a race reporter, i'd maybe write about how the image looks almost exactly like the image on the first edition on the cover of the deeply racist novel "the camp of the saints" which is in vogue with the racists running this country (and beyond). (*i'm still a reporter, really)

We all have a part in this. If you're with me, join our campaign here: secure.actblue.com/donate/roy_c...

Senator Warnock said he needs some help in Washington. Let's get it done.

To paraphrase the Marx Brothers: "Who are you gonna believe, me or your lying supermarket receipt?"

Trump says that price of beef is down. The receipt from my last trip to the grocery store says it is up. For busy shoppers, it can be hard to know who to trust.

A] LOVE that independent journalists are LIFTING EACH OTHER UP B] Follow @marisakabas.bsky.social if you don't already C] Follow every outlet on Marisa's list: @51st.news @404media.co @aftermath.site @assignedmedia.org @autonomynews.co @thebarbedwire.com @boltsmag.org / @taniel.bsky.social [1/2]

The Trump shill's only response / counter-argument is: "No! No! No! [fingers in ears] La-la-la!" #tariffs #TrumpTariffs

Every elected Dem should do this. Absolute #FloodTheZone with mockery of Trump. The more folks do it, the more ludicrously it oh-so-rightly appears to be.

“The precedent is Flint.” Amazon has come to Oregon’s eastern farmland, worsening a water pollution problem that’s been linked to cancer and miscarriages. Read the story ⤵

Rolling Stone: clearly documents a 30+ year long con job. A rural county's own leadership lined their pockets by helping ag interests destroy the water supply. Everyone who read the article apparently??: Amazon data centers did this in 2011 www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

What?!?! But Donnie Pee Pants *assured* us all that #affordability was a "con job"... 🫠

More of this nationwide please!

Underrated post

This would be like if ESPN covered Trump "winning" all of those golf tournaments at his resorts, only literally 1,000 times more pernicious and more deranged.

It’s weird that news organizations like the BBC are covering this as if it’s a real thing with a real process behind it—and not clearly some nakedly invented “participation trophy” by a corrupt organization to curry favor with a corrupt and easily manipulated man-child. www.bbc.com/sport/footba...

While American families are expected to pay more for goods this holiday season due to Donald Trump’s tariffs, small-business owners are facing an existential crisis, @annielowrey.bsky.social reports: theatln.tc/LgxsChD9

Totally legit

“It’s now undeniable that Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s allies are in charge of the country’s vaccine policy,” Tom Bartlett argues. He reports on the chaos at the CDC’s vaccine advisory board meeting—and its potential consequences:

Alas, the existential threat that @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social & I detail in #ScienceUnderSiege grows more acute w/ each passing day of this administration: www.theatlantic.com/health/2025/...

I have three copies of Climate Champions by @rachelsarah.bsky.social to give away! I bought a bunch when they came out (I’m in it). This book, targeted at middle and high schoolers, features biographies of a diversity of women working on climate action across disciplines.