Today, we're learning why DOJ didn't release the redacted files last March. Because the multitude of redactions exposes how much they're covering up.

these documents are more blacked out than Pete Hegseth on New Years Eve

ICE whistles work.

I cannot emphasize how serious an assault on democracy this is. Any effort by the Trump administration to engage in false claims of fraud or mass voter suppression relies on this as a building block. As importantly, there is no legitimate reason DOJ would want this information.

To the Trans community of the United States: This is all tremendously unfair and frightening. And there are so many people who appreciate you for exactly who you are and will support you in receiving the care you need to live into who are. Please be yourself. We see you. We love you.

NB: When I, a professor of law, profess that an act is unlawful, I am not doing it to inform the lawbreaker, but rather to inform you, the reader. So the question “what, like you think he cares?” is inapposite. The question is whether *you* care. I think you should, which is why I bother.

Gently ... composition as a course teaches us how to package ideas to an audience for understanding. The skill being taught is thinking

Trump Announces New ‘Dodger Dividend’ For Anyone Who Avoided Military Service https://theonion.com/trump-announces-new-dodger-dividend-for-anyone-who-avoided-military-service/

This is horrific. RFK Jr’s CDC is funding a study in Guinea-Bissau which would involve deliberately withholding the hepatitis B vaccine from hundreds of newborn infants, putting them at great risk of death. They want to repeat Tuskegee.

Getting Bloomberg to say your official economic numbers “look literally unbelievable” in the headline is not something that’s supposed to happen when the official economic numbers are issued by the global hegemon

So... The Hunger Games, then??

So, not a bonus. Robbing Peter to pay Paul, who are in this case the same person

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Everything I've had to learn about the ins and outs of health insurance has been against my will, but @charlesgaba.com has made it as painless as possible for the lay mortal like myself. If you find yourself similar confused, please check him out and support his work if you can!

🚨 UPDATE: House Republicans passed their own garbage "healthcare" bill last night w/only 1 defection. It *doesn't* extend ACA subsidies, but it *does* do other things which will result in *even more* Americans losing healthcare coverage, so there's that. acasignups.net/25/12/18/hou...

MYTH: Venezuela stole U.S. oil and land. FACT: The U.S. never owned Venezuelan oil or territory. FACT: Energy “rights” were private contracts, not national property. FACT: No court or treaty supports Trump’s claim. #holdfast

The U.S. is giving dying mall vibes. I can't explain it, but you know I'm right.

insurance companies literally kill people

218 members signed the discharge petition to force a vote to extend ACA tax credits. If Speaker Johnson refuses to bring forth the vote, he’s telling the American people loud and clear that rising health care costs are acceptable to him.

Merry Christmas! It's the Hater's Guide To The Williams-Sonoma Catalog! defector.com/the-2025-hat...

It's that special time, time for the Hater's Guide to the Williams-Sonoma Catalog.

Mike Johnson: “We're going to help 100% of Americans reduce their premiums.” Losing coverage isn’t the same thing as making it affordable.

1. A blockade is an act of war 2. The idea that Venezuela has stolen land from the United States is so laughably stupid on its face that even some of his base is like 🤨 3. It’s always about oil.

BREAKING: The House of Representatives just passed a bill that would subject immigrant children to invasive bodily searches and keep them in detention instead of releasing them to their families. The Senate must vote no on this horrific bill.

Rep. Jim McGovern (D-Mass.) on GOPers letting ACA tax credits expire: "We live in the richest country in the history of the world. We have a trillionaire.... And yet we're being told millions of people need to lose their health care because we can't afford it? That's obscene."

After Mike Lawler calls it "political malpractice" and "bullshit" to not vote on ACA subsidies, Mike Johnson told reporters: "Mike Lawler is a very dear friend..Ironically, week before last, I was in NY in his district on Long Island and we were campaigning together." *Lawler is not from Long Island

The first Trump administration also actually recommended against classifying fentanyl as a WMD when DHS considered it in 2018. Illicit fentanyl is already illegal, and so is drug trafficking. This is obviously a pretext and it’s even stupider than the last time Republicans cried WMDs to start a war

CNN has suddenly discovered Tennessee's Patriot Front compound that was a subject of an extensive NewsChannel 5 investigation back in March. Here is my report: 1/ www.newschannel5.com/news/newscha...

Pro-wrestling legend Mick Foley announced this morning that he's parting ways with WWE over the organization's "close relationship with Donald Trump," saying the president's "incredibly cruel comments in the wake of Rob Reiner’s death is the final straw for me."

This has flown below the radar, but it’s a low-key outrage that Trump’s FDA has withdrawn the rule to regulate asbestos in talc products. It’s the opposite of making America healthy. www.notus.org/health-scien...

A.I. isn’t going to end humanity by taking over STRATCOM and launching nukes. It’s going to do it by drowning us in bullshit.

Drumroll, please. 🥁 We bring to you a roundup of SciFri staff favorites from the last 12 months, from a death metal podcast to a duck stamp extravaganza—and everything in between.

Evacution orders just south of Seattle as a levee fails near Tukwila and the Green River. Some 46,000 people could be affected. Please spread the word. We're still in danger from flooding. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Imagine being a Trump supporter and being like "Sir this post is beneath you." I don't think you know this man

"Speaker Johnson, a member of your own caucus has denounced the president's Truth Social post and challenged anyone to defend it. What do you say?" [TooBusyToHaveSeenThatParticularComment.wav] "Oh, I thought so, that's why I have it right here for you."

So we’re reading y’all’s applications as you send them in. Two of the women who have applied are immigrants to the US and naturalized citizens. And one is from a community we have not served yet. I am ECSTATIC the word is getting out everywhere Apply by 2/27/26 at thurmanperryfoundation.org

if working for ICE is getting you serious pushback in a Kansas City church that I'm guessing is unlikely to be a particularly liberal one, you're losing.

Sounds about right.

Steve isn’t here anymore, but he always posted this picture on Hanukkah so I thought we could carry on his tradition and remember him.

Rob Reiner was one of the key people behind the effort to go to court to overturn California's anti-marriage equality Proposition 8 when it passed in 2008. Working with Chad Griffin, they founded the American Foundation for Equal Rights and got Ted Olson and David Boies to team up to fight Prop 8.

Curzon is missing. I let him out back to do his business and he just disappeared. I've looked and I haven't found them. Anybody if you're in the Potomac/ Bethesda area please keep an eye out.

The ACA isn't just "health care for people who don't have a conventional employer." It also disallows something that was incredibly common 20 years ago, which I fear is getting lost to generational memory: insurance companies could deny you health care for essentially any previous health problem.

It was a quick trip from "Make America Great Again" to "Shit Happens"

This is very patient-empowering: “A little-known provision in the Affordable Care Act allows patients to ask state-run panels to review decisions made by health insurance providers.” Republicans are right now trying (again) to kill the ACA. Fight for it!

GLASHEEN: Antifa is our primary concern right now. That's the most immediate violent threat we're facing BENNIE THOMPSON: Where is antifa headquartered? GLASHEEN: ... ... ... we are building out the infrastructure right now THOMPSON: What does that mean?

DC ALERT: No clue why, but more than a dozen National Guard are lined up on U Street in NW DC right now, west of 14th Street.

People keep wondering why they're going after Venezuela. It's because they want to do regime change and control its oil, then use a big tract of land there to keep a tax free "network state" that looks like Dubai but operates like Rhodesia. They are saying this out loud! Believe them!

Thinking back to how people were "hysterical" for calling trump white supremacist and now he's doing nordic theory on the campaign trail

This is beautiful