Traffic collisions have skyrocketed, and this is a huge part of why. We're constantly told to not look at our phones while driving, and then they give you a giant tablet that controls everything you do. It's so dumb.

Finally, what we've all been asking for at long last is here: a steering wheel designed by someone who is not a human being, and has never driven a car. www.carscoops.com/2025/12/this...

A 50 year old man in Idaho has died from flu. The article I read did not say the usual “but he had comorbidities”. So. Prepare accordingly.

Brutal but effective public health messaging from New York Public Health. The CDC is compromised. They’re no longer a reliable source of information. They push anti-vaxx & anti-science grift. Get your vaccines. Wear a respirator. Clean the air Get public health advice from experts, not RFK Jr

It's been a rough year for #federalworkers. But here's what most people don't see: workers are building remarkably resilient networks of mutual support 🤝 In @us.theconversation.com, federal workers share their stories with me... 👇🏻

Workplace compulsive food hoarder is grabbing random edible items to fill drawers in the shared appliance they regard as their Emotional Support Fridge 👀.

After being forced by courts, SSA disclosed that it's sharing its incomplete & often outdated data w/DHS to validate voter rolls. Until 12/12, the public can submit comments w/concerns about the risk of disenfranchising U.S. citizens w/this ill-suited data. www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

🚨URGENT: Congress prepares to push forward wolf slaughter bill that would remove federal protections for gray wolves across the lower 48 states and prohibit judicial review. Decision will be voted on Dec. 15 and could move to a House vote next week. 📣Take action: https://bit.ly/4adWexU

Really a devastating blow to the #scicomm community that @robinince.bsky.social has felt pressured to resign from the BBC simply because he is passionate about his political principles, including a firm belief that trans lives are precious. 🧪 #scicomm

Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.

Sooooo the FDA is thinking about putting a black box warning on the COVID vaccine. The whole system is a joke. Thinking about all those menopause influencers who were gushing over the FDA a couple of weeks ago, which I was waiting for b.s. like this to drop.

Huge thanks to @mikehoney.bsky.social for all the valuable COVID data he tracks. His work has become incredibly important for scientists and health professionals, and with so little data available now, it really matters for people who want to stay safe and informed. www.sbs.com.au/news/article...

Remarkable how brutal the ruling against Trump on Abrego Garcia truly is: It details flagrant and malicious abuses of power all throughout. Trump and Stephen Miller were testing their ability to spread lawless state terror. But the court held the line. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2043...

‪ What could go wrong? Before 1950s, cemeteries had so-called "lullaby lands" - the areas where young children were laid to rest. They largely disappeared with the advent of vaccines. DeSantis is set to bring them back

What could go wrong?

It’s not necessary to keep highlighting the qualities of exceptional immigrants as a reason for them to be treated well by their governments. We don’t have to be on our best behaviour to receive a basic level of human decency: that‘s why they’re called “human rights”, and not “human privileges”.

I honestly think that many people don't know what their public libraries offer besides books. I think that everyone should go on a public library treasure hunt in 2026. Go explore what your library systems offer at no cost to you. Report back to me :)

Great coverage by @kqednews.kqed.org of the "dubiously legal" moves to manipulate NPS staff performance review, as well as planned wage cuts of up to $3.5/hour for Yosemite maintenance employees. The hits keep coming.

Yeah once they realized it was mostly used to target people who don't look like them, they were pretty cool with it. But they don't have the foresight to understand it will eventually be used on them

Conservatives used to worry about an internal, militarized police and surveillance state.

This was the true purpose of DOGE. They took our information & consolidated it for easy access. The redundancy in the different federal agencies were firewalls to protect our privacy.

WOW. @haleaziz.bsky.social with a new scoop: ICE now gets a running list of every person who is going to be taking a domestic flight inside the United States from the TSA and runs it through their database looking for targets. This explains the Babson College student's arrest.

My friend who studies politics says it’s worse than we think. My friend who studies the climate says it’s worse than we think. My friend who studies epidemiology says it’s worse than we think. My friends who studies says at least some of us still think.

100% insanity. I also can’t believe I grew up during the cold war only to end up w/a Russian president.

Rich people weren't overinvested in TSR or Black Sabbath. Also strange to see the "What about the children?!?" people all of a sudden become the "F%^& the children" (both figuratively and literally) people.

Culture war for me, mandated suicide inducing machines for thee

Bart Simpson t-shirts were banned in my school. He was a bad influence.

My high school tried to ban goth clothing entirely in the wake of 9/11 because... reasons. As a goth-ish teenager (and rule-abiding high-GPA "good" kid), I took it very personally. They thought D&D, teen melodrama, and media with dark themes could radicalize us into terrorism. But AI is just fine?

Jesus, right? I had to hide my D&D books under my mattress like they were skin mags back in the 80s and early 90s. Now everyone in the media and government are A-OK with AI teaching kids how to tie a noose.

"Rap music is a danger to civilization, but roving gangs of militarized Nazis is a solid community policy we expect you to cheer for."

If you lived through that, you also lived through the outlawing of lawn darts b/c they could hurt kids.... ...& yet it's ok today to let kids access a machine that acts like their bestie, their romantic interest, & their suic**e planning partner w/zero guardrails

1980s: “We think this heavy metal group is hiding garbled messages backward in their music. Better convene a congressional hearing.” 2020s: “This company’s chatbot is straight up encouraging teens to off themselves. We better give them billions of taxpayer dollars.”

It's so fucked up to have been a kid during the D&D is the devil freakout and the Tipper Gore dirty lyrics freakout and live to see the teen suicide machine get such a pass.

If you’ve heard the “the Nazis got their ideas from the US segregationists” I beg you to please stop. This is both false and it minimizes historical European antisemitism in a misguided attempt to emphasize the nature of US anti-Black racism. It’s horrific without comparison to Nazism.

Turning Point Action promised to work with other Trump to primary the resistant Republicans who voted no. But the group could only turn out a couple hundred protestors recently ahead of this week’s vote. www.politico.com/news/2025/12...

The Trump administration’s push to eliminate DEI from the fed government is now reaching national park gift shops. A memo directs staff to review merchandise for compliance with an order from Interior Secretary Doug Burgum to halt activities related to DEI, accessibility, or “environmental justice.”

We discovered a Goodreads page linked to the email address of a top Pentagon official featuring pornographic books about “Asian wife sharing.” The story gets wilder from there.

ProPublica spoke to about 150 people who had lived in homeless encampments when cities cleared them out in “sweeps.” We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words. ➡️ This is what they wrote: https://propub.li/3MTlm33

The Lt. Gov. of Indiana confirmed that Trump repeatedly threatened them that he would cut off federal funding to the state.

Matt Davies @MatttDavies on #Trump #Putin - political cartoon gallery in London original-political-cartoon.com

Warning: I’ve worked out most of the connections already and I can only promise they’ll get more tenuous as we move through the month

A bit late kicking off #ChemAdvent day 1, but here we are! This year I'm finding chemical connections between some previous ChemAdvent editions 🧪 First up, earthy pyrazines are the connection between the smells of chocolate and green bean casserole 🍫

More vibrant anthocyanins link the graphics for day 12 of #ChemAdvent: they colour both cranberries and puto bumbong, steamed purple rice cakes eaten in the Phillipines at Christmas. #ChemSky 🧪

International tourism to the US is a roughly $150+ Billion industry supporting 1.5 million jobs, and Trump's regime is killing it dead w/ these Visa requirements. No international visitor in their right mind should agree to this invasive data collection. This is a move that severely isolates us.

Nvidia and OpenAI are driving an increasingly circular AI investment frenzy. But if the momentum falters, the UK’s increasingly entangled tech sector could be pulled into the fallout. Full story by the Eye’s new business columnist ‘Gold Digger’ in the latest issue.

And let's be clear: Bankrupting Elon Musk is essential for global geopolitical stability. Having the world's richest man using his limitless resources to fund fascism around the globe is fucking dangerous.

If you don’t know “America First” is the branding for Groypers and other full on Nazis. It means they think Jews control the world including the rest of MAGA. The split is also being pushed by Russia, as they always want whatever causes division in US.

What the GOP never realized is that once you embrace conspiracy theories, there are no limits. You don't get to say "this unfalsifiable belief is valid and true, but yours isn't." They embraced unreality and this is the result.

They are now "transvestigating" Erika Kirk.