Rick Scott ran a company that defrauded Medicare and Medicaid for $1.7B, and Republicans put him in charge of the committee with partial jurisdiction over Medicare and Medicaid.

IT’S WORKING: Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer and the Michigan Gun Violence Prevention Task Force just issued a powerful, evidence-based roadmap to keep Michigan families safe. 🧵

So, to all the "RFK's got some good ideas" folks (Rachael Bedard, Leana Wen) and Jay Bhattacharya is "an excellent choice for NIH" (Steven Macedo, Frances Lee) and Vinay Prasad "will bring a breath of fresh air to FDA" (Adam Cifu, John Mandrola) groupies--you own this now too.

The boat wasn’t headed to the U.S., which we would have learned with a little due process instead of murder. www.cnn.com/2025/12/05/p...

This article opens with a 3-year-old forced to represent herself in court. We live in a fundamentally sick country.

The Big 10 championship game tonight features two Midwest schools that have had to deal with significant threats to academic freedom this year.

New: Alleged traffickers killed by the US military in a strike on September 2 were not heading toward the US, Adm Bradley told lawmakers yesterday, per people briefed. Instead they were heading to link up with another vessel that was bound for Suriname. www.cnn.com/2025/12/05/p...

The number of convicted criminals in immigration detention is about 1.8x what it was when Trump took office. The number of people with no criminal record whatsoever — who are detained solely for immigration reasons — has shot up **25.5x** open.substack.com/pub/austinko... (via @austinkocher.com)

In his excellent biography of William F. Buckley Jr., Sam Tanenhaus notes that "as far as white Southerners were concerned, both the Fourteenth and the Fifteenth Amendments weren't really part of the Constitution." In 1957, Buckley called them "inorganic accretions" (p. 380).

Lines, there's a shampoo CEO that styles himself as a warlord and bankrolls the Claremont Institute and runs his own post-apocalyptic secret society. I promise you I am not making this up.

Do you ever think God is being too patient with us in our depravity? Do you ever look around and think, you know, God's punishing wrath just might be overdue?

This is disgusting. Dr. RACHEL LEVINE saved countless Pennsylvanians during a century-once pandemic. This goes against everything Republicans stand for: free will. www.pennlive.com/nation-world...

Prime Minister of Poland. 🇵🇱

NEW: www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

The Constitution is very straightforward on birthright citizenship. There's no ambiguity in the language, no other plausible interpretation. The fact that this is a public discussion at all, and that the Supreme Court is taking it up, is on its own anti-constitutional bullshit. Read the text👇

The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow

The White House’s insistence on using Sabrina Carpenter’s work and image to promote their crimes against humanity is also them appealing to their base, which already uses technology to try and humiliate and puppeteer the likenesses of women who have autonomy, success, and visibility in public

ICE detained an active-duty U.S. Navy Sailor in full uniform because an agent said he had “reasonable suspicion” he was in the U.S. illegally. They refused to recognize his military ID — the same ID he used to deploy, the same ID that proves his status.

This country hates grown women so much we elected a toddler POTUS twice

”Folks, it’s not really about anything that’s all that complicated. At its core, it’s about giving every American an opportunity to be treated with the basic decency, dignity and respect they all deserve.”https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/us/biden-lgbtq-award.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

The Justice Department has canceled millions in grants that help the more than 450,000 people who leave prison each year rebuild their lives, harming not just them but their families and communities too. bit.ly/3KpuBYb

Presidents can’t rescind birthright citizenship. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana... @brennancenter.org

"In the days following the event, the woman says she hasn’t been able to sleep, is in physical pain from the way she was handled by the agents, and keeps reliving what happened. “The way I was treated left me feeling traumatized, humiliated, degraded, and unheard.”"

It's the 160th anniversary of the United States' refounding, the ratification of the 13th Amendment.

This is a fucking nightmare and right now I am very, very angry with the people who put Trump back in office. More and more kids are going to die from preventable diseases. As I have said for months, RFK Jr. has more power to singlehandedly kill more Americans than any other cabinet secretary.

excited to award my kids the Burger King Peace Prize this weekend

They keep digging the cellar deeper.

Rep. Grijalva says she was pepper-sprayed by ICE

Now that Trump has been awarded the FIFA War is Peace Prize, we expect the FIFA Ignorance is Strength prize to be hotly contested by the members of the Texas and Oklahoma legislatures bullying their universities.

Democrats need to lay the groundwork for reform by attacking the villains on the Supreme Court - loudly, angrily, personally, relentlessly. And they should start now. paulwaldman.substack.com/p/democrats-...

They’re calling him Dr Senator Hotdog

I literally thought Trump's new FIFA Peace Prize was a dude crying into his hands.

Come to think of it, Pete Hegseth just admitted openly that they're committing extrajudicial murders in international waters partly in order to please MAGA influencers that want retribution for political attacks on Pete Hegseth:

“OK, you can gerrymander to cheat in elections, but only if it hurts nonwhite voters.” - US Supreme Court

“Will you pardon the convicted child sex trafficker” has one correct answer, and everyone with intact moral intuitions knows what that is. When Trump failed to say “No, of course not” it should have been a show stopper, not another instance of “Trump being Trump”. WH reporters should be ferocious.

there are of course many examples of political constituencies that have in fact killed scores of children (en route to some other evil goal), but I can't offhand think of any historical examples of a political constituency organized for that specific purpose

New from me, covering for @brianbeutler.bsky.social at Off Message: Trump has us living in a distortion field. He's openly coddling a *child sex trafficker*, apparently so she won’t tell what she knows. We've blown past it instead of sounding the alarm. www.offmessage.net/p/the-5-alar...

IRW — a Pulitzer-winning nonprofit newsroom at American — and @thebarbedwire.com traced the history of anti-trans legislation. Houston conservatives realized homophobia didn’t fly anymore, weaponized girls’ safety, and parroted segregationist language. It worked. thebarbedwire.com/2025/12/04/a...

I guess they figure they've got the absolutely catastrophic racism rolling, so they can concentrate on the petty racism for a while.

Content warning for rape, sexual violence and transphobia/anti-LGBTQIA+ discrimination This is horrific . . . ultimately not shocking given his ongoing campaign again trans/queer/migrant/other marginalised people, but still, how is there a team around him just accepting that this is in anyway ok

"It is monstrous for one to live in luxury while many are in want." - Clement of Alexandria, (c.150-c.215)

ICE detain mother days after emerhency C-section—leave her baby abandoned in NICU relying on ventilator to breathe. Denied postpartum medical care—even just a breast pump—causing her milk to dry up. She was finally released—but with flu symptoms keeping her separated from baby for yet another week

Class warfare.

It was quite lovely along the Cuyahoga River tonight.

I repeat: "...North Korean-run concentration camps for Ukrainian children."

I would like every journalist (there are too many) has done what she has getting this treatment. "So you knew things that could have saved thousands of lives--maybe hundreds of thousands--and you saved it for your shitty book. What the fuck is wrong with you? No, really, stop crying and answer."

To be very clear, Kennedy's team is messing with a vaccine which has led to a 99 percent drop in the incidence of hepatitis B, which kills, early and painfully, 25 percent of the people who get it as children. lnk.thebulwark.com/3Xt957M

Pete Hegseth bears responsibility for THIS (hat tip @natashabertrand.bsky.social)

This is either really good news (Paramount is out on WBD) or really bad news (previewing government intimidation into taking a bad deal to appease the president).

Will Trump accuse Archbishop Broglio of sedition and suggest he should be put to death?