Recommended read: @motherjones.com reported on TikTok creators helping to hold oil companies to account for cleaning up abandoned oil wells in Texas.

Solving the mystery of the guitarist’s longevity may be our best hope of aging gracefully. Read more: on.wsj.com/4s0bwwE Corrects an earlier post, now deleted, that incorrectly referenced Mick Jagger.

Such challenges have come from a number of sources, some of whom are preparing to mount a battle in Congress.

DHS released a new database highlighting "the worst of the worst criminal aliens arrested by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement." The data categorize just 4 percent of immigration arrests since President Donald Trump took office as "the worst of the worst." reason.pub/4pEs4Zw

OPINION: Human resistance — by printing brochures and letters of opposition, hiding those who are being sought or not turning over lists — has been possible in the past. It should be now as well. religionnews.com/2025/12/11/t...

Minneapolis residents have noticed a new strategy in the ongoing ICE operation in the Twin Cities this week: helicopters flying overhead.

The Department of War has cracked the code on making the perfect press corps by welcoming in only its biggest cheerleaders.

Trump rages in early hours at Indiana Republicans who defied redistricting plan he says he ‘wasn’t working very hard at’

While federal agents patrol the Twin Cities, a Mexican grocer in St. Paul is filling a gap for families too frightened to shop.

Videos show federal immigration agents slamming a Somali American citizen against a metal door and putting him in a chokehold in the snow.

Fear on Twin Cities campuses has grown following recent detentions, leaving students to reconsider their daily activities.

Customs and Border Protection confirmed the agency’s aircraft are “supporting federal law enforcement” in Minneapolis.

What else you should know: Immigration agents told NBC News that 400 people have been arrested since Dec. 1. Fact-checking that is difficult due to opaqueness of ICE detention.

You and me against the world: who was behind Trump’s anti-Europe foreign policy?

“The relationship between the president and the people he serves has shifted irrevocably,” Justice Sonia Sotomayor warned in her dissenting opinion. “In every use of official power, the president is now a king above the law.” trib.al/M3oQtcJ

Comedy acting legend Dick Van Dyke turns 100 years old

John and his family have long considered themselves public servants; the "good guys" charged with enforcing the law Congress enacted. Others see them as something far worse. USA TODAY reporters spent time with this family of four ICE agents to report on their perspective. Read more:bit.ly/4s00I1y

The Trump administration's bellicose conduct toward Venezuela and other leaders in Latin America has little to do with drug trafficking, says historian Alejandro Velasco. It's an effort "to get rid of leftist governments in the region," he says.

OPINION: This ruthless cover-up leaves Trump’s most alarming ambitions exposed

JD Vance Reminded To Use White House Service Entrance

That's worrying. interc.pt/4rR4FFP

In a collection of essays, leading Colorado River scientists say the basin is “dancing with deadpool ” and facing a dire future.

The demonisation of the populist right is failing. The alternative starts with that impatience for change which they harness so successfully

Some Fox News viewers were left fuming over President Donald Trump’s reply after he was asked a telling question about the seizure of a Venezuelan oil tanker, as they slammed the Commander-in-Chief over his response.

Fathers line up regularly at elementary school to create positive experience for students

Weak oversight in jurisdictions like Macedonia gives criminal networks the perfect cover to launder money from trafficking and other crimes. Online gambling licenses + crypto wallets = a global shadow banking system. Learn more:

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

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In an audacious move, the EU has decided to indefinitely immobilise the Russian sovereign assets, pushing back against external pressure to release the funds before Moscow agrees to pay war reparations to Ukraine.

Texas Democrat Al Green spoke on the House floor about why he believed in trying again.

New photos released from Epstein’s estate show high-profile people including Trump, Clinton

Court rejects Planned Parenthood's challenge to Trump-backed law ending Medicaid funding reut.rs/3MH1m3E

Trump sued by preservationists over White House ballroom project

Trump successfully harnessed voter anxiety over the economy, immigration and crime last year to retake the White House. But the GOP has lost a series of elections over the past month, some resoundingly. Here's why the party is worried as midterms loom.

Thinking the USA matches for the World Cup will be padded out with MAGA fanatics to improve the optics.

Actions such as canceling grants, dismissing agency heads, and proposing massive budget cuts upended the federal process for funding US research in 2025. cen.acs.org/policy/nih-n... #chemsky 🧪

So easy to stop this #VaccinesWork 🧪

It's a struggle communicating how big these changes in #science are with people who aren't seeing the connections to the effects in their daily lives. This series from @statnews.com does a fantastic job of imparting that sense of scale. 🧪

This 10-part series from STAT focuses on the far-reaching effects of cuts to biomedical #research & #publichealth is incredible work so far. I don't know how our country comes back from this... I think about that all the time these days. 🧪 www.statnews.com/american-sci...

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Congress gave Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. two reasons on Dec. 10 to be in a bad mood.

For ProPublica filmmaker Mauricio Rodríguez Pons, Yineska and her family represent the many Venezuelans who’ve come to the U.S. seeking safety and opportunity — and, in many ways, his own immigration story. Watch “Status: Venezuelan,” out now.

Melania Trump allegedly "exploded" after she heard that a pastor shared details of a private conversation he'd had with her son, Barron Trump.

It includes actual Nazis

"Holding presidents accountable is a perennial problem around the world. It’s why political scientists largely suggest doing away with them altogether." www.liberalcurrents.com/impeach-and-...

Sen. Mark Kelly said he has read the Justice Department's classified legal rationale for destroying alleged drug boats and that it should be released. If he truly believes the public deserves to know, he should read the memo into the Congressional Record.

Stephen Miller, Trump's White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy and Homeland Security, has fumed that he's allegedly been banned from appearing on CNN.

Books about “Asian wife sharing.” Detailed descriptions of orgies. Scenes involving “ladyboys.” That’s what @dfriedman.bsky.social discovered on a Goodreads page tied to the email address of a top Pentagon official and mentor to Pete Hegseth. What came next was even wilder.

Newsmax judicial analyst Andrew Napolitano agreed with a federal judge who ruled that National Guard troops federalized by President Donald Trump should be returned to the control of California's governor.

Commentary: The President of the United States openly trashed Americans of a certain ethnic and racial group in a vile attack that preceded federal government harassment of mostly Somali Americans in Minnesota. Will Ohioans of Somali descent be next? ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/12/11/o...