After becoming a congressional leader, a politician’s stock portfolio beats out those of peers by 47 (!!!) percentage points a year through trades timed around bills and firms that later get government contracts www.nber.org/papers/w34524 via @florianederer.bsky.social

Thank you for saying this!

The city of Centreville put out a precautionary boil water notice Sunday.

In this study, 21 of 60 patients with suspected vaccine-myocarditis who were sick enough to have a cardiac biopsy(!) did not end up having it. That's why it's important that we don't just trust the word of our biased government doctors working for cranks like RFK. www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

I will

Pediatricians say vaccines do not cause autism. A bear-eating heroin addict who fantasizes about sucking his own semen out of his lovers' orifices says they do. For busy parents, it can be hard to know who to trust.

These two things are true: 1) Shooting National Guard members is horrific and criminal. 2) So is putting National Guard members in harm’s way to score political points.

Could this possibly be VACCINE-related?

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Kavanaugh stop. Smashed the kid’s car windows and arrested him. He told them he was a U.S. citizen. The officer replied “I don’t care.” www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

www.al.com/life/2025/11... #bee #bees #Alabama Alabama

How badly will Trump bully Mamdani today and reflect badly on the bully himself again? How will Mamdani reflect and respond? Trump Administration Live Updates: President and Mamdani to Meet for First Time www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...

Hal hadn’t survived three Thanksgivings by being stupid.

No lawmaker in Congress should be able to buy, own, and sell individual stocks. Period. Let's make Congressional stock trading illegal.

If you're interested in telling the folks at Hendrick Motors what you think about their multimillion dollar no-bid contract supplying CBP/ICE with vehicles, there will be protests at their HQ 4-5pm today, Thursday, and Friday. 6000 Monroe Rd, park at the Aldi across the street.

Police officers who use excessive force on protesters are not entitled to qualified immunity and cannot use excessive force to prompt compliance, a federal appeals court ruled on Sept. 17.

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I can do this!

Let this sit for a minute. There are 35,000 U.S. troop deployed by Trump inside and on the ground in American cities. 35,000.

“Quiet, Piggy” would be fitting for his tombstone.

People love to talk about how awful theater kids are, and they’re not wrong, but let’s be real, debate kids have made this country a lot worse

GIFT ARTICLE: wapo.st/49Z0zon

A friend from college texted me asking for advice and this was my first and immediate response.

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Help Save PBS for APT, Alabama Public TV! •Show up 9am Tuesday 11/18 at APT offices 2112 11th Ave. S. Bham Commissioners’ meeting 10am decides the fate of “Public” TV. They forgot what public means since they’re not letting us in. Bring signs, wear costumes, whatever. Press invited. #Alabama

Teamed up with @kkjetelina.bsky.social for a post on the state of US health care—and why the ACA subsidy debate in Washington is too small. 1/x

So Trump's regime might actually be collapsing - great. But if we don't dismantle the structures that delivered it and work to fix the system then it'll just happen again. We cannot have a free and fair society when billionaires can buy politicians. Period.

For no particular reason….posting former U.S. Attorney General John Mitchell’s mugshot before he went to Federal prison for committing numerous crimes on behalf and or/at the direction of President Nixon including obstruction of justice and conspiracy.

"You know us...So please trust us now when we say that what is happening in the Chicago area is wrong." Powerful letter from retired Chicago broadcast journalists about what ICE/CBP is doing to our city: "it is terror" www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/13/l...

Here's your chance to do something about the people being starved and beaten in Broadview ICE custody. Share this post, and I'll donate $1 to the Midwest Immigration Bond Fund (www.mibfc.org). And if you make a donation to them, let me know how much and I'll match it 1:1.

In the most predictable development ever, Mike Johnson is not committing to hold a House vote on ACA subsidies

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer. He is a computer safety researcher. And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine. In under 1600 words. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

I think we need to stop calling it empathy and go back to calling it decency. It isn't a favour you're doing someone else, it's you proving that you aren't a fucking ghoul

quite a chart from WashPost www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

May The Farce Be With You #SpaceBalls2 #ComingSoon

#Medsky🧪 #IDsky #pedsky #immunosky #publichealth Studies show that vaccinated adolescents are significantly less likely to develop #longCOVID vs to their unvaccinated peers. Another large study found that adjusted vaccine effectiveness within 12 months was over 50% against probable

Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 91st day out of the last 103. 12 days of work in 103 days. With full pay and benefits. The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown. It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.

I am a boring old lady and I already dropped off my mail in ballot weeks ago, but YOU CAN STILL VOTE TOMORROW (well, some of you). These elections REALLY MATTER, so please don't sit them out. Apathy is our enemy.

Well, they would claim to be fishermen too, so “affiliated.”

Here's info about enrolling in this trial: longcovid.scripps.edu?utm_source=l...

Perhaps we should go ahead and rip that plaque off the Statue of Liberty and stop pretending to be something we are not. Kiss those huddled asses goodbye and claim it is all in the name of liberty and justice for all.

Timeline cleanse: gulls on pilings in Puget Sound, WA.

Let’s all remember the $40 billion for Argentina as Trump shuts down SNAP for Americans.

Long Covid research—if you have it, please consider participating! “To learn more, visit our landing page: longcovid.scripps.edu/locitt-t/?ut...

Kris and Dave