“Our society is on a track to strip women of the ability to better themselves & to gain independence. It is about the repression of women,” says Esther Kim Varet. She is running for Congress in CA’s 40th district! Local elections matter! Take a listen!👇🏼 #localelectionsmatter #womensrights #pinks

Rand Paul: "This is an insane policy. It's inconsistent. It's not war. It's not the way we've ever done this. If we can blow up a boat in the ocean, what about when they get to Miami & put it in a truck? Can you shoot a grenade launcher at the truck? No! We arrest people b/c sometimes we're wrong."

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Hepatitis B can cause liver cancer and liver scarring (cirrhosis) which can be fatal. Fortunately paediatricians are rejecting the ACIP recommendations and continuing to recommend the vaccine. Further insurers are ALSO rejecting ACIP's guidance meaning people are covered for vaccine costs

How undelightfully Orwellian.

China was the largest export market for American farmers in 2024. They bought 27 metric tons of soybeans last year. They stopped buying in 2025 when Trump started his trade war. These are simple, obvious, basic facts. bsky.app/profile/atru...

OK, seriously. This is wild. Judge Jay Bybee (1) raises a new issue — the Domestic Violence Clause of the Constitution — to consider in the troop deployment cases; (2) extensively details its historical application;

I can’t believe how much of the Trump era is about solving problems that *don’t* exist while making all the problems that *do* exist, worse. There is no one who thinks the biggest problem with air travel right now is not having an area to do pull-ups.

Amid NIH funding delays, reversals and uncertainty, a scientist at Harvard who studies breast cancer has lost one-third of her lab employees and wonders if she can continue her research experiments. n.pr/4a4N3zD

“Under our laws, under international law — and under moral law — we have no right to give anything away…That is what we are fighting for.” @ZelenskyyUa wapo.st/4iFSKpY

New WSJ reporting: "During a December visit to Washington, David Ellison offered assurances to Trump administration officials that if he bought Warner, he'd make sweeping changes to CNN, a common target of President Trump's ire, people familiar with the matter said..."

Exactly.

US solar installations jump 49% in third quarter, report says reut.rs/4a4MpSJ

💰SCOOP: Hungary is in advanced talks with Russia on a plan to bypass US sanctions on Serbia’s mostly Russian-owned NIS oil firm by having a Hungarian firm buy shares. My sources say this is foreign minister Péter Szijjártó’s main topic at today’s Moscow trip—just 11 days after Orbán's Kremlin visit.

I don't think it was ever realistic to think that Russia wd be so defeated that the Ukrainian flag wd fly over the Kremlin. But we need to avoid a truce that merely gives Putin time to prepare his next assault - which is what Trump’s proposals wd do.

@markhertling.bsky.social on the White House's new National Security Strategy: "Russia said this is a great document that does everything we need to do. That should sum it up in a nutshell when you have a competitor, a foe, saying you've great strategic approach."

@markhertling.bsky.social on the double-tap strike "Trump specifically said he would release [the video] as soon as possible, and today he's saying he never said that. It's like a little child lying about stealing cookies."

How many unscrupulous campaign managers, political consulting groups, and PACs will incorporate unidentified AI generated deep fake video clips into their ads and social media placements during the 2026 midterms and beyond? www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/t...

The Trump Admin knows its 25% fee on Nvidia's chip sales isn't legal, but Trump still wants a share of its sales to China. "Government lawyers have been researching how to enact such a policy, given that U.S. law prohibits the charging of fees for export licenses." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/b...

(AP) — A federal judge has struck down President Donald Trump’s executive order blocking wind energy projects, saying the effort to halt virtually all leasing of wind farms on federal lands and waters was “arbitrary and capricious” and violates U.S. law.

ICE agent shoves a home security camera as she approaches a home. Masks aren't enough. They don't want you to have any record of their behavior. Even the tiniest threat of accountability is too much. Keep recording anyway.

Opinion | California’s water partnerships are effective and in danger

Oops. @ddale8.bsky.social www.cnn.com/2025/12/08/p...

Mental health checks need to be passed by legitimate doctors for people in cabinet positions or in office based on the over abundance of stupidity we are all witnessing 👎

No self-respecting human could even get these words out of their mouth

JUST IN: DOJ confirms Trump asserted executive privilege to shield more than 4,100 documents form police and lawmakers suing him over the Jan. 6 riot. Our earlier story on the privilege claim: www.politico.com/news/2025/12...

They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.

JUST IN: Judge Boasberg says it'd be "premature" to refer Kristi Noem for a contempt prosecution but orders testimony next week from DOJ whistleblower Erez Rueveni and Deputy Assistant AG Drew Ensign. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

NEW: Judge Boasberg has escalated his contempt proceedings over the violation of his order to halt Alien Enemies Act deportations. He is demanding testimony from two key witnesses: former DOJ attorney Erez Reuveni and current DOJ attorney Drew Ensign. www.politico.com/news/2025/12...

GIFT ARTICLE You probably won't like its conclusions, although you probably will agree with much of its analysis. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

JUST IN: Jimmy Kimmel Inks Contract Extension With ABC Amid Trump Push for His Ouster

They told me that if I voted for Harris the government would start dictating prices. They were right!

New: Volodymyr Zelenskyy Today/Highlights: 📌 “Security guarantees for Ukraine’s territories are not up for discussion or exchange under any circumstances.”

'In Ukraine, the state itself is investigating the government, the cabinet, the president’s closest advisers. By contrast, it is impossible to imagine Kash Patel’s FBI investigating anyone in Trump’s White House. Any Russian who investigates Putin goes to jail" www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

A video of Nick Fuentes inciting the mob on Jan. 6 is circulating on X - at a time when fissures have erupted over the influence of Fuentes and his “Groypers” within MAGA. For more on that specific video, and more, see this piece we wrote: www.justsecurity.org/95385/twitte...

Climate-fueled extreme heat is changing soccer. Every World Cup game next year will pause twice, in the middle of each half, for three-minute hydration breaks: www.nytimes.com/athletic/687...

Trump Allegedly Committed Same Mortgage Fraud His Admin Prosecuted Letitia James For: Report www.mediaite.com/media/news/t...

President Donald Trump’s administration will direct agencies to cut jobs, close offices and use artificial intelligence to make the government more efficient, according to a new directive

If the global authoritarian asshole coalition can acquire HBO/CNN/Warner after nabbing Paramount/CBS, I'd expect additional consolidation with ABC and NBC before too long, the big four have been lobbying Trump to kill the last dwindling bits of our media consolidation limits

Jared Kushner's involvement was "not mentioned in Paramount's press release on Monday morning about its $108 billion bid, nor were participating sovereign wealth funds from Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi and Qatar." fancy that

Host: 75,000 immigrants with no criminal record were detained by ICE since the beginning of the Trump admin's crackdown. These people did not fall into the categories the administration has talked about—national security and public safety threats. Less than 10% had any serious criminal convictions

On one side: Ukraine, NATO, our European allies, and the free world. On the other side: Russia/Putin and the United States. Absolutely shameful.👇

The economy right now is like a plane where the pilot is pointing at the instruments and saying it's “all clear,” but most of the passengers are gripping the armrests. If you’re the pilot (or president), you can’t just point at the dashboard—you need to calm the cabin.

Let's not kid ourselves: this may have CBS News written all over it but it's political propaganda masquerading as journalism. If it was legit, then real reporters would be in the anchor chair, not Trump approved Bari Weiss. My latest: open.substack.com/pub/jennifer...

A Weakened Hamas Still Dominates Gaza www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/w...

The Supreme Court hears arguments in a case about President Trump's firing of a Federal Trade Commissioner. At stake is a 90-year precedent limiting the president's power over independent agencies. n.pr/44VrHkJ

"As a young staff member in the Reagan administration, John G. Roberts Jr. was part of a group of lawyers who pushed for more White House control over independent government agencies." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/u...