Read this: www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...

“The West Coast Health Alliance grounds its decisions in facts, data and expert consensus,” Gov. Tina Kotek said.

The billionaires want you to be mad that your tax dollars support the hungry, homeless, sick & poor They don’t want you to think about the corporate tax cuts for the wealthy, the billions sent to Argentina, given to ICE or spent on war They want us to blame each other so they can keep getting rich

The most precious commodity you have is your attention. You don’t have to waste it on poor-faith debates or arguments with strangers if you don’t think they’ll be productive. You can prioritize the things that matter to you and make your life richer.

Countries that have abortion access, DEI policies or protection for LGBTQ+ people will be considered “human rights violators“ by the Trump regime We’re in the upside down. www.forbes.com/sites/maryro...

A trans teen in Iowa completed suicide after severe bullying by classmates and teachers. "Miles’ death came a day after a substitute teacher refused to use his preferred pronouns." It's the type of bullying @thefireorg.bsky.social and @aricohn.com support. www.thepinknews.com/2025/11/17/m...

It would be so helpful if you could RT my post above about my Etsy shop. I haven't been able to work for more than half the year due to severe depression/a breakdown. If you see this & could spare a few moments for a RT it would help me put my designs in front of a few more eyes. Thankyou so much🌿

Bloomberg unfolds the history of the Vance-Dmitriev initiative... Dmitriev put it to Witkoff and Vance in a meeting in Miami, Axios published it, Trump and Rubio knew nothing of it. But then Trump decided to simply bless Dmitriev's draft after the fact. A perfect biopsy of "diplomacy" under Trump.

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...

It's always hard to pick a worst day politically, but today the president called for the death of members of the opposition party, and the administration decided that people were being too hard on the swastika

The Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas and nooses as hate symbols. This action, coupled with the President's call to hang Democratic members of Congress - both in the past few hrs - are more than "potentially divisive." They are vile, unconscionable, and dangerous.

The study has been published in Alzheimer’s Research and Therapy. YES, it is PEER-REVIEWED. • alzres.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... 🧪🧵⬇️

Home insurance is in crisis, and Big Oil's lies are to blame. "We’re never going to bend the curve of ever-rising insurance costs without addressing the core driver of higher prices: the worsening climate disasters that Big Oil knowingly made a reality," explains CCI's @iylas.bsky.social.

GOOD NEWS! Researchers at the University of Exeter have found that getting vaccinated against shingles- a painful and debilitating condition that can flare up years after infection from varicella zoster virus- not only LOWERS the risk of infection, but can also PROTECT against Alzheimer’s disease!

This is a fucking DISGRACE. The Republicans of the United States Congress are permitting a man to spew dangerous and harmful disinformation to the public. This is dangerous. This will kill infants and children. Republicans DO NOT CARE about babies after they are born www.cdc.gov/vaccine-safe...

NEW ESSAY for Trans Awareness Week! hopefully it will make ppl aware about how bad actors manipulate transgender statistics & that "social contagion/ROGD" are disproven: on Medium (friend link): juliaserano.medium.com/lies-damned-... & Substack (no paywall): juliaserano.substack.com/p/lies-damne...

THIS IS HUGE! Researchers have just identified a powerful new antibiotic that is 100x STRONGER than existing drugs against deadly superbugs like MRSA and VRE. Hiding in a well-known soil bacterium, pre-methylenomycin C lactone KILLS drug-resistant bacteria WITHOUT triggering resistance.

"Quiet! Quiet, Piggy."

Read the whole thread. This makes so much more sense to me than what pollsters have been saying.

Knowing he’s going to lose the House vote, President Trump tried to redefine the setback by withdrawing his opposition to the vote, but not actually releasing the Epstein files. Who in the world would be fooled by this? talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

New from @francescadnunz.bsky.social: Texas Department of Public Safety and ICE signed a pair of agreements that will authorize state police within DPS’s Criminal Investigations and Highway Patrol divisions to effectively operate as ICE agents, on a statewide basis.

The press contact for FACE THE NATION is [email protected] if anyone wants to explain to them why people might care about a massive pedophile sex trafficking ring that apparently implicates the president and several other powerful men.

This really hasn’t gotten enough attention this week. @wired.com #ICE www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...

made a similar point on the opinions podcast this week in response to the idea that epstein is a dead end. not only are actual voters interested in this but it divides the gop and puts pressure on the president. it would be political malpractice to treat it as a sideshow

Also in here: DHS responded to the faith-led protest yesterday, calling participants “violent rioters” and “imbecilic morons” who need to “get a job.” Asked about the statement, one UMC pastor who participated in the protest told me: "This is our job." religionnews.com/2025/11/15/a...

“Many of the women say that they were pressured to have unwanted or unnecessary gynecological procedures while in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement”

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I am honestly a little shocked that I haven't heard more pundits and interview subjects pointing back to the Trump/Miss Teen USA stuff from 2016, in light of all the once-again-increased Epstein scrutiny. I mean, it's right there. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

The study has been published in Nature. YES, it is PEER-REVIEWED. • www.nature.com/articles/s41... • www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪🧵⬇️

GOOD NEWS! A groundbreaking study in MORE THAN 1,000 people reveals that cancer patients who received a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine within 100 days of starting immunotherapy lived dramatically LONGER than those who didn’t. In some cases, their survival rate was DOUBLED.

Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:

Really crazy story from @mantzarlis.com for INDiCATOR about “Grokipedia” and the sources it’s citing. In addition to crazier stuff: “Grokipedia largely emulates Wikipedia in over half of its entries, seemingly content to transcribe pages verbatim…” indicator.media/p/grokipedia...

Mark Wolf, a federal judge appointed by Reagan, is resigning after 40 years on the bench. In an essay published by The Atlantic this week, he wrote, “The White House’s assault on the rule of law is so deeply disturbing to me that I feel compelled to speak out. Silence, for me, is now intolerable.”

The soft pedaling language being used to describe the men in the Epstein files is enraging. They didn’t “have sex with underage girls”. They raped them. Sex implies consent. The survivors deserve better than this. Use the correct language. Say what these men did.

NEW: @propublica.org investigated the Chicago apartment raid where kids were zip-tied and citizens detained for hours. They find: - NONE of the arrested were criminally charged - NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists." - ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.

Really grateful this incredibly thoughtful, in-depth review. "There Is No Place for Us reads like horror... Goldstone argues that people are not slipping into homelessness but are being actively pushed." lareviewofbooks.org/article/an-e...

Ultra-rich media owners are tightening their grip on democracy. It’s time to wrest our power back

The more we learn about EBV, the more angry I am at the person who came to school sick and infected the rest of us. Then the school tried to expel me for missing too many days. We must stop normalizing pushing through illness. It can have lifelong consequences

Not even a US citizen! At BU on track scholarship from Great Britain. Thanks for digging this up Alex Ip! dailyfreepress.com/11/13/10/216...

As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history. Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX

Local media is calling it: Katie Wilson will be the next mayor of Seattle. Wilson ousts Mayor Bruce Harrell after running as a progressive challenger. Her win is a west coast companion to Mamdani’s as a statement victory for the left.

Was thinking about this...

Unaffordable electricity is fast becoming a major source of insecurity in the U.S. AI data centers are devouring power—and causing light bills to skyrocket—while private equity giants like Blackstone buy up utilities to extract maximum profit. This really needs to be a bigger story.

Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...

Here come the “raping teenage girls isn’t actually that bad” arguments from the right.

Trump is dining with top Wall Street executives at the White House tonight — just months after giving them a huge tax cut in his Big Ugly Bill. Meanwhile, his regime is continuing to withhold SNAP benefits for millions of hungry Americans. "New Golden Age."

The room is almost all elephant. Almost none of it isn’t. Pretty much solid elephant. So there’s no room to talk about it. -Kay Ryan, “The Elephant in the Room” #everynightapoem