At the same that tech was created a new gilded class, its leaders convinced themselves that the most altruistic thing they could do with their money was keep it. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

This sad, f*cked up part

When they opened Adventure Aquarium in Jersey I asked the lady if Penguin Hugger was a job and she said yes and I asked if I could apply and she said the waiting list was 10 pages long and everyone on there was like in vet school and I offered her $50 to put me at the top of the pile and she said no

This is truly awful news. The Carolina Asia Center, one of the affected centers, is a wonderful interdisciplinary space supporting some of the most important and interesting work being done on Asia and Asian America. But hey, still paying milions to a famous football coach to go 13th *in the ACC*

remember when some of y'all were welcoming her to the resistance ... please, next time she mildly criticizes trump, please remember she's still the enemy, trying to hurt my family specifically. and they aren't gonna stop with minors.

Let me fix this for Politico. It should read that the Trump administration wants to use those frozen assets to enrich themselves.

Leaving for Phoenix tomorrow to cover Turning Point USA’s AmericaFest. Never been to Arizona before. Pretty excited to find an early morning hike.

"Changes to centers and institutes were initially projected to save $4.8 million." Bill Belichick's annual salary is $10 million.

"We can’t build the vision of higher ed that we all want without first standing up to fascism. We are going to have to scale up our organizing to build with other sectors, all under attack in different ways. We need to make militant moves if we’re going to win in this moment." — Todd Wolfson

"This man is going to fellate himself to the ends of the earth about all of these accomplishments that he's going to will into existence, because he has to sell himself to compensate for the fact that when it comes to actual accomplishments, he's far underperforming."

I realize that the Obama-era editorial stylings of Buzzfeed did not require editorial staffers to churn out densely sourced thinkpieces daily, but did nobody look at a person whose story count topped 500 articles in 18 months and ask, "Is that ALL his work?" www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

'Kills children after 2 days of use' was the kind of thing that would end a product back in the day

Which federal agency do I have to FOIA to find out how much taxpayer money they spent on these plaques?

Democrats have a path to flip the New Hampshire House AND Senate in next year’s midterms! This is our best opportunity to break the extreme GOP trifecta in the battleground state. Learn more: DLCC.org/TargetMap

Safer cars? Less pollution? It's all on the table in New Hampshire.

New Hampshire lost a fortune with a tax repeal, but I bet the wealthy spent it on lots of cool stuff www.newsfromthestates.com/article/new-...

A new investigation from @kffhealthnews.org finds that Genesis HealthCare, a nursing home chain with a large footprint in New Hampshire, used bankruptcy and delays to avoid paying out settlements following injuries and deaths in their custody.

An inmate who identifies as female has filed a federal lawsuit against the New Hampshire Department of Corrections, accusing prison officials and guards of creating a harmful environment by incarcerating a transgender woman at the state prison for men in Concord. ledgertranscript.com/2025/12/17/t...

NEW: Humanitarian officials staged a last-minute plea to Trump officials at their fancy hotel to re-start food aid $ for a huge refugee camp in Kenya. The Trumpers blew it off and babies starved. @annamaria.bsky.social & Brett Murphy www.propublica.org/article/keny...

BBC News - Trump orders blockade of sanctioned oil tankers in and out of Venezuela www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Trump Inflation is real.

Lest we get on a high horse about, I bet Democratic voters would similarly struggle. Normal people simply don’t pay attention to the news the way we political junkies do. They are unaware of the drama and controversy. They barely know who is president.

I watch Jon Stewart on the daily show most weeks. A couple weeks ago he was talking to a climate author and his ease at repeating fossil fuel propaganda was alarming. When the author mentioned China he immediately spit out, "but they are building coal plants like it's going out of style!"

“Oversight”NH Republican-style: appoint an “oversight committee”, hold no meetings for over a year, scheme up a glowing report on their school voucher scam without Dem input, and feign shock when their “integrity” is questioned. #NHPolitics newhampshirebulletin.com/2025/12/17/a...

A wonderful, important essay for teachers at every level. "We envision a resistance that is, by its very nature, a repudiation of the efficiencies that automated algorithmic education falsely promises: a resistance comprising the collective force of small acts of friction."

Soviet repression was not only just about the tanks but mass murder on a large scale

I knew I wasn’t bugging www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

And another thing: anyone willing to allow their grievances to be weaponized by the fascists in this of all moments is decidedly not someone to be taken at face value.

NEW: Without USAID funding to help buy food for refugees, the World Food Program rushed to prioritize families based on need, determining that only half the population would get food. Refugees learned which half they were in from a number stamped on the back of their ration card.

Hearing this is payback for Colorado not honoring Trump/Peters ‘pardon’

COLLINS: Do you disagree with Trump's pardon of the former Honduran leader who was also indicted and convicted? RICK SCOTT: I don't -- I never -- I never met the guy and I don't know anything about it COLLINS: But do you approve of that pardon? SCOTT: I don't know much about it COLLINS: Ok

I keep saying this but no one is connecting the dots. The war is to satisfy legal preconditions for mass removal *domestically* of Latinos (i.e., suddenly a lot of people are going to be “Venezuelan” for purposes of removal). This is 100% Stephen Miller…oil claim is to make grandpa go along

there is really no difference between the current administration and having the country run by david duke

On a single day in June, two journalists in New Jersey and one in Texas — over 2,000 miles apart — were charged for covering public meetings and publishing police blotter. The arrests show that authorities can use prosecutions to chill reporting. Read more:

The Tracker documented nearly as many assaults of journalists in 2025 — 170 — as it did in the previous three years combined. Half of those arrested this year were assaulted by officers in the lead-up to or in the course of being detained.

“But I know one reporter who mastered a new skill they don’t teach in journalism school...While his hands are behind him in zip ties, he can pull out his phone and still type out emergency messages asking for help. I’ve been on the receiving end of quite a few of those." Yeah...been there

Quick reminder that he is not a residency trained physician and I with my mere masters have greater clinical acumen than this abhorrent sellout

This article quotes Jason Lee Van Dyke, a self-described fascist who I found participated in a Patriot Front private chat room, to say he is not a member of Patriot Front and to defend Patriot Front's reputation. The article does not mention his fascist beliefs or his participation in the chat room.

Mike Johnson wants to dismantle the ACA because of Obama. Its just that simple. It has nothing to do with money

Tomorrow, the House of Representatives will vote on a bill that bans gender-affirming medical care for any transgender person under 18, and threatens any medical professional providing this care to youth with 10 years in prison. Tell Congress to protect trans youth and vote NO.

Nearly 1 million people used CBP One to enter the U.S. at legal ports of entry. Now DHS is sending notices ending their parole and telling them to leave “immediately,” which can also cancel work permits. www.msn.com/en-sg/news/o...

Following trends in Trump 2.0, Jackling was reassigned from violent crimes to ICE's Enforcement and Removal Operations. Some context on why multiple witnesses have been saying this: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Sarah Weicksel’s upcoming book, A Nation Unraveled, comes out from @uncpress.bsky.social on January 6. So the @historians.org staff took the opportunity today to celebrate her accomplishment before the holidays and #AHA26. uncpress.org/978146968914...

Vox has a publicized relationship with OpenAI. Why would anyone trust a single word written on your website about AI? This particular skeet is NYT PitchBot levels of WTF-ery without any of the delicious satire. Gross. So gross y'all made any points the author had moot upon reading.

AOC: I want to remind you where the real crime is. It's in the oligarchs taking $170 billion of our money from health care and food assistance and public programs and taking that and funneling it into a secret police program.

"Shelters across the country have been at a crisis point for the past few years now ... Once empty cages have filled again, some with double the number of animals they were built for."

Yep.

Suddenly they don’t like showing when they bomb boats? Jeepers, it’s Almost like they have something to hide

BREAKING: Mike Johnson just said he won't call a vote this year to extend enhanced subsidies under the Affordable Care Act — effectively guaranteeing they will expire at the end of this month.