Drugmakers plan to raise U.S. prices on at least 350 branded medications, even as the Trump administration pressures them for cuts, according to data provided exclusively by healthcare research firm 3 Axis Advisors. https://cnn.it/45mWG9C

Trump's vindictive veto will deprive 50,000 Americans of clean water www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

"we're here to inspect your daycare center"

About 40 people are dead and 115 injured, many severely, in the Swiss ski resort blaze. It will take days to identify all victims, authorities say. Follow live updates. https://cnn.it/493oDFY

Two people died in the Netherlands in fireworks accidents and there were scattered instances of violence as the country celebrated the New Year, and in a separate incident a historic church in the heart of Amsterdam burned down. https://cnn.it/4q3uYY3

The United States Commerce Department is poised to significantly reduce the tariffs set to take effect on over a dozen Italian pasta makers’ products later this year. https://cnn.it/4q3CD8L

Solar can be much more than photovoltaic (PV) electricity generation. It can be passive solar to heat a floor (thermal mass = TM) in the Sun & then it can warm the house at night. #Solar can heat hot water for hot water tanks, water heaters or pools. It can also be used to heat a house (TM & fans).

It's a new year, so we have yet another opportunity to raise the federal #MinimumWage. It's been $7.25 since 2009. Meanwhile, Congress members earn $108.75/hour assuming 40 weeks of work per year, which is stretching it (legislative sessions = 26 weeks/year). bsky.app/profile/did:...

Cc the democrats if they retake the White House

Mamdani: I have been told that this is the occasion to reset expectations, that I should use this opportunity to encourage the people of New York to ask for little and expect even less. I will do no such thing. The only expectation I seek to reset is that of small expectations.

Gill on Epstein Files: I reached out to sources and they say that not only did New York send over everything they had in March, but that the entire review process—using roughly a thousand analysts from the FBI’s Information Management Division—was specifically to review the files from New York

And people are still on there?

AOC: New York City has chosen the ambitious pursuit of universal childcare, affordable rents and housing and clean and dignified public transit for all. We have chosen that over the distractions of bigotry and the barbarism of extreme income inequality

the point here is that we may regrettably be forced to kill every Somali immigrant in the event that there is not a wave of deportations

Trump and the wealthy will continue dismantling democracy and increase surveillance and oppression while the GOP embraces overt Nazism. They’ll wreck any remaining standard of living and any protections I think 2026 is the year our grief turns to rage. jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/living-in-...

This is exactly what Peter Thiel is doing to UFO whistleblowers using his journalist assets like Michael Shellenberger. Must listen. #ufosky open.spotify.com/episode/3XMY...

Hunting daycares sounds like something they kill you in prison for.

This sounds designed to wholesale invalidate mailed-in ballots. #orpol

The AI companies will not die when their money scams run out. They’ll merge with the fascist state if we haven’t driven these fucks out of power and set up firewalls. This isn’t sit and see how it shakes out territory we’re in. Not by a long shot.

This afternoon, the president posted that he will abandon efforts to deploy National Guard troops in Portland. Read more about what happened – and our statement in response. #orpol #nationalguard https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2025/12/trump-drops-national-guard-in-portland-other-cities.html#orpol

We don’t talk enough about how the AI bubble is going to seamlessly transition to tech-based state surveillance and oppression of the working and dwindling middle classes as the wealth class steals more and more resources and power and as the climate worsens.

Clocked in all year. Prepared. Unafraid. Always with the receipts. Keeping that same energy all 2026.

memory is poison. you can get these things high-centered in a crazy part of the latent space and it won't come out.

It's horrible it assisted/ encouraged two teens' suicide. It's actually instructing users on how to subvert safety mechanisms. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/... “ChatGPT killed my son”: Parents’ lawsuit describes suicide notes in chat logs - Ars Technica arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

This is the technology our schools are encouraging our children to use.

Uh… check out what ChatGPT allegedly told a man before he killed his mother and then himself. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

#HIV cure from stem cell transplants seems promising. Research underway in Oregon. www.opb.org/article/2025...

Trump said in a social media post Wednesday that he’s removing the Guard troops for now. “We will come back, perhaps in a much different and stronger form, when crime begins to soar again - Only a question of time!” he wrote.

Nick Shirley at the US Capitol on January 6th, 2021.

Question: But the president’s statements that he believed the election was rife with fraud—those are statements protected by the First Amendment, correct? Smith: Absolutely not. If they are made to target a lawful government function and are made with knowing falsity, then no, they are not.

The KKK staged a big rally in 1924 in South Bend. The Klansmen were confronted by a group of about 500 Notre Dame students who chased them through the streets, jumped them, beat them up in alleys, ripped their KKK robes and masks off and used them as battle trophies.

In February, @madycast.com did an important interview with ACT-UP veterans on the common threads and lesssons for the trans liberation fight today:

August saw @thefreeradical.org's in-depth reporting on the rapidly-increasing Itch bans on queer and nsfw content, focusing on its wrenching effects on the lives of queer and trans creators.

The woman on the right just turned in a 30 pt overperformance to be the first Black woman in the Iowa State Senate! That's a lot even for Iowa!

Smith says Trump "without question" added to the danger to Mike Pence's life with his 2:24pm tweet while the Capitol was under attack.

A little-noticed provision in the TRUMP AI Act would ban big tech platforms, including ostensibly Google, from distributing "sexual material harmful to minors" — a phrase routinely used by conservatives to ban not only porn, but sex ed, LGBTQ literature and repro rights resources.

Read former special counsel Jack Smith’s transcript before the House Committee on the Judiciary here: judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

Jim Jordan actually posted the video! On the afternoon of New Years Eve, but posted nonetheless: youtu.be/lR-bhPzQYUE?...

Hello I have been stuck in my house for a full week and a half with the flu and now, seemingly, strep. I promise you do not want this. Get the shot, wear a mask in crowded settings. And for non-parents: avoid small children if you can, they are adorable disease vectors.

In the 1920s, the KKK circulated rumors that Catholics had amassed a huge arsenal of weapons and explosives and hidden them in the basements and sewers beneath the University of Notre Dame, in preparation for a Catholic takeover of the US. Thinking about this today for no particular reason.

ALERT: Attorney for Epstein survivors estimates only 1% of Epstein Files have been released so far youtube.com/shorts/DLO7Y...

It is now 12 days after the deadline for the Department of Justice to release the entirety of the Epstein files. The New York Times and Reuters report DOJ officials are now reviewing more than 5.2 million documents. www.ms.now/chris-jansin...

Still mind-blowing that a top admin official was revealed to have taken $50,000 in cash in a paper bag from people looking for government favors, the reaction of the administration was "Whatever losers, this is how it works now" and bigshot news media said "If you say so, we'll forget about it"

"The Kennedy Center is threatening to sue Chuck Redd to enforce the tyrannical precept that we are all, always, everywhere, the king’s performing monkeys. Are our voices our own? Or do they belong to Trump and Trump alone?" — @nberlat.bsky.social

It is irresponsible and dangerous for the CMS Administrator (a physician who knows better) to downplay the importance of getting the flu vaccine. Reminder: The US had ~38,000 flu deaths in the 2024-25 season.

Pro tip: Overcoming a virus doesn't make you stronger. In fact many viruses can create chronic diseases or weaken your immune system so that bacteria have a better chance at you. rachel.fast.ai/posts/2025-1... #flu

unvarnished gutter racism and Nazism from the president. a disgrace to our country.