This regressive move will literally kill people. It's making kids' liver cancer great again. And it's a sign of more harm to come. CDC panel recommends delaying birth dose of hepatitis B vaccine www.statnews.com/2025/12/05/c... via @statnews.com

One (of so so many) things that made me angry today was Retsef Levi suggesting people "ask their friends" as a way to gauge HepB prevalence in the community*, when a reason it's currently low is *all the effort we've put into vaccination over several decades*. I miss actual experts on ACIP.

just to drive home the point. Texas created this map in August. the lower court rendered its decision November. So three months later, a year before the election in question.

I buy the Cabaret theory of modern politics: current right wing politics was, once upon a time, a thing elites sold to rubes while merely pretending to believe themselves while they pursued wealth, but now the True Believers are actually in charge and acting on sincerely believed insane nonsense.

cool that the official position of the administration appears to be that black people don’t really count as americans

Yeah this is bad. Trump admin appears to be laying the groundwork to purge regional Fed presidents, all of whom are up for reappointment in February.

This really was one of the most heartbreaking articles I’ve read in a while. I don’t think people comprehend the scale of destruction wrought by this administration already, not even close nymag.com/intelligence...

"The Donald Trump administration has changed which holidays qualify for free entrance to national parks, removing two holidays celebrating Black people and adding the president’s birthday."

RICH PEOPLE NEVER EVER LEAVE WHERE THEY WANT TO LIVE IF THEIR TAXES INCREASE FOR THE OBVIOUS REASON THAT THEY CAN EASILY AFFORD IT

NEW: Elon Musk's Grok chatbot will, with minimal prompting, provide residential addresses of everyday Americans. Prompts as simple as "[name] address" immediately returned accurate home addresses of private citizens — alongside other personal info we didn't ask for. futurism.com/future-socie...

Today, there is a person in Lincoln, NE that has had COVID for at least 4.5 years (probably in their GI tract) that almost certainly does not know they are infected. We see the lineage every week. It would be easy to track them, at least from a technical perspective. 2/

I talked about plague & the 1257 Samalas eruption in 2020: doi.org/10.1093/ahr/.... (Link to #OpenAccess copy: works.hcommons.org/records/ba3b...)

I mean ending prison rape protections, come the fuck on!! They are openly declaring that they believe trans women should be brutally raped in prison! Where is the outrage?

Christ on a cracker — these seemingly hostile drones only missed Zelensky’s plane because he was unexpectedly early www.thejournal.ie/drones-dubli...

Pretty notable, in my view, that Kagan points out the Supreme Court's pro-gerrymandering decision in Texas is a step-by-step instruction manual for states to draw discriminatory maps while ducking judicial review, and the majority has...nothing to say in response www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

Interesting thread discussing the rise of pro se plaintiffs with ChatGPT (or "pro se gpt"). www.reddit.com/r/Lawyertalk... "People say AI will take our jobs but so far it's just giving me more work."

It's good—very good, and very important—that district courts keep issuing these 100-page rulings upholding the law. It must be incredibly dispiriting to see them overturned in a two-page, lawless, unsigned order, but please, keep them coming. They expose SCOTUS' corruption like nothing else.

District Court: The Court has considered an entire record of evidence and renders a conclusion based on that rigorous examination of facts. Supreme Court: But you didn’t theoretically presume good faith!

Scathing dissent from Justice Kagan: "[T]his Court reverses that judgment based on its perusal, over a holiday weekend, of a cold paper record. We are a higher court than the District Court, but we are not a better one when it comes to making such a fact-based decision."

(NBC News) - The Justice Department on Thursday failed to secure an indictment against New York Attorney General Letitia James, a person familiar with the matter told NBC News. www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

Glad @davidaustinwalsh.bsky.social picked up on our point on sexualized state violence. Examples: *Kristi Noem posing by jail full of brown people *WH video pairing sadistic footage of migrants in handcuffs w/sexually charged songs *Toxic masculine image of ICE goons frogmarching women out of homes

Turns out the waste fraud and abuse was coming from inside the Trump family

Brown University accepted nearly equal numbers of male and female students, but got almost twice as many female applicants. That math meant it was easier for men to get in. Trump's DEI ban may end gender balancing efforts that often benefit men.

Anti-vaxxer and climate scientist Cynthia Nevison now claims that HBV vaccine causes multiple sclerosis and rheumatoid arthritis, among other things, as radical anti-vaxxer Mark Blaxill nods vigorously. The data do not support these claims.

I'm sorry I keep quote-tweeting this, but I am beside myself hearing someone from a Republican administration that is based on alleged American Greatness, saying that now, finally, we can return to the 1970s. bsky.app/profile/atru...

To be very clear, Kennedy's team is messing with a vaccine which has led to a 99 percent drop in the incidence of hepatitis B, which kills, early and painfully, 25 percent of the people who get it as children. lnk.thebulwark.com/3Xt957M

Yesterday the President fell asleep, yet again, during a televised fake Cabinet meeting staged so that each of his courtiers could heap praise on him, praise for which he couldn't stay conscious. He woke up just long enough to spew racism. Why is this not being treated as an emergency? >

Social scientists spent the last 50 years arguing that racism is still prevalent in US even if it's covert (racism w/ a veneer), unconscious (racism w/out intent), or systemic (racism w/out racists). Along comes MAGA, which embraces gutter racism while claiming that teaching about racism is racist.

Jonathan Lemire: "He stopped doing his rallies, though, which frankly, are the signature political event of our last decade—the Trump rally... He'd use those rallies as like testing grounds... He stopped doing that, and people around him are afraid he's now flying blind."

If we're not at war, Pete Hegseth is a murderer. If we are at war, Pete Hegseth is still a murderer. He's a murderer. And you don't need to go to The Hague to hold him accountable because there are perfectly good, American laws AGAINST MURDER. My latest in @thenation.com

the worst outcome is, to be clear, Larry Ellison owning CBS, Paramount, CNN, HBO, Warner Brothers, and a part of TikTok, using the infotainment arm to fund another right wing bogus news propaganda empire that rivals Fox on the plus side, these folks are all incompetent nepopbabies and brunchlords

lets say you have a family of four making $85,000 on a w2 (no other income). Married filing jointly standard deduction is $29,200, meaning taxable income 55,800, fed tax on which is $6235. Tiny Timmy gets sick, you deduct an addt'l $25k, new taxable $30,800, tax on which is $3235.

As a reminder: The USIP building was raided and taken over by DOGE (with assistance from federal and local law enforcement) despite being an independent agency and owner of the building. Litigation is ongoing, but Trump does not own this building.

Even more than the fascism and white supremacy, the very core of MAGA is the endless drive to make us accomplices in Trump's own narcissism. Their primary ideological commitment is "Trump is great" and they will attack and punish us until we, too, admit Trump is great.

DHS spent $200 million on ads for a self-deportation app used by just 35,000 people.

Pastor Jorge Bautista was telling a Border Patrol agent "we come in peace" when the agent fired toxic powder at him, leaving him struggling to breathe. “No one should be assaulted for being out there protesting,” he says. With @frontlinepbs.bsky.social

Exclusive: Watchdog finds Hegseth risked endangering troops by sharing sensitive war plans on Signal, sources say From me and Zach Cohen www.cnn.com/2025/12/03/p...

With the pardon of Rep. Henry Cuellar D-TX, who had been accused of bribery and corruption, President Trump has now pardoned 12 members of Congress - 10 Republicans and 2 Democrats. (All but Cuellar had been convicted.)

The head of the Border Patrol racial profiling operation calls the US citizen BABIES of immigrants criminals

MSNBC Grandmas in Skechers seamlessly reclaiming the frog from 4chan Nazis in about six weeks has gotta be the political upset of the century.

HHS kills Biden nursing home mandate that would have required 102,000 new staff www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/healt...

MY LATEST: Chain dollar stores promise big savings—but the low prices listed on the shelves often don’t materialize at checkout. As the cost of living soars, the customers bearing the burden are those who can least afford it. An investigation for @theguardian.com with @jocelynzuck.bsky.social.

As vaccine panel prepares hepatitis B review, CDC and industry experts are excluded www.statnews.com/2025/12/02/a...

This dude’s private jet is airborne over Africa again.

A 6-year-old boy is missing after ICE arrested him and his dad in NYC last week and shipped them off to separate facilities. www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/02/i... @thecity.nyc @gwynnefitz.bsky.social

The interesting thing about the TN-07 vote is that Van Epps doesn’t seem like a terrible candidate—the 15 point swing in favor of Democrats isn’t primarily a candidate effect. If 2026 is anything close to a +15 environment for Democrats, it’s going to be the biggest wave election in a long time.

This is the point. If the Dems gained 17 points here then any district that had a margin of 17 points or less is vulnerable and the GOP knows it and they are freaking out.

Businesses in Ohio and surrounding states are seeing rising prices and declining activity in several sectors, the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland has reported. Some of it's attributable to massive import taxes imposed by President Trump, businesses said ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/12/02/c...

longing once again for a world where more people are capable of grasping complex and inscrutable concepts like “it’s still really really good for Democrats if they *lose* by a much smaller margin than expected in Tennessee”