The silence from many media-hyped 2028 contenders today is shocking. If you cannot oppose this regime change war for oil, you don't have the moral clarity or guts to lead our party or nation.

Rep. Seth Moulton comes on CNN and starts by saying: "Is anyone going to just stop for a second and be honest? This is insane. What the hell are we doing? We've got a lot of problems in America today, and invading / occupying / running Venezuela does not solve any of them."

I beg Americans to imagine an EU strike force -- stop laughing! -- abducts Trump only, and the next day Brussels is talking about how JD Vance will have to comply and an A350 full of CEOs from windmill, non-GMO cheese, and metric ruler firms is headed for Manhattan to discuss terms

The last vestiges of American moral standing in the world are now gone.

Bruising on the back of the hand is so common in older adults that John Mulaney used to have a joke about it in his touring set in 2024. It is not a smoking gun for a peripheral IV no matter how badly journalists want it to be.

This is the dumbest thing I’ve ever seen posted by a media outlet. If I wanted to know what the “average American” thought about the Palestinian genocide, Jack Smith testimony, or economic impact of tariffs, I’d ask around at the local bar. I go to the news specifically to hear from experts!

probably not a great sign that Trump's assistant AG for civil rights uses a slur for people with disabilities

Society should pump the brakes on how much we're trusting the billionaire tech bros with our future. www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0K4...

Again, it is utterly shameful & demonstrates the total failure of all of our political institutions that threatening our closest NATO allies with territorial conquest has not immediately ended this presidency.

This is perfect. The DOJ's embarrassing snafu with disappearing redactions was the fault of Elon Musk. Musk cancelled government subscriptions to Adobe programs that would have made the redactions permanent. What a pack of fools.

Neither the New York Times nor the Washington Post published stories about Trump writing 200 unhinged posts on Christmas Day

If you’re wondering why your friends in academia are a little on edge right now, it’s because an eighteen-year-old who hasn’t done the reading, doesn’t look at the assignment, and has does no critical thinking skills more complex than “because I think it’s in the Bible” can literally end your career

These declines are MASSIVE. And the comparative silence in media coverage is absolutely DAMNING. “Why are ppl always so afraid of crime?” THIS is why. When crime goes up, media trips over itself to report it. Falls to pre-war (!!) levels? Just CRICKETS.

Question for physicists: If I bought a Powerball ticket for tonight, but I haven’t checked the results yet, am I currently existing in a superposition of billionaire and regular person?

And there it is...

This is why the Ellisons paid $150 million to acquire a mediocre Substack blog www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/12/bari...

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With all the times that the internet tries to collectively cancel some random person for acting horrible while intoxicated in public, if anyone deserves to be made "famous" by the internet, it's people like this.

Question: When the head of the DOJ’s Civil Rights division tweets out a false statement about an individual that results in them being barraged with death threats based on their religion and ethnicity, which governmental agency would look into whether that student’s Civil Rights had been infringed?

Your periodic reminder that the President or Congress can stop this nightmare right now. The president can fire. The Congress can impeach and convict. I would think that lying under oath during his confirmation hearing could be just one possible charge. IOW, this is not inevitable or unstoppable.

Can’t stop thinking about this. The Trump administration is essentially extorting hospitals into dropping gender-affirming care—without Medicare or Medicaid they’d go bankrupt. It’s akin to a backdoor ban even for people with private insurance, a proposal that wouldn’t pass Congress.

RFK Jr.’s handpicked anti-vaccine staff at HHS have apparently decided that the CDC will no longer recommend most childhood vaccines. They will encourage parents to discuss it with doctors instead. This is going to kill babies, and it will cause the most harm among the most vulnerable.

This is enraging. 😡 And there’s zero self-awareness that many applauding such government intrusion into the exam room over transgender care crashed out over schools requiring their kids to get a COVID vaccine. www.cnn.com/2025/12/18/h...

A 4 min overview of the big picture, acute complications of cirrhosis, and how they are all tied together. www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjho...

Makary’s strategy is familiar. Cast doubt on consensus. Frame experts as elites. Then present himself as the truth-teller who can “fix” the system. It is a classic manipulation of public trust, weaponizing cynicism against science itself.

Prasad, Makary and others who claim that COVID19 vaccines killed 10 children are not telling the truth. According to @jeremyfaust.bsky.social, the committee that worked on this question reported that there were ZERO deaths that they were certain were caused by the vaccines. Well worth reading.

MAGAZINER: How many veterans have you deported? NOEM: We haven't deported veterans MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea

$140m. Think of how many cancer drug trials or free school lunches this could have paid for www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

One of the most highly cited academic articles on the safety of glyphosate has been retracted, eight years after court documents revealed it was ghostwritten by Monsanto retractionwatch.com/2025/12/04/g...

Every legal story now is either Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach or In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport

we all got cowed into avoiding "virtue signaling" as if the public affirmation of socially agreed upon ethical principles was somehow cringey instead of a significant part of what a "society" even is. now all there's left is vice signaling, and it's reshaping society.

I’ve played the audio only from this clip for some of my physician colleagues, and asked who they think is speaking. The most common response is some version of “a crazy conspiracy theorist on Rogan”.

The FDA is no longer a credible institution. The current FDA cannot be trusted to protect public safety. I will not risk my patients by prescribing any new drugs that are approved during RFK and Makary’s “leadership”.

The FDA is no longer a credible institution. The current FDA cannot be trusted to protect public safety. I will not risk my patients by prescribing any new drugs that are approved during RFK and Makary’s “leadership”.

What a toxic combination of bigotry and pettiness. A taxpayer funded federal employee is spending their time on this BS…😡😡😡

There isn’t much for our Supreme Court to hear, the Constitution is already clear. And just to be absolutely clear: the Supreme Court does not have the power to overrule or rewrite our Constitution.

Bad framing: ACIP voted to scrap the universal hepatitis B vaccine recommendation for newborns. Accurate framing: Anti-vax conspiracy theorists appointed to ACIP by Robert Kennedy Jr., who made a fortune as an anti-vax profiteer, voted to expose babies to a preventable, incurable, deadly illness.

Himes: "What I saw in that room was one of the most troubling things I've seen in my time in public service ... any American who sees the video that I saw will see the US military attacking shipwrecked sailors."

You're going to see a lot of pixels about today's CDC ACIP meeting. The most important thing to keep in mind is that it's all a sham, it's not on the level. CDC no longer works for the American people. The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices is stocked with snake oil sellers and quacks.

From @lizzylawrence.bsky.social: a plan to further erode determination of safety & efficacy prior to drug approval. Robust evidence links expedited approval to increased number of safety issues. It's wrong & risky to prescribe drugs based on limited data. @drsforamerica.bsky.social

I'm not a lawyer, but I'm pretty sure war crimes count as an impeachable offense for a Secretary of Defense.

This might be the most absurd HHS nomination/appointment yet (aside from RFK himself of course). At least with Bhattacharya, Makary, and Prasad, they have CVs that are vaguely consistent with their roles. But Hoeg as head of CDER makes as much sense as appointing me the Commissioner of the NBA.

Only the Trump administration could use war crimes as a distraction from a president’s child rape scandal.

If new proposals detailed in an FDA memo are put into place, experts told me it would mean the end of annual flu shots. And end of most vaccines for pregnant people. And maybe the end of updates to pneumonia vaccines. And more. www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...

Serious ?: With Trump's cognition so obviously impaired, who is the person behind the curtain deciding which billionaires & politicians get pardons? No way is Trump making these decisions on his own. Is the person calling the shots even a member of the admin, or is it just one of his kids?

“The only people who get angry when hearing service members being told to ignore illegal orders are people who intend to issue illegal orders.”

News media has to do better with headlines that present false and unverified public health claims.

Since Vinay Prasad is back in the news again today, let me reshare a video I made over the summer discussing how he went from respected albeit controversial academic to a useful idiot of RFK Jr's antivax machine. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXPZ...