Unfuckingbelievable.

Mother Jones lost her entire family to yellow fever, then her business in the #GreatChicagoFire. Instead of succumbing to trauma, she led multiple movements of people proclaiming, "Pray for the dead, fight like hell for the living" Learn from @hcrichardson.bsky.social youtu.be/FT0kootLdfg?...

From the Editorial Board: The impulse to help families is worthy. But a program that delivers money 18 years from now while adding to today’s debt burden isn’t a solution to the affordability crisis parents face today.

“This irresponsible and purposely misleading guidance will lead to more hepatitis B infections in infants and children.” Read our full statement by AAP President Dr. Susan J. Kressly: www.aap.org/en/news-room...

Let's be very clear that one of the major effects of the CDC no longer recommending various vaccinations is that it becomes much harder for folks who still want to be—or want their children to be—vaccinated to get their insurance providers to cover those vaccinations.

As Prices Soar, Trump Denounces ‘Affordability’ as ‘Democrat Scam’ “The president is trying to gaslight Americans into believing that everything is fine.” www.commondreams.org/news/trump-a...

The White House surrenders at 138 million views. Sabrina wins.

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.

If anyone cares at all, EV battery recycling is now hitting 99% recovery for important metals Please remind me again what the recycle rate for fossil fuels is interestingengineering.com/energy/recyc...

All three branches of the federal government’s relationship with American citizens is basically a hostage situation

Thanks to the IRS MATH Act, the IRS must now explain mistakes in plain English, show any adjustments, and put your 60-day appeal deadline front and center. It will be a major upgrade from previously confusing notices.

#Trump pardoned Tim Leiweke — who his own DOJ indicted in July for rigging a public university’s arena bid— It’s all a grift — Saudis to crypto to pardon seekers — everything gets turned into a revenue stream. With 1,500+ pardons already, clemency is a monetized market

The White House has launched a webpage to report "media bias" tips. It would be a pity if it were flooded with tips about every show on Fox News. www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...

As a devoted, concerned citizen of the United States, I have already posted eight urgent tips against Fox News for Media Bias under the email address "[email protected]" Glory!

It's not surprising that a rapist's presidential administration is removing standards intended to prevent rape. www.npr.org/2025/12/04/n...

The new National Security Strategy is a propaganda document, designed to be widely read. It is also a performative suicide. Hard to think of another great power ever abdicating its influence so quickly and so publicly. It will be worth following the reactions around the world, not just in Europe.

Congress used to have the power of the purse and the power to declare war.

Hegseth says the IG report “totally exonerates” him. That is a lie. The IG says “the Secretary’s actions created a risk to operational security that could have resulted in failed U.S. mission objectives and potential harm to U.S. pilots.” #holdfast

Keystone Kash, his girlfriend, and her friends having the time of their lives using and abusing taxpayer funded resources and civil servants. www.ms.now/news/kash-pa...

NEW: Todd Curry of Arkansas has been arrested and charged with mailing threats against several Democratic Senators and then-Vice President Kamala Harris Justice Dept is prosecuting Feds allege mailed threats described a "threat to kill"

America's greatest villain......

60,000 African penguins starved to death after sardine numbers collapsed. Climate crisis and overfishing contributed to loss of 95% of penguins in two breeding colonies in South Africa. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

"It's said that you can get a grand jury to indict a ham sandwich. Well, apparently the Trump people can't do that,". Despite President Donald Trump's Department of Justice promising to re-indict New York Attorney General Letitia James (D), a Virginia grand jury has declined to return an indictment

Abbe Lowell, the attorney who is representing Letitia James: “I can't tell you a time in the federal system...where a federal prosecutor thought a case was strong enough to bring to a grand jury, and the grand jury said no.” @kaitlancollins.bsky.social

I was told everyone was leaving. @fortune.com #NYC @wutangforchildren.bsky.social fortune.com/2025/12/04/m...

Watch: "Trump's Restraint In 'Profiting Off The Presidency' Has 'Vanished': Forbes Reporter" And, yes, there had been some restraint in Trump I. me (aka reporter), with Brittany Lewis for @forbes.com

Mercy Otis Warren challenged tyranny and took revolutionary ideas to reality as a mom of action. Her writing liberated many and held the powerful men of the day accountable to action. Watch @hcrichardson.bsky.social #WomenInHistory and be #InspiredToAct youtu.be/SV5PfpMJvzQ?...

Thoughts on the post-47th world: [Or: sometimes in all the craziness, it's nice to just sit back and listen to reasonable people discuss reasonable things.] @hcrichardson.bsky.social @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=N15L...

Daily Dose of Truth and Facts The House Intelligence Committee reviews actual footage of a Sept 2nd drone attack of a supposed narco boat. A 2nd drone attack killed 2 survivors clinging to wreckage. The boat was hundreds of miles away from the US. Are these attacks justified under any law?

Inside ICE Detention: Stripped, Shackled, Starved Overcrowded facilities, poor medical care, and deaths in custody. Systematic violations of civil and constitutional rights. What are you still waiting for, America? ICE continues to kidnap people & use violent tactics! Thread 1/2🧵

When I have food that starts looking like this, I throw it out. I suggest the United States does the same.

Koh: This is not about justice. This is about power. This is about a Secretary of Defense so drunk off alpha male bullshit that he's willing to take lives to get off on that power.

The whole play of Trumpism: convincing working class people to blame other working class people—so billionaires can keep robbing us all.

Anyone defending execution as a reasonable punishment for drug smuggling is a Nazi. Pass it on.

Remember: Trump or Russian propagandists might say otherwise, but Putin is not winning, and the Ukrainians are not losing.

Kristi Noem and Tom Homan hiring the best and the brightest for their new ICE Army. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

Meanwhile, Putin is openly threatening to attack Western Europe if it continues to resist his effort to reconstruct the USSR.

Some public servants may have been forced to leave the federal government, but they surely have not stopped fighting for the American people.

It all sounds crazy at first—I dismissed all of this stuff initially. But, look around. Are we in Crazytown? These guys have gone all-in on Trump fascism because he accelerates the decline of democracy. And they are lining up their crypto scams and fascist city escape plans. They are serious.

As Wired reported, the Network State has lobbyists working DC to make the Fascist Cities happen. They see three potential paths: 1. Multi-state compacts approved by Congress 2. Creation of federal enclaves with special economic zone status 3. Executive orders www.wired.com/story/startu...

Note that Roger Stone refers to Prospera, the Network State city in Honduras, as a "freedom city." Trump wants to build ten of these cities on federal land, and Stone makes it clear that these fascist cities are, indeed, the Network State.

WATCH: “Why is he here? Are you prepared to distance yourself from views of that disgracefully violent nature?” Sen Whitehouse grills TN Republican mega-donor Lee Beaman on anti-LGBTQ views of Pastor Steve Berger (once Gov. Lee’s pastor) as Trump sends him to privatize the TVA.

“Imagine what would happen if, next year, we had a 2008-style crisis and Bessent and Hassett were [at Treasury and the Fed]. In such a universe, could the rest of the world trust American economic leadership? Could the American-led economic order survive?” www.thebulwark.com/p/what-if-it...

J-MART: ".. he’s turned the office into an adult fantasy camp .. brazen corruption, near-daily vulgarity and handing out pardons like lollipops .. ".. the country has never seen such an indulgent head of state." @politico.com www.politico.com/news/magazin...

U.S. Department of Defense's Inspector General's report on the Signalgate saga is now online media.defense.gov/2025/Dec/04/...

Trump has given a full and unconditional pardon to entertainment executive Tim Leiweke—whom his own Justice Department indicted on charges of “orchestrating a conspiracy to rig the bidding process for an arena at a public university” in Austin. trib.al/qU7UmJr

9 House Republicans could choose to take away Johnson’s gavel today if they wanted.

Not like it would be justified if they were drug smugglers, but I think it hasn't gotten enough focus that a boat with 11 people onboard heading from Venezuela to Trinidad was almost certainly migrants. These were probably, at least for some of them, people fleeing Maduro. That's who they murdered.