At 97, Ms. Betty Reid Soskin was named Glamour Magazine Woman of the Year. By the time she was 104, she had lived many, many lives and bravely reinvented herself over and over again. May she rest well. 👑🙏🏾💐 #BlackSky 🌱 www.glamour.com/story/women-...

Green Card holder, living in the U.S. since she was 11, put in ICE detention for 5 months because she bounced a check decades ago.

New, at Can We Still Govern? Poverty is not some insurmountable problem, we can fix it. A group of National Academies of Science researchers review the temporary expansion of the Child Tax Credit during the pandemic, showing it cut child poverty in half. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/what-have-...

In a world of Sundown Towns where Black people weren’t allowed after nightfall, Green Book businesses were tiny spots of light. Traveling while Black was about survival. The Green Book Project documents that history: greenbookproject.org.ohio-state.edu #GreenBookProject #CommunityMap #EconSky

Probably the same set of things that drives the negativity bias online, which I understand some combination of social desirability effects and selection effects. www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

The report from the panel of international experts known as the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) still warned that three-quarters of Gaza’s population, or 1.6 million people, are experiencing acute food insecurity and malnutrition. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...

chatterton doesn't really post here but i would love his thoughts on of his most famous episodes given today's events.

"On their sixth day working without pay, a skeleton crew of NIH researchers learned a well-liked animal health technician had been taken by ICE to a Louisiana detention center."

Inside the federal government as Trump and DOGE pushed it past its breaking point in 2025, as told by some of the more than 1,200 federal workers @hannahnatanson.bsky.social and @merylkornfield.bsky.social have spoken to this year

the idea that weiss had journalistic concerns is belied by the fact that she's not a journalist

Nice. flightaware.com/live/flight/...

I’m old enough to remember Weiss selling herself as a free-speech warrior who would rail against censorship. It’s hard to imagine that she’d have an objection that could pull the story at this stage other than “I don’t want this to hit the air”.

UPDATE: in point of fact there is not an innocent explanation for this.

Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.

“60 Minutes” abruptly dropped a segment about Trump deportees sent to a megaprison in El Salvador Sunday — two hours before it was set to air

Current issue of @theonion.com nails it again.

Since his appointment, RFK Jr. has pursued a brutal vision of American health that several experts liken to a sort of eugenics. Kennedy has made it clear that certain deaths are acceptable or even preferable to a world where every child is vaccinated. Read more: www.theverge.com/health/66136...

More from the important research by @lachlanmcnamee.bsky.social @salmamousa.bsky.social & @kylepeyton.bsky.social: The backlash to CRT and DEI was concentrated among educated & professional class centrists & Republicans. Working class, who Yglesias says backlashed, didn't actually care

An absolutely magnificent Freudian slip! 🤌🏼

I’m laid up with the flu, but I had to peek my head out and say that this is *so* much worse than it seems. And it’s already pretty fucking bad! bsky.app/profile/gbbr...

“The Supreme Court decided not to have a Christmas party for 12 straight years because the justices couldn’t agree on whether to invite the Court’s Black employees” is about as tidy an encapsulation of the Supreme Court’s whole deal as I can think of

Clear evidence that at universities conservatives don't face higher obstacles than liberals to establish student groups + invite outside speakers. "These results fail to offer support for the view that conservative students encounter more difficulty in efforts to access campus resources."

Fox reports that that while many of the redactions to the Epstein Files were made to protect victims’ identities, “the same redaction standards were applied to politically exposed individuals and government officials.” In other words, DOJ admits that they edited Trump and his pals out.

When a disabled person expresses concerns over assisted dying legislation, please listen to them. Don’t speak over them. Don’t assume they want to deny you the right to die. We’re fighting for our right to live. We’re fighting fascism & eugenics. Assisted Dying policies will always target us.

2/ The Danish head of its CDC is like: are you fucking crazy? We are a small country with universal healthcare. You shouldn't do what we do. We should do what you used to do.

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Message logs obtained by The Crimson appear to show Salient leaders using racial slurs and dismissing internal concerns, which later became central to the board’s decision to suspend the magazine. Samuel A. Church and Cam N. Srivastava report. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Great analogy for why multiyear funding is a problem.

The EPSTEIN Files are a much quicker read than I expected.

A snippet of snow from a few days ago in Central Park, New York City ❄️❄️❄️❄️☃️

The FBI put a thousand agents (their own words) on trying to hide all the links between Trump and Epstein. They failed. When people found some additional photos of Trump in the release, the DOJ promptly DELETED THEM FROM THE DOCUMENT RELEASE. www.npr.org/2025/12/20/n...

Folks! If you haven't gotten a flu shot, please go get one TODAY! This year's strain seems to pack a stronger than average whallop.

This is a must-read visionary (and pragmatic) piece from @alondra.bsky.social on how to promote ethical AI development and use by building on, learning from, and improving the ELSI genetics model, which I missed when it came out back in September: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Imagine my surprise to see that this guy, who write a piece in praise of RFK Jr, is one of the Danish researchers who will be doing this trial 👀

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Reports indicate the DOJ has roughly 300 gigabytes of data in theEpstein files That equates to millions of pages in document form Today they released about 300,000 pages-none of which mention Trump This appears to violate the law Congress should subpoena Pam Bondi to see what she’s hiding

A recent modeling study in JAMA showed that if MMR vaccine rates drop 10% (easy to see happen with this), we’re back to 400,000-500,000 cases a year. Our current outbreak is 2,000. This turns the clock back to 1950 🚨🚨🚨

“Denmark’s health care system purchases vaccines for its citizens. It omits shots for some diseases from the childhood schedule because they do not pose enough of a problem there to make the vaccines cost-effective, not because of concerns about safety, Dr. Hviid said.”

The end goal is eugenicist. RFK and his ilk know that this will make vaccines more expensive and time-consuming — and therefore marginalized children are most likely to fall through the cracks. This is about killing kids who aren't born to privilege. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

Hallucinated citations - not just for RFK Jr.

Heh www.denverpost.com/2025/12/19/n...

NEW: A Texas district in which Black students were allegedly taunted with monkey noises. An Arizona school where students admitted saying “slavery is good.” These are some of the incidents Trump’s Education Department has ignored:

My mom does this. She’s legally blind, and managing leading her and holding onto luggage and getting through a terminal and not losing things is too much for my dad to manage on his own. This is the only way they can get help, so that’s what they do.

The planned hepatitis B birth-dose trial in Guinea-Bissau raises serious ethical concerns. Withholding a proven, life-saving vaccine from newborns to answer speculative questions is an absence of equipoise with real downstream harms for trust in vaccines. bktitanji.substack.com/p/how-unethi...

Steven Miller to the Vanity Fair photographer: "You know, you have a lot of power in the discretion you use to be kind to people." The photographer’s response, “You know, you do too.”

Well, this is terrifying www.nytimes.com/live/2025/12...