In this study that included 23 million US minors, there were 85 gender-affirming surgeries among minors, 82 of which were chest-related procedures. This is vanishingly rare, and only done after extensive evaluation/treatment jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Since Bill is back in the news today... thebulletin.org/2025/10/you-...

Here's why electric bills are skyrocketing. www.axios.com/2025/12/18/d...

This is infuriating and poses another danger to the country. Anyone who thinks we are not in a dictatorship is blind. Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/u...

The liar-in-chief gets free time on TV to do his thing. People who never take responsibility for their mistakes seem more prone to make mistakes. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/u...

Musk and Melania should pay attention. He falsely claimed to be here as a student, and she worked without a green card. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/u...

A large study of COVID19 vaccination and SARS-CoV-2 infection during pregnancy showed that vaccination was significantly associated with reduced: -Preterm births -Hospitalizations -Admissions to critical care unit Yet RFK Jr., Makary, Prasad and Hoeg continue to spread disinformation about it.

Former special counsel Jack Smith delivered a striking message to lawmakers today: his team developed “proof beyond a reasonable doubt” that Trump committed crimes related to efforts to overturn the 2020 election and the retention of classified documents.

"Not since the ransacking of the Library of Alexandria have we witnessed such a wanton, intentional assault on scientific knowledge."

Hopeful portent of things to come. crooksandliars.com/2025/12/abso...

I've been reporting on the criminal justice system for over a decade and have lived in an authoritarian country overseas, but I've never seen anything like the police presence in ICE-occupied Memphis. Here's my dispatch: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

As I wrote earlier, the Dictator's focus on Venezuela is about oil. Talking about drugs is a diversion. Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/u...

The delusional Dictator thinks his name is "security". His obsessions reveal an extremely insecure personality. www.axios.com/2025/12/16/t...

Chief of staff for the tyrant, Wiles opens up about some things, but like the boss, is short on facts. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/t...

The Dictator's economy continues to deteriorate. finance.yahoo.com/news/unemplo...

Lawsuits against the money laundering and fraud-promoting cryptocurrencies get stalled or dumped by the Dictator's toadies. Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/u...

No honor for women and African-Americans in the Dictator's treasury department. New York Times: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/u...

Some of my neighbors are among the most dangerous people in the world. They voted for the dictator.

100 years of average January-November temperature anomalies over land areas through 2025... Data from NOAAGlobalTemp v6.0.0: www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/lan...

Guess who is jeopardizing US national security in the name of national security? paulkrugman.substack.com/p/donald-tru...

ICYMI: Last night @jeremyfaust.bsky.social revealed that Drs. Makary and Prasad of the FDA have lied to all of us with their claims that COVID19 vaccines “killed 10 children”. The scientists that did the work found that there were ZERO deaths that they could be certain were caused by the vaccines.

Be careful what you put up your nose -- contaminated nasal spray recall. thehill.com/homenews/nex...

The Dictator aligns with Putin on almost every front. www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

Let's hear it for Missouri petitioners. www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

Of course they did. www.politico.com/live-updates...

ICYMI — “I identified myself as a U.S. citizen and a veteran, but that didn't matter. ICE Agents smashed my window, sprayed tear gas and pepper spray into my car, dragged me out… this experience violated the very principles I fought to defend.”

Nearly half of the US public is having economic problems, while the Dictator works to benefit the other half. www.politico.com/news/2025/12...

The Dictator announces a Venezuelan oil tanker. As I have said before, he is after the oil, not drugs. thehill.com/homenews/adm...

Past time, but needed more day by day. www.axios.com/2025/12/10/r...

Crypto moguls are poisoning the economic well and are aimed at more poisoning of the political well. www.politico.com/news/2025/12...

Your local epidemiologist reports on her sub stack that CDC data is considered still reliable, but that health alert reporting is far below average.

We are dealing with such corruption in every aspect of our government, I don't know how we undo the damage.

Greene got all the publicity for the 60 minutes interview. The second story about AI destruction of kids should have. www.cbsnews.com/video/60minu...

Trump says Lisa Cook is unfit to be a Fed governor because she claimed two different properties as her primary residence on her mortgage applications. (Cook denies this.) Trump did the exact same thing on mortgage applications submitted a mere 7 weeks apart. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Not all Republicans are dictator captives. www.politico.com/news/2025/12...

We're half a decade into studies finding that improving airflow in classrooms will reduce disease transmission enormously, and that bleaching surfaces etc. does very little. And yet nothing changes. Waves of flu and colds wash over schools, and the schools pretend it's an act of God.

At 1.5°C, the atmosphere can hold over 10% more water vapor than it could in the pre-industrial period 1850-1900. The additional precipitation leads to car soup, airport soup, road soup, city soup, farm soup, and a hearty portion of global industrial civilization soup.

The bigot-in-chief has made America racist again -- not great. www.axios.com/2025/12/06/t...

Not to mention that the blockchains use tremendous amounts of energy as we barrel toward oblivion. Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/t...

I am reading another important book that I recommend to anyone who wants deeper knowledge of how we got a dictator surrounded by heartless oligarchs. www.thriftbooks.com/w/gilded-rag...

New evidence that physical activity reduces the risk of dementia substantially. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

The New York Times list of the "10 best books of the year" appallingly ignored the most important one. www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/micha...

December 7, 84th anniversary of the "day that will live in infamy", in the year 2025 that will live in infamy for those who survive. www.c-span.org/program/amer...

“It is considered a war crime to kill shipwrecked people, which the Pentagon’s law of war manual defines as people “in need of assistance and care” who “must refrain from any hostile act.””

How does global warming cause colder winter storms? whowhatwhy.org/2019/11/23/t...