In a small breath of reprieve, the 9th Circuit Court has temporarily blocked a lower court ruling from a conservative judge that would have allowed teachers to forcibly out trans students to their parents. This case will eventually have national implications. Subscribe to support our journalism.

“You are not entitled to a response from us, or anyone, ever,” is what a US Education Department spokesperson wrote to one of our reporters, @megomatz.bsky.social, after she repeatedly tried to get comment from the department and its officials. My column on the condemnation of good journalism.

A biotech company was called out for concerning science about their artificial blood vessels. Now, instead of restricting the vessels' reach, the company appears to be touting the product beyond the prescribed limits set by the FDA. My latest for @levernews.com www.levernews.com/regulatory-r...

How dare you assume that someone whose entire career has been a bad faith grift to benefit conservatives is acting in bad faith to benefit conservatives.

BREAKING: Instacart is ending all price testing on its platform in the wake of this report.

🚨BREAKING: The Department of Justice will fail to publicly release all of its files on convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein by a Friday deadline, violating a new federal law explicitly mandating that the trove of documents be turned over for public scrutiny. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

John Deere got this video taken off our YouTube for two weeks. It took our lawyers reaching out to YouTube to get it back up. The video lays out how a handful of corporations took control of the agriculture industry, bankrupting farmers and screwing us all over. www.youtube.com/watch?v=cl02...

For readers who are about to lose care, I have been told that the Trans Youth Emergency Project is helping the families of trans youth contingency plan to access that care. www.transyouthemergencyproject.org

While Starbucks workers are on strike because they can't get a fair contract, the Bezos-owned Post is saying the CEO deserves the $96 million he got last year.

BREAKING: A CDC panel voted to push back the first dose of the safe & effective hepatitis B vaccine. This is a tragedy in the making. This unfounded change to the childhood vaccine schedule will only lead to entirely preventable disease outbreaks in the years ahead.

For the first time a U.S. county is making their guaranteed income program permanent. The Cook County Board of Commissioners has unanimously approved $7.5 million to continue its guaranteed income program. Each month over 3,000 households will get an unconditional $500.

1. Over Thanksgiving, texts from Dem. Sen Ruben Gallego leaked where he repeats far-right talking points on masculinity, lamenting that Democratic women "look like men." Using far-right gender-panic rhetoric will not ingratiate the Democratic Party towards men. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Abolish ICE, prosecute their agents. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/u...

someone attended the Bari Weiss School of Having Principles

Please come to our next event! It was a great time.

Spotted at Harvard today. Not great at all at how this nazi is being mainstreamed and normalized. This shit is absolutely not welcomed here. Used water from my water bottle to erase part of it.

News to watch: A federal judge in Philadelphia has blocked President Trump’s administration from obtaining the private medical records of youth who sought gender-affirming care at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.

Newly unsealed internal communications from Meta reveal senior staff saying Instagram is a drug and "We’re basically pushers." The new court filing reveals Meta staff allegedly worked for years to obscure the social media platform’s potential dangers from parents and children.

two weeks apart

I hate that in local news, sometimes the most common type of disability story will be the very, VERY rare cases of disability fraud. Disabled people live interesting lives and are impacted by so many things, yet the focus is on these rare events.

I got a 6/8....so not even a true LeverMind! Who can beat me??

wrote about this shitbag again defector.com/vaccines-do-...

My legal team will be in federal court in North Carolina today fighting against the state's unconstitutional redrawn congressional map. Before you listen to those in the GOP who say we can't win, ask Texas how that worked out for them.

I want to take a moment to thank the entire Elias Law Group team who worked on the Texas redistricting case as well as our fearless clients. The thirteen Black and Latino voters we represented stood up to challenge Texas's unprecedented mid-decade redistricting. We all ow them a debt of gratitude.

Detransition is being used as political fodder by the Trump admin and its allies to support extreme anti-trans policies. In the process, the reality of detransition is lost. For our new series, I spoke with detransitioners who feel harmed by the Trump admin. Their stories are complex and important.

The Epstein stuff is always so amazing to me because it's like "yes he was a sex criminal but if you can get past that, he was also an avowed eugenicist"

If you have stomach issues or diarrhea in the near future blame the senators who slipped these provisions into the funding bill to reopen the government. www.levernews.com/shutdown-dea...

Crazy find by @freddy-brewster.bsky.social @lukewgoldstein.bsky.social. Give it a read!

No one will ever sum up Bari Weiss's career more succinctly than "what's the point of standards"

Bernie Sanders has said in the Senate after Susan Collins reportedly laughed about the new funding bill: “If this bill passes, certain groups will see their premiums triple. When you remove healthcare from 15 million people, 50,000 Americans will die who didn’t have to. Do you think that’s funny?”

BREAKING: Supreme Court rejects bid to overturn same-sex marriage rights

Taking the (few) wins when and where we can on this timeline

Instead of a drinking game, what if for every time you contact your government representative to not settle on the government shutdown you donate $5 to your local food bank (assuming you aren't poor).

INVESTIGATION: American taxpayers already spent $6 billion to develop GLP-1 drugs, and then pharma lobbyists bought enough politicians to make sure drug companies were allowed to charge Americans the world’s highest prices for those drugs that we already paid for. This is how corruption works 👇

1. In a major shadow docket ruling from the Supreme Court, the court has ruled against trans people's passports, giving a stay to the Trump administration. The admin has previously indicated it intend to revoke some passports if it got this ruling. Subscribe to support our journalism.

BREAKING: The US Trump administration must fully fund SNAP food benefits by this Friday, a US Federal judge has ruled per Reuters

Proud of this state <3

No fewer than 28 billionaires donated at least 100k to beat Zohran Mamdani. Their overt attempt to buy the election provided Mamdani with perfect talking points. From @ryanlcooper.com: trib.al/LEnjMCa

BREAKING: Former FTC chair Lina Khan to serve as co-chair of Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral transition team.

🚨BREAKING: Three Democratic justices on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court have all won another 10-year term in a high-stakes retention election that saw a major GOP push to reshape the state’s highest court. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Everyone should pay careful attention to the Maine voter ID ballot measure (Prop 1). It is on track to lose -- thereby proving that the GOP claims that voter ID laws are overwhelmingly popular is a lie. Perhaps now the legacy media will stop repeating that nonsense.

California passes proposition 50, which will mean multiple anti-LGBTQ+ Republican congress people will likely lose their seat. A continual bloodbath for anti-LGBTQ+ Republicans tonight.

Zohran Mamdani had a message for President Trump on Tuesday after his win in the New York mayoral election: "New York will remain a city of immigrants: a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants and, as of tonight, led by an immigrant."

Truly wild. Democrats first email sent out to press is this. Doesn’t include Mamdani other than under the also won list. This party is obsessed with conservative centrists.

New York City's election today comes after hundreds of thousands of city residents made small donations that were matched in the public campaign financing program. In 2021, a Brennan Center report found that NYC's matching option helped make city government more representative.

In the past 24 hours Elon Musk has sent 9 tweets either endorsing Andrew Cuomo, attacking Zohran Mamdani, or going after the voting process as a whole — and he's retweeted many more along the same lines. Billionaire wealth and power are a threat to the democratic process.

Ben Ryan wrote an article in the New York Sun about our reporting. Apparently, Wazzou's entire ability to accredit continuing medical education courses is under threat after our reporting revealed they accredited a hate group with pseudoscientific practices for CME classes. Wow.

BREAKING: The Trump administration says it will pay SNAP benefits reduced by 50% to the 22 million households enrolled in the program.

The combined wealth of the 10 richest people in America jumped $698 billion over the past year. This figure was supercharged by Donald Trump’s tax giveaways to his fellow billionaires. www.thedailybeast.com/wealth-of-am...

I’m pleased to announce that following our reporting, multiple people have reported that a formal inquiry is being made into SEGM’s accreditation, and that the CME courses are at least temporarily pulled down.