The US Administration has banned Americans from *adopting babies* from much of the African continent. Adopting. Babies. What trait do those babies have that, when they grow up as fully American adults, would make them a threat to our country in any form?

The Jean Kim Center in Lynnwood, which offers showers and washer-dryers for our unhoused neighbors, was about to close after their building was put on the market. It was recently bought with money from our local philanthropist Rick Steves. myedmondsnews.com/2025/12/than...

"...super PACs backed by Trump-supporting tech moguls and the social network giant Meta" will "try to use the 2026 midterms to reengineer Congress and state legislatures in favor of their ambitions for artificial intelligence."

Loomer calls for Brown U to lose its federal funding for admitting a foreign student who, at some later date, allegedly committed murder.

The President of the United States has been spreading a conspiracy about the 2020 election for 5 years.

The US military conducted strikes against two alleged drug-trafficking boats in the eastern Pacific Ocean, killing 5 people, according to US Southern Command. At least 104 people have now been killed in similar US strikes, and Thursday’s attack marks the third this week. https://cnn.it/48X0HCI

‘We’ve been left for dead’: Residents in this small town have been abandoned after an industrial disaster changed their lives forever. Watch @therealnews.com youtu.be/xJwSpxfyrEg?...

The irony. The bank that refused to issue my mom a credit card after my dad died because, as a woman, she had no right to her husband’s credit score. She switched banks, got her own credit card, and boycotted Bank of America for the duration. To quote my mom, Bank of America can fuck right off.

Has Feminism Failed Women? Brought to you by Bank of America.

I don’t know about you but I cannot wait NOT to watch this. Not one second of it. How about you?

longstanding theory on this is that people who know the applicant that they don't want to hire has racial resentment offer "wish i could've hired you, but they made me hire a black woman instead!" as a let-them-down-easy cope rather than admit to them that they just didn't want to hire them.

Trump's DOJ has been ordered to embark on a sweeping crackdown on "left-wing domestic terrorism." Civil liberties experts warn it could lead to a level of politicized FBI surveillance of Americans not seen since the era of J. Edgar Hoover and COINTELPRO. Our story today: wapo.st/3L9lpr4 (gift link)

BREAKING: The U.S. military struck two vessels in the eastern Pacific, killing five people on board. Today’s strike brings the total killed since early September to at least 104 people.

We're bombing more boats.

It’s concerning that we’re enabling a police and surveillance state of unprecedented scale at the same moment when the veracity of any textual or visual document has become structurally suspect

First Paramount / CBS and now TikTok. Trump wants to hand over even more control of what you watch to his billionaire buddies. Americans deserve to know if the President struck another backdoor deal for this billionaire takeover of TikTok.

Board member says she was forcibly 'muted' when she tried to object to Kennedy Center renaming vote Watch here: tinyurl.com/39wsrnwb

The process by which the Kennedy Center was renamed to honor Trump was about as bad as you assumed donmoynihan.substack.com/p/purge-merg...

NEW: The request to ‘pretermit’ is an effort to toss a person’s asylum claim, leaving them defenseless against deportation to a country they are not from and may have never even entered before: Honduras, Ecuador and Uganda. www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/18/a...

I do find it interesting that two fusion companies now are talking actual construction — Helion says they started this past summer, TAE/Trump thing says they’ll start in 2026. To build things that they have never proven will work. An acceleration of the “it’s almost here!” claims.

This is horrific. RFK Jr’s CDC is funding a study in Guinea-Bissau which would involve deliberately withholding the hepatitis B vaccine from hundreds of newborn infants, putting them at great risk of death. They want to repeat Tuskegee.

This is how they cooked the books for the current CPI numbers They left everything out. Which is why they didn't release the actual numbers when they were originally supposed to be released Its another distraction from the release of the Epstein Pedo Files tomorrow to dominate the news cycle

The U.S. Coast Guard will remove language from its workplace harassment policy that changed definition of swastikas and nooses from overt hate symbols to “potentially divisive,” Sec. Noem said, an abrupt switch after the more lenient policy took effect.

PIMCO: “.. The Supreme Court is likely to strike down the Trump administration’s IEEPA tariffs .. which would force the Trump administration to refund roughly $100 billion of tariffs paid in 2025.” www.pimco.com/us/en/insigh...

NEW: The DOJ sues Georgia, Illinois and D.C. over unfettered access to their voter rolls, which includes sensitive personal data like social security numbers and birthdates — information it is sharing with DHS for citizenship verification.

#7: In keeping with that theme, I am very proud of our profile of Vinay Prasad, which we published when he was named top vaccine regulator. www.importantcontext.news/p/vinay-pras...

#6: A key function AJI serves is diving into stories and providing important context that other outlets miss. My sixth pick is a good example of that. When HHS cut mRNA vaccine research, it cited an anti-vax bibliography. We dug into the authors’ ties to quack COVID treatments and supplements.

This is so fucked up Immigration attorney Tori Slatton has a US citizen client who is in ICE custody - and whisked off to Louisiana ICE ignored court orders - about a US citizen www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8y2nxyd/

In fact, the Edge director, John Brockman did not disclose Epstein as his chief funder. Once the Epstein link became known, some notables like Naomi Wolf and Carl Zimmer asked their names ro be removed from the site and publicity. The foundation is not active, but the site is till up.

🧵The Edge Foundation was founded and bankrolled by Jeffrey Epstein and served as a place for the intellectual and billionaire elite to hobnob. The pictures on site are mostly well after Epstein's trafficking conviction. Look and you will find BezoS, Musk, Brin, Page, Paul Allen, Freeman Dyson ..

Jair Celis is finally free after nearly two weeks in detention. “The attorney said Celis and his family are reeling from this experience." www.ksl.com/article/5142... #AbuseofPowerWatch

DOGE cuts killed people. www.cbsnews.com/news/us-gove...

These are the people who are willing to go on the record. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...

positively disgusting to join his name to the slain president. He has to do all this stuff while he is in office cause no one will after he goes. Dem nominee in 2028 must vow to reverse this maddness

You guys. No. It's named by statute. Do better.

"Israel has reportedly violated the ceasefire at least 738 times, including on Nov. 22 when it bombed the homes of my family members," writes Ahmad Abushawish https://prismreports.org/2025/12/18/israel-is-still-killing-palestinians-including-14-of-my-relatives/

This is the second time a GOP-run town gov't has declined to hold a special election for a vacant Republican seat. In September, the town of Salem voted against a special, even though the district in question voted for Trump by 19 points.

Once again, NH Republicans have avoided calling a special election for a state House district they could have lost. Republican Rep. Matthew Lunney rep'd the town of Meredith, which is run by the GOP. It voted 51-48 for Trump last year. The town gov't decided not to request a special election.

Trump Threatens NBC’s Broadcast License Over Warnock Interview Trump: Networks need to “pay significant amounts of money” meidasnews.com/news/trump-t...

One of a lot of reports out there on another new Próspera-style neocolonial cryptobro tax avoidance scheme / Special Economic Zone #SEZ / post- #smartcity... this time on the island of #Nevis. I wish it nothing but disaster. h/t for this story to @rosamundevb.bsky.social

Terror arrests surge by 660% due to Palestine Action ban

NEW: US gunboat diplomacy — Trump's order to do a blockade of some oil tankers by Venezuela surprised the Pentagon. Maduro orders the navy to escort ships, risking a conflict on the high seas. Trump says he aims to seize the country's oil and other assets. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/u...

Sounds legit! Super legit!

This is a wild hack. a16z gave a million dollars to startup called Doublespeed. They use a phone farm to flood social media with AI generated influencers and ads. A hacker remotely broke into the phone farm, unmasking the AI influencers/fake accounts, gave us the data www.404media.co/hack-reveals...

How climate breakdown is putting the world’s food in peril - in maps and charts

@hooverdam.bsky.social , look, he got the Alt Text right!

Government admits failures by Army and air traffic controllers in DCA crash. Gift Article wapo.st/4pceThu

McGovern release: “I’m furious that cowardly lawmakers have once again surrendered Congress’ Constitutional responsibility on matters of war to a wannabe dictator in the White House,” said Ranking Member McGovern

“The Trump administration’s policies on illegal and legal immigration would reduce the projected number of workers in the United States by 6.8 million by 2028 and by 15.7 million by 2035 and lower the annual rate of economic growth by almost one-third.” www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...

What this will mean, in practice, that if you are deemed an enemy of the administration, they will pore through your citizenship application paperwork looking for some reason to retroactively disqualify you. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/u...