No offense to the man but he looks like he is descended from those who would have marched me and mine to the camps in the 1940s.

It happened again: The Trump administration has admitted illegally deporting a man to Guatemala despite an immigration judge's order that he was likely to be tortured there. A judge has ordered the administration to facilitate his return by next week.storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

At this point, this motherfucker is just out-pettying himself. He doesn’t know how to lead so this is what he does.

Beyond parody...

So…today sucked. We will continue to cover the catastrophic consequences of RFK’s goon squad but after this week we all need to find some joy to hold onto. For this poster, it’s progress made (a bill!) to classify bodega cats as working animals. 🐈🐈‍⬛ Share yours!

BREAKING: DOJ submits threadbare declarations from DHS Sec Kristi Noem and two senior lawyers in response to Chief Judge Boasberg’s ongoing contempt inquiry. Background: www.lawdork.com/p/aclu-lawye... Notice: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... Declarations:

So not only were we busy telling the world what we were doing on insecure Signal chats, we were shooting down our own people at the same time. It has costs to put incompetent people in charge of national security, and I fear we are just beginning to pay them. www.businessinsider.com/navy-warship...

I'm not exaggerating when I say following @boltsmag.org rn will unlock money for our journalism. A generous reader, @russ41.bsky.social, has offered to donate $1 for every 1-person increase to our follower count. If you're not following @boltsmag.org yet, it'll directly help fund our reporting!

I’ve been saying this since last December and constantly am accused of being a groupie or something.

Episode 3 of “The Diagnosis” with @couriernewsroom.bsky.social Telehealth is a lifeline for so many, across much of America. So why is the Trump Administration undermining access to such a vital service? We dive deep. Full episode here: youtu.be/ypzN5DhV4js?...

Y'all Trump has single handedly solved all of the issues. It's the American dream, just smaller, more cardboady and comes with a loan that lives longer than you.

We would stop calling them Nazis if they stopped talking and acting like Nazis.

Taxpayers and charities helped develop Zolgensma. Then it debuted at a record price, ushering in a new class of wildly expensive drugs. Its story upends the widely held conception that high prices reflect huge industry investments in innovation. (Published Feb. 2025)

A Customs and Border Protection (CBP) app that lets local cops use facial recognition to hunt immigrants on behalf of the federal government has been removed from the Google Play Store. It is unclear if the removal is temporary or not.

NEW: Birthright citizenship, firing powers, the National Guard, and Trump's made-up "peace prize." A Trump era Friday in December is not a normal Friday in December. This evening, at Law Dork: www.lawdork.com/p/scotus-bir...

RFK Jr's handpicked vaccine panel goes after infant hepatitis vaccines--predictably with no epidemiological expert input www.politico.com/news/2025/12...

That’s … not headed to us then … that’s going to South America.

NEW: The Dept of Commerce sent out an email to senior level people a bit ago (GS-14 and 15) about a couple of development programs from OPM for leadership… only they did not bcc everyone, so there is just a list of like 500+ email addresses at that level available to all who got it. Well done.

On left: President Trump Statement Sept. 2, 2025: "The strike occurred while the terrorists were at sea in international waters transporting illegal narcotics, heading to the United States." On right: (Under penalty of law) military leaders told Congress headed to Suriname.

A lower court's ruling blocked Trump's executive order telling U.S. agencies not to recognize the citizenship of children born in the U.S. if neither parent is an American citizen or legal permanent resident.

NEW— DC Metropolitan Police just shared a tiny bit more body cam footage from the March US Institute of Peace raid in response to my FOIA lawsuit w/ @rcfp.org One clip shows USIP President George Moose being escorted out. Moose: You know we're gonna see you all in court. MPD: Yea we figured that.

My friend @alexiscoe.bsky.social made my week with this kind LinkedIn post on Tuesday. As absolutely shitty as my last two months have been, I’ve been very humbled & gratified to get such incredible support from friends, former bosses and co-workers, other historians, and the Bluesky community.

RFK Jr. and his anti-vax ACIP are responsible for doing harm to generations of Americans living in the shadow of his anti-science leadership, and Hep. B is just the tip of the iceberg It's time for Congress to impeach and remove RFK Jr. No ifs, no buts. Enough is enough. #ImpeachtheQuack

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 MY QUEEN

Trump promised free plane tickets and $1,000 “exit bonuses” to immigrants who opted to self-deport. ProPublica spoke to a dozen Venezuelan immigrants who said they followed the president’s instructions, yet never received the promised assistance. (Published October 2025)

Now we have a presentation from Griffin on aluminum adjuvants, which I'm sure will be a very fun experience from me. I will note that there is no inclusion of this on the latest agenda, though it was there in previous versions.

Docket entry in EDVA shows that a Norfolk grand jury returned a "no true bill" yesterday, Dec. 4. In other words: The grand jury declined to indict someone on felony charges after federal prosecutors presented the case. This is likely the Letitia James case. (H/t to docket watcher Ethan Lee)

Trump’s DOJ is building a voter purge machine—powered by your private data.

1 million acres of pristine public land in Alaska will now be open to fossil fuel drilling, thanks to Republicans in Congress. Big Oil spent nearly $500 million lobbying and boosting friendly candidates last year — and now they're getting a big return on their investment.

Hells Yes #Biden

I will never stop blaming the Senators who caved. Shame on all of you.

AAP on the ball and already out with comments about the ACIP meeting: www.aap.org/en/news-room...

“OK, you can gerrymander to cheat in elections, but only if it hurts nonwhite voters.” - US Supreme Court

The Golden Age.

Overall trust in scientists and medical professionals is still rather high (Pew 2024). And only about 7% of American/Canadian respondents in a study (Gravelle 2022) are stridently anti-vax. MAHA is platforming views of a very small minority, to erode the majority.

Take a moment to read this @kerryhowley.bsky.social piece in @nymag.com. It'll absolutely infuriate you, but you really need to read this.

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

Good morning ppl! It’s Federal Fuckery Friday! Than you to everyone that offered all the damn kind words and the best fucking support. I love you all (and your moms 😂🤣). I’m not giving up in this fight and neither should you! These bitches are dumb as shit @hhsofficial.bsky.social 👀👀 WE WILL WIN

Y’all want a fun ACIP-watching game? Every time Retsef Levi drops the classic “speaking as a father” as his sole justification for changing a successful, lifesaving vaccine recommendation…take a shot! 🥃 (Doesn’t have to be alcohol...your liver has suffered enough.) Happy Day 2, everyone. 🔥

The Court does exactly what we knew it would do. And here’s how broken it is: in the very same term—just months apart—it’s highly likely that the same Court majority will rule in the following, entirely inconsistent ways: 1/

😢 www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Day 2 of ACIP today! On the agenda: vote on the future of the HBV schedule/universal dose, & comparison of our vaccine schedule with other nations* (w/ universal healthcare systems, keep in mind) And a presentation by anti-vaxxer Aaron Siri, recently the target of criticism by Sen Cassidy (R-LA)

Watching our vaccine infrastructure slowly dismantled by hacks and quacks on a youtube livestream in the big year 2025.

Trump's 2025 National Security Strategy has 80 em-dashes, versus his 2017 NSS that was twice as long and only had 58.

What does "majority non-European" mean?

ProPublica examined months of Fox News’ coverage and reviewed over 700 videos posted on social media. The network used five-year-old footage, mislabeled other dates and implied footage from elsewhere was in Portland.

I know what caused their deaths! It was the tariffs! That's why they put them on the penguin Island (I mean, makes as much sense as anything tariff related?) Srsly tho, can we stop frakking up the planet pls? Stop warming the oceans? Dystopia kind of sucks. #tariffs #penguins #ourplanet