We are SO CLOSE — we're just $33 away from making our matching goal this year! Thanks to matching donors like @sabs.bsky.social and many others for helping make this possible! www.theopennotebook.com/15thannivers...

This is sad news. Good luck to the repair team at Lick in the upcoming months.

NEW: By a 6-3 vote, the Supreme Court blocks Trump’s deployment of the National Guard to Chicago to assist immigration agents. A majority holds that he likely lacks authority to do so. Thomas, Alito, and Gorsuch dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

“In DOGE’s published list of canceled contracts and grants, the 13 largest were all incorrect.” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u...

These declines are MASSIVE. And the comparative silence in media coverage is absolutely DAMNING. “Why are ppl always so afraid of crime?” THIS is why. When crime goes up, media trips over itself to report it. Falls to pre-war (!!) levels? Just CRICKETS.

Bari Weiss lied in her memo. She said segment didn't report administration's legal justification (it does in the very first sentence) and didn't say how many detainees had been charged with crimes as opposed to just those who were convicted (it does). www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...

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Do share. And I mean do.

BREAKING: Here’s the 60 Minutes Segment Trump and CBS News Executives Don’t Want You to See Video (no paywall): bit.ly/4qn6Jn5

EXCLUSIVE: I received a copy of the letter sent to developers today halting construction on all 5 offshore wind farms being built in America. What’s new here is the close “coordination” with the “Department of War” in determining the “risk” poised by these wind farms. And the threat to “cancel.”

Even BILL CLINTON is saying he doesn’t care if the full release of the files implicates Bill Clinton. Amazing.

Food safety also relies on education of those who handle food. Not those who inspect it but the very poorly paid and fairly poorly trained workers. Saying this as someone who had been in such a position. I was college educated and I took it seriously (your books played a role in that).

Thanks! This is a great list!

How about this for a headline: American food safety is falling apart.

Americans & Europeans needlessly exposing African babies to preventable diseases just to see if they can find something that would justify their preexisting antivaccine beliefs is not only unscientific and actually anti-science, it is very much reminiscent of colonialist, racist human rights abuses

Tens of thousands of annual cases of chickenpox, rotavirus, and other vaccine preventable diseases a year - in a country of six million people. Not only will Denmark’s vaccine schedule not work for the US, it already isn’t working for Denmark.

Also wildly homicidal.

The North Carolina Tiger Rescue sanctuary in Pittsboro is really impressive.

This story is literally incredible, i.e. very difficult to believe. Fantastic reporting

Great lede via @peterbakernyt.bsky.social "It all might make more sense if he actually *were* drinking." Gift link www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...

Both @deborahb.bsky.social's "Poison Squad" and @rbreich.bsky.social's "Coming Up Short" covers some of the machinery of policy making. And it's such a sobering reminder that it's just humans at every level. Just humans being flawed and that's when they're burying their best.

So much!

This is hilarious.

Short sighted and vindictive- a self-inflicted wound. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

As far as I can tell, RFK Jr.'s latest antivax stunt runs counter to the WMA Declaration of Helsinki. Withholding HepB vaccination clearly does not meet any definition of clinical equipoise. Doing it anyway, overseas, is straight up colonialist medicine. Details in Dr. Jacobs's thread below.

Unbelievable. This would be a terrible blow to American science, writ large. It would decimate not only climate research, but also the kind of weather, wildfire, and disaster research that has underpinned half a century of progress in prediction, early warning, and increased resilience.

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I'm a veteran criminal justice reporter. I've never seen anything like ICE-occupied Memphis. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

At Assigned Media, I'll give basically anyone who wants to try their hand at reporting or opinion/analysis a shot. There are two caveats.

Who needs an atmosphere?

BREAKING: The House of Representatives just passed a bill that would subject immigrant children to invasive bodily searches and keep them in detention instead of releasing them to their families. The Senate must vote no on this horrific bill.

BREAKING: The U.S. Coast Guard has quietly enacted a policy downgrading swastikas and nooses from hate symbols to “potentially divisive.” The manual is now in effect, despite public outrage and warnings after the draft was revealed last month. (Washington Post)

I will take any positive news this week.

#BREAKING: New drone video from Pacific, WA, on Tuesday morning following a levee failure on the White River at Pacific City Park. Whole neighborhoods are underwater as water continues flowing out of the failed levee. #wawx #flood #drone

OK, here's a climate change effect that I didn't see coming...rivers in Alaska turning orange! Ew. Read all about it here 👇 www.npr.org/2025/12/16/n...

We are failing our kids

Fentanyl is fentanyl. It’s a molecule. The illicit form, which is the same molecule as the medical form, comes in a different physical state (solid rather than liquid) making it even less of a threat/concern to anyone who isn’t using illicit drugs. It’s one of the most studied compounds in existence

ICYMI: These companies ignored an FDA recall of a formula that had sent dozens of babies to the hospital. They continue to sell it and some (Target) simply cut the price encouraging more people to buy it. This is just wholly shameful corporate behavior.

LOL Susie Wiles, who did *eleven* interviews with Vanity Fair and was stunningly candid in her takes on various controversial issues, now says Vanity Fair's story is fake news. www.huffpost.com/entry/brown-...

How exercise decreases the risk of cancer and cancer- related mortality by reducing immunosenescence and inflammaging www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

It's worth taking a look at what Vinay Prasad has accomplished during his tenure as FDA CBER Director thus far. Sure, he was temporarily Loomered, but he's back and unfortunately more effective than ever. I wrote this last weekend about him & his boss: rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/commission...

Hey y'all, if any of you eat Icelandic Provisions skyr, my best friend found a piece of fkn glass in their yogurt cup this morning. Avoid any Icelandic Provisions Vanilla with an expiry of 12/27/25 and lot number "16:52 NL6 36-1731 S1". @deborahb.bsky.social @notalegalrecord.net @ryan.blacksky.app

oh my GOD

Are they trying to commit homicide?

Illegal fishing, other maritime threats cost Western Indian Ocean $1b a year: Report

“Ms. Mages said she had chosen Brown, in part, because it was a welcoming, joyful community that, until yesterday, she perceived as a safe haven… Now, she added, she expected the experiences of the last several days to shape the rest of her and her classmates’ lives.”

UPDATE Australia’s New South Wales Police Force say that 16 people have been killed in the Bondi Beach massacre and 40 people remain hospitalized.

"The virus can lead to brain swelling, which can cause lasting damage, including blindness, deafness and intellectual disabilities..." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/w...

Zoe Weissman - survivor of 2018 Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, FL Mia Tretta - survivor of 2019 Saugus High School shooting in Santa Clarita, CA Both are now students at Brown University in Providence, RI.