You can feel like something is inevitable and still experience shock. Many of us knew something like this would happen, bc things like this have already happened, bc law enforcement functions with impunity, bc ICE kept drawing its guns on observers. But emotional and moral shock can still occur.

Every second the murderer is not arrested is another second for feds to hide him in a place that would create a jurisdictional fight. He's on video killing a person. You have to arrest this guy an hour ago, but you might still have time now.

masked, unidentified goons who assault and murder with impunity. a literal gestapo.

The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.

Oh yeah for sure. Definitley try to get non-insured individual pricing at your local hospital. Definitely a Good Idea.

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The technical term, in international law for this is "a smash and grab"

This sucks but I think non-Americans being justifiably angry at Americans for what the American government is doing and threatening to do, and Americans experiencing that anger and frustration personally in ways that are unpleasant, is probably an important part of any path back to stability

every seat in a movie theater should have an "I have to pee" button and if enough people press it they should be able to pause the movie

This situation is precisely why we have impeachment

Debating whether I have the energy to discuss the decision to recommend 1 dose of HPV vaccine vs 2 in RFK’s vaccine schedule because it’s actually an interesting question that probably could have (and should have) been discussed at an ACIP meeting

The CDC changed the universal vaccine schedule & no longer recommends Rotavirus Hepatitis A & B Meningitis Influenza RSV I’ve cared for previously healthy kids who died from RSV, influenza and meningitis. We all are going to be caring for a lot more now. In our already overflowing hospitals

BBC journalists have been banned from describing the kidnapped Venezuelan leader as having been kidnapped. The BBC News Editor has sent this to BBC journalists.

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Hey, Boomers: Read this. Your vaccinations may be doing double duty! (Gift article)

I spent much of the last two years in a perpetual state of anxiety and depression, often posting about a persistent desire to hide in bed. After moving back to Toronto, it turns out a lot of those feelings were due to 1) my job and 2) the stress of being an Asian woman on a US work visa.

Hakeem Jeffries talking in inarticulate circles on the Last Word tonight clearly demonstrates the need for new Dem leadership. We have the bench strength in the party to do so much better. We need strong messaging, a compelling plan and leaders able to inspire.

It’s genuinely wild that the United States spent decades building an elaborate rules-based international order which de facto cemented its permanent status as the dominant global hegemon, sustained by ideology rather than might, and now is just blowing it all up for literally no reason

18 months ago I was photographing birds in a US national park when someone jumped out of a car in front of a dozen witnesses, put a Glock to my forehead, and demanded my camera. This shot is from my first time out birding after that. Living like this is a deliberate choice.

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Veterinarian here. You do NOT want to get these mixed up btw

See also the BPP's Free Breakfast for Children program which was a successful "shame campaign" that embarassed Congress into passing the School Breakfast program which now feeds 14 million American kids every day. These have been popular campaign strategies since the Great Depression.

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Honestly this is the funniest thing. Bahahahahahahahhaha.

This is perfect. The DOJ's embarrassing snafu with disappearing redactions was the fault of Elon Musk. Musk cancelled government subscriptions to Adobe programs that would have made the redactions permanent. What a pack of fools.

Such an unbelievable loser

this is insane to me. the doj had forever to look into this. now they're like liveblogging on x like they have no more information than a random person on social media

I've always loved this illustration depicting Joseph and Mary looking for a room. I am finding it especially powerful this year

In which we learn that the US attorneys office concluded that Trump traveled on Air Epstein regularly without appearing in he passenger manifest.

if hypothetically there were a very common and well known way to screw up redaction and if I hypothetically were a disgruntled FBI employee hauled in to do redaction I didn’t want to do, I might familiarize myself with that common screw-up

It's like the 12 days of Streisanding.

I taught Philosophy of Disability for the first time at my institution this year and I was absolutely not prepared for the sheer number of students who were like "this course taught me SO much about my disability that I did not know" in their finals.

Between the TP USA rally, the 60 Minutes CECOT piece and the daily ICE horror show videos, there should be no doubt this regime is 100% capable of genocide, concentration camps, the whole works.

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

The CBS investigation portrays a modern concentration camp, similar to the Soviet GULAG (like CECOT, an acronym): sadistic guards, 24 hour lighting, isolation cells. Americans once opposed this inhumane system. The Trump administration sent innocent people there to suffer.

I know everyone is dunking on #BariWeiss right now, but it is #Paramount CEO #DavidEllison who is her patron. Would love to see some blowback to this billionaire-handmaid to authoritarianism too.

to Bari (verb): To attempt to bury a damaging political story—only to amplify it massively by drawing attention to the act of censorship itself. Example: “They tried to Bari the segment, but it got Streisanded and everyone watched it twice.”

Five real global health wins in 2025 1.HPV vaccination scaled faster than expected; 2. measles/rubella eliminated in several countries; 3. long-acting HIV PrEP (lenacapavir) approved; 4. progress on TB vaccines/diagnostics; 5. A promising new antimalarial. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

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On the almost-first day of Christmas, my true love gave me permission to destroy an anon man talking shit about a woman’s weightlifting record on the Internet.

just thinking about this again for no reason

So Bari Weiss’s first real editorial intervention at CBS is to repress coverage of American concentration camps.

Remains absolutely wild to me we have a functional cure for HIV/AIDS.

I feel like I'm going to get a lot of use out of this Pluribus screencap

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The burden of the these disease in the US are way higher that in Denmark as it the impact of their cost on the healthcare system. I lay out the burden of disease in the US which justifies why vaccinating against these infections isin the guidelines here.