A rumor spread online that a Massachusetts millionaires tax generated $1.5 billion in revenue. We found the real number is higher:

I…what…why?

Remember when your data was supposed to be protected? Good times.

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The devastation I feel about this attack on science in particular is hard to cope with. It’s like watching my dad die all over again. I would do anything to spare someone a death via pancreatic cancer.

DOJ has sued Maine, Oregon, California, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Washington, Delaware, Maryland, New Mexico, Rhode Island, and Vermont for access to its most sensitive voter data. My firm has moved to intervene in 10 of those cases. We are working on the last 4.

Posted by the Tax Foundation — the world's leading nonpartisan tax policy nonprofit organization.

The NRA liquidated nearly $40 million worth of stock, fixed-income securities and other holdings to pay its bills as legal perils increase and revenue from membership dues decline. www.notus.org/money/nra-na...

Whoa, WTF

This is so cool, including that science is still at least decades away from making it actually happen. Maybe that will give humanity enough time to get our shit together before we spread ourselves out into the universe. 🖖

This should be the biggest story in the country right now. The sitting US President was extorting state lawmakers from his own party by threatening to withhold public money if they didn’t gerrymander for him. I don’t know how else to say it…

Do we think anyone actually told him he can’t do this?

Remember, this began with a mistake on their part that they admitted.

Sure, why not

BREAKING: Kilmar Abrego Garcia ordered RELEASED FROM CUSTODY. As Adam Klasfeld and I posited: if there’s no order for his removal, there’s no justification for detention. We will go LIVE on substack in ONE HOUR to discuss. Muellershewrote.com

NYC actors - This looks like it could be a really fun time!

Days after FIFA awarded Trump a fake peace prize, DOJ moves to drop charges in FIFA corruption case www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/n...

Amnesty International accuse pour la première fois le Hamas d’avoir commis des crimes contre l’humanité le 7-Octobre et par la suite

If only there was a safe, cheap and effective way to halt its spread.

I just… How has anyone ever believed him about anything?

How many ways is this illegal?

Nauseous

Breaking: Donald Trump ends Joe Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan, raising costs on millions of Americans.

Veteran detained by ICE: I identified myself as a US citizen and a veteran, but that didn't matter. Agents smashed my window, sprayed tear gas into my car, dragged me out. Even after I complied, I was held for 3 days without charges. No phone call, no lawyer, no medical care

As if Poland doesn’t know its own late 20th century history enough to know it has to look to its western border for security.

Remember when the standard for judges (and others) was to avoid “even the appearance of impartiality”? That seems like a really long time ago.

Every legal story now is either Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach or In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport

Normal authoritarian country shit here

Wow -- Russia reportedly plotted last year to plant bombs on US-bound flights (gift link) giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

This is way beyond a travesty.

Ah, so when America was great like this? 😡😡😡

Great job, America. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Okay, if we’re doing this by pers experience (NOT the way to decide vax policy by the way), I’ll throw in mine: got both shingles vaccines, was completely fine. Now protected against shingles. Unvaxed ppl I know who’ve had the disease were in MAJOR PAIN. 1 vaxed person who got it barely noticed.

Do ppl know they can get shingles in their eye that can blind them? In their mouth or throat so they can’t eat? On and in their genitals or rectum? Do you want horrific pain for a couple weeks paired with possible permanent complications? No? Get the fucking vax

Every nazi movement needs a youth wing.

He singlehandedly fucked up the economy, and now he’s singlehandedly trying to hide all the evidence.

Tomorrow at 3:00 House and Senate Democrats will be holding a "shadow hearing" on the detention of U.S. citizens. I'll be there testifying about the broader policy changes which led us to this moment. /my name isn't in this press release but I'll be there! www.blumenthal.senate.gov/newsroom/pre...

“Historians sometimes say that when societies are descending into fascism, it can be hard for the people to notice it in real time. Well, historians of the future, I’m here to tell you: We are noticing. Millions of us are noticing. And we are horrified and enraged.” newrepublic.com/post/201625/...

This is a fabulous idea!

Is this clear enough for people now? Will people finally understand and believe what’s happening?

Know your rights. Protect your neighbors. New York is — and always will be — a city for all immigrants.

RFK Jr.'s claim that COVID vaccines are deadly? Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. In this new extraordinarily large study, vaccinated individuals had a 74% lower risk of death from severe COVID-19 and a 25% lower risk of all-cause mortality compared to those unvaccinated. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

What form of govt is this again?

So much win… oh, never mind.

Disgusting

TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque: "This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".

And we wonder why things are the way they are

i think to understand the meaning of the birthright citizenship clause to the framers of the 14th amendment, you have to understand significance of dred scott to the civil war republican party. dred scott wasn't just a bad ruling, it was understood as a rejection of the declaration itself.

Siccing dogs on people is a slave tracker thing, a Bull Connor thing, a police brutality thing, a jackboot thug thing, an evil abuse of both dog and man which only a fully corrupted spirit could enact.

FFS