Even ignoring Dr. Høeg's antivaccine views and obvious bias, she has no qualifications for the job. She does not know regulations, she does not know drug approvals, and she has no expertise in any relevant scientific area. No wonder people are resigning. www.cbsnews.com/news/fda-tra...

Milwaukee experienced several high-profile shootings this summer. Republican state lawmakers cast blame on local officials. But the same lawmakers who portray Milwaukee as a symbol of unchecked urban violence have repeatedly blocked the tools the city needs to address it.

I look at the shelving carts first for this very reason. You get a clear sense of what's on people's minds in your community, what they are focused on, what they feel they need to know to survive (whether that's fiction or non-fiction, I prefer the latter but make a point of looking at both).

I'm starting to wonder how much "the male loneliness epidemic" is just straight and bisexual women identifying low-effort, mean, and incompetent men and choosing not to date, marry, and tolerate them anymore

Good grief these republicans are 1) liars 2) monsters

Archived: archive.ph/wFd12 www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/b...

The Northeastern and Midwestern states are COVID hotspots. New Mexico seems to be the least risky. Today's CDC SARS-CoV-2 transmission map: State Trends (% among reporting) 🔹Growing/Likely: 22 states (48.9%) 🔹Declining/Likely: 7 states (15.6%) 🔹Near Flat: 16 states (35.6%) 🔹Not Reporting: 6 states

"At its heart, baking feels hopeful. It might be about feeding others, or celebrating, or creating a moment of calm in an otherwise chaotic world, but it’s also about the belief that if you measure the ingredients and follow the steps, something good should come out of it."

🚨🧵 by @ZdenekVrozina (from Nov 28) on Covid's impact on the brain... "SARS-CoV-2 causes long-lasting structural changes in the brain - even in people without symptoms. Recovered ≠ normal. In this study, every single recovered participant..." 21-tweet 🧵 threadreaderapp.com/thread/19944...

This week, a federal judge wrote that federal agents – largely from ICE, but also CBP and other agencies operating in D.C. – had adopted an “arrest first, ask questions later” approach, ignoring legal requirements around when and how immigrants can be detained. @maustermuhle.bsky.social reports:

The number of convicted criminals in immigration detention is about 1.8x what it was when Trump took office. The number of people with no criminal record whatsoever — who are detained solely for immigration reasons — has shot up **25.5x** open.substack.com/pub/austinko... (via @austinkocher.com)

Police Chief Brian O’Hara has delivered a blunt message to his department: If an officer witnesses ICE agents using illegal force and fails to step in, they will be fired. 👏 👏 👏

“Nearly all of our modern gun control legislation came about as a consequence of the tragedy and subsequent lobbying by the gun control advocates born at Polytechnique that night. “We must fight like hell to make sure it doesn’t happen again.” An editorial by @taylornoakes.com. #December6

In South Minneapolis, Minnesota, nearly two dozen neighbors confronted and surrounded ICE goons after rapid-response alerts were issued. The goons were questioning an East African man when the situation escalated, and they eventually left the area without making any arrests.

Today, I took my supporters to see the Christmas tree on Sophia Square in Kyiv – live, in real time. If you joined me, please let me know how it was. Thank you!

🚨post by Hiroshi Yasuda (保田浩志) @Yash25571056: "From an analysis of lymphocyte subset data from 40,537 patients, "During mass infection [with SARS-CoV-2], T cells, CD4+T cells, CD8+T cells, NK cells, and B cells dropped significantly. Even 20 months post..." threadreaderapp.com/thread/19969...

CARTOON OF THE DAY

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!

So sad, so wrong.

Archived: archive.ph/4auUb www.bainbridgereview.com/news/kitsap-...

From EPI-PHARE in France, a 4-year study of 28 million adults aged 18 to 59 found no increased risk of all-cause mortality after mRNA COVID vaccination and a 74% lower risk of death from severe COVID-19. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

"The Donald Trump administration has changed which holidays qualify for free entrance to national parks, removing two holidays celebrating Black people and adding the president’s birthday."

Immigration and Customs Enforcement has lowered standards so dramatically that the new cohort now includes recent high school graduates and applicants who can 'barely read or write' as well as those who lack basic physical fitness and even have pending criminal charges.

Cartoon by @mluckovich.bsky.social. Quiet piggy! 🐖

This is a million times worse than anything Hunter Biden was accused of doing in even the most fevered right-wing conspiracy dream

🧠 Daily Feed of Brain Damage 🧠 doi.org/10.1016/j.ge...

Please share this link in case anyone needs a good resource for legal services: www.umnola.org/legal-services

As CBP forces began disappearing residents in the greater New Orleans area, the New Orleans City Council launched an online portal for residents to report civil & #humanrights abuses by ICE & CBP paramilitary units occupying the city during the Trump regime’s anti-migrant occupation.

Thousands of federal workers lost their jobs in 2025, but something unexpected emerged: they organized online to share information about unemployment benefits and emotional support – often with colleagues they'd never interacted with outside of work. @annepisor.bsky.social explains:

Religion note: Remember that pastor who was arrested protesting an ICE detention facility outside Chicago recently? The one who was photographed on the ground as officers arrested him? That's Rev. Michael Woolf, and this is his church.

🚨🧵by Zdenek Vrozina on Covid's impact on the eyes🚨 "A new study from Germany looked at the eyes of people who recovered from COVID-19, even months later. Using a non-invasive retinal imaging tool (OCTA), they found signs of microvascular injury..." 18-tweet🧵 threadreaderapp.com/thread/19958...

My neighbor returned the plate I'd used to share some of the cakes I'd made covered in peanut M&Ms and it's just too cute to open!

IMLS announces "upon further review" that it is reinstating all federal grants to libraries. It leaves out that it's doing this because a federal court told them a few weeks ago that the Trump admin's decision to destroy libraries was not legal. www.imls.gov/news/stateme...

This is a gift. Thank you to @siembranc.bsky.social for sharing this new toolkit with what they did when Border Patrol showed up in NC: docs.google.com/document/d/1... - share far and wide especially with our comrades in MN and LA (New Orleans esp).

Pete Hegseth, who has been blowing up people on boats: “If you’re trying to honor God, if you’re shooting at the ideal, …means your treatment of other people is going to be affected by that.”

In case anyone is wondering how Whiskey Pete Hegseth's plan worked out to stack the press room with right wing trolls and propagandists in advance of a damning IC Report, I present Laura Loomer.

“Pentagon's Signalgate review finds Pete Hegseth violated military regulations. It found that the information could have imperiled American troops had it been intercepted by a foreign adversary, the two people who have read the report said.” www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...

So, let's play make-believe and pretend that Prasad has rock solid proof the vaccine killed 10 kids. He is now sitting on it, refusing to give doctors on the ground the information they need to inform their patients. The opposite of radical transparency. endpoints.news/fda-says-it-...

Six-week study of 67 students in four classes, 1047 saliva samples -> "Prolonged exposure in shared, poorly ventilated spaces, which potentially includes several infectious sources, drives respiratory virus transmission more than close contact." www.nature.com/articles/s41... HT: Emily Martin

The increasing lack of self-control is yet more evidence of his increasingly severe dementia. He's spiraling out of control and no one in the GOP will say so. www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuMU...

By George F. Will. "This moral slum of an administration should nauseate Americans. Regarding Venezuela, Ukraine and much more, Trump and his acolytes are worse than simply incompetent." Archived: archive.ph/MeuHl www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Trump's periods of wakefulness during this cabinet meeting are becoming less frequent

"I asked economists and climate philanthropists what they could teach people like me, whose Giving Tuesday donations may only have one or two zeros behind them." Archived: archive.ph/Mzi2P www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...