"[P]unched a suspect in the face while his colleagues restrained the man's arms, and also used a prohibited chokehold." "[A]mong 25 recent cases in which NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch dismissed the charges and ordered all but one of the officers to undergo training." #NewYork #USA #Policing

I still can't believe they're trying to make a war happen out of thin air. Not just their abrogation of Congress's role in formally declaring a war -- that's been a slippery slope for decades -- but their total unwillingness even to go through the motions of drumming up public support.

One said that out loud. December 23, 2023 "It can be argued, periodically, that it's actually a cost savings because that child is not going to need any of those government services that they might otherwise be entitled to receive and need based on growing up in this type of environment,”

Looks like they found a false pretense to invade — one they’ve used before.

An important thing being left out of discussions of the attack at Bondi Beach in Sidney, Australia: The killers were forced to use bolt-action rifles because Australia bans semi-automatic weapons. Had this happened in America, they would have been armed with AR-15 style rifles with bump stocks.

Trump’s dismantling of climate research center is a ‘destruction of knowledge,’ critics say

Public opinion doesn’t amount to shit. A vindictive egomaniac has control of Congress, immunity from the Supreme Court, owns the Media, owns Academia, runs the military like it’s his army. Owns the “Christian” Clergy and Industry giants kiss his flatulent sphincter. This. Is. Reality. 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 Yw

Netanyahu and Israeli hardliners won't stop at Gaza. Their problem isn't with Palestinians, it's with Muslims. The Palestinians just happened to be the closest to hand.

Ending Moore's law (intentionally!) is batshit. The tech sector--and the whole stock market, which relies on it--never considered the consequences. What's their plan when people won't buy a new iPhone not just because it's expensive and pointless, but because its specs are quantitatively worse?

"Disaster survivors from 10 states and Puerto Rico gathered Monday on Capitol Hill for an emotional press conference to demand accountability from Noem for 'systemic failures' at" FEMA. "[W]hat happened in Sandy Creek cannot be allowed to happen again." #Texas #USA #Climate #Whistleblowing

PragerU and TPUSA received over $2M to create media targeting Gen Z voters with far-right content. We desperately need Democratic donors to step up and begin investing in youth.

According to experts, Venezuela's oil and other natural resources have never belonged to the United States. That has not stopped Trump from trying to get his hands on it.

"Housing insecurity hits differently for Black mothers. It doesn’t just displace us—it puts everything at risk." "We get labeled unreliable, unwell, or too stressed to lead, when in truth, the system is unstable, not us." #SouthCarolina #USA #Housing #Courts #Labour #MutualAid

Nobody’s saying “I’m not voting”, they’re saying “I’m not voting for Newsom”. You actually don’t have to choose between a Giant Douche and a Turd Sandwich, there are other names on the ballot

"[R]enewed military campaign in the northern West Bank." "[I]mposed curfews, raided homes and converted them into military outposts, forcibly displaced residents, and detained, interrogated, and arrested hundreds of young men." #WestBank #Palestine #Israel #Housing #EthnicCleansing #Military

NEW: Humanitarian officials staged a last-minute plea to Trump officials at their fancy hotel to re-start food aid $ for a huge refugee camp in Kenya. The Trumpers blew it off and babies starved. @annamaria.bsky.social & Brett Murphy www.propublica.org/article/keny...

LUHAN: Is the FCC an independent agency? CARR: I think th--- L: Yes or no C: There's a test for this in the la--- L: It's yes or no, Brendan! On your website, it simply says, man, 'the FCC is independent.' This isn't a trick question C: The FCC is not L: So is your website lying? C: Possibly

New shirt. My wife got really mad at me for this one. www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/8514...

Remember that in the winter of 2020-2021, we *made a whole strain of influenza extinct* by staying home more and wearing masks when we went out.

A Republican lawmaker publicly rejected Trump’s characterization of the economy, as new data showed uneven job growth and a rising unemployment rate.

Once again, this account is the most useful thing I can name on bluesky!

"Appellate judges at the embattled International Criminal Court on Monday rejected Israel's attempt to block an investigation into alleged Israeli war crimes committed during the Gaza genocide." #Gaza #Palestine #Israel #USA #Genocide #Courts

i know recently there's been a push to point out that when Fukuyama talked about "the end of history" he didn't mean it the way people have generally interpreted it. i think this is a sign that we should just go back to calling him a dummy.

RFK Jr. has awarded $1.6 million to a group in Denmark to conduct a randomized, single-blind study of the birth dose of Hepatitis B vaccine (HepB) to be conducted in Guinea-Bissau. In my opinion, this is, quite simply, completely unethical, unacceptable, and predatory. Here’s why. 1/7

Watching Providence retreat into itself after the Brown shooting

This is deeply troubling. The silence of so much of the mainstream. That this should be happening when a former human rights lawyer is Prime Minister… Peace is a greater threat to the powerful than war.

"The union for US Department of Education workers has raised alarm about a top department official's display of a flag with Christian nationalist associations that was flown during the January 6, 2021, insurrection at the Capitol building." #WashingtonDC #USA #Education #Courts

chuffed.org/project/1491... As if Israeli airstrike, ground invasions, and restricted food & medical supplies were not enough, Gaza is now flooding and tents are being destroyed. Please chip in if you can. #Gaza #Palestine #🍉

This is horrible. Trump and his crew shut down USAID, which has led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people, and they had no idea what they were doing or what would be the consequences. Completely immoral. (From the VF story on Susan Wiles.) www.vanityfair.com/news/story/t...

The holiday season officially begins now

"To be clear, the movement to ban books has never been about protecting our children. It’s about censorship, and about controlling ... young people..." Bingo! time.com/7341120/book...

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.

Elon Musk is currently worth $648 billion, according to Bloomberg. To put that in perspective, if Musk spent $1 MILLION EVERY DAY, it would take him 1,774 YEARS TO SPEND $648 billion.

We are appalled, yet unsurprised, to see two horrific displays of Jewish supremacy on the first night of Hanukkah.

Gavin Newsom is a dyed in the wool neoliberal who is being invented as the liberal answer to Trump to keep the rich happy. He is going to be the antiprogressive Democrat choice because they are so scared of progressives that challenge power.

applying for jobs again

In a late night Truth Social rant, Trump seriously ramped up the tension by ordering a “total and complete blockade” of all sanctioned oil tankers coming in and out of the South American country.

President Donald Trump doubled down on blaming Brown University and not his own bumbling FBI as the hunt for the campus shooter stretched into its fourth day.

Bluesky deleted his account (and keeps doing it). I verified that his account is him & that this Chuffed fundraiser is his: chuffed.org/project/1580...

You need to stop talking about Zuckerberg’s get up and not stop talking about how he has overseen the largest corporate swindle in modern history, running roughshod over protections from copyright law to workers rights All for what? Crystal meth Clippy? giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

42 faith leaders blockaded the entrance to San Francisco’s federal immigration court yesterday in an action that *shut down the courts* for the day.

or www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

Data centers have a political problem — and Big Tech wants to fix it

Israeli authorities are engaged in multiple major efforts to ensure there will be no Palestinian state in the future.

Our NYT piece examines Hamm's determined, 15-year campaign to reshape US energy policy. Why? He wanted to extend out the life of fossil fuels to allow his family-controlled company to keep drilling. He argued this is essential to US. energy security. A free link: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/b...

Alleged Bondi shooter charged by Australian police with 59 offenses as first funerals for victims held. https://cnn.it/4iYUXgx

We've re released the Rob Reiner RHLSTP in tribute to this great man. Worth a listen if you missed it first time shows.acast.com/rhlstp/episo...

NEWS in THE VAULT: A collection of tribal governments and other groups are mounting a year-end push for federal regulators and lawmakers to crack down on the “unregulated” prediction markets industry. @brendanpedersen.bsky.social has the details: punchbowl.news/article/vaul...

NEWS: Sen. Ruben Gallego is offering a war powers resolution to remove U.S. troops from ongoing boat strikes against alleged drug boats in the Caribbean. Full story: punchbowl.news/article/defe...

A second levee broke south of Seattle last night as our relentless parade of atmospheric rivers continues. Thinking of the John Holdren quote that we have three options: mitigation, adaptation or suffering. The third is growing ever more apparent as progress lags on one and two.