We don’t spend enough time discussing how the entire MAGA movement is kept afloat by the constant threats of stochastic terrorism orchestrated by the president of the United States. Congress, the courts, much of the media … all kept in line by the mob boss and his army of anonymous goons.

Former Nebraska Senator Ben Sasse says he doesn’t have much time left. Sasse is just 53 years old.

Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

Amazing work from whoever was up in N6914W over Ohio … www.flightaware.com/live/flight/...

The obvious problem here is that the economic incentive for privateering is to resell the ship and cargo. The boats here aren't worth much and the cargo...is illegal drugs. If it WERE worth seizing and reselling the boats, then wouldn't the Coast Guard could do it Trump could brag about the money?

It appears that the regulations surrounding body donation, including unclaimed of the indigent, need to be radically updated.

Great piece from Paul Musgrave on how Trump is, in essence, taking America private:

The planned hepatitis B birth-dose trial in Guinea-Bissau raises serious ethical concerns. Withholding a proven, life-saving vaccine from newborns to answer speculative questions is an absence of equipoise with real downstream harms for trust in vaccines. bktitanji.substack.com/p/how-unethi...

Everyone should watch this video. Everyone. Judge Salas is a person of extraordinary bravery, at a moment in our nation’s history when bravery is vital. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/o...

I'm not sure if people realize the murder strikes are taking place across a large region. It's quite staggering. www.newsweek.com/map-us-strik...

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People Are Using TikTok to Sell Endangered Animals to Eat

Federal prosecutors had worked for a year for the extradition of Yana Leonova, who faces several charges of fraud, conspiracy & money laundering. But it unraveled when ICE abruptly issued an order to deport her soon after she was flown into the US, a move that plunged the case into legal chaos.

“Tell your children who the cowards were.”

Chavarria, a U.S. citizen, was held at the airport "for more than four hours and released only after he finally agreed to let the agents search his smartphone, tablet, and laptop computer. The agents...informed him that he had no Fourth Amendment right to resist." @pacificlegal.bsky.social is suing.

i suggest commenting and sending your comment to your members of congress.

don't just kvetch; comment. CBP is proposing a massive new interference with the private lives and opinions of visitors to the united states, and those who exit. you can email comments to [email protected] - and post them if you do. you have until early february.

Banned words list has real consequences. A Head Start program operated by a tribe on a Native American reservation was told not to prioritize tribal kids, in clear violation of Head Start Act. The program director also can’t do training on trauma-informed instruction, or to support kids with autism.

I wanted dinner recommendations so I scraped 13,000+ London restaurants and accidentally discovered Google Maps is running a shadow economy. Anyway here's a dashboard and a political economy thesis: open.substack.com/pub/laurenle...

You knew it was going to happen. Vaccine hesitancy to injectable vit k. Please give the newborn vit k. No one wants neonatal strokes. This is 60 yo data. "Newborns who don’t get a vitamin K shot are more than 80 times more likely to have bleeding from vitamin K deficiency than those who get the

AAP on the ball and already out with comments about the ACIP meeting: www.aap.org/en/news-room...

We have a cabinet level Secretary of State, a diplomatic corps, Special Envoys, and Defense team to do this work. “Son-in-law” is not a government job. Kushner does not represent us.

Here's a gift link: www.wsj.com/world/russia...

www.syracuse.com/news/2025/11... It boggles the mind that things would be positive for our survival as a species such as heat pumps and converting to EZs are shot down by naysayers because "the grid can't handle it". These fucking data centers will gobble up more energy than any of them.

Remember kids, you cannot claim that providing indirect help to a sovereign state resisting an illegal invasion amounts to the helper invading the aggressor. Words mean things.

I already have a counterproposal: Russia pulls forces/proxies out of Ukraine—all of it—and removes offensive weapons from regions bordering Ukraine. Pays for all war damage—and reconstruction. All Russians engaged in war crimes stand trial. And Ukraine can join any alliance it damn well pleases.

One of the biggest hypocrisies related to the Russo-Ukrainian war is when western leaders keep repeating that borders should never be allowed to be changed by force while almost in the same sentence pushing Ukraine to accept new borders. Very few states are free from guilt here.

An extraordinary, beautiful, and heartbreaking piece by writer & environmentalist Tatiana Schlossberg (Caroline Kennedy’s daughter). My prayers go out to her and her family. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

NEW: As Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick drives billions of dollars in foreign payments to help build AI data centers in the US, his sons help run a company earning tens of millions in fees helping finance AI data centers. A NYT investigation. (Free link) www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/u...

Obscene.

Tremendous victory for RFK Jr.

Yes, this is indeed a problem, but no manufacturer should even be entertaining setting up expensive studies to see what can replace alum in vaccines when there is literally no scientific evidence to justify the change. It is insane to even contemplate this.

THAT'S LITERALLY HOW THE SUBSIDIES & ACA EXCHANGES WORK ALREADY. CONSUMERS ARE INFORMED BY COMPARING POLICIES ON THE ACA EXCHANGES, THEN THEY PURCHASE ONE AND THE GOVERNMENT PAYS SOME OR ALL OF THE COST OF THAT POLICY. I'M TEARING THE LITTLE HAIR I HAVE ON MY HEAD OUT.

Both parties should support this. Using AI to generate a video of a candidate saying something he didn’t say should be illegal. Especially since many voters think it is real. I will condemn any candidate from either party who does this.

Jim Ryan's letter is not just surreal and troubling; it provides a series of deeply sobering lessons—about the perils facing public universities today; about what it means to "work with" this Department of Justice; & about what leadership does (and doesn't) entail at this especially fraught moment.

As the Senate tries to defend a million dollar payday to 8 of their own - and as the House GOP tries to explain why they refused to amend the CR to strip it out, let's review exactly what it is they want restitution for. Brief thread:

8. Law enforcement sought to investigate what happened and who was involved. Because we are a country of laws and all within our borders are subject to that law regardless of their citizenship, place of birth or employer. Yes, even Senators.

You all understand that this is being done to immunize the use of the Alien Enemies Act from further review, right? Like ... the one thing everyone agrees on is that if there's a live war, he has AEA powers

Our foreign policy, if that is still the right concept, has three pillars: alienate allies, encourage enemies, and take bribes.

"What is your read on all of this?" "I think we're headed to a situation where more than 20 million people are in the process of discovering that their insurance is getting a lot more expensive." @citizencohn.bsky.social breaks down the Obamacare subsidy issue with @stephruhle.bsky.social:

POTUS + OLC have tried to create an alternate reality within the US executive branch in which the US is involved in make believe armed conflicts with alleged drug smugglers and therefore premeditated killing is somehow permissible. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Canada has just lost measles elimination status. The U.S. will undoubtedly follow shortly. Elimination means that there is no continuous spreading of measles within the country for a year or longer. Canada and the U.S. have blown it, and it’s largely the fault of the anti-vaccination movement.

As a lawyer who advised and represented international financial institutions making loans and guarantees on major investment projects in Uzbekistan for 15 years, I can say with 100% certainty that Uzbekistan does not have $135 billion to invest in the US, or anywhere else outside of Uzbekistan.

I wrote about Nazism in a small Michigan town, and in a large North American country; about the uses of and limits of shame; and on the importance of holding shared standards. www.the-reframe.com/the-death-of...

There's a reason I wrote about how the only way they know to communicate is through trolling ... www.techdirt.com/2025/10/30/t...

It's all really aggravating. As sec Rollins puts SNAP under the microscope & the ACA filleted. Trump has no idea what he is doing. But his cabinet does & uses him as their gateway. Silicon valley has multiple input vectors Lutnick can never hide his glee at PE stakes & insider knowledge &the

$550 billion in Japanese funding. Directed by the President. Outside Congress’s control. My new @justsecurity.org piece explains how the agreement bypasses the Appropriations Clause and violates the laws that safeguard Congress’s power of the purse. www.justsecurity.org/123478/trump...