Great. I can’t wait for kiddos to start dying of preventable illnesses. I have spent WAY WAY WAY too much of my life with babies w/ RSV toddlers/ teens with meningococcal dz.

RFK Jr.’s vaccine advisory panel is beset by incompetence, bias, and procedural chaos. Since ACIP is real life and not a TV show, that's not a good thing. www.statnews.com/2025/12/06/a... via @statnews.com

They died because they were women. December 6, 1989. National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women. www.cbc.ca/montreal/fea...

The US government is summarily executing people on a weekly basis without telling the American people any of their names or presenting any proof of their guilt, for alleged crimes that do not carry the death penalty in the US.

Not to mention the experience of California, snd the lawlessness and chaos that came from declaring Chinese people outside the law. So when the senator from Penn said “what about “Gypsies” and Chinese?” the answer was clear: yes we mean ‘Gypsies’ and Chinese too.

what follows immediately after the birthright clause? the privileges and immunities and due process clauses? and what follows them? the equal protection clause. all of this is explicitly to say, "the declaration is the constitutional law of the land"

the birthright clause was not just written to wipe dred scott off of the books, it was written to repudiate the *idea* behind dred scott, you might say the larger *ideological project* of dred scott. and the whole of section 1 of the 14th amendment is a constitutional statement of political equality

dred scott, in their minds, established the united states as a place of tiered citizenship and permanent inequality among americans. it was a ruling that said, in effect, that all men *were not* created equal and would *never* be treated as such.

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.

That's why empathy is so powerful and pisses people like Allie Beth Stuckey off. You don't need to know why people are trans or be well-versed in gender theory. But if you have a baseline of empathy, you recognize it's only polite to call someone by their preferred name. youtu.be/l45PAQ02B5o?...

This issue came up a lot on research for this video. Allie Beth plays the victim, whining that liberals "empathy-shame" her for her beliefs. But when you get into the specifics of what these people want, it's not just to have beliefs, but to control others. youtu.be/l45PAQ02B5o?...

Jesus Christ, these people are both unbelievably petty and obsessed. Yet somehow they convince gullible voters that it's *Democrats* who are fixated on this issue. Democrats aren't the ones staying up at night because a stranger changed her name. Jesus. www.npr.org/sections/sho...

So my 5-year-old just led my wife and me through a 4-minute guided meditation session. This is a thing that happened.

Some people think I make up stories about my precocious 5-year-old. Here's a photo from last night of him casually doing math problems before bed. We just take these things for granted now.

omg

Just the latest incident: Jamie Raskin had his security increased after pardoned Jan. 6 defendant Taylor Taranto, who was previously convicted for an incident involving threats against Raskin and Barack Obama, allegedly showed up near the Maryland congressman's house. www.axios.com/2025/12/04/j...

Edna St. Vincent Millay: "And the feet of children pushing/ Yellow leaves along the gutters/ in the blue and bitter fall". Poor Edna. If she'd only known, she could have been upmarket (mustard leaves along the gutters) or literary (ochre leaves) - but I guess she was stuck with commercial.

I keep thinking of some writer advice I saw the other day, on the difference between commercial, upmarket, and literary fiction. "Yellow" - commercial. "Mustard" - upmarket "Ochre" - literary. And I have to say this is the dumbest thing on writing that I've ever read.

Full video from Katie Phang’s YouTube channel here: youtu.be/AIv35rWP_RA

Pastor Black: While I was in the middle of using the words of Jesus, they opened fire on me. It was so clear that they had been so poorly trained, or — the alternative — that they had been deliberately told to escalate violence against peaceful protesters.

US senators seek to block Nvidia sales of advanced chips to China www.ft.com/content/0e4e...

The mechanic (Chris Robinson in San Leandro, he's so great) told me to just ride it around and see how it feels before we break the bank "upgrading" the derailleur to something in the $30 range. He really gets me.

Register to celebrate Laurie Bertram Roberts, winner of the 2025 Ann Snitow Prize, a great activist for reproductive, racial, disability, and climate justice in the Deep South. Dec 9 6-7:30 PM. mailchi.mp/annsnitowpri...

2/ As long as this short post is getting some attn, here I explain why there is no saving the American Republic without reforming the Court and breaking the hold of the corrupt six Republican appointees. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-s...

What's changed is that the Court has become more transparent in its corruption. There's not even an argument here beyond the implicit one which is: how do you expect us to hold the House without those seats?

The NFL pregame used Isaac Hayes' Hyperbolicsyllabicsesquedalymystic, a phenomenal song I know best as a reliable choice when I had to run to the bathroom as a college radio DJ.

SCOTUS: "The Texas maps were drawn for political—not racism—goals." NARRATOR: "And Texas used racism to achieve those political goals."

This is a stunning indictment...not of Letitia James but of DOJ and the Trump administration. Serious prosecutors and lawyers would be hanging their heads in shame. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

"Inept opposition." Implications here for Dem leadership, absolutely.

New Know Your Enemy: Matt and Sam talk with @peterbeinart.bsky.social dissentmagazine.org/blog/know-yo...

Consistently the best political podcast I listen to, this. So good, and this one in particular so terrifying

The scale and depth of the attack on our institutions means that there is no simple way for a pro-democracy coalition to flip the lights back on after Trump. We need transformative thinking. dissentmagazine.org/article/the-...

In @dissentmag.bsky.social, @ksabeelrahman.bsky.social makes the case for a third reconstruction.

New Know Your Enemy: Matt and Sam talk with @lkatfield.bsky.social about her new book. dissentmagazine.org/blog/know-yo...

Check out the latest episode of the Know Your Enemy podcast where @lkatfield.bsky.social discusses her new book, Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right:

“Rolling back MAGA will require speaking to popular needs and aspirations and delivering on them. It will also require developing our capacities to work together in a spirit of democratic cooperation and public exuberance.” dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...

Celebrate a hero of abortion access in the Deep South. The event is Dec 9, 6 PM on Zoom. mailchi.mp/annsnitowpri... @nplusonemag.com @dissentmag.bsky.social @theguardian.com @abortionfront.bsky.social @abortionfunds.bsky.social

In 2017, Trump called up Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte to tell him what a great job he was doing with the drug problem. Duterte told the media Trump said he did it "the right way" Duterte is awaiting trial in Hague right now for what he did. edition.cnn.com/2017/05/24/p...

VA must redistrict after the Supreme Court’s decision in the Texas case. The last excuse not to is gone.

That is not how boycotts work. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

"Did Carney and Smith unite Canadians?" That's what complicity looks like.

Getting rather tired of the normalizing of Carney's assault on climate.

Seeing some very similar signs to the 1968 flu pandemic. We may see more than one wave and this variant of H3N2 seems to have a very long tail. Wear a N95 or better when in public spaces. NO EXCEPTIONS.

Tomorrow, the Trump admin economic team will resume their daily ritual of insisting to the American people that the economic pain they are experiencing is either not happening or is Biden’s fault.

Ritual humiliation is a MAGA fetish.

The U.S. Supreme Court: "ICE can racially profile people it arrests." Also, the U.S. Supreme Court: "Texas can disenfranchise voters based on race." Can we all agree that we currently have a white supremacist Supreme Court?

War crimes on request to feed the bloodthirsty MAGA mob.

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