New: Trump is becoming a lame duck open.substack.com/pub/diplomat...

The bishops' decision formalizes a yearslong process for the U.S. church to address transgender health care. They also approved a special message on immigration, expressing concern over enforcement and conditions in detention centers. n.pr/4hTblhM

Trump looking to lower food tariffs: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...

So academic. Much freedom. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...

“Should girls in the modern West be getting married at sixteen? Perhaps not, all things considered. But a culture…where people are horrified at older teens (or even twenty-somethings fresh out of college!) getting married is an extreme fringe outlier historically.” www.catholic.com/magazine/blo...

She’s a hard core Catholic: Canon Law’s marriage age remains low - Canon 1083 sets it as 16 years of age for boys and 14 years of age for girls

They are coming to Charlotte literally because of a few right-wing propaganda accounts on X and I am livid.

This is real news. Reporters, please report on it. ELEVEN former top FCC officials, Republican and Democratic, came together to condemn FCC Chairman Carr's abuses of power and efforts to suppress legal speech. It's not just Jimmy Kimmel. The FCC's jawboning and chill on legal speech is ongoing.

It's astounding how much CO₂ we put into the atmosphere each year by burning fossil fuels. For comparison, we all agree that plastic pollution is bad, but the mass of ALL THE PLASTIC humanity has ever produced is only 25% of the CO₂ we emitted into the atmosphere in 2025.

17… She was living in and out of a homeless shelter. She was working at McDonald's. She had just finished her junior year in high school. And she wanted extra money to try to save up to pay for braces to fix her teeth. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/w... bsky.app/profile/rpsa...

The Trump Justice Department has filed suit against California's new Congressional map that was approved last week by voters. The suit refers to the 'California General Assembly' - it's actually called the 'California State Assembly.' www.justice.gov/opa/media/14...

Karen Pittman might be an actress, but her past experience with food insecurity is real. She opens up about the challenges she faced applying for SNAP and why she believes sharing her story can help others find strength through vulnerability.

Nothing to see here (literally!). Just the US State Department secretly deleting 15 pages of declassified official documents published in 2021 in the Foreign Relations of the United States series about a 1983 NATO nuclear weapons exercise that unexpectedly increased the risk of a nuclear war.

Pfizer Looks to Sell Stake in BioNTech -- BBG #PFE #BNTX

It’s as bad as you could have imagined and worse.

Sometimes, between two people, something happens. Rarely, very rarely, a whole world is born. A tiny microcosm, where you can always find shelter, even when the rest of the world is falling apart. ~Hannah Arendt

“Seem complicated” should easily qualify for the 2025 “Understatement of the Year” award

Access to vaccines is not a privilege — it is a human right. In @statnews.com today, Stefan Peterson and I write about using a human rights-based approach to deal with vaccine denialism and the return of measles, whooping cough and diphtheria www.statnews.com/2025/11/12/c...

Women making good and great things happen!

Ibuprofen is a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) that acts as a cyclooxygenase (COX) inhibitor, works as both a Cox 1 and 2 inhibitor by blocking prostaglandins. One reason you’ll see many women touting its efficacy for menstrual cramps, they’re responsible for uterine contractions

The mutual love between the #LGBT community & @kathygriffin.bsky.social is unbreakable. She should not have been "cancelled" for a prank. And certainly, my old office (LA's U.S. Attorney) should not have opened a criminal investigation. Wish I'd been writing for newspapers back then.

Hast thou seen the White Whale?

NEW: The first big new malaria treatment in a generation is close, offering hope at a time of rising resistance to existing drugs and steep cuts to global health funding. www.ft.com/content/9070... Read more here about fears of a malaria resurgence due to slashed aid. www.ft.com/content/6d5e...

We could really use that CDC data right now.

BREAKING: Economic growth slowed to just 0.1% in third quarter news.sky.com/story/econom...

Based on this we need better social and political dumb cocks inhibitors - I can’t image what he’d read out of “prostaglandin inhibitors” but we could try.

A few years back I participated in research into migrant detention camps in Libya, EU funded and not, East and West. The results were horrifying, results this piece glasses over. There were literal slave auctions going on, along with other rampant abuses. news.sky.com/story/this-i...

Here’s a gift link (no paywall) to the article, “Catholic bishops condemn ‘indiscriminate mass deportation’ in rare statement”: wapo.st/448fDw6

I watch the aurora cam from Fairbanks on explore.org. It's been stunning!

Two years on, Israel’s war in Gaza might be finally drawing to a close. The conflict built an unprecedented arms pipeline from the U.S. to Israel that continues to flow, generating substantial business for big U.S. companies. www.wsj.com/world/middle...

Stunning aurora capture. North Pole, Alaska. 📷 Vincent Ledvina

“A Dream Deferred: Jesse Jackson and the Fight for Black Political Power” is Abby Phillip’s splendid effort to give this political chapter of Jackson’s life the recognition it rightfully deserves. www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/1...

Jesse. 🙏🏼

Two days after the 2016 election, Epstein returns to New York City from Paris. "trump gives many new things to do"

That's a wrap on chasing auroras at 25,000 feet! What an absolutely awesome experience. A total bucket list item checked off, and I got to experience it all with my wife. You just have to love science!

And, prepare, for the massive chaos. Build bulwarks.

This is far worse than anyone expected. Trump's HUD plan would cut *two-thirds* of permanent housing and push as many as 170,000 formerly homeless people back onto the street—redirecting funds to work mandates, forced treatment, and encampment sweeps. All as mass internment camps are being built.

One reason you need a public editor, representing the readers and their rights.

"There is a lot more." Rep. Garcia shares the DOJ is hoarding files from federal Epstein investigations. "Photographs, possibly videos, they have information we need to actually bring justice to the survivors and to implicate the wealthy and powerful men that abused and raped children and women."

This! Black and white hits hard.

Yup!

Reminder that Ken Starr was canned by Baylor University for covering up multiple sexual assaults when he was the school’s president…

a lot of people regretting the 'this shoulda been an email' advice rn lol

If **Jeffrey Epstein** thinks you're a evil and demented sociopath, the odds are overwhelming that you are, in fact, an evil and demented sociopath.