As the owners intentionally understaffed two New Jersey facilities and diverted Medicaid money for their own use, residents in the homes “suffered unnecessarily,” the state comptroller said. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/n...

News Analysis: President Trump's dismissiveness of what he called a “decaying” Europe is only part of the problem facing European leaders. They're also confronting budget shortfalls, worsening public opinion and the far right as they try to maintain their security and help Ukraine.

Senator Ruben Gallego has introduced Senate legislation to outlaw surveillance pricing. Surveillance pricing is yet another way for corporations to pull one over on you. Watch former FTC Chair Lina Khan explain the dangers of this shady practice. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cbtUYshYM8

See Bernie Sanders' letter sent yesterday to Cassidy urging Cassidy to call an oversight hearing for RFKJ. Time for Cassidy to stop posting on X and actually do something. CDC, Our letter signed by over 1000 current and former HHS employees gets a mention 🙌 www.sanders.senate.gov/wp-content/u...

As I noted a few weeks ago, my colleagues and I identified the area of Arizona where the measles outbreak has exploded as a region of low vaccination coverage a decade ago. There is no question that undervaccinated areas are dangerous, and we can predict where outbreaks will grow.

The Maryland community affected by the flood may have overwhelmingly supported Trump but they live in a Democratic-controlled state, so that was that. “I don’t think there was a distinction. I think they just said, ‘It’s Maryland, and therefore the answer is no.’” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/u...

Lawmakers from both sides of the aisle have warned that the decision may not be legal, and that it suggests to foreign rivals that US national security is “now up for sale.”

(Definition of insanity again? Is it continuously starting wars over oil or just doing it while the rest of the world transitions to renewables? *HEADDESKS & sobs**) www.nytimes.com/live/2025/12...

This #HumanRightsDay I am proud to be supporting Amnesty International’s efforts to support asylum seekers, immigrants, and refugees, as well as stopping the spread of dangerous authoritarian practices. Join me! amnestyusa.org/act

Midpriced steakhouses and fine-dining establishments are trying to figure out how to cover their rising costs without scaring away customers. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

(I am not a fan of consolidating media but this is just proof MAGA just wants to punish anyone who won't join the cult) Right-wing media figures cast Netflix as a Democratic stronghold and want the government to block it from buying Warner Bros. Discovery www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Prosecutors spent over a year working to extradite a Belarusian woman accused of smuggling more than $2 million in sensitive U.S. aviation equipment into Russia But the case could fall apart because the defendant is now at risk of being deported before going to trial www.nytimes.com

The agency will spend nearly $140 million to buy the planes, funding that comes from a massive budget increase for immigration enforcement approved by Congress www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

(Not. How. Democracies. BEHAVE! I am continuously shocked at how anti-American conservatives have become like free speech hasn't sheltered them specifically) www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Aims to codify more than dozen of Trump's executive orders, including authorizing the use of active-duty troops along the U.S-Mexico border, deploying a "Golden Dome" to protect against missile and other advanced aerial attacks and prohibiting DEI programs www.cbsnews.com/news/house-v...

“This is not the Monroe Doctrine 2.0, this is like the Monroe Doctrine 5.0,” said Steve Bannon, the former White House chief strategist who remains a powerful voice in the MAGA movement. www.politico.com/news/2025/12...

There are also questions about whether SAVE's overhaul complies with federal privacy laws, given that it uses sensitive SSN for a new purpose. The judge overseeing said she was "troubled by the recent changes to SAVE and doubts the lawfulness of the Government's actions www.npr.org/2025/12/10/n...

"I just feel dumbfounded." 18-year-old US citizen watches ICE take his mom and leave him to raise his 9-year-old little sister.

Apple iOS 26.2—1 Billion iPhone Users Must Install New Update

Before we head to bed, a friendly holiday reminder, vaccines cause adults! 💉🎄 ☃️ Goodnight 💤

Officials initially weighed sending survivors of U.S. attacks on boats suspected of drug smuggling to a notorious prison in El Salvador, to keep them away from American courts www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/u...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio called the Biden-era move to the sans serif typeface “wasteful,” casting the return to Times New Roman as part of a push to stamp out diversity efforts www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/u...

Oklahoma Gov. Stitt criticizes Trump for shutting down wind energy projects "You cannot weaponize these things and just for political purposes put your thumb on the scale,” Stitt told Semafor’s Ben Smith at the outlet’s “Powering America’s Future” event thehill.com/policy/energ...

Illinois residents can sue federal immigration agents if they believe their civil rights have been violated after Governor JB Pritzker enacted a new law on Tuesday in response to the Trump administration's expansion of immigration enforcement nationwide. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

(The cruelty is the point ) www.npr.org/2025/12/09/n...

(The promise was intended to stop the Fed from investimg/creating/using crypto currancy if I understand correctly. Please correct me if I'm wrong) www.axios.com/2025/12/10/m...

Another relative said she was on the phone with Cruz when she heard ICE agents yelling to open the door. The next thing she heard was the window breaking, before the phone went dead www.cbsnews.com/news/after-i...

(I still don't understand this) www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

PhD student studying children’s relationship to social media, was among the first people arrested as the Trump administration began targeting foreign-born students and activists involved in pro-Palestinian advocacy www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Farmers see the package as a way to move forward after a disappointing harvest season, they fear the precedent of cash bailouts does not provide systemic solutions to a beleaguered industry, and they don’t believe the $12 billion gesture will solve deeper problems fortune.com/2025/12/09/t...

“He comes up with plans that are grandiose and good. But we’ve seen the prices go up and stay up. No matter how many times he says different, we know the reality.” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/u...

Trump’s impatience is rapidly escalating— with Ukrainian President Zelenskyy and European leaders who Trump believes are standing in the way of both peace and future economic cooperation between US and Moscow www.politico.com/news/2025/12...

( Don't know what's scarier. WW III brewing or the increasing odds America will ally with the fascists this time) - Joint flight seen as show of force, Japan's defence minister says - China-Russia military cooperation increases across region www.reuters.com/business/aer...