NCAR is the keystone in US atmosphere/weather/climate research. Physics doesn't care about politics, and floods, droughts, wildfires will continue to intensify. This is like sacking all of your doctors just as a pandemic gets started.

Tomorrow, 12/16 – join me for our final town hall of the year. We will be joined by special guests Jessica Capistrant from the Phoenixville Chamber of Commerce and local business owner Sarah McDonald as we discuss the rising cost of living.

This is really worth reading. As I have also been saying @jeremycliffe.bsky.social points out that Europe isn’t nearly as powerless as it thinks it is.

I wrote about a year of Trump for Best for Britain's Diplomatic Cable, covering some authoritarian themes that haven't been making the headlines…. open.substack.com/pub/bestforb...

🚨 BREAKING NEWS🚨 Starmer orders investigation into foreign election interference. 🇷🇺 What will this mean for those persistent Russian links to our elections? https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/uks-starmer-orders-probe-into-foreign-election-interference-after-ex-reform-2025-12-16/

Rep. McIver: “Secretary Noem, you have treated Congressional oversight as an inconvenience…Republicans on this committee may be willing to hand over their constitutional duty in order to kiss this administration’s butt cheeks, but I am not.”

“The 2025 Nobel Peace Prize winner, Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado, appears to be a Bitcoiner.” (No wonder Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale is a fan.) 10/11/25… 1/ decrypt.co/343891/lates...

Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara to US citizen detained by ICE: "I apologize that this happened to you in my city with people wearing vests that say 'police.' That's embarrassing."

🔥 @repdeliaramirez to @KristiNoem: “Bottom Line: You lie with impunity. You reject checks & balances. You ignore Congress & the courts… you can either resign, Trump will fire you, or you’ll be impeached. You’re going to be held accountable. I’m going to make sure of that.”

Mike Johnson is not happy that we went around him with a petition and forced a vote on releasing the Epstein files. So let’s do it again. This time to restore the ACA credits he and Trump robbed from us:

An overwhelming majority of Americans believe that President Trump is not focused on lowering our costs, according to a new Yahoo/YouGov survey.

I spoke in Warren County, Indiana tonight. The organizer of the event said they usually have around 30 folks who come to their holiday supper. Tonight there were 150 people there. Things are changing. Especially in red states.

Trump visited Moscow in 1987, then came home and bought full-page ads in major newspapers calling for the U.S. to pull back from its alliances. Some things never change.

New Substack is up. Please subscribe and share, if you take the notion. open.substack.com/pub/joenewbe...

Excellent article ⬇️ summarizing Trump administration’s 2025 National Security Strategy (NSS) of the USA

“And when your eyes Freeze behind The grey window And the ghost of loss Gets into you, May a flock of colors, Indigo, red, green And azure blue, Come to awaken in you A meadow of delight.” -John O’Donohue #birds #EastCoastKin

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.

Here is an easier to save & share that important information this way. 🐸 OTP vp

To Bari U, the propaganda school... Trader Jeff Yass Is Giving $100 Million to ‘Anti-Woke’ University of Austin www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

Billionaire Jeff Yass has big plans to change Ohio’s education system for the worse, donating $10M to Vivek Ramaswamy’s Super PAC - to expand unaccountable school vouchers! Ohio can’t afford losing public school funding. #TruthOnVivek share.truthonvivek.com/s/dksMgAII

"In his home state of Pennsylvania, where Yass has flooded the political system with cash for years, a voucher plan reached the top of the legislative agenda but has not been passed into law.... "'It was a dramatic failure,' Yass said. 'We thought we had it.'"

The World Health Organization notes that the level of aluminum after vaccination never exceeds safe US regulatory thresholds even for low birth-weight infants.

FLORIDA — Woman in scrubs: “I’m a U.S. citizen! Why are you doing this to me??”

“The decision was made to exclude me from the filmed production of Swan Lake because I was told my brown skin would disrupt the aesthetic.” ~ Misty Copeland When folks gripe about DEI, remind them who benefited from shutting out dancers like Copeland. That pattern runs through our whole history.

Representative Jim Hines after seeing the unedited strike videos says its one of the most troubling scenes he's ever seen in his time in public service.

This timing makes a lot more sense now, doesn’t it? Adm. Alvin Holsey resigned in October as commander of U.S. Southern Command right after flagging concerns about those U.S. military strikes on “suspected” drug boats in the Caribbean. He served for 37 years.

Today, ACIP is poised to vote on delaying the hepatitis B vaccine birth dose, a move that could put millions of kids at risk of lifelong disease. Read more about the implications of today’s vote in AAP News: bit.ly/4rBt1TF

Tying our healthcare to our employers was a brilliant move for the billionaires… Not so much for the rest of us.

WTF 🤬 Federal agents are using chemical aerosol spray on protesters in St. Paul, Minnesota.

New Substack up. Please subscribe, if you take a notion. "Dollie Ethel Potter Newberry"

“How did a nobody from a middle-class family in Queens make himself so indispensable to so many rich and powerful people?”

Between Epstein, Venezuela, and the oh-so-important Nuzzigate scandal, there's a lot of news that demands our attention. Thanks to the indefatigable @thcarter123.bsky.social for reminding us not to forget about Leonard Leo, the radical Catholic weirdo who helped create this mess.

Well worth your time to read. Very enlightening for me and it will be continued in a Part II.

Wednesday - the livestream we've all been waiting for! Heather Cox Richardson interviews NYC Mayor-Elect Zohran Mamdani. 12PM Eastern Time, 9AM Pacific Time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N15L4PoVBL4 #politics #uspol #nyc #zohranmamdani #heathercoxrichardson

My 105th town hall is Tuesday, Dec. 16th and will be focused on the rising cost of living. Stay tuned for more details!

Trump’s pardon of Honduras’ ex-president was proposed in a Jan 2025 article by Shane Trejo—who previously co-hosted the “Blood Soil & Liberty” podcast—& Roger Stone who posited that the pardon cld impact the Honduran presidential election to the benefit of Prospera, a “Tech Bro” colony in Honduras.

⬇️

The worst part about the boat strikes - regardless of who ordered what and besides the ultimate tragedy of lives lost - is they’re forever a stain on the professionalism and dignity of the United States military. They’re an insult to every American who ever sacrificed to do the right thing.

Chester County is home to a fantastic non-profit network that is helping our neighbors, building strong communities, and creating a successful future. If you are able, please consider donating to one of our non-profits this Giving Tuesday to support their good work.

Listen, if you tell me that “taxation is theft” I’m going to need you to quit driving on highways or walking on sidewalks or attending a public school or using police or fire services or city snow removal. I would mention libraries, but…

Prospera Honduras is a Zone for Employment & Economic Development (ZEDE) backed by Peter Thiel. Trump plans to pardon the former Honduran president who championed ZEDES b4 his drug trafficking conviction. Honduras current outgoing president has tried to eliminate ZEDES, an obstacle for Prospera. 1/

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is a fanatic who has hired other fanatics such as Vinay Prasad to carry out an ideological assault on the healthcare of more than 300 million Americans because Donald Trump empowered them. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/what-is-go...

Remember the whole “Iraq has WMDs” fairy tale? Insert 'drugs" as the new subject line and here we are all over again.

Trump’s healthcare plan looks a lot like extending subsidies for the ACA. You know, like the Democrats wanted in the first place. Republicans are the lazy kid in a group project who tears shit up and hassles others for a week only to agree to sign-on on the last day to get a good grade.

‘Tis the season, friends. 💙

Meiselas: This guy's a con artist. He's a fraud. He's quite literally a criminal. A felon. He lies. He destroys people's lives. He's a rug puller. 'Look, $23 trillion! Dividend checks are right around the corner! I'm gonna make you so rich!' It is demented and it is manipulative and it is abusive.

Read the entire 🧵

Trump never had a fan base. He had an army of bots who sold his racism and misogyny and xenophobia to uneducated Americans who took voting advice from bald eagle profiles posting Tweets from Eastern Europe. It’s as stupid as it sounds.

It's been lovely breathing with you.