Heather Cox Richardson: Romney “appears to acknowledge the political ideology of the past forty-five years has failed. He called for addressing the economic inequalities in the United States by placing higher taxes on the rich….”

The internet and screen shots are forever muchacho’s. Even junior wants to see em. #LetLooseTheUNREDACTEDEpsteinFiles #LetLooseTheUNREDACTEDEpsteinFiles #WantBetterVoteBetter #WantBetterVoteBetter #DefendersOfDemocracy @thedefofdemocracy.bsky.social

We bow our heads before the Heroes who protect Ukrainians from the barbarity of the Russian forces, defending freedom and democracy. They will not be forgotten. RIP – Ihor Snihur, Dmytro Kabiuk, Ihor Maskal, Colombian fighter Richard Velasquez Eternal Memory! Heroes Never Die!

Europe had €210 billion in frozen Russian money and chose not to use it. EU leaders agreed to borrow €90 billion from their own budgets instead — Putin's assets stay untouched. "History will remember how Belgium decided Russia's blood-stained money was more important than Ukraine's security,"

Ukraine thanks Japan for the $6 billion in aid for the upcoming year.

In America junk food will be banned before easy access to guns because THAT makes sense apple.news/AFUpNz69ISNm...

The State Dept. painted humanitarian aid cuts as a necessary “disruption.” For the World Food Program, that disruption meant telling 300,000 refugees half of them would receive a meager portion of rice, lentils and oil. The rest would get nothing.

Former Republican governor of NJ posted this warning and article about the DOJ doing voter registration purges in the states stateline.org/2025/12/18/t...

Now, we're talking! #CanSky #IDSky #MedSky

#JustPublished: A new modelling study from ECDC indicates that influenza and COVID-19 vaccination programmes markedly reduced hospitalisations among older adults across Europe in the 2024/25 season. Learn more: www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/news-even... #EpiSky #IDSky

The EU Parliament has voted to create a "military Schengen" to allow troops to cross borders in 24 hours during crises. MEPs demand upgrades to key infrastructure and warn that Russian aggression makes rapid mobility urgent. euromaidanpress.com/2025/12/18/e...

Need something to feel good about? I sure do. Here are 7 fantastic science stores from 2025. Science will continue, even if The Regime tries to kill it at home. #Science 🧪

The Vanity Fair photographer from the Susie Wiles story. Holy. Shit. www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...

Over the last ten years, people have been saying “where are the generals?” every time Trump does something terrible with or to the military. Well, General Russel L. Honoré has been right here the whole time. Standing up, speaking out. Risking it all. youtu.be/JwGBGODuikE?...

"Trump Announces 5,000% Increase In All Numbers" theonion.com/trump-announ...

The chaotic life of an immigration lawyer in Trump’s America: ‘Some days you break down in tears’ apple.news/AtdlitzOZRUa...

open.substack.com/pub/ashleeva... "We could somehow bake humanness into AIs - to make them less likely to work against us" is an insane proposition. Sure to get what AI Trump and AI Putin Baking in Humanness Intelligence is a tool, all tools are weaponized first. The word left out is speciation!

I just came out of the briefing with Sec. Rubio and Sec. Hegseth on the military strikes in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific. Here's what I learned. Bottom line: there is no legal or national security justification for what they're doing. Not even close.

rofl geez

May leave core issues unresolved is an understatement for all time! This whole exercise is like asking a bone spur to dictate the future of humanity!

At some prisons, staff said the Bureau of Prisons had stopped providing basic hygiene items for officers. “You have to literally go around carrying your own roll of toilet paper,” one officer told ProPublica. “No paper towels, ... no soap.” By @keribla.bsky.social

A joint investigation by Bellingcat and Lloyd’s List shows that Saudi Arabia is the newest country willing to accept what the Ukrainian government describes as “stolen” grain. youtube.com/shorts/5FUm6...

For more than a century, a smelting plant in Omaha spewed lead-laced smoke across the city, resulting in about 400 million pounds of it settling into the soil and bodies of countless Omahans. Wondering if you’ve been exposed to lead? ProPublica and @flatwaterfreep.bsky.social can help.

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ICYMI — “I identified myself as a U.S. citizen and a veteran, but that didn't matter. ICE Agents smashed my window, sprayed tear gas and pepper spray into my car, dragged me out… this experience violated the very principles I fought to defend.”

Is this after or before a 'peace' deal is signed with Russia???? They need the Sidewinders today, not next week or next month or next year.

Germany and Ukraine launch “Quantum Frontline Industries”, the first foreign industrial-scale drone production line for Ukraine. Powered by German automation and Ukrainian battlefield tech, the Berlin-based plant will mass-produce drones under the new “Build with Ukraine” initiative.

Not sharing the Trump/Reiner post because it's rage-bait. I know this because it baited my rage. Here is a kitten:

Why Can’t America Build Enough Weapons? washingtonmonthly.com/2024/06/23/w...

This devastating NYTimes assessment of the American military’s broken weapons development and military industrial systems is spot on. But if you’ve been reading @washingtonmonthly.com…/1 www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Wow, a home for papers entirely generated by AI 🧪 aixiv.science

Thank you Santa Claude (Anthropic) #Following aixiv-us.oss-us-west-1.aliyuncs.com/aixiv/dev/45...

Give 'em Hell, Ms. Duckworth. PROUD to have her as my Senator!

MAGA anti-Chinese drone laws will force huge numbers of groups who have come to rely on drones for vital and often life-saving work - like firefighters and disaster responders - to stop using them entirely. It’s stupid and self-harming, but that’s the USA in 2025 for you.

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Heads up!

#Belarus Ales Bialiatski is in Vilnius! Our Nobel Peace Prize laureate is finally free and safe.

I endorse this new rule.

A thing that I feel is underappreciated about Trumpism - and this a perspective informed in particular by reporting from Michigan and Wisconsin but maybe now applies to Indiana - is that it has hollowed out the actual Republican Party with infighting in a way that could totally screw them

"Our real opposition is the media; the way to deal with them is to flood the zone with crap. Stink up the joint. Flooding the zone & spinning on a daily basis plus shamelessness is a potent combination." --GOP strategist Steve Bannon, 2/21/2018

When you are definitely not breaking any laws

You know all the people in charge of these kidnappings and detentions can't even wait in line at Walgreens without losing their shit. Jailing people for a few days is a horrific abuse of power; it destroys communities, another form of social murder (and literal murder).

Remarkably, no major Canadian media outlet has reported on this significant research investment in Canada. To date, the only coverage has come from France’s AFP.

Belarus has targeted Lithuania with another barrage of balloons to disrupt its airspace. @ebajarunas.bsky.social explains that to counter the Kremlin's shadow warfare and hybrid tactics, "deterrence must be proactive and tailored to specific vulnerabilities."

There's nothing to fear here, Republicans, it's just yet another freak occurrence that's definitely an isolated incident and not part of a national pattern that suggests the nation despises you.

The GOP ARROGANCE is destructive to America’s interests in the world. The GOP’s America First program is continuously developing America Alone & Isolated. GOP STUPIDITY —IS— STUPIDITY! youtube.com/watch?v=OkFi...

This amounts to a discourse on clueless blinkered fascism versus global economic reality. US is supposedly prepared to fight 2.5 wars at any moment, - dream on- but starting tariff wars with every country on earth simultaneously may be a somewhat moronic pig headed idea. youtu.be/OkFi5FiKnTE?...

“You’ll get the hole from a bagel, not Ukraine,” said Ukraine’s Permanent Representative to the UN, Sergiy Kyslytsya, addressing Russia at a Security Council meeting. “Our land and sovereignty are not for sale. This isn’t a Christmas market or some shady bazaar.”