Each semester I go in my classroom and I try to figure out what we would use to block the doors, if it would be safe to crawl out the windows, where we could hide if there was a mass shooter in campus. It’s such an indictment of this country how we have normalized these preventable tragedies.

The Authoritarian Internationale everyone

Today, I spoke with Kilmar Abrego Garcia and his wife, Jennifer. In April, when I met with him in El Salvador, Trump said he would never set foot in the U.S. again. This case has never been about one man alone; if the govt can violate the constitutional rights of one, all our rights are threatened.

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And what we have done in this country concerning bigotry is akin to finding the permissible levels of lead in water

Every time there’s another horrific shooting, I think of this kid. Praying for everyone on that Brown campus.

😲 They’re going to destroy VA healthcare so they can privatize it. wapo.st/4q4Lx58

What a great piece! This just gets better and better as you read. prospect.org/2025/12/11/s...

the world has changed

NEW: As Pete Hegseth faces increasing calls to resign for his illegal strikes in the Caribbean and Pacific, sources tell us that Donald Trump has already been discussing preemptively pardoning officials he thinks may be criminally investigated once Democrats gain power. led by @swin24.bsky.social

“In 2029 we will rebuild the White House as it was, and pay for it by seizing the assets of the Trump family.”

> @amysiskind.com

Trump on Americans' healthcare costs going up by 200-300%: "Don't make it sound so bad"

This is only the beginning.

An Advent calendar where every day is another photo of someone famous laughing with Jeffrey Epstein.

WOW. @haleaziz.bsky.social with a new scoop: ICE now gets a running list of every person who is going to be taking a domestic flight inside the United States from the TSA and runs it through their database looking for targets. This explains the Babson College student's arrest.

The Epstein files really are a goldmine if you're a hater

Congratulations to every House Democrat and 20 Republicans for voting to restore the constitutional right to a union for over a million federal employees. The Senate must pass this bipartisan provision immediately. All workers, including federal employees, have the right to be in a union.

People are worried about Trump not leaving office in 2029 but they should be more worried about the Supreme Court enabling perpetual Republican rule by overturning what remains of the Voting Rights Act and campaign finance laws. SCOTUS has those cases this term.

I don't want to get TOO ahead of myself here but: #iHunt: The Feature Film is now in development. Officially. And we have a casting director, who was responsible for casting one of my all-time favorite indie movies, Behind The Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon.

It's remarkable how perfectly this awful story is similar to The Dreyfuss Affair, from the banishment to a cruel tropical prison to the world's worst and stupidest people refusing to let it go even for decades after he was freed.

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My full write-up: In a dramatic series of overnight developments, the Trump administration took extraordinary steps to try to re-detain Kilmar Abrego Garcia within hours of his court-ordered release, but a federal judge stepped in and blocked the move. talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...

First they decide you are guilty and then they find the evidence

“Faith leaders have been beaten, arrested, even shot with “less lethal” weapons, and church attendance has fallen significantly—by more than 50% in Spanish-speaking parishes in one Catholic diocese. But now there’s a plan to target Spanish-speaking churches nationwide during the holiday season”

DeSantis and his cronies stole tens of millions of taxpayer dollars for political campaigns.

I really do think men's loneliness is treated as a societal crisis because lonely men are more dangerous. See also concerns about young men's unemployment.

I think it’s also true that loneliness among women has historically been treated as an individual problem, while loneliness among men is treated as a societal problem. That, in turn, comes from an assumption that women are supposed to earn the company of others while men are entitled to it.

BREAKING: Kilmar Abrego Garcia has been released.

The thing is The dynamic is just so good from the jump There's a reason an entire generation of TV and movie writers that chased the Mulder and Scully energy to this very day

Just a heads up, my book HI HONEY I'M HOMO is currently hanging out in your local book store's LGBTQIA section, waiting to be caressed by your supple fingers

Senate rejects dueling health care bills. GOP leaders are forging ahead without a plan to tackle spiking premiums once Covid-era ACA subsidies expire: https://cnn.it/4a788JR

NEW: Senate rejects rival Obamacare bills, likely dooming enhanced ACA subsidies. www.axios.com/2025/12/11/s...

Ramirez to Noem: "You lied on the record and you lied to members of this committee. You violated court orders by not turning around deportation flights bound for El Salvador where we know that hundreds of people under your leadership reported they were raped, beaten, and nearly died."

SCOOP: Academy Award-nominee Liam Neeson narrated a recent anti-vaccine documentary that glorifies RFK Jr.’s rise to power. In the film, Neeson—a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador—calls the COVID-19 vaccines “dangerous experiments.” www.importantcontext.news/p/liam-neeso...

MAGAZINER: How many veterans have you deported? NOEM: We haven't deported veterans MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea

An HIV doctor quit the CDC when they insisted on censoring his research by removing data on trans people. This interview peels back the curtain of how anti-trans ideology figured into the Trump administration's war on science. Republished from @kffhealthnews.org, written by @amymaxmen.bsky.social.

🧵 Marco Rubio ordered the State Department to cancel Calibri font, citing DEI. The font was put in place 2 years ago to assist those who are visually impaired. American Foundation for the Blind: "51.9 million American Adults age 18 and older reported experiencing some amount of difficulty seeing."

Good morning to readers; Kyiv remains in Ukrainian hands. Powers blackouts caused by Russian attacks mean that a simple elevator ride at the wrong time could leave you stuck for hours. Every day, specialists like Oleksandr go around Kyiv freeing people stuck in lifts.

Days after FIFA awarded Trump a fake peace prize, DOJ moves to drop charges in FIFA corruption case www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/n...

Connecticut is reporting its first case of measles since 2021. The patient is an unvaccinated child under the age of 10 in Fairfield County.

“The change would almost double the amount of formaldehyde that is considered safe to inhale, compared with an assessment adopted by the Biden administration, health experts said. In addition to cancer, formaldehyde is linked to severe respiratory problems.”

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A bit of good news... For the first time in nearly 30 years the Miami mayor’s office flips to a Democrat. Eileen Higgins just won the city’s mayoral runoff, becoming the first Democrat and the first woman ever to lead Miami, Florida. www.nbcnews.com/politics/ele...

I did it. I did it! I finally dumped Spotify!! I started here www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/a-complete... (TY @bcmerchant.bsky.social!!) Then used soundiiz.com for free to transfer EVERYthing to www.qobuz.com/us-en/, where they pay artists a lot more, don't support ICE, & HAVE BETTER SOUND QUALITY.

Talking like a literal Nazi while trying to get a sitting member of Congress assassinated

The decline of democracy in the US means you can’t visit the US if you commented on the decline of democracy in the US

Here it is public-sans.digital.gov