Wide childhood measles vaccination ⬆️ Americans personal earnings by about $450 per person per year. Estimate contrasts long-run adult earnings of people who grew up just before vs after measles vax rolled out decades ago. Burning our present & future, for what? www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

We went to Greg Bovino’s mountain hometown and his last posting along the Mexico-California border — and also traced his family tree. Here’s the American story of an immigrant coal miner’s great-grandson turned scourge of foreigners chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdog...

Hey @petegeller.bsky.social here’s a 🐐🧵 for us!

The thing about making maple fudge that I always forget is that you basically spend forever standing by the stove watching water evaporate to raise the boiling point of the syrup and cream mixture. But you have to watch the whole time because at any minute your pot could boil over.

I keep thinking that now that I’ve been married for 20 years I should do a thread of all the wedding gifts that we still use. #1 Le Creuset Dutch oven #2 Calphalon sheet pans #3 Kitchen Aid stand mixer #4 Cuisinart food processor #5 Wüsthof chef knife & paring knives There’s more…

Female presenters are interrupted 10% more I wrote about the new seminar dynamics paper in the AER here: open.substack.com/pub/hanshenr... #econsky

18 USC 111 makes it to Minnesota

Study Finds 80% Of Americans Lack Social Connections To Pull Off Heist https://theonion.com/study-finds-80-of-americans-lack-social-connections-to-pull-off-heist/

Glazed my last pots of 2025 today. Between family visiting and vacation I don’t know if I will even throw anything else this year. Already started throwing a little porcelain, which is what I will do to start the new year.

Given recent evidence free pronouncements from FDA it’s interesting to see this *evidence* for the effectiveness of Covid vaccines at preventing visits to the emergency room or urgent care *in children* Especially the 76% effectiveness in the 9mo-4yrs age group www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes...

Interesting. I was told I would be completely discredited when the evidence comes out. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

Big dog having a big dream (but with tiny boofs because he doesn't actually know how to bark properly - turning the sound on will improve your day)

Guess what? I am still thinking about how the district will miss the statutory audit deadline because it hasn’t turned over the necessary information to its auditors on time. And the public estimates of the general fund balance have ranged from $69-140 million with no explanation for the changes.

What if I would rather just take a nap than go to the two evening events on my schedule tonight?!

The Justice Department’s effort to prosecute New York Attorney General Letitia James lost momentum after a grand jury refused to indict the Democratic critic of President Trump.

This past commission of mine feels very 'wintery' to me so I wanted to share it here too - I think the brown shrubs and lighter green areas do it :) this specific aerial embroidery was of a landscape in Ireland! I enjoy how fields are organised there compared to ours!

📣 Not only can Shohei Ohtani play baseball like no other. He loves dogs & indie bookstores. He’ll be supplying HDB w 50 signed bookplates for Decoy Saves Opening Day, coming out Feb 3. Order now! honestdogbooks.com/item/1sM1NJw...

BREAKING: The U.S. Senate on Thursday voted down a bill to extend Obamacare tax credits, ensuring they will expire soon and prices will spike for tens of thousands of Americans. Sen. Barrasso called the subsidies a "disaster." Wyomingites will experience the highest price increases in the country.

We are at “Trump appoints his horse as senator” level

Hard to imagine this level of dysfunction lasting another three years and two months.

Measles outbreaks are growing along the Utah-Arizona border and in South Carolina, where hundreds are in quarantine.

how do women not die of rage aneurysms every single day

Exclusive: The NAACP unveiled a blueprint on Thursday aimed at preventing artificial intelligence from deepening racial inequities in U.S. healthcare, calling for bias audits and “equity-first” standards as hospitals, tech firms and regulators adopt AI tools. www.reuters.com/business/hea...

South Carolina’s measles outbreak is “accelerating” in the wake of Thanksgiving travel and a lack of vaccinations, an epidemiologist for the state warned, after authorities traced a sizable outbreak to a church in the state’s northwest.

The key finding is that the working poor are the largest group among those in poverty, making up 42% of people who live in poor families. This suggests that work alone is not enough to escape poverty in Canada.

The Trump administration jettisoned a plan to honor the abolition of slavery, women’s suffrage and the civil-rights movement on quarters for the nation’s 250th birthday.

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...

Big if true

An unusually early spike in norovirus is sweeping across California, with wastewater data and lab tests pointing to a rapidly spreading strain known as GII.17.

Once again Firtash evades extradition for 2013 indictment in Illinois An Austrian court has dealt a final blow to U.S. attempts to extradite Ukrainian tycoon Dmytro Firtash to face trial on corruption charges, rejecting an appeal against a ruling blocking the move. www.reuters.com/world/austri...

From 2005 to 2012, one CBP officer or agent was arrested for corruption, crimes, or misconduct EVERY SINGLE DAY. By 2019, it had slowed to just one every 35 hours. Still a huge problem:

Federal investigators in Chicago are seeking other potential victims after a U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent described by prosecutors as a “serial rapist” who preyed on suburban women was arrested and charged this week. https://to.wttw.com/4psyv1v

Fed to launch $40bn debt-buying scheme after money market strains on.ft.com/4rQUWPy

I glazed 19 tiny tree ornaments and 3 stacked tree boxes today. Plus some more things that I didn’t take a picture of. #pottery

say cheese! 📸 #WicksonWednesday

BREAKING: Trump says the U.S. has seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela amid mounting tensions with the Maduro government.

It’s going to be fun on TV to ask economists about 25% GDP growth. 🤡

Yes I am still thinking about this. What was the Minneapolis Public Schools general fund balance at the end of fiscal year 2025? We don’t know. The district has shared estimates that range from $69-140 million. The district was late giving their auditors information so we won’t know until January?

Abortion patients most often rely on independent clinics, but more closed in 2025, report shows By @elishabrown.bsky.social

(drops mic) storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

sure looks like at the state level, Democrats have decided to win. Might be good idea for those stuck in the DC Dem strategist bubble to talk to some of them instead of just each other I've spoken with 20 of the 25 over past year - and learned a lot. They all knock doors. Talk to actual voters

As of September, wages & salaries for private-sector workers were up slightly from a year ago (0.6%), after adjusting for inflation. But wages were still slightly *below* what they were when pandemic began. (This is per Employment Cost Index; other measures show net real wages above March 2020).

If you’re interested in the history behind why this provision came to be, I wrote about that: www.southwestvoices.news/posts/last-i... and some of the educators who pushed for the contract language: www.southwestvoices.news/posts/educat...

Serious point: Rubio said Calibri is a "wasteful DEIA program". What's the "A", you ask? Accessibility. Americans with Disabilities Act and Rehabilitation Act. Basic steps to make federal websites, programs, and buildings work for disabled and elderly. Yes, they're trying to kill those too

“Flipping just 19 seats on this map could establish four new Democratic trifectas and six new Democratic majorities,” @heather4dems.bsky.social said. “The path there is not complicated—it’s really crystal clear.”

The United States, Ukraine, and European partners are negotiating a comprehensive 20‑point peace plan. The proposal is divided into three core documents: - A peace framework, - Long‑term security guarantees, - A post‑war economic recovery strategy.

Salem PD regularly violates public records law and apparently learned no lessons in Hush season 1. Records this old should not need any redactions under Oregon law and should be released for free. This is a money making scam because SPD doesn't want to spend money to follow the law.

Sycophant is sick of font.

Reuters used court dockets to identify the prosecutors who worked on tax cases. Last year, from January to October, about 420 DOJ attorneys appeared for the government in tax prosecutions. This year, during the same period, about 160 did.

The Trump administration's cuts to tax enforcement have been substantial. The IRS' criminal enforcement section lost 10% of its workforce, more than 300 people. Some of those who remain have been diverted to other types of cases. And DOJ lost at least a third of its lawyers who focused on tax crime.