"Dictators like Putin do not go to war for resources; They go to war for status and survival inside their own pyramid." Elvira Bary on something many in the West don't understand: Putin needs war to survive. He will attack again, but where? www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7WY...

The Trump Administration’s Most Paralyzing Blow to Science - The Atlantic share.google/9S5zDcrcwxMT...

A warning to every progressive voter: In America’s election system, your third-party vote can be a gift-wrapped victory for the GOP… hartmannreport.com/p/why-do-thi...

Note to manufacturers, the market for “not smart shit that works” is actually the thing people are clamoring for.

For two whole days Trump's comments on local NYC talk radio just hung in the air without question. The President of the United States claimed a strike on a country with whom we are not at war, and 48 hours passed without a peep. That says a lot about our media environment.

Israel says it will suspend several humanitarian groups, including Doctors Without Borders, in 2026 for failing its new vetting rules for groups working in Gaza. Some international organizations have said that Israel’s rules are arbitrary and could endanger staff.

Nothing Is Ours Anymore: Is the "Rental Economy" the Most Destructive Scam in Modern American Capitalism? hartmannreport.com/p/nothing-is...

"Americans across the country are facing enormous scam risks because of their president In a fundraising email circulated Monday, Donald Trump told his supporters that Democrats would steal their“tariff rebate checks”if they didn’t donate money to him within the hour newrepublic.com/post/204794/...

#USfoodrecalls #USfoodsafety Search the Feed & Pin it! US Food Recalls + Safety ⚠️ Recall: E. COLI O26 (STEC) CONTAMINATION Mountain West Food Group LLC *FORWARD FARMS brand GRASS-FED GROUND BEEF 16 oz / 1 Ib Dist to: CA, CO, ID, MT, PA, WA 12-27-25 www.foodsafetynews.com/2025/12/grou...

Did the United States really spend trillions of dollars on winning the Cold War, only for its president in 2025 take orders from a Russian dictator? This is an earth-shattering humiliation for America of which its reputation may never recover.

If people admire you, they put your name on buildings. If you have to do it yourself, well… that’s different.

I can’t …

If you grew up in the 1970s and 1980s, as I did, the world is upside down, backwards and prolapsed. Though I pay attention to politics for a living, it's still hard for me to believe that my country, the United States, is aligned with Russia. As @dennycarter.bsky.social said, none of it makes sense.

A growing body of research indicates that Texas's restrictive abortion bans have negatively impacted the health and lives of Texas women and babies in multiple ways. Across the board, pregnancy outcomes and complications have worsened.

this seems specifically designed to break mail-in voting (where deadlines are defined by postmark)

In preclinical models, treatment repaired brain pathology, restored cognitive function, and normalized Alzheimer’s biomarkers (in HUMAN models as well). • case.edu/news/new-stu... The study has been published in Cell. YES, it is PEER-REVIEWED. • www.cell.com/cell-reports... 🧪🧵⬇️

Trump is destroying the Republican Party and there’s nothing they can do about it.

Slate senior legal reporter Mark Joseph Stern warned MS NOW on Sunday that Republicans could gain up to 19 seats in the House of Representatives by the 2028 election, if they are able to “neutralize” the Voting Rights Act next year.

Meanwhile in NYC...

INBOX: @jkbjournalist.bsky.social, an investigative reporter at @miamiherald.com who has covered Jeffrey Epstein's sex trafficking story for nearly a decade, accuses the Trump Department of Justice for tracking her flight history in 2019 and releasing them partially unredacted in the Epstein files

This is so fucked. The Epstein files revealed something chilling: DOJ collected the private airline booking records of a journalist who covered the Epstein case and attached them to 2019 subpoenas. She did NOTHING WRONG. Yet her movements were tracked and stored by the government.

No punishment is too great for a man who would drug and drive his own 6–8-year-old daughter to “pedophile ring parties.” Sit with this: if this report is accurate, this child was horrifically abused. I wonder whether she’s been able to build any kind of life for herself. 🧵

New state sales tax revenue generated within the district will be diverted away from other government services until the bonds are retired.

No I think that knew that the aid saved lives. They were fine with black and brown people dying and in Elon’s case - for it. Remember this is the “empathy is the fundamental weakness of western civilization” guy. He’s a sociopath, straight up. We have to be clear-eyed about that.

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It has been 395 days of continuous demonstrations in Georgia’s capital, Tbilisi. Our citizens demand the resignation of Georgia's mostly illegitimate and pro-Russian government, the release of political prisoners, and the return to a pro-European course.

Chief Justice John Roberts has been working to neuter the Voting Rights Act since the beginning of his career—and he may soon achieve his goal, David Daley argues.

Dick Grenell and his ilk will defend the right of a homophobic baker to deny service to a gay couple, but they’ll attack a musician who doesn’t want to perform for fascists.

Nobody is taking advice from someone that married Stephen Miller.

What do Greenland, Honduras, Venezuela, and Nigeria have in common? The “network state” cabal—which includes Peter Thiel, Marc Andreessen, & Joe Lonsdale—has been circling them like vultures. 1/

I’m grateful for close to 600 people joining the fight for civil rights in America. Please call your members of Congress at 202-224-3121/202-225-3121. Tell them NO ONE can file a Fed civil rights complaint. Tump closed 7 of the 12 Reg offices. Meritorious complaints filed have been dismissed!

Did someone mention Honduras? 2/ bsky.app/profile/jenn...

3/ Did someone mention Greenland? bsky.app/profile/jenn...

Did someone mention Nigeria? “A Peter Thiel–Backed Startup City Wants to Be Africa’s Delaware ***Nigeria’s Itana partnered with Binance and the Charter Cities Institute to build a physical tech hub near Lagos, but the plan has sparked controversy.” 4/18/23… 1/ www.wired.com/story/itana-...

Kash Patel Is Dismantling FBI Counterintelligence www.thebulwark.com/p/kash-patel...

Another Saturday, another protest. Lately there’s been MAGAs coming to harass us. If they think they can scare us away, it’s not working. Today they had their Charlie Kirk flag and were joined by a new MAGA guy with a Veterans for trump flag. Such angry dudes.

🧵Have you ever heard of LLM-authored books being used as part of an disinformation operation? Well now you have! #AI #Disinformation open.substack.com/pub/marcowen...

Josh Hawley. Sounds like he’s all in with Bannon.