Donald Trump is a convicted criminal. He is objectively pro-crime. The Trump administration is a criminal organization. He is turning the U.S. into a mafia state.

#Microplastics are increasingly detected in human tissues, with potential links to cognitive, cardiovascular, and inflammatory outcomes. 📌 Learn more in this JAMA Insights: ja.ma/4seHs0n

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How effective is protesting? According to historians and political scientists: very www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Newly discovered recordings show how far Donald Trump went to attempt overturning the 2020 presidential election results in Georgia. Trump told the Speaker he could call the session “for transparency, and to uncover fraud,” adding, “Who’s gonna stop you for that?” trib.al/uicRmnz

Reposting gift link to the WSJ article about buying Trump pardons since it is being cited so often.

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What’s happening with American media, American education, and America’s approach to places like Greenland & Honduras harmonizes with the “network state” movement (backed by Thiel, Lonsdale, Andreessen, etc), which calls for the construction of “parallel institutions” and “parallel societies”. 1/

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5/ Did someone mention Freedom Cities? bsky.app/profile/jenn...

4/ Did someone mention Venezuela? 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-...

Even before menopause begins, hormone shifts change how your body uses energy and builds muscle. Strength training, protein and sleep can help women counter rising insulin resistance and muscle loss. buff.ly/Cqo6hv5

Ther insatiable greed is killing us. Literally.

The year ahead: Stacy Gregg, one of Aotearoa's most internationally successful and locally awarded writers believes in peace on earth, empathy and goodwill to mankind – but not here and not now.

"far-right groups have seized on cultural production – from clothing brands to top 40 music – to normalise their ideas, in a process that researchers say has hit new heights in the age of social media." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

While Amazon is investing billions of dollars to expand AI, independent bookstores are hosting community events, personally recommending books to readers, and providing a space that is safe and welcoming during a time when we need them most. Never underestimate the power of a local bookstore.

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

And now Kirkus AND Evanston Public Library! I have never had a book appear on so many Best Books of the Year lists, and it's honestly a little overwhelming. Thank you so much to everyone who has shared THE TROUBLE WITH HEROES this year and continues to put it into the hands of just-right readers. ❤️

Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn’t Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, or Alice In Chains.

Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn’t Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, or Alice In Chains.

I just taught my lecture course on mid-20th c US history, which starts with Harding and concludes with Nixon. For the first time, I had to pause and stress that those scandals were actually shocking at the time and, what’s more, that Americans actually demanded people be held accountable.

A 'Malignant Narcissist' is a severe personality type combining traits of NPD with antisocial features, marked by grandiosity, lack of empathy, manipulation, and aggression, often finding pleasure in others' suffering, exhibiting paranoia, and actively exploiting and harming people without remorse.

Barely a blip in the news. 🦗from the New York Times editorial and opinion pages. Compare with days of Hunter Biden Hysteria about unprecedented abuse of the pardon power.

“We can find money to build an arch and a ballroom that are completely unnecessary and tax cuts for billionaires. But we can’t insure people medically in this country. It’s unconscionable.” Story on how small business owners/freelancers will be forgoing health coverage. www.cnn.com/2025/12/27/p...

Two of my Trumper friends - from childhood - routinely complained to me about how America has screwed them over: One calling from his boat, the other from his in-ground pool. You can imagine what I said to them, and at what volume

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Marco Rubio's wife is still on the payroll of Miami car king Norm Braman's foundation. She was paid $56k in 2024 to "advise" the foundation on donations. The only donation in 2024 was a $1M one to the Greater Miami Jewish Federation which Norm donates to every year....

Well, this map is enough to cement my decision to mask up in local errands...

NEW: last night, the US govt launched an assault on the ‘global censorship industrial complex’, aka European tech researchers/campaigners. It’s a deeply chilling move & speaks as to why we need international solidarity more than ever. open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

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Between defending the honor of Mexico’s working-class bread culture to ranking the best tacos in L.A., these were L.A. TACO's most-read food features of the year. The full list: lataco.com/best-food-st...

#Mglit #bookreview WAR GAMES is at YABC! yabookscentral.com/middle-grade... #historicalficiton #WorldWarII #Olympics #Nazi #Germany

After President Trump signed a tax cuts package in July, Oregon estimated it would lose $888 million in state tax revenue. A novel workforce development program for incarcerated Oregonians is now set to lose its funding.

Due to a missile attack, parts of Kyiv and the surrounding region are plunged into darkness. 'We won’t see light in our homes today… Children warm themselves by bonfires because there is no heating at home. We are huddling together with neighbors, facing another difficult winter together!'

Technically, ‘should of’ is ‘should have,’ but we’re all about showing grace in the new year.

The president’s party almost always loses seats in the midterms. Seeing the odds, more than two dozen Republican House members have already decided to retire. buff.ly/4d0IVDM #polisky #election

With the recently released details of Steve Bannon's chummy relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, I'm re-upping this newsletter from last month about how major media give their version of a "pardon" when they fail to mention the criminal pasts of people like Bannon.

1/ Trump is becoming increasingly defensive about the release of the Epstein files. Transparency isn’t a hoax — unless it applies to Trump. DOJ is already out of compliance with the Epstein Transparency Act.

At this point, I hope we learn that Trump really has been blackmailing A.G. Sulzberger the XXVI all this time, because if that failgreatgrandson has been kissing his ass like this on his own free will it’s going to be depressing as hell.

Finally had a chance to read this Incredible piece by @gregsargent.bsky.social that documents Miller’s attempt to undo and reverse the 1965 immigration settlement and reveals how central this effort is to the administration’s reactionary aim to take down the New Deal and civil rights orders.

8 BIG STORIES OF 2025 STORY 3 - Purge inside Justice Dept youtube.com/shorts/EnNYN...

We are the heroes we are looking for. ❤️

ICYMI: A group of Democratic senators this week sent a letter to the Government Accountability Office demanding an in-depth look at how the looming expiration of health insurance subsidies under the Affordable Care Act will impact hundreds of thousands of veterans and their family members.

In 1996, why wasn't Epstein’s Southern Air Transport (SAT) Iran-Contra planes trafficking drugs stopped? Because it was the CIA. All same bs with CIA Bush, Mary Carter Paint, Trump and Resorts International. Every war was the same. All for profit. #Merchants_of_Death

When USAID cuts came, people died because life saving food, water, and medicine, dried up. That left groups who didnt rely on USAID to fill the void. One org, Alaska Health Project South Sudan, showed me how they are fighting like hell to do exactly that. I hope you will read:

J. D. Vance & family reportedly are spending the holidays at the Yellowstone Club in Montana. Again in Montana.