“Whatever complicates the world more I do.”—Trump, 1997 New Yorker profile. www.newyorker.com/magazine/199...

And the rest of these man, Jay Bhattacharya at NIH, Marty Makary at FDA, Mehmet Oz at CMS and Donald J. Trump share this responsibility, this culpability for the coming waves of suffering, sickness and death of children.

Dean Martin, born Dino Paul Crocetti, son of Italian immigrant Gaetano Crocetti Frank Sinatra, son of Italian immigrants Antonino Sinatra and Natalina Garavanta Merry Christmas to everyone except Stephen Miller and his enablers and handlers

How about the Ozymandias Kennedy Center? Or the Ruth’s Chris Performing Arts Jamboree.

An absolute bedrock institution for understanding how the planet works, just civilization-scaled vandalism by the most incurious morons on Earth

Many of the Christmas songs that Miller’s Christian Nationalist pals will be enjoying this season were written by Jewish immigrants who, like Miller’s ancestors, were considered at the time to be unassailable threats to American civilization who should be prevented from becoming Americans.

Making America Poisonous Again.

The medicine prize will go the clowns who just delisted the HepB vaccine.

Because I have sucky hobbies, I have followed the Social Security 'reform' debates for a long time, and those can't hold a candle to these ACIP meetings in terms of aggressive disingenuousness. It's really *that* bad.

We can no longer trust the C.D.C. for vaccine recommendation. We must turn to reputable medical and public health groups for guidance www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/h...

Revolutionary war history in the Bronx. Ironic that the war was to get rid of people who lived in castles.

Apart from being a heartbreaking meditation on death, the fury Tatiana Schlossberg feels towards her shithead cousin RFK Jr. radiates off this piece www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Reminder that DHS and ICE were created under the Cheney/Bush. So Cheney is directly responsible for the evils we see on our streets today.

As Gore Vidal said upon the death of William F. Buckley: "Hell is bound to be a livelier place, as he joins forever those whom he served in life, applauding their prejudices and fanning their hatred.”

The amount of additional energy ocean waters have available to fuel storms is impossible for the human mind to fully grasp. phys.org/news/2020-01...

A Freudian analysis… www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/united...

JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing. Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵

Donald Trump pardoned the “Camp Auschwitz” guy, dined with Holocaust deniers, and said, “any Jewish person that votes for Democrats hates their religion.” The Young Republicans chat isn’t a coincidence. It’s a culture.

"House slave." Think about this for a brief moment. Think of just how fecal and vicious a man has to use such a term in this context. This is leadership by the absolute worst of us, the most vile trash that we could scrape from the gutter and elevate to govern a nation.

Hey, normal people, tracking disease and keeping people from unnecessarily getting sick and dying is a "Democrat-thing." Vote accordingly.

Shut up and eat your gagootz.

Wait til they find out about Trump!

I see this and I think of all of my friends who have lost media jobs and in many cases their whole media careers despite actually doing good work and being intellectually honest while this cynical charlatan has bullied and bullshitted her way to the top. bsky.app/profile/npr....

Written 55 years ago, Schulz's heartfelt clarity cuts through the noise, even today. h/t @tisserand.bsky.social

What they actually said was, “We’d wait for you to come to your senses but biden we’d all be dead.”

Stand Up for Science: Statement on Compact Corrupting Higher Education "(W)hen the White House takes over what is defined as 'truth' regardless of scientific evidence, we are no longer in a free nation" - @standupforscience.bsky.social

Trump believes that all of the United States and everything in it, including you and me, is now his personal property.

In light of today’s absolutely fucking deranged “I’m in a war movie” speeches by Trump and Hegseth, I give you the plaque at West Point.

This is no time to take a phone call.

In personal news, the right's persecution of free speech has come to outdoor media too: wessiler.substack.com/p/outside-ju...

I assume he’s still stuck on it.

The destructive nature of the current feudalized version of capitalism needs to be talked about more on social media.

"In the name of 'fighting antisemitism', the Trump administration is publicly making an example out of arguably the most famous Jewish public intellectual in the country today."

Chimps consume alcohol equivalent of nearly 2 drinks a day. It's the latest evidence in support of Robert Dudley's controversial "drunk monkey" hypothesis. arstechnica.com/science/2025...

Review revealing 'shame' among troops deployed to cities accidentally sent to WaPo www.rawstory.com/trump-nation...

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"The GOP is signing on to mass murder of children based on the novel theories of a man who has no party ties except a single Trump endorsement. It is a measure of the party’s utter hollowness, brokenness, and evil that even in this case, it can barely find the resources to demur."

I wrote about the immolation of the CDC defector.com/rfk-jr-is-ma...

An actual president would respond, “These people who want a dictator don’t understand what our country is about. Anyone who wants a dictator should leave for a dictatorship. It won’t end well for them.” But we don’t have an actual president. We have an ignorant psychopath.

if you're not from or have never been to new york i cannot stress enough how normal the subway is 99% of the time. kids take it to school. everyone is basically chill. you learn to be in proximity with harmless weirdos or minor irritations pretty quick. for all its issues it's an incredible thing

19th Century Fox knew all along they were lying about 2020 being stolen from King Turd www.mediaite.com/media/tv/fac...

“Kennedy would be less hazardous if he decided to do cardiac surgery. Then he would kill people only one at a time,” writes former CDC Director William Foege. www.statnews.com/2025/08/18/r...

10 days ago a guy lost in Anti-Vax madness fired **500 bullets** at the Centers for Disease Control and killed the first cop who came to stop him. The cop was Marine Veteran David Rose, whose name has somehow NOT been a national story since the day he was killed. taskandpurpose.com/news/marine-...

Parents, be vigilant against PragerU instructional materials in your kids classrooms! It’s an extremist outfit masquerading as an educational nonprofit. It’s a far right wing response to PBS kid’s programming, it is propaganda designed to appeal to children and careless or bigoted educators. Beware!

I for one am not proud of the confederacy

@umpireplb.bsky.social You’re mentioned in @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social newsletter today. “And a hats off for the examples set by women such as Postema, Ria Cortesio, Bernice Gera, Christine Wren, Emma Charlesworth-Seiler, Perry Barber, Theresa Cox Fairlady, and the others who blazed the trail…

“I actually think the government is playing out a classic antisemitic routine... Blame it on the Jews — ‘The reason that all the research funding is gone is because of the Jews.’” forward.com/fast-forward...

I have spent multiple weeks working on this story. We are not dropping it. I hope you will give this a read.

“You’re rich, but don’t think you understand the rest. Ineptitude arises in prosperity,” Polyidos tells the king. “You are foolishly trying to overturn the established laws and throw the rules into confusion.”—Euripides, about 2500 years ago.