Removing identifiable items...? THIS. MUST. STOP. I don't know what we must do to wake up Americans who aren't paying attention. www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...

A+ trolling from Zelenskyy

A new investigation revealed that school districts and local governments are reportedly overpaying for supplies because of Amazon contracts that bind them to dynamic pricing. Rather than allow for competitive bidding, the deals “covertly raise prices and inflate costs for governments.”

👀👀👀👀 Release the Epstein files.

The Washington Post, owned by Jeff Bezos, just ran a headline saying the “Starbucks CEO deserves his big paycheque” Starbucks workers are currently on strike trying to get a living wage. They were offered a 2% raise while the CEO earned over $90 million Boycott Starbucks and anything Bezos owns

The war crimes are a distraction from Trump selling citizenship to rich foreigners, which is a distraction from his yellow skin, bandaged hands and cryptic MRI, which is a distraction from him demolishing the White House and the architect quitting which is a distraction from…

Americans saw the mass deportation plan in action. And the support collapsed. Independents have turned against it. Now sitting at minus 16. 🌊

All the threats from Trump and his henchmen to Republican state senators in Indiana failed. Mid-decade gerrymandering rejected. This is no small thing. Maybe some other Republicans will finally start to stand up to the Mob Boss.

Facing potential FDA rollbacks, US-based abortion seekers can count on global telehealth provider "Abortion Pills in Private," which is pledging uninterrupted access to abortion pills for Americans. @plancpills.bsky.social msmagazine.com/2025/12/08/a...

Republicans are trying to expand the Hyde Amendment, btw. ACA tax credits are set to expire on December 31st, but Republicans are using this expiration date to try to further limit federal funds for abortion. Read more: msmagazine.com/2025/12/08/r...

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MEDIA-OPOLY This cartoon aired only once during the original live broadcast on April 4, 1998, and was later cut from reruns and most official online versions due to legal concerns or simply being a sensitive topic for a major media corporation like NBC, which is now part of Comcast. #ProudBlue

Israeli ambassador to the United Nations calls occupied Quneitra, a province capital of Syria, part of the territory of the Israeli state

That look of surprise when the leopard eats your face

the true believers around nixon genuinely saw him as some kind of embodiment of the people and thought that congressional attempts to corral his authority were illegitimate on that basis. straight line from them to the executive power fetishists on the supreme court.

Inflation has gotten so bad that even Fox has no choice but to tell the truth But then, Newsmax is basically just Trump propaganda-so Leavitt can go there and lie with impunity

this pretty much guarantees months and months of performative bullshit by Trump and Ellison and right wing media about how Netflix ownership would be a woke antitrust nightmare, but letting Larry and his nepobaby son dominate U.S. media would be a delightful, populist spritzer

Two independent studies found that AI chatbots were better at persuading voters than political ads. The most persuasive bots also lied the most. This is something that humans working in psyops have known for decades. AI is psyops at scale. www.technologyreview.com/2025/12/04/1...

NEW: Elon Musk's Grok chatbot will, with minimal prompting, provide residential addresses of everyday Americans. Prompts as simple as "[name] address" immediately returned accurate home addresses of private citizens — alongside other personal info we didn't ask for. futurism.com/future-socie...

once again, "the supreme court will act as a bunch of partisan republican hacks" is the single most accurate heuristic for predicting its behavior, putting any coherent legal theory to shame because fuck you, that's why

Scathing dissent from Justice Kagan: "[T]his Court reverses that judgment based on its perusal, over a holiday weekend, of a cold paper record. We are a higher court than the District Court, but we are not a better one when it comes to making such a fact-based decision."

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It’s miles ahead of NPR’s “remarks that some say were bigoted”

1. BREAKING President Trump says he is granting a pardon to Democratic Congressman Henry Cuellar and his wife Imelda. Federal prosecutors said they accepted around $600,000 from an oil-and-gas company wholly owned and controlled by the government of Azerbaijan and a bank in Mexico.

Pete Hegseth blames “the fog of war” for blowing up 2 survivors clinging to the wreckage of a “suspected” boat carrying drug. Aside from the fact that the boat could have been a fishing vessel, as no proof has ever been shown to the public. Can we be sure it’s not the fog of tequila? #USDemocracy

We have a white supremacist government determined to terrorize and disenfranchise people of color. It's obvious. We need to say it, and we need to stop it.

The Trump administration has been virtually begging immigrants in the US to self-deport, even offering money. But some immigrants say it’s been nearly impossible. www.wired.com/story/trump-...

I'm sympathetic to the idea that progressives need to rethink procedural barriers to getting things done, and that this a crucial moment for American government. But we are witnessing a shift to authoritarianism right now. American needs not just a theory of power but also theory of accountability.

My hot take is that I don't give a fuck if someone without disabilities gets an accommodation. They get a slightly better grade on a test? Tests are just part of a grade or portfolio and also, who FUCKING CARES. I care that a disabled person isn't *penalized* for needing more time.

For anyone who knows anything about genocides and the incitement of genocidal violence, this is the kind of hair-raising stuff you find in transcripts of testimony before special tribunals.

Shredded cheese recall www.southernliving.com/f-d-a-recall...

“Last January, Trump gave a full pardon to…Ross Ulbricht, who played a central role in the digitalization of the international drug trade ***According to news accounts, from 2011-2013, Ulbricht facilitated more than $200M in transactions for weapons, stolen credit cards, & mostly illicit drugs.” 1/

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Every word that demeans us, dehumanizes us. So much easier to cast some as undeserving of civil rights.

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In case you’re wondering why Pete Hegseth is freaking out about a congressional video reminding the military not to participate in illegal orders:

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Every fucken member of the press that stood there silently while the felon called her stupid are worthless POS cowards. They ALL should have at least turned their backs on him and walked out. Only when he is called on his shit, will he stop.

This 👆 www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...

If they have a green card does that not make them a documented immigrant? This dehumanizing language is clearly designed to further rile up the base and stoke fear of marginalized individuals. They’re feeding the racist bigots and it won’t end well.

95% of authors are not making a living through book publishing. The public needs to understand this.

Viola Fletcher, one of the last two known survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre and a plaintiff in a symbolic lawsuit seeking reparations for the attack — one of the worst episodes of racial violence in American history — has died. She was 111.

Today, after months of requests, I toured the Broadview ICE Processing Facility. I want to share what I saw. The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.

I’m sure I’m gonna get dragged for this, but I think AI is bad. AI has completely ruined Google search and it’s created a lot more slop that needs to be avoided on the Internet.

Campbell's soup VP caught on tape trashing his own brand. Oof. www.clickondetroit.com/news/local/2...

Tim Snyder is in Mr. Rogers mode, encouraging us to look for the helpers. And he’s absolutely right. For all the horribleness (and it’s plentiful) there’s also so many good and brave people standing up to protect each other and push back on tyranny. Stay strong, friends. We can do this.