This seems very pertinent for families with trans kids. Please share. open.substack.com/pub/erininth...

Of course they did.

Nobody works this hard for this long to cover up something this bad unless they are guilty.

‘I have a female for him’

One LA, a local coalition of religious groups and other community institutions, has been convening civics meetings, which the group refers to as “freedom schools,” since the summer in response to immigration raids. religionnews.com/2025/12/18/l...

From Democracy News: "Citizens in Montana are now advancing a ballot initiative to get corporate money out of politics. While the measure cannot overturn Citizens United, it proposes the next best step, removing corporations’ authority to engage in political activities in the first place."

Yes. Thank you. You speak what I feel and think. I think we can refuse.

Adam Schiff, WTF?

The old view of skilled emigration as a 'brain drain' has collapsed after a generation of research. Skilled migrants cause innovation, technology transfer, and human capital investment in the countries they leave. The best summary is @mushfiq-econ.bsky.social et al.—> doi.org/10.1126/scie...

We have the signatures needed to bring a vote to extend the ACA tax credits—but MAGA Mike is canceling votes for the rest of the week, turning his back on the American people. Millions of Americans will soon see their health care premiums skyrocket because Republicans refuse to do their job.

Some of these are really good, and none of them is horrible. California laws going into effect in 2026 ban plastic bags, affect your streaming services and give more control over chatbots. | abc7news.com share.google/AFu6Ix25suXW...

They booked a bunch of 14 year old models to come to a Mar A Lago party, told them to dress sexy and tried to ply them with alcohol.

This is pure trolling. But my friends in Europe are rattled, and I can't blame them.

It's a shell game. Trump is taking money from soldiers' housing subsidies to "give" them $1,776 "warrior dividend" checks.

I don't often repost videos but this is worth watching. When both Robert Reich and Ed Zitron are yelling about bubbles, it's past time to pay attention.

Keep in mind that if you turn up a troubling inspection report, it doesn’t necessarily mean that your drug is compromised. Doctors and pharmacists advise that you not stop taking your medications. Instead, you should talk to your health care provider about any concerns.

NEW: The FDA won’t tell Americans where their generic drugs are made, so ProPublica did it instead. Use information from your prescription label to locate the factory and see if the plant has a history of inspection violations.

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Call your House Representative. Tell them to do everything possible to stop this. 1-202-224-3121

"Full-entry restrictions will be imposed on people from Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, South Sudan and Syria as well as Palestinian Authority passport holders." @bbcnews-world-rss.bsky.social www.bbc.com/news/article...

I am happy about this. open.substack.com/pub/thepilla...

The US Administration has banned Americans from *adopting babies* from much of the African continent. Adopting. Babies. What trait do those babies have that, when they grow up as fully American adults, would make them a threat to our country in any form?

Dr. Katelyn Jetelina, an epidemiologist and one of the nation’s leading scientific communicators, will advise the CA Dept of Public Health on the critical need to maintain public confidence in the institutions that keep Californians safe.

Oh: 42 faith leaders arrested today after chaining themselves to a SF immigration court. “The faith leaders, wearing religious garb from various denominations … stood in front of the courthouse doors, singing, ‘If you come for them, you’ll have to go through us.’” missionlocal.org/2025/12/fait...

"We find our political system frustrating largely because it was designed to frustrate us.... Our institutions do more to protect the wealthy than they do to represent ordinary people." Osita Nwanevu The Right of the People

Timothy Snyder today: "A basic reason that we have government is to prevent us from becoming a society in which we simply shoot one another all the time."

One reason why Republicans won't extend expiring ACA subsidies? Koch-backed lobby groups have spent over $1.1M pressuring GOP lawmakers to let 20M Americans' health insurance costs go up. Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.

In 2026, Novo Nordisk’s patent on semaglutide will expire in several countries, including India and China. Industry experts say semaglutide drugs will become cheaper and more accessible for patients with diabetes and obesity. cen.acs.org/pharmaceutic... #chemsky 🧪

I agree, this is a must read piece.

fascinating thread. give it a read.

Nazis. They are Nazis. Or as one angry woman on Bluesky said, they are fucking New Age overseers.

This is fucking grim. Somebody invented a white guy, an "IT professional" named Edward Crabtree, who stopped the Bondi shooting and spread it all over the internet, which was picked up by AI agents and slop aggregation sites. The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.

So there is already an ai-generated whitewashing campaign to bury the name of the Muslim man, Ahmed al Ahmed, who disarmed one of the Bondi Beach shooters, and replace his identity with a white guy name and that’s why even a thimble of our potable water powering this tech is too fucking much.

Worth reading. steady.page/en/democracy...

Sandy Hook Elementary School Newton, Connecticut December 14, 2012. 28 dead, including the gunman (20 year old Adam Lanza) and his mother.

Blessings. A great man. Without a gun.

"The right to revolution is not solely a right to overturn and destroy institutions, but to fashion new ones, because those who rule have perverted the old ones. The right to revolution is the right to create new forms." Sheldon Wolin

How long before Trump or Bondi or Patel blames the Brown University shooting on Antifa...

New preprint: Empathy, Thick and Thin papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... It is perhaps foolhardy to attempt to say something new about a topic as widely studied as empathy. I tried anyway! 1/

The DHS has moved to bar Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley from receiving federal funds for six years, targeting one of the nation's most prominent Catholic Charities affiliates and its internationally known executive director, Sister Norma Pimentel. religionnews.com/2025/12/12/d...

Back to the 40s and 50s. I lived through them. Chickenpox, mumps, not fun. Measles - lethal. Diptheria, whooping cough, awful. Polio -- shit. Are they planning to eliminate the tetanus vaccine? Rabies? Make smallpox great again?

DEC 15 2025: STOP BUYING STARBUCKS DAY Starbucks Baristas are asking us to stop buying Starbucks on December 15th. Remember, it's not customer vs. worker, it's the 99% vs. the 1%. Baristas are your labor family, let's all help them out! mailchi.mp/d86e5090fce2...

Yet another reason not to fly. Why should I knowingly pay money to a corporation that is cooperating with ICE when I have a choice?

And so, here we are.

Well now, would you look at that? A massive, 4-YEAR-LONG study of NEARLY 30 MILLION people in France found that individuals who received a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine had a 74% LOWER risk of death from severe COVID-19 compared to unvaccinated individuals and ZERO increased risk of all-cause mortality.

BILL BURR: “If someone’s working 160 hours a month and can’t make their rent, you’re not paying them enough. Maybe you should just be worth $900,000,000… How does a CEO take a f*cking 8 figure bonus and none of your employees have dental insurance?”