"The virus can lead to brain swelling, which can cause lasting damage, including blindness, deafness and intellectual disabilities..." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/w...

The thing you need to understand about the Right is that they are absolutely fine just plain burning down higher education if taking it over ideologically doesn’t work. They’re perfectly happy reducing it to ashes.

I have been teaching at Brown University for 16 years, and have considered campus and Providence as one of the safest places I've ever lived in the U.S. Still, it's happened here. My heart goes out to those students and families as they deal with this. We owe them better.

rare post that gets better with every single word

Start naming mass shootings after politicians who take money from the NRA.

This site is so much better than Twitter was and Threads is. Twitter brought out toxicity even before it became a Nazi bar and the algorithm on Threads is just awful outrage bait. It’s just a much more enjoyable experience. Feels much more like an online community.

Zoe Weissman survived the Parkland shooting. Now she’s at Brown, and it happened again. “Honestly, I'm really angry that this is happening to me all over again, and I'm just in shock.” We’re failing our kids. A gun-sick nation. 🇺🇸 www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

I normally don't get political on here but there are some students that survived the shooting at Brown University tonight that are survivors from shootings at their high schools. The US has failed it's children. There are just no fecking words any more.

For some reason it was important for Kash to be in the middle of the 1980 US Olympic Hockey Team in the Oval Office. The man always works so hard at the FBI.

It’s when my husband tells stories about the time he told a reporter he wanted her to have his baby, and then we learned all about felching, and the 37 affairs he documented in his diary during his previous marriage. There’s just no time like the holidays in the Kennedy house!

The Walk for Peace by the Buddhist monks across America. Are now being joined by Americans.

Lawless, criminal behavior

Happy 100th birthday!

Brutal but effective public health messaging from New York Public Health. The CDC is compromised. They’re no longer a reliable source of information. They push anti-vaxx & anti-science grift. Get your vaccines. Wear a respirator. Clean the air Get public health advice from experts, not RFK Jr

Good case from @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com for impeaching Pete Hegseth. A key point raised here is that we shouldn't ever assume anything is politically out of reach. Think big and it shapes a better form of opposition politics: www.liberalcurrents.com/impeach-and-...

What’s happening in Indiana right now is so important & it’s about more than maps. When the GOP stand up to Trump publicly, loudly, & with visible support, it creates permission. Permission to dissent. Permission to leave. These moments crack the illusion of unanimity that keeps people trapped.

As he celebrates his 100th Birthday this very day, can we all take a moment to acknowledge that time when Dick Van Dyke won the internet internet. Forever.

The taxpayers paying Trump to run ICE recruitment ads on Truth Social. The government is paying Trump’s company.

47% of Americans say they will have to cut back on Christmas. Trump shrugs! The ACA subsidies are set to expire 12/31/2025. Trump rolls eyes! “Affordability” is a real issue, not a Democratic Hoax as Trump thinks he can con you into believing. #ProudBlue #Voices4Victory #Pinks

No cherry-picking. No party filter. Just receipts. And a lot of powerful men are terrified right now. KASIE HUNT: “Do you have pictures of people engaged in sexual acts as part of this?” REP. SUBRAMANYAM: “Yes, there are people engaged in sexual acts.” @repsuhas.bsky.social

Utterly evil. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/u...

Good Trouble 🔥

Folks, the Dem establishment must be culled. They aren't your fighters. They don't care about you. They will not champion reform. Here's Exhibit 429 prospect.org/2025/12/12/d...

Ehud Barack and Noam Chomsky in this batch.

Republicans:"Oh ho ho, but what if Bill Clinton is in the Epstein files? Checkmate, libs!" House Democrats: "Check out this signed photo of Bill Clinton and Jeffrey Epstein."

Best news of the day and a real sign of AI progress.

we need more quilts with "tom homan is a bitch" patches

The DOJ has now filed a mandamus petition with the D.C. Circuit seeking to block Judge Boasberg from carrying out further investigations in the contempt proceedings surrounding the CECOT deportations.

Same. The pendulum swing could change the course of this nation for good and for the better, if only the people and the candidates have the courage to fix everything that's broken. Reconstruction 2.0. Let's go.

WOW. Xinis has just enjoined ICE from re-detaining Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

Garcia: "Some of the other photos that we did not put out today are incredibly disturbing"

Not great for him that in every picture with Epstein, Trump looks like the obviously sleazier one.

Wild story. Hegseth says that Geressy is his “best mentor.”https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/12/eric-geressy-goodreads-pentagon-dod-pete-hegseth-jack-posobiec-threat/

My brothers and sisters in Christ, I am an academic because I believe in the pursuit of truth, not power. If I’m explaining the historical origins of birthright citizenship in the common law, my intention is to educate and preserve history.

Trump threatened Indiana Republicans that if they didn't do what he wanted, he'd block all federal funds to their state but they ignored his threats and told him to pound sand. Take notes, college presidents.

This👇

Enten on Trump being 40 points underwater on healthcare: "That is gosh darn awful! It's horrendous ... the bottom line is Americans very much dislike Donald Trump on healthcare ... this is just awful politics for Republicans ... they don't buy the Republican spin at all"

As I grade exams, I hate the constant underlying question that runs through my head: could this be AI? Can I ever really know or prove it if I am concerned? Is it past time to rethink methods of assessment? What are the costs and benefits of the alternatives to myself and to my students?

JUST IN: Kilmar Abrego Garcia left a check-in at Baltimore ICE this AM without being detained, his lawyer said, after claim by feds last night that they fixed as a 'scrivener's error 'an immigration judge's failure to order Abrego deported in 2019. Doc: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Let me pull up my Code of Judicial Conduct….

Breaking: A federal judge just blocked the government from detaining Kilmar Abrego Garcia again at a scheduled ICE check-in this morning. Abrego was detained during a similar scheduled check-in in August.

Honestly if these standards of lawyering are permitted it will no longer rightly be called a “profession.”

this is 100% accurate and why the mainstream media constantly downplays negative stories about steve bannon

I cannot wrap my head around this. Contempt. Sanctions. Discipline. All are warranted.

NEW: President Trump signed an executive order that threatens to withhold funding from states with AI regulations that work to ensure the technology is safe, trustworthy, and nondiscriminatory. This doubles down on a harmful policy that the Republican-led Congress rejected twice already.

The ongoing theme of the Garcia case is that of an authoritarian regime so unwilling to admit it was wrong that it will weaponize every act of the administrative state it controls (incl immigration judges now) to impose their lawless outcome