“They’re denying that any of her birth certificates, which are from Laurel, Maryland, her records of immunization, medical records — they’re denying the authenticity of them. It is something I’ve never encountered.” www.huffpost.com/entry/us-cit...

During the first Congress in 1789, there was a debate over what title to use to address the President of the US. Suggestions included “His Elective Majesty” and “His Serene Highness” but they went with “Mr.” because the position is a chief magistrate who isn’t above the law

This is how you do it. Trump’s spiteful defamation suit against the Pulitzer Prize Board may backfire, as the latter is now demanding Trump’s psychological records, prescription medication records, and tax returns in the discovery process.

Jack Smith tells Congress he could prove Trump engaged in scheme to overturn 2020 election. (NBC News)

McDonald’s USA — Employee: $15/hr, no benefits — Big Mac: $5.79 McDonald’s Denmark — Employee: $22/hr, 6 weeks vacation, 1 year paid maternity leave, life insurance, pension — Big Mac: $5.49 Tell us more about how raising the minimum wage would affect the cost of hamburgers.

We are failing our kids

The human cost of Trump's gutting of USAID: By the time Tor Top’s mother was sick with cholera, the nearby clinic had been shuttered for weeks. He bundled her into a canoe & paddled toward the nearest hospital, 8 hours away. Less than halfway into the journey, his mother died. New, @propublica.org

It’s so tragic that vaccines were politicized and swamped with fear & misinformation. Measles was ancient history when I was a child. I’m old enough that chicken pox was the only childhood disease to worry about. But by all means let’s turn our backs on medicine & science 🤯

I am a student at Brown in communication with a friend at RIBC. There is an urgent need for blood donations to support RI. Donations in NY, NJ, MN, NB, DE or NJ can help supply RI. Spread the word. www.ribc.org/donate-blood/

“The National Wildlife Health Center in Madison is the only center in the country dedicated to preventing and detecting wildlife disease. Research at the facility, which has already lost about 30% of staff, includes bird flu, chronic wasting disease and more.” www.jsonline.com/story/news/2...

VA: is short staffed, barely providing adequate svcs to vets. Also VA: is compiling a doc that will very likely help DHS goons terrorize its already depleted workforce. “It seems like the [regime] is trying to reduce – not just the availability of healthcare for veterans, but for all Americans”.

“Faith leaders have been beaten, arrested, even shot with “less lethal” weapons, and church attendance has fallen significantly—by more than 50% in Spanish-speaking parishes in one Catholic diocese. But now there’s a plan to target Spanish-speaking churches nationwide during the holiday season”

“Despite its conspicuous coloring, it was the froglet's call that finally gave the species away. Scientists were able to locate the males by listening to their mating croaks.” #scicomm www.sciencealert.com/new-species-... 🧪 🐍

Child deaths under five believed to be rising for first time in decades "Donald Trump presided over the dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development. The impact of the cuts have been felt across the world," The Washington Post reports.

If you love freedom but don’t care if it applies to everyone, what you actually love is privilege.

Monsanto scientists ghostwrote this paper claiming the company’s proprietary glyphosate & roundup herbicides had no risk to human health. 25 years & 1300 citations later, it has finally been retracted — 8 years after the collusion was exposed. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

One way to think of the Trump Admin is as having SHIFTED the $$ we used to spend on curing cancer (and providing care to Veterans and protecting nature and etc) to snatching brown people off the streets.

If I had to bet, I'd bet no Republican health care bill gets voted on. They've nearly all voted or not voted to uninsure 15 million. They don't want ads explaining how they backed a bill that can never pass the Senate, which would raise insurance costs for at least 20 million more Americans.

They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.

The Supreme Court majority has decided that they are the fact-finders, and the facts are what they want them to be, and quite frankly if District Courts disagree, they can pound sand because they're not the ones in charge. They're right about the last part. But the damage they're doing is longterm.

Just before Thanksgiving, Yuanxin Zheng and his father went to a check in with ICE, and were both arrested Yuanxin is only 6 years old He was promptly separated from his father and handed to the Office of Refugee Resettlement We are treating this child as if he were a criminal

At 88 years old he is trying to re-establish himself… this will break your heart… but it’s what mean-spirited conservative policies do to real people…

As US hunger rises, Trump administration’s ‘efficiency’ goals cause massive food waste nevadacurrent.com/2025/11/26/a...

How US corporations are deliberately poisoning human consumers & other species with PFAS. time.com/7336883/epa-... #environment

And so it begins… the effects of Trumps BBB We received notice that our property taxes will increase by 16% in 2026. The county was quick to explain why since many were vocally unhappy… Much of tax increase due to Trump’s BBB. County has immediate $1.5 million cost increase for SNAP.

To recap: •Universal healthcare would save 68,000 lives & $450B annually •Every $1 spent on SNAP results in $1.80 boost to local economies & small businesses •The child tax credit decreased child poverty to a historic low of 5.2%, abolishing it increased it by 45% 1/2

The Trump administration inherited an economy that the Economist called "the envy of the world" in a cover story a week before the election and easily could've coasted on that success (again) but instead they set it on fire.

Every once in a while I go back and rewatch this performance, and every time I'm glad I did youtu.be/6SFNW5F8K9Y

PFAS have been linked to several kinds of cancer, birth defects, damage to the liver and immune system, and other health problems. The EPA plans to relax rules requiring companies to report PFAS products and weaken drinking water standards for the chemicals. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/22/n...

Just an absolutely gutting essay by Tatiana Schlossberg, a writer, mother of two young children, and cousin of RFK Jr who is dying of leukemia. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged. Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.

I'm. With. Him. ⬇️

“A measles outbreak in Arizona and Utah shows no sign of slowing, putting the United States dangerously close to losing its elimination status for the vaccine-preventable disease.” www.nbcnews.com/health/healt... - @nbcnews.com #Arizona #Measles #MeaslesOutbreak #Utah

Repost this everywhere you’re active on social media. Send to your friends and family who aren’t.

Government funding bill cuts food safety regulations. See the provisions for yourself www.snopes.com/fact-check/g...

This is a better answer than I gave on The Source to @kaitlancollins.bsky.social last night.

Women have had it. 2 out of 5 said they'd like to permanently move to another country. That's four times as high as in 2014. 21 points higher than among young men. Only 19% of men expressed a similar desire. No other wealthy country has numbers like these www.axios.com/2025/11/13/t...

Trump wants health insurance premiums to spike right after he allowed medical debt to adversely affect people’s credit ratings, while rolling out 50 year mortgages. But he loves you, MAGA. That’s why he’s building that ballroom for you.

This chart of consumer confidence is legit bananas. 🍌 (via GS) #UMich

Good stuff, reminds me of Sully Dog here on Bluesky, who uses Solo cups to explain things to devastating effect, and it couldn't be more clear: bsky.app/profile/sull...

Brother Warnock lays it plain.

Meta earns $3.5 billion every six months from showing Faceboon and Instagram users 15 billion “higher legal risk” scam ad impressions a day, internal documents state. That haul vastly exceeds how much the company expects regulators To fine it for running scam ads. www.reuters.com/investigatio...

The most important fight for democracy is taking place around redistricting. I made this video to break it down for you. Please watch and share. youtu.be/cEKnZlsFkFE