Here’s the piece www.nytimes.com/2025/12/24/b...

bari weiss saw this and decided that she had to hide it from the american public

Closing NCAR because it produces "climate alarmism" is like closing the fire department because it produces "fire alarmism" billmckibben.substack.com/p/a-low-poin...

55 years ago this morning, BANEBERRY—a 10-kiloton, weapons-related, underground nuclear test 912 feet beneath the Nevada Test Site—accidentally vented, releasing 6.7 million curies of radioactive debris, including 80,000 curies of iodine-131, the second largest venting in US history. (THREAD)

Dear FIFA: I think you're a joke, but I don't find you very funny. And to think how excited I was when they announced that the men's World Cup was coming to the US in 2026.

CARTOON OF THE DAY

Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents. They’ve had their necks kneeled on. They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear. At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them.

A president calling for the execution of elected officials is incredibly dangerous and un-American. It has no place in a democracy.

What happened, @nytimes.com? Why not stand by your original headline? Because it’s absolutely an accurate representation of this trash conversation. To publish this at all should be a fireable offense - but to publish it as women’s rights are being decimated is deeply immoral, bordering on evil

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Mamdani has demonstrated impeccable judgment on the most important issue, I think he’ll make a great mayor.

What's worse than masked, militarized federal agents occupying U.S. cities - and using lethal force against residents - evidently without training or supervision? Congress failing to demand accountability.

“Some say”: they should etch that on the tombstone of American journalism

The war zone in Portland is out of control.

The reality of Kavanaugh stops: American citizens dragged, tackled, beaten, tased, and shot by immigration agents. Citizens held in the rain while in their underwear. A pregnant citizen's door blown off while Kristi Noem watched. Important story by @nicolefoy.bsky.social of @propublica.org

The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And nearly 20 children, two of whom have cancer. @nicolefoy.bsky.social

Hey #FIFA what’s the point of giving people a “window” to get in line to buy #FIFAWorldCup tickets if it NEVER OPENS??

I kinda remember Trump pardoning a bunch of people for this, many of whom beat up cops and put them in the hospital. I think they were yelling something about the Vice President as they stormed the building.

My day so far. Thanks, #FIFA! #WorldCup

The sort of people the administration calls 'terrorists' : "[the 84 year olds] were rushed by federal officers “for no apparent reason.” She said her husband was leaning on his walker and wearing his Vietnam veterans cap as he was pushed to the ground."

Joni Ernst’s lifelong legacy for women serving in the military from her time in the Senate is Pete Hegseth. Every woman denied promotion, denied a job specialty, sexually harassed, or forced out for bs reasons, owes it all to Ernst and the Republican Party.

Earlier this year, ProPublica found that the sepsis rate in second-trimester pregnancy loss hospitalizations increased by more than 50% under Texas’ abortion ban. Here’s how we did our analysis. (Published Feb. 2025)

The Supreme Court simply has no legitimacy. Allowing racist profiling here but not allowing race to be considered for college admissions tells you all you need to know.

It’s almost as if Trump and Hegseth haven’t the faintest fucking clue how to defend a nation. www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

PRO PUBLICA: “.. at least three of Trump’s Cabinet members call multiple homes their primary residences on mortgages. * Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer .. * Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy .. * EPA administrator Lee Zeldin @propublica.org www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Military honors for Ashli Babbitt "tells those who gave their lives in defense of the Constitution that their oath was no more meaningful than the motivations of the mob that attacked the Constitution."

The Guardian has today printed the names, and where possible, images, of all the media workers killed in Gaza, as part of an international day of action involving more than 150 media organisations. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

It is very basic: mercenaries or PMCs are not valid security guarantors precisely because their lives are irrelevant for domestic audiences. The whole idea of having foreign troops in Ukraine to guarantee security is that their deaths would force the hands of the country deploying them 1/x

FULL SPEECH: Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker responds to Trump’s threats to Chicago: ‘We are watching and taking names’

A useful definition of Concentration camp that helps get beyond debates that might exclude certain camps from the term based on assumption that certain nations or governmental types don’t use them. #OneLongNight

NEW: Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has mobilized the Florida National Guard to pick fruit, sources confirmed today. www.duffelblog.com/p/national-g...

Worth remembering (and pointing out where necessary) that drawing equivalence between raiding Bolton’s house for documents and raiding Mar-a-Lago requires Bolton to have similarly dismissed and worked around demands for their return for months.

"It is a famine we could have prevented.. food stacks up at borders because of systematic obstruction by Israel. It is a famine within a few hundred metres of food.. a preventable famine sustained by complicity" Tom Fletcher from the UN on famine being declared in Gaza City

I think that would constitute one of the most significant Russia-related purges we have seen to date & with potentially severe consequences for US intelligence analysts' ability to report honestly and candidly on Russia related issues.

We are outraged and deeply distressed that armed federal agents came onto our campus—making arrests on the very ground where, in 1942, Japanese American families were forced to board buses bound for concentration camps. It was a deliberate act of provocation and intimidation.

Two Black Mom’s. Two Texas moms were forced to wait for urgent care after pregnancy loss. They died - The Dallas Morning News apple.news/Ar4R4ruBOT8K...

Last month, Anas al-Sharif sounded the alarm on starvation in Gaza. Israel accused him of terrorism. "We warned this felt like a precursor to justify assassination," said Jodie Ginsberg of the Committee to Protect Journalists. Today he was killed in a targeted strike on a tent housing reporters.

Just like Trump inviting the Taliban to Camp David, inviting Putin to Alaska stinks. The only legitimate reason for Putin to set foot in the U.S. is to arrest him as a war criminal and send him to The Hague for trial. Trump looks like a weakling trying to “Reset” with Russia.

Mo Salah is asking the right questions

NEWS --> An internal Homeland Security memo suggests Trump's use of military for domestic enforcement is about to get worse. It details top-level talks between Defense Department and DHS on what this should look like. Experts say it's alarming. We obtained the memo: newrepublic.com/article/1987...

Food-distribution points in Gaza have practically become death traps, @ibishblog.bsky.social argues. The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation may not have intended to create these conditions, but it now perpetuates them without correction and with full awareness.

With the rescue efforts now concluded, it has become clear that the Russian terror attack on an apartment building in Kyiv's Sviatoshynskyi district on 31 July, which killed 31 people and injured 179, is the second deadliest Russian war crime in Kyiv since the start of the full-scale invasion.

For almost 2 years, the claim of mass aid diversion by Hamas has been the pretext for Israel's illegal policy of obstructing & restricting aid to Gaza. It was never plausible. Now, as deaths from starvation mount, senior Israeli military officials admit that it was a lie.

This is a horror and America must not only stop funding it, but we must send aid to Gaza immediately

Since the spring, federal agents have been patrolling the government buildings in New York City, waiting to arrest migrants as soon as they step out of the courtroom, regardless of the status of their case. nyer.cm/YCIWwiY

Pause to consider what this means: The Trump administration will audit admissions data by race, color, and test score. RACE AND COLOR. COLOR. That’s exactly what Columbia agreed to do. When’s the last time that someone asked you what color you are? Are you sure the Trump admin agrees with you?