A maternity ward doctor donated his own blood during surgery to keep a pregnant patient alive. One woman gained fewer than 10 pounds over her entire pregnancy. Another collapsed and had seizures during labor.

MN GOP openly admitted today that they conspired with the racist YouTuber who ginned up these racist attacks

We found more than two dozen cases of immigration agents using "less lethal" weapons in ways that appear to flout the government's own rules, including by aiming at someone’s head, spine or groin or deploying chemical agents near children. Published Nov. w/ @frontlinepbs.bsky.social

We had congressional hearings when parents just suspected heavy metal was leading some kids to suicide.

#BREAKING | Israeli channel i24 reports that Israeli troops are erasing evidence of their war crimes in Rafah and other Israel-controlled areas in the Gaza Strip before international journalists can get in.

damn. I just searched and the piece I wrote for them years ago about domestic violence and Title IX is gone

President Trump announces 50% off end of year sale for presidential pardons.

Turns out people still actually link climate change to stuff happening in their actual lives and care about action being taken on it, despite the now widespread idea that we need to stop mentioning it to be successful www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Why are you as a man having a pet?

Absolutely.

At the current rate, DOJ will be finished releasing the Epstein files in July, 2030* *15,000 documents/30,000 pages per month, provided they're being honest about how many documents they have.

The week has been off the charts warm for much of the country!! Top: Departure from normal last 7 days (dark red +20°) Bottom: Record highs day by day. Hottest US Christmas on record by a long shot!

Merry Christmas. Let’s take a breath, but the gift our kids need from us isn’t under the tree, it’s us fighting to end the system doing this to their futures.

Cruel: Education Department to Start Garnishing Pay of Defaulted Student-Loan Borrowers www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

get everyone gambling on their phone and then charge them for losing is actually pretty funny

this is insane to me. the doj had forever to look into this. now they're like liveblogging on x like they have no more information than a random person on social media

Among the newly-released Epstein files. This Justice Dept email from Jan 2020 'I wanted to let you know that the flight records we received yesterday reflect that Donald Trump traveled on Epstein's private jet many more times than previously has been reported"

"Of those infected, 145 were unvaccinated, three were partially vaccinated with one of the recommended two-dose measles-mumps-rubella vaccines, one was fully vaccinated and four had unknown vaccination status." www.reuters.com/business/hea...

I don’t mean to sound extreme, but I don’t think we should have torture camps for people with criminal records either.

The wave of unanimous acquittals this administration has faced prove precisely that shared values in a community can be an effective bulwark against state power. Miller's complaint boils down to personal outrage that most jurors do not agree with the laws he is trying to impose.

I am still shocked by the degree that casual racism has been completely normalized in the US. I shouldn't be after the last 10 years, yet I am.

"Looking through Victorian holiday cards is helping me understand why they used so much laudanum and cocaine."

Reminds me of this sadly relevant short story by the inimitable Ursula K. le Guin: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_One...

call us old fashioned but, if you've built a machine that makes child porn, we really don't care if can do anything else. unplug the machine.

Looking forward to Nancy Mace’s condemnation of these men in a women’s bathroom.

"'In the face of the US canceling all this funding for vulnerable countries, and then it’s still going to pay for this research to be done – that is really worrying,' @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social said..." 1/2 www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

“Heritage American” is the funniest shit. Like “YEAH MY FAMILY SPECIFICALLY WERE THE LAND STEALING GLASS BEAD CHEATING SLAVE DRIVING MOTHERFUCKERS THAT DID ALL THAT SHIT WOOO GO US” are you actually being fucking for real right now

Why would you need to put a pause on a story that has been meticulously fact-checked and lawyered? Sounds like the kind of story you’d want to run right away!

Most folks know the old Sam Vimes Boots Theory of Economics and Value, and it is NEVER more true than in the kitchen. Get the good knife set, save up for it. Get (or restore! It’s simple and cheap to do!) some good cast iron. Decent silicone or wood utensils. You’ll be safer AND they last forever.

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(🚨) The first-ever music album covering the Trump-Epstein Scandal is now on Apple Music. PROOF OF DEVILRY is 18 tracks and 83 minutes of music—with a 27-minute preview below—intended to educate the world on the biggest scandal in US history: a pedophile president. More links below in this thread.

Why did CBS delete this promo and cancel this from airing in full?

In the summer of 1950 most US newspapers ran an AP story about how race had become the main issue in the upcoming Georgia governor's race. Segregationist Herman Tallmadge, governor from '47 to '55 and then a Senator until 1981 made a name for himself by refusing to "apologize for being a white man."

An online marketplace is selling code modules that simulate the effects of cannabis, ketamine, cocaine, ayahuasca, and alcohol when they are uploaded to ChatGPT.

The concentration of wealth is at a historical extreme. In 100s of years of history bad things always happen at this point. The working class must urgently organise. Stop letting them divide people on migrants and other stuff. Its the same fascist playbook to distract from extreme wealth inequality.

“60 Minutes” abruptly dropped a segment about Trump deportees sent to a megaprison in El Salvador Sunday — two hours before it was set to air

Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.

This how you do it. Fuck these fascist fucks. Start reclaiming your civil liberties and human rights, including the right to privacy.

Trump's in the Epstein files over 600 times.

That’s suspicious. That’s weird.

now seems like a good time to remind you all to support independent, worker run, billionaire free, and/or reader funded news how and where you can.

All of these links went to promotion of this story earlier today. All these links are dead now — that's how thoroughly they've scrubbed this.

Public buildings will be increasingly important as cool, safe gathering places during heatwaves and other extreme weather events, which people (mostly the global rich) are making more frequent and severe through climate change, largely by burning fossil fuels. h/t @chrisbaraniuk.com

This photo has been removed from the DOJ Epstein webpage. By whom? For whom?

You would think they’d be better at this with the consequences being so high.

The atomic ensemble time scale at the NIST Boulder campus has failed.