Trans youth healthcare is based in decades of research and supported by every major medical organization in the US. Under RFK Jr, a handpicked panel produced a dodgy report claiming otherwise. It's a clear example of Kennedy's war on science. So why aren't news organizations treating it that way?

“It's an invisible need... an invisible center... helping invisible people. Meanwhile, I'm haunted by the invisible impact of the insatiable greed” @ricksteves.bsky.social I love you

The story is insane. The acting head of cyber security, a Noem crony, repeatedly demanded to see highly classified information he didn’t need access to, and when staff set up a lie detector test as a condition to grant him access, he failed it. So DHS suspended the staffers.

“Traffic lights across the city were down, seemingly confusing the driverless cars —& halting them in their tracks. Riders and pedestrians posted videos of Waymos stuck at intersections, long lines of drivers behind them.” Less well known— driverless cars contribute to traffic congestion EVERY day.

DHS said that accusations of abuses in Camp East Montana are “clickbait.” But 911 emergency calls from the massive detention center I obtained paint a different picture, with emergency being made for life-threatening illnesses and acute mental health crises. My story:

Dr. Kirk Moore did not deny giving fake COVID-19 vaccine cards and throwing out vaccine doses. “All that stuff is true,” he told @sltrib.com and ProPublica. He also repeatedly made the unfounded claim that the vaccines were “bioweapons.” By @jessicamiller.bsky.social

Makes me proud every time! Did you know we’re shipping whistles anywhere in the US? Email whistlerequests [at] proton [dot] me for your free 3D printed whistles. We’ve sent over 30,000 so far in December!

The Guardian reports that the bureau has launched cases in 23 regions across the U.S. related to “threats against immigration enforcement activity.” The investigations fit into the new NSPM-7 national security strategy targeting supposed anti-American activity on the left.

The contrast between ordinary citizens courageously confronting Trumpist bullying, and billionaires and CEOs obsequiously bending the knee– this spectacle in its clear simplicity provides a lesson we should not forget.

I vehemently and unequivocally oppose the Dulles South Innovation Center in its entirety and I’ll work with whoever it takes to defeat it. I’ve absolutely had it with data centers in Prince William County. No more. No exceptions. Defeat DSIC and PWDG. www.princewilliamtimes.com/localnews/br...

“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...

Trump is taking money out their housing allowances approved by Congress and giving it to them in a “bonus” so it looks like it came from him. It’s just a shell game with military pay from the ultimate con man

Despite having an office of hundreds of attorneys, Ken Paxton is frequently opting for private lawyers — many to whom he has personal or political ties — to argue on behalf of Texas. One attorney cost taxpayers more than $24,000 for a day’s work. With @texastribune.org

The U.S. government is trying to figure out a way to pay people for reporting on anyone who supports trans lives.

James Talarico: There are 2 billionaires in Texas, Tim Dunn and Farris Wilks, who basically run our state government. Most Texans don't even know their names, but every GOP member of the state Senate has taken their money. They use that influence to shift our state into a far-right direction.

As far as I can tell, RFK Jr.'s latest antivax stunt runs counter to the WMA Declaration of Helsinki. Withholding HepB vaccination clearly does not meet any definition of clinical equipoise. Doing it anyway, overseas, is straight up colonialist medicine. Details in Dr. Jacobs's thread below.

#ResistanceUnited The President’s Cancer Panel is now headed by Harvey Risch, who has speculated about a link between Covid-19 vaccines and “turbo cancer” in young people and works as chief epidemiologist at a company that sells ivermectin as a cancer treatment. www.wired.com/story/risch-...

🚨”This is shameful. This is shameful.” The NTSB is speaking out against a proposed change in a pending military spending bill (section 373) that would grant the military unrestricted access to congested airspace over the DC area. She states these changes will pose significant risk to 1/2

Amid ICE crackdowns on Somali immigrants, a local outlet relies on time and community trust to tell stories others can’t. Read Riddhi Setty. www.cjr.org/the-intervie...

The media needs to stop writing headlines like “The CDC changes course on vaccines and autism” and “The CDC defends measles response”. NONE of this is coming from legitimate scientists at the CDC. ALL of it is coming from RFK Jr. Every such headline is causing further harm to public health.

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DHS clearly has an official nationwide policy of threatening people who attempt to follow, record, document, and protest their activities. The DOJ asserts that this is “domestic terrorism” activity. 🤬😡🤬😡🤬😡

Here is the Department of Homeland Security touting this new ban by describing the (among others) spouses and children of U.S. citizens coming on visas as "foreign invaders." It has never been about legal versus illegal. They hate legal immigration. They want to stop it. That's the story.

Despite the fact that a significant number of swing-district Republicans want to join Dems to vote for a clean bill to extend ACA subsidies which would easily pass the House, Mike Johnson refuses to bring it to the floor. NBC:

I'm not sure if people realize the murder strikes are taking place across a large region. It's quite staggering. www.newsweek.com/map-us-strik...

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The Constitution guarantees your right to follow, record, protest, and notify others about the agents and what you see. These are core First Amendment rights, and DHS has clearly ordered its agents to threaten and violate those rights. cato.org/blog/dhs-pol...

DOGE continues to pose a risk to American democracy.

trump’s regime is so obsessed with controlling his image that it told a federal court deaf Americans’ civil rights matter less than how he looks on camera. When accessibility is treated as a nuisance, democracy is already lost. #AuthoritarianOptics

When the streets start telling the truth, it’s because the institutions won’t. What’s become painfully obvious is that ICE agents aren’t trained to make us safer. They’re just recruits who thirst for power, violence, and cruelty. [street art from around the country]

Another one from me: The Trump administration has omitted data about trans people from prison sexual violence reports. prismreports.org/2025/12/11/d...

This week a subcommittee in South Carolina debated S323, a bill these three MAGAs wrote that would allow executing women who get an abortion.😳 Here I include the names & numbers of these MAGA extremists in case you want to share your thoughts on their fascism. www.qasimrashid.com/p/s-carolina...

Holy shit. Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

"We can't allow fact checkers into the country" is late-stage USSR shit, real end-of-empire stuff

Trump just attacked a woman reporter for the sixth time in the span of a month.

Video footage shows Israeli bulldozers forcibly uprooting hundreds of Palestinian olive trees in Qaryut, a village south of Nablus in the occupied West Bank.

Let me just say: I have run more than a dozen marathons and an ultramarathon and I have worked 13-hour days in a cornfield in the scorching-ass sun, and none of those things broke me like breastfeeding. It’s not a question of will. I am a determined person. Sometimes your body just WONT DO IT.

This is absolutely awful. This was one of the best resources for climate indicators data, and my go-to share for help answering public questions. Luckily I captured some of them on my new U.S. climate page a few months ago: zacklabe.com/united-state...

The great @willbunch.bsky.social of the @inquirer.com on the frontlines of the new American Revolution where apps and whistles have replaced Paul Revere's lanterns. -GIFT LINK- So everyone can read this terrific article. share.inquirer.com/zWayqH

Crowds are showing up🔥 Brooklyn and the Bronx both hit capacity as New Yorkers train to protect their communities from #ICE and stand up for their neighbors. More trainings are coming, and a full weekend of community action is set for Dec 12–14. Sign up: HandsOffNYC.com

He says the men they murdered are on a list. Let’s see the list. Let’s hear their names. Show us the evidence. If you have any. www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

Ann Lowe was the Black genius behind Jackie Kennedy’s iconic wedding gown. Before the fashion world was ready to credit a Black woman’s talent, Lowe was already designing for America’s most powerful families. Brilliant. Bold. Innovative. Undervalued. And nearly erased from history.

It happened again: The Trump administration has admitted illegally deporting a man to Guatemala despite an immigration judge's order that he was likely to be tortured there. A judge has ordered the administration to facilitate his return by next week.storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The Tasselled Wobbegong is a master of disguise that can eat a fish almost as big as itself in one gulp. It's classified as a shark, but when it lays on the sea floor it looks like a harmless rug if you manage to see it. But with powerful jaws and sharp teeth they are no fish to mess with.

This really is grotesque: they went through years-long citizenship processes and are now being denied simply because if the country they are from. It’s formalized bigotry.

The fact that four hostile drones tried to hit Zelenskyy’s plane & it’s barely a blip in the news cycle should terrify everyone. We’ve been dragged so deep into the chaos era that an attempted strike on a world leader doesn’t even break through. When this becomes normal, the world is in real danger.

Disabled people will lose access to care if enhanced premium tax credits expire. These help make healthcare affordable for self-employed freelance and contractors. We need action before the end of 2025. Reporting by @juliametraux.bsky.social in @motherjones.com: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

ICE is refusing to accept federally recognized tribal and military IDs and is detaining Native Americans and uniformed soldiers of color. It’s absolutely outrageous that US citizens should have to carry a passport to safely leave the house because of the color of their skin. This is so fucked up. 🤬

Idaho, Washington, Montana, and Arizona were among the states that held tribal consultations or listening sessions.