The official death count in South Sudan is nearly 1,600, making it the worst cholera epidemic in the country’s history. But that toll is a dramatic undercount. ProPublica found newly dug, unmarked graves alongside roads and in backyards.

At the HHS announcement yesterday announcing proposed rules to ban GAC, they said trans people are "at the root of the evils we face" and are "a hatred for nature as God designed it and for life as it was meant to be lived.” Just in case you thought it was about concerns for proper healthcare.

Me: spends the last 9 years trying to explain some wheelchair users can walk and it doesn’t mean they’re faking WSJ: you know who’s had it too good for too long? People with invisible disabilities. Let’s stir up the ableists and cause problems for everyone in the airport!

YOU DUMB FUCKS. THIS IS ME. I have a scooter. I can walk. I can't, however, walk through 80 miles of airport. I can walk onto an airplane or through hallways. I can't walk the .5 mile to the convention center. People, get smarter, it's embarrassing at this point.

The White House claims the vote to rename the Kennedy Center was “unanimous.” That is false. I was muted on the call and denied the opportunity to speak or register my opposition. That is not consensus. That is censorship.

Interesting correlation here, it will be interesting to see how it pans out as it is studied further.

Was this some kind of trick question? Fortunately the dog makes an appearance promptly.

Trump adding his own name to the Kennedy Center - a memorial institution given its name after JFK was assassinated - is the most nakedly reprehensible and insulting act of cultural desecration by any modern US president. This is just beyond parody now. The man is mentally and cognitively unwell.

I know this is how they justify his rants but seriously? Even young school kids know better.

Last night, President Trump bombed another civilian boat in international waters, killing 4 more people and bringing the death toll of his illegal boat strikes to 99. These murders violate U.S. and international law and must be stopped.

🎶 He’s making a list He’s checking it twice He’s gonna find out if you work for ICE 🎶

The U.S. is giving dying mall vibes. I can't explain it, but you know I'm right.

[email protected] : Were you satisfied with the answers you’ve gotten so far in this classified briefing on Venezuela? AOC: Oh, hell no. It was a joke. This was not a serious intelligence briefing. This was the communication of an opinion.

My therapist and I had a nice conversation about me living a life of a creative and the only thing I really took from it was the need for Universal Basic Income.

Trump: "Venezuela is completely surrounded by the largest Armada ever assembled ... It will only get bigger, and the shock to them will be like nothing they have ever seen before — Until such time as they return to the USA all of the Oil, Land, and other Assets that they previously stole from us."

Venezuela has OUR oil in their ground??

A new and deeper analysis of Finland's basic income experiment has found that poor mental health was 33% lower (8 points) in the basic income group, whose only difference from the control group was UNCONDITIONALITY. Both groups got the same amount of monthly cash. www.demogr.mpg.de/papers/worki...

turns out you can actually have the right policy response to a crisis as long as you're not in the United States apnews.com/article/aust...

President currently feuding with a beloved American comedy icon who was murdered 24 hours ago.

Just in case any journalist or editor reading this is tempted to minimize Trump's Reiner post because it's a "showbiz thing" and "real" stories are happening: No. It's a President thing and a decency thing, and if you don't understand that those things are newsworthy, you are failing in your duties.

Slightly longer thoughts on the passing of Rob Reiner, and what a remarkable storyteller he turned out to be. whatever.scalzi.com/2025/12/15/r...

The President that never was.

Donald Trump maliciously mocks the brutal murder of Michele & Rob Reiner, and Republicans don’t bat an eye. But as soon as you quote Charlie Kirk’s views, all hell breaks loose.

UBI isn't meant to replace the income from all jobs, and we aren't going to lose all jobs, especially if we have UBI to maintain spending. What UBI excels at is functioning as a floor and a dividend to make sure everyone gets a rightful share and a cushion to prevent the worst + enable new pursuits.

Julia Hartley-Brewer: Why is colonialism bad? Me: “When Britain arrived in 1700s, India had 27% of global GDP. After 200 years of theft and millions starved to death, by 1947 India had 3% of global GDP, 90% living below the poverty line, a literacy rate of 17% and life expectancy of 27”

Sen. Jack Reed: "This is really outrageous. Mark Kelly is a veteran, he's fought in combat, he's an astronaut. And even was simply repeated what the law is. If a US senator can't do that, then this country is in profound difficulty."

He really doesn’t understand any of the most basic biology concepts at all, huh

Only in America

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Fox News’ Chief National Security Correspondent. We are about to go to war for oil, while citing a lie as justification. Again.

This should be the biggest story in the country right now. The sitting US President was extorting state lawmakers from his own party by threatening to withhold public money if they didn’t gerrymander for him. I don’t know how else to say it…

At what point did being completely wrong start counting as an “opinion”? Claiming vaccines cause autism isn’t an opinion. It’s utter bullshit. And then they say, “Well, that’s my opinion, you have to respect it.” No. I don’t have to respect stupidity. Fuck off.

I just finished my first run-thru of Fever Meme, watched the credits, and got a Blue Screen of Death... Which is funny because I am on Linux. Waiting a while to see if it is yet another gag...

I watched a video where a health educator was appropriately doing a takedown of a scaremonger video where a guy was shitting on all of the "crap" we put in rice. The crap: folate, two forms of vitamin B and iron I understand not knowing stuff, I don't understand not being curious enough to google

So much easier to just use the U.S. military to steal from other countries than to actually earn it or make deals, amirite? Thanks, John Roberts, for unleashing this lifelong criminal.

Just the US doing US stuff.

I just got off the phone with the National Weather Service and am alarmed to hear that the Skagit River will peak 4-5 feet above the record crest level. Please please please stay alert and follow evacuation orders. This is not just another flood.

Please enjoy my cartoon in today's Toronto Star

I will be a paying substack or whatever subscriber to the first one that calls him out. I will become a premium subscriber if they say, in essence, “the emperor has no clothes” to his face.

Missing my grandma who used to stop everything she was doing if she heard someone criticize vaccines because so many of her childhood friends slowly disappeared after they got polio, and ask people if “surviving” polio was really a positive outcome or if they had no idea what they were talking about

To clarify, it is so hard to give these diseases to kids this age with any food that’s readily available in this country, and you’d really have to go out of your way, and these are very slow-to-develop, painful conditions that cause overt, outward signs of sickness and suffering for quite some time…

The boats the regime is claiming are going from Venezuela to the US would need to refuel over 20 times to get to Miami. They are lying to us.

can’t believe Jared Kushner was unable to negotiate a meaningful and just peace with Putin

Striking a boat full of unarmed civilians is murder. The first strike was murder. The followup strike was also murder. We're not at war. It's not a "war crime". Everyone involved, including the POTUS, SecDef, the Admiral who relayed it and the person who pressed the button needs to be on trial.

"Branding individuals as 'narco-terrorists' without proof just to open the door to lethal force is not a legitimate policy,it’s a dangerous fantasy. It bypasses due process, shreds constitutional limits, and pushes America toward another unnecessary foreign war." -Senator Rand Paul (R)

Please enjoy my cartoon in today's Toronto Star

One of the most common replies in any discussion of universal basic income is "but how do we pay for it?" and not once do those same people ever question the costs incurred by not doing UBI. We spend $1.5 trillion every year on the costs of child poverty alone. Poverty ain't free, folks. WE ALL PAY.

#NeverPoilievre #NeverEverTrustAConservative #NeverVoteConservative

So am I.

I've said this before and I'll say it again: Democrats can't hold official committee hearings, but they absolutely can gather in a room and invite people to answer questions and stream it live and invite the press to cover it.