Letting people decide whether to vaccinate themselves and their children is like letting people decide whether it's OK to drive drunk. No just and open society should do that. ctnewsjunkie.com/2025/12/02/s...

I introduced a bipartisan resolution alongside Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick and @booker.senate.gov to commemorate World AIDS Day. This isn't just an honorary day. It's about acknowledging the 40 million people worldwide living with HIV/AIDS and those we've lost to this epidemic.

The White House is scrambling to rewrite the narrative about the boat strikes off the coast of Venezuela, including a second strike that was ordered on survivors who clung to the wreckage. Congress needs answers.

I've drawn 40+ cats reading books for authors and readers both. $75 for a drawing of any cat (your cat, friend's cat, imaginary cat) reading any book (YOUR book, their book or a favorite read). You get the digital illustration file to make stickers, bookmarks, posters or whatever— DM me to order

Polls are open in Georgia! Click the link below to see if you can vote today for Akbar Ali in Georgia's State House District 106 election mvp.sos.ga.gov/s/

I hate sharing his uninformed dementia bullshit, but JFC. Earnestly hoping Drunky Pete is as hungover as he looks.

I appreciate the reporting AND I want everyone to stop using criminal records as a stand in for whether people should or should not be harassed and deported.

“It’s a mockery of due process. It’s a mockery of our constitutional rights.”

Headlines in 1921 completely whitewashed the Tulsa Race Massacre. Today, the GOP continues America's total lack of accountability for racial violence.  Viola Fletcher carried the truth of Tulsa in her memory and testimony. While justice sadly did not arrive in her lifetime, we inherit her fight.

What if we razed every Data Center to the ground and salted the earth where they stood

Earlier this year, we documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests — a tactic experts say was rarely used before Trump took office. ICE claims its officers use a “minimum amount of force.” You can judge for yourself.

The conservative cultural project right now is to use the coercive power of the state to do affirmative action for bigots.

After years of struggling to find enough workers for some of the nation’s toughest lockups, the Federal Bureau of Prisons is facing a new challenge: Corrections officers are jumping ship for more lucrative jobs at ICE. By @keribla.bsky.social

The magnitude of the change over time is striking. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

Absolutely.

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...

S Carolina bill to execute women who have an abortion

This is Alina and Vladyslav. Russia murdered them yesterday in their sick human safari in Kherson. She was 34. He was only 6.

Putin is letting his soldiers HUNT Ukrainians in Kherson with drones — a genocidal human safari. Meanwhile, Trump wants to give Russia control of Kherson, so that they can finish the job. His administration supports genocide, from Gaza to Ukraine to Sudan to immigrants & trans people in the US

These small acts of resistance make my day.

Reading letters from the Princess Liselotte of Palantine, the German sister-in-law of Louis XIV, and it's wild because she had this super informal writing style that almost sounds like modern texts Like at one point she goes "wish to god my son didn't love holding chunks of bread like a peasant"

It's Fossil Friday! Suspended from the ceiling in the Museum’s Hall of Vertebrate Origins is Thalassomedon haringtoni, a plesiosaur that lived during the Late Cretaceous ~85 mil yrs ago. Its long, flexible neck probably helped in grasping rapidly moving prey.

Capitalism making you want to shop? The CDC Mutual Aid Network has a great shop and all proceeds help CDC workers in need. The team at altCDC knows the folks at CDCMAN (and can vouch for them) but receive no money from them.

“Two new Cochrane reviews show strong and consistent evidence that HPV vaccines are effective in preventing cervical cancer and pre-cancerous changes, especially when given to young people before they are exposed to the virus.” cc @jackiantonovich.bsky.social

Tell USPTO: keep patent challenges fair and open. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

this is just gutter racism

If you want to see how quickly everyone goes into manufacturing consent mode, compare the full-court press tonight to the response to any of the people ICE has shot in the last few months, some of whom died.

With DC shooter now identified as an Afghan national not the antifa secret agent White House hoped for a good time to remember the Trump admin has gutted domestic anti-terrorism capacity and reassigned many to finding grandmothers to arrest at immigration hearings.

Three websites used to create abuse imagery had received 100,000 monthly visits from Australians, watchdog says.

Contempt. That’s what this country needs to hear. That’s what this country needs to hear from men like *United States Senator Mark Kelly*. America needs *more* contempt for impunity for the law, morality and decency, and for one more thing – untouchable elites, like Trump, who never grew up.

We have said consistently that the Guard should not be here. It is unsafe for both members of the Guard and communities. Our deepest condolences go to the two West Virginia families who will now spend this season mourning the loss of loved ones who died while deployed unnecessarily.

www.potawatomi.org/blog/2020/11... Know your history #NAHM

NEW: Israel has committed at least 497 ceasefire violations, killing at least 342 Palestinians since the U.S.-brokered ceasefire between Israel & Hamas went into effect on Oct. 10. An Israeli ‘kamikaze’ drone targeted a car on a busy Gaza City street on Nov. 22, killing 5 Palestinians.

ABOUT DAMN TIME!!! 👏👏👏 Dems on the Oversight Committee launched a tracking system “to hold the Trump Administration accountable” for ICE/DHS fed abuses and misconduct. View what’s been documented so far or submit a new report: bit.ly/tellonice #TellOnICE #StopICE #ICEwatch #ICEraid #50501Movement

SCOOP—In August, nearly 200 current/former FEMA staffers published the Katrina Declaration, a whistleblower letter detailing all the dangers posed by current leadership. All current employees were put on indefinite leave, and now I've learned one has been fired in violation of federal protections:

Looks like @nypd.bsky.social is complicit. Get your whistles & your info together.

I don't think we're going to have a successful Amazon boycott till we break their monopoly on indie books. They have a clever strategy to build their monopoly, which any functional government would have banned: if you want your indie book listed in Kindle Unlimited, you have to be exclusive. 🧵

Trump, Hegseth, and Republicans think their meltdown shows strength, but it’s the opposite. They’re showcasing decorated Democratic veterans like Mark Kelly who make them look small and petty. They should pay more attention to lowering grocery prices than ridiculous threats of court-martialing.

"Stuffing is wet bread with pieces of wet celery stuck to it. Everyone says they love it, but they never prepare it on any other day of the year. The majority of the other side dishes are factory-rejected baby food."

Trump on leaked Bloomberg audio of Steve Witkoff coaching Russian policy minister Yuri Ushakov to manipulate him: "That's a standard thing. I haven't heard it, but I heard it was standard negotiation."

Collaborations: Kate Laity sljohnsonimages.com/2025/11/25/c...

The truly wild thing is this isn’t even true, a shit-ton of their oil reserves on paper are heavy tar sands and every US oil company will take one look at that at $80/bbl and walk away because it isn’t close to economically viable.

Do it if you can! Only support small/local businesses.

The sharp decline in US teenagers’ aspiration to get married and have kids… …is happening almost entirely among girls, not boys. At some point maybe men will start trying harder to understand that. www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/... | HT @conradhackett.bsky.social @pewresearch.org

More of this kind of reporting. Thank you. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

MPR reported earlier today that the number of Somali people in the entire *country* with TPS is 705. www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...

if mamdani gets this in every interview, republicans should always be asked to respond to the 76% of Black voters who think their party is "very" racsist

theionpublishing.com/shop/freemas... h/t @riennedetoute.bsky.social