It's that time of year

2/2 Sen Bill Cassidy, a liver-disease MD, complains about this ruling, as I am doing. Here's the difference: He, personally, could have prevented all the resulting casualties, by casting the swing vote against RFK Jr. That's a power the other 330+ million of us lacked. Don't let him forget it.

The decision by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to downgrade its recommendations to protect infants from hepatitis B is a dangerous move that will harm children. Click here to read AAP's full statement: bit.ly/3Y9ZQJT

Today’s action to weaken the birth-dose recommendation for the Hepatitis B vaccine disregards data supporting the effectiveness of the Hepatitis B vaccine, and creates confusion for parents about how best to protect their newborns. Full statement: spr.ly/633227f3XE

Generally, it is #legal to film law enforcement if they are in a public place within public view, said Scott Sternberg, a New Orleans-based First Amendment lawyer. Police also cannot stop you from filming, he said. www.nola.com/news/new-orl...

The agonizing long tail of disaster recovery is underexplored. I think a lot about this 2024 study finding that when a hurricane hits somewhere in the U.S., the people there are more likely to die *for the next 15 years*. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

“crime against humanity” think of the Nazis’s multiple programs of summary execution of civilians and captured soldiers in uniform

I feel like one of the most underrated explanations for what's happening right now in global politics is that almost everyone has lost their minds.

The reality, of course, is that Miller and a significant portion of Trump’s base are the ones who failed to assimilate to America’s post-WWII culture of multi-racial democracy & religious pluralism…and they are now using their power to destroy that once dominant (and still popular) American culture.

Also a category that includes his mother, paternal grandparents, and two of his three wives. But of course that's different, because neither he nor de facto President Miller actually care about immigration as such. They care about racism, and it's a farce to concede the pretense it's anything else.

Guillotines

Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷

[argument at thanksgiving dinner] wife: *whispering to me* don’t start taking sides this time me: why not? *sliding roast potatoes in pocket* they're too busy yelling to notice

where were Gobble and Waddle on January 6, 2021?

Harvard's 2020/21 reports on Epstein were Hamlet without the Prince (Summers). We need to understand why: www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

If you think "it's not racist to want a majority white country," (a) lol, (b) yes it is, (c) you want to deliberately make your country worse, congratulations, you are owning yourself, and (d) you are a terrible, horrible person.

*Sigh* It is bad and evil to desire a majority white country. This should not be controversial. Ethnostates are bad. Racial purity is bullshit. There's no such thing as white culture because there's no such thing as the "white race" and white people aren't better at anything than anyone else.

Only the best people!

I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.

"...The Aristocrats!" time.com/7336327/doge...

When I talk to students about public speaking or teaching, I always bring this up: Just tell people when you don't know something! It's remarkably powerful b/c it signals to your audience that you know the boundaries of your expertise and they can trust what you DO talk about.

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““If they’re not gonna run the programs, then what are we paying them for?” she said. “It’s like, you know, you’re paying us for a service and they’re not delivering. So let’s stop paying for it.” 👀 @mikiesherrill.bsky.social goes there …

From the Department of Tragic Irony: On the day the Harvard Law School releases a digital archive of the Nuremberg Trials, the President threatens the lives of members of Congress who utter its most basic truth: That everyone, especially soldiers, must follow the law. nuremberg.law.harvard.edu

women are always saying “lord grant me the confidence of a mediocre man.” ok well he did. now what. is the world a better place? look at what you’ve wrought.

Like it or not this technology is here to stay and if you don’t use it you’ll fall behind in your industry

@govpritzker.illinois.gov I want you to watch this video of me slammed to the ground- why are you allowing this to happen to people you know are on the right side of history. They tied my hands behind my back and when I asked them to be loosened because I was going numb they said, “STFU.”

@harvardkennedy.bsky.social and @harvard.edu need to sever ties to Summers immediately

"The Grift Bubble: A Political Theory of American Collapse" "Those who work against the grifters... may be acting from love, or from law, because they know that these things are real. And so they should also know, in acting thus, that they are the patriots." snyder.substack.com/p/the-grift-...

I wanted to share probably the most important sermon I’ve given and it’s while I’m being arrested. It’s torture pure and simple what happens at #Broadview. I’m ok, though I was thrown to the ground and choked with my pectoral cross. A review of the video shows I was peaceful - did I deserve this?

Going back to Summers' talk about how women don't want to work hard and don't have high end aptitude, we could ask: What fraction of young men must deal with a creep with substantial power over their career hitting on them using tips from an infamous pedophile? 🤔 www.thecrimson.com/article/2005...

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The only person whose standard of living has improved during this Trump term is Ghislaine Maxwell.

Trump's name appears the most: more than 1,600 times. couriernewsroom.com/news/we-crea...

by the time this is all over, we're going to find out that Epstein was in the Trump Files

One reason you hold a meeting to pressure/cajole/threaten Boebert in the Situation Room is so she can't record it.

Civil society has to hold together and pull forward until the Democratic Party changes. It makes no sense to wait for the Democrats as a party. What makes sense is shifting the ground underneath them.

What you want from a functional, thriving superpower is every reporter in the country spending all day combing through a cache of documents that all say, more or less, “hi [rich ruling class person], it was good seeing you last week for all the child sex crimes!”

Jeffrey Epstein is like if Forrest Gump was real

people.com/donald-trump... I just knew this was coming. And if you think this doesn’t end with a massive gold trump statue in DC you’re not paying attention

I keep seeing regular Americans taking more risks every day to fight tyranny, want, and cynicism than I see from the opposition party, and I imagine many of those regular Americans are asking themselves what the value proposition of such an opposition party is, really

Everyone knows that Schumer will always lead the Democratic Senate caucus to surrender using these exact tactics time after time. The caucus continues to support him because this is what they want. They terrified of a fight, and Schumer's surrender tactics give them cover to just pretend to fight.

The model of holding individual senators responsible is broken here. The retirees clearly agreed to take the fall. Which is why the nos should get no credit for voting no unless they move to oust Schumer

Want a party that actually fights back? Run for office. We’ll help you. runforwhat.net

agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish

Schumer (NY) 202 224-6542 Booker (NJ) 202 224-3224 King (ME) 202 224-5344 Hassan (NH) 202 224-3324 Durbin (IL) 202 224-2152 Ossoff (GA) 202 224-3521 Shaheen (NH) 202 224-2841 Gillibrand (NY) 202 224-4451 Masto (NV) 202 224-3542 Warner (VA) 202 224-2023

They’re bailing out Argentina because they’re all going to be living there when this is over.

here's something cool: the son of the letter carrier on Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood (McFeely) is a real letter carrier for the USPS and he's our letter carrier and he's awesome