This was not the lede, but instead paragraph six, with the bulk of the article dedicated to weighing the pros and cons of regulation policy. NOT THE FACT THAT THE PRESIDENT IS NOT ALLOWED TO ERASE STATE LAW BY FIAT. “Likely to be challenged in courts.” Snort.

The thing about Trump's approval falling below 40% is that cowards have a way of rediscovering their courage once they see the winds are changing.

Every single House Dem needs to sign on tothis impeachment resolution. Every single Sen. Dem should be doing the same and put frauds like Collins, Murkowski et al on the spot. Anyone who may have designs to get rid of Pfizer/Modern covid vaccines shouldn't be serving as a federal official for US.

🚨 Today, I formally introduced articles of impeachment against Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. RFK Jr. has turned his back on science and the safety of the American people. Michiganders cannot take another day of his chaos.

Proud UPenn alum here. 😜

Conservatives being shocked at the logical endpoint of their ideological commitments would be funny if it wasn't so costly to everyone who cares about democracy, equal rights, common decency, etc.

Another day. Another failed effort to get a grand jury to indict @newyorkstateag.bsky.social Letitia James.

In this volatile, threatened journalism industry, ProPublica is one of the few places that does months-long investigations. In this case, @gingerthompson.bsky.social spent five YEARS reporting this story. When you donate, this is what you're making possible: projects.propublica.org/albany-georg...

This is, in fact, why the right has gone full Nazi, because they know this and don't like it

“Currently”

I’m but a simple country theoretical physicist, and I can say, in my professional capacity, “datacenters in space” is so colossally, monumentally stupid that it is difficult to know where to start with which laws of physics the idea is spitting in the face of the most.

Welcome to your annual faculty report form. Question 1: Describe your accomplishments this year. Answer:

Gift article: wapo.st/4iIPha5

EXCLUSIVE: Federal tax prosecutions fell to their lowest level in decades this year, declining more than 27% from the year before as the Trump administration cut the ranks of attorneys and agents who pursue those cases, a Reuters examination has found. www.reuters.com/world/tax-pr...

1/ A few thoughts about @williambaude.bsky.social’s comment in yesterday’s NYT chat that, “It’s amazing how many of our problems today could be solved by a Congress that was willing and able to legislate in response to national problems.” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/o...

Code of Conduct for United States Judges, Canon 5: "A judge should not . . . attend or purchase a ticket for a dinner or other event sponsored by a political organization or candidate... A judge should not engage in any other political activity." (All judges receive training on this.)

My students are not my customers. A person walks into a shop, they want a bag of oranges, they buy it+ leave. I check them out, having no interest in their well being or existence. A student walks into my classroom. I invite them on a quest to become a better thinker and human.

After MTG lied about me for weeks, she said that she felt bad for my unborn child because he'd have me as a mother. Her rhetoric led to threats against my family. No one, even her, should receive threats like those, but I'd like to see her own up to the role she played in creating them for others.

This is INSANE www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/t... and these are our closest allies!

Kyrsten Sinema is visiting the Senate today. Just walked off the floor and greeted John Fetterman with a big hug.

"The Ohio Department of Agriculture says two of the 72 black vulture carcasses cleaned up from a Clermont County elementary school’s campus tested presumptive positive for bird flu."

Stunning admission from Trump in his Politico interview. He confesses he knows almost nothing about the drug trafficking of the guy he pardoned even though he helped bring 500 tons of cocaine into US. Trump also reveals his narcissism makes him easy to manipulate: newrepublic.com/article/2041...

Apparently, DR. Tracy Beth Hoeg is doing several things in FDA in tension with her responsibilities in CDER. I have heard that she is pulling people from CDER to dive through VAERS report; as a reminder, CDER has important safety responsibilities and a lot of work. 1/3

Dozens of vulture carcasses—at least some and probably all infected with HPAI—were reportedly left strewn about the grounds of an elementary school for days while bureaucrats wrangled over who would clean up the site, illustrating what appears to be a huge crisis of state and local capacity in Ohio.

to quote myself on this

"Faculty grew too powerful and too romantic about their role" Lolll, wtf. Faculty rank just below the IT guy and first-year advisors who recently started the job. We get exactly zero votes on anything. Everything is "advisory." Shared governance hasn't existed at any point during my career.

these people are fraudsters selling snake oil and after their reforms crash and burn they'll be on to the next institution to do the same song and dance

If a stranger told you they were raising their newborn on advice from the chat robot you'd rightfully contact child services

Your fellow reporter just got blasted on national TV by the president of the United States as "obnoxious" and "terrible" -- and you follow it up with a crappy question about the midterms, which are 11 months away. You might want to think about another line of work. You aren't cut out for this.

Pick one. Work on it.

“European children benefit from structural protective cocoons that do not exist in US. In countries like Denmark, new parents are granted extensive paid leave. A Danish newborn is often shielded from public for first year of life, kept at home and away from daycare centers or crowded public spaces.”

This is nothing short of mandatory right wing indoctrination at Texas high schools & colleges. Wow.

I am not live posting the whole argument here because I want to listen closely to Trump v. Slaughter. But the solicitor general for Trump just said the point here in killing the independence of agencies like the FTC is that executive branch officers must “fear and obey” the president. Wow. #SCOTUS

This report should have panicked everyone on the left into concerted, coordinated effort to address the information asymmetry. But as far as I can tell it just came & went & Dems are still in "buy TV ads about affordability" mode.

Every legal story now is either Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach or In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport

👋 Breastfeeding & infant feeding expert here! All babies need safe, accessible nutrition. Most people already want to breastfeed and 84% start out doing so but can’t realize their goals. What we need are *policies* that make it possible to breastfeed for all who desire to do so and…

We won our lawsuit and stopped the Trump administration from blocking an array of new wind energy projects. This is a big victory in our fight to keep tackling the climate crisis and protect one of our best sources of clean, reliable, and affordable energy.

Josh Marshall is absolutely right about this as a matter of constitutional restoration BUT ALSO You can't do ANY of the "kitchen table" agenda EITHER without abolishing the power of the six corrupt GOP justices. They'll kill any good Dem policy (eg student loan forgiveness) just to watch it die.

Respectfully, Congresswoman, you voted with Republicans to strip due process from immigrants and to praise Trump's ICE. This year. Now you're upset? Votes have consequences. Minnesotans deserve better.

This is the Tufts PhD student who seized by masked agents on the street and jailed for two months because she wrote an op-ed calling for the school to divest from Israel.

This is tantamount to recruiting for the Republican Party.

They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.

Same headline. Seven years apart. 🤡 @politico.com www.politico.com/news/2025/12...

"In 1993, Trump signed a mortgage for a 'Bermuda style' home in Palm Beach, pledging it would be his principal residence. Just 7 weeks later, he got another mortgage for a 7-bedroom home, attesting that it too would be his principal residence." Via @propublica.org www.propublica.org/article/trum...

TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque: "This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".

«Students aren’t being taught to think more deeply but to prompt more effectively. We are exporting the very labor of teaching and learning—the slow work of wrestling with ideas, the enduring of discomfort, doubt and confusion, the struggle of finding one’s own voice.» ‘Just the way things are’

A lengthy read in which every word matters and makes ever clearer the devastation this hospital system has wrought and continues to wreak on the residents of Albany, GA.

ppl keep asking me if I miss home and why would I ever miss home, the US is basically just India now

My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’

Also, I hope people sue the BOP into oblivion. I am well aware of the PLRA. But when you have x-ray techs shunted into guard duty, need to beg for food when the whole prison is days away from nothing, and tell women to use socks for feminine hygiene, judges might start letting those §1983 cases in.