"A second agent then joins them and appears to help restrain him, who can be heard repeating 'I’m a citizen' and screaming. Several people then come into the hallway from outside and begin filming the interaction and whistling before the agents pull him outside..." www.cnn.com/2025/12/13/u...

A fresco daed to c 250 CE was found in Nicaea, modern-day Iznik, Turkey. It portrays a youthful, clean-shaven Jesus in a toga carrying a goat, representing a rare and well-preserved example of Roman-styled Jesus.

The legacy of Jonathan Greenblatt: ADL top lawyer Joe Berman quits, says ADL has failed to respond to antisemitism on the right and strayed from its mandate. “Jews and the fight against antisemitism are being cynically used to advance an authoritarian, anti-democratic agenda.”

Nine former DOJ attorneys investigating UC antisemitism told LAT they were pressured to conclude that campuses had violated the civil rights of Jewish students and staff even though this clearly was not the case.

"The virus can lead to brain swelling, which can cause lasting damage, including blindness, deafness and intellectual disabilities..." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/w...

ICE cut off her wedding ring. Sue Tincher is a 55-year-old American citizen: a grandmother, 5’4’, and white. Just in case you thought you’d be safe. She walked to her neighbor’s house after getting alerts that ICE was nearby. She stood across the street and asked an officer if they were ICE.

If you're ok with this, we have way more than just political differences

Disabled veterans are getting scammed. And thanks to Donald Trump’s attacks on government watchdogs like the CFPB, the scammers are getting away with it.

Leavitt worships Republican Jesus. He has blond hair, blue eyes, and radically different ideas than Bible Jesus. bsky.app/profile/acyn...

Every major city needs this.

Rubio Orders State Department Braille Signage Switch To ‘Times New Roman’

New WH policy: U.S. Government Websites Are Hosting PDFs Promoting Porn and Scams gizmodo.com/u-s-governme...

Look who’s circling Venezuela... During his interview of Maria Corina Machado, Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale tells her: “We have a lot of friends here who’ve had to flee VZ & who are huge fans of yours, & we’re very excited to come back & invest & BUILD w/ u when u get to be a free country.” 1/

Israel approves 19 new West Bank settlements in major annexation push https://aje.io/7xi4oe

Costco is the most prominent US company willing to publicly oppose President Donald Trump. And so far, it has paid no obvious price for its refusal to submit.

We're naming names here. mstdn.social/@kevinrns/11...

Trump says he pardoned a former county clerk in Colorado convicted of tampering with voting machines, but she was found guilty on state, not federal, charges.

25 years ago today, SCOTUS elected George W Bush president of the United States by blocking completion of a voting canvass in Florida. A subsequent canvass by the Associated Press showed that Bush's rival, Al Gore, had won the race in Florida—and thus the contest for the presidency—by 700 votes.

For 1.5 million Palestinians living under plastic sheets, Storm Byron means more than bad weather.

Kristi Noem has attacked Sister Norma Pimentel, a leader of Catholic Charities serving immigrants in the Texas Rio Grande Valley, after she spoke out bravely criticizing DHS deportation projects, echoing the words of Pope Leo. www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/268391/...

Barron Trump Is Secretly Devoted to Twisted Woman-Haters—The Tate Bros as Role Models www.thedailybeast.com/barron-trump...

Batteries are getting cheaper and allowing solar power to be used beyond daylight hours, according to a new analysis from clean energy think tank Ember

Almost 400 people pardoned or granted clemency by President Donald Trump in connection with the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol are now seeking millions of dollars in payouts from the federal government.

After signing the Oct 16 accord, the IDF has begun the systematic destruction of buildings and utilities on the other side of the "yellow line" behind which it is supposed to withdraw. www.lemonde.fr/internationa...

ICYMI — “I identified myself as a U.S. citizen and a veteran, but that didn't matter. ICE Agents smashed my window, sprayed tear gas and pepper spray into my car, dragged me out… this experience violated the very principles I fought to defend.”

There is perhaps nothing more "on brand" for Trump than using all of the power of the US government to coerce a sovereign, democratic nation into releasing someone accused of raping children and trafficking women. "Gift" article, so no subscription required to read. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/u...

JUST IN: New reporting that the Dept. of Defense tried to send vessel strike survivors to El Salvador terror prison, CECOT. I've got all of the damning details, including analysis on why Hegseth is so desperate to silence any survivors or keep them away from US soil. youtu.be/rbrpjxHLFlY?...

What to read to understand #Putinism and #Trumpism, according to Garry Kasparov. MORE: belib.org/GarryKasparov

OPINION: When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it."

“After we clean up DC, let’s open up a few freedom cities in economic zones out west?” - Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale

Once right-wing oligarchs gain control of just about every national and local media company, social media platform, and big AI, as they are systematically doing with little notice from the general public, it will be game, set and match for the Republic.

1) Remember he said something similar about Marie Yovanovitch. 2) I'm really not sure how the cartels are going to play in Trump's imperial ambitions and I think most Americans should think seriously about that. Many of them are 2 degrees from US Special Forces training.

At least while we are screwing over our allies around the world we will be doing it in an anti-woke font.

The Republican lawmaker, a Trump ally, says during a congressional hearing he is 'not afraid' to be called Islamophobic.

ICE stormed a residence hall at Augsburg University, detained an undergrad, and aimed rifles at students and staff then admitted they had no warrant to be on campus. This is state violence. This is terror. And this is exactly what Trump’s America unleashes on our communities.

Huff Post: Rubio Stages Font Coup: Times New Roman Ousts Calibri The secretary of state called it a "wasteful" diversity move, according to an internal department cable seen by Reuters.

Truth Social posts should really be called "squats"

Every part of this is bonkers. The intro is bonkers. The transition to his health is bonkers. The mention that other presidents didn't need cognitive exams is bonkers. The claim that this screening test is somehow hard is bonkers. The idea that criticism of him is treason is bonkers. All of it.

Trump on Karoline Leavitt: "That beautiful face and those lips that don't stop like a little machine gun"

Billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott donated $7.2 billion this year in her biggest ever giving announcement. The gifts bring her total philanthropy to $26 billion over the past half decade. bloom.bg/3KHQfHc 📷: Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images

This is huge news in science 🧪 and in the food world! The 25 year old junk study on which the "safety" of glyphosate (RoundUp) has been based in US and Canada was finally retracted by the journal. www.science.org/content/arti...

ARTISTS! I need your help! In collab. w/the Society for Integrative & Comparative Biology, I'm organizing a group of artists to come to our Jan. meeting! We're looking for artists to create based on what they learn at the conference. $1000 stipend. Application is V short! forms.gle/ah1i8KwNJinZ...

Trump: "You can give up certain products. You could give up pencils. Because under the China policy, every child can get 37 pencils. They only need 1 or 2. They don't need that many. You always need steel. You don't need 37 dolls for your daughter. 2 or 3 is nice. So we're doing things right."

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The youth wing of Germany's Nazi Party, the AfD, picks a well known Hitler impersonator, Alexander Eichwald, as one of its lead speakers. www.sueddeutsche.de/kultur/alexa...

Why should Ukraine cede ANY territory? Not only should they not cede any but they should be given back the land that has been taken by force. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...

As is always said... The cruelty, the destruction, the dismay It's always the point. Just in a different administration. Dictators, like the evil bullies they are, are nothing without people to push around. These men will destroy the world just to stand on top of it. #Pinks #Resist