Anyway, we’re now all clear on the value of a FIFA peace prize now, right?

Well, it was a good couple of days out of the world. A couple more pictures to draw out the joke.

Completely agree. Always pull these threads back to the Reagan Administration and Bush I.

I just can’t. I bet you just can’t, too.

And here we are.

Happy fixking new year.

Trump on why he pardoned notorious drug trafficker Juan Hernandez: “It was a Biden set up. Take any country you want. If someone sells drugs in that country, that doesn’t mean you arrest the president and put him in jail for the rest of his life.”

So… they cut funding for research into cures for cancer but are going to spend loads of money *checks notes* running a whole other country?

Woke up at 3am and had to go outside for a minute… and felt like I was in a telescope hurtling through space. These are hand held by a sleepy person who must now go back to bed. But it was pretty wow. (Nice, too, the the pouring rain took a break.) 1/2

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In my happy place, here to help.

5 million-plus kindergartners now live in counties where schools don’t have “herd immunity” for measles, Washington Post reporters found. WaPo also built a tool to look up your own county. Exceptional, and alarming work by @laurenweberhp.bsky.social @caitlingilbert.bsky.social et al. (Gift link.)

My main takeaway from the Jack Smith testimony: we should push our presidential candidate to make him Attorney General in 2029.

People age 70+ should not be taking aspirin at any dose for prevention. Results of randomized trials show higher risk of all-cause mortality, major bleeding events and deaths from cancer. p 153, SUPER AGERS book

Starting the year by looking at things from a new angle. Specifically, about 7° south of my usual latitude. Wishing you happy adventures, supportive, community, and ongoing opportunities to find awe our in our beautiful world. #EverywhereYouGoTheLandIsBeautiful #LookUp #NewYear’sWishes

It's official: Congress and Donald Trump have allowed the enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies to expire. Millions of Americans will either lose their health coverage or face dramatically higher premiums.

A lot can happen in the next 90 minutes, I guess.

This Jack Smith deposition makes one thing abundantly clear: If Donald Trump wasn’t re-elected, he’d be spending the rest of his life in prison. And he should be.

Trump just vetoed legislation for a pipeline project that would've brought clean water to southeastern Colorado. The bill's sponsor, Lauren Boebert, voted to release the Epstein files. Her scathing statement, in part, says, "I sincerely hope this veto has nothing to do with political retribution."

Taxpayers and charities helped develop Zolgensma. Then it debuted at a record price, ushering in a new class of wildly expensive drugs. Its story upends the widely held conception that high prices reflect huge industry investments in innovation. (Published February)

Tribes are particularly vulnerable to executive pressure in several dimensions You have not heard about a lot of bad shit the admin is doing to tribes because they are afraid if they fight they’ll be crushed And they are not wrong

Jack Smith, p. 27: "There is no historical analog for what President Trump did in this case … [W]hat he was not free to do was violate Federal law and use knowing-- knowingly false statements about election fraud to target a lawful government function. That he was not allowed to do."

Happy New Year! 🎉 🎉🎉🎉

NEW: Jack Smith's team interviewed Giuliani, and when asked whether Rudy believed his own lies about election fraud, Jack Smith said he did not, and that neither did Donald Trump.

Internal documents and former company executives revealed how Cigna doctors rejected patients’ claims without opening their files. “We literally click and submit,” one former company doctor said. (Published March 2023 w/ @capitolforum.bsky.social)

An excellent university text for learning plant families. he.kendallhunt.com/product/vasc...

The Kennedy Center adopted bylaws earlier this year that limited voting to presidentially appointed trustees — not those designated by Congress — a move that preceded the dubious vote to add Trump's name to the center. Legal experts say the move may conflict with the institution's charter.

The vaccine takedown wapo.st/49zDc43

The Trump Justice Department has roughly 5.2 million pages of Epstein files documents still to be reviewed and released to the public. All documents were supposed to be released on December 19. The Department is in violation of the law Trump himself signed. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/30/u...

Vought holds one of the most powerful jobs in D.C., and he’s used his position to wage a quiet war to change the shape of the entire U.S. government. Here's what you should know about Trump’s shadow president.

People are stupid. Everything is stupid. Happy Stupid New Year.

BREAKING: Democrat Renee Hardman just won a special election for the Iowa State Senate, according to the AP — a result that prevents Republicans from reclaiming a supermajority in the chamber.

The future is already here, just incompletely distributed

As we experience a huge surge of flu cases, a reminder that the widespread usage of masks at the start of the COVID pandemic wiped out a strain of the flu. If you haven’t been masking up lately, now would be a great time to restart.

Mini #nuclear reactors are already losing their glow, writes Lex column in @financialtimes.com - Several studies suggest SMRs will produce higher levels of nuclear waste than traditional plants www.ft.com/content/567a...

NEW: Stories by Oregon Public Broadcasting and ProPublica identified bottlenecks that have stalled green energy projects in Oregon. The governor aims to accelerate efforts through a series of mandates. Here's where they stand.

Same way Kushner got one, I imagine. It was just approved by Trump. He can do that. Background checks are for the client to do with as they wish. The client here is Trump.

Fun!!!

This whole no more being the world police thing is going swimmingly. Pretty incredible how quickly MAGA went from “yeah! No new wars!” To “let’s bomb Nigeria and Iran!!!”

My 2025 year in review. drornaizakson.com/2025-year-in...

Wesleyan proud. www.politico.com/news/2025/03...

I’ve been working on blog posts today. Here’s are some of the ones I’ve written this year. Read some here: drornaizakson.com/blog/ P.S. Sorry the video jumps so much. It’s hard to do a smooth scroll.

Yes, this.

This is what I’ve been talking about for months now: GOP lawmakers are trying to figure out how to reclaim their power after ceding it all to the White House. The problem? They’re cowards, and most of them are just going to resign instead. thehill.com/homenews/sen...

“In 2018, ashwagandha was ranked 34 of the top bestselling botanicals in the U.S. market. As of 2023, it’s now regarded as the fourth bestselling single botanical in the American market.” – Roy Upton, December 17, 2025, WHO conference. www.youtube.com/live/taJjk8r...

No no no.

"The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistic projects nearly two million open health care jobs each year for the next decade." nytimes.com/2025/12/27/o...

This should be a huge scandal, right? If the media is going to lose it's collective shit over Hunter Biden's pardon, I would think that Trump selling pardons to rich convicted felons for $6 million a pop should register as more than a blip (if mentioned at all) in the news. bsky.app/profile/bgru...

This is an incredibly illuminating video on what we're up against.

2025 will go down in history as a consequential turning point. We just don't know yet in which direction. And no, I don't need your prediction. The fight continues.