I am sure nurses will listen to Trump’s HHS, the administration has done nothing to further radicalize the profession lately

Kavanaugh asks if the states that *allow* trans athletes are violating the constitutional protection of womens sports. Hurst says his argument doesn't allow them to impose their rules on those states. You know who else did constitutional protections based on states rights? Antebellum America.

The Supreme Court's Republican appointees should think long and hard about the way in which they encouraged this behavior on the shadow docket — despite Justice Kavanaugh's belated attempt to clean it up months later. This, of course, is a further step into lawlessness. But, the go-ahead was key.

The right-wingers at SCOTUS today argue that merely allowing a trans girl to compete in sports is a great harm because we must "protect women." But a woman exercising her First Amendment rights is a smug .... These people don't respect women 1/10th as much as any trans woman I know does.

just. brutal.

This is getting lost: For weeks Trump officials had the option to remove Abrego Garcia to Costa Rica, but refused to do so. Instead they kept trying to send him somewhere more dangerous. Costa Rica wasn't cruel and dehumanizing enough. This is deeply sick conduct. newrepublic.com/article/2043...

AI has actively made life worse for literally everyone - tech is now more expensive - you cannot trust most media of reality anymore - programs barely function - energy prices - literal psychosis - your voice can be literally stolen for evil - more spyware but hey, you can avoid paying an artist.

The anti-Semitic mass shooting in Australia will cause a national conversation and policy change. We know this because the 1996 Port Arthur massacre led to significant restrictions on guns. The shooting at Brown will do nothing. We know this because it occurred on the anniversary of Sandy Hook.

The Take Care Clause was a byproduct of the lessons learned from the Glorious Revolution that the executive should not be able to dispense with the law promulgated by the legislature. It was not a constitutional provision to empower the executive branch— but to constrain it!

The UK's age verification rollout has been chaotic. “What we are really doing is building surveillance infrastructure around accessing information online,” EFF’s Paige Collings told @techpolicypress.bsky.social. www.techpolicy.press/age-verific...

and now the D.C. appeals court has "upheld" the transgender troops ban. not sure it's breaking through how horrific this particular moment has been www.mediaite.com/media/news/j...

You can mock people for thinking the leopards would dine elsewhere but it is unequivocally good that the demo that reeeeeally helped put trump back in the wh is seeing what is happening and apparently reacting accordingly

We've known that It's The Supreme Court, Stupid for many years, but enough people didn't listen, so here we are. @chrisgeidner.bsky.social of Law Dork chrisgeidner.substack.com join me today to talk SCOTUS & more 3ET/12PT youtu.be/SQYHKknx-PA, nicolesandler.com, nicolesandler.substack.com, pod too

Donald Trump’s presidency has been great for rich people and corporations – but not the small business owners who are facing rising costs and are forced to lay off their workers to try to keep their doors open.

New Jersey legislators moved Monday to put state health officials in charge of vaccine guidance, after the CDC's controversial reversal on hepatitis B shots. via @newjerseymonitor.com

Wow -- Russia reportedly plotted last year to plant bombs on US-bound flights (gift link) giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Four years after Poplarville’s main post office closed due to structural damage—and months after federal officials said construction on a new facility would begin—no work has started at the site. buff.ly/ANx4QTu

Soybean farmer: This is a Band-Aid on an open wound. I've been farming 21 years now, and this is by far the most serious economic situation that I've experienced. The American farmer is the best in the world. We simply need a level playing field and opportunity moving forward

#BREAKING A Chicago-based U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent is facing federal charges tied to the alleged sexual assault and robbery of multiple women in the suburbs in 2022. Luis Uribe is appearing in court now.

Gov. Pritzker on redistricting in Indiana: “Members of the Indiana legislature are being threatened. Their lives are being threatened, and it's being egged on by the President…He's trying to cheat.”

CBP *still* claims that it has no deal with Meta and that these are personal glasses owned by the agents. If they're personal glasses, though, then it is illegal for the agent to record

Awful: Trump just admitted in a new interview that he knows "very little" about the Honduran ex-president he pardoned. This guy trafficked a gazillion times more drugs into the US than anyone Trump has executed. Wrecks his case for the boat bombings. New from me: newrepublic.com/article/2041...

man what the fuck is going on with the economy that this is where we're at

Texas really said “double or nothing,” and our RFS alums took that personally. Now we’ve got two of them in the U.S. Senate race, showing exactly why building the bench matters. Tough moments don’t scare this crew. They dig in. They lead. They rise.

A British NGO files a complaint against FIFA -- for violating the international body's own code of ethics. @lemonde.fr www.lemonde.fr/sport/articl...

One detainee in Hinds County wrote to Judge Debra Gibbs, telling he was arrested more than six months ago and is being held on a $7.5 million bond, yet had not been indicted as of Dec. 1.

BREAKING: We’re suing the Trump administration to demand they release the secret memo they claim justifies their illegal strikes on civilians at sea. Transparency must come immediately — while there’s still an opportunity to stop this cruel and unconstitutional bombing campaign.

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.

This is a pretty stunning admission, he doesn't appear to know how group insurance works. Toyota/GM don't buy insurance, employers of that size are self-funded. They pay United or Aetna for admin services, but they pay for the actual health care themselves (with some catastrophic/stop-loss coverage)

IRW — a Pulitzer-winning nonprofit newsroom at American — and @thebarbedwire.com traced the history of anti-trans legislation. Houston conservatives realized homophobia didn’t fly anymore, weaponized girls’ safety, and parroted segregationist language. It worked. thebarbedwire.com/2025/12/04/a...

Just in: Missouri organizers have turned in ≈300,000 signatures to block the GOP's new gerrymander there. That's an impressive haul in the very compressed window they had. They need roughly 110,000 signatures to succeed, though the GOP will now throw everything it has to disqualify them.

These grand jury materials will “not add to the public knowledge.” A judge says Trump misled the public and disregarded the victims.”

Trump had two mortgages he claimed were primary dwellings, records show

A reminder again of the predator Altman is that Jimmy Fallon is trying to help normalize. bsky.app/profile/more...

James Talarico: I passed the first-ever cap on insulin in the state of Texas. I fought against this private school voucher scam that’s going to take money out of our public schools. And I fought against these rigged maps that are going to dilute the voting power of Latinos all over Texas.

Ossoff: "This is so much deeper than the politics. What does it say about the moral condition of this Congress that the thing that has them all tied up in knots is a very simple question: Should people's health insurance premiums go up double or triple? This is a policy choice."

The Supreme Court is working hard to turn this country into a despot's dreamscape—while making it nigh impossible for good people to make lasting change for the better. Those of us who begged folks (and national media) to put SCOTUS before everything else in 2016 are in an endless Cassandrian hell.

"After her hearing ended, three-year-old Lucy cuddled her teddy bear as she walked back from the lawyer’s table and took a seat. Moments later, the next child was called up to face the judge..." coppercourier.com/2025/12/05/c...

“We're here today to express dismay that Leslie Wexner is avoiding service of a court ordered subpoena for deposition in the case of Richard Strauss," a former campus doctor said to have abused dozens of men. OSU’s board chair is both the father & law partner of Wexner’s lawyer, Matthew Zeiger.

7 months ago, some of us argued that young people are highly responsive to the "nature of the times" (Campbell et al 1960) because they are relatively less politically engaged. Thus, their pro-Republican movement in 2024 was likely not a stable generational difference. It looks like we were right.

In an exclusive interview with The Washington Post, Bruna Ferreira, the mother of Karoline Leavitt’s nephew, who has been in ICE custody since Nov. 12, details her arrest, relationship with the Leavitts, and how the White House, in her own words, is spreading “disgusting” lies about her.

Absurd. The bailout exists to ameliorate the negative impact of the tariffs.

"Now that I've hit everyone with ruinous taxes, I'll dole some of it back out to my political supporters as welfare payments."

The idea that no one else, ever - including the people who wrote the Constitution - has properly understood what the document means or stands for is a rather stunning form of judicial arrogance.

It is really, really hard to get your head around the raw hubris of the majority. They really will be destabilizing the operating structure of the entire U.S. government. Why? Because they believe they have a better idea about how the past century should've been done.

The current SCOTUS majority is a bunch of sophists who like to dismiss evidence in favor of hypotheticals. They are spending enormous political capital trying to empower a guy that tried to overthrow the US government. If any good comes of this, hopefully it will radicalize people about SCOTUS.