Good news: I just got the all clear for cancer (phew!) But guess what?! My anaesthetist was a beautiful woman named... DR WATSON! Naturally, I bored her about my next book, SLEUTH-HOUND - about Joseph Bell, the inspiration for Sherlock Holmes, which includes a real Dr. Watson.

Those of us at less risk of being detained should make sure that our international colleagues and friends always have company when walking through NOLA during #AGU25. Buddy system is good, travel-in-groups is better. Let's work together to keep our scientific community safe. @agu.org

DAY AHEAD: Despite Truth Social post & death threats, Indiana Republicans insist they “will not be intimidated” ahead of tomorrow’s pivotal vote ===> youtube.com/shorts/nfK8e...

DOJ Withheld Proof They Knew Their Assault of LaMonica McIver Was "Bad" before They Charged Her www.emptywheel.net/2025/12/09/d...

“.. Once upon a time, a chief executive openly signaling that he’d reorient a newsroom to appease a sitting president would be a five-alarm corporate scandal ..” @status.news @oliverdarcy.bsky.social $PSKY www.status.news/p/cnn-paramo...

Sorry. I wanted to show a picture of Steve with this one, but I can't find him?

"Taking everything for granted" is the main source of our collapsing culture. There is little understanding that we live in a frangible meringue of a moment that we will not be able to protect if we can't look deeply backward and hopefully forward. The illusion of normalcy is destroying the world.

I said it before, will say it again -- generative AI fetishizes "ideas" while sneering at effort, execution, and education. That, despite Gen-AI being built on and out of other people's effort, execution and education.

unlike college he doesn’t have daddy around to pay for passing grades now

It just keeps getting worse.

America is about to lose billions in lost business and travel from our allies. MAGA. White supremacy remains undefeated in being self-destructive.

And now I find myself agreeing with Rand Paul… What a world. <le sigh>

clause = 📝 claws = 🦞 Claus = 🎅🏻

1. Paramount's hostile takeover bid for Warner Bros. Discovery exposes Jared Kushner's game Kushner is not running a private equity fund. He's running an influence peddling operation. It's spelled out on page 42 of Paramount's new SEC filing

Counterpoint: it’s fine to try the cookies.

Ah, but there's a critical legal distinction: Lisa Cook is a Black woman in a job where Trump wants to put some white guy crony. So it's a crime worthy of prosecution for her, but not for <looks at list> oh hey every Trump official and Trump himself, all of whom have done it.

NEW: Last year we found the acceptable level of exposure to formaldehyde set by the EPA left people at risk for cancer. Now the Trump administration has roughly doubled it www.propublica.org/article/epa-...

The Supreme Court will hear arguments today in a case about President Trump's firing of a Federal Trade Commissioner. And, Senate Democrats are set to pitch a plan to extend ACA subsidies this week. n.pr/4rYuSSS

A study on 1.7 million people in Hong Kong shows superior hybrid immunity to Covid in people who got vaccinated before infection vs. people who got infected first. "Our findings are a direct rebuttal to arguments for natural immunity," the authors write. doi.org/10.1016/j.va...

Two armed men stole more than a dozen works of art, including some by Henri Matisse, on Sunday from a library in São Paulo, Brazil, the latest robbery to rock the art world since the Louvre heist in October.

New in PN: Let's call Trump's anti-Somali hate for what it is It's not "heated" or "divisive." It's Nazi stuff.

I have $50 in mu account and a $275 phone bill auto debiting tomorrow plus I don't have enough to cover the other bills. please help?

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"I mean, it was a sandwich." 😆

DuPree does an excellent job of articulating what I have been unable to about how I felt after seeing Wicked For Good. Every Witch should read this article—it’s quite excellent.

This is horrific and exactly what those of us in Black studies, gender studies, women’s studies have been warning our colleagues in the sciences about. Their seeming neutrality will not save them.

The European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) announced that it will no longer publish content on Elon Musk’s platform, X. The organization said it can “no longer ethically participate in a social network that its owner has transformed into a machine of disinformation and propaganda.”

“ACIP has recommended a universal birth dose of the hepatitis B vaccine since 1991, after realizing a risk-based strategy wasn’t working. Annual hepatitis B infections among infants and children have dropped 99% from 16,000 to less than 20.”

Steve has stolen my phone. I keep getting sent these.

“What is the light in our lives? Who brings joy and pleasure to our being?” writes Clio Ajana. “Despite the rash of sales for Black Friday, Small Business Saturday, & Cyber Monday, there is more to life than shopping.” wildhunt.org/2025/12/the-... #pagan #witchcraft #immigration #thefoolsjourney

The show is up and it’s SPICY! Ft. @danlamothe.bsky.social on leaving the pentagon, @annamerlan.bsky.social on the new pentagon press corps and Laura Poitras on her new movie “Cover Up.” Oh and pod bonus @micahloewinger.bsky.social spoke with Cam Higby about his new role. pca.st/episode/f23f...

Holy smokes, you do not want to miss @micahloewinger.bsky.social’s interview with Cam Higby. I feel like we’re all thirsty for journalists who actually *push back*, as Micah repeatedly and skillfully does here.

Happy Ira Gershwin Day & Patsy Mink Day! memorydaycalendar.blogspot.com/p/december-n...

There’s no telling how many similar stories are not being told for fear of retaliation. By now, everyone should realize Trump is not going after violent criminals or the worst of the worst—he is terrorizing everyone, including U.S. citizens, and their loved ones.

It's hard to explain to normies how much effort Trump is putting into anti-trans policies. This is like the 12th thing just this week. And there were 12 things the week before, and 12 things the week before that. There will be 12 things next week. This is almost everything the government is doing.

The term "Orwellian" is as abused as "peace," but this use of "peace" is as fully Orwellian as anything outside 20th century fascism or Stalinism.

Happy Krampusnacht to all that celebrate! 👹 Lots of fun activities for the day! 1. Mask making to blend in among the spirits 2. Bonfires (of course it's always a bonfire with us!) 3. Place a bundle of birch sticks at your door to ward of evil 4. Make a crop whip 5. Ring bells to purify spaces

What are we doing here folks

Bonkers stuff in the NSS. It is like a far-right caricature of itself. The Trump admin believes it needs to save Europe from itself by backing far-right forces within Europe. As State Dept reprograms funding, get ready for the US to be the funders of far-right civil society in Europe.

Rep. Crockett’s Statement on the Supreme Court’s Ruling on Texas’s 2026 Map

This is what every district should be doing, starting with NJ, not least bc by stripping the makebelieve US Attorney, you increase Todd Blanche's legal exposure for the bullshit still going on, most notably in the LaMonica McIver case.

Trump's national security strategy is out and some of the Europe sections are shocking. "...the growing influence of patriotic European parties indeed gives cause for great optimism." www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...

#GVerse #Veterans US Citizen detained by ICE: Clearly it didn't matter that I was a citizen, a veteran, or identified who I was. They ignored everything I said. They just broke my window and dragged me out. I let them know I was a veteran, I wasn't doing anything wrong, just trying to get to work.

I don’t know who needs to hear this But whale sharks are definitely sharks and definitely not whales. They’re also not half shark half whale hybrids. They’re called that because they’re large and they filter feed. Thank youuuuuuuu for your attention to this matter!

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The Republican hacks on SCOTUS start with whatever ruling will help their fellow Republican partisans and lazily work backwards from there, barely offering an excuse for their egregious hackery. John Roberts keeps complaining no one respects them. Yeah, because we’re actually paying attention.

Breaking: Supreme Court on 6-3 Party Line Vote, Allows Texas to Use Its Re-redistricting Maps for 2026 Congressional Elections electionlawblog.org?p=153359

At least one other boat, the one with the Colombian fisherman, was adrift and displaying a distress signal with its engine out of the water. To attack a disabled vessel in distress and signaling for assistance is basically in the same category as killing shipwrecked survivors clinging to wreckage.