NEW: Pentagon lawyers asked State Dept. if US could send survivors of Trump's boat strikes to a notorious prison in El Salvador. Then Pentagon pushed to have survivors sent anywhere but the US — to prevent any US court cases. Gift link to our @nytimes.com story: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/u...

People are going to die because of the pending insurance premium hikes. I know the terrain of discourse is inconsistent and goes through a tumble cycle every 24 hours, but I really think we need to hone in on this reality and drive it home for people.

This person should not be in charge of anything.

If you're in Canberra, make sure that you visit @MOAD for the always-excellent Behind the Lines exhibition of the best political cartoons of the year. A fun, yet incisive look at the year, stripped back to the real issues that made an impact this year. #auspol moadoph.gov.au/visit/whats-...

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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.)

THANK YOU for pointing out that you can't use HSA funds to pay premiums, which has inexplicably been ignored by other media outlets.

I always thought people did not pay nearly enough attention to this text. It was about as much of a smoking gun as you could ask for.

Yeah this is Border Patrol Laredo outright telling lies. People deported to Honduras under the ACA are just straight-up deported. Honduras claims it might let them apply for asylum *in Honduras* but the BP post is just wild misinformation.

Once again, the ads in the print edition of @theonion.com are worth the price alone

Democrat wins Miami's mayoral race for the first time in almost 30 years “Democrat Eileen Higgins, a former county commissioner, defeated Republican Emilio González, NBC News projects.” www.nbcnews.com/politics/ele...

Bleak

The shingles vaccine could lay me out for a week and I'd prefer that to shingles.

Missing my grandma who used to stop everything she was doing if she heard someone criticize vaccines because so many of her childhood friends slowly disappeared after they got polio, and ask people if “surviving” polio was really a positive outcome or if they had no idea what they were talking about

"The study found that, from January through June 2025, average daily maximum PM2.5 concentrations in Manhattan’s CRZ declined by 3.05 micrograms per cubic meter – a reduction of 22% compared to a projected average of 13.8 micrograms per cubic meter had congestion pricing not been implemented."

We have issued a Freedom of Information Act request for the video of the Venezuelan air strike. And if the government will not release it, we will have to access it from Pete Hegseth’s “Kinetic Warrior Lethality” Discord server.

Voting has consequences VOTE 🔵

We need to elect a majority in Congress that will use the appropriations process to head this off at the pass and protect medication abortion.

The best reading of this article: Trump is going to use FDA to restrict medication abortion, but he wants to wait until after the midterms so the Republicans don't experience blowback. But that just makes the midterms more important. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

RFK Jr has suggested he wants to end access to mifeprostone; it's the MAHA war on women >100 studies have examined the effectiveness/safety of the abortion pills mifepristone & misoprostol. "All conclude that the pills are a safe method for terminating a pregnancy" (www.nytimes.com/interactive/...)

Thank you for posting this information. It's absolutely horrifying - and even worse - this is the only place I have heard of the obviously misnamed "Wiser" program. Transcript below & Alt Text for all those interested in having affordable healthcare for vulnerable populations and every American.

Please, if you are a journalist going into the fascist den, please bring with you a RECORDING of what he said before, because he lied today to attack Rachel Scott. He needs to be confronted on live TV.

My personal conspiracy theory is that Ellison needs the WBD and CBS for leverage over Trump/GOP regime to secure federal bailout of his never-will-become-profitable AI investments.

Team Oligarch Suits Up to Torpedo Netflix/WBD Merger talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/team-...

The immorality is disgraceful.

Donald Trump has unilaterally decided that one of America's largest media companies must be sold to one of his cronies. Here's why America has a liberal media bias problem.

Also, fuck you Jake Tapper.

Turns out Trump was helping to bring about a golden age - the Golden Age of China.

It’s Election Day tomorrow! And it’s a big one because Democrats have a big shot at flipping the mayor’s office in Miami. And also they’re aiming for an upset flip in the state House in Georgia. Both on my guide of elections to watch. boltsmag.org/whats-on-the...

Bluesky’s head of trust & safety responding with a sarcastic image macro to a woman upset her husband was kidnapped by ICE is embarrassingly unprofessional & cruel behavior. that account was then banned by Bluesky Trust & Safety. horrendously poor community management. what purpose does this serve?

“.. By my count, today's $12B farmer bailout is the FIFTH thing that Trump's tariffs were gonna pay for.” - @scottlincicome.bsky.social

The Kavanaugh, Alito, Roberts, er al are really just Royalists.

hey a fun thing is that if congress is delegating authority to an independent agency then by definition that agency is not "unaccountable." it is still accountable to congress. and it is interesting (read: extremely frustrating) to me that these people just write congress out of existence here.

Everyone involved in the operation of the camp needs to be tried.

Iron Giant commission by @brianlevel.bsky.social. #artlife #comics #art

The last few months, I’ve been working on a major project: analyzing the Trump admin’s hostile treatment of the First Amendment. That has led to today’s release of our @freepress.bsky.social report “Chokehold.” @brianstelter.bsky.social @cnn.com details our findings: www.cnn.com/2025/12/08/m...

A ‌federal judge on Monday ruled that U.S. President Donald Trump's ⁠administration ‍had failed ‌to justify its decision to ‍suspend permitting of new wind ⁠projects in keeping with ‍the Republican president's wishes.

Pointing out (because when else would I get to show off this research) that about 533 U.S.–produced features, from both major studios and independents, were released into theaters in 1957. In 2017, there were 131 given wide release, including independents. It's astounding how output has shrunk.

Who would ever voluntarily choose to live under the demented monarchical plutocracy our Supreme Court is creating for Trump? How is this a remotely rational way to structure a government? slate.com/news-and-pol...

First Amendment.

Wut?

👋 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…

Oops. @ddale8.bsky.social www.cnn.com/2025/12/08/p...

These sadists must be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.

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.

SIMPLE MATH

Peter, Paul, and Mary say RELAX

Losing Snæfellsjökull will hit hard, as it looms so prominently on the horizon from Reykjavík on clear days. Most of it will be gone by 2050.

High-level radioactive waste will effectively remain radioactive for ever in human terms. It will need to be safely & securely stored for potentially hundreds of thousands of years. We are just leaving a massive toxic legacy for future generations.