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Good morning from Haarlem. #GoodMorningFromHaarlem

New #CDC data confirm what science has shown all along: COVID-19 vaccines protect children from severe illness, hospitalization, & death. Findings in last week’s #MMWR reinforce vaccination keeps kids safe.

We are a rogue terrorist state. We’re a bigger Libya.

The USA is now sponsoring terrorism. This is state sponsored terrorism against Venezuela. It is state sponsored terrorism against the US public, both citizens and non-citizens. the trump regime is spiraling into a full-on terrorist regime.

The USA is now an international bully. 😖. Very few Americans support this. Time to impeach Trump and remove him from office now!

We will call it the Epstein War.

This would be a very good moment for Democratic leaders to increase the political salience of unnecessary wars

ICE is going after people who commit fewer crimes than U.S. born citizens. They're robbing people, hurting people, using racial profiling, violating due process, hurting children, and going after American citizens while they do. This is an illegal criminal enterprise from head to toe.

Chump and KegsBreath are trying To Silence Senator Kelly and All Military Personnel From Speaking Truth to Power.......

Capitulating to Trump on gender affirming care is not risk free. It violates state and federal law to deny access to this care and providers should be on notice they are legally liable if they unlawfully deny care. www.gladlaw.org/connecticut-...

The is a declaration and act of war without congressional approval, and imperialistic jingoism.

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So now, the Discord channel has become some sort of a ghost town, members tell 404 Media. “To me it shines a light on the god-complex that AI C-suite members seem to have, and their willingness to ignore people's consent and opinions as they bulldoze their way of pushing AI." Full story here:

a16z gave a million dollars to a phone farm that's flooding TikTok with AI-generated influencers. A hacker contacted 404 Media to reveal what these accounts are and what products they're promoting www.404media.co/hack-reveals...

🤔 Have you spotted it yet? Trump blockading Venezuelan oil makes the world more dependent on Russian oil, and raises the price per barrel. So in effect, Trump is helping Putin again.

This is the desert of the real. The Wachowskis called it. But like Bernie says, no one wants this. Folks are organizing in amazing ways.

Don't let the technocrat dillweeds convince you that your own human brain isn't capable of doing things. Especially art. Your brain is uniquely suited to create things, and that includes both wonderful things *and* deeply stupid things. and everything in between. We contain multitudes.

It was fascinating talking to @gilduran.com about the tech right, Christian nationalism, and all the convergences thereof.

Why did Donald Trump pardon a former president who was convicted of trafficking hundreds of tons of cocaine and taking millions of dollars in bribes? Follow the tech bros.

"The nation doesn’t need to be revived because neoliberalism never managed to eradicate it in the first place." Nor, arguably, did it ever wish to. jacobin.com/2025/12/neol...

This milieu is a better investment for Thiel than Dimes Square because---beyond the prospect of a patreon following or gallery representation---there is no career path for being a right-winger in Chinatown. In SF, there are many onramps into lucrative day jobs in defense tech.

Out in spring from @bentarnoff.com & I www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...

Susie Wiles: "Vanity Fair tricked me into saying embarrassing things about the Trump administration. And then I went back to talk with them ten more times."

"...68% of CEOs plan to spend even more on AI in 2026, according to an annual survey of more than 350 public-company CEOs from advisory firm Teneo. Less than half of current AI projects had generated more in returns than they had cost, respondents said." www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ceos...

Porn User Data Stolen—Pornhub ‘Search, Watch And Download’ Activity

Peak Geminids Meteor shower this past Saturday night captured over Stonehenge. Photo credit: Sandra.Davies6869

NSF is about to dismantle NCAR at Russell Vought's direction to protect the fossil fuel industry. It's hard to communicate just how much NCAR does, so let's take a look: I've never worked at NCAR, and I've worked with NCAR researchers once ever. What scientific discoveries has NCAR made possible? 👇

This is wild! You know the Vanity Fair article with Susie Wiles that everyone’s talking about? Yeah. This is basically the audio version Narrated by Nicolle Wallace, and it’s not “taken out of context”. ☠️😭

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Ukrainian military remotely detonated a mined building occupied by a Russian infantry group.

Robert Reich

#GVerse via @captmarkkelly.bsky.social "Tonight, we learned the Pentagon is escalating its review of me into "an official command investigation." If #Shit4Brains or #WhiskyLeaks think they can stop me from doing my job and serving the American people, they've got the wrong guy."

ICE Accidentally Publishes A ‘Watch List’ Of Immigration Lawyers, Which Is Definitely A Normal Thing For The Government To Do This is... disturbing. Let’s not forget, this regime has not been subtle about its hostility toward lawyers in general and immigration lawyers in particular.

The blockade of Venezuela is a disgusting echo of U.S. imperialism in Latin America. We were lied to about Iraq and WMDs, and an entire generation paid the price. Here we are again. We cannot let a wannabe dictator drag us into another forever war. www.axios.com/2025/12/17/t...

He is descended from Russian Jews—you know, the kind of people who were once denounced as alien and unassimilable. Today, his project is to unleash government persecution of those he deems alien and unassimilable. How far will Stephen Miller’s sadistic designs go? trib.al/Qxli9RW

Sigh. Chile is going fascist... again. New guy wants a Chilean ICE. :( edition.cnn.com/2025/12/14/a...

The conspiracy by this Court to replace our founding charter with dictatorship isn’t funny, but: “Every time Trump makes a shadow docket appeal he might as well shout ‘By the power of Greyskull!’, because he’s about to transform from a feeble man who can’t grip a glass with one hand into HE-Man.”

I've been reporting on the criminal justice system for over a decade and have lived in an authoritarian country overseas, but I've never seen anything like the police presence in ICE-occupied Memphis. Here's my dispatch: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

To be clear, Karoline Leavitt is a hateful propagandist who is paid to lie profusely for a deranged criminal tyrant, anything she’s says is in worship of the orange felon. Tomorrow won’t be an address, it’s him dressing up nearly a year of destruction, crime spree and chaos.

Due to Trump & Vance.

Oh, are you saying the Epstein Rape Party wants to make sexually assaulting vulnerable kids legal? Wow. Who could have figured? (by the way the sponsors of this bill should be on the federal sex offender registery)

Jared Kushner, private equity firm manager and son-in-law to President Trump, has ended his efforts to redevelop a Serbian historical monument into a luxury hotel complex after weeks of protest and controversy. trib.al/ucgINLT

Just wanted to note that the hepatitis B shot was the world's first anti-cancer vaccine. It helps prevent liver cancer. The HPV shot is the second cancer vaccine to be developed. It protects against cancers of the cervix, vulva, vagina, penis anus and head and neck.

Network state on the front page. We did it, Balajo.

Congratulations to BR contributor @quinnslobodian.com for making the NBCC’s 2025 Longlist for Criticism! Read an excerpt from HAYEK’S BASTARDS here:

Excuse me, WUT! You don’t give a “shockingly candid” interview ripping your own administration and then act surprised when people quote you. That’s not a media problem. That’s a foresight problem.