rfk jr wants to kill your kids, it’s really that simple.

NEWS: The Institute of Museum & Library Services has restored ALL previously canceled federal grants to libraries, following a ruling by a federal judge in Rhode Island last month. This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory! Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...

Dedham Priest pissing off all the right people by removing Jesus from the church's nativity scene and putting up an ICE WAS HERE sign in His place. www.boston25news.com/news/local/i...

Starbucks settles New York City worker scheduling violations. "Fast food employers must give workers regular schedules..., must provide schedules 14 days in advance and cannot reduce hours by more than 15% without ‘just cause or a legitimate business reason’." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/01/n...

RFK Jr: "Two weeks ago we ended, under your leadership, a twenty year war on women". Three out of five men in this shot have been accused of sexual misconduct, harassment or abusive behaviour towards women. A fourth signed into law a near-total abortion ban in his state as governor.

Vinay Prasad of the FDA claims that he has proof that 10 children died from COVID19 vaccines, so the FDA will now target flu shots, look at whether people should receive multiple vaccines at the same time, and make the vaccine approval process significantly more difficult.

Australia just recorded zero cervical cancer cases in women under 25 for the first time since records began in 1982. The amazing result of HPV vaccination.

“.. It just seems petty and hostile, frankly,” said Peter Staley, a longtime activist ..” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/h...

Pope Leo XIV condemned the use of religion for justifying "war," "violence" or "fanaticism" – instead urging Catholics to mobilize their faith and unify others "regardless of ethnicity, nationality, religion or personal perspectives." cnn.it/3XnzRyo

I need somebody to send me a transcript of the meeting that resulted in: Let's make a Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade float based on Stranger Things that includes an animatronic horror monster and also has Foreigner performing.

Congress requires DOD to facilitate Scouts activities but the Secretary can ignore the law in cases where it is “detrimental to national security." Hegseth is preparing to do so because the scouts have become too inclusive of girls. www.npr.org/2025/11/25/n...

Electric bills are up 11% this year, and shutoffs are spiking across the country. At the same time, corporations are building hundreds of energy-hungry data centers, and working families are being forced to absorb the cost. Higher bills for us, higher profits for them. seiu.co/3M71usW

Today, after months of requests, I toured the Broadview ICE Processing Facility. I want to share what I saw. The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.

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WOW! Autism Society of America, The Autistic Self-Advocacy Network, the Autism Science Foundation, the Autistic Women & Nonbinary Network and Autism Speaks put out a statement denouncing the CDC changing its website on vaccines autisticadvocacy.org/2025/11/lead...

Moments ago: tenants of the South Shore apartment building that federal immigration agents raided at the end of September held a presser to announce they're forming a tenants union. They're demanding, among other things, sewage removal and heat and electricity restroration. More updates TK.

"You got to know when to hold 'em, Know when to fold 'em, Know when to walk away, And know when to run, You never count your money, When you're sitting at the table, There'll be time enough for counting, When the dealing's done"

And I went to see a Doctor of Philosophy With a photo of Rasputin and a beard down to his knees He never did marry or see a b-grade movie He graded my performance and he said he could see through me I spent four years prostrate to the higher mind Got my paper and I was freeeeeee

Now, what you hear is not a test, I'm rapping to the beat And me, the groove, and my friends are gonna try to move your feet You see, I am Pontifex and I'd like to say hello

Almost a year now since I received this absolutely classic burn from the Canadian government.

We have the bill AND the bipartisan support to restore union rights for 1 million federal workers! It’s time to get it done. Tell your representatives: pass the Protect America’s Workforce Act! act.aflcio.org/call_campaig...

By characterizing abortion as health care, international orgs have pushed back against abortion exceptionalism. The World Health Organization recognizes that “[a]bortion is a simple health care intervention.” Numerous countries have adopted laws and policies to align with WHO recommendations.

The anti-vaccination movement is largely to blame for the continuing measles outbreak and the fact that the U.S. is going to lose our measles elimination status. Until RFK Jr. is removed from office, things are only going to get worse. @jimalwine.bsky.social and I wrote about here:

Several women who survived abuse by Jeffrey Epstein came together for a powerful PSA video demanding that Congress release all files on the accused sex trafficker. “While we are Epstein and Maxwell survivors, we are standing for so many victims of sexual assault and of domestic violence, as well.”

US colleges see 17% drop in newly enrolled international students, report finds reut.rs/47XVtWL

Anyone who’s ever used emergency contraception or gains peace of mind by even having it on hand owes Dr Camp a debt of gratitude. What a force. (Also, I just learned one reason the FDA rejected it at first was that they said the name Plan B was too glib!) Great obit—no paywall.

"In 2025, 40% of women aged 15 to 44 say they would move abroad permanently if they had the opportunity. The current figure is four times higher than the 10% who shared this desire in 2014, when it was generally in line with other age and gender groups."

Paramount, Netflix, and Comcast are putting in bids for Warner Bros. Discovery. The Telecommunications Act of 1996 was, in the long run, a very bad idea with disastrous consequences. www.wsj.com/business/med...

Vaccines save lives. “… the promise of nasal vaccines is that they could induce mucosal immunity along with a systemic immune response.”

Here’s a gift link (no paywall) to the article, “Catholic bishops condemn ‘indiscriminate mass deportation’ in rare statement”: wapo.st/448fDw6

Hey so “underage girls” are…children. The word you’re looking for is children. They’re not like, women-in-waiting or women-lite or whatever. They’re children. I think some of you are very uncomfortable with what that means for you but it is still true.

It's exploding whale of Florence, Oregon day! Everybody shout hooray! youtu.be/V6CLumsir34

No health care, no deal.

#Massachusetts to resume full #SNAP payments today even as regime declares it would rather starve children than stop terrorizing American cities www.universalhub.com/2025/regime-...

Buried in the Big Beautiful Bill were changes to food assistance that demanded “any future change be cost-neutral. Translation: no more benefit increases, even if food prices skyrocket.” The result was “institutionalized hunger.” @kristencrowell.bsky.social www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

The Catholic bishops of Texas, including Archbishop Gustavo García-Siller of San Antonio, have issued a statement addressing the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on the decision on Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA). Read More👉 ebx.sh/AVu39U

Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security. Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations. Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people. —Harry Truman, 1952

Pope Leo:

We’re up to 124 wins - including 35!!!! red to blue flips — and 9 more going to run offs. We still have 37 races left outstanding, but far and away the best election night @runforsomething.net has ever had.

Should women be hated as witches or patronized as overgrown children? The paper of record debates the two available options.

Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to our analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%. (Published February)

I helped make a film, out this week, called “Rovina’s Choice,” about the deaths this man without conscience or accountability has caused — already 600,000, ⅔ of them children.

"Europeans recognize his vision about free public transit and universal childcare. We expect our governments to make these kinds of services accessible to all of us,” said Verbeek. “We pay higher taxes and get civilized societies in return."

It got drowned out in all the good news from last night, but Boston Mayor Michelle Wu became the youngest person to be reelected in the city's history. She ran unopposed because her opponent--Patriots owner Bob Kraft's son--withdrew a few months ago after realizing he had no hope of winning.

"Pope Leo said Scripture emphasizes the question that will be posed at the end of the world: 'How did you receive the foreigner, did you receive him and welcome him, or not? I think there is a deep reflection that needs to be made about what is happening'..." chicago.suntimes.com/pope-leo-xiv...

Page One. @theguardian.com #ICE

here is my story about how Zohran's focus on community amid the loneliness epidemic helped young people connect their politics to an organizing infrastructure, that interviewed ZM, and does not use the NYT's framing of "they don't know how to make friends" :-) and also ran 4 days before NYT's lol