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Federal vaccine advisers selected by RFK Jr. will vote Thursday on lifting a recommendation for all newborns to get the hepatitis B vaccine. The vaccine protects from a highly infectious virus that can cause serious lifelong liver disease, cancer and death.

Christ on a cracker — these seemingly hostile drones only missed Zelensky’s plane because he was unexpectedly early www.thejournal.ie/drones-dubli...

I didn't know there was a painting dedicated to my 65yo rich boyfriend 😍

Cut an ad overlaying it with a headline of Hegseth quoted saying "kill them all" and you've got something that can both get Democrats elected AND put that weasel in jail.

They need to release this video to the public

Pentagon's top watchdog concluded that information Defense Secretary Hegseth shared in a Signal chat could have endangered troops and national security. www.theatlantic.com/national-...

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Space station doodles by Doug Drexler. No idea what these were for exactly, or when. /2

Now, obviously that's a post hoc rationalization: It would be crazy to declassify those details before the strike, and there's zero indication Hegseth actually intended to do so. But he has the authority to do it, and can pretend after the fact that he did.

This summary makes fairly clear, as I'd suspected, that Hegseth's claim that he didn't share "classified information" was bullshit meant to deceive the public by trading on a technicality: As SecDef, Hegseth can claim he tacitly declassified the info by sharing it.

Where is a department of government efficiency to combat waste, fraud, and abuse when you need it???

To vividly illustrate the meaning of irony to the schoolchildren of DC?

Why is Donald Trump’s name now on the @usip.org building? Who put there? And when?

Werner Herzog voice: The walls were adorned with faces engaged in eternal screams

If we're not at war, Pete Hegseth is a murderer. If we are at war, Pete Hegseth is still a murderer. He's a murderer. And you don't need to go to The Hague to hold him accountable because there are perfectly good, American laws AGAINST MURDER. My latest in @thenation.com

Agents in Key Largo, Florida ripped this woman wearing medical scrubs out of her car as she screamed she is a US citizen. Agents cuffed her and put her in one of their cars. She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:

this feels like another iteration of the "what if I give a homeless man money and he buys booze" thing. So then he bought booze, so what, you are not his personal life coach. You did your bit now go live your life.

“Critics say” Trump’s remarks on Somalis were bigoted? JFC what are you doing?

Um, he is not even convicted yet

i like dunkelman’s book as well but this argument really ought to grapple with the fact that trump’s agenda is mired in lawsuits and even the signature parts of it, the deportations, fall far short of the president’s ambitions

More on Emil Bove's transformation from star prosecutor of the Honduran ex-president to apologist for Trump's pardoning of him, by @jonesieman.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/n...

wrote about the problem of the pardon power (gift link)

US policing IS inherently racist and has always been. This is not controversial. The fact that people pretend that it is IS actually the problem. You're welcome.

Governments ignore the science and prefer to just focus on climate change as an energy transition: as a spur to kick start a still completely unsustainable capitalism. We’re in breach of multiple planetary boundaries and they - and we - are deeply interdependent. It’s one hell of a category error.

I made a helpful flowchart for folks hope this helps: Are you a random person not connected in any way to higher ed who has strong opinions about people receiving accommodations for their school work? ⬇️ Shut your fucking mouth

Trump has brought the crypto ethos to government: rules and accountability are for suckers. www.ms.now/opinion/trum...

[bursts through the wall like the Kool-Aid man, visibly out of breath] trashed panda

Perhaps apropos. In a 1939 internal note, NBC regretted *not* censoring announcer Walter Winchell after he called Hitler a "madman".

Read the story or @andybcampbell.bsky.social fires me www.ms.now/news/rfk-jr-...

what’s more virgin than a computer

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.

“My pay has ranged from 40 cents per day as a janitor to as much as 26 cents an hour as a graphic designer in the printing plant when I was at Nash Correctional, where, among other duties, my job entailed proofreading the 2016, 2017, and 2018 annual reports for Correction Enterprises.”

1725: Why the fuck did I lose my left hand for the same wages I earned while being 10x more productive than last year? Who the fuck is benefiting here? 2025: Why am I losing my job to a machine that encourages kids to kill themselves and can't actually do my job? Who the fuck is benefiting here?

You can see right now the Epstein-adjacent sex pest technofascists desperately and relentlessly trying to pull the same shit with generative AI, painting opposition as having complex and weird problems with it.

Franklin's publisher: “Franklin the Turtle is a beloved Canadian icon who … stands for kindness, empathy, and inclusivity” Pentagon spox: “We doubt Franklin the Turtle wants to be inclusive of drug cartels … or laud the kindness and empathy of narcoterrorists” wapo.st/4iCiiEv

The Trump administration plans to block Democratic-controlled states from accessing billions of dollars they need to run their food stamp programs unless governors turn over benefits rolls to federal officials.

It should be abundantly clear by now that it was never about “documented” vs. “undocumented” immigrants for Trump. The majority of the Somali community came to the US as documented refugees…and many are citizens or legal residents. Citizenship is rendered meaningless very quickly by fascists.

A common vaccine meant to ward off shingles may be doing something even more extraordinary: protecting the brain.

There is something very wrong with Megyn Kelly.

INBOX: @weareoversight.bsky.social submitted public comment opposing DHS proposal for "unlawful expansion" of Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements program into "sweeping repository of Americans’ highly sensitive" info, citing risks to data security and wrongful removal of registered voters

Only 42 months until Space Hotel

Breaking news: An appeals court ruled that President Trump unlawfully appointed his former attorney Alina Habba to serve as top prosecutor in New Jersey — a decision that could have far-reaching implications for other controversial Trump appointments.

"A French bastard landing with an armed Banditti and establishing himself king of England against the consent of the natives, is in plain terms a very paltry rascally original. It certainly hath no divinity in it."

humiliating you could not pay me enough

It would be one thing if you work as an animator and someone comes up to you with a pristine bit of Disney magic provided by a prompt and says you don’t have a job, that would be terrible but you could see the cruel mercenary nature of it, but it’s like your boss comes up to you and shows you this

The thing about AI anime dubs and AI Actor Tilly Norwood and AI music is just the fucking disrespect, this is what your industry thinks can replace you and it’s not even good. It’s not even a thing you look at with dread at how the computer has replaced Man, it just sucks ass lol it just blows

This is murder. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

the stadium DJ hitting Knuck if You Buck mid-fight is incredible work. you spend all season working to be prepared for that moment