More than that, his crew threatened to open fire on the murderers. He rescued civilians, returned to base to refuel, flew back, and rescued more civilians. Then he denounced the crimes to his HQ. For all this he received death-threats throughout his life. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Th....

Remember: The Chiefs season went sideways the minute the daughter of the owner went on a rant about Bad Bunny being the halftime show at The Super Bowl. God don’t love ugly.

My controversial take: the practice of law journals in the US (as opposed to, say, Europe) being non peer-reviewed allows hacks like Wurman and Dershowitz to climb the academic ladder with questionable scholarship -- and then use their academic credentials to undermine our rights.

This guy gets it www.politico.com/news/2025/12...

We're half a decade into studies finding that improving airflow in classrooms will reduce disease transmission enormously, and that bleaching surfaces etc. does very little. And yet nothing changes. Waves of flu and colds wash over schools, and the schools pretend it's an act of God.

If I have a "this is what we should be messaging about", it's this. Everybody should be pointing out the way we ended up with this mess was voting for Republicans and split government constantly, and our most progressive/beneficial years were when we voted for Democratic majorities consistently.

cotton would say this shit no matter what because he's an authentically horrifying human being, but i do sort of wonder whether he thinks he might have a shot at secdef once trump inevitably fires hegseth or he gets impeached

if you're going to have these rat bastards on the air, you have to have follow up questions ready. tom cotton is the chairman of the senate intelligence committee, "i dunno, haven't asked" is, if true, a deliberate dereliction of his duties both as a senator and in his current role as a senator.

This is an excellent and necessary use of Holocaust analogies. Like, sometimes you should avoid Holocaust analogies. But not in this case. This is right on.

PSA #2: Billionaires been FANFO (Fucking Around & NOT Finding Out) a long time. Early to mid 19th century, American cartels smuggled opium to China had 10% market share.( British cartels=90%) 10% population in China was addicted to opium! Millions of deaths over 50 years. Billions$, Familiar Names!

It is worth celebrating MTG's break from Trump in a "let them fight" kind of way because it is showing the MAGA cracks. But it should have always been clear: she is interested in leading a challenge for the leadership of MAGA*, she was never interested in leaving MAGA.

Very shitty people who become opposed to other very shitty people are still very shitty people

I love how President who's retired for almost a year gets more coverage for flubbing a line in a random speech then the actual President does for passing out 5 minutes into a cabinet meeting

Just a reminder to go out and engage with real people doing real things in person. I have set up in various cafes so people could come pick up signs the past two weekends. I drug my feet about doing it. Felt like a waste of time. It was really nice. Got some coffee, met nice people.

A lot of folks think this stuff is just a careerist video game. That none of it has life and death consequences.

Shingles vaccine linked to a lower rate of dementia-related deaths: study shows 29% decline. www.skepticalraptor.com/skepticalrap... via @skepticalraptor.bsky.social

I took my kids (preschoolers at the time) to a townhall with my Congressman in 2010. Older suburbanites got so worked up about socialism and death panels that they were literally spitting while yelling in my face while my children and I were waiting in line.+

To me, it doesn’t matter if you are a Democrat, Republican, or an independent – I want you to have health care you can afford. My colleagues need to join me. The people who voted them in are crying out for help.

Holy smokes! If you acted like Palantir CEO Alex Karp in a corporate meeting, they would report you to HR. Just saying.

Not that I have a ton of sympathy for Olivia Nuzzi but this is insane framing: "Woman who complained about privacy violations gets her privacy violated." nypost.com/2025/12/03/u...

HOPE WALZ: “What world are we f*cking living in? I draw the line at Gus. You people are f*cking disgraceful.” She says MAGA loyalists are now driving by their home and yelling “R*tard!” at her family and her special needs brother after Trump called GovTimWalz the R word.

There's a subset of GOPer that seems to have entered politics almost entirely for the potential to be adjacent to killing people and well imo that sort of person probably shouldn't be in office

He spent $77B to create knockoff Wii Miis?

this has become a very important video to me

Why do they always, very conveniently look like the villains fro Sat AM cartoon?

my paternal great grandparents got off a boat in Newark and were americans from the moment they touched american soil. my only objection to that pattern is that i think we should send a plane to pick up anyone who declares themselves an american.

Trump-Trump-Trump voters are hopeless but you could absolutely convince Obama-Trump-Biden-Trump voters to throw him in jail. They’re Play-Doh.

There is no sight that more efficiently puts the lie to immigration “court” than the common sight of children “representing themselves.” Children too small to climb into the chair, children in pajamas who don’t know where they are, children not yet old enough to speak.

Mockler: It's honestly humiliating that other countries are treating our president like a child, like a baby. It's like if I created a peace prize and I gave it to myself. I'm like, I'm just going to keep this medal on all night. Our president is an actual child

I’ve now had multiple sources tell me the UK NHS is removing the CDC from its list of reliable sources. Welcome to irrelevance.

My constituent, Wilmer, was mauled by an ICE attack dog despite the fact that, as he has consistently explained, he was not resisting arrest or trying to flee—his wife and young children, all U.S. citizens, were forced to watch helplessly as Wilmer was violently attacked and dragged away.

That one very much deserves to be filed under "if you want better Democrats, you have to vote for more Democrats", which is very hard to get people to embrace when they see their vote as a moral judgment on them

Under Trump’s leadership, electricity costs are going up nationwide. 17% in North Carolina. 15% in Georgia. 13% in Pennsylvania. 12% in Michigan. And Republicans are doing nothing about it.

We will not stop until they stop. 💕

Ask a friend if you want to find a local organized group of people working to protect our communities from unlawful and unconstitutional acts.

One Billion Americans is the floor, actually

Every elected Dem should do this. Absolute #FloodTheZone with mockery of Trump. The more folks do it, the more ludicrously it oh-so-rightly appears to be.

what follows immediately after the birthright clause? the privileges and immunities and due process clauses? and what follows them? the equal protection clause. all of this is explicitly to say, "the declaration is the constitutional law of the land"

the birthright clause was not just written to wipe dred scott off of the books, it was written to repudiate the *idea* behind dred scott, you might say the larger *ideological project* of dred scott. and the whole of section 1 of the 14th amendment is a constitutional statement of political equality

dred scott, in their minds, established the united states as a place of tiered citizenship and permanent inequality among americans. it was a ruling that said, in effect, that all men *were not* created equal and would *never* be treated as such.

i think to understand the meaning of the birthright citizenship clause to the framers of the 14th amendment, you have to understand significance of dred scott to the civil war republican party. dred scott wasn't just a bad ruling, it was understood as a rejection of the declaration itself.

from a state party director

Hahahahaha

it is impossible to overstate the extent to which this country is now being run by people you would leave a party rather than talk to for five minutes

The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow

Shame them. Shame CNN. "One recent Kalshi betting market that allowed people to bet on whether Palestinians in Gaza would suffer mass starvation." Have nothing to do a company going into business with these repugnant people. Boycott. Do not speak to CNN. If it happens once, it'll go everywhere.