Disgusting and should be shocking even from an administration led by a convicted abuser How a Manosphere Star Accused of Rape and Trafficking Was Freed www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/u...

I’m sure FIRE will be all over this

I lost my job, my kids have measles, and my town is flooded with cocaine now that Trump pardoned all the traffickers. But at least the State Department is using Times New Roman again.

1/ It was the height of the pandemic, but Phoebe Putney Memorial had good news: At 99 years old, Maude Burke was the oldest COVID-19 patient they were discharging. In a video, staff waved balloons, celebrating Burke beating the disease. There was one issue: It wasn’t true. 🧵

Gotta admit "the font is DEI" is a stage of absurdity I could not have predicted

Every part of this is bonkers. The intro is bonkers. The transition to his health is bonkers. The mention that other presidents didn't need cognitive exams is bonkers. The claim that this screening test is somehow hard is bonkers. The idea that criticism of him is treason is bonkers. All of it.

Go Seattle!! #humanrights Seattle Plans Pride Match at Soccer World Cup, Infuriating Iran and Egypt www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/w...

SCOOP — Gregg Phillips, a conspiracy theorist with no emergency management experience who helped produce the election-denying documentary ‘2000 Mules’ with Dinesh D’Souza and has faced numerous legal inquiries, has been named head of FEMA’s Office of Response and Recovery. My story:

Jessica: Trump doesn't have the same issues that Joe Biden did. He doesn't have a supply chain problem. He doesn't have a global health pandemic. He's just setting our economy on fire and not in a good way. Like the dumpster fire way

BREAKING: A federal judge ordered the government to restore Rümeysa Öztürk's SEVIS student record after it was wrongfully terminated in retaliation for exercising her freedom of speech. This allows her to fully engage with the opportunities of her PhD program.

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.

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

Excellent www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/w...

#ICYMI: ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detailed the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the Trump administration’s cuts to an aid program. (Published Oct. 2025)

Donald Trump said he’ll “be involved in” deciding if Netflix can buy Warner Bros. Is that an open invite for CEOs to curry favor with Trump in exchange for merger approvals? It should be an independent decision by the Department of Justice based on the law and facts.

That thing Trump has accused his enemies of? He did it himself. “Given Trump’s position on situations like this, he’s going to either need to fire himself or refer himself to the Department of Justice,” said one expert. We got the receipts. 👇🏻

What happened when a hospital gobbled up its competitor & became town's only player "We had soiled beds, mounting sepsis issues & had just laid off 200 nurses. But we had a new logo” It's the tale not just one of one hospital, but of healthcare in America projects.propublica.org/albany-georg...

A Palantir billionaire just called for public hangings. “It's time to bring back masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable,” writes Joe Lonsdale. This is where Silicon Valley authoritarianism is heading: www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale...

That's not better!

It’s important to remember there are two scandals here: 1. The Administration has likely committed war crimes. 2. But the entire operation - which now includes two dozen attacks - is illegal. In our democracy, the President CANNOT wage war without the consent of the people.

Trump calls human beings “vermin,” “garbage,” “diseases,” “poison,” and “animals.” Then, when I rightfully point out that the same dehumanizing language has been used by fascist regimes to justify humanity’s worst atrocities—Republicans lose their minds. Give me a break.

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:

Osman: "President Trump singling out one group of people & ICE being on our streets & asking people for documentation, it feels like we're in 1930s Germany. I never thought there would be a time where I will tell my community to carry their passport around bc if you look Somali you might be stopped"

At least one of these countries has an adult in charge On Trump’s Insults, Somalia’s Prime Minister Says ‘It’s Better Not to Respond’ www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/w...

It was seventy years ago today that Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on an Alabama bus, triggering one of the world's great experiments in nonviolent action

This country is too much College Student Is Deported During Trip Home for Thanksgiving www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/u...

This country is so screwed Doctor Critical of Vaccines Quietly Appointed as C.D.C.’s Second in Command www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/h...

I really don’t think we can overstate the harm that the tech ethos of move fast and break things (followed by the unsaid “and then just move on”) has done beyond tech. Government, ngos, universities, public schools that have invited the folks who think like this in keep ending up gutted

About 90,000 people living near larger chemical plants face an unacceptable risk of developing cancer, the EPA says. New rules adopted last year could’ve cut that number to 3,000 residents — a drop of 97%. But Trump has halted those efforts.

“Mother Fletcher endured more than anyone should, yet she spent her life lighting a path forward with purpose” - Tulsa’s mayor Monroe Nichols remembers Viola Fletcher, survivor of the Tulsa massacre abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory...

Everything about this might be the saddest thing I’ve ever seen

"Mamdani said Trump was a fascist & Trump practically got on his knees to kiss his shoes. Mark Kelly & company asked troops to not obey illegal orders & Trump called for their deaths. Both cases demonstrate that standing up to Trump without compromising works a lot better than bending the knee."

Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.

My kids have measles, I lost my job, and I'm going to die because RFK Jr. cancelled the clinical trials that might have cured my cancer. But at least I know there won't be any same-sex couples in the next Frozen movie.

Every Democrat in Congress should put out a video saying troops have an obligation to refuse unlawful orders. Make them prosecute all of you. This isn't a close call. I'd add Republicans too if I thought any of them had the courage to actually cross Trump on this.

I’m no great fan of the ACA. I believe we should guarantee health care as a human right through a single-payer Medicare for All system. But — at minimum — we cannot allow Republicans to destroy our already-broken system by doubling insurance premiums for 20 million Americans.

😂😂😂😂😂 time.com/7331119/zohr...

The only person who has been seizing private companies through the power of the state is Trump.

LOCAL ELECTION RESULT: Let me congratulate @zysaidso.bsky.social for her election to the Charlottesville School Board. For those wondering: Zyahna Bryant was a student organizer who led the successful fight in removing two confederate statues from downtown Charlottesville.

Federal agents pulling a woman out of Rayito Del Sol, a daycare by Lane Tech high school

Amazing. He's saying the quiet part out loud without even realizing it. I know how absurd this is to say these days, but it's important to remember that officially, redistricting isn't supposed to unfairly favor one party over another.

Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant."

Beshear: Let me be clear. The president has both the funding and the authority to fund snap during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.

I see that CBS chose not to air this part. It probably explains much of what they did decide to air.

📽️ WATCH: The U.S. government doesn’t track how often immigration agents detain citizens. So ProPublica did. We found more than 170 incidents since the start of Trump’s second term. Americans have been kicked, dragged and held for days without access to lawyers. ➡️ Full story: propub.li/3LjuAVS

Rep. Clay Higgins of Louisiana blames SNAP recipients for not stockpiling a month's worth of food. He ends his tweet with "stop smoking crack."

A good list for people in NYC to share about how people impacted by SNAP cuts might access some food: open.substack.com/pub/eboyle/p...

They don’t even know who they’re killing. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/u...

If your medication was made in a contaminated factory, the FDA won’t tell you. Even ProPublica reporters hit a dead end when trying to track down where a popular prescription drug (atorvastatin, which treats high cholesterol) was made and whether the factory had a troubled record.