Tonight on CBS, Steven Pinker and Robert F Kennedy Jr. debate “Have vaccines failed American children?”

A person appearing to be the former Prince Andrew emailed Ghislaine Maxwell asking if she had any 'new inappropriate friends' for him ahead of an official royal visit to Peru. ft.trib.al/CunAjlw

Woke up to 417 unread emails thanks to reply all. New PR. Great work VA!

Bari Weiss is killing stories the right way. by Ezra Klein

The notice about a delay in showing the segment "Inside CECOT" only released a few hours prior to the episode airing.

Newly discovered phone call recordings show how far Trump went to attempt overturning the 2020 presidential election results in Georgia Trump told the Speaker he could call the session “for transparency, and to uncover fraud,” adding, “Who’s gonna stop you for that?” trib.al/b6NRAnR

Q: A number of Republicans have denounced your statement on Rob Reiner. Do you stand by it? TRUMP: Well, I wasn't a fan of his at all. He was a deranged person as far as Trump is concerned.

So good.

California Hires Former C.D.C. Officials Who Criticized Trump Administration A former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and a former chief medical officer of the agency will advise the state on public health issues. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/u...

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Ramirez to Noem: "You lied on the record and you lied to members of this committee. You violated court orders by not turning around deportation flights bound for El Salvador where we know that hundreds of people under your leadership reported they were raped, beaten, and nearly died."

Disease burden attributable to intimate partner violence against females and sexual violence against children in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2023: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2023 www.healthdata.org/research-ana...

Jared Kushner offers Vladimir Putin a 51% stake in Warner Bros.

Trump pardoned Former Honduras President Juan Orlando Hernández, for trafficking 500 tons of cocaine to USA The Honduran AG just issued an international warrant for his arrest, saying, "America's not sending its best people, they're drug dealers, they're rapists, & some, I assume, are good people."

Alina Habba to join Harvard Institute of Politics.

Transplant coming with ….rabies from a 🦨 with an unfortunately fatal outcome for one (and all other transplanted organs being removed) www.nytimes.com/2025/12/06/h... gift link h/t @boback.bsky.social #NephSky #OrganTransplant

Trump says that price of beef is down. The receipt from my last trip to the grocery store says it is up. For busy shoppers, it can be hard to know who to trust.

Trump's dementia has grown so extreme that a select group of advisors are now running the country without his input. To find who those advisors are and what their plans are, buy my new book, which will appear in March 2029.

Frank O. Gehry, the architect who changed the civic landscape of his adopted hometown of Los Angeles, has died www.latimes.com/entertainmen... @latimes.com

In a victory for RFK Jr. in his war against vaccines, a federal panel ends the decades-old recommendation that all newborns be immunized against hepatitis B, a highly infectious virus that leads to chronic liver disease. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/h...

A heroin addict who writes bad porn poetry says eliminating the Hepatitis B vaccine will make kids healthier. Medical experts say it will kill thousands of innocent children. For busy parents, it can be hard to know who to believe.

As a US senator, my heart breaks for the families of the Venezuelans that Pete Hegseth ordered executed without trial. If they could see my state’s Republican primary polling data, I think they would understand why I had to vote to confirm him.

Inside RFK Jr.’s Methodical Quest to Shake Up America’s Vaccine System @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/u...

Whoever created the reaction feature for MS Exchange emails is a bad person.

🆕 #NephJCshort by @brianrifkin.bsky.social RETREAT-FRAIL- pragmatic RCT: is less BP medication worse in octogenarians? www.nephjc.com/news/hyperte...

A Threat to Evidence-Based Vaccine Policy and Public Health Security at the FDA @nejm www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

A raft of former #FDA commissioners — nearly all who've held the post over the past 35 years — decried Vinay Prasad's leaked plan to change the regulation of vaccines. In a letter to @nejm.org they wrote: "The answer is not to toss aside the basic rules of science." www.statnews.com/2025/12/03/f...

Who won?

Happy Black Friday to all who celebrate. 🛍️ 🏷️🎁

NIH shake-up to grant decision-making draws concerns of political meddling Policy drops “paylines” based on peer-review scores and requires geography and other factors to guide approvals www.science.org/content/arti... @science.org

Unfortunately, I can confirm that this is true. I have known Carl for 2 decades and he is smart, dedicated, and quite apolitical, focused on science and getting stuff done on important problems. Huge unnecessary loss of leadership and expertise.

A Battle with My Blood When I was diagnosed with leukemia, my first thought was that this couldn’t be happening to me, to my family. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Marjorie Taylor Greene to join Harvard’s Institute of Politics.

Dennis Hastert Just Going To Assume He Welcome Back In GOP

Gifted Khashoggi Head Mounted In Oval Office

We've updated our Study. New stats (jaw-dropping imho): 1. DOJ noncompliance with court orders: 26 cases 2. Courts’ distrust of government information and representations: Over 60 cases 3. Court findings of arbitrary and capricious government conduct: 68 cases

Page after page after page was redacted. #foia

17 out of 26 corporations funding Trump's ballroom project are clients of Brian Ballard, Jeff Miller, or Reince Priebus’s lobbying firms. Those same firms helped raise $300 MILLION for the project. The door is wide open for these lobbyists to seek favors from the Trump admin.

NEW: The White House intervened in a DHS investigation. The target? Sex offender Andrew Tate. The WH person? Paul “Nazi Streak” Ingrassia. Who was previously also Tate’s lawyer. A banger from @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Shapiro www.propublica.org/article/andr...

The Epstein files could be released today if Democrats would agree to remove all mentions of Donald Trump and create mentions of James Clapper and Adam Schiff. The fact that they won’t shows how unserious they are. by Marc Thiessen

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Larry Summers was doing dating the right way. by Ezra Klein

If an attractive young woman a third my age didn't want to date me, then why did she ask me for feedback on an economics paper? by Larry Summers

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Trump plans to invade Venezuela without giving any justification. Some liberal critics cry foul.

Blending family and governance

The Ethicist | My husband was sentenced to 30 years in prison for defrauding homeless orphans on Medicaid. His lawyer says we should appeal, but is it okay to skip straight to mass-purchasing Trump crypto to get a pardon?

Whether it’s centrist pundits feeling politically homeless or then-Congressman Matt Gaetz having sex with a homeless 17 year-old, homelessness is having a moment.

Masked Israeli settlers destroyed property belonging to a dairy farm in Beit Lid in the occupied West Bank. The U.N. humanitarian office said there were the most Israeli settler attacks on Palestinians in the West Bank in October since 2006. https://wapo.st/3WU0oDa