New treatment for Huntington’s? Few details, study hasn’t yet been peer reviewed or published. Groundbreaking if it holds up, but that’s still TBD.

More reaction to Maduro’s “arrest”

Cartoon ✍️: Agreement! By Mike Luckovich More here 👉 www.dailykos.com/blog/Comics

Members of Congress: stop posting online and APPEAR, PHYSICALLY on the steps of the Capitol to decry this unconstitutional violation of domestic & international law. SHOW THE PEOPLE the level of danger we are facing as a country. @housedemocrats.bsky.social @senatedemocrats.bsky.social

NYT Editorial Board: Trump is the Jan. 6 president.

NEW w/ @kenvogel.bsky.social: Trump’s team raised more than $100 million for MAGA Inc. in the second half of 2025, with much of the money coming from wealthy people and corporations with issues before the administration. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/02/u...

Joined Bill Nye to share how our everyday products were made possible by NASA. The Trump Administration is slashing federal science funding that our future depends on. Let’s stop the cuts.

From Gabriel Allon and @danielsilvabooks.bsky.social Gift Article www.nytimes.com/2026/01/02/a...

Is there anything the administration hasn’t thought of in its campaign to make destroy American lives? How about helping people to succeed rather than piling on more hardship?

We’re sleepwalking into a disaster

Canceling more labs, libraries, closing down buildings at NASA’s Goddard Space Center…when I was growing up in the ‘60’s, science was revered. Now science is being attacked and it’s voice is being increasingly lost in a cacophony of babble… www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/c...

They're going to *throw out* one-of-a-kind NASA archives?! Not even a year since the Inauguration & we're already at the 2nd-time-as-farce version of the burning of the Library of Alexandria.

There it is. The final print edition, after more than 150 years, of the Atlanta Journal Constitution elink75f.mail.breakermedia.com/ss/c/u001.o7...

This is genius. There are a lot of hidden geniuses in these there corners of America.

Wondering whether it’s time to reintroduce “Quisling” into common usage. Examples anyone?

She knows their struggles. Now she’s running for Congress. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

Russia Quietly Changed Its Space Station Plans. Here's What That Means www.scientificamerican.com/article/russ... "a station architecture that looks less like a step forward than a return nearly 40 years back to the Mir era."

You can see this quite often in Kyiv. The message reads: “This square meter of Ukrainian land is under the protection of the Ground Forces. Like every other one.”

Support media that report facts so you can make up your own mind

I wrote this column about the aggressive pushback our reporters have received for doing their jobs. Our Reporters Reached Out for Comment. They Were Accused of Stalking and Intimidation.

One of the most successful propaganda campaigns of our time is the right-wing claim that liberals dominate the media. The right has pushed this myth for decades on Fox and other outlets. You know about it because RIGHT-WING MEDIA HAVE A HUGE MEGAPHONE. My thread. 1/10 🧵

Our photographer Alex Kormann captured the exact moment the presses stopped for the last time in Minneapolis, ending a 158 history of locally printed newspapers.

And it's only gotten worse since this happened. www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

64 days in Chicago: The story of Operation Midway Blitz. Our team fanned out to cover the before, during and after of the federal government’s months-long raid on an American city. This is worth your time to understand the United States today www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/28/c...

Not exactly the message King Charles was going for — but it landed. www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

My full interview with @allinwithchris.bsky.social @msnowcomms.bsky.social and what’s in store for the American people in 2026 www.ms.now/ms-now/watch...

Dismantling the American Research Enterprise — The government's self-sabotage could not come at a worse time www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/seco...

I didn’t know this speech, to my shame. Remarkable reading today.

Would you believe me if I told you Mark Cuban didn’t want a peer reviewed answer to his question from the top medical journal

This Xmas, 2 police officers would like someone to finally hang the legally-mandated Jan 6th police honorary plaque at Capitol GOP Congressional leadership has defied March 2023 deadline to do so So officers Dan Hodges & Harry Dunn filed this yesterday storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

“.. We need to get better at treating this like a business,” ICE acting director Todd M. Lyons said .. as efficiently as Amazon moves packages: “Like Prime, but with human beings.” @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

So I have the cover story in next month's TNR. I interviewed the heads of police groups; immigration defense attorneys, ex-judges and ex-prosecutors; former DOJ and DHS officials, and the former head of Border Patrol. They're all horrified at what we've seen, and they all fear what's coming.

This, from Tinker, Tailor, Soldier Spy, says it all: “There’s a mole, right at the top of the circus. And he’s been there for years.”

I've Survived Two School Shootings. I Implore You to Speak Up. — As a future physician, I believe all clinicians have a duty to fight against gun violence www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/seco... by Zoe Weissman

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured asteroids crashing into one another in a nearby planetary system around a star some 25 light-years away

Fingers crossed. www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...

‘Splains a lot…

Many thanks @ucs.org Union of Concerned Scientists for your supportive remarks today, means a lot blog.ucs.org/guest-commen...

Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

The CBS reporter who led the story calls pulling it a "political" decision. "The decision was made after Bari Weiss, the new editor in chief of CBS News, requested numerous changes to the segment." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...

Republicans decided to go home for the holidays, leaving millions of Americans staring down massive health care premium hikes. They didn’t just clock out. They walked away from people’s lives. NOTE: These are all red or purple districts.

If you’re in DC, and want to make your presence felt, join the protest at the John F. Kennedy Center for the performing arts.

Whooping cough cases soar as vaccination rates drop www.nbcnews.com/health/kids-... via @nbcnews.com @erikaedwards.bsky.social and too many colleagues for a tweet.

The Conversation: Bird flu warnings are being ignored. I’ve seen this pattern before Published: December 18, 2025 6:01am EST https://theconversation.com/bird-flu-warnings-are-being-ignored-ive-seen-this-pattern-before-271765 #flu #influenza #pandemic #health

How things are: www.statnews.com/2025/12/18/n...

How things used to be: bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/ostp/news-up...

NEW: The FDA won’t tell Americans where their generic drugs are made, so ProPublica did it instead. Use information from your prescription label to locate the factory and see if the plant has a history of inspection violations.

The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has been an outspoken critic of RFKJ's vaccine disinformation and non evidence-based vaccine recommendations. Now they are losing millions in federal funding for mental health services, rural healthcare access, and more. www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...

And because we need to hear from Carl at moments like this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTaE...