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Fake peace prize, but real criminal conviction, representing real corruption, the DOJ now moves to dismiss. Hard to say whether it’s more predictable or more repugnant.

Outbreaks like this will continue in 2026 because the necessary vaccination rate for community immunity is around 95% and there are many areas - like this one - where the childhood vax rate is <90%. There is a safe and effective vaccine that has been used for decades. None of this has to happen.

Worth noting: the U.S. had maintained measles elimination since 2000, up until the Trump administration with RFK took office this year.

“I have a very specialised set of skills. Epidemiology is not amongst them.”

LOL. What a time to be alive.

The implication here is that HAD Ellison & Weiss known about the MTG segment, they would have intervened somehow- maybe even censored it-- to keep Trump happy. These folks should not have control of any news outlet, not a single one. Outrageous.

Should we pay people to club police and poop on the floor while they’re trying to overthrow the government? You decide

Kavanaugh stop, Minnesota edition

The “free speech” and “anti-cancel culture” party lets the mask slip a bit further…

Real news about the United States in 2025

Oh. If you wanna be a tourist in the United States with your family or even come here without your family, you have to set your children’s social media to public so that any child predator can see what they are posting. Still want a visa to come to the US?

As of today, the only person in this Daily Penn visual that hasn't been fined millions of dollars or convicted of a felony is Luigi Mangione, believe it or not

"A woman who was four months pregnant and experiencing bleeding had not been seen by a doctor for months. Another had a miscarriage and was deported while still bleeding." The most pro-life, pro-family president ever. ICYMI @monacharen.bsky.social: lnk.thebulwark.com/3Yl0Tqn

Sometimes it's the egregious stuff out in the open that's really worrisome; and sometimes it's the wonky stuff in the background: lnk.thebulwark.com/4iTaf6l

Troops Involved in Boat Strikes Face a ‘Moral Injury’ Risk, Experts Say www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/u...

How a Manosphere Star Accused of Rape and Trafficking Was Freed Barred from leaving Romania, Andrew Tate courted powerful figures on the American right, from Tucker Carlson to Barron Trump. Then an extraordinary order let him go. Read free: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/u...

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"It's not that we have a unitary executive, but we have a wayward executive...a corrupt executive," @gtconway.bsky.social tells @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social. "We have an executive who defies the law, who fails to execute the laws properly because he doesn't consider himself bound by the laws."

Earlier this year, JD Vance told us that Donald Trump was “the most pro-family, most pro-life American president of our lifetimes.” Now read this. lnk.thebulwark.com/3Yl0Tqn

While previous administrations have included the ultrarich, the wealth held by this group is larger than even the first Trump administration, previously the wealthiest in U.S. history. Here’s who they are.

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The Online Right Doesn’t Want White Women to Get PhDs • Juliet Turner was told she’s a race traitor for studying bugs instead of having babies.

This is a smart move: "The [Canadian] government says it will fast-track immigration for U.S. H-1B visa holders and spend more than $1 billion to attract researchers from the United States and the rest of the world."

Bad title. FDA needlessly launches safety scrutiny of approved RSV therapies for infants based on conspiracy theories

“She has marks on her neck and wrist from where agents restrained her. Agents cut off her wedding ring and held her in leg shackles at Whipple Federal Building for about five hours.” Her crime: witnessing ICE, from a distance.

Keep this in mind when you think of the current Administration’s posture towards Putin. Trump’s failure to condemn Putin is the dog that didn’t bark.

And the reason DOD wants the survivors of the boat strikes sent anywhere but the U.S. —> they don’t want to have to defend their summary execution campaign in court.

This is likely why DOD didn’t want to refer to the survivors as “detainees” — if they sought to hold them under a law of war framework, they might have to defend their legal theory for the entire killing spree in court. And they know it does not hold water.

The President is bragging again about passing a basic cognitive exam they give to determine if your brain still works.

The real meaning of Trump's National Security Strategy. slate.com/news-and-pol...

Less discussed in the new National Security Strategy than America's abdication of global leadership is the document’s frank embrace of far-right narratives on Europe, with a strong whiff of white nationalism. New from @cathyyoung63.bsky.social: lnk.thebulwark.com/3XIMl3M

Americans who brush off the idea that Trump is a fascist sometimes imagine that a real fascist regime, unlike Trump’s, would persecute ethnic minorities. Don't look now... lnk.thebulwark.com/44UVz0H

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Trump says Lisa Cook is unfit to be a Fed governor because she claimed two different properties as her primary residence on her mortgage applications. (Cook denies this.) Trump did the exact same thing on mortgage applications submitted a mere 7 weeks apart. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

State media watch

Q: “You said you would have no problem with releasing the full video of that strike on September 2nd.” Trump: “I didn’t say that. You said that. I didn’t say that. This is ABC fake news.” Trump on Dec. 3: “Whatever they have, we’d certainly release. No problem.”

Greene: “I feel very sorry for President Trump…It has to be a hard place for someone that is constantly so hateful…and really tells lies about people in order to try to get his way. I think that’s exactly what’s wrong in America today…I personally think that’s poor leadership from a president.”

Greene: “[Trump] called me a traitor, and because of his words, he brought serious threats against myself and my family.” Brown: “Can you tell us a little bit more about what h reaction was to these threats?” Greene: “I won't repeat what he said, but it was extremely unkind. No sympathy. No care."

The 5 different ways to "hold accountable those who ordered and carried out the...operation in the Caribbean that killed two survivors of an earlier attack," laid out by military law scholar Josh Kastenberg, who spent 20 years as a lawyer & judge in the Air Force theconversation.com/pete-hegseth...

Human trafficking victims are typically exploited by someone they know or trust over months or years through manipulation and coercion, not kidnapping. Florida's new reporting system is revealing just how common the crime actually is. buff.ly/uFS46Um

EXCLUSIVE: For years Donald Trump has evaded responsibility for the Jan. 6 insurrection. And for years, he has tried to kill a lawsuit that could hold him liable. He has failed. Again and again. This is it. This is the last chance to see Trump held to account: www.huffpost.com/entry/lawmak...

Police investigation faults Nancy Mace for profanity-laced airport tirade "The report depicts Mace complaining that she was not receiving special treatment. At the time of the incident, TSA agents were not being paid because the government was shut down." Read free: wapo.st/3YlVUpn

A Frustrated Congress Pushes the Pentagon to Produce Its Boat Strike Orders www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/u...

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and prioritizing white Afrikaners from South Africa

"Among the tragic consequences of the 1924 act: The United States allowed in only an estimated 250,000 Jewish refugees between 1933 and 1944, a modest number compared to the estimated 6 million who were killed in the Holocaust."

Lonsdale is, among other things, the founding board chairman of that "University of Austin" thing that Bari Weiss is backing. That's the school that "prepares thoughtful and ethical innovators, builders, leaders, public servants and citizens through open inquiry and civil discourse."

Abraham Lincoln said that an “electric cord” connects all our waves of immigrant generations to the founding principles of human equality and republican government. Commitment to these principles, not blood and soil, makes people Americans. www.uvu.edu/ccs/docs/lin...

Based on the facts recounted by the Senator, the two do sound “shipwrecked” for LOAC purposes. But they were never lawful targets in the first place even if LOAC applied. And LOAC doesn’t apply because there is no armed conflict. Term for premeditated killing outside of armed conflict is murder.