Reducing inspections? These are the people that screamed because there were accidents under Biden’s watch. But now no need for inspections? On average, there’s about three derailments in the U.S. each day, with many occurring in urban areas. Since 2020, over 4,000 trains have derailed.

The nation’s freight railroads are going to be able to try relying more on technology and inspect their tracks less often after the federal government approved their waiver request on Friday.

1 million acres of pristine public land in Alaska will now be open to fossil fuel drilling, thanks to Republicans in Congress. Big Oil spent nearly $500 million lobbying and boosting friendly candidates last year — and now they're getting a big return on their investment.

NEW: Carol Loennig tells Nicoll Wallace on MSNOW that the DOJ intends to try and indict Letitia James a THIRD time. The trouble with that is these multiple tries help James prove her vindictive and selective prosecution bid, and bolster a case to get the grand jury materials.

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I can't stop thinking about the purported drug smugglers being murdered by the US military. The punishment for drug offenses isn't the death penalty. This is just bloodlust and men in suits playing with lives they don't care about. It's truly grotesque and gravely compromises this country.

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“…since the pandemic began” please. It’s just a one-word addition and it’s accurate. The COVID pandemic is ongoing and we need people to still take it seriously. Thank you.

STRONG UNIONS are needed to counter this fake poor mouthing that corporations keep on repeat. News says that corporate profits are now the HIGHEST IN HUMAN HISTORY, so that means corporations are 2-faced making bank vs telling their workers about continued hardship sharing. It's a broken wing act.

They learned from Covid that a million people in the US dying prematurely and small businesses shuttering doesn't stop the rich from getting richer.

These are just petty, cruel people.

so many cool, inventive and interesting animated projects none of you even knew were being made for the past few years just got shitcanned because of this netflix/wb merger When you're like "geez there's no animation jobs" "geez there's like no new shows anymore", this is why

It really hasn't gotten enough attention that FBI Director Kash Patel is paid by Shein.

FBI Director Kash Patel has — on more than one occasion — ordered that the security detail protecting his girlfriend escort one of her allegedly inebriated friends home after a night of partying in Nashville www.ms.now/news/kash-pa...

made material misrepresentations about the fund’s actual purpose, conflicts of interest, or investment strategy. The mechanism exists. The jurisdiction is there. The Senate has documented the facts. What’s missing is the political will to use it.

Request that Attorney General Letitia James open an investigation into Jared Kushner and Affinity Partners for securities fraud under the Martin Act. Ask whether Affinity

halle berry telling it like it is. fuck gavin newsom. what a surprise to find out a transphobe is a misogynist who doesn't give a shit about women.

I actually read the district court's 160-page opinion. That seems to be more than what SCOTUS did. It's an extremely impressive opinion, by the way—all the more so given the very short timetable. And even though there's a lot of dense legal discussion, it's a model of clarity. Worth your time.

Alito on the first point he finds “decisive”: “the impetus for the adoption of the Texas map…was partisan advantage plain & simple.” Red herring. Everyone concedes this. Kagan with the actual dispositive question: “did TX accomplish its partisan objectives by means of a racial gerrymander?”

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The Roberts Court will go down in history as having upheld the desires of Donald Trump and the GOP, rather than its commitment to justice, precedent or the rule of law. Today’s ruling — which substitutes its own fact finding for that of the lower court — is yet another example.

Last week, I spoke to SCOTUS scholar @leahlitman.bsky.social in an interview about how the Texas map case posed a test for the Roberts court. It'd show "immense hypocrisy" to uphold Texas maps, but void Louisiana's, she said. ICYMI at All Rise News www.allrisenews.com/p/texas-loui...

My biggest concern for the future is that Dems are not going to have the stomach to impose the necessary level of harsh consequences on as many people as will need them, because the NYT, Matt Yglesias types, and billionaire-owned media will bitch about it.

I'm satisfied that the have PC against Brian Cole, though I think IF THIS IS ALL it is a lower standard of certainty than on most Jan6 cases. But IF THIS IS ALL the case is going to be VERYYY susceptible to 4A challenge on the cell dumps. www.emptywheel.net/2025/12/04/w...

“DOJ has assigned Jocelyn Ballantine to this case. You may recall that she made false claims in support of efforts to throw out the Mike Flynn case in 2020.” Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuq

Yeah, a House member needs to send up that impeachment flag. This is illegal, immoral, dangerous behavior — that is also likely unconstitutional as well.

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I mean this is straight up white supremacy:

I think they might just strike down the California one with the judicial reason of fuck you what can you do about it? It just feels like the next logical step

In fact, Judge Brown's ruling seems to point in this direction. He said again and again that Texas just needed to say that they were simply being partisan, not racial, but they (and Trump's DOJ) cited racial data numerous times.

Top Senate health leader calls CDC vaccine panel ‘totally discredited’ www.statnews.com/2025/12/04/c... via @statnews.com #CDC #ACIP #vaccines #health #MedSky

Thinking this is wrong isn’t radical. Thinking it isn’t is.

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Let’s face - the strategy is to remove anyone and everyone who isn’t white from America. Whilst lining the Trump crime family’s pockets. That’s it - that’s the whole “strategy “in a nutshell. Everything else is a lie.

Something about controlling events in the Western Hemisphere... Don't help Africa...unless we can money. The Middle East will be a hot bed of investment. End the war in Ukraine, (no comment on who started it), then make money together... All this administration does is lie.

My first stab at a story about this very complicated National Security Strategy document: www.politico.com/news/2025/12...

The fact that four hostile drones tried to hit Zelenskyy’s plane & it’s barely a blip in the news cycle should terrify everyone. We’ve been dragged so deep into the chaos era that an attempted strike on a world leader doesn’t even break through. When this becomes normal, the world is in real danger.

As a pornographer myself, I feel... weird about creators who make distinctions between porn and other adult/sexual content. If you defend porn, your work will ALSO be defended. Don't be afraid to get down in the mud with us. You're gonna end up here anyway.

The steam guidelines are unspecific, but the actual enforcement of them seems to support the notion that it's only okay if you can get off to it. as soon as nudity or sexual content is used to make a point, it's nixed

The fact that a second strike like that in an armed conflict is definitely a war crime should not completely negate the fact that *there is no war* and ALL the strikes are cold-blooded murder. The whole chain of command are murderers.

Exactly what “fight” does Cotton believe these two were in? If we can summarily execute people allegedly involved in the drug trade anywhere in the world because such activity constitutes “war” with the US, then what’s to stop the US from summarily executing alleged drug involved individuals here?

A thinking person would know you can’t flip a boat that’s cut in half. Nor does half a boat that’s been flipped still carry drugs. NOR has anyone in the administration ever suggested these people were armed.

More on this point:

If they did it with 1/6 they'll do it here too.

It's not surprising that a rapist's presidential administration is removing standards intended to prevent rape. www.npr.org/2025/12/04/n...

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This bloodthirsty, crazed assessment from Sen. Tom Cotton trying to excuse war crimes pairs nicely with all the denunciation of people who took issue with Cotton calling for no quarter against BLM protesters in 2020.