uhhh yeah I can see why these childcare properties weren't eager to let in some rando dudes asking "where are the kids?"

The Trump Admin has repeatedly demonstrated to allies around the globe that US security guarantees mean nothing as long as Trump is president. He won’t even agree to abide by the NATO charter, so how can he be trusted to honor any Ukraine deal.

Did US Special Forces just inadvertently confirm there was a CIA operation in Venezuela?

Why is it that tech and AI boosters keep saying "you can't put the genie back in the bottle" when making arguments about AI's supposed inevitable dominance? Did they not read the story? The genie does, indeed, go back in the bottle. Maybe we should start there.

Well now, would you look at that? A massive, 4-YEAR-LONG study of NEARLY 30 MILLION people in France found that individuals who received a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine had a 74% LOWER risk of death from severe COVID-19 compared to unvaccinated individuals and ZERO increased risk of all-cause mortality.

When the News talks about a super or new #flu they're trying to keep it simple. But that loses the bigger picture. Every season we have 3 (it used to be 4) different flu viruses circulating at once. The so-called 'seasonal' flu viruses - not bird, seal or swine flu, they're human adapted. Let's..

America has 925 billionaires as of this year. Collectively they have a record $6.9 trillion in wealth. The bottom 50% of Americans control $4.2 trillion in wealth. When 925 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.

The thesis of the book is that early COVID lockdowns weren't worth it and mid-COVID mitigation measures like masks, contact tracing and business closures don't work. This is laughably false and the authors have endorsed the people now running Trump's HHS.

concentration camps.

The doctors who broke from the consensus to prescribe ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine accessed a cash-pay economy with 500% revenue premiums. The organizations that fundraise on vaccine injury have professional staffs, 8-figure budgets, and executives earning more than most hospital administrators

"In the years leading up to the 1970 EPA, pollution in America had gotten so bad... DDT was killing birds worldwide. Smog killed 400 New Yorkers, and Lake Erie had died. A massive oil spill off the California coast killed hundreds of thousands of wildlife." open.substack.com/pub/thomhart...

If Russia were so committed to peace in Ukraine, they could just, you know, stop invading.

Skilled-worker visa holders who traveled back to India this month to renew their US work permits are now stranded far from home after their appointments were abruptly canceled by U.S. consular offices and rescheduled for months later.

It is utterly catastrophic that RFK Jr. plans to end CDC recommendations for most childhood vaccines. It’s a betrayal of science, ethics, compassion, and the people of the United States. And it was also a specific goal of Project 2025 (page 254).

A recent modeling study in JAMA showed that if MMR vaccine rates drop 10% (easy to see happen with this), we’re back to 400,000-500,000 cases a year. Our current outbreak is 2,000. This turns the clock back to 1950 🚨🚨🚨

The official death count in South Sudan is nearly 1,600, making it the worst cholera epidemic in the country’s history. But that toll is a dramatic undercount. ProPublica found newly dug, unmarked graves alongside roads and in backyards.

BREAKING: RFKJr directs that the US instantly stop recommending all vaccinations for children. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

RFK Jr shouldn’t be in charge of an ant farm

The "poverty penalty." Excellent points.

Israel has committed 738 violations of the ceasefire agreement between Oct. 10 and Dec. 12, including 358 land and air bombardments, the killing of at least 383 Palestinians and the injuring of 1,002 others, according to the Government Media Office in Gaza and the Palestinian Health Ministry.

A story I found about Haiti: In 1999, a group of Haitians were tired of political disorder and dreamed of a better life in the United States. So they built a small, 23-foot boat by hand using pine trees, scrap wood, and used nails. They called the boat "Believe in God."

The media needs to stop writing headlines like “The CDC changes course on vaccines and autism” and “The CDC defends measles response”. NONE of this is coming from legitimate scientists at the CDC. ALL of it is coming from RFK Jr. Every such headline is causing further harm to public health.

One of the dumbest EXECUTIVE ORDERS and also so so so reckless and dangerous. If fentanyl is a "weapon of mass destruction," then will the people who procure it, store it, & distribute it be treated & prosecuted as terrorists? If so, good luck, MAGA. Good luck. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

As a person who has been studying extreme far right ideologies for the last decade (and did a PhD on immigration) I find the entrance of “remigration” into the mainstream American political lexicon so profoundly disturbing

When my grandmother was 9 years old, she and her family lived in Texas and they were extremely poor. She lived with her mother and stepfather and three sisters. My great-grandmother made all their clothes, and they scrimped on everything so that they had enough to eat.

Today in the casual media normalization of personalist, nepotistic authoritarianism. Jared Kushner holds no senior Senate-confirmed post in the US government. He is the son-in-law & business partner of the president. This is unprecedented, massive corruption & media outlets should treat it as such.

Wow www.propublica.org/article/usai...

We can work around bad ACIP recommendations as long as the AAP and other professional organizations have our back. We cannot work with a black box warning. This would mean the end of pediatric covid vaccines for general use.

"As of December 14, the U.S. has had 391 mass shootings—more than the number of days in the year—for the seventh consecutive year. Seventy-five of these occurred at schools"— @kkjetelina.bsky.social

ICE and CBP, among others, have violently retaliated against ICE Watch in part because the agencies correctly understand what many do not: Organized neighbors are mounting an effective defense, and an organized movement is a formidable adversary. My new feature: newrepublic.com/article/2042...

I don't have any news to counteract the terrible news of the last few days, so here is a thread of cute animals eating things, with most with crunchy cromchy sounds. 1.

Just want to share with my American friends how the Australians respond to a shooting tragedy. Action, rather than thoughts and prayers.

Masked men wearing ICE vests—but who refused to present a warrant or identify themselves—roped off a construction site, trapping two men on a roof for hours in subzero temps. Protesters gathered. Masked men eventually left, and one man on the roof was taken away by ambulance kstp.com/kstp-news/to...

Footage from inside Brown University 🇺🇸🇺🇸‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️

Our ex-BuzzFeed team has provided a testimonial to the immigration court about the value of Guan's work and his incredible bravery. I hope that this man - who I am in absolute awe of - is granted the asylum he needs and deserves. You can read more here: hrichina.substack.com/p/man-who-fi...

In late 2020 a Chinese man called Guan Heng travelled to Xinjiang with our BuzzFeed map of detention facilities to provide ground truth for our work - he provided the first corroborating evidence for many sites. He escaped to the US - then ICE detained him. www.wsj.com/world/china/...

Bears repeating. Lessons from Dr Snyder’s book On Tyranny.

I teach Sociology of Childhood, and when we talk about school shootings, my students tell me about how they also do these checks in their classes--noting locks on doors, thinking about how to escape and where to hide. I hate that they have to mind those risks while trying to learn.

🇺🇸 On this day 25 years ago, The Conservative Supreme Court handed George W. Bush the 2000 presidential election. A heartbroken Al Gore graciously conceded, and delivered a passionate call for national unity. 🇺🇸 Just 20 years later, Donald J. Trump lost by 7 million votes and attacked our country.

WOW. @haleaziz.bsky.social with a new scoop: ICE now gets a running list of every person who is going to be taking a domestic flight inside the United States from the TSA and runs it through their database looking for targets. This explains the Babson College student's arrest.

So, El Fasher looks like one of the worst single event atrocities to happen this century so far, but the evidence has come in such a trickle it seems to only now be getting verified

NGO Al-Haq warns proposed “Gaza Reconstitution, Economic Acceleration & Transformation Trust” would place Gaza under a US-admin foreign trusteeship with Israel. The plan sidelines Palestinians, turns Gaza into a commercial zone for foreign investors, and undermines the right to self-determination.

Mini jumper batteries are amazing. I took one to Ukraine with me and ended up leaving it with one of our hosts (I bought myself a new one when I got home). Every car should have one.

“People like Stephen Miller want to ethnically cleanse this country. They don’t want Black and brown people from other places in this country.” Congressman @maxwellfrost.bsky.social discusses the escalating racist rhetoric in Trump’s language and actions. Watch: zeteo.com/p/maxwell-fr...

RFK, Jr. should absolutely be removed. He is gutting of CDC and destroying NIH. Sadly, @nytimes.com emphasizes this as a political stunt by Steven’s, instead of calling out RFK’s damage or the many Republicans who have acknowledged it but refuse to act. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/u...

Can anyone recommend a social media safety resource/training for local government workers?

"Decker said they’re now seeing cases where ICE agents violate constitutional protections on a daily basis. She and other immigration attorneys advise clients about the rights they should have but warn about the areas where ICE agents have been violating them."