Hegseth has had no problem releasing videos of strikes on boats -- except the one that shows the second strike that killed two survivors clinging to the wreckage of a smashed vessel. That one, he says, is too "top secret" to release. @sangernyt.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/u...

I’m looking for 100% Filipino people who are willing to submit a cheek swab test in hopes for a genetic match to my aunt, who is battling blood cancer. The registry for stem cells doesn’t have many Filipino people in it, and joining it could help many. Please share/reach out to me! bit.ly/4aiUIKQ

A good number of our clients have participated in the prison dog training program, and at least one has cats. They make a profound difference in an incarcerated person’s life and rehabilitation. Reminding them they are loved, needed, and valued.

Exclusive at @cbsnews.com.web.brid.gy - The Navy quietly disciplined 18 Navy SEALs after military investigators found a private group chat that contained racist memes targeting a Black SEAL. We obtained over 500 pages of documents from FOIA. www.cbsnews.com/news/navy-se...

Behold: the first-ever list of news outlets that have banned generative AI in their reporting. As of today, this is literally information that you cannot find on Google. My goal is to fill the starter pack, so please send over suggestions with supporting evidence! go.bsky.app/8cn1XfT

Which federal agency do I have to FOIA to find out how much taxpayer money they spent on these plaques?

NO QUIERO HEAR ANOTHER SINGLE FUCKIN PALABRA ABOUT CIVIL DISCOURSE AVEC LOS FUCKOS

Correct.

The Vanity Fair photographer from the Susie Wiles story. Holy. Shit. www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...

I still can't believe they're trying to make a war happen out of thin air. Not just their abrogation of Congress's role in formally declaring a war -- that's been a slippery slope for decades -- but their total unwillingness even to go through the motions of drumming up public support.

You roll into Ohare one week before Christmas and cause chaos in the rideshare lot for only one reason and it's not to keep people safe.

Evil shit.

The Onion, 23 years ago. theonion.com/no-blood-for...

I'm not sure if people realize the murder strikes are taking place across a large region. It's quite staggering. www.newsweek.com/map-us-strik...

A quite startling overperformance for Democrats in tonight's special election for a state Senate seat in Kentucky: Democrat Gary Clemons won 72% to 25%. He was defending a Dem-held seat where Kamala Harris beat Trump by 5% last year.

I only regret that I have but one vote to emphatically cast for someone else in the Democratic primary.

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.

Exclusive: The Trump administration is moving to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, according to a senior White House official, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.

Yes. As with the first travel ban, this one also appears to exempt any athletes, coaches, and their families traveling for the World Cup. However, fans are not exempted, so if they don't have tourist visas already (current visa-holders may still enter on a valid visa) they are just out of luck.

NEW: President Trump is expanding the previous 19-country travel ban to a whopping 39 countries (plus the Palestinian Authority), and appears to expand a block on legal immigration to now include spouses, children, and parents of U.S. citizens, who were previously exempted.

The video showed Joliet Police driving Lurry to their station instead of a hospital after they believed he put drugs in his mouth to hide them, manually holding his airways shut for 90 seconds, slapping him, and inserting a baton into his mouth while he was handcuffed and unresponsive.

I know many things are awful but here is one genuinely useful and helpful thing you can do. No matter their party, your representative needs to hear that trans people and our families are not alone and this bill is an unjustifiable and extreme threat to criminalize the health care we need to live.

Denver City Council voted against a resolution Monday that would have allowed Key Lime Air to lease ground space at Denver International Airport over concerns about the airline’s immigration enforcement flights in recent months. By @sarawilson.bsky.social

I've been reporting on the criminal justice system for over a decade and have lived in an authoritarian country overseas, but I've never seen anything like the police presence in ICE-occupied Memphis. Here's my dispatch: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Stephen Miller is employing state terror in service of the open goal of shifting the ethnic mix of the country. In numerous ways he's doing this at the expense of public safety. We spent weeks reporting on Miller's real aims. Here's the result. We hope you'll read: newrepublic.com/article/2041...

I keep saying this but no one is connecting the dots. The war is to satisfy legal preconditions for mass removal *domestically* of Latinos (i.e., suddenly a lot of people are going to be “Venezuelan” for purposes of removal). This is 100% Stephen Miller…oil claim is to make grandpa go along

yeah, they like, accurately quote the terrible things you say

Kori Schake: “The men who built this international order weren’t leftist college professors sitting around the faculty lounge. They were the people who had fought World War I and World War II and saw the damage of an unstable order.” www.foreignaffairs.com/podcasts/fea...

Donald Trump has instructed the entire FBI to prioritize finding ways to bring charges against anti-fascists and other activists. Any FBI agent who wants to advance his career now has an incentive to set up naïve kids for an entrapment case. Please read about entrapment and how to protect yourself.

The Starbucks CEO made $96 million for 4 months of work. Employees can’t get a living wage. The longest strike in Starbucks history began on Red Cup day. police just arrested a dozen striking employees for protesting outside a distribution centre. Boycott Starbucks. Don’t cross the picket line.

Folks like "I'm agreeing with Rand Paul" and feeling weird about it should reframe. Rand Paul is agreeing with you. About one, maybe two, possibly a handful of things. Rand Paul is a stopped clock and still a self-centered destructive shit but sometimes possibly useful. Also still a bad person.

Until I watched a PBS segment on immigration courts I didn't realize that Immigration courts are under the executive branch. This is how they can so easily arrange with ICE to pick people up who are going in for their court hearing.

this is not behavior becoming of a FIFA Peace Prize recipient.

I don't know, Aaron. I think we need to take this seriously. In fact, after surveying hundreds of years of history in the past few days, I've written an article assessing the originalist case here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Here are the 28 Dem Senators who voted to advance the first federal ban on trans athletes & a federal definition of sex that would make trans & intersex people non-existent: Angela Alsobrooks (MD), Tammy Baldwin (WI), Richard Blumenthal (CT), Lisa Blunt Rochester (DE), Chris Coons (DE), ->

NEW: Florida's year of executions mask broader discontent with the death penalty. Beneath an alarming number of executions in 2025, there are signs of continued growing opposition. Tonight, at Law Dork:

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

We just murdered eight more people in boats.

I…did not see the closing sentence of this photo caption coming: www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/15/n...

On this day: December 15, 1973: The Board of the American Psychiatric Associationvotes to recommend that homosexuality no longer be classified as a mental illness.

"ICE and CBP must be abolished" is the only reasonable position. We can debate the specifics of new agencies for immigration functions, but these agencies are simply too infected with a culture of impunity, racism, and fascism to continue. They're gangs with badges.

4th amendment is just in the trash I guess

This is fucking grim. Somebody invented a white guy, an "IT professional" named Edward Crabtree, who stopped the Bondi shooting and spread it all over the internet, which was picked up by AI agents and slop aggregation sites. The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.

Brutal but effective public health messaging from New York Public Health. The CDC is compromised. They’re no longer a reliable source of information. They push anti-vaxx & anti-science grift. Get your vaccines. Wear a respirator. Clean the air Get public health advice from experts, not RFK Jr

It is important to remember when talking about this to be careful of “they deserve it” talk. There are chronically ill and disabled people who cannot safely be vaccinated. And there are infants who must be a certain age. And these infected children have no control over their parent’s choices.

The thing about measles is that it’s the only known virus that triggers immune amnesia - it causes your immune system to forget everything it has previously learned. Meaning you essentially reset to zero and are now at risk of basically everything. It can take 2-3 years to get immunities back.

‘They’re trying to get rich off it’: US contractors vie to rebuild Gaza, with ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ team in the lead

Look, it's simply totally insane and evil behaviour to suggest the poor ickle Democrats who have tried their hardest to be good little boys and girls, share any responsibility for the state of America today.

In 1993, Trump signed a mortgage for a Florida home, pledging it would be his principal residence. Seven weeks later, he attested a neighboring property would also be his principal residence. In reality, he does not seem to have lived in either home.

The thing you need to understand about the Right is that they are absolutely fine just plain burning down higher education if taking it over ideologically doesn’t work. They’re perfectly happy reducing it to ashes.