Stephen Miller thinks it’s terrible that I can vote

Also the story of "what if someone started questioning their gender identity but they live in 1960s rural Japan and so don't even have the words for that" is just way more interesting to me than "I'm a just a little sad guy whomst murdered his wife"

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Remember: RFK Jr. fired his last CDC director because she refused to ram through his anti-vax agenda. Yesterday, RFK Jr.’s handpicked vaccine skeptics threw out DECADES of settled science — and Donald Trump gave a thumbs-up. This will hurt American kids and families.

No one mouthes the messages of Russian influence operations more loudly or consistently than Elon Musk. And note how he refuses to talk about his regular direct talks with Vladimir Putin, which as a top secret security holder he is obligated to report to USG, but does not—ever.

It starts with knowing the truth. Don’t allow yourselves to be gaslit into believing this is a real question.

For the past 11 years—especially the last four—St. Nicholas Day has carried a deeper, more profound meaning for Ukrainians Here is Saint Nicholas through the eyes of Ukrainian artists Art: Andriy Yermolenko, Yuriy Zhuravel, Nikita Titov (Our Army is the true miracle), and AI creator vanilabricks

The Americans, an update. "Andrei Bezrukov, the Russian spy whose double life in Boston as business consultant Donald Heathfield became the inspiration for the TV show The Americans. Bezrukov now serves as the head of the Russian Association for the Export of Technological Sovereignty, an RIS front.

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It’s a Christmas miracle! washingtoncitypaper.com/article/7754...

The UN has passed a resolution calling on Russia to return the thousands of Ukrainian children it has kidnapped. Putin and his closest allies voted "no." 🇷🇺 Russia 🇮🇷 Islamic Regime in Iran 🇰🇵 North Korea 🇨🇺 Cuba 🇸🇩 Sudan 🇧🇾 Belarus 🇪🇷 Eritrea 🇳🇮 Nicaragua 🇧🇮 Burundi 🇧🇫 Burkina Faso 🇳🇪 Niger 🇲🇱 Mali

i think to understand the meaning of the birthright citizenship clause to the framers of the 14th amendment, you have to understand significance of dred scott to the civil war republican party. dred scott wasn't just a bad ruling, it was understood as a rejection of the declaration itself.

The Roberts Six have thoroughly politicized the Court and turned it into a reliable arm of the RNC. Democrats should have no reservations about calling them out for it, demanding resignations from these bought-off hacks and running on a promise to enact sweeping reforms.

The specific example he gives in here is so funny. Like, couldn't have picked a more self defeating example than photoshop, the piece of software where its users are extremely vocal about literally preferring the version from a decade ago lmao

The entire debate over birthright citizenship is anti-constitutional because the purpose, intent, and text of the 14th Amendment were designed to foreclose any argument about who counts as an American citizen.

Thank you, Federalist Society, for giving us a bench of jurists who believe that the emanations of 1789 have a greater claim to law than the laws passed by Congress and signed by the president.

gotta say the fact that a waymo will pick up and drive away while someone is actively trying to get a cat out from under the car seems like a major safety hazard

WELL NOW, would you look at that? A massive, 24-YEAR-LONG study of MORE THAN 1.2 MILLION people in Denmark found NO LINK between aluminum in childhood vaccines and autism, asthma, OR chronic disorders. Aluminum is an ADJUVANT. It ENHANCES your immune response to a vaccine. That’s it.

Timely: Did Americans vote in 2024 for major changes to vaccine policy? No. Only 3% picked vaccines as a top 3 issue in the election. Our just-published research letter in @jamahealthforum.com jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Earlier: “The immediate economic losses projected here are just the tip of the iceberg. International students drive innovation, advance America’s global competitiveness, and create research and academic opportunities in our local colleges that will benefit our country for generations.”

and judge pan gets at what i was gesturing towards earlier today: that this idea that the purpose of the executive branch is to effectuate the political agenda of the president is extra-constitutional. it has no basis in the text or the history for that matter!

The country's biggest anti-vaccine lawyer, the guy behind weakened school mandates in Mississippi and West Virginia, who pulls in millions a year harassing the CDC on behalf of Del Bigtree's anti-vaxx org is ... presenting at ACIP. This panel is anti-vaccine theater. It's a cruel joke.

In January, I started a newsletter. Because I can read, I chose to avoid Substack, and settled on @beehiiv.com. One cool feature on Beehiiv that helps desubstackify the media environment is a site's "top 4" - and I finally found 4 other Beehiiv newsletters I can recommend! The ecosystem is healing.

as you dig through coverage of the Netflix Warner Bros merger, play a little game with me: notice how many of them mention, at ALL, the two decade history of disastrous previous Time Warner mergers, and the massive layoffs, price hikes, and quality erosion that resulted

The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service

even if look past the errors of fact and poor reasoning throughout this piece, you are still left with a massive normative claim that isgur doesn’t even bother to support, which is that the purpose of the executive branch is to execute the president’s will and priorities.

Instagram has been a cess-pit for years now, which is why I left it years ago. Who needs 4chan or 8kun when there are Instagram and Twitter?

I am begging reporters to heed @jessicacalarco.com's warning here. There is too much equivocation even in articles that highlight RFK Jr's anti-vaccine zealotry. These articles juxtapose a claim he offers, with "other experts say." It is a pernicious tic of mainstream journalism and has to stop.

A truly great idea. 10,000 ethical assets freely available. There’s no excuse for resorting to so-called AI with this and the *many* other assets you can use without resorting to laundered plagiarism. Support real artists, not con artists.

“I saw two survivors trying to flip a cruise ship—loaded with diamonds, bound for the United States—back over, so they could stay in the fight.”

The first school to market itself as AI free is going to corner the market on people interested in actually learning. And I would not be surprised if rich families and the children of people creating this tech were the first movers.

My employer, Dartmouth College, today boasts it's 1st Ivy "to launch AI at an institutional scale." It is doing this by partnering--"more than a collaboration"--with Anthropic, a company that stole the books of many faculty, me included, which many of us are suing.

The thing to understand about "age verification" laws is that they are not just for kids The only way to "stop kids from doing xyz online" using age-gating is to demand a government ID (or invasive biometric face scan) from EVERYONE. This means associating your gov ID with EVERYTHING YOU DO ONLINE

"This Court’s stay ensures that many Texas citizens... will be placed in electoral districts because of their race. And that result... is a violation of the Constitution." - Just. Alena Kagan writing a dissent of SCOTUS allowing new congressional maps in Texas. Cartoon: @knecessary.bsky.social

BREAKING: The Supreme Court ruled to allow Texas to proceed with using a racially discriminatory voting map. Voters of color deserve to be heard – not silenced.

Another way of putting it is the DOJ told TX you aren't allowed to have districts where white voters, and only white voters in particular, are a plurality but not a majority.

What I really love about Pluribus is its a show about ultimate assimilatory collectivity vs American western individualism centered on a woman who has grown up indoctrinated into ideals of American exceptionalism but is also queer, both literally and metaphorically, to American hegemonic culture.

losing my mind at the 25% of GOP voters who think most Italian Americans are "more loyal to a foreign country than to the United States."

Solidarity with Rep. Ilhan Omar and the Somali community in the face of this vile, racist garbage

Only tangentially related, but FUN FACT, gang: At least 9 Japanese medical schools, including the illustrious Tokyo Medical University, have been caught CHANGING THE SCORES on admission exams to exclude female applicants for the last 20 YEARS. This is real! It happened! www.bbc.com/news/world-a...

For 4 years, Starbucks @sbworkersunited.org baristas have fought for a first contract, while their CEO makes 6,666x what they do. Enough is enough. It’s time for Starbucks to stop playing games and give workers the fair contract they deserve.

UPDATE: The Trump-Vance admin admits DOGE likely used AI to rewrite regulations at HUD. This unreliable technology should not be used to change policies that affect the lives of millions without oversight. We will continue to hold the admin accountable in court.

Quite breathtaking story - military grade drones at Dublin airport which flew on the path Zelensky's plane took. The drones reached the flight path of his plane exactly the time it should have been there, but just missed it because Zelensky arrived ahead of schedule:

It was physically impossible for that boat to reach anywhere close to the United States, even before it was a flaming upside-down wreck, and Tom Cotton knows that. He's not that stupid, he just thinks everyone else is. This kind of dishonesty is inseparable from egotistical arrogance.

The “garbage” destroying America isn’t in Minnesota’s Somalian community. It’s in the Oval Office. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

The phrase "code is law" is, at absolute best, a gross oversimplification that siezes on fairly shallow similarities between two things that have extremely different purposes. It's probably done far more harm than good over the last several decades.

These are good moments to remember that the CEOs of all the biggest companies in America are happy to go to White House dinners and slap this guy’s back. They do not care about this. Remember this, years from now, when they want you to forget.

Bonus: Penzey's is an aggressively and unapologetically leftist company!

I know people feel alone. And I can tell people, over and over as I have since the 2024 election, since the 2016 election, etc. that they are not alone in being horrified. And I try to *show* people they are not alone, by reporting on existing organizing. The next steps are up to them.

TLDR: Texas is empowering Any Random Motherfucker to sue abortion pill providers—from Big Pharma to a physician to Susan who happened to have an extra dose of mife in her van—and to win a 10K bounty for their troubles. And if the plaintiff is related to the fetus, 100K. Great day for abusers.