Apparently Trump is very unhappy about the reporting on his age, health, and recent tendency to fall asleep on camera during meetings. He gets very angry about it. So keep it up. newrepublic.com/post/204021/...

A 27 year old man in end stage kidney failure was told if he wanted his dialysis he has to sign self deportation papers. “If you want to leave, sign. If not, you're going to die here." Withholding of life saving medical treatment should be considered torture. www.wfae.org/race-equity/...

Bongino saying the quiet--and cynical--part out loud. In other words: I was making money shoveling conspiracy bullshit without having any facts and conning my audience to make a buck. After I leave the FBI, I will get back to that. What a confession.

JUST NOW: "This is like Alice in Wonderland", Judge Breyer says when trying to get the DOJ to explain to him why what happened in CA is a "rebellion" justifying the deployment of the National Guard. "Words just mean what you want them to mean?"

If anyone cares at all, EV battery recycling is now hitting 99% recovery for important metals Please remind me again what the recycle rate for fossil fuels is interestingengineering.com/energy/recyc...

Of course it was a Trump supporter. Why would anyone else even bother?

It’s clear he’s selling pardons. It’s become a corrupt practice.

JFC

Breaking: FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) - Federal judge orders unsealing of grand jury transcripts from abandoned Jeffrey Epstein investigation in Florida.

Remember when he claimed he won the “Michelin Man of the Year” Award when no such thing existed? Somehow this FIFA medal is even more embarrassing.

There is blood on the hands of Donald Trump, RFK, and every Republican who has allowed this sham to go on for far too long. When kids die unnecessarily and once-eradicated diseases darken the doors of terrified families and pediatricians, Americans will know who is responsible.

The White House surrenders at 138 million views. Sabrina wins.

Abbe Lowell, the attorney who is representing Letitia James: “I can't tell you a time in the federal system...where a federal prosecutor thought a case was strong enough to bring to a grand jury, and the grand jury said no.” @kaitlancollins.bsky.social

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I don’t know, I still randomly trip out over the fact that the President told states to specifically gerrymander for him. And they did.

Another huge issue, and I don't think people even know this is a thing, is that just about everything is done with smart phones now. And many (most?) seniors literally cannot work their phones. Signing things, texting, dealing with spam and fraud or even using the basic functions? They're often lost

BERMAN: Would it be legal for police in Arkansas to kill suspected drug dealers on a boat in a lake? TOM COTTON: The premise of your question is not well-founded BERMAN: The answer is no. It would not be legal to kill them.

The decision by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to downgrade its recommendations to protect infants from hepatitis B is a dangerous move that will harm children. Click here to read AAP's full statement: bit.ly/3Y9ZQJT

🚨The CDC panel just recommended delaying the birth dose of the hepatitis B vaccine. Newborns are the MOST vulnerable to chronic Hep B, and delaying vaccination will increase lifelong infections, cirrhosis, and liver cancer. www.statnews.com/2025/12/05/c...

An CDC advisory panel voted today to end universal Hepatitis B vaccination at birth. If adopted by CDC, this would reverse a longstanding policy that has been widely effective at lowering hep B cases and deaths in children, @laurenjyoung.bsky.social reports www.scientificamerican.com/article/cdc-...

The CDC is supposed to PROTECT US from disease. Under RFK Jr. it’s become a tool to push brainworm conspiracy theories. I’ll be the first former public health official in the US Senate. And when I’m elected I’ll make sure our health policy is based on science. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/h...

NACCHO has issued the following statement in response to today’s vote from the CDC vaccine panel to end the universal recommendation for newborns to receive the hepatitis B vaccine: shorturl.at/l6cCz

While we watch the CDC collapse and turn into ideology and death-driven governance, just remember: Legendary reporter Woodward wrote in “War” that Trump “secretly sent Putin a bunch of Abbott Point of Care Covid test machines for his personal use.”

It will take a few years, but children are going to be getting Hepatitis B and getting very sick, thanks to the what looks like the CDC cancelling the vaccine as a recommendation at birth. From Sen. Bill Cassidy:

What an obsequious, toadying, servile, brown-nosing, corrupt little cunt Gianni Infantino is. The FIFA 'peace prize' is the most cringe-worthy, pathetic thing I've ever seen in my life. Football deserves better than this travesty of a ceremony and ruling body.

The process was riddled with inaccuracies, falsehoods, and confusion. The outcome threatens babies and reverses decades of progress in preventing hepatitis B infection, illness, and death. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/h...

CAP's statement in response to ACIP's dangerous and unconscionable vote to end recommendations for HepB vaccines for newborns, reversing efforts to protect them from the risk of infection, illness, and death. www.americanprogress.org/press/statem...

Boomers: It just sucks so much that everyone gets participation trophies now, you used to have to show real merit to get an award Also Boomers:

A long and fascinating read. Don Jr carrying on his father’s legacy of facilitating and protecting those who systematically rape, subjugate, and traffic women. Oh, and likely subject the US to significant security risks.

The bottom 90% lost a collective $79 trillion in wages over the past 50 years. Why? Because the top 1% ate up an increasingly larger share of the national income — so that $79 trillion flowed to them instead of the working class. The greatest trick of all is trickle-down economics.

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.

Thanks to the IRS MATH Act, the IRS must now explain mistakes in plain English, show any adjustments, and put your 60-day appeal deadline front and center. It will be a major upgrade from previously confusing notices.

The Citizens United decision has corrupted our government and is destroying our democracy. Here's a way to get rid of it. robertreich.substack.com/p/how-to-get...

While Mike Johnson is running around trying to act like he’s not the most incompetent Speaker in US history, we’re pushing hard to extend the ACA tax credits for millions of Americans. We’re almost there, and you can help!

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

Donald billionaire Trump today: “Affordability — they just say the word, it doesn't mean anything to anybody.” “The word affordability is a con job by the Democrats.” Boy, he is in for a shock if he keeps this up; talk about being out of touch with Americans.

Wow! The Supreme Court basically just said, if you want to do racial gerrymandering, have at it. Let’s be clear, what Texas did was racial gerrymandering, plain and simple. SCOTUS just opened the floodgates.

John Roberts is the judge that first created the unlimited rule of money by Citizens United, invented Presidential Immunity out of thin air, killed Roe vs. Wade, and allowed multiple restrictions on fair elections. No single judge ever has done more damage to democracy in the US.

“What have I done!” 🤡

Whoo Boy! Day 1 of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) meeting is over. Here are some summary thoughts. TL;DR: RKFJ’s ACIP members are completely unqualified for the job but are now (ironically) calling themselves "CDC experts". They are not. Do not trust ACIP recommendations.

Alligator Alcatraz Detainees Tortured in Small ‘Box,’ Amnesty International Says Migrants were allegedly sent to what detainees described as a four-by-four-foot "box" as punishment.

A member of the House Republican caucus said this. Oh. So things are BAD bad.

I went to New Orleans to see what it looks like when a great American city comes under siege from the government, as masked goons of 'Catahoula Crunch' lie about nabbing bad guys before swarming Home Depot, roofing jobs for folks with brown skin My special report www.inquirer.com/opinion/new-...

Rand Paul tells me that he wants the full video of the Venezuelan boat strike released. “And I think if the public sees images of people clinging to boat debris and being blown up, I think that there is a chance that finally, the public will get interested enough in this to stop this.”

NEWS --> Tons of fresh detail on what video of the strike shows: Rep Adam Smith says two men are sitting on capsized boat, drugs aren't visible. Rationale officials gave for killing is they *may* have been able to keep trafficking. "It's bad," Smith says. Read here: newrepublic.com/article/2039...

We simply have never seen anything like the Family Swamp Trump has drained all the money into

Is anyone in the Republican Party ever going to hold anyone accountable for anything?

A fair trade off: extreme weather, species extinction, loss of habitable land, and more disease in exchange for bringing back the Woody. Hooray.