This has potential for some good trouble for the OU students.

Hundreds quarantined as a preventable disease surges back. This is the predictable result of RFK Jr.’s war on vaccines: fear over facts, denial over science, and kids paying the price. He’s Making Measles Great Again.

I spoke in Indiana days before the Republicans refused Trump’s gerrymandered map. Everyone I talked to said the Rs weren’t going to pass the map. Know why? He threatened them. Even Republicans are tired of that shit. You’re going to see more of it too. Mark it. The fever is breaking.

$TSN

I understand that a lot of folks have been misled by fear-mongering and powerful regressive voices but it’s still astonishing to me that so many have fallen for the idea that oppressively policing other people’s gender identity and expression could in any way be part of an enlightened future.

> @amysiskind.com

Trump is attempting to seize three public golf courses in Washington, including one adjacent to the Mall. We simply cannot let this happen. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Two days after the House of Representatives voted to restore collective bargaining rights to federal employees, Trump moves to illegally end collective bargaining for TSA workers. Trump may be the most anti-union president in American history.

Just when I thought I couldn't admire the man more... 🎯 🎯 🎯 💯 💯 💯 👍 👍 👍

No cherry-picking. No party filter. Just receipts. And a lot of powerful men are terrified right now. KASIE HUNT: “Do you have pictures of people engaged in sexual acts as part of this?” REP. SUBRAMANYAM: “Yes, there are people engaged in sexual acts.” @repsuhas.bsky.social

We’re def going back to the “roaring 50s” with a nice measles outbreak. Nice work MAHA n stuff

Not easy to get to sleep tonight - have burnt the bridge of whatever career I had left and really don’t feel that my opinions are so extreme that that should have been necessary

Steve Bannon ripped off his own followers with his ‘build the wall’ scam. Trump pardons him. Then photos come out showing him hanging out with Jeffrey Epstein AFTER he was charged with child trafficking, and yet he somehow has an audience because really MAGA stands for nothing.

Ongoing decimation of British universities part 252: Apx. 1000 academic staff at University of Essex just received formal ‘risk of redundancy’ letters via email. Please share @ucuessex.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk

I've spent three days in Calais & it's horrendous. People living in disgusting conditions. Our Government is spending £476m on the militarisation of the border. We must divert that money to a humanitarian response that treats people with basic dignity. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Tonight, Dec 12, at 9pm ET join @ms.now to watch the conversation I had with Rachel Maddow in Chicago last month. @maddow.bsky.social

The US and multiple countries have what’s called A DEMOCRACY. America came into existence to escape a king. Why would we want another and one as completely ignorant to the people’s needs as this incompetent idiot? He’s in it for the grift and destruction. To hand us over to his rich oligarchs.

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.

Every accusation is an admission.

The Supreme Court’s favorability ratings among Democrats have plummeted to 26% while Republican favorability is at 71%. Bush v. Gore helps explain why. bit.ly/48F2YSP

Trump on Americans' healthcare costs going up by 200-300%: "Don't make it sound so bad"

Former Alabama senator Doug Jones ‘urged people in Alabama to rise above the current political divisions and build a government not for the powerful, but—as Lincoln said—a government of the people, by the people, for the people.’

The National Rifle Association is burning through its investment portfolio to pay its bills as legal perils increase and revenue from membership dues decline, according to an independent audit reviewed by NOTUS. www.notus.org/money/nra-na...

UPDATE: In a terse 3-page order, Boasberg denied the administration’s motion to reconsider holding next week’s evidentiary hearings and offered new commentary on the administration's attorney-client privilege claims that doesn’t bode well for the govt. www.courtlistener.com/docket/69741...

A can't miss conversation between two of the best out there in @hcrichardson.bsky.social and @pkrugman.bsky.social. Also brb because we're all getting "left-leaning but scrupulously honest" tattoos.

Hartford #VisibilityBrigade this afternoon. 10 hearty souls braving the chill to get the messages out! @hcrichardson.bsky.social @rbhubbell.bsky.social @chrismurphyct.bsky.social @maddow.bsky.social @repjahanahayes.bsky.social @briantylercohen.bsky.social @lawrenceodonnell.bsky.social

They just don't want anyone traveling to the US for any reason at all

By saying the campaign is “about a lot of things” — drugs, oil, migrants, mental institutions — Trump effectively admits there is no unified legal basis. Under both U.S. and international law, use of force must rest on a specific, articulable justification. #holdfast #steadystate

💔This is Kostyantynivka. The city, where 78,179 people lived until 2022, but today the Russians are destroying every street 📷: Khyzhak Brigade

U.S. military spending is set to hit a record $1 trillion. Roughly half of defense spending goes to private contractors that routinely price-gouge the government. Meanwhile, the Pentagon has failed seven straight audits. This is the military industrial complex on steroids.

People who are saying that Trump's new National Security Strategy should not be taken seriously should ask themselves this: Was it right or wrong not to take Project 2025 seriously?

Um, is the issue that has failed to address the affordability crisis or did he cause it? For I sure think his tariffs and the big ugly bill have caused the prices of food, utilities and health care to rise.

Quick guide to interpreting US foreign policy propaganda: if the word “deal” was used, some American made some money, and the war is still going on.

The problem seems to be that ACA is referred to as Obamacare; wouldn't it be easier to just pass a bill officially renaming it trumpcare?

Trump and his rich boy allies are about to find out a few things, aren’t they? The Indiana Senate told them to kick rocks.

How do you think Americans would respond if the UK ETA application asked for their DNA? www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-...

Every disaster movie starts with someone ignoring a scientist…

"The Atlantic Alliance has been declared finished more times than we can count. Every generation seems to discover a new reason to announce its demise. Yet each time the world grows darker...the same verdict reasserts itself: Nations are stronger with allies." From @markhertling.bsky.social

NEW: The Trump-Vance White House has falsely accused an ally of Pope Leo — Sr. Norma Pimentel — of illegal activity tied to migrant aid, and cut off all federal funding to Catholic Charities in Texas. Church leaders say it’s a targeted, political reprisal against Pope Leo and the Catholic Church.

The U.S. Senate sent President Donald Trump a bill Thursday that would protect a portion of the Wounded Knee Massacre site on the Pine Ridge Reservation. via @southdakotasearchlight.com

Great job, Bill Cassidy

Prison rape is wrong. Jokes about prison rape are wrong. Eliminating protections against prison rape is wrong. If another country sentenced a criminal to be raped, we'd consider it a crime against humanity. BUT A large segment of Americans regard prison rape as a de facto part of the sentence.

“The relationship between the president and the people he serves has shifted irrevocably,” Justice Sonia Sotomayor warned in her dissenting opinion. “In every use of official power, the president is now a king above the law.” trib.al/60kPD3S

BILL BURR: “If someone’s working 160 hours a month and can’t make their rent, you’re not paying them enough. Maybe you should just be worth $900,000,000… How does a CEO take a f*cking 8 figure bonus and none of your employees have dental insurance?”

Q: If DOJ doesn't release the files it has by next Friday, is there anything Congress can do to compel that to happen? MASSIE: It's a crime if they don't. This is a new law with criminal implications if they don't follow it.

This is what happens when the Trump administration is faced with the truth. Masterful work @magaziner.house.gov.

What’s at stake in the fight between Netflix and Paramount for Warner Bros? The power of a wannabe tyrant to interfere in any business transaction he wishes, to enlarge his own power and stifle criticism. Some thoughts... https://robertreich.substack.com/p/what-happens-when-a-president-intrudes

Breaking - National Trust sues to stop Trump ballroom wapo.st/4oRY378

It’s amazing to watch the tiny handful of higher profile people who have decided that now is the time for them to get on board the Trump Train, just as millions are jumping off as it goes off the tracks. They’re like people buying the last tickets on Titanic.