Fox News poll shows approval for members of the Trump administration JD Vance: -8 Rubio: -5 RFK Jr: -12 Hegseth: -19 Kristi Noem: -13 static.foxnews.com/foxnews.com/...

Every election year, you hear the same old song from Democrats: That Texas is not a red state, but just a low-turnout state and if Democrats just turn out enough voters, it will flip blue. This is empirically not true. Democrats need to persuade Republicans www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...

“Only when the last tree has been cut down, the last fish been caught, and the last stream poisoned, will we realize we cannot eat money.” – Indigenous proverb

-25 on healthcare

A November YouGov poll had ICE favorability underwater by 14 points among all Americans and 37(!) points among political independents today.yougov.com/politics/art...

21 December 1900 | A Polish Jew, Jankiel Winter, was born in Grodziec. In #Auschwitz from 26 February 1942. No. 25268 He perished in the camp on 20 March 1942. --- 📖 Jewish prisoners at KL Auschwitz: https://lekcja.auschwitz.org/29_zydzi_en/

Trump insists that the Epstein Transparency Act required him to release all Epstein files that didn't mention Trump, and they are working hard to comply.

2/ The Danish head of its CDC is like: are you fucking crazy? We are a small country with universal healthcare. You shouldn't do what we do. We should do what you used to do.

NIH funding is like pizza 🍕. Usually, the NIH gives many researchers a slice of the pie, but this year they decided to just give a few researchers the whole pie. The data show that, disproportionately, early career researchers went hungry. We need Congress to stop NIH multi-year funding mandates.

If you spin the coverup of Trump's pedophilia then you are actively engaged in the coverup, too

Putin picking his own US negotiator is the kind of thing you’d get called a hysterical conspiracy theorist had you predicted it

I mean, this will never go anywhere, but if it does, you will immediately see people arranging to obtain a letter of marque, "seize" boats so they don't get (illegally and war-crimedly) drone striked, turn over a fraction of the drugs for destruction,

Met a 40yo gallery-ist at a party in SF. We spent most of the party talking abt the art world, but mostly what she talked abt was how most of her life now is telling AI “artists” that they are not artists, she won’t sell their “work” in her gallery, & that “prompt writer” isn’t an artistic medium.

truly amazing how many different professions there are where everyone’s newest persistent headache is “AI zealots high on their own supply”

one of four in a week www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/n...

He is such a good human. Why are almost all* of the billionaires such terrible ones? (*invoking the Mackenzie Scott exception)

This is my Christmas gift to my homeless neighbors, to the volunteers who get great joy from helping them…and, yes, to myself. Merry Christmas to all! 🧵 9 of 9

And my neighbors who are cold, wet, hungry, and overwhelmed…are now happy that their humble little refuge — where love gets traction, and prayers are answered — will stay in business. 🧵 8 of 9

And now, I get to partner with the wonderful network of volunteers and caring people who run the Lynnwood Hygiene Center. And — thanks to $400K in community donations — there is funding to develop the center through capital improvements. 🧵 7 of 9

So, I purchased the center and the land it sits on — the best $2 million I can imagine spending. 🧵 6 of 9

It's an invisible need… an invisible center… helping invisible people. Meanwhile, I’m haunted by the invisible impact of the insatiable greed that’s so widespread (and sadly, celebrated) in our multi-millionaire and billionaire class. 🧵 5 of 9

And tragically, once a center like this is gone, it’s hard to imagine it popping up somewhere else in these NIMBY times. 🧵 4 of 9

For an entire community of my down-and-out neighbors, this hygiene center is the only place to take a shower, wash clothes, repair a bike, or get a sweater, blanket, or hot meal…while also enjoying a little bit of community. 🧵 3 of 9

Then, about a month ago, I learned that the only hygiene center in my neighborhood was being shut down. The property was being sold...destined to be developed. 🧵 2 of 9

It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans. 🧵 1 of 9

This is a reminder of how much it matters that pediatricians, public health specialists, scientists and members of the public who care about vaccines and science based recommendations continue to speak up. Many voices break through. www.politico.com/news/2025/12...

“Canada has been boycotting American spirits since March in retaliation for President Trump’s ongoing trade war and U.S. whiskey sales to that country are down by more than 60% through October.“ Only 60%? 🤔

i really think there is legit political space for running on "we are going to dismantle ICE"

How it started vs. How it’s going NOW 👀 LA tow truck driver who towed ICE’s car found NOT GUILTY 🦸🏽‍♂️

If you are a journalist or streamer or something here's a download link for this video so you can write a story about Christmas tree fire safety and upload this video to your website and put an ad over it and keep everyone employed: spaces.hightail.com/receive/Zewk...

If you all want to know the real miracle of this video, it's gotten us 2k+ likes on threads where we have to fist fight the algorithm every day.

Someone asked what's happening here - the watered tree is lit on fire a full 30 seconds before the dry tree, but you can barely tell because it's burning so slowly. The dry tree goes full inferno in a matter of seconds. Water your tree. Make sure you have working smoke alarms in your home.

A big clock in a video is a clear indicator that you are about to see something gnarly. Two big clocks? Heh. You're going to learn something today.

Also, notice how fire does not care what's in its path it will just burn down an entire home. Imagine this happening while you are asleep. By the time you smell smoke it may be too late to escape. Make sure your smoke alarms are working.

You might be thinking, "CPSC, does a dry Christmas tree really burn that much faster than a well-watered tree?" Friend, let's find out together by watching this PSA.

He is descended from Russian Jews—you know, the kind of people who were once denounced as alien and unassimilable. Today, his project is to unleash government persecution of those he deems alien and unassimilable. How far will Stephen Miller’s sadistic designs go? trib.al/Q5IVpDI

Everyone knows the most important part of being a congressman is the size of your electoral victory. In the House, if you win by more than 10 points, they let you vote twice. And if you win by more than 20, you get to remove one (1) law per term.

“Just when you thought you heard it all, AI systems designed to spot cancer have startled researchers with a baked-in penchant for racism.”

Wayback Machine grabbed the original Epstein files dump before that photo of Trump got pulled. You can't get to the individual PDF page for the missing image, but if you click "download all files" and download it locally you can find the now-deleted file in: IMAGES / 0001 / EFTA00000468.pdf

I trust major news organizations, members of Congress, and public interest groups are publicizing their secure tip lines so DOJ and FBI employees with knowledge of political interference in the Epstein files review process, can explain safely and confidentially what they saw.

Full video is here: youtu.be/KIxAKyioXng

In YouGov polling this week, less than half of Republicans said they strongly approved of Trump. www.ms.now/opinion/poll...

Newly discovered phone call recordings show how far Trump went to attempt overturning the 2020 presidential election results in Georgia Trump told the Speaker he could call the session “for transparency, and to uncover fraud,” adding, “Who’s gonna stop you for that?” trib.al/b6NRAnR

Putin messed up when he decided to invade Ukraine. But boy does he run circles round Trump!

"In retrospect, the Court’s willingness a quarter-century later in Palmer v. Thompson to allow cities to shut down public swimming pools rather than allow Black people to use them makes a lot more sense." whew Lord

BREAKING: At least 16 files from the Epstein release disappeared from DOJ's webpage, including a photo of Trump, with no explanation.

worth watching a movie set in the 1970s, like THE NICE GUYS, and comparing to a movie made in the 1970s, like DIRTY HARRY

everything we see about the 1970s focuses on the flash and glitter of the decade. there isn't much media that centers on the stagflation of the decade and the collapse of the nation's industrial base. (one reason that SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER is still worth watching is it is *about* the latter)

people simply do not remember the recession of the early 1990s (which formed the backdrop of films like FALLING DOWN). and the idea that the 80s were a decade of economic stagnation for most americans just isn't in the popular mind at all.

not that the present economic picture is rosy, but i do think that popular culture — and specifically nostalgia bait television — is a big part of the reason that our public memory of the 1970s, 1980s and even 1990s seems to miss the real economic pain that marked each of those decades.