Rep. LaMonica McIver visited Newark’s Delaney Hall ICE facility after a 41-year-old Haitian man died in custody. She described “horrible” conditions, citing lack of food, healthcare, mental health care, and basic services. shinemycrown.com/rep-lamonica...

Fewer Georgians are enrolling in ACA plans as costs rise — and public health providers say they’re preparing for more uninsured patients.

Why CBS Silenced a 60 Minutes Investigation youtu.be/0MDLruLgsQI

The answer to the headline question is “Because they were criminals with no legal authority to break things who had no idea what the hell they were doing, & also they need to go to jail for a long time for their illegal & unconstitutional crimes”

Uptick in Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza cases in Kansas City, Missouri area www.missourinet.com/2025/12/22/u...

What We Know About U.S. War with Venezuela www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/u...

Greenland alarmed after Trump appoints special envoy to make country ‘part of the US’

What a clever strategy. F&ck ICE. “The goal of the protests, Newcomb explains, is twofold: to pressure hotels to stop housing ICE agents and disrupt agents’ ability to operate efficiently. She adds that organizers verify through several sources before targeting a hotel where ICE agents are staying.”

Measles cases rise amid holiday travel missouriindependent.com/2025/12/18/r...

Giving you an extra special bonus episode of The Lincoln Project Podcast, Rick Wilson is joined by special guest Chris Whipple of Vanity Fair, the reporter who just detonated Trumpworld with his explosive reporting on Susie Wiles. WATCH: youtu.be/_V850-2_P90

December 19, 2025

He claimed the bonus would come from tariff revenue but Trump’s $1,776 ‘warrior dividend’ is being repurposed from military housing aid.

Lennar, one of the biggest homebuilders in the nation, cut prices by 10% in the last quarter of the year, as demand dwindles.

RFK Jr.’s anti-science, anti-vaccine agenda is “spreading like an infection all its own throughout the globe.” Thank you to @melodyschreiber.com and @katlay.bsky.social for staying on top of RFK Jt.’s continued attacks on vaccines. H/t @nerdparty.bsky.social for the heads up.

Scientists stressed that dismantling the facility was a "mistake" that could have immediate impacts on weather forecasting.

RUNAWAY BLACK HOLE www.space.com/astronomy/bl...

House Passes Bill Criminalizing Trans Youth Healthcare www.aclu.org/press-releas...

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is expected to announce a package of measures that would together ban gender-affirming care for minors. A press conference is set for 11 a.m. Thursday. n.pr/44xQKdD

Vaccination rates are plummeting across the country, as part of a larger, troubling trend of growing vaccine hesitancy that is fueling a resurgence of preventable diseases, an NBC News and Stanford University investigation found.

Judge lifts Trump administration limits on lawmaker visits to ICE jails www.politico.com/news/2025/12...

BREAKING: House passes GOP health care bill without ObamaCare subsidy extension, guaranteeing that ACA/marketplace premiums will rise by 100% ore more for many people thehill.com/homenews/hou...

How to See Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS as It Swings by Earth One Last Time www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-...

"data suggests Tesla Robotaxis are crashing once every 40,000 miles, whereas the average human driver in the US crashes about once every 500,000 miles" that's just really really bad sherwood.news/tech/teslas-...

In essence, there has been no growth in the jobs base since Trump proclaimed "Liberation Day." Trump gets a disastrous report card. But no economists are surprised by it. www.ft.com/content/17a1...

I don’t even know what to make of this level self-delusion, cognitive dissonance and moral cowardice www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/u...

Trump’s approach to Venezuela repeats the mistakes of the past | Austin Sarat

‘I Didn’t Vote for This’: A Revolt Against DOGE Cuts, Deep in Trump Country www.politico.com/news/magazin...

"We almost had a midair collision up here," the JetBlue pilot said on the recording. "They passed directly in our flight path. ... They don't have their transponder turned on, it's outrageous."

Federal agents use chemical irritant on crowd in Somali neighborhood of Minneapolis amid Trump crackdown www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...

Trump plays hardball with tariff fees as possible refunds loom

Some Head Start early childhood programs are being told by the federal government to remove a list of nearly 200 words and phrases from their funding applications or face denial. The words include "accessible," "belong," "Black," "disability," "female," "minority," "trauma," "tribal" and "women."

The numbers here are staggering. Life just got permanently and completely unlivable for so many people entirely because of GOP cuts to ACA subsidies. They interview a retired couple who will be paying nearly two thousand more a month with a 15k deductible— roughly half their joint income.

“This isn’t about fear”

We can’t afford to have a Democratic Party that’s divided between fighters and folders — and we don’t have to accept the status quo. As grassroots organizers and voters, we have the power to remake the party: indivisible2026.org/?utm_source=bluesky

“.. The commutation of Mr. Gentile’s sentence undid years of work by prosecutors in Brooklyn to expose a scheme that defrauded thousands of investors, many of whom were older Americans living on fixed incomes.” @kenvogel.bsky.social @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/n...

While these toys are currently a niche market, they could be set to grow in the coming years as more consumer companies shoehorn AI technology into their products.

Today's news roundup: -Abrego Garcia is released from ICE detention -Venezuela paves the way for withdrawal from International Criminal Court -M23 offensive in DRC's South Kivu kills over 400 civilians -A grand jury again declines to reindict Letitia James 👇 www.justsecurity.org/126895/early...

Federal judge issues order to prohibit immigration officials from detaining Kilmar Abrego Garcia | Click on the image to read the full story

“To put it frankly, old white people have a lot of time, and they’re really angry,” Stauss said. “Having somebody that looks like your grandmother out there, shouting ‘shame’ or out there blowing her whistle, is really important.”

An amnesty provision in any Ukraine-Russia peace plan would not only be a “moral abdication of the pursuit of accountability” for war crimes, but would violate Geneva Convention obligations, per Tracey Begley. www.justsecurity.org/126637/ukrai...

The ten states where health care premiums are jumping by the highest percentage are all Republican states. Every single one. This is a MAGA health care hike--and yet Senate Republicans aren't willing to lift a finger to help their own constituents.

It's been thought since the early 70s that eukaryotes (basically any life with a cell nucleus) wouldn't survive above 62C and no complex life had been shown living above 60C. Until the "fire amoeba"... 🧪 (These are some of my favorite stories to write, just weird neat stuff we're learning.)

As I noted a few weeks ago, my colleagues and I identified the area of Arizona where the measles outbreak has exploded as a region of low vaccination coverage a decade ago. There is no question that undervaccinated areas are dangerous, and we can predict where outbreaks will grow.

GOP Gerrymander BACKFIRES with SHOCK LOSS…IN GEORGIA!!! youtu.be/Lq21joPCSRE?...

As people made their way into a naturalization ceremony, ICE officials stopped 38 of the 100 applicants and told them they wouldn't be leaving with U.S. citizenship. The immigrants — who passed every step in the naturalization process — needed only to take the oath of allegiance to become citizens.

Trump’s rally last night was supposed to fix the political damage from the affordability crisis. Instead, it’s the latest in a string of choices that is making it worse for him — and all Republicans. www.salon.com/2025/12/10/t...

DAILY SHOW: “Donald Trump is swooping in to save farmers… from Donald Trump. To make up for $44 Billion in losses he’s bailing them out with $12 Billion. (12 is less than 44)”

Democrats continued their run of successes in special elections by flipping a state House seat in Georgia Tuesday, according to a projection from the CNN Decision Desk. Democrat Eric Gisler will defeat Republican Mack “Dutch” Guest in the 121st House District. https://cnn.it/4qjT3cT

Alphabet $GOOGL and Nvidia $NVDA are now the only 2 Magnificent 7 stocks that are outperforming the S&P 500 this year 🚨🤯👀