Heartbreaking story about women and girls raped in Eastern Congo who can no longer get medication to prevent HIV transmission, because of Trump administration's USAID cuts: www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1... Careless men in DC make decisions, and Congolese girls suffer.

People must grasp the idea of “media capture.” It’s when authoritarian regimes and/or their powerful allies take control of media to stifle independent voices holding the government to account. It’s one way Hungary’s Viktor Orbán keeps power. In the U.S., it’s what the Ellisons have done with CBS.

“The Department of Health and Human Services has terminated seven grants totaling millions of dollars to the American Academy of Pediatrics, including for initiatives on reducing sudden infant deaths, improving adolescent health, preventing fetal alcohol syndrome and identifying autism early.”

"Power bills for about a fifth of Americans are expected to continue to rise after the largest U.S. grid operator, PJM Interconnection, reported fresh record-high capacity prices on Wednesday that reflected electricity demand by data centers overtaking supplies."

I keep saying this but no one is connecting the dots. The war is to satisfy legal preconditions for mass removal *domestically* of Latinos (i.e., suddenly a lot of people are going to be “Venezuelan” for purposes of removal). This is 100% Stephen Miller…oil claim is to make grandpa go along

Report finds warmest temperatures, loss of snow cover in the Arctic as US, Russia among Arctic countries pushing ahead with oil drilling despite climate crisis www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12...

Unemployment was at 7.8% when Obama took office. He got it down to 4.7% by the end of term Trump then lost millions of jobs, and left Joe Biden with unemployment at 6.4% Biden CREATED millions of jobs and reduced unemployment to 4.3% Unemployment is rising under Trump-again-standing now at 4.6%

Important read from @chrishatch.bsky.social: The current bonfire of fossil fuels is driving an annual increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide that is 100 to 200 times faster than our most recent analogue: the end of the last ice age. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/12/15/o...

Congresswoman Ilhan Omar's son was pulled over by ICE and forced to prove he is an American. Two options: 1) ICE deliberately targeted him. 2) ICE is stopping all non-White people without any probable cause and forcing them to prove they are citizens. Hard to say which option is scarier.

As a director, Rob Reiner released these five movies all in a row 1986 Stand by Me 1987 The Princess Bride 1989 When Harry Met Sally… 1990 Misery 1992 A Few Good Men All remarkable and vastly different films, showing extraordinary range and talent

Just want to share with my American friends how the Australians respond to a shooting tragedy. Action, rather than thoughts and prayers.

As one of those Democratic attorneys who was camped out in West Palm Beach - taking depositions from inconsolable grandmas swearing they hadn’t voted for Buchanan, I still have trauma. 🥺 25 years ago the right wing #SCOTUS coup begin archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes....

We documented dozens of cases of brutality — including physical and sexual abuse from guards — that show a humanitarian disaster unfolding at the Fort Bliss military base, where ICE is operating its largest detention center. President Trump’s mass detention expansion is inhumane and dangerous.

Read Shadow Network by Anne Nelson about the far right’s decades-long takeover of US radio and smaller-town media, leading to the split info space dividing us today. @maxtani.bsky.social @semaforben.bsky.social @joshtpm.bsky.social @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social @velshi.com @jelaniya.bsky.social

A good time to open @craigunger.bsky.social House of Trump House of Putin for the details of the Trump Mafia active for decades.

Republicans’ voter suppression tactics rarely make headlines, but it remains the greatest threat to democracy. This year, we’ve seen one of these tactics on full display through map-rigging efforts. But @marcelias.bsky.social warns this is only the tip of the iceberg.

It's not just social media. Looks like visitors to the US from Europe and other countries that are part of the visa waiver program will have to submit an enormous amount of data about themselves and their families, including DNA, if proposed new rules are accepted

Again, US tech in the hands of authoritarian states raises the question: what all was in those files Trump stole/stashed at Mar-a-Lago? @anneapplebaum.bsky.social @benrhodes.bsky.social @slotkin.senate.gov @kim.senate.gov @jahimes.bsky.social @maddow.bsky.social @nicollewallace.bsky.social

America is a mafia state running a protection racket in the interest of the boss, not the people www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1... bsky.app/profile/john...

Will the US ever know what files Trump stole/stashed at Mar-a-Lago? US tech in Russian weapons seems problematic. @carolleonnig.bsky.social @weissmann.substack.com @raskin.house.gov @davidcorn.bsky.social @anneapplebaum.bsky.social @brma64.bsky.social @maddow.bsky.social @craigunger.bsky.social

I talked to @heyjohnryan.bsky.social at KUOW about adapting to increasingly strong atmospheric rivers, and that reducing risk ultimately requires tackling GHG emissions. "If we don't do that, atmospheric rivers are going to keep growing stronger...It's going to overwhelm our ability to respond.”

Lonsdale is poisonous fool. Almost all states have a provision in their constitutions like this one from Minnesota. 'Republican' here is from the Latin ' res publica,' or of the public. In other words, 'democratic.'

"People often retreat into saying that democracy hasn’t fallen 'yet.'... But it’s not true for everyone currently living in America. Some people in America are already living under conditions that resemble dictatorship." www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-wage...

Literally NOTHING Donald Trump says is truthful

1. Paramount's hostile takeover bid for Warner Bros. Discovery exposes Jared Kushner's game Kushner is not running a private equity fund. He's running an influence peddling operation. It's spelled out on page 42 of Paramount's new SEC filing

Around the world, America's historical allies now see a Trump led America as their greatest enemy, supplanting Russia and China. In Canada, 3 in 5 see a Trump led America as the country's leading threat. www.economist.com/the-world-ah...

Ah, all these old GOP/Russia ties… trumpfile.org/fbi-finds-le...

Nothing to worry about here www.notus.org/senate/jasmi...

Read Shadow Network by Anne Nelson about the far right’s decades-long takeover of US radio and smaller-town media, leading to the split info space dividing us today. @maxtani.bsky.social @semaforben.bsky.social @joshtpm.bsky.social @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social @velshi.com @jelaniya.bsky.social

I would really like to see more Ds speaking up to defend her. this is ridiculous and horrific.

In “Defining the domestic terrorism threat,” the memo cites “extreme viewpoints on immigration, radical gender ideology, and anti-American sentiment” — indicators that federal law enforcement are instructed to refer to FBI Joint Terrorism Task Forces (JTTFs). www.kenklippenstein.com/p/leak-fbi-l...

“Where NSPM-7 was a declaration of war on just about anyone who isn’t MAGA, this is the war plan for how the government will wage it on a tactical level.” Bondi’s also proposing a tipline and reward system. @maddow.bsky.social @timothysnyder.bsky.social @aclu.org @anneapplebaum.bsky.social

Every side of a war thinks their cause is the justified one. Don't let them ever desensitize you to the violence and human cost. They are trying hard to now.

The Justice Department ordinarily would prevent attacks on voting rights. Now it’s carrying them out.

Michael Mann to Bill Gates: You can’t reboot the planet if you crash it Indeed the Earth is not some form of computer you can reboot with geo engineering thebulletin.org/2025/10/you-...

The world’s fossil fuel rampage continues… @thirdactorg.bsky.social @billmckibben.bsky.social @katharinehayhoe.com @antoniajuhasz.bsky.social @doctorvive.bsky.social @votersoftomorrow.org @envirovoters.bsky.social @elizkolbert.bsky.social @climatehuman.bsky.social @alexsteffen.bsky.social

"One of the most staggering things is that the Roberts Court has ruled for President Trump 90 percent of the time in shadow docket cases. Lower courts keep restraining the president but the Supreme Court is repeatedly saying that the president and his party are above the law"

When global temperatures shot up by ~6°C about 56 million years ago, plants were unable to thrive The reduced ability of vegetation & soils to capture & store carbon may have kept temperatures elevated for >100,000 years Today Earth is warming ~10 times faster than it did 56 million years ago

The fact that four hostile drones tried to hit Zelenskyy’s plane & it’s barely a blip in the news cycle should terrify everyone. We’ve been dragged so deep into the chaos era that an attempted strike on a world leader doesn’t even break through. When this becomes normal, the world is in real danger.

Musk’s Wealth 2012: $2 billion 2025: $493.8 billion Bezos’ Wealth 2012: $18.4 billion 2025: $240.9 billion Zuckerberg’s Wealth 2012: $17.5 billion 2025: $226.9 billion Federal Minimum Wage 2012: $7.25 2025: $7.25 It’s not the start of an oligarchy. — We’re in the thick of it.

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...

Trump is not serving the American public, but endangering lives… welcoming drug lords (Hernandez), gangs (El Chapo’s Sinaloa Cartel), and rapists (Tate Brothers) & giving ICE+BP free rein to terrorize and brutalize communities. @governorwalz.mn.gov @jacobfrey.bsky.social @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social

WA state law prohibits the public disclosure of personal information like full names, Social Security numbers, and driver’s license numbers. This lawsuit is yet another power grab from the Trump administration — and a violation of our privacy. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Breaking: The US lost 32,000 jobs in November, far worse than expected. Small businesses were the hardest hit.

The fact that partisan gerrymandering is allowed is anti-democracy.

*stares in Adelita Grijalva*

She shouldn't have to keep doing this by herself. She is supposedly a member of a political party and every single one of her *colleagues* should be BLASTING the fascist in chief. ALL OF THEM. Where is the solidarity???

trump is the president in the sense that he holds the office but he very clearly isn't the president in the sense that he has basically relieved himself of its duties

The election is tomorrow DECEMBER 2ND! These were mailed to Democratic voters. This is a crime. Also included is a screenshot of a flyer telling Republicans they are tracking their votes. Another flyer says they will be put on a list.