"An eight-decade partnership between universities and the federal government made U.S. science preeminent. It took Trump less than a year to shred that crucial alliance." www.statnews.com/american-sci...

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Pete Hegseth is right: Mark Kelly shouldn't be a senator. He should take Hegseth's job and be SECDEF. I'll be on MSNOW at 4pm to talk more about it. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

Sen. Mark Kelly told NPR "it just doesn't make any sense" for him to face a military court-martial after he and other Democratic lawmakers released a video reminding active-duty troops that they don't have to follow illegal orders.

To combat bird flu spread, other countries have authorized poultry vaccines. The U.S. hasn’t, amid political and economic pushback. Without a vaccine, experts say the virus poses an escalating threat: “The minute it transmits to humans, it’s done.” By @natlash.bsky.social

Mark Kelly is a heroic public servant. Donald Trump is a treasonous criminal. Period. www.cnn.com/2025/11/24/p...

"A serial scofflaw and a 34-count convicted felon, he was clearly running for office to escape trials and jail time for dozens of additional alleged crimes. Trump ran on a platform of personal retribution rather than public service."

"Senator Robert F. Kennedy said in 1966 about ending apartheid in South Africa: 'Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.' Enough of these ripples can become a tidal wave."---by Mark L. Wolf

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “Donald Trump has wielded power as no previous president has, often in open defiance of the law. His actions have raised a chilling question,” writes the Times editorial board.

"This is documentation of policies implemented between January 20 and October 29, 2025 that caused measurable harm to Americans’ health, safety, economic security, or civil rights." ---- By Christopher Armitage

"This week, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Louisiana v. Callais about the last remaining section of the Voting Rights Act, a civil-rights law designed to ensure that states could not get in the way of nonwhite citizens voting. "

"Before the election, we surveyed the legal establishment about what a second Trump term could mean for the rule of law. A year later, they’re very, very worried." (Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. )

The U.S. armed forces may soon face the choice of whether to refuse illegal and unconstitutional orders, @radiofreetom.bsky.social writes. What will they do?

As alarmed as people may be, they aren't alarmed enough. Trump just escalated this crisis from a fight between the federal government and a state, to a situation where one state is deploying armed forces to impose its will on another state. www.thebulwark.com/p/emergency-...

These so-called "DEMOCRAT AGENCIES"... -Ensure our food is safe to eat -Keep our air and water clean -Alert us to natural disasters -Protect us from financial fraud and scammers Remember what Trump is actually attacking.

Targeting blue states and cities isn’t very “America First” of the Trump administration. But it has become increasingly obvious that it never really cared about that, especially when revenge is on the table. trib.al/slw4a7q

"The United States, in other words, may now be entering a prolonged period of extraordinary dysfunction. And the Republican justices bear as much blame for that dysfunction as anyone."

Russell T. Vought spent years drawing up plans to expand presidential power and shrink federal bureaucracy. Now he is moving closer to making that vision a reality, threatening to erode checks and balances. (Gift article from The New York Times.)

Few things are important enough to justify the security risk that Pete Hegseth’s planned military gathering poses, @radiofreetom.bsky.social argues in The Atlantic Daily:

Donald Trump's militarization of our city streets isn't about fighting crime or public safety — it's about consolidating power in his hands. What he plans to do with that, now or during the 2026 elections, should worry all of us.

Imagine the response if a Dem Administration removed every top general and admiral from every US military post all around the world (including conflict zones), in order to force them to attend a big in-person meeting in DC (with a former cable news co-host). www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

In his first public remarks since leaving the Justice Department, Smith said he's sad and angry about the dismissals of career public servants and the loss of credibility the DOJ has suffered.

The Comey indictment is an advance glimpse of Donald Trump’s next attempted seizure of power, @davidfrum.bsky.social argues. “James Comey’s rights and liberties are not the only ones at risk today.” Read more: https://theatln.tc/Moii5gp1

"The facts of the situation show a consistent correlation between party control and state outcomes across multiple metrics. Seven of the ten poorest states operate under complete Republican control, while eight of the ten wealthiest states have Democratic control. These patterns demand an answer."

"Trump has freedom of speech. Do you?" --- By The NY Times Editorial Board. (Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription.)

"The silencing of Mr. Kimmel, following an explicit threat by Brendan Carr, the head of ABC’s regulator, the Federal Communications Commission, is the mask of 'free speech' coming off for good." (Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription.)

There is a very real prospect that President Trump could lose the midterms. It’s ahead of this threat of defeat that he and his allies are working overtime to sway the elections before a single vote is cast. @ariberman.bsky.social reports on the unprecedented moves.

Yeah, what I said.

Signs bearing Trump’s name gone up at major construction projects funded by President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law that Trump strenuously opposed ahead of its passage. SHAMELESS! (Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription.)

An exasperating barrier to fighting the emergency emergency is the absence of any obvious legal strategy to halt Trump’s overuse of emergency declarations. Perhaps the answer is that judges start granting less deference to the executive branch. trib.al/qLVpxop

Does Your Vote Matter? --- by Chris Armitage. "The federal government's electoral system is irredeemably corrupted, functioning as minority rule disguised as democracy. But in blue states and progressive cities, local democracy thrives as the last legitimate expression of popular will."

"This amounts to a very dark moment for public health. There is no clear way out other than a new secretary of Health and Human Services." ---- Dr. Ashish K. Jha

Grow a spine, Schumer And Jeffries! This is not a normal time for bipartisanship and it can only get the country further being destroyed by Donald Trump.

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Enough is enough. The health of the country is in danger. Read our resignation letters: insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-n...

Bully the Bully: The Psychology of What Gavin Newsom Is Getting Right

"Jan. 6 rioters walked. Prosecutors were shown the door." --- The NY Times

We are officially living in a police state.

One reader said it well: "when the SC sees a lot of pushback from the lower courts, ... it is because the SC has let itself become politicized and started making bad rulings that don't adhere to the spirit of the law or constitution." 👍👍👍

"Justice Jackson Correctly Defines The John Roberts Supreme Court As The Calvinball Court."

"The actions add up to an unprecedented attempt by a sitting president to interfere in a critical election before it’s even held, moves that have raised alarms among those concerned about the future of U.S. democracy..." apnews.com/article/trum...

The Bolton raid should chill you: my emergency video (full video linked) adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/emergency-...

"A federal judge on Thursday ordered that no more immigrant detainees be sent to a center in the Florida Everglades, and that much of the facility be dismantled." 👍

"even if there were some kind of invading military force on American soil, which hasn’t happened in more than two centuries, the president wouldn’t have the authority to simply postpone elections on his own."

“The evidence of Donald Trump’s desperation and failure is mounting. The question for each of us and each of our leaders is: Which side of history will I be on?” www.americaamerica.news/p/which-side...