Earlier this year, ProPublica found that the sepsis rate in second-trimester pregnancy loss hospitalizations increased by more than 50% under Texas’ abortion ban. Here’s how we did our analysis. (Published Feb. 2025)

NCAR is quite literally our global mothership. Everyone who works in climate and weather has passed through its doors and benefited from its incredible resources. Dismantling NCAR is like taking a sledgehammer to the keystone holding up our scientific understanding of the planet. Unbelievable.

"We may wander, argue, and flirt with isolation. But when the consequences become clear—as they always do—we return. We always do." And so we, probably, will do again.

Cover. 💔 @variety.com variety.com/2025/film/co...

It was the dumbest of times…

Wondering about the classification status of that information

They’re stealing from us. They are stealing from us and we have to put a stop to this. This cannot stand.

UnitedHealth is the nation’s largest health insurance conglomerate. ProPublica obtained what is effectively the company’s internal playbook for limiting and cutting therapy costs. Here’s what we found. (Published Nov. 2024)

Rallies every night! Rallies in every city! Barnstorm the country-maybe two or three rallies a day! Show his strength, show his stamina, show his grasp of the issues

“Decades of market-first policymaking has systematically eroded the media’s democratic function, leaving the press structurally vulnerable at precisely the moment independent journalism matters most.” @bilalb.bsky.social @shahrzadshams.bsky.social of @rooseveltinstitute.org discuss a new report:

BREAKING: Gary Clemons just won his election to Kentucky’s SD-37! He will be a strong, honest voice for his constituents in the Kentucky Senate and is ready to fight to expand access to affordable health care and support investments in public education.

Wherever there's a cancer you're looking for an answer To keep staying' alive Staying' alive You're watchin' as I wiggle just don't let that slide jiggle Cause I'm stayin' alive Stayin' alive

"Well you can tell by the way I use my walk I'm a tardigrade, no time to talk Don't care if it's cold or if it's warm I've been immortal since I was born Now it's alright, it's okay If they irradiate me all day Because it can help to understand My weird proteins' effects on man"

"Sons and daughters. Colleagues. Veterans. …will all have a role to play." "To build. To serve. And if necessary, to fight. And more families will know what sacrifice for our nation means."

"It needs a whole of nation response that builds our defence industrial capacity, grows the skills we need, harnesses the power of the institutions we will need in wartime and ensures and increases the resilience of society and the infrastructure that supports it."

Sir Richard Knighton, the head of the UK's armed forces said he agreed with his French counterpart, General Fabien Mandon, who said last month that France must be ready for the possibility of losing its children in a war with Russia. news.sky.com/story/uks-so...

Kiesewetter walks back his initial "360k Russian troops" estimate; clarifies that for the moment it is only about 150k Russian troops built up in Belarus. In comparison the pre-invasion force Russia had accumulated at the border with Ukraine was 169K. Russia expected to build up its Belarus force.

Wiles suggests the Trump admin’s ongoing targeting of boats is aimed at regime change in Venezuela.

Bloomberg: iRobot Corp. filed for Ch. 11 bankruptcy and proposed handing over control to its main Chinese supplier, Shenzhen PICEA Robotics Co. The company will go private.

"We crunched the numbers on drug discovery in the U.S. vs. China. The results were alarming" www.statnews.com/2025/12/16/c...

Back in 1980, the far right elements of the GOP (like the former OR GOP chair I'm writing about, who was an antisemitic White Christian Nationalist with neo-Nazi ties) read Human Events and a populist, conspiracy rag called The Spotlight (run by a neo-Nazi named Willis Carto).

So far Russia has accumulated 350-360 thousand combat-ready troops in Belarus with more incoming between 2026 and 2027.

This is a deliberate and substantial step backwards for civil rights and for our men and women who serve. This also changes the ability of a leader to immediately remove swastikas and nooses. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

bsky.app/profile/cand...

We used to know how to honor the dead. Somewhere along the way, we lost that too.👇 www.jackhopkinsnow.com

Now that Trump has banned migration from 20 more countries, most in Africa, worth recalling this quote from Stephen Miller that we dredged up: "If you import the Third World, you become the Third World." newrepublic.com/article/2041...

Did she know that when she said of her conversations with Trump, “He wants to keep on blowing boats up until Maduro cries uncle,” she was underwriting a future war crimes indictment against him? She’s *confessing* that Trump is engaged in the very *definition* of terrorism, *not* drug interdiction.

Tell Susie the punishments for J6 insurrection weren't extreme in comparison. Benjamin Franklin: "We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately," highlighting that unity was crucial during the revolution to survive, as failure meant treason and EXECUTION by the British.

Hegseth repeatedly misled the public about this strike. The boat was headed for Suriname, not the U.S. It wasn't carrying fentanyl. The survivors didn't "radio for backup." This strike was illegal, and Hegseth is trying to cover up what happened by refusing to release video.

We could have had a sane president.

I know Kash wouldn’t be any help catching the shooter at Brown, but I still find doing a podcast about your love life during a manhunt shocking.

BREAKING: The U.S. Coast Guard has quietly enacted a policy downgrading swastikas and nooses from hate symbols to “potentially divisive.” The manual is now in effect, despite public outrage and warnings after the draft was revealed last month. (Washington Post)

“Some 20 state, federal and EU lawmakers from the far-right Alternative for Germany attended an annual event hosted by the New York Young Republican Club.” 12/15/25 … 1/ www.dw.com/en/germanys-...

Peak Geminids Meteor shower this past Saturday night captured over Stonehenge. Photo credit: Sandra.Davies6869

“May God in His mercy lead us through these times, but above all, may He lead us to Himself.” Dietrich Bonhoeffer, penned from prison

The work of the church is not the call to ministry. Spiritual success is never measured by human outcomes. Our true work is that of manifesting likeness to Christ in all things, whether it is in success or failure, criticism or praise.

An MIT professor was shot and killed last night in Brookline, MA. No suspect is in custody: whdh.com/news/victim-...

I learned about the DoD investigation by tweet, and I learned they’re “escalating” it the same way last night. This just shows again how Pete Hegseth is not a serious person. And there's nothing he can do to stop me from fighting for this country.

AOC: I want to remind you where the real crime is. It's in the oligarchs taking $170 billion of our money from health care and food assistance and public programs and taking that and funneling it into a secret police program.

SHOUT-OUT to multi-talented International Treasure: DICK VAN DYKE! Today we celebrate his 100th year+3 days birthday. From the day I first met him (story included below) he's been an inspiration & a source of joy to his countless fans around the globe, myself included. Thank you sir 🙏 For DVD: 🎂❤️

This is what Presidential Leadership looks like at the time of an unfathomable American tragedy. #BarackObama

If you voted for Trump in 2024 and finally realize that he lied to get your vote and things aren't going well, it's okay to change your mind. Write your representative in Congress and tell them how you want them to vote. Tell them how things are going. Tell them to hold Trump accountable.

"For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places." ~Ephesians 6:12

"As for a person who stirs up division, after warning him once and then twice, have nothing more to do with him, knowing that such a person is warped and sinful; he is self-condemned." ~Titus 3:10-11

Telling. "It is an honor for a man to keep aloof from strife, but every fool will be quarreling." ~Proverbs 20:3

NATO chief Rutte: "Russia has brought war back to Europe, and we must be prepared for the scale of war our grandparents and great-grandparents endured." 😳

He’s also advertising the fact that he’s okay with his followers killing people who disagree with him politically!