“New York, city of invention, Roiling town, refresher And re-newer, New York, city of the real, Where the canyons Whisper in a hundred Tongues, New York, Where your lucky self Waits for your Arrival, Where there is always soil For your root. This is our time.” “Proof” by Cornelius Eady.

‘This Is Our Time’: Acclaimed Poet to Honor Mamdani With Inaugural Poem Cornelius Eady, a National Book Award finalist, shared an excerpt from “Proof,” an original poem he has written for Zohran Mamdani’s inauguration as mayor of New York City. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/30/n...

Astounding amounts of equity granted to OpenAI employees according to this WSJ article. And remember that 1 year cliff that most tech companies have in their option packages? It was 6 months at OpenAI, but that was dropped because they were losing a battle for talent. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/open...

“LATE usually emerges at an older age than Alzheimer’s, with symptoms generally limited to impaired memory and, sometimes, difficulty finding words or naming objects,” Different from Alzheimer’s! Yet more common, has a clinical trial using a heart drug that might slow down the progression.

“Michael Waltz, reached out to Biden aides and asked for a secret letter from the president granting Trump and his team permission to begin talks during transition. But Biden refused, telling aides that Trump might make a deal with Russia at Ukraine’s expense, and he didn’t want to endorse that.”

As we approach the new year, we only expect more corruption from Burgum and this administration. We know they’re engaging in unethical (and probably illegal) insider trading. What else are Doug Burgum and his cronies hiding? https://nyti.ms/3Ymf7aC

Gift link: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Who can be held accountable for war crimes? #Hegseth #Trump #Nuremberg Article Should be free: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/30/o...

This is the one that really gets me. Hegseth treated a meeting with his Ukrainian counterpart as a photo op, putting on makeup, telling an aide to “look commanding.” When the Ukrainian asked for honesty about what was going to happen, Hegseth refused to answer, just nodded for the photo. Hollow man.

“Yet to U.S. military officers who had spent the last three and a half years fighting to shore up the Ukrainian cause, the interrupted journey of the 18,000 shells seemed to encompass the entirety of America’s new, erratic and corrosive role in the war.”

At the end of this, we will all owe the people of Ukraine a massive apology (assuming there are any Ukrainians to apologize to): www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

prolly the most exculpatory article I’ve seen and yet the White House still insists on calling all of it a hoax www.wsj.com/us-news/trum...

'They should come here legally, do things the right way' And yet Ppl did the work, followed the rules, got to the finish line & then this: "officers going down a line and asking people where they were born, and based on the answer that they gave, pulling them out of line and sending them home"

🇦🇺🤝🇨🇦Happy New Year to our Australian friends!

Trump just vetoed a bill that would fund the completion of a project to bring clean drinking water to rural Colorado. The bill was passed unanimously by the House and the Senate. He did so in retaliation for the state refusing to release Tina Peters, who illegally tampered with voting machines.

❗️Russian drones in direction of Mykolaiv, Chernihiv, Sumy region detected earlier

Feeling that we need to support the court challenges for voting rights I chose to support @democracydocket.com. Their case wins prove that it’s money well spent.

Your daily dose of #CO2 part 1 30.12.2025 428.44 🆙2.72 or 0.64 % 30.12.2024 425.72 🆙3.39 or 0.80 % 30.12.2023 422.33 🆙3.23 or 0.77 % 30.12.2022 419.10 🆙1.99 or 0.48 % 30.12.2021 417.11 🆙1.63 or 0.39 % #ClimateCrisis

From Quantum Security to Climate Change: Frontier Tech Stories That Defined 2025 https://www.europesays.com/2668472/ PICKS are stories from many sources, selected by our editors or recommended by our readers because they are…

#UkrainianView Yesterday, russia has revealed, step by step, how the announced 20-point security guarantees plan for Ukraine would actually work. You can’t trust the Trump/Putin duo. It would be a suicide.

WSJ breaks significant news reporting that Mar-a-Lago’s spa *for years* regularly sent young staffers to Epstein’s home purportedly to give him massages, contorts its scoop to find a more flattering angle for Trump, and still gets an icy blast of a comment from Leavitt. www.wsj.com/us-news/trum...

Lauren Boebert says Trump just 'retaliated' against her for her Epstein vote www.rawstory.com/alternet-pos...

Surprising? Hardly at all to me. Bombshell report reveals Trump sent young women from Mar-a-Lago to Epstein www.alternet.org/trump-jeffre...

WSJ headline leads with Trump banning Epstein. The real story is: Trump trafficked. For years, Mar-a-Lago sent young women to Epstein for "spa services." Gift link: The Incident That Prompted Trump to Ban Epstein From Mar-a-Lago’s Spa www.wsj.com/us-news/trum...

This is Trump’s long game. We’ve spent years cracking down on fraudsters. It’s a serious issue - but this has been his plan all along. He’s politicizing the issue to defund programs that help Minnesotans. www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/hhs...

Just this year, Minnesota has ranked: A top 10 state for safety. A top 5 state to live in. A top 3 state for jobs. A top 3 state to retire. The 2nd best state to raise a family. The 2nd best state for children. A bet against Minnesota is a bad bet.

It's also worth noting here that the *minimum* salary for these ICE positions is $52,205. While the *median* salaries for childcare workers and home health aides are less than $35,000 per year.

Editor's picks from 2025: Kevin De Liban argues that it isn’t just AI disinformation that threatens democracy, but the steady permeation of AI-driven decision-making into nearly every corner of daily life—a transformation that risks sapping an essential ingredient of democratic participation.

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Almost every Tuesday in America, there's an election. Tonight, another win for 'we the people' & forging solutions for us. We need to fight for every seat, every election. Help us do that. Join fieldTeam6.org @fieldteam6.org @demcast.com www.commoncause.org #voices4Victory #usDemocracy

Democrats yesterday won the final special election of 2025, in Iowa: Their nominee defended a state Senate district by 43%. Harris had won it by 17% last year. This win means Dems prevent the GOP from gaining a supermajority; the GOP lost the supermajority earlier this year.

So we’re supposed to believe the DOJ just stumbled onto a million more Epstein “documents”. Really? Let’s talk about the redactions. In March the FBI put 934 employees on the Epstein files, racked up more than 14,000 hours of overtime. And part of that work was redacting Donald Trump’s name.

This ICE job posting reads like a video game ad. Which is almost certainly by design.

This!!! Go get it now!!! I feel like the Covid Pandemic revealed just how many folks forgot how vaccines work (what they actually do) precisely because vaccines work. Case in point - my own parental unit refuses to get the flu vax because they caught the flu shortly after getting vaccinated. 🙄

New: We got an internal ICE document revealing its $100 million ad plan to bring in 14,000 new hires: deals with "tactical" influencers; ads to gun & military buffs; and geo-targeting phones around NASCAR races and gun shows. A "wartime recruitment" mode with paramilitary branding: wapo.st/44QrP5j

Dr. Satsuki Ina Japanese Incarceration Camp Survivor - "We need to speak up."

“Dem Sen. Elizabeth Warren: “a federal court rejected the Trump Administration’s…attempt to starve the CFPB of funding…they’ll keep blocking Russ Vought’s illegal attempts to ‘close down’ the agency that has returned $21 billion directly to Americans who were cheated by banks and corporations.”

Anyone who thinks that Trump's tariffs are going to make any significant difference in restoring manufacturing are fooling themselves. Trump's tariffs are about transferring more of the tax burden onto the lower classes, while he exempts big businesses that pay him off.

Alert: Grifters still grifting strongly. "[Grift Mobile] has pushed back plans to deliver a $499 (£371) gold-coloured smartphone by the end of the year." (pushed back by 2 weeks maybe? 🙄)

“(F47) is tightening maritime enforcement to choke off oil revenues to Caracas, which has in turn said the blockade won’t deter its oil shipments, and is reportedly deploying vessels to escort commercial vessels carrying petroleum products.”

“Claims have been volatile in recent weeks amid challenges adjusting the data for seasonal fluctuations ahead of the holiday season. The labor market remains locked in what economists and policymakers describe as a "no hire, no fire" mode.”

#ResistanceUnited #ProudBlue #ONEV1 #DV1 Next year’s resolution No. 1: Expose lawmakers who don’t care about the skyrocketing healthcare premiums. Let’s force them to campaign with the records. Voters’ patience may be running out.

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It was 6 years ago today, I first heard a news report about (then unnamed) covid. Today, a keyword search for "covid" on PubMed gives 491,406 results This is nearly 4x as many scientific papers as about climate change Yet It's news to most that We are STILL in this dangerous pandemic. 1/3

Reminder: When a herd of reindeer is threatened, the herd runs fast in a "cyclone" to confuse predators, keeping the most vulnerable in the center. The whole herd survives. Trying to save "most" of the herd lets predators pick off the herd, most vulnerable first, until there's no herd left. 1/

Every infection causes damage to every person, just to a greater or lesser degree. Every organ, every system, everywhere in the body is affected. Type "covid" + "[any ailment]" in PubMed to see how. Any. Ailment. Long Covid is now the #1 chronic illness among children. And among adults? 3/3

The Trump administration allocated $67 million in rural health aid to Arizona, significantly less than the $100 million average for other states. This shortfall comes as Arizona's rural areas face higher mortality rates and potential Medicaid cuts, raising concerns about the sustainability of hea...

“Russia wants to see Ukraine succeed…Putin was very generous in his feeling toward Ukraine succeeding.”

#Ukraine #UkrainianView