Waning immunity and falling vaccination rates are fueling whooping cough—perussis—outbreaks across the country. In the first 3 months of 2025, the U.S. tallied 6600 cases—4 times the rate of last year's pace. Infants, the most vulnerable group, have died as a result of exposure👇

It's a really good podcast Sorkin wrote: Too Big to Fail The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System–and Themselves His new book is: 1929: Book One

A number of items have been recalled. Many are for kids. Others are for adults. Check it out.

There are costs to performatively deploying members of the military—one of which is the risk of endangering them.

Gift article. Despite efforts to pull staff back to the office, remote work has become entrenched in America...On average, 15% of workers across the country’s biggest metropolitan areas toil at home on most working days...the full effect is only just a being felt. Less tax dollars for schools etc

He learned to tell time by “the only timepiece available to our family, the clock on the tower of Ehret’s Brewer at 93rd and Second Avenue, which we could see from the front window, if Grandpa hadn’t pulled the shade."

June 1, 1813 – Today, American naval officer James Lawrence — the Captain of the USS Chesapeake — uttered the heroic words. “Don’t give up the ship!”

Is the world at “peak Trump”? John Bolton discusses American foreign policy with @dsorennie.bsky.social. Watch Inside Geopolitics now

Any investigative reporters checking this out? Or is he upset because the Scouts have welcomed girls?

Allright! You can hear these experts discuss trump's peace plan in full.

The staff testimony noted that the data center segment is “primarily underperforming expectations due to a mixture of lower materialization rates, project cancellations, and delays.”

By leaving our bubbles, we widen our perspectives and, for at least a moment, relinquish what David Foster Wallace once called our “natural, hard-wired default-setting . . . to see and interpret everything through this lens of self.”

Political winds are shifting against renewables, pushing advocates to rethink how they defend clean energy progress.

A family of four tourists from Germany died in Istanbul from phosphine poisoning caused by a bed bug spray. Despite initial suspicions of food poisoning, no traces of the toxin were found in the food. Eleven people were arrested.

Don't believe what the fake news is telling you. We're winners.

Mark Carney and Alberta Danielle Smith have agreed to the broad outlines of a memorandum of understanding that gave Alberta special exemptions from federal environmental laws, offer political support to a new oil pipeline to the B.C. coast... This was inevitable. Job losses would crush economy.

I woke up late, but you can still listen to the ongoing discussion.

If he truly encountered the presence of God, then it isn’t surprising the hounds of hell were not far behind. Such opposition is not proof of psychosis or deception; it is sometimes the cost of an awakening.

The kingdom said some $270 billion worth of agreements were signed during an investment summit in Washington this week, and Saudi’s military expects to get F-35s, the world’s most advanced fighter jet, plus nearly 300 tanks.

House Outlook Republicans have a 220-215 majority. Democrats need a net gain of 3 seats for a majority.

No one should treat this new phase in the president’s aggression against democracy as just another episode in the Trump reality show.

The Atlantic Council Newsletter 11/21 It covers different aspects of the Russia deal in detail. Tomorrow is Holodomor Remembrance Day, commemorating the 1932-1933 Soviet-instigated famine in Ukraine.

Sam Altman thinks we can start making perfect babies . www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... It is unrealistic to expect a psychiatric gene therapy to emerge soon enabling doctors to “cure” psychiatric disorders by simply “exchanging” a “disease gene” by a “healthy one”.

Excited to do a live taping of our @newyorker.com podcast with great colleagues @janemayer.bsky.social @eosnos.bsky.social soon @harvardiop.bsky.social

When asked about their previously contentious relationship, the two men laughed off their insults and stayed on message that they plan to work together to make Trump’s hometown more affordable and safer. Beware...Trump's switcheroo hasn't worked out well for Zelenskyy.

Rep. Eric Swalwell on Jimmy Kimmel announces he’s running for Governor of California! Very good news!

Come on California. Now's you big chance to appeal to a larger set of voters.

James Comer “I mean, I could spend a bunch of taxpayer dollars to send staff and members down there, and if she’s going to plead the Fifth, I don’t know that that’s a good investment.”

Now I get it. If nursing isn't a profession and if science funding is eliminated, we won't need medical insurance.

Talking to Nazis. (80 years ago today, the trial began).

The [Ukrainian] regime must make a responsible decision. Do it now and assume responsibility."

Dedicated to the donald

You know Justin Pearson is a fighter. He stood strong in his stance for gun control against Tennessee Repubs. Let's stand strong for him and help him continue his fight in Congress for affordability, healthcare and our rights. Elect Democrat Justin Pearson Tennessee's 9th Congressional District

Gift article from Economist below. You need to know what happened.

Carter needs a special person to give him a home.

YES. Thank you 💙

The thing I love about politics and sports is that there is an end goal - winning - and there are indeed winners and losers. James Carville

During Friedrich Merz's keynote address at the Talisman Awards ceremony in Berlin today, several guests left the hall. Has a German Chancellor ever been so publicly humiliated? 🤔🤷‍♀️ #MerzCan'tDoIt

November 19 2025 Washington has signaled that Ukraine is expected to accept a framework for ending the war that would require Kyiv to give up territory and relinquish certain weapons systems. The reported proposals also include reducing Ukraine's army, among other concessions.

A fascinating image from the Webb Telescope archive shows young stars emitting so much radiation and stellar wind that they literally blow away the gas clouds around them. This creates relatively empty bubbles, but also dense edges where new stars are born.

With so much talk about Hitler lately, this should be of interest.

Y'all better fucking recognize. Two finger snaps and a twirl Lynda Harvey

"Hitler's policies are completely around eugenics," said the expert in ancient and forensic DNA at the University of Bath in western England. "If he had been able to look at his own DNA... he almost certainly would have sent himself," (to a murder camp) she said.