"Infants born to mothers who drank water from wells downstream of sites contaminated by so-called 'forever chemicals' in New Hampshire suffered nearly three times the baseline death rate, more premature births, and lower birth weights." #NewHampshire #USA #Water #Climate

That same 30% are the unabashed fascists in the country. It's always 30 to 35%. 30% would say to bring back chattel slavery if they were sure the survey was anonymous.

Okay, as promised, here are my 25 boardgames that would make good presents for historians or the historically-inclined. - I've played them and enjoyed them - They have to have a historical theme or be related to the practice of history - They were within the first 25 I thought of...

Fico's Slovakia must be punished.

F-35A Joint Strike Fighters Deploying To Caribbean The F-35s from the Vermont Air National Guard will join the growing U.S. force massed in the Caribbean aimed largely at the Maduro regime. www.twz.com/air/f-35a-jo...

Once again thinking about the time on Twitter where some guy was complaining about how a morning show don’t have any white people on it and I posted a picture of the morning show and it had 4 white people and one black person and the guy said “yeah but they wish they could fire the 4 white people”

BREAKING: Kilmar Abrego Garcia has been released from immigration detention after a federal judge's order Thursday, his attorney's office says.

Buttigieg on Indiana: "The big part of how Trumpism works is to make you feel totally disempowered. To make him feel inevitable. And yet the clear takeaway from this is he is not unstoppable and you are not without power."

NEW: Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser (D) says Colorado will not release Tina Peters after President Trump announced he is pardoning her state-level convictions. "This is a lawless act. It's an act of intimidation," Weiser said. "It has no basis in the American law."

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Bye bye Airlines, Hotels, FIFA, Olympics, and the rest of the civilized world... www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Six months after ICE apprehended 47 people, including nine kids, in Hays County, Tex., County Judge Ruben Becerra said DHS has ignored his attempts to get answers: “We’re not told why they took them, and we’re not told where they took them. By definition, that’s a kidnapping.” (Published Oct.)

I’M LOSING MY SHIT THIS IS SO FUNNY

“There was dissent in the operations room over whether the survivors were viable targets after the first strike, according to two people” www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

ICE detain U.S. citizen for looking Somali—use illegal chokehold to tackle him to ground. Man repeatedly begs agents to look at his digital passport ID—they refuse. Drove him 7 miles away before releasing him alone into Minnesota snow storm—told him to "walk home" in freezing weather advisory.

If you make a billion dollars — or $500 million or even $100 million dollars — and you keep trying to make more, then there is something seriously wrong with you. It's a mental illness akin to hoarding or drug addiction.

I’ve heard from immigration attorneys that clients say ICE guards lay out the WRAP device (essentially a full-body straitjacket) on the tarmac as a threat — “do what we say or you’re getting the WRAP on the whole flight.” And here’s proof, from Seattle livestream today via @lalabote.bsky.social.

This led Ursula von der Leyen to come up with a bold proposal: to channel the immobilised Russian assets into a zero-interest reparations loan to Ukraine. The assets are now mature and therefore liquid and fungible. Kyiv would only repay the loan if Moscow paid for war reparations.

The European Union has triggered Article 122 to indefinitely immobilise the assets of the Russian Central Bank, worth a whopping €210 billion. I explain what just happened and why this is such a big deal for Europeans. 🧵 Long thread.

SCOOP I spoke to the leader of a doxing-for-hire group who showed me how it took just minutes for them to get sensitive personal data from Big Tech companies—with virtually no pushback www.wired.com/story/doxers...

COVID-19 vaccines protect children from severe illness, a new report from (~checks notes~) CDC finds. Meanwhile, the administration no longer recommends COVID-19 shots for kids.

Can’t stress how important this statement is. Trump believed the Saudi’s lowering of oil prices would drop costs across the whole economy, and overcome the prices increases his tariffs have brought. It’s completely insane of course.

One of the most blatantly authoritarian threats in a Trump term full of them

Top European officials met in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv on Dec. 10-11 to advance Ukraine's EU accession and reaffirm their support. kyivindependent.com/eu-ukraine-u...

Can't say I ever expected to see a "That Font was No Angel" headline. But here we are.

Ramirez to Noem: "You lied on the record and you lied to members of this committee. You violated court orders by not turning around deportation flights bound for El Salvador where we know that hundreds of people under your leadership reported they were raped, beaten, and nearly died."

This. Measles is incredibly infectious. If 1 kid in a kindergarten is infected, by the end of the day pretty much every un- or under-vaccinated classmate will be too. Measles can be deadly & some complications can kill years later, but just an ordinary case is miserable. Why let your kid suffer?

Imagine serving as a Marine and then having a distinguished career in the FBI investigating actual terrorist threats and then having to go in front of Congress and say you’re afraid of Antifa. Absolutely humiliating.

Man I fundamentally don't understand these people. You have Noem all set up for embarrassment that could be a real moment to push the conversation about how they're lying, and you let her talk her way out of it.

Frederick Douglas, a women’s suffrage marcher, and Ruby Bridges quarters scrapped, replaced by white dudes in wigs, reports WSJ www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Judge Xinis also alternatively finds that the government is not detaining him to execute a removal order — because if they did want to deport him they could have sent him to Costa Rica any time since August but have refused to do so (and lied about why) because the admin wants to send him to Africa.

🚨Judge Xinis finds that, incredibly, Mr. Abrego Garcia was never ordered deported in 2019. She notes that every since this saga began all the way back in March, the government has NEVER been able to produce any evidence that the immigration judge actually issued a removal order.

So now that’s a founding member and biggest financier outside the Big Five (Netherlands), a member of the Big Five (Spain), a country with the joint-most wins (Ireland), a country pivotal getting other former communist states involved (Slovenia), and a country where most watch the contest (Iceland)

Nothing good can come from a society being forced to stare into the abyss that is the mind of any random billionaire

“If this is what is happening to me, an American citizen, on camera…imagine what’s happening to your loved ones when no one is watching” Mubashir is only 20 years old & genuinely believed he was being kidnapped. He did nothing wrong. If this is what happens on camera, no one is safe.

List of CDC information that appears to have been taken down so far: 1. CDC Atlas 2. CDC Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System 3. HRSA Target 4. Language removed for LGBT work 5. CDC Social Vulnerability Index

USCIS has published forms to apply for a “Golden Card” www.uscis.gov/sites/defaul...

worth noting here that the position of the conservative legal movement is that trying to remedy environmental racism is itself illegal race discrimination ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cultur...

News -- > Rep Jamie Raskin is introducing a proposal today to require ranked choice voting in all congressional races. He's drawing attention to the idea even as corrupt Trump/GOP gerrymandering exposes current system's deep flaws. Raskin discusses this on our pod: newrepublic.com/article/2042...

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said he informed the U.S. President that Germany has implemented new immigration and asylum policies, cutting asylum applications by roughly half, and that he plans to update the President on these results during their next meeting.

As others have remarked, this is exactly the line Andreessen Horowitz and others have been pushing. There's a whole Silicon Valley movement toward military contracts (because that's where the money is). These editorials read like a full-on ad campaign for tech's next big unicorn: war.

🚨 Today, I formally introduced articles of impeachment against Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. RFK Jr. has turned his back on science and the safety of the American people. Michiganders cannot take another day of his chaos.

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I don't think even the wonkiest high seas policy wonks I work with are ready to grasp the absolute global chaos that will be unleashed if major powers start deciding that they no longer need to defer to the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea.

Jason Lee Van Dyke apparently scrubbed a lot of his social media to run for elected office, so here's a thread of him explaining how much he hates democracy and why he identifies as a fascist. 🧵 "Here's my take on this: fuck democracy. For years now I have identified as a fascist..."

Link to support 7500 South Shore Tenants Union www.southsidetogether.org

"Laut Meyer nahm am diesjährigen Adventstreffen auch der AfD-Landtagsabgeordnete Peer Lilienthal teil, dessen Frau Hildburg Meyer-Sande aus der verbotenen Heimattreuen Deutschen Jugend und der IB kommt." taz.de/Nazi-Weihnac...

This is INSANE www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/t... and these are our closest allies!