These egregious false claims at ACIP of vaccines causing multiple sclerosis are infuriating. As Michael Jordan once said, “I took that personal”.

“If you believe Noem, Bondi, Patel, or Hegseth—orTrump himself—are committed at the end of these four years to free and fair elections, and to a peaceful transfer to power to an opposition party that could investigate them…I have some Trump meme coins to sell you.” www.thebulwark.com/p/the-only-d...

Christ on a cracker — these seemingly hostile drones only missed Zelensky’s plane because he was unexpectedly early www.thejournal.ie/drones-dubli...

New today from @gallup.com: "Americans' economic confidence has fallen to its lowest level in over a year, accompanied by a historic drop in planned holiday spending."

A fun look back on the year in music hits different when it’s paired with propaganda for Trump’s deportation machine. Remember: don't use Spotify while the platform runs recruitment ads for ICE. app.sosha.ai/s/h3KC1tmh

There appear to be at least 18 surveillance cameras on Epstein’s Island. Curious if they recorded and where the interior ones were located.

This is the best explanation Whiskey Pete could muster for sending classified information on his personal phone. media.defense.gov/2025/Dec/04/...

whether hegseth gets away with it remains to be seen but it is interesting to see that he thought trump handed him a license to murder with this job, no questions asked, and now questions are definitely being asked.

📌I see my healthcare costs are rising an insane 30% this year. 📌When more people start seeing what Trump and his gutless Republicans are doing to their healthcare costs, it will result in one of the biggest blowouts in midterm history.

The survivors of a subsequent strike being returned to their countries without prosecution indicates they already knew executing the survivors of a previous strike was a crime. It's all a crime, but the double strike on survivors eliminates all doubt. They know it.

What’s worse is…attacking the boats in the first place was extrajudicial and unjustified to the AMERICAN people and CONGRESS. Yes..attacking defenseless people is WORSE, but let’s not forget the horrible things that happen before it. Call it all bad.

Disgusting

I cannot stress enough that the repeated claim that HBV vaccine causes multiple sclerosis is a disgusting lie. All credible studies have shown NO ASSOCIATION, and IIRC, at least one showed a *reduced risk* for MS with HBV vaccine.

Rand Paul: "I think the boat attacks are a prelude to an invasion of Venezuela. I don't like the idea of an offensive war or regime change."

Today is the start of 2 days of meetings of RFK Jr.'s ACIP, where vaccines skeptics outnumber actual scientists and medial experts. Their target: the Hep B vaccine, which has a ~90-98% (after 3 doses) effectiveness rate in preventing infection for up to 30 yrs. www.npr.org/sections/sho...

"Hepatitis B is a virus that affects the liver and is the leading cause of liver cancer worldwide. People living with chronic hepatitis B have a higher risk of developing liver cancer." And the Hep B vaccine has been KEY to virtually eliminating cases of this incurable disease in newborns.

Posting this for no particular reason before today's ACIP meeting. www.hepb.org/assets/Uploa...

So WHY are we at war with Venezuela? Its it really because he wants their oil or other resources -but that doesn’t sound as acceptable as a war on drugs ?

Trump claims we’re bombing boats, killing ppl & attacking Venezuela because he is outraged by drugs. Yet he pardoned Honduras ex president who for 18-yrs enriched himself selling 400 tons of cocaine to U.S - equivalent to 4.5 billion individual doses. www.bbc.com/news/articles/ c9qewln7912o

Meta set to face EU antitrust investigation into AI use in Whatsapp -source reut.rs/4izhb8s

Bring back leaded gas. No catalytic converters. No seat belts

“A cultural challenge”

he's the Cal Ripken Jr. of never reading the news

Whether it’s Signalgate or unauthorized strikes, the root of the problem at DOD is Hegseth’s pattern of incompetence and disregard for the law. It’s a threat to our national security. We cannot look away. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

For this week’s bonus “One First,” I wrote about the legal questions surrounding any attempt to court-martial Senator Mark Kelly—and why (1) it’s not likely to go anywhere; (2) the threat is still ominous; and (3) the real story continues to be what the military is *doing,* not who’s criticizing it:

Publicly admitting to war crimes sure is an interesting strategy

Liver cancer prevention in children. That is what RFK Jr trying to "scale back on" today. He is a monster.

I can’t stress enough that Temu ACIP has very intentionally banned all CDC scientists from this meeting. Instead they have invited a panel of radical anti-vaccination activists to speak. Currently we have Mark Blaxill, who has an MBA from Harvard and leads an anti-vax group.

Turkey building a sub as it ramps up homemade defence industry reut.rs/48OSiSW

NEW: The FBI just arrested a suspect in the January 6 2021 D.C. pipe bomb case. 📌 Two explosive devices were placed outside the DNC and RNC headquarters the night before the January 6 attack.

it's wild how the positive use cases are like "save 5 minutes reading a long doc" and "write a generic email faster" and the negative use cases are "get encouraged to dive deeper in psychosis, misogyny, or suicidal thoughts" and we're still on the fence about overall value

I’m losing it. They know that Gen X is the only demo they have any footing with and so they are going all in on the nostalgia slop for them.

"Speaker Johnson, care to comment on the sun rising in the east this morning?" "Sorry, I've been in meetings all day and don't know anything about that. I'm a busy man and can't comment on everything going on, especially things I haven't read about."

It is a disgrace that ACIP has been hijacked by a flock of radical anti-vaxxers with no knowledge, training or experience in epidemiology, immunology, vaccine development, or any related field. So far an anti-vax climate scientist and an anti-vax Harvard MBA have presented. ACIP is cooked.

Canada, and the whole world, rely on U.S. flu data, which is used to produce effective vaccines As US data begins to go dark, we will see more vaccine mismatches and worse flu outbreaks macleans.ca/society/heal...

Trump and the Republicans’ push to put right wing billionaire allies like Lee Beaman on the Tennessee Valley Authority board and privatize it to enrich themselves and their allies should trouble us all. www.tennessean.com/story/money/...

If the ACIP presenters so far just had 100 slides with six seven on them it would be more reasonable than what is coming out of their PowerPoints at the moment. It’s a gish gallop of cherry-picked misinformation.

The Washington Post reported her grandfather was an actual Nazi soldier.

Even though its industry has collapsed under Maduro, its exports have started rising again, which makes the country a huge player in global energy politics. Some of our officials have floated the idea of opening Venezuela’s oil sector to Western companies if there’s a change in leadership.

No matter your politics, the bottom line is the same. Military force should never be justified with a story that falls apart the moment you check the facts. www.reuters.com/business/ene...

Add Trump’s long history of saying the U.S. should “take the oil” in other countries, and the drug story looks more like a convenient mask. Many now believe the real aim is to weaken or remove Maduro and reshape control of a massive oil reserve.

The White House has used a level of force that looks nothing like a normal counter-drug mission. So what’s actually going on? Here’s a big hint. Venezuela has the largest proven oil reserves in the entire world.

The Trump Administration says its recent military strikes near Venezuela are about stopping drug traffickers, but what’s really driving this? Reporting shows Venezuela isn’t a major source of drugs entering our country. 🧵

Whereas it’s a good development that a suspect has been arrested, given the lack of legitimacy of people like Bondi & Patel, if any of the evidence in this case would reflect poorly on Donald Trump, is there any way in hell they would share it with the public? We'll see at today's press conference.

Order of the day, courtesy of Judge Amy Berman Jackson in DC. Earlier: www.npr.org/2024/04/26/1...

A 6-year-old boy is missing after ICE arrested him and his dad in NYC last week and shipped them off to separate facilities. www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/02/i... @thecity.nyc @gwynnefitz.bsky.social

Ok I don’t give a shit if this not that airport sucks, Donald trump is not going to make it better. He could install a blowjob machine and it would find a way to kill you

"We are at a tipping point. It is time to right this ship.” www.bio.org/press-releas...