Rep. Grijalva says she was pepper-sprayed by ICE

NEW info on shipwreck attack. It gets worse. The 2 survivors climbed atop wreckage and waved to overhead. "Some of the people viewing the video thought ... could have been an attempt to surrender" Others "said the most logical explanation was ... signaling for a rescue." 1/

I have one piece of advice for American men: be the guy at the party who makes everyone a perfect grilled cheese at 3 in the morning and you’ll never sleep alone. Also what is going on with this embassy thirst trap

Frank Gehry, 1929–2025 www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/a...

This is why Trump's National Security Strategy is a fantasy.

lol the ACIP committee let Aaron Siri speak for some 90 minutes and cut off CDC experts and scientists off after two minutes (sometime yelling at them to shut them up). Incredible stuff.

Wow. Tracy Beth Høeg, the FDA's new acting director of the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) just put this slide up during her presentation to ACIP. We have left reality.

The European “patriotic” parties the Trump administration seeks to encourage are exactly those far-right parties which the Kremlin has so amply funded and supported for the last decade open.substack.com/pub/pdjukes/...

The country's biggest anti-vaccine lawyer, the guy behind weakened school mandates in Mississippi and West Virginia, who pulls in millions a year harassing the CDC on behalf of Del Bigtree's anti-vaxx org is ... presenting at ACIP. This panel is anti-vaccine theater. It's a cruel joke.

For those unfamiliar--she is a MD/PhD but her expertise is in sports medicine. Prior to the pandemic she had 7 pubs on eye issues in athletes. She has zero expertise in infectious disease or vaccination, but coauthored a bunch of papers with Prasad on COVID and rose to prominence as a contrarian.

an alternative headline @joolia.bsky.social suggested was I ram what I ram

Are you one of the 38% of U.S. households with a gas or propane stove? If so, spend the $50 needed to get an induction stove! New study: "if you use a gas stove, you’re often breathing as much nitrogen dioxide pollution indoors from your stove as you are from all outdoor sources combined.”

It's not complicated: a lawless POTUS is abusing war powers in peacetime, exploiting the most powerful military ever built to hunt human beings, capture and imprison them, mistreat and abuse them, rip them from families, ship them anywhere, and kill them at sea and on land, abroad and at home.

For God's sake, why are we arguing about whether two men in a tiny boat blown up by the most massive and powerful military the world has ever known still had *access to a radio.* Why? There is not a single weed to get lost in here and some are desperately shoving their face in artificial turf.

Thank you, Federalist Society, for giving us a bench of jurists who believe that the emanations of 1789 have a greater claim to law than the laws passed by Congress and signed by the president.

this will 100% happen, and if we’ve got any duty as critics and journalists, it’s to shine a light on these spaces that make freedom a reality

Step One in managing people’s expectations is to treat every demand as unreasonable, unfair, and impossible

Exactly. It's disingenuous to call it a purity test to say "You shouldn't be beholden to right-wing billionaires pushing right-wing policies and right-wing candidates." newrepublic.com/article/2039...

Bonkers stuff in the NSS. It is like a far-right caricature of itself. The Trump admin believes it needs to save Europe from itself by backing far-right forces within Europe. As State Dept reprograms funding, get ready for the US to be the funders of far-right civil society in Europe.

Chicagoans will pay $76 per person this year for police misconduct settlements.

I'll be live posting from the #ACIP meeting today. #Follow me for all the play-by-play. They will vote today on whether to recommend restricting the birth dose of hepatitis B vaccines, which have reduced infections by 99%. Most likely, they will vote to limit this vaccine.

Evelyn Griffin at #ACIP suggest that babies born to moms who have tested negative for hep B should be vaccinated at 2 months, when they get other infant vaccines. Note: Experts told me babies need to be vaccinated w/in 24 hours of birth. By 2 months, it will be too late to protect them.

Ahead of today’s World Cup draw, articles in Italy’s La Repubblica & Spain’s El País on how there may be immigration raids at games & people who posted a social media message that Trump administration didn’t like could face deportation. www.repubblica.it/esteri/2025/... elpais.com/us/migracion...

Dorit Reiss, a prof of law & member of the Vaccine Working Group on Ethics and Policy: "The committee meeting showed bias, lack of scientific understanding, non-transparency & incompetence.” We are living in aggressively regressive times & folks will die needlessly. www.forbes.com/sites/judyst...

Nigel Farage used an LBC appearance to accuse the Bank of England of being “dinosaurs” for putting restrictions on the use of Stablecoins by crypto firms like Tether. He did not declare that Reform had just received £9 million from one of its biggest investors bylinetimes.com/2025/12/04/c...

And with this giant citrus fruit impressing a few horse riders near Nuremberg, this thread comes to an end. G🍊🍋DBYE

And if you read German, enjoy the title: "Nürnbergische Hesperides, Oder Gründliche Beschreibung Der Edlen Citronat, Citronen, und Pomerantzen-Früchte, Wie solche, in selbiger und benachbarten Gegend, recht mögen eingesetzt, gewartet, erhalten und fortgebracht werden ..."

You may not like it, but this is what peak citrus performance looks like

The US National Security Strategy is an unhinged screed of bone-headed post-truth MAGA lies and bullshit propaganda. It's a groundless, paranoid rant with no basis in empirical reality or objective truth whatsoever. Once again Trump's America proudly and publicly soils itself on the global stage.

We now go live to Starmers "situation room". Advisor: "Sir, the US has just put in writing that they want the EU to disappear and seem to want Russia to win." Starmer: "Yes but we hold All The Cards" Advisor: "Cards sir? What Cards? We lost them because of brexit"

"Cultivating resistance to Europe's current trajectory within European nations" hmm that sounds like an interesting strategy, one we might currently be watching in Ireland around the Occupied Territories Bill

According to French media reports the 🇫🇷 navy last night shot down five drones flying over the Ile Longue, in Brittany, home to France’s SNLE nuclear-armed submarines, the naval component of France’s nuclear deterrent

This year, for the first time, we recorded nightingales. We were walking on Hoo with @iantokelove.bsky.social and got a tip off from a dog walker we stopped to chat to. We extended our day to go on to the location she recommended. And got this. ❤️

Same with Gen X. Drives me insane watching all the we were latchkey kids, we woz ignored, we drank from puddles, never cross Gen Xer horseshit. We live in a continuum, not a series of steps.

Lumping everyone together into one generation of homogenous thought and behaviour is so facile. Imagine saying: "the creative and artistic millennial cohort". No-one would buy it for a minute, but boomers. Oh yes, we are an awful generation.

'Tuberculosis is an infection caused by bacteria. It mainly affects the lungs, but it can affect any part of the body, including lymph glands, bones and the brain, causing meningitis. It is spread when a person with TB in their lungs or throat coughs or sneezes.' ukhsa.blog.gov.uk/2025/12/04/l...

Israel seizes ancient columns from Palestinian town in West Bank

The article says that it's a career appointment and that it got started after Sam Corcos reached out. Assuming this was in June and a nonpartisan position, that's a 5-month hiring timeline which is pretty fast for civil service roles. Curious what type of position this is

I'm really tired of the preening egotism of DOGE. They act like they're the only people to have considered digital services while demolishing teams and sidelining people who have been doing the work www.wired.com/story/big-in...

🚨🚨 God #America, this is grim and a very stark wake-up call to European political ledaders on the (non) future of the "transatlantic alliance":

"Israeli police spotted him as he lay on the ground with a serious head injury and prevented an ambulance from reaching him." "He bled out." "When they were sure he was dead, they allowed paramedics to take his body." #WestBank #Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Labour #Incarceration #Policing #Healthcare

What banks don't know about private credit can hurt them.

The MAGA movement’s slogan should be: We hate immigrants, women and people of color.

JD Vance Munich Speech has become the Vance Doctrine. Actionable policy which includes and prescribes direct interference into EU democratic processes by supporting far right and Eurosceptic parties. If this is not the final wake up call Europe, I don't know what is.

Yes he’s a total spiv and that explains the chippiness that lurks within.

'Jumped-up' is the phrase my own, fairly grand, grandmother would have used and rightly so.

Overheard a very posh lady refer to Farage as "that ghastly little man" last weekend and instantly felt better about the world.

Whatever this is, it seems leigt far too precious to be allowed to perish in 24 hours. Tiny mice! Stickers! A treasure for the ages.