@morganwatkins.lpm.org all over this story 👇

AP finds federal and state authorities in Louisiana are monitoring the online activities of ICE critics. Chilling. apnews.com/article/immi...

NEW: xAI's Grok chatbot readily generated in-depth stalking instructions, down to lists of spyware apps + install ideas. Grok also drafted plans for surveilling + approaching real people, even sharing links to real locations where it said we could "stake out" a celeb. futurism.com/artificial-i...

People have strong feelings about Duke and Indiana, but they both clearly belong in the playoffs

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Oh man was that Urban Meyer working for Fox? Haven’t seen him since that video

Look what god did to them man

Best moment I’ve seen for Hoosier football since I watched them run for 550 yards against Bill Curry in person

Shank

Louisville ignored an enacted ordinance and was the only city in the country to capitulate to Trump administration demands, all for the stated purpose of avoiding ICE excesses. It doesn’t appear to be working. www.wdrb.com/news/i-was-s... www.wdrb.com/news/i-was-s...

"I was so scared. I thought that I would never live here and never see my dad. Never."

NEW: www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

Volleyball School

Cayuts maybe

"Netflix owning WBD might very well be a terrible outcome. But based on the series of unfortunate events preceding the agreement, it says something about the current moment that it’s not the worst one," @brianlowry.bsky.social writes. www.status.news/p/netflix-wa...

Following Trump pressure, Indiana House approves congressional redistricting map to secure GOP control

Guys you will never guess

Breaking: After contentious debates and three failed attempts at a vote, a federal vaccine committee decided on Friday to end the decades-long recommendation that all newborns be immunized at birth against hepatitis B. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/h...

BREAKING: Pipe bomb suspect confessed to planting bombs, indicated support for Trump, sources say www.ms.now/ana-cabrera-...

George W. Bush's deputy assistant is not a big fan of George W. Bush's special assistant

GOP Rep. Ed Clere of D-72 in southern Indiana is against the push for congressional redistricting, saying: “We should be talking about any number of other things that matter a lot more to Hoosiers. And affordability is certainly front and center.”

After a UPS plane crashed in Louisville killing 14 people and injuring dozens more, AI-generated posts flooded social media with disinformation. @justinhicks.lpm.org of KPR looks at the growing phenomenon:

Watch: "Trump's Restraint In 'Profiting Off The Presidency' Has 'Vanished': Forbes Reporter" And, yes, there had been some restraint in Trump I. me (aka reporter), with Brittany Lewis for @forbes.com

BREAKING: The U.S. Supreme Court allows Texas to use its new congressional map in 2026 elections. Justice Kagan, joined by Justices Sotomayor and Jackson, dissents.

NEW: The Trump Justice Department failed to secure an indictment today against New York Attorney General Letitia James. www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

Rand Paul tells me that he wants the full video of the Venezuelan boat strike released. “And I think if the public sees images of people clinging to boat debris and being blown up, I think that there is a chance that finally, the public will get interested enough in this to stop this.”

Special Judge Cohron has denied a motion by former Letcher County Sheriff Mickey Stines to dismiss his murder indictment over alleged grand jury proceeding errors. Stines shot a judge in his chambers last year.

“It’s a big club and you ain’t in it.”

Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents. They’ve had their necks kneeled on. They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear. At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them.

“Trump wrote or shared more than 150 posts on his Truth Social platform between 9 p.m. and midnight. Many of them were unremarkable… but others were bananas – outlandish conspiratorial tales the president shared with his 11-plus million followers even though they were detached from reality.”

Agents in Key Largo, Florida ripped this woman wearing medical scrubs out of her car as she screamed she is a US citizen. Agents cuffed her and put her in one of their cars. She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:

Steve Cropper, who co-wrote classics including "(Sittin' on) the Dock of the Bay" and "In the Midnight Hour" during his years playing guitar at the legendary Stax Records in Memphis, has died. He was 84. n.pr/48zf0gD

Families of victims who died in the UPS plane crash in Louisville filed the first wrongful death lawsuits on Wednesday. www.lpm.org/news/2025-12...

Incredible optics here, really underscores it all.

This is finally the year in which I wrested control of my playlist away from my daughter. (Sort of… quite a bit of Athens/Liverpool indoctrination happening here.)

What is the center rack in an oven with two racks discuss

My latest 👇 #kyga26

Countering a House GOP leader, Kentucky Senate President Robert Stivers said at a Republican supermajority caucus retreat that he will not push for an income tax cut in the coming #kyga26 session, advising lawmakers to adhere to budget trigger rules.

what’s more virgin than a computer

Booker is now in the crowded #kysen field

Cayuts, please?

Donald Trump appeared to struggle to stay awake for the second time in a month on Tuesday. Trump's eyes were cumulatively closed for ~6 minutes over roughly 75 minutes, per a Post analysis of multiple video feeds. w/ @ddiamond.bsky.social & Natalie Allison www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

A clearer version from the NYT’s Doug Mills

George Will: "Pete Hegseth seems to be a war criminal. Without a war. An interesting achievement. ... The killing of the survivors by this moral slum of an administration should nauseate Americans. A nation incapable of shame is dangerous, not least to itself" www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Elite graphic.

Hey I’m sleepy too

RAJU: If defenseless survivors were killed, would that constitute a violation of the laws of war? MIKE JOHNSON: I'm not going to prejudge any of that. I was pretty busy yesterday. I didn't follow a lot of the news.

Hegseth told soldiers under his command in Iraq to ignore legal advice about when they were permitted to kill enemy combatants under their rules of engagement. The anecdote is contained in a book Hegseth wrote last year in which he sharply disparaged the Geneva and Hague Conventions.

Billionaires rally around David Sacks after NYT exposé protos.com/billionaires...