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Katie Porter here.
Trump has no problem creating chaos and pain for Americans until he gets his way.
Democrats need to use our power
– just like we did last week on Election Day
– to send a clear message:
𝗪𝗲 𝘄𝗼𝗻’𝘁 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗵𝗶𝗴𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗰𝗼𝘀𝘁𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗵 𝗰𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗽𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗶𝘂𝗺𝘀 𝘄𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗲 𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗶𝗿𝗲𝘀 𝗴𝗲𝘁 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗻 𝙧𝙞𝙘𝙝𝙚𝙧. 
I’ve spent my career protecting people and taking on Wall Street’s corporate greed. 
I know what it takes to fight, and to win
– and as California…

Katie Porter for Governor | Official Campaign Website
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Cristina Mittermeier’s show A Greater Wisdom celebrates the beauty of Earth in stunning photographs
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2025/nov/04/cristina-mittermeier-earth-most-spectacular-inhabit…

Basare der nordischen Seemannskirchen
14.-16. und 21.-23.11. in Hamburg
Aus Dänemark 🇩🇰, Finnland 🇫🇮, Norwegen 🇳🇴 und Schweden 🇸🇪
Handarbeiten, typisches, Glögg, leckeres
https://seemannsmission.org/basare-der-nordischen-seemannskirchen/

Basare der nordischen Seemannskirchen | Deutsche Seemannsmission
Die Basare der nordischen Seemannskirchen sind sehr beliebt. Die 4 Kirchen aus Dänemark, Norwegen, Finnland und Schweden sind im Portugiesenviertel in Hamburg

#ClevelandRocks
#OTD in 1973 For $6 At The Door with Mott The Hoople & #Aerosmith at the 2,000 capacity John Carroll Jesuit college gym . If I'm not mistaken, school alum and future

This Saturday, millions of people are going to say no, and insist that every American has a right to dissent.
It’s going to be big
— there will be enormous rallies in major cities, and smaller but still meaningful ones in towns around the country.
There will be families, and dogs, and people in silly costumes.
They’re going to march, and stand together, and listen to speeches, and hold up signs
Trump and his allies will spin their absurd conspiracy theories,…

Ahead of No Kings Protest, Trump and GOP Try to Delegitimize All Dissent
There is no such thing as genuine progressive public opinion, and therefore mass and mobilized opposition to Trump doesn't count.

Kaffee ☕️?
Haben Seeleute gebracht!
Wie fast alles! Über 80% des Welthandels wird per Schiff transportiert.
Wir sind für Seeleute da.

Man, this song. Twisted Teens 4 lyfe
#GarageRock #garage

We don’t have to live like this.
It’s a choice.
Every day we do nothing to restrict guns.
Every day we claim it’s mental illness and not access.
Every day we let them change the subject.
We don’t have to live like this.
https://bsky.app/profile/momsdemand.bs

Moms Demand Action (@momsdemand.bsky.social)
It has been 13 years since the lives of 20 children and six educators were taken in minutes by a gunman armed with a Bushmaster AR-15 rifle and high-capacity magazines at Sandy Hook School in Newtown, Connecticut. Two other people were wounded. 🧵

This is abominable.
By law, immigration detention is not supposed to be about meting out punishment or retribution.
It’s supposed to be about facilitating people’s removal.
Yet as the ruling details, the administration,
by refusing to send Ábrego García to Costa Rica despite having that option,
did “not appear to have held him to fulfill that purpose.”
That’s polite legalese for a bombshell:
Trump officials held Ábrego García in detention for mont…

Fiasco for Trump as Judge Issues Harsh Rebuke in Ábrego García Case
Judge Paula Xinis’s ruling temporarily freed Kilmar Ábrego García from custody. It also savagely indicted Trump’s lawless handling of this whole affair from start to finish.

After watching live videos of Twisted Teens I love them even more
#GarageRock #garage

From direct attacks on the press by a fascistic federal government
to the explosion of AI and the closure and consolidation of news outlets around the country,
truth itself is under direct, relentless assault,
as are the journalists who have committed their lives to reporting the truth about what’s happening in and to our world.
The intended result of these attacks is to create a more atomized, alienated, ignorant, disempowered public
that is easier to divide…

The state of the free press in the US is… not good
“In the United States of America, here in the Year of Our Lord 2025, the state of the free press is not good… But you need to understand: They are going after us to disempower YOU.”

For #LetterboxdFriday, my #LastFourWatched - @… and I picked 4 last week. We got to 3 of em (and I saw Badlands too). Badlands was fuckin awesome. And The Mothman Prophecies was co…

Welcome to the Resistance:
Eric Blanc, Leah Greenberg, and Waleed Shahid
on the liberal resistance’s sharp left turn since Trump returned to the White House.
Liberals are voting for Zohran at the ballot box,
fighting ICE in the streets,
and just generally looking favorably upon social democracy.
This discussion puts the moment in historic context and plots out the strategic exigencies and opportunities ahead.

Welcome to the Resistance w/ Eric Blanc, Leah Greenberg, Waleed Shahid
Podcast Episode · The Dig · 12/12/2025 · 2h 5m

These are mostly indigenous communities in Alaska that have been slammed by the storm.
The local manager of a small airline fleet says he is the only one doing evacuations right now!
Defund FEMA and people are abandoned. Defund public media and no-one knows.
FYI, today is Indigenous Peoples Day.
https://

News Eye (@newseye.bsky.social)
These are mostly indigenous communities in Alaska that have been slammed by the storm. The local manager of a small airline fleet says he is the only one doing evacuations right now! Defund FEMA and people are abandoned. Defund public media and no-one knows. FYI, today is Indigenous Peoples Day.

♫ Top 5 artists of the Last.week: Ahkatari (14) twisted teens (12) Dillon & Paten Locke (9) place on earth (5) Slik Jak & Vincent Pryce (5). #myweekcounted 54 Scrobbles with Lastfm #music via @…

Congress could, at any time, stop this shitshow by telling Vought to end the RIFs and impoundments.
It has very clear institutional reasons to do so.
But obeying to Trump rules all,
and instead the Speaker of the House will pretend he does not know what is happening
while opining on Bad Bunny."
-- Don Moynihan

Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)
REPORTER: We know the president moved forward with mass layoffs. We're also learning there were significant cuts to staff at special education services. Are you comfortable with those cuts? MIKE JOHNSON: I haven't seen the specifics of that and I don't know

#NowPlaying a banging new single, "Watching You Go" by Indianapolis' always excellent Radar Gold
https://radargold.bandcamp.com/track/watching-you-go

Democracy Now! speaks to William Hartung about his new book
“The Trillion Dollar War Machine”
and who profits from the United States’ runaway military spending that fuels foreign wars.
Hartung says that U.S. policy is “based on profit”
and calls for a rethinking of our foreign entanglements.
“We haven’t won a war in this century.
We’ve caused immense harm.
We’ve spent $8 trillion,” he says

“The Trillion Dollar War Machine”: William Hartung on How U.S. Military Spending Fuels Wars
Democracy Now! speaks to William Hartung about his new book “The Trillion Dollar War Machine” and who profits from the United States’ runaway military spending that fuels foreign wars. Hartung says that U.S. policy is “based on profit” and calls for a rethinking of our foreign entanglements. “We haven’t won a war in this century. We’ve caused immense harm. We’ve spent $8 trillion,” he says.

Over the past two months the U.S. has blown up at least 20 boats in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific.
“80 people have been killed in what are extrajudicial executions under international law,” says Juan Pappier, Americas deputy director at Human Rights Watch.
The Pentagon claims the boats were carrying drugs but officials have acknowledged they don’t know who has been killed.
The U.S.now has 15,000 military personnel in the region.

“Gunboat Diplomacy”: U.S. War in Latin America Feared as Hegseth Launches “Operation Southern Spear”
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has announced the launch of Operation Southern Spear to target suspected drug traffickers in South America, Central America and the Caribbean. The U.S. now has 15,000 military personnel in the region. Over the past two months the U.S. has blown up at least 20 boats in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific. “80 people have been killed in what are extrajudicial executions under international law,” says Juan Pappier, Americas deputy director at Human Rights Watch. Th…

A novel imaging solution, called
"prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA) positron emission tomography (PET) scanning",
can more effectively detect the recurrence of prostate cancer
compared to standard imaging methods,
and is associated with improved survival outcomes.

New imaging technique boosts survival in prostate cancer patients
A multicenter study led by London Health Sciences Centre Research Institute (LHSCRI), Lawson Research Institute of St. Joseph's Health Care London (Lawson), and University Health Network (UHN) has found a novel imaging solution, called prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA) positron emission tomography (PET) scanning, can more effectively detect the recurrence of prostate cancer compared to standard imaging methods, and is associated with improved survival outcomes.

Russian generals say all goals of the war will be achieved.
Russian economists say despite the pressure the economy will outlast Ukraine’s.
Even Russian fan-boy Donald Trump says that Russia is much stronger and Kyiv has no cards left to play in the war.

Hearing only reassurance,
it is little wonder that President Vladimir Putin sees no reason for real concessions on Ukraine.
From the vantage point of the Kremlin, the war is going according to plan.

With an army of yes-men, how Putin’s world turned into an echo chamber
The Russian president has little incentive to compromise in the ongoing peace talks because everyone around him keeps reassuring him that Russia is winning.

"Round- tripping" money has become the coin of the realm in the AI boom.
In September, AI chip king Nvidia announced it would invest
$100 billion in OpenAI, the start-up behind the wildly popular ChatGPT.
OpenAI promptly unveiled massive investments in SoftBank and Oracle, which are building gargantuan data centers that run on, you guessed it, Nvidia chips.
In other words, Nvidia helped to finance the purchase of its own products by investing, directly an…

‘Circularity’ is a flashing warning for the AI boom
Wall Street’s buzzword for investors was known as “round-tripping” during the dot-com years.

Zac Segal, Boston U runner and Young Republican alerted ICE to a car wash in Allston MA which had immigrants working - he said they were taking US jobs.
ICE raided the car wash.
All detained had legal status according to their lawyer.
Segal was born and schooled in London.
https://w…

Student Republican Who Called ICE on Car Wash Faces Backlash
An attorney for those detained said, "Is he taking a college seat away from an American since he's from London?"

Trump’s threat to invoke the Insurrection Act isn’t new,
but it’s getting louder and from all directions!
We had years of warnings.
He told us what he’d do.
Project 2025 laid it out,
but too many shrugged.
How much is “enough” for everyone to start getting loud with one voice before it’s too late?
https:/…

Christopher Webb (@cwebbonline.com)
Trump’s threat to invoke the Insurrection Act isn’t new, but it’s getting louder and from all directions! We had years of warnings. He told us what he’d do. Project 2025 laid it out, but too many shrugged. How much is “enough” for everyone to start getting loud with one voice before it’s too late?

FBI Director Kash Patel granted waivers to Deputy Director
Dan Bongino and two other newly hired senior FBI staff members,
exempting them from passing polygraph exams normally required to gain access to America’s most sensitive classified information.
People familiar with the matter say his ascent to his position without passing a standard FBI background check was unprecedented.
Bongino was selected for the role at the FBI although he, like Patel, had no prior exper…

FBI Director Kash Patel Waived Polygraph Security Screening for Dan Bongino, Two Other Senior Staff
As the FBI’s deputy director, Bongino receives some of the country’s most sensitive secrets, including the President’s Daily Brief. His ascent to that position without passing a standard bureau background check is unprecedented, insiders say.

Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson predicts the federal government shutdown may become the longest in histor
Marjorie Taylor Greene, tearing into her own party, says GOP men in Congress are ‘weak’
Officials have reversed more than half of the about 1,300 layoff notices sent to staff members at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,
sparing personnel who were leading the response to measles outbreaks in the United States and an Ebola outbreak abroad.
But …

Marjorie Taylor Greene, tearing into her own party, says GOP men in Congress are ‘weak’
“There’s a lot of weak Republican men and they’re more afraid of strong Republican women,” Greene said.

Trump repeatedly promised that his mass deportation efforts would target “the worst of the worst” criminals,
yet the government’s own data reveals that immigrants with no criminal record are the largest group in US immigration detention today.
How can the Trump administration justify its deployment of federal agents, and even the military, to US cities based on the factually disprovable fictions?

‘Spectacle of disorder’: How ICE creates the chaos ICE, cops, and the military are called in to ‘fix’
"Trump has been able to make this spectacle where you have disorder on one side and him on the other, and he can constantly encroach upon the civil rights of Americans by convincing us that this disorder is so systemic that only he can fix it."

One of Charlie Kirk’s main legacies was a “watchlist” of professors who Kirk and his organization, Turning Point USA, considered too liberal;
People on the list often were targeted for smears and death threats.
TPUSA also bussed people to the January 6 insurrection, and Kirk was a major proponent of “Stop the Steal” conspiracy theories.
Among many other horrific statements, Kirk said that stoning LGBT people to death is part of “God’s perfect law,”
and that gun dea…

Charlie Kirk’s Legacy Deserves No Mourning
The white Christian nationalist provocateur wasn’t a promoter of civil discourse. He preached hate, bigotry, and division

Lauren Boebert is vulnerable -- she's is in Congress because of just 𝟱𝟰𝟲 𝘃𝗼𝘁𝗲𝘀
And now she's spreading a sinister conspiracy that 𝗠𝗶𝗻𝗼𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝗛𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗲𝗺 𝗝𝗲𝗳𝗳𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗶𝘀 “𝗥𝗲𝗽𝘁𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗮𝗻”
-- Democrats 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 be killed as a result! Here's why:
Her theory is based on the ideas of Holocaust denier David Icke,
who claims that Jews and powerful people across the globe are disguised reptilians working to 𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘩𝘶𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘺.
👉 When your enemies are inhuman it is …

Trisha 4 Colorado
Hometown candidate to beat Lauren Boebert

Ever since the Supreme Court shattered campaign finance law with its decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission in 2010,
Americans have been told there are only two ways to stop corporate and “dark” money in politics:
Amend the U.S. Constitution
or wait for the court to undo what it has done.
👉That is flat wrong.
Citizens United held that government may not regulate a corporation’s right to spend money independently in elections.
But the …

“security” is not a magic word that suspends the Constitution.
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/locking-down-the-pentagon-press-is-dangerous

Locking Down the Pentagon Press Is Dangerous
Pete Hegseth’s proposed restrictions would harm the people whom both the military and the press are meant to serve.

Columbia faculty received notification from the university that we can submit claim forms asking for part of the $20 million Columbia is paying out to Jewish or Israeli members of the community who have been victims of antisemitism.
Quite a few of my Jewish colleagues are trying to figure out if they qualify
-- because of what happened to them when they expressed opposition to the genocide in Gaza
- Peter Woit (Not Even Wrong)

The Situation at Columbia XXXV
A quick update on what has been going on here at Columbia in recent months: The campus has been rather quiet this semester, about to get much more so as the semester ends and we go into winter brea…

Against all odds, Democrats seemed to have gained the upper hand in the conflict over the government shutdown,
in part by sticking relentlessly to their demand that enhanced subsidies for buying health insurance on the Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare) exchanges be extended.
In response, Republicans are insisting — with increasing volume almost tipping into anger — that they very much care about Americans’ access to healthcare,
all evidence to the contrary

Republicans are completely full of it on healthcare
And it becomes more obvious every time they talk about it.

Congress Works For You.
Here’s How to Be a Better Boss:
https://www.propublica.org/series/a-users-guide-to-democracy

A User’s Guide to Democracy
From understanding political ads to seeing what your representatives are actually doing (or not doing), these short guides will help you become a more informed, more engaged, more confident voter.

🏆On the first night of Hanukkah, we celebrate Election Day
Democrats swept in key contests from Virginia to Georgia to New Jersey.
The success proved that voters like YOU turned out to fight for democracy and oppose Trump's authoritarian regime.
https://www.

Democrats Sweep Statewide Races in Virginia, Projected to Gain Delegate Seats, As Voters Reject Trumpism
Read more here.

People born here do not have immigration documents.
If you're an American born POC with only a Real ID to show for yourself, be prepared to be manhandled and detained by the secret police
https://bsky.app/profile/radleybalko.bsky.social/post/3m7uszhghs22j

Radley Balko (@radleybalko.bsky.social)
Bovino, the man overseeing mass deportations, publicly declared that we must all have our papers on us, at all times, or we could be stopped, harassed, kidnapped, and detained, as they did with the man in this case, who is a US citizen.

Mia Tretta was a high school freshman when a classmate opened fire at her.
Now a Brown University student,
she has gone through her second school shooting incident
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/12/14/shooting-survivor-brown-unive…

She was shot at 15 in a school shooting. Brown was another close call.
Mia Tretta was a freshman when a classmate opened fire at her California high school. Now the Brown University student worries how she’ll recover a second time.

The extraordinary courage of Germany’s wartime ‘traitors’
With Nazi informers everywhere, any dissident risked betrayal
– and the prospect of being hanged ‘like slaughtered cattle’ for ‘defeatism’
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-ex

The extraordinary courage of Germany’s wartime ‘traitors’
I once interviewed the late Enoch Powell for this magazine (the article never appeared, for reasons I forget). One thing he said on that occasion stuck with me. He remarked that loyalty to one’s country should be unconditional. I asked him what he thought people should do if their country were taken over by a

Hundreds of infectious disease specialists have been let go by the Trump administration.
Here are four who focused on keeping pandemics at bay.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/health/trump-…

They Fought Outbreaks Worldwide. Now They’re Fighting for New Lives.
Hundreds of infectious disease specialists have been let go by the Trump administration. Here are four who focused on keeping pandemics at bay.

Of the 202 Nobel laureates in physics, chemistry and physiology or medicine this century,
fewer than 70 percent hail from the country in which they were awarded their prize
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03247-6

More than 30% of this century’s science Nobel prizewinners immigrated: see their journeys
The most common destination for eventual Nobel laureates in physics, chemistry and medicine since 2000 is the United States, Nature has found.

Where's FEMA?
Where's the National Weather Service?
Trump and elected Republicans do not give one 💩 about conservative voters in Alaska, apparently. Mike Johnson and his GOP House reps are still on EXTENDED vacation (NOT working, obviously).
https://bsky.app/profile/newseye.bsky.

News Eye (@newseye.bsky.social)
NEW: There’s a disaster unfolding in Alaska right now. And no major network is covering it. The remnants of Typhoon Halong battered western Alaska overnight. Homes, with people in them, have literally been swept into the Bering Strait. At least 20 are missing. No comment from any federal agency.

Billionaire tech advisers overcame a MAGA rebellion over AI in the Trump Whitehouse
A power struggle over the future of technology is playing out inside the administration,
as officials confront high-stakes decisions that touch everything
from national security and jobs
to online safety for children.

How Trump’s tech advisers overcame a MAGA rebellion over AI
President Donald Trump’s executive order limiting states’ power to regulate AI split his supporters and highlighted Silicon Valley’s growing influence over his agenda.

Pete Buttigieg and Robert Reich have highlighted our plan to
✅ defeat Citizens United:
“Interesting things are happening across the country…
Montana is trying to address this through attention to what a corporation can and can’t do,
because that’s actually decided at the state level.
So instead of working it at the ‘speech’ side of the equation,
💥they’re working at the
‘what is a corporation’ side of the equation.” --Secretary

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“The spread of dangerous infections that do not respond to antibiotics has been increasing by
as much as 15 percent a year”,
says the WHO.
“The less people have access to quality care,
the more they’re likely to suffer from drug-resistant infection.”
https://kottke.org/25/10/0047706-th…

💥We are pleased to share our new paper about ancient RNA expression profiles from the Woolly Mammoth, now published in Cell @cellpress.bsky.social
If you want to know more, read the thread below:
https://bsky.app/profile/marmole6.bsky.social/post/3m5m2u5u7gk2m

Emilio Mármol Sánchez (@marmole6.bsky.social)
During past years, research focused on ancient #DNA has gained a lot of interest, with dozens of papers being routinely published each year📃 But what about ancient #RNA? The common preconception is that these molecules, as opposed to DNA, do not last long after cell death. https://media.tenor.com/gMBUgkYXPxIAAAAC/ponke-ponkesol.gif?hh=498&ww=498

A federal appellate court ruled that
the Trump administration must remove California National Guard troops from Los Angeles by Monday.
The decision upheld a lower court order that halted the mobilization that had roiled the nation’s second-largest city for six months.
The ruling late Friday by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit substantially upheld a district court decision from earlier this week
that found the federal government had illegally prolonged t…

Appeals Court Says Trump Must End Los Angeles Deployment by Monday
While the decision did not remove the National Guard troops from the president’s control, it blocked him from using them in the nation’s second-largest city.

The thing you need to understand about the Right is that
they are absolutely fine just plain burning down higher education
if taking it over ideologically doesn’t work.
They’re perfectly happy reducing it to ashes.
-- Ken White ("Popehat")
https://bsky.app/profile…

Kristi Noem has hailed a more than $200 million, taxpayer-funded ad campaign as a crucial tool to stem illegal immigration.
Her agency invoked the “national emergency” at the border as it awarded contracts for the campaign,
bypassing the normal competitive bidding process designed to prevent waste and corruption.
The Department of Homeland Security has kept at least one beneficiary of the nine-figure ad deal a secret,
records and interviews show:
a Republican c…

Firm Tied to Kristi Noem Secretly Got Money From $220 Million DHS Ad Contracts
The company is run by the husband of Noem’s chief DHS spokesperson and has personal and business ties to Noem and her aides. DHS invoked the “emergency” at the border to skirt competitive bidding rules for the taxpayer-funded campaign.

What would you do if the federal government wanted you in jail and Jamie Dimon was paying your legal bills?
Here’s what Charlie Javice did:
She spent money on luxury hotel upgrades, extravagant meals and cellulite butter, a personal care product that some people use to treat their skin, as a lawyer for the bank said in a hearing on Friday.
Then, she sent the receipts to the bank.
All told, Ms. Javice has spent more than $60 million — and counting — on her defense, acco…

JPMorgan Had to Pay for Charlie Javice’s Legal Fees — and Her Restaurant Bills
When prosecutors accused Charlie Javice of fraud, JPMorgan was forced to pay for her defense. The bank is not happy about her “shocking” spending.

New York Times wrote a 2,400 word story about Todd Blanche without mentioning that he personally ordered the arrest of Newark Mayor @rasjbaraka.bsky.social,
and as such is deeply implicated in @replamonica.bsky.social case
https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/09/29/s…

"She Wants to Grab Him:" The Premeditated Detention of Ras Baraka - emptywheel
Even before anyone had spoken with Ras Baraka on May 9 at Delaney Hall, someone had decided "she" wanted to "grab" Newark's Mayor.

The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS),
India’s largest Hindu far-right organization,
initiated a well-funded lobbying effort in the U.S. earlier this year
Squire Patton Boggs,
one of the top lobbying firms in the U.S.,
registered as a lobbyist on Jan. 16 for the RSS, according to lobbying disclosures

Exclusive: India’s largest far-right Hindu organization hires U.S. lobbyists for congressional influence campaign
Squire Patton Boggs lobbied U.S. lawmakers on behalf of the RSS, a Hindu nationalist group linked to discrimination and violence against Muslims

Starvation is now being used as a weapon of war in numerous conflicts across the globe
— including Sudan, which continues to endure a yearslong famine.
Dr. Tanya Haj-Hassan, a pediatric doctor who just returned from Sudan, says that the famine is man-made
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/10/6/fam

Man-Made Famine & Malnutrition in Sudan, Exacerbated by U.S. Aid Cuts
Starvation is now being used as a weapon of war in numerous conflicts across the globe — including Sudan, which continues to endure a yearslong famine. Dr. Tanya Haj-Hassan, a pediatric doctor who just returned from Sudan, says that the famine is man-made. “Atrocities in Palestine, atrocities in Sudan that relate to malnutrition, that relate to famine, are a consequence of underlying structures that enable these things to happen,” says Haj-Hassan, who also volunteered in Gaza.

The American Library Association (ALA) has touted a "massive win"
after previously revoked federal funding for libraries and museums was reinstated nationwide.
The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS)
announced on Wednesday it had
"reinstated all federal grants,"
8 months after an executive order from Donald Trump kick-started a firestorm
at the agency that supports the nation’s libraries.
Most of IMLS' staff, and i…

Library Grants Reinstated Nationwide After ‘Massive’ Legal Victory
Grants being restored after a Trump and DOGE firestorm are being hailed as "a massive win for libraries."

Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi today reaffirmed the validity of the video showing ICE agents violently detaining individuals in Hoffman Estates,
confirmed that the incident occurred in his district,
and condemned the Trump Administration’s campaign of secrecy, brutality, and misinformation.
https://

Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi (@congressmanraja.bsky.social)
Despite what some, including at DHS, are claiming, this video isn’t from a year ago in Chicago. It was Friday in Hoffman Estates, in my district, a street I’ve walked myself. It appears to show a child being violently detained by ICE. It’s real, and I’m demanding accountability.

PeerTube is a decentralized alternative to YouTube
that doesn't believe in harvesting user data and pushing people into echo chambers via a proprietary algorithm.
Built on open standards and federation,
it lets communities host and share video without depending on a central server.
https://news.itsfoss.com/peertube-7…

Decentralized YouTube Alternative Adds Live Streame Scheduling Option in Latest Release
Also adds multilingual emails, improved admin tools, and session management.

A Special Deal:
In a moment of peril, Florida lawmakers allowed Citizens, its home insurer of last resort, to take disputes before judges whose salaries it funds.
Winning Record: Citizens has taken more than 1,500 insurance disputes to mandatory arbitration, where it wins more than 90% of final hearings.
In court it wins just over half the time.
Systemic Issues: Citizens says the process is fast, cheap and fair.
Homeowners say the forum violates their rights.

A Florida Home Insurer Was Allowed to Bypass the Courts During Claim Disputes. It Won More Than 90% of the Time.
State legislators and executives at Citizens Property Insurance touted mandatory arbitration as advantageous for both consumers and insurers. In practice, homeowners were left with few avenues for recourse when their claims were denied.

If a weapon is fired at a wedding, the authorities can seize it and levy a $100 fine.
If the gun is not handed over, a relative of the groom — his father or an uncle, perhaps — can be detained until the firearm is turned in.
“We don’t take the groom,” Mr. Dandar said, offering up a concession.

In Syria, a Crackdown on Gunfire at Weddings
Marriages and other glad occasions in Syria are often celebrated by firing shots in the air. But after nearly 14 years of war, people want the guns to go silent.

Following public outcry,
the U.S. Department of Education has restored funding for students who have both hearing and vision loss,
about a month after cutting it.
But rather than sending the money directly to the four programs that are part of a national network helping students who are deaf and blind, a condition known as deafblindness,
the department has instead rerouted the grants to a different organization
The Trump administration targeted the programs in …

Students With Hearing and Vision Loss Get Funding Back Despite Trump’s Anti-DEI Campaign
Following public outcry, the Department of Education has reversed its decision to cut funding for students who have both hearing and vision loss, opting instead to reroute grants to an organization that will provide funding to these students.

The Trump administration said Thursday it is rescinding federal rules that were aimed at protecting from future oil and gas leasing vast swaths of a petroleum reserve in Alaska that provide key habitat for migrating birds, caribou and other wildlife.
The U.S. Interior Department said the final rule would be published next week but announced it is repealing rules put in place last year.
Those rules restricted future leasing and industrial development in areas within the National …

Trump administration repealing rules to protect parts of Alaska petroleum reserve
The Trump administration says it is rescinding federal rules that were aimed at protecting vast swaths of a petroleum reserve in Alaska that provide key habitat for migrating birds, caribou and other wildlife. The U.S. Interior Department on Thursday said the final rule would be published next week. But it announced it is repealing rules put in place last year. The rules restricted future leasing and industrial development in areas within the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska that were designat…

An army veteran and Purple Heart recipient who served two tours in Iraq was deported on Friday morning from an immigration detention facility in Florence, Arizona.
Arizona state representative Raquel Teršn told Fox 10 Phoenix that Jose Barco, a Venezuelan-born veteran whose family fled Cuba as refugees, was deported at 4am from Arizona.
Anna Stout, a volunteer on Barco’s defense team, told Denver 7 his team was not notified of plans for his deportation.
Barco’s family has s…

While Trump and Kushner both have envisioned wealthy resort concepts,
most of the international community wishes to see Gaza rebuilt as a livable home for its 2.1 million Palestinian residents.
Meanwhile, Israel continues to control half of the Gaza Strip,
and has said it will forbid reconstruction on the half overseen by Hamas until the group disarms.
Two former Doge officials were dispatched to the region as planning for postwar Gaza ramped up this fall.
One…

Some 22 million Americans are set to lose health insurance subsidies by the end of the year.

These subsidies, known as enhanced premium tax credits, lower costs for people who buy their health insurance through Affordable Care Act (ACA) marketplaces ("Obamacare").
They are at the heart of
the government shutdown that has shuttered the federal government since October 1.
About 80 percent of the people who benefit from them live in states that Donald Trump …

Who will lose out when ACA health insurance subsidies expire?
Here’s a look at who could be affected by the end of the Affordable Care Act credits and how much prices could change.

The conservative majority on the Supreme Court has repeatedly signaled that it plans to adopt the
“unitary executive theory,”
which says the original understanding of the Constitution demands letting the president remove executive branch officials as he sees fit.
But a new article, from a leading originalist law professor, has complicated and perhaps upended the conventional wisdom.
The legal academy treated the development like breaking news.
“Bombshell!” Willi…

Originalist ‘Bombshell’ Complicates Case on Trump’s Power to Fire Officials
As the Supreme Court seems poised to expand the president’s power, a leading scholar whose work the justices have often cited issued a provocative dissent.

Trump’s efforts to disband programs that promote democracy abroad
and to downplay allegations of corruption and human rights abuses in other countries
took on an added dimension this week
when he appeared before Israel’s parliament and called for pardoning Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

The request to dismiss corruption charges was the latest in a long line of actions reversing America’s long-standing posture as an exporter of democratic values.

Trump’s pardon proposals go global despite allies’ corruption charges
Trump has upended American presidents’ tradition of promoting the rule of law and democracy overseas.

From the White House Office of Grift
https://bsky.app/profile/cwebbonline.com/post/3m33qycnsgc2c

Christopher Webb (@cwebbonline.com)
All because on Friday Trump threatened 100% tariffs on China, then over the weekend he switched it up with, “Don’t worry about China, it’ll all be fine.” Not market manipulation, though. Right?

"We're saving God" epitomizes the Trump family blasphemy
https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3m35zzitsrc2q

Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)
Eric Trump: "We're saving Christianity. We've saving God. We've saving the family unit. We're saving this nation. I mean, DEI is out of the window, Benny. You no longer have Colin Kaepernick kneeling for the national anthem. You no longer have Budweiser going woke as hell. All of this is dead."

Pentagon staff have been warned that if they don’t watch or read Hegseth's speech,
or if they speak negatively of it,
they could face severe consequences.
https://zeteo.com/p/pentagon-hegseth-speech-military-consequences

The Pentagon Is Ordering Staff to Watch Hegseth’s ‘MAGA Garbage’ Speech… Or Else
Defense Department sources tell Zeteo that staff have been warned that if they don’t watch or read the speech, or if they speak negatively of it, they could face severe consequences.

China Wants Foreign Scientists.
The Public Says No, Thanks.
Since Beijing announced a new visa to attract young science and technology graduates,
a backlash has erupted online, forcing the government to respond
https://www.

China Wants Foreign Scientists. The Public Says No, Thanks.
Since Beijing announced a new visa to attract young science and technology graduates, a backlash has erupted online, forcing the government to respond.

Obama:
"When you see an administration suggest that ordinary street crime is an insurrection or a terrorist act,
that is a genuine effort to weaken how we have understood democracy."
https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3m3436lfc7c2a

Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)
Obama: "When you see an administration suggest that ordinary street crime is an insurrection or a terrorist act, that is a genuine effort to weaken how we have understood democracy."

Donald Trump has reversed Joe Biden’s legal offensive against #crypto,
debuting his own token, $Trump, before his inauguration,
and rolling back government actions against the industry, which heavily supported him during his bid for the presidency.
Celebrities have likewise returned to hawking cryptocurrency projects or launching tokens of their own.
Celebrities in the crypto realm …

Here's our Diary of Anne Frank
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/10/10/neighbor-shielded-7-year-old-during-south-shore-federal-raid-i-didnt-want-them-to-take-her

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’
During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before that night.

Barack Obama urged California voters to support Proposition 50,
a November ballot measure that could reshape the state’s congressional map and deliver up to five new Democratic seats in the US House.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/o

Jeremy Corbyn says the UK government is endangering pro-Palestine hunger strikers
Former UK Labour leader Cornyn has issued a statement in solidarity with Amu Gib, who is accused of participating in the Palestine Action break-in of RAF Brize Norton airbase this summer.
The action,
carried out in protest of Israel’s genocide in Gaza and the UK government’s participation in it,
led to the proscription of the group under “anti-terrorism” laws.
Dozens of protesters h…

Palestine Action activists on trial in UK over Israeli arms maker protest
The judge urged the jury to do away with personal feelings about the war on Gaza or the legality of the proscription.

A very happy birthday to AOC
...we all appreciate you so much...
https://bsky.app/profile/nortygirl.bsky.social/post/3m33iamvipk2n

👣COCA👣 🇺🇦 🐸 (@nortygirl.bsky.social)
A very happy birthday to AOC ....we all appreciate you so much....

We are going to save America.
It’ll get worse before it gets better,
but MAGA fascism is a house of cards.
https://bsky.app/profile/vanhollen.senate.gov/post/3m7vlyhw6kk2j

Senator Chris Van Hollen (@vanhollen.senate.gov)
Today, I spoke with Kilmar Abrego Garcia and his wife, Jennifer. In April, when I met with him in El Salvador, Trump said he would never set foot in the U.S. again. This case has never been about one man alone; if the govt can violate the constitutional rights of one, all our rights are threatened.

Here's Fox's picks for the newest young Democratic "radicals" 💪🏽
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/squad-2-0-meet-americas-next-wave-radical-democrats-shaping-partys-future

Squad 2.0: Meet America's next wave of radical Democrats shaping the party's future
Progressive Democrats, including Zohran Mamdani and Omar Fateh, have emerged as the new generation of candidates responding to President Donald Trump's second term.

When they tell you they plan on throwing out the constitution,
believe them.
https://bsky.app/profile/thetnholler.bsky.social/post/3m324s2k3dc2d

The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social)
When they tell you they plan on throwing out the constitution, believe them.

LA Times Investigation:
Ex-Trump DOJ lawyers say ‘fraudulent’ UC antisemitism probes led them to quit
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-12-13/former-doj-attorneys-university-of-california-ucl…

Ex-Trump DOJ lawyers say 'fraudulent' UC antisemitism probes led them to quit
The Times spoke to nine former Department of Justice civil rights attorneys tasked with investigating antisemitism complaints at the University of California. They all resigned during their investigation. Here's why.

The Liberty Justice Center
is the litigation arm of the
right-wing Illinois Policy Institute.
It has aggressively backed legal attacks on labor unions
(including the landmark Janus v. AFSCME Supreme Court case),
attacked gun safety measures,
and promoted policies that undermine public schools, such as taxpayer-funded vouchers.

The Liberty Justice Center received $1 million in 2021 from the Marcus Foundation,
a charitable giving nonprofit run b…

Liberty Justice Center | Supreme Transparency
The Liberty Justice Center is the litigation arm of the right-wing Illinois Policy Institute. It has aggressively backed legal attacks on labor unions (including the landmark Janus v. AFSCME Supreme Court case), attacked gun safety measures, and promoted policies that undermine public schools, such as taxpayer-funded vouchers.

When neither major party delivers for the working class, people turn to alternatives
-- and more power to them
https://bsky.app/profile/anthonyderibas.bsky.social/post/3m3uljdsll22w

Anthony DeRibas for FL-16 (@anthonyderibas.bsky.social)
This is what real representation looks like — Florida CD-14, CD-15 & CD-16 standing together. Class of ’27 | 120th Congress ✊💚 #ClassOf27 #120thCongress #VotesNotBoats #DeRibasForCongress #WorkingClassVoices

Now we have official government accounts posting
"womp womp, cry all you want,"
and calling US citizens
"imbecilic morons."
https://bsky.app/profile/tylermcbrien.com/post/3m5mlmwxosk2x

Tyler McBrien (@tylermcbrien.com)
A couple years back, I wrote about how the novelty of interacting with government agencies on social media gave way to an era of skepticism on both sides. Now we have official government accounts posting "womp womp, cry all you want," and calling US citizens "imbecilic morons."

Now we have official government accounts posting
"womp womp, cry all you want,"
and calling US citizens
"imbecilic morons."
https://bsky.app/profile/tylermcbrien.com/post/3m5mlmwxosk2x

Tyler McBrien (@tylermcbrien.com)
A couple years back, I wrote about how the novelty of interacting with government agencies on social media gave way to an era of skepticism on both sides. Now we have official government accounts posting "womp womp, cry all you want," and calling US citizens "imbecilic morons."

Testing confirmed the patient has H5N5, a strain of bird flu that has previously been reported in animals but never before in humans
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/suspected-human-bird-flu-case-1st-us-9/story?id=127519769

1st US human bird flu case in 9 months confirmed with strain only seen in animals before
The patient is an older adult with underlying health conditions.

Markus Frohnmaier was among some ‌20 state, federal and EU lawmakers from the far-right Alternative for Germany party to attend the annual black-tie gala hosted by the New York Young Republican ‌Club.
Buoyed by the new U.S. security strategy that praises Europe's far-right parties,
the senior German lawmaker called for an alliance between U.S. and German nationalist parties

German far-right lawmaker calls for US-German nationalist alliance at MAGA gala
By Hussein Waaile and Sarah Marsh NEW YORK/BERLIN, Dec 14 (Reuters) - A senior German far-right lawmaker called for an alliance between U.S. and German...

A young woolly mammoth now known as Yuka
was frozen in the Siberian permafrost for about 40,000 years
before it was discovered by local tusk hunters in 2010.
The hunters soon handed it over to scientists,
who were excited to see its exquisite level of preservation,
with skin, muscle tissue, and even reddish hair intact.
Later research showed that,
while full cloning was impossible,
Yuka’s DNA was in such good condition that some cell nuclei co…

World’s oldest RNA extracted from Ice Age woolly mammoth
Sequencing an ancient creature’s RNA opens up a new window into extinct life.

Money is power, and the founders of this country feared that a president would turn into a monarch if he alone could dictate how the government uses the federal Treasury.
President Trump, however, has tried to take Congress’s constitutional power and make it his own.
He has repeatedly ignored laws passed by the House and the Senate to spend money, or not spend it,
based on his whims and agenda.
He has violated the law at least six times,
according to the Governm…

Opinion | Trump’s Spending Abuses Are Out of Control. He Shouldn’t Have That Power in the First Place.
Trump’s actions should alarm anybody who shares the American founders’ suspicion of centralized power.

A new US law enforcement initiative is aimed at crypto fraudsters targeting Americans
—and now seeks to seize infrastructure it claims is crucial to notorious scam compounds
DOJ Issued Seizure Warrant to Starlink Over Satellite Internet Systems Used at Scam Compound
…

DOJ Issued Seizure Warrant to Starlink Over Satellite Internet Systems Used at Scam Compound
A new US law enforcement initiative is aimed at crypto fraudsters targeting Americans—and now seeks to seize infrastructure it claims is crucial to notorious scam compounds.

When the executive branch puts their fingers on the scales of justice
and says, ‘I’m going to punish you for your viewpoint,’
everybody in the bar should start heckling.
https://abovethelaw.com/2025/11/man-wh

Man Who Heckled Paul Weiss Chair Turns Out To Be A Lawyer With A Warning For The Profession’s Future
The unexpected critic says his outburst was a warning shot about the future of law.

Democratic lawmakers repeatedly called on Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to resign
as they confronted her on Trump’s immigration crackdown during a heated House Homeland Security Committee hearing Thursday.
Congressmember Delia Ramirez, announced that she would begin taking steps for her impeachment.
The Department of Homeland Securityis “operating as a criminal organization” under Noem’s leadership, Ramirez tells Democracy Now!
“She thinks that she is above…

“A Force of Terror”: Rep. Delia Ramirez on ICE Abuses & Her Push to Impeach DHS Chief Kristi Noem
Democratic lawmakers repeatedly called on Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to resign as they confronted her on Trump’s immigration crackdown during a heated House Homeland Security Committee hearing Thursday. We speak with Congressmember Delia Ramirez, who reiterated her call during the hearing for Noem to resign and announced that she would begin taking steps for her impeachment. The Department of Homeland Security is “operating as a criminal organization” under Noem’s leadershi…

Media across the ideological spectrum said they will not sign the Defense Department’s restrictive new press policy by Tuesday’s afternoon deadline.
The Washington Post, the New York Times and CNN said they wouldn’t sign, as did Newsmax and the Washington Times.

Matt Murray, The Post’s executive editor, said the policy runs counter to the Constitution’s guarantee of freedom of the press.

News outlets broadly reject Pentagon rules before signing deadline
The Washington Post and other major news outlets have refused to sign the Defense Department’s restrictive new media policy, citing First Amendment concerns.

Trump said Tuesday that the United States could step in to disarm Hamas
— “quickly and perhaps violently”
— if the organization did not do so itself,
a potential vulnerability in a U.S.-brokered ceasefire agreement
that has tentatively brought an end to two years of war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza.

Hamas, which has controlled Gaza for nearly two decades,
has not yet publicly agreed to or signed anything that specifies how it will disarm,
though …

Trump says U.S. will disarm Hamas if it does not do so itself
Hamas has not yet publicly agreed to or signed anything that specifies how it would disarm, but Trump suggested he had received verbal assurances.

Xu Bo, a Chinese billionaire, was seeking parental rights to at least four unborn children,
and the court’s additional research showed that he had already fathered or was in the process of fathering at least eight more
—all through surrogates.
When called in for a confidential hearing in the summer of 2023,
he never entered the courtroom, according to people who attended the hearing.
The maker of fantasy videogames lived in China and appeared via video, speaking …

China fertility facts of the day - Marginal REVOLUTION
A Chinese billionaire was seeking parental rights to at least four unborn children, and the court’s additional research showed that he had already fathered or was in the process of fathering at least eight more—all through surrogates. When Pellman called Xu Bo in for a confidential hearing in the summer of 2023, he never entered […]

It would be pretty funny if a D-tilted environment
coupled with trying to dilute D votes by gerrymandering them into heavily red districts
resulted in a much bigger blowout than if they hadn’t gerrymandered
https://bsky.app/profile/adamgurri.liberalcurre…

Adam Gurri (@adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com)
It would be pretty funny if a D-tilted environment coupled with trying to dilute D votes by gerrymandering them into heavily red districts resulted in a much bigger blowout than if they hadn’t gerrymandered

A political candidate in the New York City suburbs went for a night swim in the Atlantic Ocean this past spring -- and never returned.
Petros Krommidas’s phone, keys and clothes were found on the sands at Long Beach on Long Island.
The 29-year-old former Ivy League rower, who was training for a triathlon, had parked his car just off the picturesque wooden boardwalk.
As the months passed, local Democrats attempted to field a replacement to run for the seat in the Nassau Coun…

Norovirus, also known as the
“winter vomiting disease,”
is a highly contagious virus that causes vomiting and diarrhea from acute gastroenteritis, according to the CDC.
Gastroenteritis occurs when the stomach and intestines are inflamed
—and the health authority reports that norovirus is the leading cause of vomiting and diarrhea illnesses caused by acute gastroenteritis among people of all ages across the country.
🔥Cases of

Last July, Wilmer Chavarria, a naturalized U.S. citizen who lives in Vermont,
was returning from Nicaragua, where he had visited his mother and other relatives,
when he was detained by Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents at the George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston
for no apparent reason.
👉Chavarria was held for more than four hours and released only after he finally agreed to let the agents search his smartphone, tablet, and laptop computer.
T…

CBP agents held a U.S. citizen for hours until he let them search his devices
A federal lawsuit argues that perusing travelers' personal data without a warrant or probable cause violates the Fourth Amendment.

Two weeks into the government shutdown
with no resolution in sight,
higher ed associations and researchers say
the inability of scientists to contact federal agency workers
or get new grants approved
is causing harm
https://www.

Researchers, Colleges Face Federal Shutdown Impacts
Two weeks into the government shutdown with no resolution in sight, higher ed associations and researchers say the inability of scientists to contact federal agency workers or get new grants approved is causing harm.

SpaceX-built spy satellites are helping the NRO greatly expand its satellite surveillance capabilities,
but the purpose of these signals is unknown.
https://www.npr.org/2025/10/17/nx-s1-5575254/spacex-starshield-starlink-signal
The sign…

Media
-- including Fox News
-- overwhelmingly rejected Hegseth's Pentagon press policy

The network, which is generally supportive of the Trump administration,
has joined ABC, CBS, NBC and CNN in not signing the new Defense Department press policy.
https://w…

Media including Fox News overwhelmingly reject Pentagon press policy
Fox News, along with ABC, CBS, NBC and CNN, said that the Pentagon policy violates their “core journalistic protections.”

Racist language
allegedly used by leaders of
Young Republican groups in leaked chats
drew widespread condemnation from both sides of the political aisle Tuesday
and prompted the national youth organization to demand the resignations of those involved.
https://www.axios.co…

Young Republicans demand leaders involved in "vile" racist chat resign
"Such behavior is disgraceful, unbecoming of any Republican," the Young Republicans said.