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“If the person is a U.S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter.” Justice Brett Kavanaugh

Major press failure: treating Jared Kushner taking foreign bribes and shaping US foreign policy as less relevant than Hunter Biden not taking bribes nor influencing policy. Covering Kushner accurately was considered partisan, biased. Lies about Hunter or his minor actions treated as more important.

Okay, I deleted the original post because people didn't check the link at all and mistook my typo of "young men" seriously. I clearly meant young women. Not sure why this isn't a bigger story, but I read this entire report today. It's gutting. democrats-judiciary.house.gov/media-center...

A 2025 Nobel Prize winner in chemistry, Omar Yaghi is the son of Palestinian refugees who grew up in Jordan. He just left the US to move to China after raising concerns about rising anti-immigrant sentiment, like the kind shown here. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/china-than...

i am inviting anyone from a legacy media organization to explain to me why the house judiciary dems report on trump’s epstein’s ties and multiple allegations of rape isn’t worthy of extensively reporting on. i’m serious. i want to understand.

complete silence.

#AI has delivered 'zero financial payoff' outside the tech industry www.businessinsider.com/apollo-ai-ze...

NEWS: The board overseeing the NIH research hospital says RFK Jr.'s new vaccine clinic is politicizing and undermining trust in its research. Studies must "be designed to find the truth, not to confirm a conclusion reached in advance." www.nytimes.com/2026/10/16/u...

“Departures from these practices should never be countenanced because they risk allowing prosecutors to impact national elections.” -Todd Blanche on DOJ’s 60-day rule, September 2024

🚨 ARIZONA: Over 107,000 ACA enrollees have been priced out of coverage entirely. For the remaining ~256,000, unsubsidized enrollees are facing a stunning ~28% average premium hike in 2027 after Republicans let the enhanced subsidies to expire. That is not a typo. acasignups.net/rate_changes...

The United States continues to help Putin murder civilians in Ukraine

Democrats don’t just need to win, they need to win by margins that make Republican ratfucking ineffective and pundits‘ efforts to downplay a mandate laughable. Pour it on. Do not let up.

What is treason? www.nytimes.com/2026/10/16/u...

We've probably learned more about American politics from the ANES than any other single data source. The same is true for the GSS and sociology. Both of these are gone if Congress acquiesces to these NSF cuts.

Wow, a tuberculosis test makes the TIME Best Inventions list! time.com/collection/b...

(Reuters) - The order to limit a satellite system used by Ukraine for battlefield communications and drone operations came from inside the White House, according to two US officials and a Western official briefed on the matter. @reuters.com 🇺🇦 www.reuters.com/world/europe...

Good point. @nytimes.com @abc7.bsky.social @nbcnews.com @cnn.com @msnowcomms.bsky.social @npr.org @pbsnews.org Is something about this not newsworthy?

I'm really glad to see folks outside of my nerdy corner of the world highlighting the way Trump may be using Venezuela to create a self-funding Pentagon. Trump's effort flies in the face of the key reason Congress has the power of the purse -- to keep the executive from self-funding the military.

Folks, Putin’s United Russia Party directly and publicly funded several EU far right parties including Germany’s AfD, France’s RN, and Austria’s FPÖ to the tune of millions for years. All of this is done in the open, and the fact it is news shows a failure of leaders to explain basic facts of now.

Holy shit FOUR members of the ethics committee in Denmark that gave the green light to allow the widely-condemned RFK Jr-funded trial to proceed in Guinea-Bissau have now resigned in protest This quote is 🔥 Great reporting by @melodyschreiber.com www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

I’ve seen a few folks comment that “Guinea-Bissau is a low income country and cannot afford the hep B vaccine birth dose, so why is this study unethical?” It’s a good question. Let me have a go at answering it. In a nutshell, researchers cannot ethically exploit poverty & scarcity to do a trial

Let me say more on this. The researcher has stated that she *knows* the hep B vax birth dose is proven to save lives. Her argument is that, since Guinea-Bissau is too low income to buy the birth dose, her trial at least helps to save lives among HALF the babies in her trial. That’s very problematic…

The CDC just re-opened a previously shelved study that would withhold the hepatitis B vaccine from children in Guinea-Bissau, despite decades of evidence showing it is safe and effective. This is a violation of human rights, using “science” to harm some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

Ossoff says that Mike Collins has "hired half the Third Reich to staff your congressional office"

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $8 trillion. The entire bottom 50% of American households is worth just $4.27 trillion. Read that back. When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.

TODAY is the last day to register to vote in several states. I urge you to double check your state's deadline, verify that you are registered, and make changes to your registration if needed. Then contact three friends or family members and have them do the same. https://whenweallvote.org/

‘We swept a lot under the carpet’: Vichy regime film hits home in France of 2026

Relevant, I promise

Justice delayed…justice denied.

Jack Smith: "Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in serious crimes against our nation ... rather than accept his defeat in the 2020 election, he engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results and prevent the lawful transfer of power"

Elon screams "deep six that Gibney documentary on me," and his tech bro co-conspirators are delighted to comply.

Ren Farley, a force of nature, dedicated his life to addressing racial inequality and residential segregation. He left a mark on demography, on the city of Detroit, and on all the people in his orbit. myumi.ch/G7974

The ! human ! brain ! is ! two ! separate ! organs ! what !!! amazing 🧪🧠 #FundScience www.the-independent.com/news/science...

Michiganders voted overwhelmingly to make sure stories like this can't happen here. But if John James and DeBoyer win in November, they'll try to ban abortion and make Michigan another state where politicians make your personal medical decisions. michiganadvance.com/2026/09/18/t...

As an American political historian, I can confirm that this Congress has been "almost unmatched in history" in several categories -- sad abdication of its war powers, craven surrender of the power of the purse, weird refusal to conduct meaningful oversight, and an utter failure to pass actual laws.

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $8 trillion. The entire bottom 50% of American households is worth just $4.27 trillion. Read that back. Remember: Wealth can’t be separated from power. Power begets wealth and wealth begets power.

Me: screams into the void. The void: screams back at me. We are fucked.

i am genuinely bewildered by people who say that the rise of white nationalism in the republican party is a response to the "woke left." like, did the woke left cause pat buchanan's 1992 presidential campaign? is the woke left why steve king had a long career in congress?

I think we should have a head of HHS who understands medical science, research ethics and health policy. Also, someone who isn’t the ring leader fora cadre of scammers, grifters and bullshitters. What do you think?

Tell me again that climate change is a hoax.

Next up in RCGD's series offering global perspectives on health: Don't miss Margaret Moss, a trailblazing figure in nursing, health policy, and Indigenous health advocacy, presenting "Mitákuye Oyasin, the Medicine Wheel and Seven Generations."

🧵 "Policies enacted by RFK Jr have not delivered the expected results, but have instead hindered people’s ability to eat healthy." In fact, “The policies that we’re enacting are the exact opposite [of those] one might look to to help people eat healthier,” said www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

US refusals of crucial newborn vitamin spike, raising risk of dangerous bleeding: Misleading parents into refusing vitamin K is directly working for babies bleeding from the brain. scnow.com/life-enterta...

One of the underrated parts of this election cycle is finding out what huge pieces of shit formerly safe elected officials are because they're finally vulnerable enough to get raked over the coals