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Trump suggests Khashoggi had it coming: "You're mentioning someone that was extremely controversial. A lot of people didn't like that gentleman that you're talking about. Whether you like him or didn't like him, things happen. But he knew nothing about it. You don't have to embarrass our guest."
Good god, what have we come to?
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This remains the cruelest picture on the internet.
December 2, 2025 at 6:54 PM
This remains the cruelest picture on the internet.
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Shipwrecked and not using any communications equipment.
This is a crime against humanity. Everyone involved should be prosecuted for murdering stranded civilians in cold blood.
www.cnn.com/2025/12/04/p...
This is a crime against humanity. Everyone involved should be prosecuted for murdering stranded civilians in cold blood.
www.cnn.com/2025/12/04/p...
Exclusive: Survivors clinging to capsized boat didn’t radio for backup, admiral overseeing double-tap strike tells lawmakers | CNN Politics
The two men killed as they floated holding onto their capsized boat in a secondary strike against a suspected drug vessel in early September did not appear to have radio or other communications device...
www.cnn.com
December 5, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Shipwrecked and not using any communications equipment.
This is a crime against humanity. Everyone involved should be prosecuted for murdering stranded civilians in cold blood.
www.cnn.com/2025/12/04/p...
This is a crime against humanity. Everyone involved should be prosecuted for murdering stranded civilians in cold blood.
www.cnn.com/2025/12/04/p...
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Doing war crimes the right way
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announces another boat strike in response to a request/wish from Turning Point USA’s Andrew Kolvet.
December 5, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Doing war crimes the right way
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Smartly written, truly informative NYT article that, rather than engage in stenography, explains the significance of the change. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/climate/trump-fuel-economy-car-rules.html 1/2
Trump Returns to Gasoline as Fuel of Choice for Cars, Gutting Biden’s Climate Policy
www.nytimes.com
December 4, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Smartly written, truly informative NYT article that, rather than engage in stenography, explains the significance of the change. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/climate/trump-fuel-economy-car-rules.html 1/2
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Agree with this thread. Worth reading in full.
25 years ago John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, and AC Barrett all worked on GWBush's 2000 Florida recount team. What they're doing now is, if anything, more nakedly partisan.
Fire-breathing dissent by Kagan, with Sotomayor and Jackson.
25 years ago John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, and AC Barrett all worked on GWBush's 2000 Florida recount team. What they're doing now is, if anything, more nakedly partisan.
Fire-breathing dissent by Kagan, with Sotomayor and Jackson.
They're not even trying to appear nonpartisan anymore.
December 4, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Agree with this thread. Worth reading in full.
25 years ago John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, and AC Barrett all worked on GWBush's 2000 Florida recount team. What they're doing now is, if anything, more nakedly partisan.
Fire-breathing dissent by Kagan, with Sotomayor and Jackson.
25 years ago John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, and AC Barrett all worked on GWBush's 2000 Florida recount team. What they're doing now is, if anything, more nakedly partisan.
Fire-breathing dissent by Kagan, with Sotomayor and Jackson.
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Agree: change is that the "institutionalists" have stopped pretending
-Thomas/Alito: They're the equivalent of "Trump +35" safe House district
-Gorsuch (in Garland seat) equiv of "Trump +22"
-But Kav, ACB, and mainly pious 'just call balls and strikes' Roberts wanted to be seen as open to facts
-Thomas/Alito: They're the equivalent of "Trump +35" safe House district
-Gorsuch (in Garland seat) equiv of "Trump +22"
-But Kav, ACB, and mainly pious 'just call balls and strikes' Roberts wanted to be seen as open to facts
What's changed is that the Court has become more transparent in its corruption. There's not even an argument here beyond the implicit one which is: how do you expect us to hold the House without those seats?
December 5, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Agree: change is that the "institutionalists" have stopped pretending
-Thomas/Alito: They're the equivalent of "Trump +35" safe House district
-Gorsuch (in Garland seat) equiv of "Trump +22"
-But Kav, ACB, and mainly pious 'just call balls and strikes' Roberts wanted to be seen as open to facts
-Thomas/Alito: They're the equivalent of "Trump +35" safe House district
-Gorsuch (in Garland seat) equiv of "Trump +22"
-But Kav, ACB, and mainly pious 'just call balls and strikes' Roberts wanted to be seen as open to facts
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U.S. Department of Defense's Inspector General's report on the Signalgate saga is now online
media.defense.gov/2025/Dec/04/...
media.defense.gov/2025/Dec/04/...
December 4, 2025 at 4:16 PM
U.S. Department of Defense's Inspector General's report on the Signalgate saga is now online
media.defense.gov/2025/Dec/04/...
media.defense.gov/2025/Dec/04/...
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Malone says that ACIP does not set policy. This is not entirely true. ACIP recommendations determine coverage for the Vaccines for Children program, which provides vaccines to un- and underinsured children in the US. States do set their own policies with regard to school mandates.
December 4, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Malone says that ACIP does not set policy. This is not entirely true. ACIP recommendations determine coverage for the Vaccines for Children program, which provides vaccines to un- and underinsured children in the US. States do set their own policies with regard to school mandates.
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We literally give this vaccine to people with end-stage renal disease with no issues.
Also this slide is really bizarre. The birth dose of HBV vaccine is exclusively monovalent.
Also this slide is really bizarre. The birth dose of HBV vaccine is exclusively monovalent.
December 4, 2025 at 5:26 PM
We literally give this vaccine to people with end-stage renal disease with no issues.
Also this slide is really bizarre. The birth dose of HBV vaccine is exclusively monovalent.
Also this slide is really bizarre. The birth dose of HBV vaccine is exclusively monovalent.
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those memory cells. So this is just experimenting on kids without an IRB.
No rationale is offered with regard to blood-brain barrier, liver, and kidney function as relevant clinical considerations for HBV vaccination.
No rationale is offered with regard to blood-brain barrier, liver, and kidney function as relevant clinical considerations for HBV vaccination.
December 4, 2025 at 5:26 PM
those memory cells. So this is just experimenting on kids without an IRB.
No rationale is offered with regard to blood-brain barrier, liver, and kidney function as relevant clinical considerations for HBV vaccination.
No rationale is offered with regard to blood-brain barrier, liver, and kidney function as relevant clinical considerations for HBV vaccination.
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I don't even know what to say about this.
"• Even under the existing universal dose policy not all babies are vaccinated at birth with no detectable increase in incidence of HBV infections"
If only we had a comparison of incidence from before the universal birth dose was implemented.
"• Even under the existing universal dose policy not all babies are vaccinated at birth with no detectable increase in incidence of HBV infections"
If only we had a comparison of incidence from before the universal birth dose was implemented.
![Implementation Considerations
• Even under the existing universal dose policy not all babies are
vaccinated at birth with no detectable increase in incidence of
HBV infections
• Data from the 2016-2021 Centers for Medicare & Medicaid
Services (CMS) Transformed Medicaid Statistical Information
System (T-MSIS)1
Comments:
• T-MSIS Analytic Files are research-optimized collection data submitted as part of state- level Medicaid submission.
• Includes enrollment data, demographics, and service utilization.2
• Hepatitis B antigen tests identified using Current Procedural Terminology [CPT] codes
1 https://www.medicaid.gov/medicaid/data-systems/macbis/transformed-medicaid- statistical-information-system-t-msis/index.html
2https://www.medicaid.gov/medicaid/data-systems/macbis/transformed-medicaid- statistical-information-system-t-msis/t-msis-analytic-files](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:fpwat6yypl7sjbke3orwth7f/bafkreifybnabwnavm6tccnsw6wazkqfd6mt44vaeg2rr3xdnqdpjbkgc5u@jpeg)
December 4, 2025 at 5:26 PM
I don't even know what to say about this.
"• Even under the existing universal dose policy not all babies are vaccinated at birth with no detectable increase in incidence of HBV infections"
If only we had a comparison of incidence from before the universal birth dose was implemented.
"• Even under the existing universal dose policy not all babies are vaccinated at birth with no detectable increase in incidence of HBV infections"
If only we had a comparison of incidence from before the universal birth dose was implemented.
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I have no idea what is meant by "biological windows of vulnerability" here. The most important window of vulnerability here is the fact that 90+% of infants who contract HBV will develop a chronic infection that can cause cirrhosis, liver failure, and liver cancer.
December 4, 2025 at 5:26 PM
I have no idea what is meant by "biological windows of vulnerability" here. The most important window of vulnerability here is the fact that 90+% of infants who contract HBV will develop a chronic infection that can cause cirrhosis, liver failure, and liver cancer.
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This is an insane comment to make, given the secular trends in HBV incidence and the history of the policy.
![Rationale for Preferring an Individual-based
Decision-making Option (1)
• The overwhelming majority of infants born to mothers who test
negative for hepatitis B surface antigen are not at high risk of
being infected with the hepatitis B virus, especially in the first
few months of life.
[highlighted bullet] • The 1991 recommendation was made in error.
• Vaccine safety risks are not well understood and were never
assessed appropriately.
• An individualized, risk-based approach is needed, with
recommendations tailored to risk/benefit profiles and
preferences and involve informed consent](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:fpwat6yypl7sjbke3orwth7f/bafkreiajmrgmmvp245xaisqfc4y5f77bomn7p4fgh6ui2zvrjhihxelyzq@jpeg)
December 4, 2025 at 5:26 PM
This is an insane comment to make, given the secular trends in HBV incidence and the history of the policy.
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This is not true. This is argument that pro-gun people use to discount red flag and waiting period laws. Ease of access and lethality (let alone cheerful instruction in the best method!) is the #1 predictor of attempts leading actual completion. The more barriers, the more people live.
I think it's fine Chat GPT is telling people how to kill themselves. They'll figure it out one way or another if they're serious.
December 4, 2025 at 4:53 PM
This is not true. This is argument that pro-gun people use to discount red flag and waiting period laws. Ease of access and lethality (let alone cheerful instruction in the best method!) is the #1 predictor of attempts leading actual completion. The more barriers, the more people live.
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In case you forgot, this op-ed — in a minor way — is one of building blocks in the faux-victimization story that propelled Bari Weiss to leading CBS News today. www.nytimes.com/2020/07/14/b...
Bari Weiss Resigns From New York Times Opinion Post (Published 2020)
www.nytimes.com
December 4, 2025 at 6:35 PM
In case you forgot, this op-ed — in a minor way — is one of building blocks in the faux-victimization story that propelled Bari Weiss to leading CBS News today. www.nytimes.com/2020/07/14/b...
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If only we had a way of knowing where Tom Cotton stands on lawless abuse of the military.
December 4, 2025 at 6:28 PM
If only we had a way of knowing where Tom Cotton stands on lawless abuse of the military.
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Here's my report on the Chicago application at SCOTUS — filing on October 17: www.lawdork.com/p/trump-admi...
Here's my report on the underlying Texas redistricting decision that Texas is asking SCOTUS to stay (and which is stayed via Alito's admin stay currently): www.lawdork.com/p/court-bloc...
Here's my report on the underlying Texas redistricting decision that Texas is asking SCOTUS to stay (and which is stayed via Alito's admin stay currently): www.lawdork.com/p/court-bloc...
Supreme Court at any time may issue 2 orders on its emergency docket that will greatly affect how Americans live over the next few years: one on legality of national guard troops in American cities and one on whether States like Texas can re-redistrict and get away with it on timing grounds for 2026
December 4, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Here's my report on the Chicago application at SCOTUS — filing on October 17: www.lawdork.com/p/trump-admi...
Here's my report on the underlying Texas redistricting decision that Texas is asking SCOTUS to stay (and which is stayed via Alito's admin stay currently): www.lawdork.com/p/court-bloc...
Here's my report on the underlying Texas redistricting decision that Texas is asking SCOTUS to stay (and which is stayed via Alito's admin stay currently): www.lawdork.com/p/court-bloc...
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Knight First Amendment Institute's Carrie DeCell: "This policy is incoherent and unconstitutional."
December 4, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Knight First Amendment Institute's Carrie DeCell: "This policy is incoherent and unconstitutional."
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Well. This is absurd.
Holy shit.
Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
December 4, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Well. This is absurd.
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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.”
“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.”
December 4, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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.”
“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.”
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"[If Americans see the obvious consequences of my actions,] I think that there is a chance that finally, the public will get interested enough in this to stop this."
December 4, 2025 at 7:18 PM
"[If Americans see the obvious consequences of my actions,] I think that there is a chance that finally, the public will get interested enough in this to stop this."
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Rand Paul could have prevented Pete Hegseth from being confirmed as Defense Secretary. Instead, he voted for him — a manifestly unqualified candidate — to run the Defense Department. Now, we're here.
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.”
“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.”
December 4, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Rand Paul could have prevented Pete Hegseth from being confirmed as Defense Secretary. Instead, he voted for him — a manifestly unqualified candidate — to run the Defense Department. Now, we're here.
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Elizabeth Hedges is the DOJ lawyer who unsuccessfully defended DOJ’s absurd “let’s sue all the Maryland judges” move in court, FWIW. www.latimes.com/world-nation...
Trump administration's lawsuit against all of Maryland's federal judges meets skepticism in court
U.S. District Judge Thomas Cullen didn’t issue a ruling following a hearing in federal court in Baltimore, but he expressed skepticism about the administration’s extraordinary legal maneuver, which at...
www.latimes.com
December 4, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Elizabeth Hedges is the DOJ lawyer who unsuccessfully defended DOJ’s absurd “let’s sue all the Maryland judges” move in court, FWIW. www.latimes.com/world-nation...
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Let’s check in on how things are going for DOJ in Chicago (now that I’m back from Chicago and in DC again) …
[Ellis is the judge in the protesters/press case, and they’re currently discussing dismissing the case.]
[Ellis is the judge in the protesters/press case, and they’re currently discussing dismissing the case.]
Ellis: "I think, with respect Ms. Hedges, that you are not correct on the law. And that the preclusive effect that you would hope to achieve with a dismissal with prejudice is not what you think it is."
December 4, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Let’s check in on how things are going for DOJ in Chicago (now that I’m back from Chicago and in DC again) …
[Ellis is the judge in the protesters/press case, and they’re currently discussing dismissing the case.]
[Ellis is the judge in the protesters/press case, and they’re currently discussing dismissing the case.]
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NBC News: DOJ fails to get a new indictment of Letitia James.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
December 4, 2025 at 10:46 PM
NBC News: DOJ fails to get a new indictment of Letitia James.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...