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fresh @leftanchor.bsky.social bonus episode, we have @philipchristman.bsky.social on to talk about his book Why Christians Should Be Leftists www.patreon.com/posts/139047...
coming soon: "the constitution is unconstitutional"
*SUPREME COURT TO REVIEW TRUMP’S BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP ROLLBACK
December 5, 2025 at 6:52 PM
coming soon: "the constitution is unconstitutional"
that's right
Virginia's Democratic Senate leader Louise Lucas answers SCOTUS' biased Texas gerrymander with her own promise: '10-1.' Virginia is currently 6-6.
www.rawstory.com/texas-suprem...
www.rawstory.com/texas-suprem...
Top Virginia lawmaker delivers cryptic retaliation threat as TX GOP maps get green light
A top Virginia lawmaker uncorked an eyebrow-raising response after the conservative-leaning Supreme Court issued an unsigned order Thursday night allowing Texas to use a Trump-backed redrawn congressi...
www.rawstory.com
December 5, 2025 at 6:31 PM
that's right
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For the first time in a decade, no hurricanes made landfall in the US this year. However, we won’t always be this lucky, and when the next disaster hits, a FEMA gutted by Trump will not be equipped to respond. From Kenny Stancil:
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Trump’s Katrina Is Coming - The American Prospect
The president’s FEMA sabotage has all but guaranteed us more acute disasters in the future.
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December 5, 2025 at 6:00 PM
For the first time in a decade, no hurricanes made landfall in the US this year. However, we won’t always be this lucky, and when the next disaster hits, a FEMA gutted by Trump will not be equipped to respond. From Kenny Stancil:
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The whole legacy media apparatus is just goes, "That doesn't make sense to me... but... you are very rich..."
December 5, 2025 at 4:41 PM
The whole legacy media apparatus is just goes, "That doesn't make sense to me... but... you are very rich..."
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we gotta start drug testing at dealbook
December 5, 2025 at 4:40 PM
we gotta start drug testing at dealbook
actually watched this after seeing it scroll past several times and oh. oh dear.
December 5, 2025 at 4:34 PM
actually watched this after seeing it scroll past several times and oh. oh dear.
adding the child murderer crew here to The List
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...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/h...
An End to Hepatitis B Shots for All Newborns
www.nytimes.com
December 5, 2025 at 4:08 PM
adding the child murderer crew here to The List
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remembering one of the all-time greatest twitter posts
December 5, 2025 at 2:40 PM
remembering one of the all-time greatest twitter posts
cripes
Quite breathtaking story - military grade drones at Dublin airport which flew on the path Zelensky's plane took. The drones reached the flight path of his plane exactly the time it should have been there, but just missed it because Zelensky arrived ahead of schedule:
Four unidentified military-style drones breached no-fly zone to target Zelenskyy's arrival in Dublin
Gardaí are investigating whether the drones took off from land in Dublin or from an undetected ship.
www.thejournal.ie
December 5, 2025 at 12:44 PM
cripes
don’t subscribe to NLR so can’t read but it strikes me as a problem for the theory here that corporate profits as a share of GDP have been on an upward trend since the mid 90s www.unpopularfront.news/p/politics-a...
Politics and Capitalist Stagnation
Live from New York
www.unpopularfront.news
December 5, 2025 at 11:32 AM
don’t subscribe to NLR so can’t read but it strikes me as a problem for the theory here that corporate profits as a share of GDP have been on an upward trend since the mid 90s www.unpopularfront.news/p/politics-a...
good news, but hope these folks have the stones to ban it entirely
Twitter becomes the first site to take a hit from the EU Digital Services Act
*ELON MUSK'S X HIT WITH €120M EU FINE FOR CONTENT LAW BREACHES
*EU COMMISSION SAYS X MADE 3 VIOLATIONS OF DIGITAL SERVICES ACT
*EU GIVES X 60 DAYS TO PROVIDE SOLUTIONS, 90 DAYS TO IMPLEMENT
*ELON MUSK'S X HIT WITH €120M EU FINE FOR CONTENT LAW BREACHES
*EU COMMISSION SAYS X MADE 3 VIOLATIONS OF DIGITAL SERVICES ACT
*EU GIVES X 60 DAYS TO PROVIDE SOLUTIONS, 90 DAYS TO IMPLEMENT
December 5, 2025 at 11:22 AM
good news, but hope these folks have the stones to ban it entirely
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helps to think about the details like any regular crime you'd see on one of the 800 cop shows that run on TV constantly: these guys committed one set of murders, thought it over, and then decided to kill the witnesses as part of the coverup. mention of drugs is just jingling keys at this point
December 5, 2025 at 3:14 AM
helps to think about the details like any regular crime you'd see on one of the 800 cop shows that run on TV constantly: these guys committed one set of murders, thought it over, and then decided to kill the witnesses as part of the coverup. mention of drugs is just jingling keys at this point
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I am not convinced that the Supreme Court will come not come up with a nakedly partisan reason to reject these maps but (1) Dems should do them anyway and (2) defy federal court orders to the contrary
Democrats can retaliate against these GOP gerrymanders with new maps in Illinois, Maryland, Oregon, & Virginia.
They could flip 7 GOP seats to make up for this & new GOP maps in Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio, & possibly soon Indiana.
Imposing costs is the only way to deter the GOP from doing this
They could flip 7 GOP seats to make up for this & new GOP maps in Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio, & possibly soon Indiana.
Imposing costs is the only way to deter the GOP from doing this
December 5, 2025 at 12:49 AM
I am not convinced that the Supreme Court will come not come up with a nakedly partisan reason to reject these maps but (1) Dems should do them anyway and (2) defy federal court orders to the contrary
about to attend an event with @starrprospect.bsky.social and @jamellebouie.net at the @prospect.org headquarters, should be fun
December 4, 2025 at 9:13 PM
about to attend an event with @starrprospect.bsky.social and @jamellebouie.net at the @prospect.org headquarters, should be fun
$79 trillion, is that a lot? it sounds like a lot prospect.org/2025/12/03/7...
The $79 Trillion Heist - The American Prospect
We’re in an affordability crisis because workers aren’t being paid at the same levels they earned in the past.
prospect.org
December 4, 2025 at 7:03 PM
$79 trillion, is that a lot? it sounds like a lot prospect.org/2025/12/03/7...
"In 2024, this funding helped to save 3.65 million lives. But now the money has stopped flowing." prospect.org/2025/12/04/l...
Losing India’s Guardian Angels - The American Prospect
USAID funding supported efforts to eradicate tuberculosis in India, one of the country’s deadliest diseases. Now, that money and support is gone.
prospect.org
December 4, 2025 at 7:00 PM
"In 2024, this funding helped to save 3.65 million lives. But now the money has stopped flowing." prospect.org/2025/12/04/l...
"Not only do New Orleanians already pay premium water and sewer rates, but the infrastructure that delivers drinking water, carries out sewage, and pumps out floodwater is more than a century old" prospect.org/2025/12/04/c...
The Cost of Climate - The American Prospect
Extreme weather and changes in seasonal patterns are fundamentally altering the landscape, in cities and in farming communities. You’re going to pay for it.
prospect.org
December 4, 2025 at 6:58 PM
"Not only do New Orleanians already pay premium water and sewer rates, but the infrastructure that delivers drinking water, carries out sewage, and pumps out floodwater is more than a century old" prospect.org/2025/12/04/c...
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About 300,000 Black women have left the workforce in the first half of 2025 as the Black unemployment rate topped 7%, limiting their access to healthcare, groceries, and maternal care. From Naomi Bethune:
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To Be Black, Female, and Unemployed - The American Prospect
How unemployment in the Trump era shapes Black women’s lives when maternal care and food choices are in the mix
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December 4, 2025 at 6:45 PM
About 300,000 Black women have left the workforce in the first half of 2025 as the Black unemployment rate topped 7%, limiting their access to healthcare, groceries, and maternal care. From Naomi Bethune:
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India accounts for 25% of global tuberculosis cases, and with USAID funding slashed, organizations helping to slow the spread of infection and assist people with TB may have to cease their operations. From Shoaib Mir and Parthu Venkatesh P:
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Losing India’s Guardian Angels - The American Prospect
USAID funding supported efforts to eradicate tuberculosis in India, one of the country’s deadliest diseases. Now, that money and support is gone.
trib.al
December 4, 2025 at 6:20 PM
India accounts for 25% of global tuberculosis cases, and with USAID funding slashed, organizations helping to slow the spread of infection and assist people with TB may have to cease their operations. From Shoaib Mir and Parthu Venkatesh P:
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must emphasize again that the government and courts have not only attacked trans rights built in the last 15 years and that were *explicitly envisaged as part of the Equality Act they are using to attack them* but forcing a rollback of *decades-old* policies by individual groups.
Stuck on this gutting sentence on the Women’s Institute decision. For young people it’s watching the world close to them before they’ve had a shot at life, for older women it’s watching half a century of progress vanish. Either way it’s grossly, unbearably cruel.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
December 4, 2025 at 2:50 PM
must emphasize again that the government and courts have not only attacked trans rights built in the last 15 years and that were *explicitly envisaged as part of the Equality Act they are using to attack them* but forcing a rollback of *decades-old* policies by individual groups.
EV nerd question: when it’s cold and I plug in a L1 charger (1.8 kW) the SOC appears to *decrease* by 2-3% before going back up. any idea what is going on there?
December 4, 2025 at 2:44 PM
EV nerd question: when it’s cold and I plug in a L1 charger (1.8 kW) the SOC appears to *decrease* by 2-3% before going back up. any idea what is going on there?
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The impact of the destruction of USAID is so wide-ranging. We got a field report from one of the poorest states in India, where foreign aid funded "TB champions" who educate and assist tuberculosis patients. Without their help, advocates expect a 36% increase in cases & 68% rise in deaths from TB.
Losing India’s Guardian Angels - The American Prospect
USAID funding supported efforts to eradicate tuberculosis in India, one of the country’s deadliest diseases. Now, that money and support is gone.
prospect.org
December 4, 2025 at 1:40 PM
The impact of the destruction of USAID is so wide-ranging. We got a field report from one of the poorest states in India, where foreign aid funded "TB champions" who educate and assist tuberculosis patients. Without their help, advocates expect a 36% increase in cases & 68% rise in deaths from TB.
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Erika Kirk turned her husband’s murder into the business opportunity of a lifetime. She has a lot to teach us about deals.
Why is Andrew Ross Sorkin hosting Erika Kirk at the Dealbook Summit?
Honest line of inquiry - what could she possibly elevate about macroeconomic factors that's so important it crowds out her organization's relentless bigotry?
Honest line of inquiry - what could she possibly elevate about macroeconomic factors that's so important it crowds out her organization's relentless bigotry?
December 3, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Erika Kirk turned her husband’s murder into the business opportunity of a lifetime. She has a lot to teach us about deals.
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@surfdaddy57
Wow. Takes me back. 1976 a blanket on the shore. Her name was Cheryl. We made love... Ran off with a stock car driver to California. Still think of her. Life can lead u crazy places. Miss u Cher. Thanks...
@surfdaddy57
Wow. Takes me back. 1976 a blanket on the shore. Her name was Cheryl. We made love... Ran off with a stock car driver to California. Still think of her. Life can lead u crazy places. Miss u Cher. Thanks...
May 14, 2024 at 3:18 PM
comment under a video called "Fog Horn Sound Effect Awooga - 10 HOURS"
@surfdaddy57
Wow. Takes me back. 1976 a blanket on the shore. Her name was Cheryl. We made love... Ran off with a stock car driver to California. Still think of her. Life can lead u crazy places. Miss u Cher. Thanks...
@surfdaddy57
Wow. Takes me back. 1976 a blanket on the shore. Her name was Cheryl. We made love... Ran off with a stock car driver to California. Still think of her. Life can lead u crazy places. Miss u Cher. Thanks...
genuinely loathe this man
Trump: "It’s a hellhole right now. And those Somalians should be out of here. They've destroyed our country. And all they do is complain, complain, complain. You have her. She’s always talking about the Constitution provides me with – go back to your own country and figure out your constitution."
December 3, 2025 at 9:41 PM
genuinely loathe this man