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America gave up kings 250 years ago and adopted a system in which “no one is above the law.”

But presidents? SCOTUS gives them immunity.

Corporations? SCOTUS makes it easier for them to pollute.

Billionaires? SCOTUS says they can buy elections.

The legacy of the John Roberts Supreme Court.

If Moderna is no longer bringing vaccine trials for Epstein-Barr virus (good evidence that EB causes Multiple Sclerosis), herpes, and shingles because of Trump appointees, I want prison time for those appointees.

This might be dooming millions to disease they don’t have to experience.

Attackers prompted Gemini over 100,000 times while trying to clone it, Google says Distillation technique lets copycats mimic Gemini at a fraction of the development cost.

Google calls this illicit activity “model extraction” and considers it intellectual property theft, a somewhat loaded position given that the LLM was built from materials scraped from around the Internet.

The Nonresponse To Donald Trump How an obscure quirk of statistics and human nature explains the liberal crisis of confidence—and why it may finally be lifting.

There has been a real shift in the overall culture. But I think conservatives basically bluffed us into thinking they'd gained more cultural ground than they had, and we sad-bastarded ourselves into thinking we'd become more out of touch than we had. www.offmessage.net/p/the-nonres...

Trump nominated a legit white nationalist to a top post at the State Department. I asked him some basic questions about his belief in the “erasure of white culture”. Watch this embarrassing, fumbling answer. Like he has never before been asked to explain his views.

FDA rejects Moderna’s mRNA flu vaccine application - for reasons with no basis in the law The move signals an escalation in the agency’s efforts to interfere with established procedures for testing and approving vaccines.

The FDA rejected Moderna's mRNA flu vaccine application using legal standards that don't actually exist in the law. A vaccine policy expert explains how this decision could undermine vaccine development and public health. buff.ly/eCsNVGZ #vaccineswork

Election denier involved in fake electors plot wrote much of SAVE America Act, Trump-aligned think tank claims “I’m here to do everything I can to make this work,” Thomas Lane wrote in a December 2020 email to other organizers of the Trump campaign’s fake electoral plot in Arizona.

🚨BREAKING: An election-denying former Donald Trump campaign staffer who was subpoenaed by the FBI over his role in the attempt to steal the 2020 election is now taking credit for writing the sweeping voter suppression bill passed by the House Wednesday that could disenfranchise millions.

Here’s how many ballots are at risk if Trump gets his way on mail voting deadlines In 2024, 19 places counted mail ballots that arrived after Election Day. In 2026, zero might. Here’s how many voters that could affect.

In 2024, 19 places counted mail ballots that arrived after Election Day. In 2026, zero might. Here’s how many voters that could affect.

We asked www.PAXIS.app

🚨 ICE BROKE THE LAW 🚨
Smashed legal observer’s window with a rifle and dragged them out. No warrant. No crime. Just retaliation

❌ 4A bans warrantless force
❌ 18 USC §242 = rights abuse
✅ Legal recourse: Bivens, FTCA, DHS complaints

Fight ICE: gofund.me/2dafa642c

Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.

Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Cruelty is a choice.

Pete Hegseth praises ICE while demeaning the people of Minnesota

This is an actual post from Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth: Praising ICE after Alex Pretti was killed, blaming the Democratic leadership of Minnesota, and writing that ICE is greater/better than Minnesota.

He is actively demeaning the people of Minnesota just hours after Pretti was murdered.

Minneapolis shooting: What we know about Alex Pretti, the man killed by Border Patrol agent Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old ICU nurse, was fatally shot Saturday morning by a Border Patrol agent in Minneapolis.

US citizen. Public servant. Licensed to carry a firearm but had no weapon in hand when killed. Attacked by ICE agents with chemical munitions for no reason, then shot.

The time for talking is over. If you are an elected leader you have to tell us *now* what you are doing to end this nightmare ASAP.

Rejecting Decades of Science, Vaccine Panel Chair Says Polio and Other Shots Should Be Optional

Rejecting Decades of Science, Vaccine Panel Chair Says Polio and Other Shots Should Be Optional www.nytimes.com/2026/01/23/h...

ICE agent asked why he's taking pictures of a legal observer's car, replies: "Cuz we have a nice little database and now you're considered a domestic terrorist. So have fun with that."

Large brick wall with a tiny white signat the base of the wall that says "Slavery was real"

"Slavery was real"

Tiny sign at the base of a brick wall that, until yesterday, held panels about the people enslaved by George Washington.

Presidents House, Philadelphia.

Minnesota Star Tribune front page with the headline “CHILDREN AS YOUNG AS 5 DETAINED” and “Tactics raise questions on ICE training” and “ICE claims enhanced power to enter homes” and “Preschooler’s detention marks fourth for district”

Journalists and bystanders are capturing what JD Vance really doesn’t want us to see.

Is this the country we want to live in?

(AP) - The U.S. Supreme Court seems inclined to reject President Donald Trump’s effort to immediately oust Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook after hearing arguments Wednesday ..

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This angle shows Trump’s ICE agent standing on the side of the vehicle and firing into the open window at the driver. This was murder.

Abolish ICE. Really.

Trump Is Walloping Construction Businesses. The Industry Stays Quiet. Raids on work sites. Roofers under siege. But builders keep mum.

"In Alabama, a U.S.-born construction worker has been detained not once but twice, at different job sites twenty miles apart from one another. The first time, agents kept him handcuffed for over an hour even after seeing his REAL ID."

Did Trump’s DOJ really think dropping hundreds of blacked-out pages counted as complying with the law?

I know it’s a bunch of unqualified folks with no backbone over there, but this is next-level.

"As stupid as the idea was then, it's exponentially stupider now after the natural gas and shale revolution"

@timmiller.bsky.social and @davidfrum.bsky.social discuss the absurdity of Trump wanting to go to war for oil.

The RFK, jr effect.

Science journal retracts widely cited study that claimed Roundup is safe The Trump administration, meanwhile, aims to shield its manufacturer from lawsuits.

A landmark study on the safety of glyphosate, the active ingredient in the controversial herbicide Roundup, has been formally retracted by its publisher, raising new concerns about the chemical’s potential dangers.

The Trump administration, meanwhile, aims to shield its manufacturer from lawsuits.

Conspiracy theorist election denier given FEMA’s second-most important role Gregg Phillips will lead the Office of Response and Recovery, “the heart of what FEMA does.”

SCOOP — Gregg Phillips, a conspiracy theorist with no emergency management experience who helped produce the election-denying documentary ‘2000 Mules’ with Dinesh D’Souza and has faced numerous legal inquiries, has been named head of FEMA’s Office of Response and Recovery.

My story:

The Ex-President Whom Trump Plans to Pardon Flooded America With Cocaine

This article lays out just how clear the case was against Juan Orlando Hernández, the former Honduran president convicted of trafficking cociane to the US was. He primised ro “shove cocaine up the nose of gringos”

Trump promises to pardon him. (Gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/n...

Witkoff Advised Russia on How to Pitch Ukraine Plan to Trump US presidential envoy Steve Witkoff, fresh from the triumph of the Gaza peace deal, held a phone call last month with a senior Kremlin official to suggest they work together on a similar plan for Ukraine — and that Vladimir Putin should raise it with Donald Trump.

EXCLUSIVE: US presidential envoy Steve Witkoff advised Russia on how to pitch Ukraine plans to Trump, in audio files reviewed by Bloomberg

Rubio Insists U.S. Authored the Ukraine Peace Plan

Rubio told senators that the so-called Ukraine peace plan, which reads like a list of Russian demands. was actually given to the Trump team by Moscow, according to a Republican senator. Now Rubio's denying it and insisting it really is a US plan. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/u...