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On the one hand, a potential future of flattened, streaming-friendly mediocrity. On the other, a politically motivated family trying to take over the vast majority of news dissemination in this country and beyond. One may be bad, but the other seems.............................catastrophic
Paramount CEO David Ellison has declared war, launching a hostile takeover bid to keep Warner Bros. from Netflix. We’ve laid his plans out — including Jared Kushner’s connection to his bid.
David Ellison Just Declared War
Paramount CEO David Ellison has declared war, launching a hostile takeover bid to keep Warner Bros. from Netflix. We’ve laid his plans out — including Jared Kushner’s connection to his bid.
www.vulture.com
December 8, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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Justice Gorsuch: Is it possible--"just maybe"--that we're setting our sights far too low and we should be blowing up many more structures of modern government?
December 8, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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It is really, really hard to get your head around the raw hubris of the majority. They really will be destabilizing the operating structure of the entire U.S. government. Why? Because they believe they have a better idea about how the past century should've been done.
Justice Gorsuch: Is it possible--"just maybe"--that we're setting our sights far too low and we should be blowing up many more structures of modern government?
December 8, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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The President of the United States unilaterally levied a tax on all of us and is redistributing our taxes to a core segment of his supporters.
Trump: "I'm delighted to announce this afternoon that the US will be taking a small portion of the hundreds of billions of dollars we receive in tariffs ... and we're going to be giving and providing it to the farmers in economic assistance. We love our farmers. The farmers like me ... $12 billion"
December 8, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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The Take Care Clause was a byproduct of the lessons learned from the Glorious Revolution that the executive should not be able to dispense with the law promulgated by the legislature. It was not a constitutional provision to empower the executive branch— but to constrain it!
December 8, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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A Colorado state Senator is launching a primary challenge from the left against Colorado's U.S. Senator Hickenlooper: coloradosun.com/2025/12/08/j...
Democratic state senator launches bid as “insurgent progressive” to unseat Colorado’s John Hickenlooper
Julie Gonzales said “go-along-to-get-along, poll-tested incrementalist politics have not made Coloradans’ lives better”
coloradosun.com
December 8, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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I've been blown away by the generosity shown to my book this year, and wanted to take a moment to highlight some of the books that meant the most to me in 2025—along with a few I'm especially excited to see out in the world in the new year.

THREAD
December 7, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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I know I was just posting about @mariahblake.bsky.social's book the other day, but it really is a vital read: a gripping investigation of an industry's decades-long cover-up of chemical toxicity—and the people who fought back (and won).
They Poisoned the World: Life and Death in the Age of Forever Chemicals
Life and Death in the Age of Forever Chemicals
bookshop.org
December 7, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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I'm basically a single issue voter in the next presidential primary: whichever candidate will take court reform the most seriously. You won't be able to govern without it.
we are going to have to start writing laws with explicit addenda preemptively rebutting the most likely bad faith interpretations from future fedsoc hacks.
December 7, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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A study on 1.7 million people in Hong Kong shows superior hybrid immunity to Covid in people who got vaccinated before infection vs. people who got infected first. "Our findings are a direct rebuttal to arguments for natural immunity," the authors write. doi.org/10.1016/j.va...
Redirecting
doi.org
December 6, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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the very rich people currently trying to rewrite our media consumption: what the people want is more canceled comedians whining about trans people

the audience, voting with their eyeballs: bring us more gay hockey sex
December 8, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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Trump is and will always be a mass muderer.
The death rate among children under 5 is expected to grow this year for the first time in the 21st century, researchers say. A key factor, they say, is cuts to U.S. and other foreign aid

www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
Child deaths under 5 believed to be rising for first time in decades
Cuts to development aid from several countries is a key factor, researchers said.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 8, 2025 at 3:13 AM
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No community should be forced to bear the weight of a system that profits from human suffering.

Private, for-profit prisons have no place in a fair and free democracy—and especially profiting off the suffering of an inhumane and undemocratic detention system.

Period.
December 4, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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What To Know About ‘Heated Rivalry’
What To Know About ‘Heated Rivalry’
Heated Rivalry, a new Canadian romance series, has exploded in popularity since it premiered on HBO Max last week. Here is everything you need to know about the show. Q: What is the plot? A: Two men h...
theonion.com
December 7, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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if you're going to have these rat bastards on the air, you have to have follow up questions ready. tom cotton is the chairman of the senate intelligence committee, "i dunno, haven't asked" is, if true, a deliberate dereliction of his duties both as a senator and in his current role as a senator.
WELKER: You're talking about Trump protecting Arkansas from drugs, yet he pardoned the former president of Honduras who trafficked more than 500 tons of cocaine into the US. How does that make us safer?

COTTON: I haven't spoken to POTUS about that pardon. I have to know more about the circumstances
December 7, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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Sue Bird’s No. 10 is retired in the UConn rafters.

◻️ 2x NCAA Champion
◻️ 3x Nancy Lieberman winner
◻️ 2002 Naismith Player of the Year
◻️ UConn’s record-holder for 3PT% (.459)
◻️ UConn’s first-ever No. 1 WNBA Draft pick

Just to name a few.
December 7, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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OMG, the ridiculous figleaf legal memo that supposedly justified the boat strikes wasn't even fully drafted until after the double tap attack in the Caribbean:
Sen. Warner on the Boat Strike Crisis | Bulwark on Sunday
YouTube video by The Bulwark
www.youtube.com
December 7, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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Ten current and former BLM rangeland management employees told PP and @highcountrynews.org that they felt pressure to go easy on ranchers — including downplaying the environmental harm of grazing in permit reviews.
A Loophole Allows Ranchers to Renew Grazing Permits With Little Scrutiny of the Environmental Impact
With dwindling oversight, cattle are grazing where they’re not supposed to and in greater numbers or for longer periods than permitted. This can spread invasive plants, pushing out native species and ...
www.propublica.org
December 7, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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RFK Jr.'s claim that COVID vaccines are deadly? Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. In this new extraordinarily large study, vaccinated individuals had a 74% lower risk of death from severe COVID-19 and a 25% lower risk of all-cause mortality compared to those unvaccinated. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
COVID-19 mRNA Vaccination and 4-Year All-Cause Mortality Among Adults in France
This cohort study uses the data from all adults aged 18 to 59 years living in France on November 1, 2021, to evaluate whether there is an association of receipt of an mRNA COVID-19 vaccine with long-t...
jamanetwork.com
December 7, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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Ending DEI practices in college admissions will expose an uncomfortable truth. Women now outperform men academically.

If universities stop trying to gender balance incoming classes but instead admit based on merit, they’ll reject men at higher rates than they do today.
Trump’s attack on DEI may hurt college men, particularly White men
The Trump administration’s ban on diversity, equity and inclusion also targets gender. The ban may impact gender balancing practices that often benefit college men.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 7, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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Barf Bag: Apparently, being a career-driven female in Manhattan becomes spiritually corrupt only after you’ve successfully leveraged it.
www.jezebel.com/woman-with-2...
Woman With 2 Degrees Who Married at 32 & Had Kids at 34 Warns Women Not to Be Career-Driven
Barf Bag: Apparently, being a career-driven female in Manhattan becomes spiritually corrupt only after you’ve successfully leveraged it.
www.jezebel.com
December 6, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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“ACIP has recommended a universal birth dose of the hepatitis B vaccine since 1991, after realizing a risk-based strategy wasn’t working. Annual hepatitis B infections among infants and children have dropped 99% from 16,000 to less than 20.”
December 7, 2025 at 7:20 AM
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ACIP votes to end universal HBV birth dose for newborns. The consequence? Prepare to see a reversal of our rates of chronic liver disease and liver cancer as more children are left unprotected.

The birth dose has an up to 90% efficacy rate of protecting newborns from Hep B, which is incurable.
ACIP votes to abandon universal hepatitis B vaccination for newborns
Vaccine advisers to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are meeting today on what could be a major change to the childhood vaccination schedule. Follow here for live updates.
www.cnn.com
December 5, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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December 7, 2025 at 12:22 AM