JML4546
@jml4546.bsky.social
American living in Sweden, worried about democracy (former home states: TX, TN & MN)
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I’ve been wondering for the last year when we’d get to the library destruction phase and here we are. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/c...
NASA’s Largest Library Is Closing Amid Staff and Lab Cuts
www.nytimes.com
December 31, 2025 at 7:44 PM
I’ve been wondering for the last year when we’d get to the library destruction phase and here we are. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/c...
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We’re sleepwalking into a disaster
5 million-plus kindergartners now live in counties where schools don’t have “herd immunity” for measles, Washington Post reporters found.
WaPo also built a tool to look up your own county.
Exceptional, and alarming work by @laurenweberhp.bsky.social @caitlingilbert.bsky.social et al.
(Gift link.)
WaPo also built a tool to look up your own county.
Exceptional, and alarming work by @laurenweberhp.bsky.social @caitlingilbert.bsky.social et al.
(Gift link.)
U.S. vaccination rates are plunging. Look up where your school stands.
Take a look to see what the kindergarten measles vaccination rates are in your area.
wapo.st
January 1, 2026 at 3:19 AM
We’re sleepwalking into a disaster
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A remarkable trend that will come as a shock to you if your only info about NYC is from this Fox News.
Homicides in NYC...
1990: 2,262
1993: 1,927
1998: 629
2001: 649
2013: 335
2019: 320
2021: 488
2024: 382
2025 (as of 12/28): 302
Homicides in NYC...
1990: 2,262
1993: 1,927
1998: 629
2001: 649
2013: 335
2019: 320
2021: 488
2024: 382
2025 (as of 12/28): 302
December 31, 2025 at 11:40 PM
A remarkable trend that will come as a shock to you if your only info about NYC is from this Fox News.
Homicides in NYC...
1990: 2,262
1993: 1,927
1998: 629
2001: 649
2013: 335
2019: 320
2021: 488
2024: 382
2025 (as of 12/28): 302
Homicides in NYC...
1990: 2,262
1993: 1,927
1998: 629
2001: 649
2013: 335
2019: 320
2021: 488
2024: 382
2025 (as of 12/28): 302
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I'm a former federal prosecutor who handled criminal prosecutions for DOJ. This comment by @jkbjournalist.bsky.social is exactly correct.
December 31, 2025 at 5:07 AM
I'm a former federal prosecutor who handled criminal prosecutions for DOJ. This comment by @jkbjournalist.bsky.social is exactly correct.
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Ramblings from a president who cares more about his vanity projects than the economy.
Trump claims his ballroom is “under budget” while he keeps raising the budget. He also insists “everyone wanted it.” Absolutely no one asked for it.
The budget:
• July: $200M
• Oct: $250M
• Oct $300M
• Dec: $400M
Trump claims his ballroom is “under budget” while he keeps raising the budget. He also insists “everyone wanted it.” Absolutely no one asked for it.
The budget:
• July: $200M
• Oct: $250M
• Oct $300M
• Dec: $400M
December 31, 2025 at 3:50 AM
Ramblings from a president who cares more about his vanity projects than the economy.
Trump claims his ballroom is “under budget” while he keeps raising the budget. He also insists “everyone wanted it.” Absolutely no one asked for it.
The budget:
• July: $200M
• Oct: $250M
• Oct $300M
• Dec: $400M
Trump claims his ballroom is “under budget” while he keeps raising the budget. He also insists “everyone wanted it.” Absolutely no one asked for it.
The budget:
• July: $200M
• Oct: $250M
• Oct $300M
• Dec: $400M
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Exclusive: A year after Tenet Media was busted for funneling Russian money to MAGA pundits like Benny Johnson and Tim Pool, a Trump administration effort involving State and the FBI has welcomed Tenet's founders back into the US. @thebulwark.com: www.thebulwark.com/p/lauren-che...
Trump Admin Scores Visa for Founder of Russian Propaganda Outlet
Tenet Media’s Lauren Chen is back—even though the illegal-influence and money-laundering investigation remains open.
www.thebulwark.com
December 30, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Exclusive: A year after Tenet Media was busted for funneling Russian money to MAGA pundits like Benny Johnson and Tim Pool, a Trump administration effort involving State and the FBI has welcomed Tenet's founders back into the US. @thebulwark.com: www.thebulwark.com/p/lauren-che...
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A bit of a lifeline, for now...
Judge Amy Berman Jackson called out their BS, saying their financial excuses were " tantamount to closing what is left of the Bureau."
(Damn the corrupt AHs' efforts to make it easier to screw everyday ppl over.)
Judge Amy Berman Jackson called out their BS, saying their financial excuses were " tantamount to closing what is left of the Bureau."
(Damn the corrupt AHs' efforts to make it easier to screw everyday ppl over.)
Judge orders Trump administration to continue to seek funding for the CFPB
The order is the latest in a complex legal battle over the fate of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, a watchdog agency.
www.npr.org
December 30, 2025 at 11:38 PM
A bit of a lifeline, for now...
Judge Amy Berman Jackson called out their BS, saying their financial excuses were " tantamount to closing what is left of the Bureau."
(Damn the corrupt AHs' efforts to make it easier to screw everyday ppl over.)
Judge Amy Berman Jackson called out their BS, saying their financial excuses were " tantamount to closing what is left of the Bureau."
(Damn the corrupt AHs' efforts to make it easier to screw everyday ppl over.)
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New Jersians pay excess taxes for the corruption across various levels of our government.
Our @njcomptroller.bsky.social has exposed a few significant problems this last year, and our electeds response is to weaken Comptroller's investigative powers. Let's elect better. #DemVoice1
Our @njcomptroller.bsky.social has exposed a few significant problems this last year, and our electeds response is to weaken Comptroller's investigative powers. Let's elect better. #DemVoice1
In 2025, OSC exposed:
🩺 $124M Medicaid fraud
🔍 $600K opioid fund misuse
⚠️ Conflicts in health insurance funds
🚔 $1M wasted on unconstitutional police training
Accountability matters. Transparency matters.
nj.gov/comptroller
🩺 $124M Medicaid fraud
🔍 $600K opioid fund misuse
⚠️ Conflicts in health insurance funds
🚔 $1M wasted on unconstitutional police training
Accountability matters. Transparency matters.
nj.gov/comptroller
December 30, 2025 at 10:54 PM
New Jersians pay excess taxes for the corruption across various levels of our government.
Our @njcomptroller.bsky.social has exposed a few significant problems this last year, and our electeds response is to weaken Comptroller's investigative powers. Let's elect better. #DemVoice1
Our @njcomptroller.bsky.social has exposed a few significant problems this last year, and our electeds response is to weaken Comptroller's investigative powers. Let's elect better. #DemVoice1
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ZETEO: “Amazon founder/Wash Post owner Jeff Bezos asserted control over the opinion section. On Christmas, the editorial board published a gift for him: a flagrantly misleading column opposing Medicare for All— as 🇺🇸 contends with a healthcare crisis.” zeteo.com/p/washington...
December 31, 2025 at 5:39 AM
ZETEO: “Amazon founder/Wash Post owner Jeff Bezos asserted control over the opinion section. On Christmas, the editorial board published a gift for him: a flagrantly misleading column opposing Medicare for All— as 🇺🇸 contends with a healthcare crisis.” zeteo.com/p/washington...
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Trump admin is rushing to demolish historic buildings before Congress can pass a law to protect them. Puppy killer Noem wants to destroy federal property including St. Elizabeth’s which was established by Congress in 1855.
#ProudBlue#Voices4Victory
#OneV1
www.rawstory.com/white-house-...
#ProudBlue#Voices4Victory
#OneV1
www.rawstory.com/white-house-...
Trump admin rushes to demolish 13 more historic DC buildings as preservations fight back
Not long after its demolition of the historic East Wing of the White House, the Trump administration is now looking to expedite the demolition of more than a dozen historic buildings in Washington, D....
www.rawstory.com
December 30, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Trump admin is rushing to demolish historic buildings before Congress can pass a law to protect them. Puppy killer Noem wants to destroy federal property including St. Elizabeth’s which was established by Congress in 1855.
#ProudBlue#Voices4Victory
#OneV1
www.rawstory.com/white-house-...
#ProudBlue#Voices4Victory
#OneV1
www.rawstory.com/white-house-...
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#ResistanceEarth
Do you live in a "pollution hotspot"? Experts mapped multiple emissions datasets onto census blocks to show where pollution is occurring.
Some of that data may be going away. Trump's EPA wants to end much of the Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program.
www.earth.com/news/america...
Do you live in a "pollution hotspot"? Experts mapped multiple emissions datasets onto census blocks to show where pollution is occurring.
Some of that data may be going away. Trump's EPA wants to end much of the Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program.
www.earth.com/news/america...
Pollution hotspots exposed in stunning new carbon maps
Experts mapped US fossil fuel emissions street by street, showing where pollution really comes from and why data matters for climate action.
www.earth.com
December 31, 2025 at 12:33 AM
#ResistanceEarth
Do you live in a "pollution hotspot"? Experts mapped multiple emissions datasets onto census blocks to show where pollution is occurring.
Some of that data may be going away. Trump's EPA wants to end much of the Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program.
www.earth.com/news/america...
Do you live in a "pollution hotspot"? Experts mapped multiple emissions datasets onto census blocks to show where pollution is occurring.
Some of that data may be going away. Trump's EPA wants to end much of the Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program.
www.earth.com/news/america...
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Make a NY resolution to VOTE BLUE; VOTE OUT all GOP; organize friends, family, & neighbors to do the same! BAD things Trump/GOP did with their Big Ugly Bill in 2025, only get worse in 2026! Millions of Americans will lose health care coverage & see costs for health care coverage/treatment skyrocket!
December 30, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Make a NY resolution to VOTE BLUE; VOTE OUT all GOP; organize friends, family, & neighbors to do the same! BAD things Trump/GOP did with their Big Ugly Bill in 2025, only get worse in 2026! Millions of Americans will lose health care coverage & see costs for health care coverage/treatment skyrocket!
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$47 million fraud case dropped by Trump after Wiederhorn made huge donations to his campaign and inaugural fund. Not Somali.
December 30, 2025 at 7:53 PM
$47 million fraud case dropped by Trump after Wiederhorn made huge donations to his campaign and inaugural fund. Not Somali.
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"If we win this seat in Iowa, Democrats are going to take back the Senate, and if we have full control of Congress, that stops the bleeding...
Zach Wahls, in my humble opinion, is one of the most important candidates in the country right now.
...Donate to his campaign. Please."
Zach Wahls, in my humble opinion, is one of the most important candidates in the country right now.
...Donate to his campaign. Please."
"It is a remarkable gift to us that Congresswoman Hinson has decided to obliviously tie herself to Trump with more enthusiasm than a violinist on the deck of the Titanic."
We Can Win the Senate With This Democrat
I have never been more confident.
charlotteclymer.substack.com
December 30, 2025 at 4:40 PM
"If we win this seat in Iowa, Democrats are going to take back the Senate, and if we have full control of Congress, that stops the bleeding...
Zach Wahls, in my humble opinion, is one of the most important candidates in the country right now.
...Donate to his campaign. Please."
Zach Wahls, in my humble opinion, is one of the most important candidates in the country right now.
...Donate to his campaign. Please."
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Seems like fraud, waste, and abuse to us
December 29, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Seems like fraud, waste, and abuse to us
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A growing body of research indicates that Texas's restrictive abortion bans have negatively impacted the health and lives of Texas women and babies in multiple ways. Across the board, pregnancy outcomes and complications have worsened.
What researchers have discovered about maternal, infant health under Texas' abortion laws
In the more than four years since the state of Texas significantly restricted access to abortion, medical researchers have been studying the health effects of that policy change.
medicalxpress.com
December 29, 2025 at 5:12 PM
A growing body of research indicates that Texas's restrictive abortion bans have negatively impacted the health and lives of Texas women and babies in multiple ways. Across the board, pregnancy outcomes and complications have worsened.
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This is authoritarian rot in plain sight. A DOJ weaponized against “enemies” of a sitting president isn’t law enforcement — it’s vengeance. That’s how democracies die: not overnight, but when power decides dissent is a crime.
www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
December 30, 2025 at 2:05 AM
This is authoritarian rot in plain sight. A DOJ weaponized against “enemies” of a sitting president isn’t law enforcement — it’s vengeance. That’s how democracies die: not overnight, but when power decides dissent is a crime.
www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Flu deaths exceeded COVID deaths last winter and we may be on track for the same thing this year!
I can speak anecdotally that at the hospital I work at we’ve had very low covid census. We test anyone experiencing respiratory symptoms, and we’ve had very few people with Covid who have needed to be hospitalized. Which is a relief because we are absolutely inundated with flu rn
December 29, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Flu deaths exceeded COVID deaths last winter and we may be on track for the same thing this year!
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NEW: GOP leaders in North Carolina have defended efforts to take certain powers from the governor, saying they reflect the will of voters.
Democrats say state residents are being harmed.
Democrats say state residents are being harmed.
How GOP Lawmakers’ Power Transfers Are Reshaping Everything From Utilities to Environmental Regulation in North Carolina
The GOP-led North Carolina legislature spent nearly 10 years trying to control the elections board. But it’s also taken aim at other commissions in the state by shifting who has power to appoint members that historically belonged to the governor.
www.propublica.org
December 29, 2025 at 2:00 PM
NEW: GOP leaders in North Carolina have defended efforts to take certain powers from the governor, saying they reflect the will of voters.
Democrats say state residents are being harmed.
Democrats say state residents are being harmed.
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Our photographer Alex Kormann captured the exact moment the presses stopped for the last time in Minneapolis, ending a 158 history of locally printed newspapers.
December 28, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Our photographer Alex Kormann captured the exact moment the presses stopped for the last time in Minneapolis, ending a 158 history of locally printed newspapers.
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A nice thread in which an actual expert patiently explains why the Secretary of Health and Human Service is not simply a liar, but an especially stupid one.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has stated that the 1918 flu pandemic was caused by a lab virus from vaccine research, a defective influenza vaccine. Let’s analyze what a lie this is. First, in 1918, 107 years ago, virology was in its infancy
December 28, 2025 at 6:06 PM
A nice thread in which an actual expert patiently explains why the Secretary of Health and Human Service is not simply a liar, but an especially stupid one.
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The President of the United States appears to be getting regular IV infusions, the public doesn’t know anything about it, & the DC media evidently doesn’t care.
We are months into the mystery of Trump’s hands, the White House is lying, & I’ve seen a grand total of one serious news story about it.
We are months into the mystery of Trump’s hands, the White House is lying, & I’ve seen a grand total of one serious news story about it.
Trump looked pretty rough today -- note that both of his hands are discolored
(Joe Raedle/Getty)
(Joe Raedle/Getty)
December 29, 2025 at 1:40 AM
The President of the United States appears to be getting regular IV infusions, the public doesn’t know anything about it, & the DC media evidently doesn’t care.
We are months into the mystery of Trump’s hands, the White House is lying, & I’ve seen a grand total of one serious news story about it.
We are months into the mystery of Trump’s hands, the White House is lying, & I’ve seen a grand total of one serious news story about it.
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RFK Jr and Trump rolled back a Biden regulation that required nursing care homes that received Medicare and Medicaid payments to have a registered nurse on site 24/7.
Effective January 1st — those rules no longer apply.
So choose carefully when making medical care decisions for your loved ones.
Effective January 1st — those rules no longer apply.
So choose carefully when making medical care decisions for your loved ones.
December 29, 2025 at 2:48 AM
RFK Jr and Trump rolled back a Biden regulation that required nursing care homes that received Medicare and Medicaid payments to have a registered nurse on site 24/7.
Effective January 1st — those rules no longer apply.
So choose carefully when making medical care decisions for your loved ones.
Effective January 1st — those rules no longer apply.
So choose carefully when making medical care decisions for your loved ones.
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Still unreported, should be investigated:
ICE shot Richard outside a mall. I visited mall security office. Guard said ICE and LAPD came in, used thumb drive to copy mall’s video footage, and THEN DELETED THE EVIDENCE from mall’s local drives. He showed me the missing timeline part saying “no data.”
ICE shot Richard outside a mall. I visited mall security office. Guard said ICE and LAPD came in, used thumb drive to copy mall’s video footage, and THEN DELETED THE EVIDENCE from mall’s local drives. He showed me the missing timeline part saying “no data.”
Huge win for Richard Noticias LA, TikTok journalist shot by ICE. Criminal charges dismissed with prejudice, meaning can’t be refiled.
ICE did him DIRTY. Repeatedly. Inhumane treatment, basically medical torture.
Still in ICE custody on immigration case. They owe him unconditional release.
ICE did him DIRTY. Repeatedly. Inhumane treatment, basically medical torture.
Still in ICE custody on immigration case. They owe him unconditional release.
Federal judge dismisses indictment against TikToker shot by ICE, citing constitutional violations
Days before Carlitos Ricardo Parias was set to to go to trial for assault on a federal officer, a federal judge dismissed the case against him. The judge cited the deprivation of Parias' access to cou...
www.latimes.com
December 29, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Still unreported, should be investigated:
ICE shot Richard outside a mall. I visited mall security office. Guard said ICE and LAPD came in, used thumb drive to copy mall’s video footage, and THEN DELETED THE EVIDENCE from mall’s local drives. He showed me the missing timeline part saying “no data.”
ICE shot Richard outside a mall. I visited mall security office. Guard said ICE and LAPD came in, used thumb drive to copy mall’s video footage, and THEN DELETED THE EVIDENCE from mall’s local drives. He showed me the missing timeline part saying “no data.”