Lisa Harris
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This is good summary. It's exceedingly rare for a person being deposed to dominate the examination and seemingly turn the process on its head. But this is clearly such a case. Gym Jordan and his clown crew come out looking like what they are... so I can understand why they wanted to keep this quiet.
7 takeaways from Jack Smith’s congressional testimony
The New Year’s Eve transcript release buries details from the former special counsel’s investigation into Donald Trump.
www.politico.com
January 1, 2026 at 1:03 AM
This is good summary. It's exceedingly rare for a person being deposed to dominate the examination and seemingly turn the process on its head. But this is clearly such a case. Gym Jordan and his clown crew come out looking like what they are... so I can understand why they wanted to keep this quiet.
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If only there were ARTICLES OF IMPEACHMENT AT THE HOUSE RIGHT THIS SECOND…wait! There are.
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December 30, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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"Vaccines may be safe and effective, but just saying so is no longer enough"
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/28/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/28/o...
Opinion | We Don’t Seem to be Making America Healthy Again
www.nytimes.com
December 28, 2025 at 12:33 PM
"Vaccines may be safe and effective, but just saying so is no longer enough"
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/28/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/28/o...
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The vaccine schedule wasn’t designed in a single stroke. It was built gradually over decades, shaped by disease outbreaks, technological breakthroughs and hard-won lessons about reducing childhood illness and death.
theconversation.com/rfk-jr-wants...
theconversation.com/rfk-jr-wants...
RFK Jr. wants to scrutinize the vaccine schedule – but its safety record is already decades long
Federal officials are questioning the safety of the vaccine series children receive. Here’s the story of how the childhood vaccine schedule came about.
theconversation.com
December 29, 2025 at 4:01 AM
The vaccine schedule wasn’t designed in a single stroke. It was built gradually over decades, shaped by disease outbreaks, technological breakthroughs and hard-won lessons about reducing childhood illness and death.
theconversation.com/rfk-jr-wants...
theconversation.com/rfk-jr-wants...
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Welp. It was bound to happen. If you’re a WIRED subscriber, your personal data was likely exposed in a September breach from Condé Nast. Time to change your password.
Have I Been Pwned: WIRED Data Breach
In December 2025, 2.3M records of WIRED magazine users allegedly obtained from parent company Condé Nast were published online. The most recent data dated back to the previous September and exposed em...
haveibeenpwned.com
December 28, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Welp. It was bound to happen. If you’re a WIRED subscriber, your personal data was likely exposed in a September breach from Condé Nast. Time to change your password.
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Trump's dumbed down version of the Monroe doctrine is steering the US into hemispheric chaos.
Opinion | Trump’s Dated Strategy Is Putting Us on a Path to World War III
www.nytimes.com
December 28, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Trump's dumbed down version of the Monroe doctrine is steering the US into hemispheric chaos.
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Trump's DOJ was monitoring all the movements of the Miami Herald reporter who was covering the Epstein case.
December 28, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Trump's DOJ was monitoring all the movements of the Miami Herald reporter who was covering the Epstein case.
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I don't think most Americans have any idea how dangerous it is for a president to declare an entire ethnic group to be "garbage." This is how the worst atrocities in human history have begun.
December 27, 2025 at 4:50 PM
I don't think most Americans have any idea how dangerous it is for a president to declare an entire ethnic group to be "garbage." This is how the worst atrocities in human history have begun.
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An IDF soldier who went on a murderous rampage on the West Bank, killing one resident who was praying and shooing at numerous others is now free. The IDF said that his weapon was confiscated and his service in the military has been terminated in light of 'the severity of the incident.'
Israeli reservist released to house arrest after ramming ATV into praying Palestinian
The IDF Said That the Reservist's Weapon Was Confiscated and His Service in the Military Has Been Terminated in Light of 'The Severity of the Incident,' Adding That He Is Also Suspected of Firing at V...
www.haaretz.com
December 28, 2025 at 2:35 PM
An IDF soldier who went on a murderous rampage on the West Bank, killing one resident who was praying and shooing at numerous others is now free. The IDF said that his weapon was confiscated and his service in the military has been terminated in light of 'the severity of the incident.'
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LEFT: @asharangappa.bsky.social four weeks ago
RIGHT: new NYT report
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/27/u...
RIGHT: new NYT report
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/27/u...
December 28, 2025 at 2:39 PM
LEFT: @asharangappa.bsky.social four weeks ago
RIGHT: new NYT report
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/27/u...
RIGHT: new NYT report
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/27/u...
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This Great Blue Heron
Slept the night away
Atop its favourite Pondering Arch
Slept the night away
Atop its favourite Pondering Arch
The world is still dark as the sky begins to reveal the sun. This great blue heron, and others around begin to awaken. #serenity
#birds #birdoftheday #nature #wildlife #photography #protectnature #heron #greatblueheron #sunrise #dawn #EastCoastKin
#birds #birdoftheday #nature #wildlife #photography #protectnature #heron #greatblueheron #sunrise #dawn #EastCoastKin
December 28, 2025 at 1:36 PM
This Great Blue Heron
Slept the night away
Atop its favourite Pondering Arch
Slept the night away
Atop its favourite Pondering Arch
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Reposted by Lisa Harris
Even if they never actually file the lawsuit, even if its just Trump-like bluster intended to send a message, what message is it sending? Why would any musical company or artist risk contracting with a bunch of vengeful lunatics?
December 27, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Even if they never actually file the lawsuit, even if its just Trump-like bluster intended to send a message, what message is it sending? Why would any musical company or artist risk contracting with a bunch of vengeful lunatics?
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“MAHA Santa” is a perfect allegory for the MAHA movement: fat-shaming a fictional character who is literally immortal for eating cookies one night a year, while our surgeon general nominee is advertising (for $) milkshakes as “healthy” if they’re made from raw milk…
MAHA: where the most insufferable people you know gather to feel even more self-righteous.
December 27, 2025 at 8:40 PM
“MAHA Santa” is a perfect allegory for the MAHA movement: fat-shaming a fictional character who is literally immortal for eating cookies one night a year, while our surgeon general nominee is advertising (for $) milkshakes as “healthy” if they’re made from raw milk…
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Commentary: Am I Ugly? https://theonion.com/am-i-ugly/
December 27, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Commentary: Am I Ugly? https://theonion.com/am-i-ugly/
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At this point, I hope we learn that Trump really has been blackmailing A.G. Sulzberger the XXVI all this time, because if that failgreatgrandson has been kissing his ass like this on his own free will it’s going to be depressing as hell.
This is how the New York Times sums up Trump’s term so far.
December 27, 2025 at 1:18 PM
At this point, I hope we learn that Trump really has been blackmailing A.G. Sulzberger the XXVI all this time, because if that failgreatgrandson has been kissing his ass like this on his own free will it’s going to be depressing as hell.
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US measles cases surge to highest level in 30 years.
MSNOW
"HHS Secretary RFK Jr., wants to bring back diseases and make vaccines unavailable. He's doing this a little at a time. He wants to change the childhood vaccine schedule and make MRNA (Covid) vaccines unavailable."
Dr Peter Hotez
MSNOW
"HHS Secretary RFK Jr., wants to bring back diseases and make vaccines unavailable. He's doing this a little at a time. He wants to change the childhood vaccine schedule and make MRNA (Covid) vaccines unavailable."
Dr Peter Hotez
December 26, 2025 at 9:34 PM
US measles cases surge to highest level in 30 years.
MSNOW
"HHS Secretary RFK Jr., wants to bring back diseases and make vaccines unavailable. He's doing this a little at a time. He wants to change the childhood vaccine schedule and make MRNA (Covid) vaccines unavailable."
Dr Peter Hotez
MSNOW
"HHS Secretary RFK Jr., wants to bring back diseases and make vaccines unavailable. He's doing this a little at a time. He wants to change the childhood vaccine schedule and make MRNA (Covid) vaccines unavailable."
Dr Peter Hotez
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Relatedly, we obtained an unpublished history of Stephen Miller's ancestors' immigration to the US, written by his grandmother. People like them were attacked in terms very similar to the ones Miller and MAGA use about today's immigrants:
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
December 26, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Relatedly, we obtained an unpublished history of Stephen Miller's ancestors' immigration to the US, written by his grandmother. People like them were attacked in terms very similar to the ones Miller and MAGA use about today's immigrants:
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
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How are these fits of presidential incontinence never covered as their own news events in NYT? Hours of sick hateful bile from the curdled joyless leader of the Christian nationalists sitting in the ruins of the tinsel trimmed White House he’s demolishing — seems like a story to me.
December 27, 2025 at 3:32 AM
How are these fits of presidential incontinence never covered as their own news events in NYT? Hours of sick hateful bile from the curdled joyless leader of the Christian nationalists sitting in the ruins of the tinsel trimmed White House he’s demolishing — seems like a story to me.
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Why does soap clean?
(Washing your hands with soap removes noroviruses. Remember that.)
(Washing your hands with soap removes noroviruses. Remember that.)
December 26, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Why does soap clean?
(Washing your hands with soap removes noroviruses. Remember that.)
(Washing your hands with soap removes noroviruses. Remember that.)
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People have no idea what a premium we have enjoyed and what losing it will cost us
This piece is a great illustration of how the long-term effect of Trump’s destruction of US institutions won’t be felt in a dramatic market collapse, but rather in permanently worse economic conditions, and lower prosperity.
giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... So long, American exceptionalism
giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... So long, American exceptionalism
So long, American exceptionalism
For the first time, investors are talking about ‘US risk’
giftarticle.ft.com
December 26, 2025 at 11:15 PM
People have no idea what a premium we have enjoyed and what losing it will cost us
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Scientists reverse Alzheimer’s in mice and restore memory. For more than 100 years, Alzheimer’s disease has been treated as a one-way decline—but new research is aiming for a cure.
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
Scientists reverse Alzheimer’s in mice and restore memory
Alzheimer’s has long been considered irreversible, but new research challenges that assumption. Scientists discovered that severe drops in the brain’s energy supply help drive the disease—and restorin...
www.sciencedaily.com
December 25, 2025 at 4:22 AM
Scientists reverse Alzheimer’s in mice and restore memory. For more than 100 years, Alzheimer’s disease has been treated as a one-way decline—but new research is aiming for a cure.
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
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"Estimated exposure times to the airborne virus are between 2:30 pm. and 4:45 at Logan Airport Terminal B in Boston and at the Hilton Hotel Boston-Westborough from 3:30 pm to 9 pm on Dec 11.
Individuals also might have been exposed from 6 pm to 11:30 pm at Logan Airport Terminal C on Dec 12."
Individuals also might have been exposed from 6 pm to 11:30 pm at Logan Airport Terminal C on Dec 12."
"Measles is a highly contagious, airborne disease, which has increased significantly in the U.S. because of the unfortunate decrease in vaccination rates. This serves as an important reminder of the critical role vaccination plays in protecting our communities."
www.upi.com/Health_News/...
www.upi.com/Health_News/...
Traveler might have exposed many to measles in Massachusetts - UPI.com
A visitor from Texas who was afflicted with measles might have exposed many to the airborne virus while in Massachusetts, health officials announced.
www.upi.com
December 25, 2025 at 4:51 AM
"Estimated exposure times to the airborne virus are between 2:30 pm. and 4:45 at Logan Airport Terminal B in Boston and at the Hilton Hotel Boston-Westborough from 3:30 pm to 9 pm on Dec 11.
Individuals also might have been exposed from 6 pm to 11:30 pm at Logan Airport Terminal C on Dec 12."
Individuals also might have been exposed from 6 pm to 11:30 pm at Logan Airport Terminal C on Dec 12."
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This is perfect. The DOJ's embarrassing snafu with disappearing redactions was the fault of Elon Musk. Musk cancelled government subscriptions to Adobe programs that would have made the redactions permanent. What a pack of fools.
December 26, 2025 at 9:02 PM
This is perfect. The DOJ's embarrassing snafu with disappearing redactions was the fault of Elon Musk. Musk cancelled government subscriptions to Adobe programs that would have made the redactions permanent. What a pack of fools.
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The Harry Ransom Center at @utaustin.bsky.social invites you to explore the creative legacy of one of television’s most influential producers. Live from New York: The Lorne Michaels Collection opens September 20.
Learn more: ransom.center/live-from-ne...
Learn more: ransom.center/live-from-ne...
August 13, 2025 at 3:16 PM
The Harry Ransom Center at @utaustin.bsky.social invites you to explore the creative legacy of one of television’s most influential producers. Live from New York: The Lorne Michaels Collection opens September 20.
Learn more: ransom.center/live-from-ne...
Learn more: ransom.center/live-from-ne...