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Johnson: "Do not believe the lies the Democrat Party has said. We had their ads taken down. They were running ads around the country in swing districts trying to convince people Republicans are going to 'gut Medicaid.' It's just simply not true & that's why their ads & billboards had to come down"

People in states with abortion bans are twice as likely to die during pregnancy The risk is greatest among Black women in states with abortion bans, according to a new report. By� Shefali Luthra �for The 19th Pregnant people living in states with abortion bans are almost ...

People in states with abortion bans are twice as likely to die during pregnancy www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

"....I'm still mystified as to how a first, second, fourth or sixth grader would pose any type of risk to our nation's national security that would require Homeland Security to deploy its agents to two elementary schools." -- LA Schools Super Alberto Carvalho @maddow.msnbc.com @maddowblog.msnbc.com

NIH guts its first and largest study centered on women The Women’s Health Initiative has produced numerous influential findings

trumpworld, where women's health research is guaranteed to be defunded.

NIH guts its first and largest study centered on women | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

This Is Now: Tom Nichols — Kepler's Literary Foundation One of our most popular speakers—and one of the most compelling skeptics in politics—returns with an update on the death of expertise.

Get tix now for my virtual interview with @radiofreetom.bsky.social, about his updated Death of Expertise, plus who knows what out of the headlines (including stuff he's wrong about). www.keplers.org/upcoming-eve... Your ticket includes online access for 30 days, in case you can't catch it live.

Raccoon knocks out power for large swaths of downtown Toronto

Raccoon knocks out power for large swaths of downtown Toronto

George Priest, a Yale Law School professor who has vacationed with Thomas and Crow, told ProPublica he believes Crow’s generosity was not intended to influence Thomas’ views but rather to make his life more comfortable. “He views Thomas as a Supreme Court justice as having a limited salary,” Priest said. “So he provides benefits for him.”

THAT IS A FORM OF INFLUENCE. YOU’RE A FUCKING LAW PROFESSOR.

A letter to our readers

a note to Washington Post readers: On Dec. 7, we ask you to respect our walkout by not crossing the picket line: For 24 hours, please do not engage with any Post content. That includes our print + online news stories, podcasts, videos, games and recipes.

Yashar Ali a @yashar "If it were not for the accident of my birth, I would be antisemitic. Any people who has been persecuted for two thousand years must be doing something wrong." — Henry Kissinger "Mr. Kissinger is heard telling Nixon in 1973 that helping Soviet Jews emigrate and thus escape oppression by a totalitarian regime — a huge issue at the time — was "not an objective of American foreign policy. And if they put Jews into gas chambers in the Soviet Union," Kissinger added, "it is not an American concern. Maybe a humanitarian concern." ADL ADL! v @ADL•1h Henry Kissinger was a towering intellect, diplomat and practitioner who - not without controversy - helped shape American foreign policy with a lasting impact worldwide. A refugee from Nazi Germany, and the first Jewish Secre... Show more

My god

Gavin Newsom Wants Fox News Viewers to Hear Him Out After sparring twice with Sean Hannity, Gov. Gavin Newsom of California will jump into the ring this week with Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida. The stakes are high for both men.

Gov. Gavin Newsom of California will debate Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida with the Fox News host Sean Hannity on Thursday. The stakes are high for both men in a face-off between what could potentially be two leading candidates in the next presidential race.

House Speaker Mike Johnson Spent Years Defending Christian Speech In Public Schools “The ultimate goal of the enemy is silencing the Gospel," the Republican said in 2004 after Jewish parents sued a school for pushing Christianity on their kids.

In 2005, a Jewish family was forced to flee their home after challenging their local school's policy of requiring Christian prayer.

A young conservative lawyer named Mike Johnson decried the family as working for "the enemy" attempting to "silence the gospel" through "spiritual warfare"

Plutopians convene for early tales of digital culture: the WELL, bOING bOING, Electronic Frontier Foundation, FringeWare, all sorts of high weirdness. Thursday, November 30, 7-8pm Central Time, streaming live at www.youtube.com/c/PlutopiaNe...

Popular Science was an important byline in my career. I wrote some formative pieces for them, including a feature I consider one of my best. They even gave me a column for a little while. I hate this so much.

She vowed to clear strangers’ medical debt in a posthumous viral post Since her diagnosis in 2019, Casey McIntyre befriended dozens of other cancer patients who, unlike her, had piles of medical debt as they underwent treatment.

As of Saturday, nearly $200,000 had been donated to RIP Medical Debt in Casey McIntyre’s memory, which would wipe out approximately $20 million of unpaid medical bills.

George Santos has just announced a press conference for Nov. 30 at 8 a.m.

Meanwhile, tomorrow the head of the House Ethics Committee, Rep. Michael Guest (R-MS), is expected to introduce a resolution to expel Santos, which the House will take up once its members return to DC on Nov. 28.

Ex-Trump allies detail efforts to overturn election in Georgia plea videos The Post obtained recordings of statements made by four of Trump’s co-defendants who pleaded guilty in the case in Fulton County, Ga.

Breaking news: A former attorney for Donald Trump has told Georgia prosecutors that a top presidential aide said to her in December 2020 that “the boss” did not plan to leave the White House “under any circumstances,” according to a video recording obtained by The Washington Post.

Good!

Vatican dismisses conservative Texas bishop who criticized Pope Francis Bishop Joseph Strickland of Tyler, Tex., has vocally opposed Pope Francis on theological issues, saying an “evil and false message” had infiltrated the Catholic Church.

Pope Francis has removed one of his most visible American critics from diocesan leadership, a Texas firebrand who said Francis was “undermining” the faith by discussing the place of LGBTQ+ communities and women in the Catholic Church.

We have a practicing Catholic as President, a man who prioritizes the good of all -- people over money -- and a lot of Catholics are more favorable toward trump, an amoral man, who places himself above our Constitution. I thought maybe they were one issue voters; Dobbs proved that theory wrong.

If you don’t understand Trump is running on explicitly authoritarian state and is promising mass political revenge and immigrant sweeps and detention, I don’t know what to tell you. His entire platform is vicious revanchist revenge.

Trump is going full-on Hitler.

The astonishing part is that he will be the nominee of a major American political party.

People forget that there were pro-Hitler demonstrations here in the 1930s.

Two people overlook the Kealia Pond National Wildlife Refuge on Maui. Photo by Mathew Thayer/The Maui News, via Associated Press.

A pond in Hawaii became a social media spectacle this week after turning bubble-gum pink. However, experts said the new hue, seen at the Kealia Pond National Wildlife Refuge on Maui, was not just a photo opportunity but an indicator of environmental stress. nyti.ms/3QAazt5

Woman Allegedly Killed By Ex 40 Minutes After Filing Police Report Against Him The suspect was present at the station when the victim made her report, and police have launched an internal investigation.

A Florida woman who filed a report against her ex-boyfriend was allegedly shot and killed by him 40 minutes after she filed it

reading normal-tone politics coverage in 2023 as the gop gets more and more overtly autocratic makes me insane... horse race coverage but one horse is actually a demonic boar whose sharp hooves are covered with the blood of the innocent

In a statement, Prime Minister Netanyahu responds to President Macron:

Seems kinda fascist to have the voting public pass an amendment and then have the legislature say "we're sure people didn't mean to do this so we're going to stop the judiciary from enforcing it."

Reliable Sources via @oliverdarcy:
Murdoch's Succession Moment; Shooting Down a Smear; Vice Makes Another Slice
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GOP strategists urge congressional candidates to campaign against a national abortion ban Disturbed by tough election losses on Tuesday, Republicans say the party needs to make clear to voters, in speeches and TV ads, that it doesn't favor banning all abortions.

What's funny about the latest idea that the Republicans should campaign against a national abortion ban is that, so far, the only people who have wanted a national abortion ban have been Republicans.
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Analysis | There are reasons to be leery of House speaker’s porn-monitoring software, experts say Experts say the software can be used coercively, raises potential privacy issues and may not achieve what it purports to achieve.

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There are reasons to be leery of House speaker’s porn-monitoring software, experts say wapo.st/49nblCa

This bill is absolutely evil and anyone supporting it is unfit for office