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City Raccoons Are Evolving to Look More Like Pets City-dwelling raccoons seem to be evolving a shorter snout—a telltale feature of our pets and other domesticated animals

City-dwelling raccoons seem to be evolving a shorter snout—a telltale feature of our pets and other domesticated animals

Trump Axes Biden-Era Plan To Compensate Passengers For Flight Disruptions The Biden administration sought to create a streamlined refund system free of hoops for passengers who experienced canceled or significantly changed flights.

The Biden administration sought to create a streamlined refund system free of hoops for passengers who experienced canceled or significantly changed flights.

Nevada Supreme Court Revives Fake Electors Case Not Dead Yet A unanimous Nevada Supreme Court reinstated criminal charges against...

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God bless any journalist or activist that has the capacity to sort through this mess cuz it’s certainly not me

Deaf Tesla Employee Fired After Complaining Factory's Heat Disabled Hearing Aids, Lawsuit Claims The litigation claims that the company failed to adhere to federal regulations for people with disabilities.

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If they win, Democrats will have to use their newfound authority to rethink, even dismantle, agencies like U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and U.S. Customs and Border Protection. They may need to walk back the Bush-era decision to consolidate those agencies and others under a single department, given the wild abuses perpetrated under this administration and its predecessors. It will need to give serious thought to major political and social reform, including D.C. statehood, a federal ban on partisan gerrymandering, a new voting rights act and federal protections for reproductive rights and bodily autonomy, including the rights of gender and sexual minorities. Democrats will also need to embrace the legislature’s constitutional authority to structure the executive branch and the judiciary, up to and including Supreme Court reform. If they win next year, Democrats will need to treat the next Congress not as a return to the status quo ante but as the beginning of a new era in which the principal task is to roll back the president’s effort to create and consolidate a personalist dictatorship. They’ll need to fortify the American political system against future attempts to play dictator and lay out a project of genuine democratic renewal. None of this is possible without a willingness to use power rather than just hold it. What we’ve seen this week is that there are still too many Democrats whose instinct is to retreat to normalcy rather than face the conflict at hand.

Jamelle was cooking.

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So dark.

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Rep. Ayanna Pressley stands behind a podium demanding the USDA to reinstate Ellen Mai. Photo courtesy of Tréa Lavery with MassLive

A photo of Ellen Mai during a press conference in Boston. Photo courtesy of Tréa Lavery with MassLive

A photo of Rep. Ayanna Pressley during a press conference in Boston. Photo courtesy of Tréa Lavery with MassLive

Ellen Mai, a federal worker unjustly fired by the USDA, stands behind a podium delivering remarks. Photo courtesy of Tréa Lavery with MassLive

Trump's retaliatory firing of my constituent Ellen for exercising free speech is egregious & dangerous.

That’s why I’m fighting for Ellen & every federal worker unjustly fired.

USDA must immediately reinstate her & allow her to continue serving our communities and country.

the way basic human decency hits these days is crazy

Academics who have advised a graduate student from China over the past years would be banned from federal funding. This would give the federal government one more lever to attack scientists. And how long before they expand the list of "hostile foreign" countries?

Christian Nationalist will quickly say this man is not a real Christian simply because he refused to kneel and pray at the alter of Trump, the true Messiah of Christian Nationalism.

Flash Report: Claims of Nick Fuentes’ Growing Popularity Are Unsupported by Data - Open Measures Open Measures builds accessible and transparent products to contextualize the spread of harmful online information that impacts public discourse and global events.

Nick Fuentes, a white nationalist social media personality, seems to be everywhere in the press these days. A lot of coverage suggests his audience is growing, but our read of the data is giving us some serious doubts whether that’s really the case.

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this story was sort of lost in the last few days of the epstein news but it’s wild how many republicans appear to be pedophiles or okay with pedophilia

Headline: The New Hork Cimes Account v Seattle Elects a Left- Wing Mayor With a Light Résumé but Mamdani Appeal Katie Wilson, who narrowly defeated the incumbent, Bruce Harrell, emerged from the city's left-wing activist class and brings with her little experience in governing

Body copy: Ms. Wilson had never run for public office before, but she had led a series of campaigns over the past decade to expand access to mass transit, raise local minimum wages and add protections for renters — often through some form of taxing the rich.

Body copy: As co-founder of the Transit Riders Union, an advocacy group, Ms. Wilson built a network of fellow organizers and won a string of campaigns to expand access to public services and fight the growing gap between the ultra rich and everyone else in the Seattle region. Ms. Wilson played a key role in convincing the Seattle City Council to create what's known as the "JumpStart Tax," a levy of 0.75 percent to 2.5 percent on the salaries of the highest-paid employees at about 500 of the city's largest businesses. Revenue from the tax is supposed to fund affordable housing, small-business support and climate-change programs, though in recent years, the city has also used it to help balance its general fund

What New York Times calls “a light resume” for Seattle’s new progressive mayor turns out to be leading successful campaigns that expanded mass transit & housing & helped the city balance its budget. What a lightweight! www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...

NEW: The loudest critics of Trump in the judiciary have turned out to be Ronald Reagan-appointees. This week, another — Mark Wolf — joined their ranks, resigning to speak out against the president.

I spoke with Judge Wolf today. He’s worried. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

youngkin serving the commonwealth by conspiring with the white house to destroy one of its flagship educational institutions

my takeaway from this letter is that glenn youngkin, rector sheridan and their flunkies on the board are deeply dishonest people who are engaged, with the trump administration, in a mob-style shakedown against the university of virginia

When a far right pundit on a CNN panel with me ‘joked’ about my beeper going off live on air & then got banned by CNN, Megyn Kelly had him on her show & they both laughed about it.

Yet here is Kelly getting super offended when someone else makes the beeper threat against her. Oh, the hypocrisy.

White House Will Release October’s Jobs Report—After Saying Data Would ‘Likely Never’ Publish The White House has said last month’s jobs report and inflation data would “likely never” be released.

The White House has said last month’s jobs report and inflation data would “likely never” be released.

The caption reads "Them: any plans tonight? Me:" The picture is a frame from the Watchmen comic, which reads "November 14: A partially muscled skeleton stands by the perimeter fence and screams for thirty seconds before vanishing"

Starbucks’ CEO makes 6,666x what the average @sbworkersunited.org barista does. It would take less than one day of sales to finalize a fair contract.

Baristas at Starbucks corporate stores nationwide are on strike to fight this corporate greed and get the fair contract they deserve.

Family of Fisherman Killed in U.S. Military Strike Says It Wants Justice

The furor over the death of a Colombian fisherman has ignited a feud over the huge U.S. military buildup in the Caribbean and the legality of the deadly attacks on nearly 20 vessels since September.

A woman with long blond hair in a light yellow shirt stands in a yard with a big tree and gray wall. A headline reads: "The Shutdown Is Over. But for Federal Workers, The Anxiety Persists." Photo by Ariana Dehsler for The New York Times

The longest government shutdown in U.S. history has ended, but the uncertainty for federal workers is far from over. “Even with back pay, we’ll still be starting behind and playing catch-up for a while,” said one Veterans Affairs employee who was furloughed for weeks. nyti.ms/4i4bP56

Florida OKs ‘evils of communism’ standards, signs Heritage Foundation pledge Some criticized both documents, calling them propaganda and indoctrination, but state leaders said they would help teach patriotism and create better American citizens.

Gift link because people should be able to read about this.

Watching it live was really difficult.

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Text from email: "Dear Customer, We want to let you know that LA County Library’s Laptop Loan Program will be ending soon. All data service on loaned laptops will be suspended on Tuesday, December 30, 2025. The Laptop Loan program was made possible through federal funding from the American Rescue Plan Act, supporting digital equity initiatives. Unfortunately, due to budget limitations, we are unable to continue offering this service."

Message from LA County Library that I received earlier today.

Chevron plans to grow oil and gas production by 2% to 3% per year through 2030. It currently produces around 4 million barrels of oil equivalent per day. "There is need for significant investment to close the oil supply gap, equivalent to five Saudi Arabias" over the next decade, Wirth said.

When Big Oil companies claim to be partners in climate solutions, remember: they are lying.

As the climate crisis intensifies, Chevron is once again "increasing investments in oil and gas exploration," Reuters reports.

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the thing that strikes me about this — again, besides it being false — is the venom and disrespect for the people who come here to work and build better lives. they aren’t “servants.”

Here's your chance to do something about the people being starved and beaten in Broadview ICE custody.

Share this post, and I'll donate $1 to the Midwest Immigration Bond Fund (www.mibfc.org).

And if you make a donation to them, let me know how much and I'll match it 1:1.