Screenshot of a Washington Post article that reads: “Baltimore 61% fewer homicides so far this year compared with the same period in 2021”

📣 Baltimore's seen a 61% drop in homicides in 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗳𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝘆𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘀!

Mayor Scott, State’s Attorney Bates, local leaders, and members of the community are showing the nation what putting public safety first looks like.

Through partnership, our state will keep making all of our communities safer.

Panel Votes to End Recommendation for Hepatitis B Shots for All Newborns

A vote for children to get sick www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/h...

So *odd* that this was missing from the criminal complaint. Weird!

RFK Jr.’s CDC panel: No more hepatitis B vaccine for some newborns The CDC's vaccine advisory panel, stocked with anti-vaccine activists and loyalists to RFK Jr., voted Friday to stop recommending a birth dose of vaccine.

Kennedy's zombie ACIP panel just voted to restrict hepatitis B vaccine for newborns. Experts say it will harm children for no reason. www.ms.now/news/rfk-cdc...

ACIP member Dr. Cody Meissner:

"'Do no harm' is a moral imperative. We are doing harm by changing this wording. And I vote no."

Suspected pipe bomber told FBI he backed Trump, believed 2020 election conspiracies There’s no shortage of questions about Brian Cole Jr. and his actions, but some new details are coming to the fore.

Some on the right seemed eager to suggest yesterday that the suspected pipe bomber was somehow aligned with the left.

That was before Brian Cole Jr. told the FBI he backed Trump and believed 2020 election conspiracy theories. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

Panel Votes to End Recommendation for Hepatitis B Shots for All Newborns

In a victory for RFK Jr. in his war against vaccines, a federal panel ends the decades-old recommendation that all newborns be immunized against hepatitis B, a highly infectious virus that leads to chronic liver disease. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/h...

I was only thinking yesterday that we all say what we don't want but how often do we actually have a coherent plan for what we DO want. Here it is!

A screenshot from the edited video President Donald Trump posted to Truth Social on Sept. 2, 2025, showing a U.S. military strike on a boat in the Caribbean Sea, overlaid with the headline, "Video of U.S. Military Killing Boat Strike Survivors Is Horrifying, Lawmakers Reveal" and the DEK, "“What I saw in that room is one of the most troubling scenes I’ve ever seen in my time in public service.”"

Rep. Jim Himes of Connecticut said the unedited video clearly shows the U.S. striking helpless people. interc.pt/49Z6zxr

Panel Votes to End Recommendation for Hepatitis B Shots for All Newborns

He's going to kill our kids

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/h...

“Is the person who said these things a fit person to be our prime minister?"

Peter Ettedgui tells @mrjamesob.bsky.social why he ‘didn’t hesitate’ to go public with his accusations against his former classmate Nigel Farage.

‘People are thanking me.”

Peter Ettedgui says he’s been ‘totally surprised’ by the reaction to him accusing Nigel Farage of racism in his schooldays.

"He so exactly reminds me of the Farage that said those things back then."

Peter Ettedgui says he has to switch off the TV when the Reform leader is on because of how much it reminds him of his schooldays.

I have just approved TINY CARS to be built in America. Little SEDANS that should fit four at most but when you open the door 27 clowns spill out. HOW??? They will DUST THEMSELVES OFF as they leave the car. The HORN will make the little eeooh-eeooh sound. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER.

First off, the good news: The world is a much better place than it used to be, especially for young children.

And now, the bad news: After decades of progress in preventing child deaths, the world is now going in the wrong direction in the very worst way imaginable.

Do your thing, Europe. 😂

Nigel Farage, leader of the party who claim to care deeply about women’s equality, yesterday described bbc broadcaster Emma Barnett as a ‘lower grade’ presenter for asking questions about his alleged historic H*tler fanboying.

The 'Pink Ladies' Laundering Anti-Migrant Views Into the Mainstream An anti-migrant movement backed by Reform and Conservative politicians and regularly invited onto news channels is funded by a far-right group and has platformed a Neo-Nazi activist

🔴I spent time getting to know the Pink Ladies, a group of 'ordinary mothers' who are funded by Restore Britain's Rupert Lowe and whose leader shared a stage with a prominent neo-Nazi. It was...eye-opening.

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Home Office admits facial recognition tech issue with black and Asian subjects Calls for review after technology found to return more false positives for ‘some demographic groups’ on certain settings Ministers are facing calls for stronger safeguards on facial recognition technology after the Home Office admitted that it is more likely to incorrectly identify black and Asian people than their white counterparts on some settings. Following the latest testing conducted by the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) of the technology’s application within the police national database, the Home Office said it was “more likely to incorrectly include some demographic groups in its search results”. Continue reading...

Home Office admits facial recognition tech issue with black and Asian subjects

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From School to Battlefield to Grave: How Russian Cossacks drive young people to war - bellingcat The All-Russian Cossack Society turns school clubs into pipelines for state-sponsored militarisation and recruitment for war in Ukraine. Bellingcat shows how they shape an alternative mobilisation for...

Read the full investigation at www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/12...

From School to Battlefield to Grave: How Russian Cossacks drive young people to war - bellingcat The All-Russian Cossack Society turns school clubs into pipelines for state-sponsored militarisation and recruitment for war in Ukraine. Bellingcat shows how they shape an alternative mobilisation for...

The All-Russian Cossack Society turns school clubs into pipelines for state-sponsored militarisation and recruitment for war in Ukraine. Bellingcat shows how they shape an alternative mobilisation force: www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/12...

The 'Pink Ladies' Laundering Anti-Migrant Views Into the Mainstream An anti-migrant movement backed by Reform and Conservative politicians and regularly invited onto news channels is funded by a far-right group and has platformed a Neo-Nazi activist

A supposedly grassroots anti-migrant movement led by 'ordinary' women, which is backed by Reform and Conservative politicians and is regularly invited onto news channels to promote their views, is funded by a far-right group and has platformed a Neo-Nazi activist

bylinetimes.com/2025/12/05/t...

Nigel Farage says he never made racist comments with malice' The Reform UK leader admits to having been offensive while at Dulwich College, but after a question from the BBC, accused the broadcaster of double standards

Okay, so, what I’m reading here is that racism is completely fine - as long as it’s done in a non-malicious way.

Notwithstanding the fact that racism is in and of itself filled with malice.

That’s the nature of racism.

For fuck’s sake.

We can break the cycle of poverty The Child Poverty Review represents a bold attempt to reduce the number of children growing up in hardship

We can break the cycle of poverty, by Gordon Brown. Britain now has the first comprehensive plan for supporting children.

Why does Tucker Carlson hate Britain? His garish fantasies about our country are starting to infect our own conservative movement

Why does Tucker Carlson hate Britain?

His garish fantasies about our country are starting to infect our own conservative movement

By @JonnElledge.bsky.social

🔊 ‘During the initial phases of the controversy … even Republican lawmakers questioned what happened.’ Reuters World News podcast explains the initial backlash against the Pentagon’s strikes on suspected drug vessels reut.rs/4pQFNvJ

75% of Reform UK’s donations have come from just three rich men Calls grow for donation caps as Democracy for Sale research reveals that three-quarters of Reform’s funding comes from a trio of wealthy donors

🔴 Nigel Farage’s Reform is more reliant on super-rich backers than any major party in modern British political history

75% of *all* Reform donations *ever* have come from just three rich men

Is this what democracy looks like?

New on Democracy for Sale
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Crypto Investor Donates £9 Million to Reform UK as Nigel Farage Plugs His Company and Tells Industry 'I Am Your Champion' The Reform leader recently used media interviews to back Christopher Harborne's company while promising to cut taxes and regulations on crypto firms

Nigel Farage used an LBC appearance to accuse the Bank of England of being “dinosaurs” for putting restrictions on the use of Stablecoins by crypto firms like Tether.

He did not declare that Reform had just received £9 million from one of its biggest investors
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For Trump, Even the National Guard Shooting Is About Immigration And he won’t let the facts get in the way of his agenda.

"Only a fool would reduce our problems with schools, crime, urban decay, and so on to refugees, who comprise less than less than 1 percent of the population."

Or the president of the United States, but we repeat ourselves. lnk.thebulwark.com/48EQjzA