NEW: They Didn’t Want to Have C-Sections. A Judge Would Decide How They Gave Birth.
Two Florida women had to attend virtual court hearings while in labor to argue for their right to choose their own medical care.
By @amyyurkanin.bsky.social
NEW: David Harvilicz, who co-founded a firm with a 2020 election denier, oversees voting machine security for DHS while the Trump administration is relitigating the president’s baseless claims that the 2020 vote was stolen.
4th Cir., 2-1, affirms a jury finding that the operators of the Abu Ghraib Prison in 2008 are liable for conspiracy to commit torture and conspiracy to commit cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment under the Alien Tort Statute.
Damages awarded: $42 million.
www.ca4.uscourts.gov/opinions/251...
For the first time since 1974, Maryland Democrats say they have fielded a candidate for every legislative seat in the state this fall, in a "compete everywhere" strategy that hopes to capitalize on dissatisfaction with the Trump administration.
marylandmatters.org/briefs/democ...
The first state in the US to remove statutory protections for an entire class, gender identity, has just enacted a bill preventing local municipalities from having their own protections for trans people.
www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/p...
The Iran-linked hackers who hit a Fortune 500 company today say it was retaliation for the U.S. missile attack on an Iranian school that killed at least 175 people.
Iran warns it could wage a prolonged war with the United States and Israel that would 'destroy' the world economy, even as US President Donald Trump vows to 'finish the job,' saying there was little left for American forces to strike
u.afp.com/SLUt
Iranian hackers take credit for attack on US medical equipment supplier that caused systems to go down
“epstein class is iranian propaganda” is definitely something i’d expect the epstein class to say
The Pentagon used $5.6 billion in munitions in the first days of its assault on Iran, according to officials.
The Trump administration is also expected to request a supplemental defense budget of potentially tens of billions of dollars, officials said. https://wapo.st/4aZHrXw
the archeological unwinding of this era's fraud will take decades, assuming we emerge semi-intact
I have to assume we're probably only seeing like 30% of it
Elizabeth Warren: "I am a hard no on a supplemental. This is not a war the American people want us to engage in. This is not a war that makes us safer ... No. No more money. The only thing Congress has the power to do is to stop actions like this through the power of the purse."
I talked to dozens of experts in government, academia, cybersecurity, and industry about exactly this scenario last year and not only did not one of them think I was being alarmist, many brought it up unprompted and many said there was zero chance it hadn’t already happened
Think I might have located some of that fraud, waste, and abuse.
people.com/kristi-noem-...
Adam Zyglis, Buffalo News
Why is gender even on a driver's license? It's irrelevant to driving.
BREAKING: A judge refused to block a Kansas law that invalidates the driver’s licenses of transgender people and allows trans people to be sued for using public restrooms.
This isn't the final say, and we will keep fighting in court to stop this discriminatory law.
Trump said yesterday about the war with Iran: “It’s going to be a short-term excursion.”
In 2002, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said about the impending Iraq War: “Five days or five weeks or five months, but it certainly isn’t going to last any longer than that.”
It lasted eight years.
Breaking: SC newspaper verifies portions of Trump accuser's story. Textbook journalism. Local journalism. Support your local news outlets. www.postandcourier.com/news/epstein...
New: Prison guards discussed cover-up in Epstein's death, inmate tells FBI. open.substack.com/pub/jkbjourn...
Iran’s people were facing a horrible shortage of water before the war began. If we are destroying desalination plants and setting fire to Teheran we are committing unfathomable crimes.
So is ‘use’.
This is completely fucking insane and I’m begging our fourth estate to cover this like the story it is: a stark raving lunatic and malignant narcissist surrounded by idiot sycophants is nearing the end of his life and bored as fuck because he’s never faced accountability of any kind in his life
Noem is out largely due to massive public activism, especially in MN, Democrats expressing increasing interest in impeachment and investigations, and resulting media coverage.
Keep pushing. These people are not invincible or immune from public opinion.
Spanish PM Sánchez responds to Trump:
"Spain is against this disaster... Govts are here to improve people's lives... It is absolutely unacceptable that those leaders who are unable to fulfill that mission use the smoke of war to hide their failure, and in the process, fill the pockets of a few."
Polymarket has created a betting market on the use of nuclear weapons. Everyone involved in this should be put in prison for life.
Secretary Marco Rubio claimed no one died as a result of cuts to USAID. That’s not what we found.
After Trump officials cut food aid to Kenya, children starved to death in an American-made hunger crisis.
(Published Dec. 2025)
