Naomi Gibbs

would love to know where vought got the authority to shutdown a government agency established by statute

Trump has no legal authority, "standing" or otherwise, to order the killing of people in international waters for unsubstantiated accusations of non-capital crimes.

Calling them "narcoterrorists" does not make it right or legal to order their deaths without any due process.

This bit is key, too.
No land border with Egypt means Israel controls everything that enters or leaves.

If you've never been to Gaza, you won't appreciate what the yellow line means. Basically Israel now holds most of Gaza's small but important agricultural land. Continued Israeli occupation, which I judge the likely outcome, makes Gaza even more unliveable and more dependent on outside goods.

Picture how big the Hoover Dam is. An absolute unit. The Hoover Dam has a power capacity of 2 gigawatts (GW).

The solar farm that the Admin just cancelled could have produces 6.2 GW of power. That's more than 3 Hoover Dams.

Immigrant Nobel Prize winners exiting the United States

If you like yelling about misuse of the passive voice, THIS IS IT.

I can’t believe I’m watching interviews of city mayors talking about how they are coordinating with other mayors to discuss how to protect their residents FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

I know we are “used to it” but it is absolutely insane

Judge Rules Trump Unlawfully Targeted Noncitizens Over Pro-Palestinian Speech

“Describing the question before him as “perhaps the most important ever to fall within the jurisdiction of this district court,” a Reagan appointee says Trump unlawfully curtailed first amendment rights of noncitizens. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/u...

We’re gonna need fewer videographers and more people willing to put their bodies in between the aggressor and the victim.

How Universal Child Care Could Change the Economy

Universal childcare wouldn't just relieve working families of a massive cost burden. It improves the whole economy.

"There are a lot of reasons building a child care system that works for everyone is important to our children, to parents, to employers and to economic growth."

Kennedy’s Vaccine Panel Votes to Limit Access to Covid Shots

"The Hepatitis B vaccine has nearly eliminated maternal transmission of the disease in the United States, slashing the incidence to fewer than 20 cases a year from about 20,000 a year before 1991..."

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/h...

Anyone who signs this pledge is not a journalist.

Amid Rise of RFK Jr., Officials Waver on Drinking Water Fluoridation — Even in the State Where It Started As federal agencies review their guidance on fluoridation and the nation’s top health official calls fluoride “industrial waste,” state and local governments are pulling back on the practice, upending...

Fluoride in drinking water has widely been heralded as a public health triumph.

But this year, with the rise of RFK Jr., legislation has been introduced in *at least 21 states* to roll back provisions related to it.

Critical reporting @annaleighclark.bsky.social:
www.propublica.org/article/fluo...

How Jay Jacobs is still state party chair is pretty remarkable. forget Mamdani or Walton, & his attitude toward the left.

He bears a lot of responsibility for startling defeat of the "mainstream" voting rights referendums in Nov 2021, & for NY Dems' House struggles, factor in Johnson as Speaker.

New York Democratic Chairman Won’t Endorse Mamdani for Mayor

Then he should resign or be removed.

Kennedy’s Advisory Panel Votes to Limit M.M.R.V. Vaccine for Children Under 4

“Many of the panelists also seemed unsure about the purpose of the Vaccines for Children program, which provides free shots to roughly half of all American children.”

“It was unclear whether the members all understood what they were voting for.”

It just keeps going. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/h...

Disney, a famously litigious corporation, should handle the Jimmy Kimmel situation the same way they handle every other legal matter: Nexstar and Sinclair for breach of contract until Kimmel is back on the air and sue the FCC into submission.

Map of Regional Public Health Coalitions Northeast Public Health Collaborative (Blue) West Coast Health Alliance (Yellow)

IT'S OFFICIAL: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York State, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and New York City have formed the Northeast Public Health Collaborative.

The collaborative will issue their own vaccine recommendations and coordinate public health efforts.

Exactly this

“ABC and CBS are making a serious miscalculation. Their servility to Trump will not earn them peace, only greater pressure.”

That’s the German professional association of journalists, @djv.de, calling on major US media to support their journalists instead of preemptively silencing them.

"He spoke to the president every day about changing the childhood vaccine schedule."

Monarez testifies RFK Jr. and Trump spoke about changing childhood vaccine schedule without evidence.

WATCH LIVE: www.youtube.com/live/KeTa_B0...

And yes, I was the last Black full-time columnist in the Opinion section.

Washington Post -- operating in a city which for a long time has been majority Black, is now without any full-time Black opinion writers.

The rural health 'Hunger Games' are underway States are scrambling for a piece of a $50 billion fund. It's unclear where the money will go.

States have just weeks to apply for a slice of a new $50b fund for rural health care. How much states get will depend in part on whether they bar low-income people from using food stamps to purchase "non-nutritious foods" and reestablish the Presidential Fitness Test www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

This is five times the number of people who die each year worldwide from all causes.

US President back-pedalling furiously after his administration treated some innocent hard-working Koreans like they were innocent hard-working Latinos.

People are losing jobs due to social media posts about Charlie Kirk Some GOP officials want to clamp down on perceived expressions of schadenfreude about Charlie Kirk's death. Conservative activists are publicizing social media posts that are "celebrating" his death.

Some GOP officials want to clamp down on perceived expressions of schadenfreude about Charlie Kirk's death. Conservative activists are publicizing social media posts that are "celebrating" his death.

Multiple HBCUs under lockdown after receiving threats amid rising campus security concerns At least six historically Black colleges enacted lockdowns after receiving threats, amid heightened concerns following recent campus violence at Utah Valley University.

Meanwhile, on HBCU campuses, lockdowns after bomb threats and though I'm sure this won't interest most media types, it is worth noting: abcnews.go.com/amp/US/multi...

a major change to Senate rules around confirmations:

Appeals court allows Trump's administration to block Medicaid funds to Planned Parenthood A U.S. appeals court panel has allowed President Donald Trump’s administration to block Medicaid fund to Planned Parenthood while legal challenges continue.

Meanwhile apnews.com/article/plan...