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Stephen Miller's War on Cancer Cures - emptywheel Stephen Miller is cutting your access to health care and cancer cures to pay to deport your nurse assistant and cancer researchers (and, given the unnecessary bump in DOD spending, to invade Canada to...

I rediscovered this post I wrote in May, about how Trump has shifted the money the US used to spend on curing cancer into snatching your neighbors.

I think I'll keep harping on this point.

www.emptywheel.net/2025/05/09/s...

Trump had two mortgages he claimed were primary dwellings, records show President did same thing his administration is now calling ‘mortgage fraud’ in case against Fed governor Lisa Cook

“Trump had two mortgages he claimed were primary dwellings, records show ***
President did same thing his administration is now calling ‘mortgage fraud’ in case against Fed governor Lisa Cook” 12/9/25 … 1/ www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Wait what???

Can Jollibee Beat American Fast Food at Its Own Game? A fast-growing Filipino chain is serving burgers and chicken that seem like typical American fare—until you taste them.

My feature on Jollibee is out today!!! Read on for a tale about fried chicken, sweet spaghetti, and postcolonial revenge 🇵🇭

www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

jesus christ

Slide from Brent Toderian at @toderianUW.bsky.social that says “If you design a city for cars, it fails for everyone, including drivers. If you design a multi-model city, it works better for everyone, including drivers.”

Never forget, if you design a city for cars, it fails for everyone, including drivers.

If you design a multi-modal city that makes walking, biking & public transit attractive options, it works better for everyone, including drivers.

INCLUDING DRIVERS.

The “war on cars” has always been a lie.

The US needs to be boycotted, and isolated in every way possible. It is obscene, the horrors this hideous empire gets away with, and it must be stopped.

Behind Paramount’s Relentless Campaign to Woo Warner Discovery and President Trump David Ellison has launched a hostile takeover bid for Warner Discovery, taking his case directly to shareholders after Netflix clinched a deal.

New WSJ reporting: "During a December visit to Washington, David Ellison offered assurances to Trump administration officials that if he bought Warner, he'd make sweeping changes to CNN, a common target of President Trump's ire, people familiar with the matter said..."

MAGA Supreme Court Justices Show Their True Colors by Joining Trump’s Attack on the Federal Judiciary What They’ve Done Is a Disaster for the Rule of Law

“As law professor Michael Dorf noted in April, when thirty-five law professors were asked whether ‘Trump is a lawless authoritarian,’ only [Harvard Law Professor] Adrian Vermeule [a Catholic “integralist”] said ‘no.’” 9/6/25 … 1/

Meet America's new Catholic radicals: Hostile to liberal democracy, a threat to U.S. Jews | Opinion ***

“Meet America's New Catholic Radicals: Hostile to Liberal Democracy, a Threat to U.S. Jews” 8/21/23 … 1/ www.haaretz.com/opinion/2023...

The US pro-RU propaganda has literally intensified today. Luna has met with Dmitriev several times in DC.

Why Quebec’s plan to enshrine abortion rights is raising alarms Civil society groups are warning that the Legault government’s plan to enshrine abortion rights in Quebec’s proposed constitution could have unintended consequences.

Reproductive rights groups do NOT want the Quebec government to enshrine abortion rights in the province's proposed constitution. First, it's not really a constitution - it's a regular law that can be amended. And that would turn it into an anti-choice weapon to restrict abortion.

Hegseth in 2016 repeatedly warned of Trump issuing unlawful military orders | CNN Politics In 2016, as then-presidential candidate Donald Trump vowed that US troops would carry out even his most extreme battlefield orders as commander in chief — some of which former military leaders said wo...

A light on the hypocrisy, as Hegseth supports Trump's claim that Dem lawmakers who said the same thing should be executed.

www.cnn.com/2025/12/08/p...

Southern Spear promotional image with images of soldiers and a larger picture of a man with a Jerusalem Cross on his helmet

SOUTHCOM tweeted an image of a soldier wearing the White Supremacist Jerusalem Cross on his helmet.

Hegseth has it as a tattoo.

Step 1: deliberately scare people with misinformation and lies about what a proposed policy or plan will do. Step2: wait for misinformed people to complain. Step 3: say that “clearly people are concerned,“ so we should “listen to the people“ and reject the plan. The Populist Playbook

Step 4: mainstream media “reports the controversy” rather than the fact it was manufactured, and the amplify the quotes of those who manufactured it.. Step5: other elected leaders who know the truth, still vote against the good plan or policy, because they’re too afraid of the “heat.“

Have you heard of “The Populist Playbook?”

A few years ago, I posted what I still consider one of my most important messages.

It was about “The Populist Playbook” that I’ve watched play out often over my 33+ years of city planning.

Since then, it’s only gotten worse.

Do the steps sound familiar?

Iconic cartoon showing a single driver in a wide car taking up most of the street space. With many people crammed into the bus, bike and pedestrian space left over. Someone later added a voice box with the driver saying “Damn those bike paths and bus lanes taking all the space!”

This iconic Fabian Todorovic cartoon is still one of the best I’ve seen at illustrating the remarkable amount of space we surrender to cars, leaving little space left for everyone and everything else. The text added later makes the bonus point that many drivers still manage to complain about it.

I have no doubt their network states will be bombed and invaded, or collapse from general incompetence, once the USA is no longer there to protect them. The question isn't whether the tech fascists end up dead—it's whether they take us along for the ride.

And Ukrainian journalists, civil society, and legal institutions still work.

What I always hear: “We can’t afford to pay our workers more than $15 an hour.”

What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.”

Funny how that works.

Ukrainian History Global Initiative The Creative Humanities During a War of Destruction

We are told that, under stress, the humanities must be sacrificed. But amidst a war of aggression scholars in Ukraine have undertaken one of the most ambitious knowledge projects of our time. It's a privilege to be involved with Ukrainian History Global Initiative
snyder.substack.com/p/ukrainian-...

The ridiculously designed and completely awful “FIFA Peace Prize” invented to pathetically suck up to extreme narcissist Donald Trump

This design appears to be commemorating a global zombie apocalypse.

The mother of Ammar Wadi, one of the missing, showing his last messages: "forgive me mom if anything happens to me. Whoever finds my phone, please tell my family that I love them so much"

Devastating investigation on possible IDF war crimes in Gaza. www.cnn.com/2025/12/03/m...

🇨🇦 SUMMER MCINTOSH

The Canadian swimming star wins the 200m butterfly in a time of 2:02.62. That is the fastest time ever in an American pool.

It’s her third fastest time ever. In fact, McIntosh owns the next three fastest times behind the World Record in this event.

Here's an idea: Any Democrat who wants to be taken seriously as a presidential candidate in 2028 must pledge to rip this cabal of anti-democracy tech fascists out of our government.

Anyone who won't make that pledge is for the billionaires, not the people. This must be a deal-breaking litmus test.

In the 4.5-mile bike ride to pick up my kids from school, I found the following in painted bike lanes: at least 6 trash bins, a parked car, a parked firefighter truck (likely lunch break), and a parked city maintenance vehicle. This is unacceptable, and another reason why paint is not infrastructure

Tenured US professor fired over pro-Palestinian protests contests dismissal Sang Hea Kil is first tenured faculty member fired from a public university in connection to the protests

Universities will keep sexual predators on the faculty because their "hands are tied by tenure." Turns out protesting genocide is all it takes to loosen those unshakable chains.

Minneapolis police chief warns officers: Stop unlawful force by ICE or lose your job Chief Brian O’Hara says he’ll fire city police officers if they don’t intervene when immigration agents use unlawful force.

Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara issued a stern warning to his officers on Thursday: Intervene when you see Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents using unlawful force or lose your job.

Fucking hell. Make this whole fiasco stop.

YouTube video by Soft Power with Justin Ling The Death of USAID: How Donald Trump and Elon Musk Made the World Poorer, Sicker, and Less Safe

The second episode of my YouTube series is now out! It's all about the death and destruction brought on by Donald Trump and Elon Musk's closure of USAID — and how the rest of the rich world has refused to help. youtu.be/5XBvai6f0pQ?...

OMG he has to put his medal around his neck himself! 😂
But seriously, one day we will all have to explain this whole pathetic catastrophe to our grandchildren when they ask why we as adults let all of this happen.