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Company backed by Donald Trump Jr.’s firm nabs $620M government contract Vulcan Elements, a rare-earth magnets startup, has secured a $620 million contract from the U.S. defense department.

Shouldn’t this news about Trump Jr. spend at least a few hours atop the newscycle?

"These crazy libs may even put Bugs Bunny in DRAG!!!!"

This is solid #PinkyPromise coverage 🎀

ICE Arrest Data Shows Many Immigrants With No Criminal Record In high-profile operations, more than half of those arrested had no criminal record, an analysis shows.

Trump said last year that he would focus on deporting immigrants who were violent criminals. But a study of arrests in major operations in DC, LA, Illinois and Massachusetts shows that the vast majority of those swept up by ICE have no criminal record.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Video: Trump’s Aid Cuts Are Replacing Fresh Food With Junk The Trump administration has cut nearly a billion dollars in food aid, creating a scarcity crisis at food banks across the country. We traveled to Georgia to observe how a decades-old emergency food s...

Trump’s Aid Cuts Are Replacing Fresh Food With Junk (welp, there goes “MAHA”) www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...

Opinion | America’s Caregivers Are in Crisis Caregivers are at the brink of despair.

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com

Caring for her aging father gave Michelle Cottle a firsthand look at America's caregiving crisis. "We had no idea what was coming," she writes.

F.D.A. Seeks More Oversight of Vaccine Trials and Approvals

“But public health experts questioned the findings, wanting to examine the data.”

F.D.A. Seeks More Oversight of Vaccine Trials and Approvals www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/h...

Opinion | When the Next Pandemic Comes, MAHA Says, You’re on Your Own

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/o... (gift link)

Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.

Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.

Embarrassing day for the Coast Guard and our nation.

U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”

Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses, as hate symbols.

The fuck?

wapo.st/3Mbd9a6

The guy hasn’t put enough air traffic controllers in the towers but it’s our fault for wearing sweatpants?

To everyone saying that people in our military already know not to follow unlawful orders, how do you explain almost 100 civilians murdered on fishing boats in the Caribbean so far?

Why did not a single male reporter who were standing next to the president and the female reporter he called "piggy" say a word to the president about this and call him out then and there? Those who keep quiet in these moments are part of the problem.

I’m still thinking about “quiet, piggy.” No president should be able to speak to a member of the press that way and remain president. That moment encapsulates how vile, misogynistic, and horrible that man is.

Thou shalt not threaten thy citizens with execution because they’re calling you President Pedo Piggy.

CDC backpedals on vaccines and autism, despite earlier assurances from RFK Jr. The CDC, under the direction of an unqualified health secretary, is now promoting claims that flunk Logic 101.

In related news, the claim ‘the Tooth Fairy does not actually take lost baby teeth from under pillows’ is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that magical beings are secretly thieving teeth in the dead of night…”

www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

Is Piggy referring to his attempted coup on January 6th?

Now it’s on the official CDC site… they really are losing it. The statements shown directly contradict:
- The NIH
- WHO
- American Academy of Pediatrics
- National Academy of Medicine
- Every major medical and scientific body in the U.S. and worldwide

Halted NIH Clinical Trials List Reveals Slashed Treatments for Cancer, COVID and Minority Health The National Institutes of Health has canceled funding for at least 383 clinical trials in the last year, affecting some 74,000 participants

www.scientificamerican.com/article/halt...

Report: Walgreens cuts hourly workers’ pay for 6 major holidays The hourly employees will only be paid if they work on those holidays.

I warned that private equity taking over Walgreens would be bad for workers.

This is the private equity playbook: they hollow out businesses, cheat their workers, and drive them into the ground.

Red Lobster, Toys "R" Us, and Joann Fabrics. Who’s next?

Writing an 80 zillion character post about the Epstein files definitely makes you seem extremely innocent and not literally shitting your pants.

He’s comparing healthcare to home insurance.

Saying the “healthy” should be rewarded.

It’s eugenics.

Disability can happen to anyone.

You know how a hurricane can destroy your home no matter how many “safeguards” you had?

That’s chronic illness.

It’s the hurricane. $2k won’t cut it.

In my humble opinion, the new poem "Dear, Paul Revere or Forge, Shape, Shine!" by Regie O’Hare Gibson - Inaugural Poet Laureate of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts - is an American masterpiece. Listen to the poem here on the #PaulRevereHouse website: www.paulreverehouse.org/forge-shape-...

Polymarket tweets: "BREAKING: Zohran Mamdani to require all New York elementary school students to learn Arabic numerals." Laura Loomer replies: "You know things are bad when you can't tell if this is real or a joke. Dear God. It's real. Isn't it?"

when I was young, i used to wonder how people like this would fare in life, as they didn't seem suited for gainful employment. it turns out, the internet allowed them to accumulate a massive audience of similar idiots, enriching them and turning them into a presidential advisor

Mask up, y'all! It doesn't just help protect against Covid. 😷

Christian Toquiza, a legal resident of Chicago, was abducted and disappeared by ICE while he was on his way to a dentist appointment. He has not been seen since November 18, 2025.

I can assure everyone that walking won't protect you one iota from bird flu or any other pandemic. I was the fittest I'd been in my 60 year life when I got COVID in January 2020, walking at least 70,000 steps every week. I've had long COVID for nearly six years and can't walk two blocks now.

We need to do more - judicious masking & air filters.
Over 3y follow-up, individuals with SARS-CoV-2 infection had significantly higher risks of developing HPV-related cancers: 67% increase in cervical cancer, 131% vaginal cancer, 98% vulvar cancer, 92% anal cancer, & 78% oropharyngeal cancer.

RFK Jr.’s Miasma Theory of Health Is Spreading The NIH is picking up Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s argument that a healthy immune system can keep even pandemic germs at bay.

www.theatlantic.com/health/2025/...