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How is RFK avoiding all questions related to the Nuzzi stuff in public appearances? Don't want to ask about the cum poems and the felching? OK, what about the alleged drug use and catch-and-kill schemes and affair with a reporter who was working to help his campaign behind the scenes? No questions?

For decades, RSS has been a workhorse that connects systems on the timely web and ensures that publishers can syndicate and grow their reach. Here's why it matters more than ever. werd.io/why-rss-matt...

Did Piers Morgan think he was doing something useful by having Nick Fuentes on to ask him about being a 27-year-old virgin? These Nazis are just happy to be invited on large platforms where they can continue to recruit. Why are these people giving them this opportunity?

In Netflix’s plan to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery, CNN is left out—to the reported relief of its staffers. Read @aidaalami.bsky.social. www.cjr.org/the_media_to...

In a war that pits tech giants against news publishers and the ad-tech that loves them, both sides see AI as a valuable weapon in what is likely to be a fight to the death. Read Lucy Schiller. www.cjr.org/analysis/loc...

PrairieStar Health Center, a nonprofit community health center in Kansas, has filed at least 1,000 lawsuits against patients since 2020 for unpaid medical bills. Many patients PrairieStar sued were uninsured and made so little money they qualified for discounted care. @aliyyaswaby.bsky.social

This one really surprised me. Federally Qualified Health Centers Are Suing Patients Over Unpaid Bills of as Little as $59, by @aliyyaswaby.bsky.social #fqhc

Supreme Court Questions N.Y. Ban on Religious Exemptions for Vaccines

Republican Women Suddenly Realize They’re Surrounded by Misogynists www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/o...

What began as quiet courtship by David Ellison has morphed into a hostile takeover attempt of Warner Bros. Discovery—with the battle only likely to get messier in the days ahead. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/david-elli...

Thai General Vows to Crush Cambodia's Military Capabilities as U.S.-brokered Peace Deal Fractures Thai Army Chief General Chaiphruek Duangprapat vows to ‘crush’ Cambodia’s military after Bangkok approves a major military response to the ongoing border conflict.

Containment Structure Over Chornobyl No Longer Capable of Blocking Radiation, IAEA Says A February 14 Russian drone strike on the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant blasted a hole through the New Safe Confinement shield over infamous Reactor 4. malcontentnews.substack.com/p/containmen...

How Florida lost track of 30,000 students, a ‘cautionary tale’ for vouchers

Two major news networks, CNN and CNBC, recently announced partnerships with Kalshi, an online predictions market. Kalshi allows the public to place bets on a dizzying variety of news events.

Rwanda and M23 Militants Ignore Trump Ceasefire Dozens of civilians are dead as some of the heaviest fighting since January 2025 continues north of Lake Tanganyika in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

'We're All One Nation': Syria Celebrates One Year After Bashar al-Assad’s Fall Read journalist Anagha Subhash Nair's dispatch from Damascus, where large rallies were held to mark one year since the end of Assad's brutal dictatorship. zeteo.com/p/were-all-o...

"For me, the most troubling aspect of Trump’s attacks on Somali-Americans is how acceptable it’s become for the president of the United States and members of Congress to speak this way, and how much we’ve desensitized ourselves to it," writes @melissaryan.bsky.social for Ctrl Alt Right Delete.

This is the Tufts PhD student who seized by masked agents on the street and jailed for two months because she wrote an op-ed calling for the school to divest from Israel.

Maybe focus on not causing rolling nationwide flight delays and leave the workout plans to travelers.

This is the Tufts PhD student who seized by masked agents on the street and jailed for two months because he wrote an op-ed calling for the school to divest from Israel.

This passage from part 2 of Sick in a Hospital Town is 🔥! "We knew we couldn't say that to the public, so we really didn't say anything." The Making of a Monopoly projects.propublica.org/albany-georg... by @gingerthompson.bsky.social w/ Doris Burke

This passage from part 2 of Sick in a Hospital Town is 🔥! "We knew we couldn't say that to the public, so we really didn't say anything." The Making of a Monopoly projects.propublica.org/albany-georg... by @gingerthomp1 w/ Doris Burke

Since Israel launched its genocidal war in Gaza, several nations have restricted weapons to Israel. The US could now help fill in any of those gaps, under the defense bill released Sunday night, @premthakker.bsky.social reports. Read the full piece: zeteo.com/p/us-defense...

Make an appointment to read / listen to this spectacular deep look into what can go wrong in the U.S. health care system. By @propublica.org's @gingerthompson.bsky.social and Doris Burke. projects.propublica.org/albany-georg...

Dominari Holdings, the financial services firm part-owned by Don Jr and Eric Trump, announced withdrawal of a $2 billion shelf registration - and appointment of Trump supporter & former ambassador to France, Jamie McCourt, to the advisory board www.prnewswire.com/news-release...

US Defense Bill Would Fill Israel’s Weapons ‘Gaps’ Caused by Embargoes The US armed Israel’s genocide. Nations responded by embargoing Israel. Citing those restrictions, the US may now send even more weapons to Israel, @premthakker.bsky.social reports. zeteo.com/p/us-defense...

We've been looking at how immigration officials are deploying "less lethal" weapons in ways that likely violate policy, and perhaps the law. w/ @frontlinepbs.bsky.social @propublica.org youtube.com/shorts/fe0rj...

Former GOP Rep. Steve Stockman, who Trump pardoned in 2020 two years into a 10 year bid for stealing charitable donations, has set up a campaign committee to run one of Texas' new gerrymandered districts. Seems logical that Trump, who supports corruption, will back Stockman.

There are a lot of unknowns about the news media in the next twenty-five years. But we can, at least, dress for the weather. Check out CJR’s Journalism 2050 issue. www.cjr.org/the-journali...

"Each check comes with a motive. Each name comes with an ask. Together, they reveal a presidency for sale," writes President of End Citizens United and Let America Vote @tiffanymuller.bsky.social in her deep dive of the 37 initial donors behind Trump's new White House ballroom.

Folks! There is an issue with YouTube today and democracyish is streaming on Substack at 12pm abs will be uploaded later to YouTube if the issue is resolved!!!!!

"Nearly 80% of the settlement is set aside to claimants who were minors a decade ago during the water crisis." Somebody needs to write the definitive book on the remarkably long + tangled effort to deliver a fair class-action settlement to folks in Flint.

Despite that Cava bag and obvious conflicts resulting from having run a consulting business that helped companies get DHS contracts, Tom Homan is still involved in DHS procurement. And his former clients are doing great. We partnered with POGO on this. www.pogo.org/investigatio...

Despite that Cava bag and obvious conflicts resulting from having run a consulting business that helped companies get DHS contracts, Tom Homan is still involved in DHS procurement. And his former clients are doing great. We partnered with POGO on this. www.pogo.org/investigatio...

DOJ might as well put Ed Martin in charger of the Office of Legal Counsel and have him tweet out their opinions.

Wow. Strikes me as a big escalation in the Trump Admin's ongoing war against the judiciary. Which is, by the by, being enabled by the Supreme Court's right-wing supermajority.

Chemical industry lobbyists have long pushed the government to adopt a less stringent approach to gauging the cancer risk from chemicals, one that would help ease regulations on companies that make or use them. Their wish has come true. @fastlerner.bsky.social

White people referred to Phoebe Putney as “the n---er hospital,” its former head said. He said he had a hard time getting doctors to stop sending all their well-insured patients to Palmyra and all their underinsured patients to Phoebe. @dgingiss.bsky.social

“Taking children from their families is not normal,” Ms. Hlavka said. “It is cruelty. It doesn’t matter if it’s one child, it doesn’t matter if it’s a child you know. This is a human being, and he is being traumatized.” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/n...

“Don't let your kids grow up to be Mark Zuckerberg.” Mehdi discusses the need for independent thought at a time when billionaires like Zuckerberg and Bezos are bending the knee for Trump. @mehdirhasan.bsky.social was part of a panel by @karenattiah.bsky.social's Resistance Studies Series.

Donald Trump 🤝 Nick Fuentes @mehdirhasan.bsky.social is back with the Monday 'First Draft' on the escalating racism from the president. Plus: Gaza's new 'border,' the latest alleged war crimes by the RSF and Pete Hegseth, and decision time for Rep. Jasmine Crockett. zeteo.com/p/donald-tru...

am attending the AICPA Conference on Current SEC and PCAOB Developments virtually. Listening now to Chairman Atkins essentially threaten audit firms over their support for some of Chair Gensler’s disclosure initiatives. “I see your comment letterrs.” Really embarrassing. 😳