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The US Department of Health and Human Services will recommend fewer vaccines for most American children, a move that health experts fear could lead to a resurgence of preventable diseases. https://cnn.it/44UZM4B

JAMES MERRILL CHRISTMAS TREE From loes torn hamin Had been fed, looked after, kept still, Meant, I knew— of course I knew - That it would be only a matter of weeks, That there was nothing more to do. Warmly they took me in, made much of me, The point from the start was to keep my spirits up. I could assent to that. For honestly, It did help to be wound in jewels, to send Their colors flashing forth from vents in the deep Fragrant sables that cloaked me head to foot. Over me then they wove a spell of shining — Purple and silver chains, eavesdripping tinsel, Amulets, milagros: software of silver, A heart, a little girl, a Model T Two staring eyes. Then angels, trumpets, BUD and BEA (The children's names) in clownlike capitals, Somewhere a music box whose tiny song Played and replayed I ended before long By loving. And in shadow behind me, a primitive IV To keep the show going. Yes, yes, what lay ahead Was clear: the stripping, the cold street, my chemicals Plowed back into the Earth for lives to come — No doubt a blessing, a harvest, but one that doesn't bear, Now or ever, dwelling upon. To have grown so thin. Needles and bone. The little boy's hands meeting About my spine. The mother's voice: Holding up wonderfully! No dread. No bitterness. The end beginning. Today's Dusk room aglow For the last time With candlelight. Faces love-lit, Gifts underfoot. Still to be so poised, so Receptive. Still to recall, to praise.

James Merril’s poem “Christmas Tree,” written while he was dying of AIDS. 1995.

Awww sleepy floof. 💜💜

Oh my wallet!!! 😭😭😭

Hot Toys K-Pop Demon Hunters coming soon.

This is the opposite of a problem. 💜

Uh oh, look out!

Banned 60 minutes segment on CECOT Dailymotion video by fond_.mhb423

Here’s the highest-quality upload of the 60 minutes CECOT segment I’ve found so far:

www.dailymotion.com/video/x9w8gyi

The 60 Minutes piece on the Trump Administration’s torture prison that Bari Weiss doesn’t want you to see has leaked.

FBI Director Kash Patel Waived Polygraph Security Screening for Dan Bongino, Two Other Senior Staff As the FBI’s deputy director, Bongino receives some of the country’s most sensitive secrets, including the President’s Daily Brief. His ascent to that position without passing a standard bureau backgr...

NEW: FBI Director Kash Patel granted waivers to Deputy Director Dan Bongino and two newly hired senior FBI staff, exempting them from polygraph exams normally required to gain access to America’s most sensitive classified information, officials said.

Oh god dammit I loved Teen Vogue! Great luck to you wherever you may go.

I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.

certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.

I’m more used to saying this to people on the Left than people on the Right, but, “hate speech” is not an exception to the First Amendment. “Hate speech” is protected by the First Amendment unless it falls into a traditional established exception.

Excerpt from report on layoffs at Rolling Stone, including TV critic Alan Sepinwall.

Rolling Stone fired Alan Sepinwall, Status’ Oliver Darcy reports. That’s probably the end of my subscription.

THIS. "Performative" is the operative word here. Kirk's "debates" were less an exchange of ideas than WWE without a ring and amusing costumes.

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...

About to watch an IMAX screening of Spinal Tap II at the Chinese and the entrance is appropriately epic for such an event.

Jesus Christ.

It's depressing how many of these I'd forgotten about.

I hope people realize how absolutely fucked this situation is.

This isn’t normal. People are resigning all over the place because the government is mishandling our data, ruining our public health services, and generally making Americans less safe.

Me, looking at timestamp: This seems like a long time to get to the joke

Me, watching for 15sec: I am absolutely watching this whole thing

Old Soviet joke for today:

A man walks into a newsstand every day, looks around, and leaves.

After a long time of this, the owner says “Can I help you find something?”

“I’m looking for the obituaries.”

“The obituaries are in the back of the newspaper, comrade.”

“Not the one I’m looking for.”

First, there’s no legal basis for this. Second, a “Real ID” is sufficient for air travel because it requires extra documentation to obtain. Third and again, there’s no legal basis for this. Fourth and most important, this is the “papers please” stage of fascism and the biggest possible red flag.

Really psyched about this episode. @davedaley.bsky.social is one of the best analysts of right wing election subversion out there. He goes big on Trump's effort to ban mail voting, the Texas gerrymandering scheme, and other ratfucking, connecting the dots. Don't miss this one. You'll learn a lot:

Trump Cuts Off Medical Visas from Gaza After Laura Loomer Meltdown Donald Trump stopped all visas from Gaza, including for humanitarian and medical aid, after Laura Loomer freaked out about children getting care.

Trump cuts off medical visas from Gaza after Laura Loomer freaked out over a video showing several children being permitted to come to the U.S. for medical care www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

It keeps happening

This fits pretty squarely in the classic definition of assault in that it a) is unlawfully directed at constitutionally protected activity and (b) causes the victim to reasonably fear imminent physically harmful contact

#ReleaseTheCuomoList

The Night of the Hunter underwater shot

Post one of the most haunting shots in movie history from a film made before the year 2000

Journalism lesson for reporters: Antoni has "alleged" accuracy concerns. There is ZERO reason to believe he cares one iota about accuracy. Don't lie to your audience by asserting that he does.