"The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting." — Milan Kundera: The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (1979)

Experts say it’s highly unusual for the White House to tell agents to give up custody of potential evidence in an investigation, as it did with the Tates. “I’ve never heard of anything like that in my 30 years working,” an ex-DHS official said.

Listen, this administration isn’t “making America great.” It’s targeting our neighbors, tearing families apart, and putting lives on the line. Democrats on Oversight are standing up because this fight isn’t about left or right. It’s about right and wrong. Period.

Shout outs to all the #teachers enjoying a little bit of well-deserved leisure after a hectic start to the school year.

Maria Ressa channeling Kendrick. HTSUTAD p214

The NYT recently reported on memes and language. Watterson nailed it 30 years ago.

Trump Administration Live Updates: Judge Tosses Criminal Charges Against James Comey and Letitia James www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...

Maria Ressa was in East Timor in 1999! 🇹🇱

Massive shoutout out to whoever handles the Royal Canadian Air Force’s social media account. They responded to every single comment on their already very solid Trans Day of Remembrance post and they responded like this…

Breaking: Administration officials working overtime to find turkeys with sexual assault and crypto scam convictions so the President can pardon them

Yesterday, Trump defended the Saudi Crown Prince in the Oval Office. He said he had “nothing” to do with the murder of Jamal Khashoggi. But I reviewed a call while serving on Trump’s NSC that I believe would be of interest to the Khashoggi family and the American people. Release the transcript.

We can be upset that President Trump called a reporter “Piggy”, but let’s not forget that a great hero of the classic novel “Lord of the Flies” — Jack — used that term as an honorific when he was splitting up a shell company and helping punish an enemy of the people.

I really hate it when scientists keep saying that “we need to rebuild trust in science,” because it implies that scientists are to blame for the mistrust rather than the millions of dollars of dark money that have funded political attacks on science in order to advance a far right agenda.

This is pretty intense foreignpolicy.com/2025/11/11/t...

“I propose to take our countrymen’s claims of American exceptionalism seriously, which is to say I propose subjecting our country to an exceptional moral standard.” — Ta Nehisi Coates BTWAM p.8

Shout out to everybody racing from one task to another with barely any time to wolf down a snack to stave off the hunger.

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Family of Fisherman Killed in U.S. Military Strike Says It Wants Justice www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/w...

Some days are just tough because of insomnia. If that’s you today, I see you. I’m right there with ya.

just saw the worst gaming ad ive ever seen

Shout out to everybody so fixated on details that you gotta erase that letter on the crossword and rewrite it because it’s not good enough.

The Founders were so concerned about bribery that the Constitution forbids it three separate times. Two emoluments clauses ban officials—unambiguously including the president—from accepting things of value, plus bribery is the only named impeachable offense besides treason. Unprecedentedly corrupt.

MAGA: Release the Epstein files!!!!! Sensible person: How about we implement more systems of accountability so powerful people cannot harm innocent folks in all the different ways? MAGA: Uhh wat

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I guess it was a little mean to put on this shirt when The Duchess went to close up the barn halfway thru Us. ✂️

Usually I’m very concerned with the feelings of the peasants — in a psychological metaphor kinda way. I bend over backwards to soothe everybody’s feelings. Not today. Today I’m gonna burninate.

NEW: Authorities said Tren de Aragua “terrorists” had taken over the building. A ProPublica investigation found little evidence to back up the government’s claims. For the first time, the Venezuelans arrested in a Chicago raid are telling their stories.

Commentary: Not Sure How They Deal With Criminals In Your Town, But ’Round Here We Use A Restorative Justice Process https://theonion.com/not-sure-how-they-deal-with-criminals-in-your-town-but-round-here-we-use-a-restorative-justice-process/

Private equity drove a nursing home chain into the ground. Then it declared bankruptcy, which could let it off the hook for hurting patients. Now, it's trying to sell the company to the same people who bankrupted it. @blumenthal.senate.gov @goodlander.house.gov and I are sounding the alarm.

Shared this classic video with my Creative Writing students today. It always makes me feel big stuff. Thanks @shanekoyczan.bsky.social youtu.be/LMyl_nmZxD4?...

Woah. Didn’t expect that. Naomi Klein: Doppelganger p. 327

Hey no problem.. maybe he can just get another pardon? — Felon Freed by Trump Is Sentenced Again, This Time to 27 Months www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/n...

Harsh but fair. (From “Big Jim and the White Boy” p. 69)

It's been 20 years since V showed up on the screen, and his story is more relevant than ever. Remember the fifth! www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSA7...

here is my story about how Zohran's focus on community amid the loneliness epidemic helped young people connect their politics to an organizing infrastructure, that interviewed ZM, and does not use the NYT's framing of "they don't know how to make friends" :-) and also ran 4 days before NYT's lol

I thought I was inventing a word but it's been around since 1843. How about that? Let's commonize it! (LOSE THAT RED UNDERLINE, GOOGLE!) www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/c...

Often in the classroom, I feel like Somerset in SE7EN.

COLLINS: Should the president know who he's pardoning? MARKWAYNE MULLIN: I don't know anything about this one. That's the first time I've seen that.

Meh. A thoroughly mediocre horror-thriller with massive wasted story potential and Ethan Hawke for some reason. Great actor in a weak role.

all he’s missing here is a plaque saying “live love let them eat cake”

This is amazing. And it’s truly the stuff of nightmares.

I’m still shocked that stories like this which come out daily still get largely ignored. The most corrupt person to ever hold any public office in US history. I will keep posting them every day and try to amplify them, even when most media doesn’t care. www.wsj.com/finance/curr...

When we were deployed, some Afghans risked their lives to help us. Now Trump wants to send them out to be killed by the Taliban. It’s a disgrace, a betrayal, and a decision that endangers future US troops.

1/2 ICE violently detained a Virginia mother driving her daughter to school because she couldn’t recite her Social Security number from memory. “When she stumbled, the agent just lunged at her,” said her 16 yo. She showed her work permit, SS card, license, registration:ICE arrested her anyway.

This is kinda gross, but .. you ever pick your nose and then your nose smells like snot? What the hell is that about?