My God!

"Among the crowd was a 17-year-old high school student from Astoria who attended P.S. 166. 'Kids shouldn’t be kidnapped,' he said. 'I used to go to 166 and want to show up because I hate seeing this happen in my neighborhood, in my school and in my country'...” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/n...

Exploración y conquista española de Norteamérica (2022): https://mapasmilhaud.com/mapas-historicos/exploracion-y-conquista-espanola-de-norteamerica-2022/ #Mapas #Maps

Saturday

bad faith sophistry from Cotton. There is no credible argument justifying killing shipwrecked survivors If he thinks the law is wrong, he is free to try and rewrite it. He is a Senator. But what he can't do is pretend his personal preference is in any way a good faith interpretation of clear law.

Danseuse espagnole, by Joan Miró, 1945, 📸 by Max Molina

NEW: www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

Hands Reaching Up From Hell, Wat Rong Khun Temple, by Chalermchai Kositpipat, 1997

Frank Gehry, who designed some of most imaginative buildings ever constructed and achieved a level of worldwide acclaim seldom afforded any architect, has died. He was 96. https://to.pbs.org/3Y9b15s

They’ve nullified the 14th amendment once already, they don’t care what the constitution says, only what their political allies want it to say

I've long said that the Dutch speak the best English.

"These violent delights have violent ends"

The constitution is colorblind unless you want to discriminate against nonwhites. Then it’s fine apnews.com/article/supr...

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waiting for the ferry to Sausalito

Dear lord.

The “garbage” destroying America isn’t in Minnesota’s Somalian community. It’s in the Oval Office. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

"bein' a idiot is no box of chocolates" -Sean Duffy, possibly

Happening now. www.youtube.com/live/r0jCS4u...

Sam Wo's beef noodle soup

Historical ships are a thing

oh hello

This is Nazi rhetoric. I've read the history and talked to the survivors and visited the museums. I don't use the term lightly. It echoes genocidal language used against Jews for centuries. It represents an assault on Jewish values. Every Jewish org should condemn this. Loudly. Forcefully.

This Day in Labor History: December 2, 1984. A gas leak in a Union Carbide chemical plant in Bhopal, India killed somewhere between 3787 and 16,000 people. Let's talk about probably the worst industrial disaster in history and how U.S. companies can murder with impunity, then and now!

This administration is a collection of demonstrably unreliable folks. Meritocracy, indeed.

Pete Hegseth on Sept 3 talking about the strike on boats where 2 survivors were later killed in a second strike: “I watched it live.”

Thank you, @carriealee.bsky.social

talking to reporters last night, Trump claimed of Hegseth's double tap strike that "I don't know anything about it," then moments later claimed "I don't who you're talking about" when asked his plan to pardon the former Honduran president

The president added Sunday that he has “no idea” which part of his body was scanned by the MRI. “It was just an MRI,” he said. “What part of the body? It wasn’t the brain because I took a cognitive test and I aced it.” https://to.pbs.org/440Wz37

I didn't know anyone who died of AIDS. I know it still happens. I'm just slightly too young. But I do have friends who saw their friends get wiped out. The human cost is incalculable, and I'd never pretend to speak to it. But the older I get I'm more conscious of what it did to NY & the theatre.

Obviously "mass deportation will lower housing costs" was never a real argument but @mtkonczal.bsky.social crunched the numbers. Get ready to for crimes against humanity to save you a two liter of shasta mikekonczal.substack.com/p/mass-depor...

Killing people who are marooned on a shipwreck is so obviously illegal it's one of the super obvious cases that the Department of Defense actually uses as a textbook example in it's on procedural manual. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuGk...

A basic and intuitive understanding of the law is that punishments should not be retroactive upon a policy change. This is even worse. There is no formal policy change, they are simply penalizing couples for following common practice - explicitly allowed by Congress - for decades.

NEW: Pentagon recalls Hegseth to active duty for violating most of the UCMJ www.duffelblog.com/pentagon-rec...

Honored to be quoted here by @jenrubin.bsky.social alongside Gene Fidell, @rgoodlaw.bsky.social, and @jacklgoldsmith.bsky.social. contrarian.substack.com/p/war-crimeo...

The news has entirely failed to grasp the unprecedented scope of the ICE and DHS budgets. Nothing like it in modern history. A galaxy of public/private surveillance and caging institutions for $100,000,000,000s unleashed on a public that will be forever changed. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...

every neoliberal policy analyst wants to "trim the fat" of society until the lean times come. community level resilience, redundancies, etc are good actually

Five-byline alert: 🚨 David Sacks “has 708 tech investments .. that could be aided directly or indirectly by his policies, according to a New York Times analysis “The tech bros are out of control,” said Steve Bannon. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/t...

When this criminal was jailed, the judge told David Gentile and America: ‘This is a warning to would-be fraudsters that seeking to get rich by taking advantage of investors gets you only a one-way ticket to jail.’ I guess not

Changpeng Zhao Juan Orlando Hernández David Gentile Jesus.

$1.6bln: The amount of his fraud scheme 7: Years of his sentence 10,000: Victims of his fraud 1,000: Letters from victims to the court 13: Days he served 1: Pardon from Trump www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/u...

Good front-paging.

🧵This 58-year-old nurse from Maryland is seen being violently dragged along the ground by officials in Ghana. Trump deported her there. This abhorrent & disgusting abuse of a woman who saved American lives and cared for injured and ill Americans for 30 years. All the details below are worse.

While he pardons Honduran ex-president convicted of drug trafficking. www.pbs.org/newshour/wor...

Introduce yourself with 5 animals you’ve seen in the wild: Raven Water Moccasin Common Dolphin Cooper's Hawk Elk

NEW: The New York Times got a State Dept. cable telling diplomats to destroy visas that had been approved and printed to give to Afghans. And diplomats are told to do scheduled interviews but not grant visas. US shuts all legal entry routes for Afghans. Our story: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/u...