An honest assessment of the current status of higher education in America open.substack.com/pub/sharonmc...

Wowwwwww

ICE apparently lacks capacity to oppress more than one city at a time. This is performative authoritarianism. performative authoritarianism that has killed people, yes. It’s not a joke. But it is also incapable of any sort of meaningful authoritarian consolidation. They lack the numbers to win.

😢 www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

You deserve food, shelter and medical care. You don't deserve an economic/political system that shames you for not being able to afford any of those www.firesidestacks.com/p/billionair...

These guys are all on the same Telegram channel where the orders come down

the reason people sometimes act madder at democrats than republicans when republicans do impossibly evil shit is the same reason why, if you hired an exterminator to handle a roach infestation and he showed up to feed and play with them instead, your first instinct wouldn’t be to yell at the roaches

They hanged propagandists at Nuremberg.

Real interesting stuff here

For those of us interested in saving this democracy... blog.apaonline.org/2025/11/12/t...

Certainly interesting...

oh hey, what do you know?

This is so discouraging. The one area where I thought AI might actually be helpful and nope, these AI tools are prioritizing race, gender, and age for both diagnosis and treatment. E.g., AI recommends inferior treatment for Black cancer patients.

Holy crap chart from Gallup

Here's the full-circle scam Ultra-wealthy PE's and bankers buy politicians who promise not to tax them Politicians instead borrow from pension funds to pay for public infrastructure Pension funds go insolvent and get stuck yield-chasing Pension funds have to invest in funds managed by said PE's

“Movie Intros in 2026” 🤣

A police stop is enough to make someone less likely to vote, recent research has found. "Voting is a reflection of our belief that we’re part of the system, that our voice matters."

Maybe the poverty line is actually $140k, and what that means "We have created a system where the only way to survive is to be destitute enough to qualify for aid, or rich enough to ignore the cost. Everyone in the middle is being cannibalized." www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...

It's not this platform. It's all of society that hates AI

Narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy are not merely the result of genetics and childhood experiences. These traits are also a natural consequence of the survival logic of the environments in which people develop. Here's how.

🤣 www.cnn.com/2025/11/21/p...

imagine walking down the beach and seeing jesus carrying some guy

Musk's ego was mortally wounded by Joyce Carol Oates and he's been on a narcissistic supply bender since

TEN MONTHS IN: The national debt is higher. The trade deficit is wider. The inflation rate has worsened. The unemployment rate is up.

QANON CULTIST IN 2017: "In this 1,879 page thread I will unravel the byzantine system of codewords and phrases the global elite use to mask their pedophile cabal." JEFFREY EPSTEIN WRITING AN EMAIL AT THE SAME TIME: "helo its me jeff had fun cmmitting sex crimes wit u lst weeknd"

The fact that the Democrats are still caving in to Trump 10 years after he showed up is a remarkable weakness of the two party system. The American people have been sick of Trump for a while, they should have other options to fight back besides the Dems

Warner is up for reelection. He was widely seen driving towards surrender behind the scenes, but he's voting no in public because it's unpopular. The real question is whether he supports a senate leadership change. If not, someone who supports senate leadership change should primary him.

Important to understand this. There's a reasonable chance that your Dem Senator who voted against it and is acting mad now was in on the play. It's the same reason why they scheduled the surrender for AFTER the election this week. They didn't want people pissed at Dems right before an election.

The 8 Democrats who caved to Trump last night: Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada Dick Durbin of Illinois John Fetterman of Pennsylvania Maggie Hassan of New Hampshire Tim Kaine of Virginia Angus King of Maine Jacky Rosen of Nevada Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

So what's next for our democracy? evanstruth.com/2025/11/09/2...

holy shit -- one of Trump's toadies just passed out and the White House event is brought to an abrupt end

I’ll keep pushing this line of analysis because I’m increasingly convinced the clearest path out of this mess is for Dems to adopt a relentless anti-corruption, anti-inequality, anti-oligarchy, pro-democracy platform. The Dem leadership hasn’t realized it yet, but they’re now a reform party.

I've seen this go by a few times on TikTok now and I have to say, I love this idea. We need a way to convince people to keep running even if they don't win, maybe building the loss into it as a troll move is the secret.

KRUGMAN: “.. The Trump tariffs were supposed to bring about a revival of U.S. manufacturing. That’s obviously not happening ..” @pkrugman.bsky.social @cavandy.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

"Troublesome family members usually don't attend gay weddings." This quote kind of blew my mind. Like, what if what's going on today in our culture is simply just troublesome people want to keep being able to be troublesome in public? www.reddit.com/r/NoStupidQu...

🧵 Pop quiz: Who said these things about Trump? 🧵 1. “America’s Hitler.” 2. “Lacks the character and moral center we desperately need.” 3. “A race-baiting, xenophobic, religious bigot.” 4. “Con artist.” 5. “Insulting to women.” 6. “Inexcusable.” 7. “Pathological liar.”

some documentation of the higher grocery prices of Trump's presidency www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Here’s the original clip of Ronald Reagan from April 25, 1987, where he delivered a complete and total rebuke against tariffs. Trump's calling Reagan’s words here “FAKE” and “fraudulent.” They’re 100% real. And the original clip is actually far worse for Trump, as much is left out of the ad:

All of the pilfering, vandalism, and outright death caused by DOGE cuts, and all of the thefts from the future by illegally stopping research grants, didn't save a penny, Trump spent the money and more on corruption and incompetent ICE goons.

Tip o’ the hat to jolmy

Devastating news for the homeless community in Santa Cruz, yet unsurprising given the position Housing Matters found itself in lookout.co/santa-cruz-n...?

🚨 NEWS: Colombian President Gustavo Petro accuses U.S. government officials of murder and violating Colombia’s sovereignty and says the Trump-ordered strike of a boat in the Caribbean killed a fisherman named Alejandro Carranza.

and another thing: he’s not mad. please don’t put it in the newspaper that he got mad.

This makes sense coming from the guy whose son monitors his porn consumption

My takeaway; If one single multi-billionaire actually cared about democracy and human rights in America, they could probably just pay Trump and he would fall in line