MAGA’s ongoing war on academic freedom, reflected in headlines from the last 24 hours.

the passive voice in the text over the image is unacceptable

“Housing shortage – Jews to blame," letter sticker, German Reich, 1938 zwangsraeume.berlin/en/context

For folks (and journalists) who want to search the Oversight Committee email texts, I made a database for searching the 20k text files: splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app

My takeaway from every new Epstein revelation is that some powerful people victimized many powerless young women, many more knew, some actively enabled it--and we're still being told that MeToo and accountability for sexual violence have gone too far

High end wealth inequality allows for shit like this

A man pardoned by Donald Trump for his role in January 6th - he assaulted Capitol Police officers with bear spray & a metal whip - has avoided prison for child sex crimes because of the president’s sweeping pardon, despite pleading guilty to soliciting what he believed was a 15-year-old girl for sex

NEW: The US has deported a longtime Oregon firefighter who was arrested by Border Patrol while deployed at a major wildfire in Washington state. José Bertin Cruz-Estrada, separated from his family, is speaking out from Mexico for the first time: “I feel betrayed ... What am I going to do now?"

And he's totally setting the stage to disregard a Supreme Court loss claiming doing so would present a "national security" threat.

The US kills 6 more on suspected drug boats. Bringing the total to 76 in 19 attacks. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...

Hi, @kaine.senate.gov, looks like your pinky promise didn't even make it 24 hours.

The evidence keeps accumulating that Brexit was an astonishing self-inflicted economic policy disaster. The fact that it is a slow-moving one bodes ill for those who think that populist economic mismanagement will translate into voters punishing populists. www.nber.org/system/files...

I can't tell you how many interviews I've done where I've been asked: If Trump's policies are so problematic, why are U.S. stocks rising so rapidly. A bit of international context illustrates the real issue here. U.S. stocks have dramatically underperformed other advanced economies.

Ending or cutting back SNAP was the point, so why believe R's will do anything to stop the Trump administration from trying other ways once the government re-opens?

Forcing us to eat gross mushy pasta on top of everything else. This cost $2.49 in January

BREAKING: Trump just issued a blanket pardon for 79 individuals related to the 2020 fake electors scheme, to try and rig the election. NOTE: He can’t pardon State crimes even if he thinks he can. He’s clearly trying to normalize election rigging for 2026.

Harm to SNAP recipients, federal workers, and others is real. In a normal democracy it’d make sense to prioritize reducing that harm in the short term. In a rapidly backsliding democracy, harm is happening no matter what. Preventing authoritarian consolidation is the most harm-reducing move.

remember tuesday? that was 86 years ago

Senators on the brink of retirement who lived full, wealthy lives and never feared the loss of their own healthcare voting for their constituents to die from their inability to afford the same is treasonous

Just a reminder.

Yep. My feelings exactly.

Republicans could have voted for this on their own. They wanted Democrats to share the burden because it is a disaster for the American people. They got what they wanted.

watching my Obamacare premiums go from $422/month to $1455/month on the Senate floor right now.

A reminder - last March, republicans promised to restore $1.1B in funding to DC in exchange for funding the government, and Mike Johnson never took it up in the House.

All of this is confirming my belief that Republicans never learn from a loss and Democrats never learn from a win

Hi, @kaine.senate.gov, she is right. Your vote is a betrayal to all working people in VA.

Anyway a great way to radicalize people is for them to realize that you just abandoned their chance at being able to access and afford health care because you didn’t like waiting in line at the airport.

Sen Gary Peters is in his own way the biggest embarrassment of the lot. He’s been a leader of Team Cave and he’s retiring. So there’s no politics or risk aversion. He wants to cave as a matter of genuine principle.

Same story here. Don't make this have been for nothing, @kaine.senate.gov

i think this is key. taking the deal would amount to taking the blame. it would turn a clear political victory into an unambiguous defeat.

Democrats have to stop bailing out Republicans from facing the consequences of their own policies. And yeah, that means they have to stop sparing voters from experiencing what GOP government truly means. Every time Dems step in, it only emboldens the GOP & they make it even worse the next time.

Schumer and the Dems are about to teach Trump the lesson that they’ll cave whenever he abuses power to sufficiently hurt people.

Yeah it seems like the best political move is to give into this guy

Dems backed Trump into a corner where he’s advocating for starving Americans and hemorrhaging support. If they vote to let him off the hook in exchange for nothing it’s a cataclysmic failure. I know people are in pain but insulating Republicans from political consequences is not the answer.

This is how they repeal the ACA without repealing the ACA - retrenchment by default.

CALL ALL OF THEM. SAY PRIMARY. "Sens. Jacky Rosen (Nev.), Tammy Baldwin (Wis.), Mark Kelly (Ariz.),Jon Ossoff (Ga.), Gary Peters (Mich.) &Dick Durbin (Ill.) were among the Democrats who participated in secretive negotiations to end the shutdown & are considered possible “yes” votes for the deal."

Hi, @kaine.senate.gov & @markwarner.bsky.social, please do not vote to re-open the government without some extension of the ACA subsidies. I am in a HH w/ a federal worker. Do not make these past five weeks have been for nothing. The American people support your fight for affordable healthcare.

Republicans publicly claimed they wouldn’t cut Medicare. That’s why they did it so sneakily.

The Trump administration is working as hard as it can to starve 42 million kids, seniors and families. Incompetence and inhumanity in equal measure.

What’s up tomorrow I return to the workplace To ruin it, heh #NYTHaikus

People need to understand that Chicago is a preview, not a culmination.

I'm struck by how many Chicagoans have seemingly felt compelled to write and share reflections on "this is what it feels like in Chicago right now". We know we're going through something awful together and we want the world to understand it. Threading several of these pieces below.

Of course.

"A team of independent forensic analysts examined their testimony. The experts called it consistent and credible, saying most of the acts described met the United Nations’ definition of torture." In our name, with our tax dollars. Trump II is an indelible stain on our national honor.

"If it pleases the court, our position is that the poor people should go hungry"

Trump’s aid cuts are killing far more Nigerian Christians than Islamic terrorists are. Independent monitors in Nigeria report 33 deaths this year in attacks against Christians (fewer than the 88 Muslims killed). But Trump cut off aid that helped save 270,000 lives a year in Nigeria. 270,000 > 33.

Not sure if these are the Page One headlines WH was going for. @wsj.com

ChatGPT advised a suicidal young woman on how to take her own life, telling her "If you choose death, I'm with you - till the end, without judging."

And there it is….. Announcement is made that the U.S. House will be out of session AGAIN next week Two full months since their most recent vote