1/2 Just-dismissed Librarian of Congress, Dr. Carla Hayden, has a PhD from U Chicago, is in numerous scholarly societies, has wide acclaim. She is also first African-American to lead LoC. The dismissal note did not say "Dear Dr. Hayden" or "Dear Madame Librarian" or even "Dear Carla."

BREAKING: Trump has signed an executive order creating a Sovereign Wealth Fund- popular with Middle East monarchies - so the U.S. can buy TikTok. That’s state-run media, folks. www.reuters.com/markets/weal...

⚠️ Petit exemple de la nouvelle disruption en cours :

Something something history rhymes something

Ann Telnaes, dessinatrice du Washington Post, a annoncé qu'elle démissionnait après que la section des opinions du journal a rejeté une caricature représentant le propriétaire du Post, Jeff Bezos, faisant la génuflexion devant une statue de Donald Trump. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/03/b...

The world's richest man has joined a growing chorus of right-wing voices attacking Wikipedia as part of an intensifying campaign against free and open access information. Why do they hate it so much?

”They are hunting us“ Kherson’s civilians have been the target of an experiment without precedent in modern European warfare: a concerted Russian campaign to empty a city by stalking and killing its residents with attack drones in human safaris. /1 www.ft.com/content/31b6...

The thing about Kash Patel's enemies/"deep state" list is that "deep state" means nothing more than "anti-Trump" or even "anti-Patel." www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

In @amandamarcotte.bsky.social's coverage: Pete Hegseth & his religious influences include Douglas Wilson, founder of the denomination Hegseth joined, the classical Christian school option Hegseth frames as a way to train up an underground army for political power. www.salon.com/2024/12/03/p...

Lee Jae-myung, Leader of South Korea's Democratic Party, live-streamed himself scaling the walls of the National Assembly to bypass military barricades so that he could vote to overturn the President's martial law.

Debating whether or not Republicans *really* want to abolish multiracial, pluralistic democracy is futile. The proof is in the pudding, and the pudding is the state level: Wherever they are in charge, Republicans are openly embracing staunchly authoritarian measures intended to erect one-party rule.

Unanimous vote sounds nice, didn't go that way here

Democratic Party aides are shown spraying fire extinguishers at the infiltrating army to keep them back. I just want to add that I am a South Korean citizen and Seoul resident and I am *extremely* proud of South Korean democracy and this president has violated something I hold sacrosanct

Voici un article du Afghan Times sur la précarité menstruelle des femmes durant les crues XXL qui ont frappé l'Afghanistan en mai dernier theafghantimes.com/afghanistan-... Et voilà comme Maryam - la journaliste qui signe ce sujet - travaille cjr.org/world/afghan...

Trump has named a Special Envoy to Ukraine/Russia, and you’ll never guess what network he’s a paid contributor for

I saw a number of people sharing a Guardian piece that suggested Trump had a better grasp of the ground game than Harris. He … didn't. The piece conflated some very different things in a weird way! www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Yipes

Ce qu’il se passe en #Roumanie est à regarder de près. C’est sans précédent et un avertissement pour l’Europe Comment est-ce possible qu'un candidat quasi absent des sondages, 0 parti, 0 campagne, 0 dépense selon lui, a-t-il pu être 1er et obtenir 2,1 millions de votes ? Elements de réponse ⤵️

In Hungary, a key Orbán tactic in dismantling their democracy was that his allies bought media outlets that were critical of the regime and turned them into loyal cheerleaders for the regime.

Nancy Mace didn't do this until there was a specific Representative she could direct her shitty bigotry at, a colleague elected by the voters to whom she hopes to deny basic human dignity.

Two things: 1) Unclear what that is actually supposed to mean - there is no legal/constitutional path from “declare emergency” to “military rounding up people for deportation.” 2) That doesn’t mean this isn’t extremely dangerous. It’s not just a distraction or rhetoric. It’s the defining project.

Oh, forgot to include the "policy didn't cause inflation" chart 5/

Analyse | Retour en force des mensonges et de la désinformation à la Maison-Blanche ? ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/212...?

Top media figures are rarely this candid about the industry's failings. When I asked Susan Glasser if we are falling short, her answer was admirably nuanced, including this: "They're afraid of alienating a large swath of the American audience." Listen: newrepublic.com/article/1798...

"Witnesses said the Al Jazeera reporter was dragged away by Israeli forces, who also destroyed the broadcasting vehicles of news crews at the medical facility." www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/3/...

This is the sausage-making of what Naomi Klein calls "diagonalism," or the path from left of center to far-right 1. Draw attention to neoliberalism's contradictions 2. Characterize those contradictions as the best the "the left" can offer 3. Repeat until subject is radicalized and/or disillusioned

Four days after the German-American Bund held their 1939 pro-Nazi rally at Madison Square Garden, a similarly fascist event was held at a Portland, OR high school. Portland's mayor was the MC, and a former Governor chaired the meeting. The "enemies within" they warned about were New Deal Democrats.

FYI for Insider and everyone in our industry:

It’s also relevant, I think, that this kind of comment smacks of desperation in the primary

This is just someone shopping their West Wing spec script.

Inspiring words from this NASA official

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Yeah, if you’ve got to do this much hand-waving, maybe your take needs more time in the oven.

WASHINGTON (AP) — US homelessness, tied to soaring rents and loss of pandemic aid, up 12% to highest level since reporting began in 2007.

i am continually aghast that we are witnessing the most widespread slaughter of journalists in modern world history and it is not topic A in the media industry. where the hell is the outrage??? www.thenation.com/article/soci...

I wrote up my grand theory of Biden's strategy to outmaneuver Benjamin Netanyahu. The Israeli prime minister has outlasted multiple Democratic presidents. Here's how Biden is trying to learn from their mistakes and systematically undermine Bibi's support from the outside:

It's less important that Vance wanted to sic DOJ on a journalist (which he knew wouldn't happen) than that he tried to excuse Trump's past efforts to subvert democracy.

a literal pro-slavery crank got the texas historical commission to remove books about slavery from gift shops at texas plantations www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...

Poll disaster: No German chancellor since 1997 has shown such a low approval rating as Olaf Scholz, not even once in Angela Merkel's 16 years, with just 20% saying they're satisfied. And his coalition govt is the most unpopular since 2010 www.tagesschau.de/inland/deuts...

I'm imagining an alt history where the French court takes off for Summer vacation without authorizing gunpowder shipments to the Americans.

Today CNN announced NH & IA GOP Prez debates. DeSantis quickly tweeted “I accept! Can’t wait to debate in Iowa!” The debate is not (at least yet) sanctioned by the RNC, which has warned candidates against unsanctioned debates. DeSantis has edited his tweet to remove the “I accept” part. 🤷‍♂️

Just an item today in CNN's newsletter, Reliable Sources: Republican Sen. J.D. Vance has asked Attorney General Merrick Garland if his department will "open an investigation" into The WaPo columnist Robert Kagan for authoring a piece waring that a "Trump dictatorship is increasingly inevitable."

"The evidence is clear: Police departments across the country are solving far fewer crimes than they did before 2020." (via @jeffasher.bsky.social in NYT today) www.nytimes.com/2023/12/05/o...

This is such a crucial distinction - and a key point about what animates the American Right more broadly. I find the “Republicans are just Putin’s puppets” approach really misleading - it misses the point: Both are pursuing a project of anti-liberal, ethno-religious nationalism. 1/

It appears he said the second part of this out loud, in front of people, which is really difficult to comprehend.

The front page of the Washington Post travel section dedicated to (checks notes) a giant gas station convenience store. 🤦‍♂️🙄

The Hungarian govt plans to cut off all outside support for NGOs, independent media and parties in advance of next year's European Parliament and local elections. Here's Dániel Hegedűs's analysis of the bill (which will surely pass the Parliament next week): visegradinsight.eu/viktor-orban...

Ted Cruz: Confirmed: Terrorists from Canada are attaching us!! Reality: New York couple heading to casino after Kiss concert canceled crashes Bentley while speeding.