<Everything> else - whatever Kitchen Table or civil rights or other policy issue you care about - <follows> from fixing our broken institutions & having multiparty majoritarian democracy. <All> of it. We keep doing it backwards, thinking Just One Popular Policy will fix it. It’s a category error.

The Winter War ended on this day 85 years ago. The harsh peace terms came as a shock to people: the home front had no idea how difficult the situation actually was at the front. Here you can see a colorized picture of the Finnish flag flying in half-mast.

I really can't emphasize enough that if you care about local politics, all you gotta do is show up. Just a regular schmegular person showing up. Literally just show up consistently in person and within a remarkably short amount of time, you will have a shocking amount of influence.

This is a good deep-dive into an institution that tried to walk a tightrope between faux-republican legitimacy, veiled monarchy, and popular and military legitimacy.

Just a PSA to the men out there who are mad about not getting what they want in this world: Being a man is like playing life on easy or at most normal difficulty, you need to get your shit together, the world is not against you because you're a man

What time do you get in?

Spending a week and a half in Paris and Madrid really drives home the point that the (American-ish) concept of a "one-seat ride" is overrated, and frequent headways at nearly all hours of the day is the true gold standard.

An absolute scandal compounded in this case by failure of French government and EU institutions to forcefully react and sanction in turn those who have sanctioned ICC judges and prosecutors. Makes a total mockery of FR/EU's repeated commitment to the rule of law/ICC www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...

Hegseth responded to Kelly telling the military not to obey illegal orders by . . . illegally ordering the military to investigate Kelly. apnews.com/article/pent...

Hegseth is now threatening to recall Sen. Mark Kelly to active duty in order to court martial him.

Every Democrat in Congress should put out a video saying troops have an obligation to refuse unlawful orders. Make them prosecute all of you. This isn't a close call. I'd add Republicans too if I thought any of them had the courage to actually cross Trump on this.

Again, every elected Democrat needs to put out a video stating exactly what Kelly and the others said. If ever there were a line to draw in the sand, it’s here. The military is not the president’s Praetorian Guard.

We really do have two different kinds of law now: District Court law (aka the law), and Supreme Court "law" (aka the U.S. House of Lords upholding Trump's personalist regime)

I also look forward to trying to argue in court that the common instruction on the need to disobey illegal orders given to all military personnel is now illegal and punishable by court martial. And doing so while a movie called Nuremberg is in theaters.

I do not know what comes after Trump in the GOP. But I do know that if those who gleefully committed crimes and tried to destroy democracy at his behest are not fully held accountable, whatever comes after will be somehow worse.

I love seeing creative plating of food.

Great interview with Coach Franklin! #Hokies

If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features." There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.

He has made every single person and thing he's touched in his life worse. The world is worse for his existence. We all suffer for the failures of the social, cultural, political, and economic systems that allow him to exist.

There is no person in the entire state of Idaho who is more transparently predictably shameless as Raul Labrador. Didn't you know? Nobody runs over children with lifted pick up trucks in Idaho except "illegal immigrants." Deport all of them. The lifted pick up trucks I mean. #Idaho #idpol #IdahoGOP

I’m not sure if this is ultra-woke or just optimistic but I think the American populace on balance wants social democracy more than they want to watch a handful of targeted demographics suffer

This is a real flight school, teaching people to fly planes!!! Like????

An amazing photo from NASA Many of you have been able to witness the wonders of Auroras all over our Country And guess what This solar storm isn't over should go through November 13-14... Go outside and ENJOY The Northern Lights

The thing to understand about this is that this catastrophe in the UK has redounded to the political benefit of the very same people and political movement that pushed for it! Extremely perverse.

I wonder if the United States can learn anything from the last time a major industrialized country decided to isolate itself from the rest of the world? Almost a decade after the Brexit vote, GDP in the UK is around 6-8% lower relative to peer countries. (Source: www.nber.org/papers/w34459)

It is hard to get over that the Q-Anon folks spent years feverishly looking in pizza parlors for the cabal of rich, elite pedophiles and it turns out THERE WAS ONE, right in front of their noses, which they failed to identify and instead voted for three times in a row.

A high-resolution digital map allows people to plan their routes along the ancient roads of the Roman Empire go.nature.com/4nHZmoM

As cultural looting surges in Syria after a bloody civil war and a decades-long brutal dictatorship, thieves have broken into the National Museum of Damascus and walked away with six valuable Roman-era statues.

My latest for @hyperallergic.com looks at a late Roman shipwreck (ca. 320 CE) found off the coast of Mallorca with over 300 amphorae. A ton of implications for understanding early Christian trade and of course … garum 🐠 Thanks to @hakimbishara.bsky.social for edits! hyperallergic.com/1056159/near...

If you’re still paying for the New York Times, you should stop. Support local journalism instead of this disgrace of a newspaper.

Another kid was murdered by a car driver yesterday in #Boise. The US is the only developed country where pedestrian fatalities have been going up over the last decade. Every other developed country has been going down.

Seattle's Mamdani is winning by an absurdly small margin over our incumbent mayor, who once pulled a gun on a pregnant woman in a parking lot. Vote in your local elections! www.thestranger.com/news/2025/11...

"I shall pass this way but once; any good, therefore, that I can do or any kindness I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer nor neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again." - Ralph Waldo Emerson ​

“Contentment and discontent should be defined not by the frequency or rarity of one's actions, but by their goodness or badness: the omission of good deeds is just as disturbing as the commission of bad deeds.” - Plutarch

Abolish the Senate. I am absolutely dead serious.

The US Senate is a worthless institution that has, with a few very brief exceptions, been a reactionary force in the US for all its history, holding back progress, holding back the will of the voters, upholding a grossly oligarchic, patriarchal, racist hierarchy. Flush it down the toilet.

The President pardoned members of his private militia after they failed to overturn an election; they, in turn, pledge their support to him and urge him to use them to police civil society.

And also, this isn’t the first time Democrats have done something like this. It’s a playbook by now. There’s always a greater battle ahead that Democrats never seem willing to fight

I'm pretty sure the whole point of this frustration was that a substantial chunk of your colleagues don't want anything to do with the bigger fight, and fail to see the manifest dangers from repeatedly giving these people what they want with no meaningful strings attached. Jesus Christ.

seems to me that those democrats inclined not to fight perceive themselves as living through a somewhat ordinary cycle of presidential overreach and backlash and not something much more significant and dangerous

It is my mission in life to demonstrate that it is technically possible to be a white guy interested in Rome and still be normal

Senate Democrats think this is the appropriate response because they begin every conflict with the assumption they will lose, and then ask “How can we end this as quickly as possible while creating the appearance of having tried to win so the base isn’t mad?”

Yeah these guys are born losers and are unable to even do basic spin for themselves

Democratic leadership: YOU MUST VOTE HARDER. Democratic voters: VOTE SUPER HARD IN MASSIVE NUMBERS AND FLIP SEATS AT MULTIPLE LEVELS OF GOVERNMENT ACROSS THE COUNTRY Democratic leadership: WE’RE CAVING. LULZ.

I think Senate folders are significantly underestimating how fucking angry Democratic voters are at them

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

Democrats have spent the past 30 fucking years insulating the GOP from the political repercussions of the pain they have said REPEATEDLY they want to inflict. And look where it's fucking gotten us (hint: there's a narcissistic deranged fascist in the White House).