New: Leaked phone calls throw scrutiny on Witkoff’s pro-Kremlin maneuverings open.substack.com/pub/diplomat...

Since 2000, political donations from the richest 100 Americans have increased nearly 140x. They collectively spent over $1B in 2024, amounting to 1 in every 13 dollars spent during the election. Is it any wonder why so many regular people feel like they no longer have a voice?

This is a huge win that you might have missed last week: we successfully pressured airlines to shut down their data broker, which was selling passenger data to the government without a court order. I'm going to keep at it until other industries to follow suit.

Dartmouth is hiring climate science postdocs through the prestigious Provost's Fellowship! Info: apply.interfolio.com/178090 Applications are due February 15, 2026. Come join our collaborative and supportive climate community! Reach out to me ([email protected]) with questions.

We’re here in Central Park with Mayor-Elect @ZohranKMamdani.bsky.social to announce that our Executive Director @AnnemarieGray.bsky.social will be joining his transition committee on housing!

Under a zero tolerance policy, the first Trump administration separated immigrant children from their families at the U.S.-Mexico border. New data suggests separations are happening all over the country, often after little more than a traffic stop.

If you plan to follow this advice, please see me after class

The Trump administration has pardoned several criminals, many of whom who have broken the law again. This woman stole money from an employer as a college student. That was 24 years ago. Since then she started a business and a family. Now she is hauled back to country she left as a child in shackles.

In the richest city on Earth, 40% of NYC families can’t afford weekly food costs, and food prices are up 33% over the past decade. It’s time for a city government that puts affordability at the top of the agenda.

When We Had A President Who Actually Stood For America,Like Obama Did......

"The mutation happened right B4 our #flu season. This means our current #vaccines — finalized back in Feb — will likely recognize some, but not all, of this updated #virus. It’s simply bad luck that #H3N2 evolved so much in the months after the vax formula was ..." 1/2 #IDSky #MedSky

Dash is just the worst Sulzberger yet

Geothermal energy is essentially carbon-free, it is available at any time of day and in any weather, and it leaves a small footprint on the landscape. New approaches to harnessing it may have us on the cusp of an energy revolution. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/0-UeER

You just have to wonder, do elected Republicans EVER get tired of Trump threatening them the second they do something he disagrees with? Do they ever feel like soulless cowards when they remain silent while he does it to others? Is holding onto their office worth the debasement?

They are all cashing in corporate sponsors and illegal Wall St tips. It's all about the benjamins, nothing more nothing less.

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Lib Dem Leader @eddavey.libdems.org.uk: "A great British institution is under attack from a foreign government. President Trump is trying to destroy our BBC... Trump has undermined press freedom in America. Now he's trying to do the same here, disgracefully egged on by the leader of Reform."

You can always count on @balint.house.gov for a prescient #CupOfJoe. “It’s unconscionable that Republicans ignore the will of the people. The majority of Americans want to pass sensible gun laws.”

I refuse to believe politicians are forgetting how rancid MTG is. Sure we can have a big tent but we do not need to welcome someone like her. Please everyone get a fucking hold of yourselves.

It’s a hoax but we’re investigating Dems Tariffs were working but we’re removing them We’re super popular, the election results were about something else We control all three houses of govt but the shut down was their fault Immigrants don’t pay tax but were finding them through the IRS

Never forget that just a week ago, Ross Douthat and the NYTimes were asking if women ruined the workplace.

Last month he was a soybean farmer, this month he’s an expert on intercontinental cattle drives.

So you opened an investigation into fake news?

oh my fucking god he is 100% confusing cadillac insurance plans with people buying cadillacs "and it's gonna be locked so they can't go out and buy, uh, a cadillac, they can go out and buy health insurance"

HOLY SHIT ONE THOUSAND GIRLS

The Harvard Crimson has ID'ed and published the name of a well-known economist who was the subject of emails between Larry Summers and Epstein. Born in China, she did her B.A. – Ph.D. at Harvard. The code name that Summers and Epstein used in their emails about her was "peril." What a vile pig.

Burns' six-part documentary uses voiceover, reenactors and drone footage to tell the story of America's founding. And it reminds viewers that the quest for a more perfect union is far from over.

Haven't seen such an explicit, shameless statement of the power dynamics of sexual harassment since Dennis's "the implication" scene in It's Always Sunny www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

The undergrads at the Crimson has consistently done a better job at investigating stories--big and small--than some of the legacy papers. Go college journalism.

Ireland winning goal and end of match with Irish commentary

Complicated dude but in ‘88 in Minneapolis heard him gave one of the best political speeches I’ve ever heard, about cynicism being the tool of the oppressor.

Trump doesn’t have to call on House Republican to vote to release the file. Trump can order Bondi and Patel to release the files. Tomorrow. The question is, has he already ordered Bondi and Patel to destroy some of the files after they went through them months ago.

The truth will have its day. That day is now. Release all the Epstein files.

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

Operation Change The Topic From Epstein

Remember: The richest 1% evade over $160 billion in taxes every year. That amount would fund SNAP for a year with money to spare. Ask yourself who the real freeloaders are.

And Kudlow just nods along, as if Hassett is reading passages from the thesaurus bsky.app/profile/atru...

This is actually wrong, and I’m sure Vance as a politician knows this. Disagreeing w a false claim does not, psychologically, necessarily advance the truth. It can actually cement in ppl’s minds the wrong answer. That’s why when someone says “X,” which is false, you DON’T say “it’s not X, but Y.”

Wow.

LOL the NY Post has its finger on the pulse of today's big story

Rendered beef tallow is all the hydration you need.

this mfer is gonna come out against water soon “Hydration. It might cause cancer. We just don’t know. Drink motor oil and that’s it.”

YUP!!!

🫢 "Mr. Epstein described Mr. Trump as a “dirty” businessman who was “borderline insane,” untrustworthy and worse in “real life and upclose” than the image he sought to portray to the public." www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...

The cavers and their defenders are shnooks, suckers, rubes.

BRAVO, SCHUMER AND HIS BLUE MAGAts ACHIEVED THEIR GOAL bsky.app/profile/nyti...

AOC: How can we, as members of congress, Republican or Democrat, vote to enrich ourselves by stealing from the American people? That is what this legislation does. In fact, Senator Graham said he was going to seek well over $1 million from the American people, from this.

Robert Mueller made Trump's finances off limits.

Thank you for noticing. You may also notice that if your argument is that there is just a correlation, not causation, then there is no reason to "control for" things. And even less reason to control for things by using your consulting firm's super secret proprietary model.