Who wants a war between the United States and Europe? Putin, that's who.

The Greenland fixation feels like a personal insult to anyone who's spent more than about five minutes thinking about national security. "Hey, let's demolish our most valuable alliance so we can get get access to arctic territory we already have access to!"

RIP Bob Weir

The @guardian gets the headline right 🏆 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

I just left the Venezuela briefing. It's worse than you thought. Oil company executives seem to know more about Trump's secret plan to "run" Venezuela than the American people. We need public Senate hearings NOW.

"Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents. They’ve had their necks kneeled on. They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear. At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them." (Published Oct. 2025)

🚨OH HEY— as we suspected: Musk’s xAI is NOT hiring hundreds of MEMPHIS folks to great jobs like they promised. “Imported talent, local pollution”😕 @mayorpaulyoung @MemphisChamber @SenBrentTaylor any comment? (Thx for the shout-out @calebecarma ! 👋🏽) open.substack.com/pub/oligarch...

During Fiona Hill's testimony to Congress on Oct 14, 2019, she described how Trump and Putin discussed exchanging Ukraine for Venezuela. The quid pro quo was if Trump refuses to help Ukraine fight off a Russian invasion, Putin would not help Venezuela (a Russian ally) resist a US takeover.

“When civilizations fall, so too do the consciousnesses that created them.” Part of a viral thread of mine from 2023 about the war on rationality and where it is leading:

Not sure why MS NOW is covering the Mamdani inauguration live and talking over it. And now showing us barriers and a CVS while a man is speaking. They could talk about people coming from other states after the event.

According to solar sheep rancher, JR Howard, agrivoltaics is the greatest opportunity for the sheep industry in his lifetime. What started with just 400 sheep grazing on one solar site has now expanded to over 10,000 sheep deployed across multiple installations. nativesolar.com/agrivoltaics...

i do not need the measuring swords i do not need the measuring swords i do not need the measuring swords

US justice department halts funding for human-trafficking survivors. DoJ has nearly $90m appropriated by Congress to support victims, but organizations say funding has been cut. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Another beautiful Shchedryk performance amidst ruins. It was set in what used to be a DTEK thermal power plant — now destroyed by russia. The contrast between russia’s destructive nature and the Ukrainian will to create beauty even in the darkest times is palpable.

How would this be worded any differently if it were issued by the Kremlin?

i guess we should just all share the PBS FRONTLINE & PROPUBLICA documentary on CECOT youtu.be/Lku5h9xjrqc

The photographer on that boat was Christopher Anderson, who, 25 years later, snapped the famous photos of the Trump administration for Vanity Fair.

CNN has suddenly discovered Tennessee's Patriot Front compound that was a subject of an extensive NewsChannel 5 investigation back in March. Here is my report: 1/ www.newschannel5.com/news/newscha...

BREAKING: The House of Representatives just passed a bill that would subject immigrant children to invasive bodily searches and keep them in detention instead of releasing them to their families. The Senate must vote no on this horrific bill.

median asking rent in the US per the Census Bureau (data is through 9/30) JD Vance lies as he breathes

We are failing our kids

Anthropic's CEO says AI could destroy half of all entry-level white-collar jobs by 2030 & boost unemployment to 20% This could create a huge new underclass. It would be far better if tech companies built a pro-worker AI rather than an AI that maximizes layoffs www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Timeline Cleanse ⚜️🎶⚜️💙⚜️🎶⚜️ Louis Armstrong and Danny Kaye duet on “When the Saints Go Marching In” in the 1959 musical “The Five Pennies”.

WOW. @haleaziz.bsky.social with a new scoop: ICE now gets a running list of every person who is going to be taking a domestic flight inside the United States from the TSA and runs it through their database looking for targets. This explains the Babson College student's arrest.

To recap: •Rittenhouse killed 2 people at a BLM rally & raised $2M •Shiloh Hendrix called a Black child the n-word & raised $800K •Now Crystal Wilsey called a Black customer the n-word & has already raised $100K in 1 day On thing remains clear—White supremacy remains extremely profitable in America

Link here: www.amnesty.org/en/documents...

For a country so in love with new technology it’s extraordinary they have so little grasp of cause and effect.

Read this: www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...

"We need shadow universities to preserve academic values and academic freedom at a time when they are under attack by government officials and campus administrators." — John K. Wilson for Inside Higher Ed @insidehighered.com

Multiple sources have confirmed that ICE/Border Patrol is headed back to the Raleigh and Durham areas for undefined deportation actions. We've heard 50 ICE agents, charter flights and hotels booked for all of them in the Raleigh area. Let us know what you hear.

2 years ago today In memory, Shane Patrick MacGowan, former member of the punk band Nipple Erectors, co-founder and lead singer of the Celtic punk band The Pogues, founder of Shane MacGowan and The Popes, died of pneumonia after a long illness. 📸 Gie Knaeps #ShaneMacGowan #punkrockhistoy

Under Trump, the U.S. has made it clear that it will screw over all foreign partners without warning. It has earned a reputation as a pariah state.

This is really wild stuff tbh

Today, after months of requests, I toured the Broadview ICE Processing Facility. I want to share what I saw. The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.

I have posted about this before, but... Researchers at Pitt School of Public Health (with NIH funding) developed Project Tycho where they digitized reportable disease data from across the country going back to ~1900. graphics.wsj.com/infectious-d... 1/6

Here’s the Mexican Marines removing signs stating that the Mexican beach is a restricted area by the US Department of Defense. Yes, it’s real.

“Some nonprofit organisations are also observing a dramatic shift downwards in support. Gaza Soup Kitchen has raised more than $5.8m on GoFundMe since February 2024, serving 10,000 meals daily to people living in Gaza. From September to October, it saw donations drop by 51%.”

NORTH CAROLINA DIDN’T SIT BACK AND DO NOTHING!! ✊🏾✊🏼✊🏿✊🏽✊🏻

Flagstaff’s Lowell Observatory plans to cut nearly all its research funding and reduce the number of paid science staff to just two positions next year.

Black coat, white shoes, black hat, Catholic, yeah The pope’s a time bomb

“The prohibited activities would include joint research, co-authorship on papers, and advising a foreign graduate student or postdoctoral fellow. The language is retroactive, meaning any interactions during the previous 5 years could make a scientist ineligible for future federal funding.”

Catastrophe

ICE Agents kidnap workers in Chicago in BROAD DAYLIGHT, leaving equipment running behind

They took all the hope from Tuesday's vote and snuffed it out. MSNBC has people on trying to justify this, explaining that these guys are used to collaborating on deals. If they don't understand that this is not that world, they need to to leave and take Schumer with them.

There's a reason the phrase "We don't negotiate with terrorists" exists. No matter how much it hurts to hold out, if you give in once, you need to be prepared to do it over and over again forever.