This is your reminder that Hungarian-Jewish scientist George de Hevesy dissolved two Nobel Prizes in aqua regia to keep them out of the hands of the Nazis. He then left the dissolved solution on his shelf and fled to Sweden. (After the war he un-dissolved the gold and the prizes were re-cast.)

New party identification polling from Gallup this week shows Americans are moving against Trump faster than they did in his first term. Adults were R+4 in 2024, now D+8. That 12-pt drop is 3x the change in the first year of his first term. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/backlash-t...

Articles of impeachment, except it's just a summary of Trump's presidency lnk.thebulwark.com/4qoQ3we

An excellent speech. Worth reading the whole thing. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

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It’s 9 days in and it’s been a decade

Yet another scandal that would have ended any other administration. Trump's salvation is that he's doing a hundred different things that would be huge scandals and impeachable offenses on their own, but pursued together they become a blob of vague criminality that's hard to tack down.

What can history teach us about what happens when a populist strongman with an idiosyncratic taste for low interest rates undermines central bank independence?

Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG... www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...

Suspect arrested in predawn fire that left parts of Mississippi’s largest synagogue in charred ruins A fire heavily damaged Jackson’s only synagogue before dawn Saturday – the same house of worship that was firebombed by the Ku Klux Klan in 1967 because the rabbi had been an advocate for civil…

The Norwegian Nobel Prize committee has been forced to make a statement, declaring that the prize cannot be transferred. It's hard even to comprehend how stupid this has become

But the NY Post told me he was a good Christian man

Did no one teach these guys how to do a swing? It’s a hip movement not a shoulder movement bsky.app/profile/atru...

It has been an obvious, sometimes even almost stated project of Trump 2.0 to engineer a redo of the post George Floyd protests of 2020, this time with much more state violence. And now a federal agent has shot and killed a woman in a car at point blank range a mile from where Floyd was murdered.

The Trump administration’s attempt to demote Senator Mark Kelly has a broader aim, Adam Serwer argues: “to silence other service members who might speak out about the Trump administration’s actions”:

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Tangential, but I keep seeing an anti-military thread w/ a decent number of flat-out lies, the gist being: "don't join the military it's evil" and I'm sort of dumbstruck. We need a military, and ideally we should have moral people staffing and running it. Don't cede control of that to shitty people!

For the past year I've had the feeling that the Trump administration's primary goal is the creation of content, and I expanded upon it here in the wake of our excursion in Venezuela

The kidnapping of Maduro inaugurates a highly dangerous era of U.S. empire that for perhaps the first time in an era of mass media is not pretending to be anything other than a violent, extractive enterprise of domination.

Plausible worst case scenario with Venezuela in four steps: 1. Rubio and Venezuelan exiles sell the idea of decapitation strikes against Maduro to Trump as the one big thing that solves Venezuela, cartels and Cuba for the US.

"By proceeding without any semblance of international legitimacy, valid legal authority or domestic endorsement, Mr. Trump risks providing justification for authoritarians in China, Russia and elsewhere who want to dominate their own neighbors." NYT Editorial Board www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/o...

“There is no legal or moral justification for invading Venezuela and kidnapping its officials. We have no business in this country. The U.S. military were, once again, used as political pawns by Trump to distract away from his abysmal record and open corruption in office.”

Trump’s Tangled Web of Deal-Making, Policy and Riches An illustrated guide of the first year of profiteering. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

In my top 3

I agree with this. Trumpago delenda est. www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-rena...

Thread and rinse and repeat with how the entire conspiracy right wing stars operate

Trump's legacy with regard to the U.S. military is an erosion of the professional, legal, and ethical guardrails that have guided, protected, and enhanced America’s armed forces for generations. New from @markhertling.bsky.social: lnk.thebulwark.com/3L3rSUD

CSIS: “This ship will never sail. It will take years to design, cost $9 billion each to build, and contravene the Navy’s new concept of operations, which envisions distributed firepower. A future administration will cancel the program before the first ship hits the water.”

Bari Weiss’s next hire

weiss does not know how to run a news organization, and so she's doing what she does best: hosting fatuous "debates" involving the people in her group chats www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

I'm told that HHS has just terminated all funding agreements with the American Academy of Pediatrics. Here's a letter HHS sent canceling one of the grants, relating to work on birth defects. Canceled because the project "emphasizes equity, diversity, and inclusion as key foundational components"

Absolute shameful photo and behavior from military leadership. Way to be used as props

Wow, this 🔥 “Corporations that have paid to help him demolish the East Wing … Law firms that capitulated are now doing work for the Donald Trump Commerce Department… Bezos, who stood shoulder to shoulder with Donald Trump… No one has said anything about the character of this person today.”

Stephen Miller is employing state terror in service of the open goal of shifting the ethnic mix of the country. In numerous ways he's doing this at the expense of public safety. We spent weeks reporting on Miller's real aims. Here's the result. We hope you'll read: newrepublic.com/article/2041...

This is the true story…of seven strangers…picked to live in on an army base…work together…and have their lives taped…to find out what happens…when people stop being polite…and start doing really illegal things…

one thing that doesn’t get enough coverage or comment with regards to this administration is it how much it hates the actually existing united states

Conspiracy theorist Mike Benz will start looking for proof of non-existent plots at USAID. He won't find any. What then? www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Our nation’s silent professionals deserve clear chains of command and a real chance at strategic success.

NEW on CNN: In several old videos we found, Pete Hegseth blasted Trump in 2016 warning he could issue unlawful orders that troops should refuse, calling him an “armchair tough guy” with five draft deferments. Now he’s attacking Democrats for saying same. LINK: www.cnn.com/2025/12/08/p...

What sticks out to me is how absolutely unafraid of prosecution this psychopath is. Part of it is narcissistic personality disorder, but it's mostly the perceived weakness of Democrats. Should they retake power, no one expects Democrats to hold anyone accountable.

This is a million times worse than anything Hunter Biden was accused of doing in even the most fevered right-wing conspiracy dream

Imagine being a career officer in the chain of command on Trump's boat bombings. You have deep moral and legal concerns about them. Your faith in leadership is shaky. Then you see Pete Hegseth tweet out a sadistic cartoon about it. Must be awful. Thoughts on this: newrepublic.com/article/2037...

anyways read theory. american soldiers do not swear loyalty to the commander-in-chief. they swear loyalty to the constitution. the difference matters--not in sunny skies and good weather, but on bad days, when you are pressed to the breaking point--that is precisely when it matters most.

Trump’s echo chamber: Very little U.S travel No rallies or contact with supporters Right-wing media Dinners with rich donors and billionaires Truth Social Lack of staff to tell him no www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Reuters reached out to everyone that Trump or his subordinates singled out publicly for retribution, and reviewed hundreds of official orders, directives and public records. The result: the most comprehensive accounting yet of his campaign of payback. www.reuters.com/investigates...

Five-byline alert: 🚨 “.. the full scope of [Witkoff’s talks] went much further, according to people familiar .. They were privately charting a path to bring Russia’s $2 trillion economy in from the cold—with American businesses first in line .. to the dividends. 🇺🇦 www.wsj.com/world/russia...

Every single congressional Democrat needs to be out there, right now, insisting that Pete Hegseth resign right now and announcing that he will be held accountable for committing war crimes. If you do not demand accountability here and now, they will only become more emboldened.

This is murder. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

This is what you should know about the D.C. shooting suspect's CIA-backed militia unit.