Not to defend Olivia Nuzzi, who broke every rule in journalism and promoted a charlatan to his current position. But it's incredibly telling that she will lose her job, but RFK Jr. gets to stay in his job despite the reports of his drug use, his affairs and his defenestrating of public health.

This is what I've been going around saying! Come to my Wythe Lecture at William & Mary in January if you want to hear a fuller version of this argument. (Or read it in print when it comes out sometime next year, if Williamsburg isn't your thing.)

BP to scrap paid rest breaks and most bank holiday bonuses for forecourt staff

Trump aims to pay himself $230 million from the U.S. government over bogus claims of malicious prosecution www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

British soldiers training in Kenya abused women and caused environmental destruction for years, parliament has said.

ok but he hasn’t lost his companies money, he has that money due to not paying taxes and deregulation…americans invested that money in him and he lost all of it we are not getting a return on investment and im sick of it

ICE raided a James Beard award winning restaurant & because the chef/owner was prepared, left emptyhanded:

Thanks to @pbump.com for pointing it out. Are they Nazis? Maybe, but there is a much closer parallel that carries just as much weight and is much closer to home:

For anyone who believes the private sector can replace public investment in science: no, it's never going to come close. It will never be cheaper to not have cures for diseases or to be beholden to someone for them. Health is a public service.

This! bsky.app/profile/midd...

Prepping for my Comparative Genocide module and...hey, look there, right on the International Red Cross webpage, who does the Geneva Conventions protect? Oh.

NEW: Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy has loudly defended President Donald Trump’s withholding billions of dollars in congressionally approved federal funding. But as a House member, Duffy took a drastically different position on presidential power.

Unbelievable. “There was no boat. There was wreckage. There was no radio. There were two guys clinging to a tiny non-awash portion of the keel of a capsized boat,” said one lawmaker www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

During #WWI, medics applied 1.5 million splints, fitted over 20,000 artificial eyes & used 7,250 tons of cotton wool while applying 108 million bandages to injured soldiers. More than 6,000 medics died & over 17,000 were wounded in the British Army alone.

Every time a reporter writes “Post Liberal” another Catholic fascist gets his wings. “Post Liberal” is pure marketing ploy, a rebranding of Catholic fascism and praying the average reporter doesnt know. lawliberty.org/integralism-...

TIL Maine didn't let Native Americans vote until 1954. This Silver Star recipient was told he couldn't vote after he showed up in uniform.

Spotify has laid off thousands in recent years, while reportedly paying artists $0.003 per stream. Spotify profits rose 28% in Q3. Its CEO is worth $9.8 billion. It's making money off ICE recruitment ads. Don't you think it's time put a wrap on corporate greed and exploitation?

America stares down erasure of Black history and progress www.axios.com/2025/11/29/f... "The cuts and deletions are, paradoxically, drawing more attention to Black history [and the need for it to understand and respond to this moment], says National Urban League president Marc H. Morial."

Inside ICE Detention: Stripped, Shackled, Starved Overcrowded facilities, poor medical care, and deaths in custody. Systematic violations of civil and constitutional rights. What are you still waiting for, America? ICE continues to kidnap people & use violent tactics! Thread 1/2🧵

The new National Security Strategy is a propaganda document, designed to be widely read. It is also a performative suicide. Hard to think of another great power ever abdicating its influence so quickly and so publicly. It will be worth following the reactions around the world, not just in Europe.

Some uniformed personnel were disturbed by what they witnessed, said one former U.S. official familiar with the matter. “Basically it was, why are we killing people who are stranded and pose no threat?” the former official said. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

So I don’t like to be right about dire predictions but I did warn you this duginist realignment was coming www.greatpower.us/p/the-war-on...

Sadly, this story implicitly accepts the notion that a US Senator should place keeping his own job for another term over saving the lives of others. Bill Cassidy is becoming a profile in cowardice. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Europeans are waking up this morning to find the new US National Security Strategy (quietly) released. And what it has to say on Europe could not be clearer. On the „stark prospect of civilizations erasure“ for example. 👇

"The Donald Trump administration has changed which holidays qualify for free entrance to national parks, removing two holidays celebrating Black people and adding the president’s birthday."

NEW: Elon Musk's Grok chatbot will, with minimal prompting, provide residential addresses of everyday Americans. Prompts as simple as "[name] address" immediately returned accurate home addresses of private citizens — alongside other personal info we didn't ask for. futurism.com/future-socie...

It's not surprising that a rapist's presidential administration is removing standards intended to prevent rape. www.npr.org/2025/12/04/n...

Agree with this thread. Worth reading in full. 25 years ago John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, and AC Barrett all worked on GWBush's 2000 Florida recount team. What they're doing now is, if anything, more nakedly partisan. Fire-breathing dissent by Kagan, with Sotomayor and Jackson.

#JuniorJackpot 💰

From THEY KNEW:

The Supreme Court is now a moral slum

The Republican hacks on SCOTUS start with whatever ruling will help their fellow Republican partisans and lazily work backwards from there, barely offering an excuse for their egregious hackery. John Roberts keeps complaining no one respects them. Yeah, because we’re actually paying attention.

Catholics who enforce, aid, abet and support mass deportation formally cooperate with a grave evil action, thereby placing their salvation in peril, says David Lantigua.

WALZ: “.. Donald Trump’s calling our Somali neighbors ‘garbage’ and calling the state of Minnesota a ‘hellhole’. I’m assuming it’s unprecedented for a United States President. .. We’ve got little children going to school today, their president called them ‘garbage’.”

i made a video about the president's gutter racism against somali-americans and how a scandal became a smear became a call for de facto ethnic cleansing

12 former FDA chiefs unite to say agency memo on vaccines is deeply stupid arstechnica.com/health/2025/...

Tying our healthcare to our employers was a brilliant move for the billionaires… Not so much for the rest of us.

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Yesterday, the Deportation Data Project posted new FOIA data on ICE arrests through October 15 and it’s staggering how much it instantly disproves every claim the Trump admin has made about targeting “criminals” during its splashy arrest operations. Here’s arrests in Illinois since April.

more on Blaxill here:

ten years into this bullshit and journalists are still out here operating as if anything this administration does is actually in the public interest, or anything it says has any real-world value

More than 80 percent of the immigrants arrested in D.C. during the surge in federal law enforcement this year had no prior criminal record, newly released federal data shows, even though that crackdown was portrayed as targeting violent crime. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

Historian here it’s Hannah Arendt’s death anniversary and she was of course prescient.

Playing the "if this were a Democrat" game is tired I know but my God if this were a Democrat it would be the only story we'd hear until 2042. www.thedailybeast.com/don-jrs-fund...

Number of industries reporting growth, per #ISM survey: Last year: 12. This year: 4.

The dust blowing from the dry bed of the Great Salt Lake is creating a serious public health threat that policymakers and the scientific community are not taking seriously enough, two environmental nonprofits warn in a recent report.

Whoops bsky.app/profile/carl...

The foreign-born fraction of the US population was 15% in 1890, and in 1910. America thrived. That fraction is 16% now. The difference is that in 1890/1910, >96% of immigrants were from Europe or Canada. Today that's less than 10%. It's best to be honest about one one is actually afraid of.

Blatant corruption on full display.