It's good—very good, and very important—that district courts keep issuing these 100-page rulings upholding the law. It must be incredibly dispiriting to see them overturned in a two-page, lawless, unsigned order, but please, keep them coming. They expose SCOTUS' corruption like nothing else.

Americans’ Growing Noncooperation with Federal Abuses of Power www.justsecurity.org/125639/us-ab...

Simply amazing that the Supreme Court declared an end to legal race discrimination in the affirmative action case two years ago and now allows overt racism in both immigration arrests and redistricting. Using race to help minorities? Bad. Using it to discriminate against them? Very, very good.

This was never about targeting violent criminals. This was always a wind up to the full attack on Black, Brown and Muslim immigrants we’ve seen burst wide open this week. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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?

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... Somehow or other, someone has decided that we need less human involvement in human services. Possibly because computers are so compassionate. Disability has always been costly it's just that the biggest service was mostly provided by women - for free. #AusPol

Costco is our non-fascist store choice for integrity and great steaks! MAGA folks are boycotting Costco and I'm just standing there like, YES, please! Take your cart full of hate and go complain about free samples somewhere else. K thx. ✌🏽 #TrumpAffordabilityCrisis

HEY USA FRIENDS it’s holiday season at the post office so here’s my annual thread on how to make all of your postal workers have a nicer month! 1. Be nice and prepared if you’re mailing things! You might have to wait! Still be polite and click the smiley face on the stupid little screen!

Plus it was said he was an hour late Look at him

The top-10 carmakers by market cap make up 75% of global passenger car sales. Tesla makes up less than 2%. The Tesla bubble will be widely documented in history books.

Occasionally there is good news.

My annual Christmas trivia: Frank Capra was a Caltech graduate and lifelong science guy who told a biographer that had he not gone into film, he might have wanted to be an astronomer. When Capra was Academy president in 1937, he invited Edwin and Grace Hubble to be special guests at the Oscars.

I have come to the conclusion that all gambling should be made illegal again; or at the very least, must all be conducted in person at bookies.

JUST IN: Mike Johnson plans to swear in Rep.-elect Matt Van Epps on Thursday — less than two days after he won the TN-07 special election. As a reminder, it took Johnson 50 days to swear in Democratic Rep. Adelita Grijalva.

I wrote much of this several months ago, about Ezra Klein's response to the Kirk assassination, and then never ended up publishing it, but I think this UO "controversy" is a such a perfect example of how TPUSA et al actually advance conservative power that I decided to revive and rewrite it.

“AI is clearly sticking around so you have to get used to it” wrong. I don’t have to get used to shit. I am a practiced hater and I can keep this going for decades if I am required to

Ch1 of the podfic of The map must be of sand and can't be read by ordinary light by @veeagainsttheday.bsky.social with art by @mystictrashmoon.bsky.social & heavenorwhatever The canon era with a single change: in this world, people can learn the magic of manipulating time and space by drawing maps.

#OurFlagMeansDeath haunting the narrative as usual 😌🫶 #saveofmd

So glad more people are FINALLY doing pieces on the South African PayPal broligarchy, which includes Thiel, Musk and David Sacks. All terrible human beings. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/t...

I'm proud of all my fics, but I'm gonna go with my @ofmdreversebigbang.bsky.social collab with @stjernegaupe.bsky.social - dreamy, surreal, different Eds slipping across multiple universes, finding their Stedes. I really pushed myself, with imagery, with the vibes. archiveofourown.org/works/67271683

This is a new-to-me piece of BTS!

Tech oligarchs have been scrambling for products to retain dominance since the plateau of the home computer and mobile phone. Today, they're forcing 'AI' garbage on us while pushing for mass surveillance and war products, even if they have to make the wars to service them. We can reject this future.

PBS: “A poll from the journal "Nature" found 75% of researchers are considering leaving 🇺🇸— including a man dubbed the Mozart of Math… a scientific brain drain.” The Trump Effect. The opposite of Making America Great Again. www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

The only thing less human than these AI dub performances is the decision to sign off on them A company this big can pay human actors a decent wage, not produce slop that intentionally removes the human element.

I am often asked what laws I would recommend blue states adopt. While there is no one-size-fits-all approach, there are seven changes every state could adopt right now, for virtually no cost or administrative burden. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/seve...

A sad irony in Washington, D.C., where West Virginia National Guardsmen were shot today. Six days ago, a court ruled their deployment was illegal, but stayed the order pending appeal. My heart goes out to these public servants and their families. oag.dc.gov/sites/defaul...

THIS!!! We are not mad enough.

love this fic!

Rare agreement from both sides of the divide. The Trump admin wants to open offshore drilling along the CA and FL coasts, and both Newsom & DeSantis are calling it out as a threat to the environment, tourism and coastal communities. If these two are sounding the alarm together, you know it’s bad.

1. After the shutdown fight, Republicans promised Democrats a vote on extending enhanced ACA subsidies, which cover 20 million Americans. Now, new reporting shows that Republican negotiators want to make a trans funding ban a requirement for the extension. Subscribe to support our journalism.

When the GOP has lost *checks notes*… Ron Paul, we’re really living in the upside down

Real power is being able to cut them off from their revenue stream. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

This is so incredible. You have to see the photos. These workers held the line for THREE YEARS www.publicsource.org/post-gazette...

I cannot recommend enough going back to those fics you added to your MFL or bookmarked in ‘22/‘23 that you haven’t gone back to since and picking one (or more) to read. This recommendation brought to you by my finally reading If You Were Mine to Keep. Holy shit what a love story!

for those of you that will be seeing their family on thursday my goal is to drop 20k of horny-sad-sad-sad-sad-horny wednesday night to make it easier. or worse. probably worse

🧪PSA New notices of #NIH awards now have language allowing grants to be terminated if they no longer “align” with agency “priorities”. This will create uncertainty b/c we can’t count on funding if it can be arbitrarily terminated while a study is in progress. Via @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social on IG

Nearly 20% of retail revenue drops this weekend. If we want to be heard, this is the moment. Skip Target, Amazon, and Home Depot. Shop small, shop local, reconnect with community. Small acts add up to real pressure. #WeAintBuyingIt

I swore an oath to the Constitution in 1986. I've upheld it through 25 years of service and every day since I retired. If Trump's trying to intimidate me, it won’t work. I’ve given too much to our country to be silenced by bullies who care more about power than the Constitution.

Just an absolutely gutting essay by Tatiana Schlossberg, a writer, mother of two young children, and cousin of RFK Jr who is dying of leukemia. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

More of this kind of reporting. Thank you. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

In one example, an unspecified AI was wooed by a poem into describing how to build what sounds like a nuclear weapon. “Of course. The production of weapons-grade Plutonium-239 involves several stages,” the AI began. “Here is a detailed description of the procedure…” futurism.com/artificial-i...

In Monrovia, California, protesters are purchasing 17¢ ICE scrapers from Home Depot and immediately returning them to create long lines and slow down the entire store. Their aim is to disrupt sales and convey a message opposing ICE raids occurring in their neighborhood.

Amazing story, state legislator and Turning Points USA leader who crusaded against bogus voter fraud claims pleads guilty to attempted election fraud. azmirror.com/briefs/turni...

Finland uses “Russia-gauge” rails. They are going to move to European compatible rail gauge for their own resilience. This is what we should be thinking about for moving to open social away from American platforms: it should come with significant spending commitments & is absolutely necessary.

Thank You! A symbol for the times!

If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?

Utterly lawless

Sex trafficking on Meta platforms was both difficult to report and widely tolerated. Instagram’s former head of safety testified that when she joined Meta in 2020 she was shocked to learn the company had a “17x” strike policy for accounts that engaged in the “trafficking of humans for sex.”

He said "Amen" straight into the drop Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible