The Trump administration is illegally dismantling special education. I started out as a special ed teacher. Some learners have more challenges than others, but all children benefit from the investment we make in them. No nation is better off when it shortchanges its own children.

My colleague, the brilliant @colincarlson.bsky.social posted this on LinkedIn. This is devastating for Colin and his group, but also for science, for the future of the human race. #NSF is starving scientists of resources. This will not get better until we all rise up.

The “garbage” destroying America isn’t in Minnesota’s Somalian community. It’s in the Oval Office. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

This letter is a clear attempt to get Trump angry enough to intervene, and is thus a pretty clear signal to the entertainment community of what kind of company Paramount plans to run. I know people dread a Netflix acquisition of Warner Bros.; this would be worse. deadline.com/2025/12/para...

Great 🧵 on how Amazon rips off local governments and independent suppliers:

For my part, I would say that questioning the framing of some Times stories—for example, the highlighting of Trump’s putative emotions or the foregrounding of what he says (even when, as is often the case, what he says is false)—is not an indication that I want my “views validated.”

$1.6bln: The amount of his fraud scheme 7: Years of his sentence 10,000: Victims of his fraud 1,000: Letters from victims to the court 13: Days he served 1: Pardon from Trump www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/u...

What do these corporations have in common? Netflix Ford Tesla T-Mobile Duke Energy DISH Network Metlife Dominion Energy United States Steel In recent years, they all paid their execs more than they paid in taxes. This is what a corporate-rigged system looks like.

Heinz-Wilhelm Eck, commander of the German U-boat U-582, was tried, convicted, condemned, and executed after the war for ordering his crew to shoot the survivors of a Greek merchantman, using exactly this same rationalization.

I'm sorry but first Nuzzi and Lizza and now Izzy? Too many Z's man. Too many Z's.

Corporate Media is going to pretend that Trump is heartbroken about the two West Virginian National Guardsmen being shot in DC, but the entire point of moving a standing army into a peaceful city was to induce violence by The People to justify more violence by Trump on The People in retaliation.

Now, remind me again that non-Americans should mind their own business.

Landmark move: New York City's comptroller @bradlander.bsky.social, with hundreds of billions under his control, recommends dropping investment giant Blackrock because they won't reckon with climate change. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.

This is a story about how America’s world-leading cancer and dementia research system was destroyed by frauds and naifs who broke the law. There must be consequences.

The absolute first thing Democrats Must Do if/when they hold power again is restore as much of the funding/agencies illegally dismantled & cancelled by these unprecedented criminals as possible & then put Musk & everyone else involved in jail for the rest of their lives.

Congrats to everyone who covered the obviously bad faith, unprecedentedly illegal, & wildly unconstitutional data theft & dismantling of the federal government by a billionaire criminal Nazi & his henchmen as a legitimate process of “government efficiency.” Truly, well done.

Since February, according to my latest analysis, almost 600,000 Black women have been economically sidelined. The November 20, 2025, Jobs Report makes clear this isn’t a blip. It’s a structural crisis. That is not a recovery. It is a redistribution of opportunity.

The Salt Lake Tribune, which went from for-profit to non-profit 6 years ago, is about to drop its paywall. "The Tribune cannot afford to limit who has access to independent and trusted news." Meanwhile, it just launched a new newspaper in southern Utah. www.sltrib.com/news/2025/11...

the son he always wanted

By the way, Jeff Bezos, you fucking pathetic coward: Zohran Mamdani got the pragmatic things he needed to get as a leader without ever submitting to the likes of MBS and disrespecting the memory of Khashoggi and every journalist in America.

When he spoke with Obama at the White House during the 2016 transition, Trump was aglow, excited, as if his big brother had deigned to be nice to him

Credit to @oliverdarcy.bsky.social for continuing to call out the moral cowardice of blue chip companies & their CEO’s. With every step, they march right alongside Trump & his vile policies. Keep that in mind when you shop, bank, use social media, etc. www.status.news/p/jd-vance-b...

Wetlands expert Alito & cronies doing their best to poison us

Happy 25th! The stolen 2000 election seems like only yesterday. ❤️❤️❤️❤️

🧊✈️ BACK TO THE WAR ZONE ⛓️😲 ⚠️ The U.S. government is removing 80 or so Ukrainian refugees back to their war-ravaged country tonight. We should be sending weapons instead 🇺🇦

Editors have a really hard job, and the good ones can make something unreadable readable, and the great ones can make something unreadable into something good. But they're basically invisible, until someone tries to write without one.

This analysis of PA Gov Josh Shapiro's cave on climate change is the most Axios thing ever

Are you paying attention? MAGA Republicans are stealing from you! The vote to reopen the government includes a multi-million dollar payoff a QUID PRO QUO to 8 senator conspirators who colluded with Trump during the January 6th insurrection.

Thanks to Clarence Thomas and the other far-right justices, applications for concealed-carry gun permits have risen nearly tenfold in NYC. www.thecity.nyc/2025/11/12/n...

The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person. The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person. People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives. And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.

Spreading our racist slop to Europe

If we want to stop the kidnappings and these agents require anonymity to commit these actions, then we must remove the masks. So long as we allow masked law enforcement to terrorize people, we cannot be a democracy.

Welcome to NYC, Lina Khan!

so what you're saying is the centrist brunchlord substack punditry's claims that Dems have to shift further right to win is complete bullshit

Every day, as a Jew, I am going to call the ADL's tip line to report Mamdani anti-Semitism with at least three seismically moronic insights. I will begin with an accusation that the new mayor prefers strawberry and blueberry bagels to savory, and sometimes schmears butter. Fuck Jonathan Greenblatt.

I once again look forward to the amended captions that will now come from Virginia’s withdrawal from a whole spate of MAGA briefs and lawsuits.

No better way to capture last night's zeitgeist than "Morning Joe" bringing on ADL's Jonathan Greenblatt to attack Mamdani

THANK YOU, CALIFORNIA! ❤️

Btw, demanding Vought's resignation should still be a non-negotiable demand for re-opening government.

Dick Cheney lied to get us into a war that killed at least 100,000 human beings. Yet even he had higher ethical standards than Donald Trump.

Dick Cheney got George W. Bush to break his promise to regulate carbon emissions, and began turning climate into a strictly partisan issue. He was always loyal to fossil fuels and that’s a huge part of his legacy.

Tucker’s ghost writer Blake Neff got exposed for prolifically posting the same manner of online rhetoric that Groypers do, was fired, and then graduated to becoming a producer for (drum roll) The Charlie Kirk Show

Among the many amazing things about Adams pleading his case here is that he openly supports and now is asking for help from… people who cancelled funding for cancer research.

How Washpost Opinion is framing the shutdown: "It is wrong that Democrats have held the government hostage ... in hopes of extending costly Obamacare subsidies" "Schumer has allowed the shutdown to drag on..." "This pain point.. should hasten an end to the shutdown .. by making Democrats blink."

ICYMI, the Trump administration just erected a statue to a white supremacist traitor and key figure in the early KKK. apnews.com/article/trum...

More big news: the Senate just passed my bipartisan resolution to end Trump's global tariffs. This is a huge win and shows how unpopular Trump's tariffs really are. Now it's time for Mike Johnson to abandon his 6 week vacation and get this passed in the House.

centrists will tell you to your face that we all need to abandon identity issues, and focus on kitchen table issues instead and yet when a leftist candidate runs a generational campaign based on kitchen table issues, it's the centrists weaponizing identity politics to smear the leftist.