When you put it that way…

The ease with which institutions shed their commitment to diversity and equity shows how they had no commitment to them in the first place.

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

In February 1931, Albert Einstein was inducted as an honorary member of the Hopi nation in a ceremony conducted at Hopi House on the south rim of the Grand Canyon. The Hopi elders who conducted the ceremony cited Einstein for his commitment to peace and the fraternity of nations on earth.

1 million acres of pristine public land in Alaska will now be open to fossil fuel drilling, thanks to Republicans in Congress. Big Oil spent nearly $500 million lobbying and boosting friendly candidates last year — and now they're getting a big return on their investment.

my measured conclusion upon review of the Supreme Court's order reimposing Texas's racially gerrymander is that the only thing the Republican justices hate more than district court judges is people of color voting ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/texas...

Rep. Grijalva says she was pepper-sprayed by ICE

What an ugly, unholy week of American news.

Donald Trump and Elon Musk forced out 7,000 of the public servants who make Social Security work. Americans are paying the price.

“Stick to sports” means the NFL should punish Colin Kaepernick for quietly kneeling in protest of police violence and that FIFA should give Donald Trump an award for geopolitical actions that aren’t real.

There is a truly great man here on BlueSky For years he fights for the voiceless While fighting for his own health I hope you will follow and support my good friend @petermorley.bsky.social The very best of us Thank you Peter for all that you do

Australia began enforcing a ban on social media apps for children under the age of 16 — becoming the first country to do so. The measure is meant to protect children from the pressures and risks of social media, a mounting global concern.

When auto executives stand with the president to weaken fuel efficiency standards, they are choosing to concede the global market for electric vehicles to China. China already leads the world in EV manufacturing and sales, and it is moving faster every year.

@npr it’s not a principle. It is a constitutional guarantee.

The changes suggested by this CDC Panel are going to kill thousands of Americans Senator Bill Cassidy-who’s a Dr-could've stopped RFK Jr from inflicting his warped anti-vaccine ideas on the US All he had to do was vote against Kennedy's confirmation But he didn’t have the courage to oppose Trump

This evening on Kremlin TV: state TV host Vladimir Solovyov called for assassinations of Ursula von der Leyen, Kaja Kallas and others. Solovyov notes that Trump’s national security policy is copied directly from Putin youtu.be/ELu3gHgofBI

Jackass: White House.

Murder.

The Center for Disease Control can now officially be renamed the Center for Disease Communication Make no mistake: this is a vote to kill Americans for years to come www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/h...

Abe's thread is worth reading in full, but I want to surface this point. We're three decades into an American experiment to use the internet for (literal) world domination. It was initially to push neoliberalism and now it's to push nativist authoritarianism, but same difference really.

Meissner sighs deeply and explains that society has to make recommendations based on what we know and what we don’t know. And we know that HBV vaccine is safe and effective. And parents can also decline the vaccine if they choose. So we shouldn’t take away what we know is safe and effective.

There are only about 2000 billionaires on the planet getting rich of 8 BILLION people. That math ain’t gonna math for too much longer in a world for climate change is coming for us all.

“OK, you can gerrymander to cheat in elections, but only if it hurts nonwhite voters.” - US Supreme Court

This really was one of the most heartbreaking articles I’ve read in a while. I don’t think people comprehend the scale of destruction wrought by this administration already, not even close nymag.com/intelligence...

the word layoffs doesn't even appear in this article It's just all analysts chirping away about synergies media coverage of itself and its endless consolidation doesn't think labor, consumers, or creatives are actually relevant to anything

Taxpayers are paying for FBI Agents to escort Kash Patel's girlfriend's drunk friends home after nights of partying, and pulling elite tactical agents away from SWAT missions to chauffeur his girlfriend around. ...something, something, waste and fraud... www.ms.now/news/kash-pa...

Very good read on how David Ellison is turning Paramount/Skydance into a safe haven for men accused of sexual abuse as he prepares to pump out movies aimed at TrumpWorld.

The New US National Security Strategy is to secure the victory of pro-Kremlin populist parties all across Europe: Reform in the UK, the Pétainist Rassemblement in France, the Nazi AfD in Germany, and so forth. In other words, the US and Russian strategies are identical.

imagine US political culture if Ford hadn't pardoned Nixon, and instead he went to jail

This is what Working the refs looks like

European reaction to the new American national strategy document

The Supreme Court paved the way for a felon to return to the presidency — where, behind the shield of office, that felon has ordered a string of murders.

Pope on Machine God “Be prudent, be wise, be careful that your use of AI does not limit your true human growth. Use it in such a way that if it disappeared tomorrow, you would still know how to think, how to create, how to act on your own, how to form authentic friendships.” bsky.app/profile/vult...

Kagan with more dispositive proof of Roberts Court Calvinball

If anyone cares at all, EV battery recycling is now hitting 99% recovery for important metals Please remind me again what the recycle rate for fossil fuels is interestingengineering.com/energy/recyc...

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.

An eight-decade partnership between universities and the federal government made U.S. science preeminent. It took Trump less than a year to shred that crucial alliance. Sobering read @statnews.com www.statnews.com/american-sci...

The blatant use of false, inaccurate histories to arrive at a decision the majority of the Court clearly wanted regardless of the facts is a feature of both Dred Scott and Dobbs. It’s an apt comparison. 🗃️

What's changed is that the Court has become more transparent in its corruption. There's not even an argument here beyond the implicit one which is: how do you expect us to hold the House without those seats?

The dripping contempt the right wing SCOTUS majority holds for district judges is truly a sight to behold every time. When they deign to give actual reasons for their shadow docket holdings, it’s “look at the absolute idiots who keep getting everything wrong!”

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.

So true.

This is really important. The problem with the Roberts Court is not that they are conservative. It's that they are bad judges.

@nbcnews.com How insulting to say the reporter covering the boat strike was “still looking for answers” by the host when cut back to the newsdesk? Find different language.

Knowing her family history of grifting + attention seeking, the fact that the account that reported on this was created just days before the incident, + how off-rubric the essay was, I believe Samantha Fulnecky failed on purpose to create a lucrative media cycle based on manufactured outrage

Scathing dissent from Justice Kagan: "[T]his Court reverses that judgment based on its perusal, over a holiday weekend, of a cold paper record. We are a higher court than the District Court, but we are not a better one when it comes to making such a fact-based decision."

As Justice Kagan begins her dissent by pointing out, what is even the point of trial, of fact-finding, of clear error, of standards of review, when the Supreme Court simply ignores every single part of that and decides everything purely on the papers without any real consideration of the facts?

Justice Kagan, writing for the three liberals: "The majority today loses sight of its proper role. ... We know better, the majority declares today. I cannot think of a reason why."

Chile! This is why Vandy and WashU targeted Dartmouth to join their lil splinter group.

Even Eisenhower understood this was inevitable: