Trump has the lowest approval ratings of his career, he looks like a wet burnt potato, his base is in civil war, and he’s gushing over Zohran because he’s in steep cognitive decline and forgot MAGA has made him boogeyman #1. The crash out is every bit as good as I’d dreamed.

Ya gotta love how centrist Dems were tripping over each other to kneecap Mamdani before the election and now Trump is just…kissing his butt.

This doesn’t happen without Maria’s intrepid reporting on this policy change, which USCIS tried to keep quiet.

To “my students and to anyone who might listen, I say: Don’t surrender to AI your ability to read, write and think when others once risked their lives and died for the freedom to do so.” www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...

I’m sorry that I don’t have anything intelligent to say right now because I am so fucking angry www.newsweek.com/nursing-not-...

“Adversarial poetry.” Love this. Obvs.

👉🏽To learn more about the history of U.S. immigration visit 👨🏽‍💻Mapping Deportations: Unmasking the History of Racism in U.S immigration enforcement. 🔗 mappingdeportations.com 🖊️Cartoon by: @laloalcaraz.bsky.social

"Agencies within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, including ICE, ERO, and CBP intend to implement a comprehensive plan to target Spanish-speaking churches across the country during the upcoming holiday season between Thanksgiving, Nov. 27, and Christmas, Dec. 25."

#BREAKING: Former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers will immediately leave his role as an instructor at Harvard while the University investigates his ties to child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.

Catholic priests have filed a federal lawsuit in Chicago to force access to provide communion to individuals held at an immigration detention center storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Disability education should not be put into HHS because it's not a health issue, it's an education issue. The idea that disability = health is dehumanizing and, frankly, simply wrong.

Very wise piece from @dwallacewells.bsky.social warning against overreading Trump's 2024 victory as too much of a meaningful up-down referendum on immigration. Recommend: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/o...

And ED makes it official. Numerous programs are getting shipped out to four different agencies. www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...

KEEP SHARING YOUR STORIES about increased ACA premiums due to the disappearance of subsidies. The stories clearly are having an impact, they help people feel less helpless, and they create solidarity that leads to action. Mine went from $395→ $821. What happened for you?

The vast body of research that Ken Burns relied upon to make his new documentary on the American Revolution would be practically impossible to be produced today, what with the defunding of humanistic scholarship, the collapse of stable academic jobs, the attack on public history & academic freedom.🗃️

Think about how much of that scholarship was enabled by funding from institutions like the NEH, the NPS, and the Smithsonian, all gutted by Trump, and (relatively) extant academic job & funding opportunities for people to do the work (all basically gone now).

Good statement from the US conference of Catholic Bishops

holy shit: “Among the 2,000 UK adults surveyed, 85% were unaware that Britain forcibly transported more than 3 million Africans to the Caribbean, 89% did not know that Britain enslaved people in the Caribbean for more than 300 years” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

NEW from me and @mkraju.bsky.social: How Schumer is reacting to the trouble he knows he’s facing in DC as leader and back home in New York when he’s up in 2028. “It’s his last term, and he may be the only one on Earth unaware of it,” one House Dem from NY told me. www.cnn.com/2025/11/16/p...

am staring at this essay draft, thinking “who cares, writing about this stuff is futile anyway” and also thinking about how horrifying it would be to hear a student say such a thing

This is good news www.nature.com/articles/d41...

“Blending family and governance”, @nytimes.com? Really? Is that how you spell “corruption” in NYC?

This is cool. COURIER has created a searchable database with all 20,000 of the files just released from Epstein’s estate. Trump's name appears in them more than anyone else, in 1,628 documents. couriernewsroom.com/news/we-crea...

Whether it's garbage NYT left-bait or right wing flood-the-zone nonsense that we all pile on to, we are letting the wrong people set our overall information agenda in a very deep and fundamental way. And it's a very serious mistake.

18. If nothing else, perhaps this trove of correspondence between rich and powerful men and the country’s most famous pedophile will correct that error.

17. We associate “success” with character. The richer and more powerful you are, the deeper the strength of your character appears to be. On the basis of that, American society tends to hold elites in high esteem.

you could fact check this — there aren’t 30 million illegal immigrants and there is no evidence that the presence of an immigrant in say houston has any impact on housing in madison, wisconsin — or you could note straightforwardly that this is just nazi rhetoric

New in PN: “It’s 4chan shit" — @cwarzel.bsky.social on the federal government's deranged social media presence "Now you see Trump administration accounts that look like they’re literally run by Groypers. What Homeland Security is tweeting out isn’t even dog-whistling anymore."

There is a need to help preserve and grow attention in an era that profits from dividing it. Scholars have written and they have created and facilitated groups to encourage attention work for educators and others — it is worth getting involved! Create a group for a community that matters to you.

The value of reading history is you know that in 1860 there were abolitionists who were so demoralized that they thought chattel slavery would be permanent. 5 years later those still alive had lived to see its end.

We are so proud of this work. Not only is it the first effort to publish & analyze **open-access data** derived from the entire text contents of digitized @britishlibrary.bsky.social newspapers, it presents a metadata-driven approach to understanding bias in big historical data. #dh #skystorians

NEW: The US has deported a longtime Oregon firefighter who was arrested by Border Patrol while deployed at a major wildfire in Washington state. José Bertin Cruz-Estrada, separated from his family, is speaking out from Mexico for the first time: “I feel betrayed ... What am I going to do now?"

Yep, sure enough Bsky had been hiding my outspoken activist friends under “rude”. Go to settings and under moderation and Advanced Moderation, choose what you as an adult want to see. 👀

This is the easiest case for understanding gerrymandering. Salt Lake City, in the center of the state, is the only Dem leaning area in Utah. So GOPers divided the state into 4 districts, radiating out from SLC, cutting it into four quadrants, preventing the city from electing a Rep of their choice.

Nowhere in the hysterical pile-on against the BBC in the British press has anyone mentioned that BBC News now has 77 million viewers & listeners in the US and has established itself as the second most trusted news source there.

Bluesky suspended Sarah Kendzior today for no reason whatsoever. She just shared excerpts of her articles, which were as always incisive and not offensive at all. Hey @pfrazee.com this is super not OK. I know her- we've interacted a fair bit via chats and her work is essential.

The U.S. military is being used inside the United States. There's a lot we don't know about how, why, and under what authorities. Today, Lawfare is launching a new project–which includes a tracker and a map–to follow where and how the military is being domestically deployed.

PS. @lollardfish.bsky.social, @thomaszimmer.bsky.social, @sarahebond.bsky.social, & @kevinmkruse.bsky.social, as folks who also left Substack & are helping making the case for alternative sites & public scholarship, we'd love if y'all could help spread the word about ours! blackwhiteandread.com

Unfortunately still true bsky.app/profile/adam...

Lovely videos from @bucksarchives.bsky.social showing value of archival work. ALSO a perfect demonstration of why older traditional NLP approaches to Named Entity Recognition (NER) fail in historical contexts where people and place are not always mutually exclusive, nor easily distinguishable.

Chris Murphy: "There will be pretty substantial damage to a Dem brand that has been rehabilitated if on the heels of an election in which the people told us to keep fighting, we immediately stop... if we surrender without having gotten anything, I worry it'll be hard to get them back up off the mat"

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.

I will not support a deal that does nothing to make health care more affordable. We are in a health care emergency. A simple one-year extension of these tax credits would cost less than Donald Trump’s $40 billion bailout for Argentina. A vote for this bill is a mistake.

Government is shut down. Chaos in airports. 42 million going hungry. 24 million face skyrocketing healthcare costs. Economy in turmoil. And the president of the United States is in the Fox broadcast booth calling plays for a football game.

The proposal is “not a deal," says Democratic U.S. House Rep. Ritchie Torres. "It’s an unconditional surrender that abandons the 24 million Americans whose health care premiums are about to double.” buff.ly/9aW3zLz

Fax @durbin.senate.gov for free at faxzero.com/fax_senate/D.... Tell him no deal without actual protection for health insurance tax credits.

America 250 planning gets weirder: “The Treasury Department declined to say who first suggested featuring Mr. Trump on a coin, or to explain how having two Trumps on one coin would be legal.” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/u...

No it’s important to listen to this. Because then you understand that many of them will do ANYTHING to keep power. Remember Musk got involved in the 2024 election after saying to Tucker “if she wins” I am definitely going to prison. So we need to move knowing that nothing is off the table for them.

What an avoidable disaster. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

First, the candidates who won were laser focused on addressing the rising costs facing families. They were LISTENING to what voters were telling them. They had real plans to lower child care, utility, and health care costs. And they were all in on making life more affordable.