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

Just the latest incident: Jamie Raskin had his security increased after pardoned Jan. 6 defendant Taylor Taranto, who was previously convicted for an incident involving threats against Raskin and Barack Obama, allegedly showed up near the Maryland congressman's house. www.axios.com/2025/12/04/j...

HUGE: In a letter to Congress, more than 140 solar companies detail how the Trump permitting freeze on renewables is worse than imagined and hitting copious projects on private lands They’re asking Congress to intervene and say “bipartisan permitting reform” won’t help without forcing Trump’s hand

US Congress repeals Biden-era limits on oil and gas in Alaska refuge reut.rs/3KJXjmB

As a former prosecutor, I know a grand jury would indict a ham sandwich. The grand jury’s refusal today to indict Letitia James shows this case should never have been brought. When we flip the House, we will investigate everyone involved for abuse of power.

JUST IN: The NY Times lawsuit names names, saying the Pentagon's new press restrictions violate the First Amendment by forcing out journalists who ask adversarial questions and replacing them with avowed MAGA supporters. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Add to the long list of laws Dems needed to have passed and didn't really even try to pass. Who's keeping the list this time?

Well, an independent investigation now confirms it: Hegseth endangered the lives of American pilots during Signalgate. Our servicemembers deserve leaders who never put them at unnecessary risk. If Hegseth had a shred of decency, he’d resign.

Flood-hit Indonesian regions run low on fuel, funds for relief effort reut.rs/44ywys0

Indonesia’s environment minister, Hanif Faisol Nurofiq, acknowledged that the disaster “cannot be attributed solely to natural causes.” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/w...

Judge Howell just enjoined warrantless immigration arrests in DC without probable cause to believe the person is a flight risk. Great work by ACLU and Amica www.courtlistener.com/docket/71452...

One of the four elements of malignant narcissism is sadism.

She was first in her family to go to college. She’d been in the U.S. since she was seven. They grabbed at the airport on her way to surprise her family for thanksgiving. They put her in shackles. Her ankles, her arms, and her waist. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/u...

WSJ tonight: www.wsj.com/politics/whi...

Pastor Jorge Bautista was telling a Border Patrol agent "we come in peace" when the agent fired toxic powder at him, leaving him struggling to breathe. “No one should be assaulted for being out there protesting,” he says. With @frontlinepbs.bsky.social

Fossil fuels are more expensive and far less efficient than renewable sources of energy and doubling down on them raises prices. Trump’s efforts to revitalize the coal industry is saddling consumers with the costs of swaddling an expensive and dying industry.

Beijing aims to export a full alternative AI technology stack—hardware, software, and models—to emerging markets, forcing countries to choose between competing U.S. and Chinese ecosystems. Learn more: https://thein.fo/49Ha6jW

"costs of wind, solar, and batteries have continued to plunge; they made up 94% of the U.S. grid’s new capacity in 2024. They now generate more than a quarter of the electricity in California — and a third in Texas. And battery storage is expanding even faster, growing by two-thirds in 2024."

A study published in Nature Communications shows that global warming may trigger an abrupt shift in the tropical climate system towards stronger and more predictable El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) cycles, intensifying climate impacts across the globe. go.nature.com/3JZGdku 🧪

CO2 is now 424.87 ppm and still going up. Any sane civilization would declare an emergency, close all coal fired power plants this year and all fossil fuel plants next year. We know how to build clean energy and we are choosing to cook the planet. www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12...

The Indian state of Rajasthan produces more solar than any other. It has rejected a 3.2 GW coal power plant, because the bids to build it were more expensive than bundling renewables with batteries. 🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

Superior tech FTW 🥊 Maximum gas furnace efficiency: ~95% Air heat pump efficiency: 300-400(!)% without even trying.

... the *first* strike would have been unlawful because the U.S. military didn't have reason to believe the persons on board were part of the command structure of an enemy armed force. That is: There wasn't a basis for thinking they weren't civilians. [2] www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/u...

With votes from 34% of polling places counted in Honduras’ presidential race, conservative candidates Nasry Asfura and Salvador Nasralla are in the lead and the governing LIBRE party is trailing.

Rabbiatu is a nurse who worked during COVID, had been in the U.S. 30 years. A judge ordered that she could not be sent back to Sierra Leone for her safety, for fear of torture (!). So our evil regime sent her to Ghana (in shackles), and Ghana dragged her back to Sierra Leone.

We're working hard on November's list (which will be another doozy, piggies), but until then, here's October's. #LestWeForgetTheHorrors

More Chinese #electrotech "propaganda" - the diesel freight truck is dying a quick death in China, and what's replacing it is simpler, more reliable, costs less in terms of CAPEX and OPEX, and doesn't emit local air pollutant nor GHGs. cleantechnica.com/2025/11/26/c...

🇺🇦 🇷🇺 One of Russia's largest oil terminals halted operations on Saturday following an attack by sea drones, hours before Ukrainian negotiators were headed to the United States for talks on ending the war. ➡️ u.afp.com/ShXg

Trump says airspace above and surrounding Venezuela to be closed in its entirety reut.rs/4a4K6PN

An emerging political movement aims to make infrastructure, housing and growth cool for a generation of frustrated Britons. Read more: bloom.bg/4pCKfOE 📷️: Erik Winther Paisley

Indonesia flood death toll climbs to 303 amid cyclone devastation, disaster agency says JAKARTA, Nov 29 - The death toll from floods and landslides following cyclonic rains in the Indonesian island of Sumatra has risen to 303, the head of the country's disaster mitigation agency said on Saturday,…

Europe’s water reserves are drying up because of climate change www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Death toll from floods and landslides on Indonesia’s Sumatra island rises to 248

"By dangling multibillion-dollar rare-earth and energy deals, Moscow could reshape the economic map of Europe—while driving a wedge between America and its traditional allies" Read this excellent @wsj.com account of the business deals behind the "peace"negotiations www.wsj.com/world/russia...

To replace income taxes with tariffs, you’d have to raise tariff rates to levels that would effectively eliminate international trade, and thus the tariff revenue would plummet to near zero.

Floods and landslides in Indonesia's Sumatra kill at least 174 reut.rs/3Xjsrw5

lol tell that to all the parents of my first gen friends (whose families were from India, S Korea, Sudan, Pakistan, China, Saudi Arabia, Colombia, and Germany) who are all acutely aware and often disapproving of how American their kids are

Floods in Thailand, Vietnam and Indonesia in the last month, all fuelled by climate change. The costs, human and financial, are only going to increase every year around the world. Every country needs to stop burning coal, stop burning fossil fuels, as quickly as we possibly can.

While US courts have not taken up the issue of whether all the "gifts" Trump has received are bribes, it look like the Swiss legal system might weigh in.

Three decades ago, democracy looked unstoppable. Today, Russia and China are rewriting the rules. My new book, Autocrats vs. Democrats, lays out how we got here — and how America should navigate what comes next.

We are now further away from the theatrical release of Raiders of the Lost Ark (June 12, 1981) than it was from the year it takes place in (1936). We have reached the Indiana Jones event horizon.

President Emmanuel Macron announced the creation of a new voluntary youth military service to begin by mid-2026, which would help France respond to “accelerating threats” on the global stage.