I know we’ve moved on 781 times by now, but… I still can’t believe he tore down half the White House

It’s useful to think about things like this in numbers of tenure track professors. $33M is 358 assistant professors. Or about fourteen percent of the total number of full-time faculty at Michigan State.

Indiana Republican state senator. I appreciate her not caving, but they are all still afraid to ever use Trump’s name. I guess doing so exponentially increases the threats. Trump rules the GOP with fear and intimidation. What a broken party.

As everyone knows, the basis of capitalism is that if a product is great you'll need to cram it down everyone's throats (without consent) for years before finally being bailed out by the government

Lol, Zillow tried to rate the climate risks facing individual properties. The real estate industry *hated* it, precisely because it worked -- it made selling risky properties more difficult. So they rebelled & Zillow caved. Don't look up!

Number of states where average gas prices are below $2: Zero. Number of states where average gas prices are anywhere NEAR $2: Zero.

Thanks to Trump's pardons, the GOP is the party of terrorists, drug dealers and child rapists.

The appellation is also meant to implicitly justify violence against lessers ie when they say US cities are like "third world countries" they mean they're filled with savages it's ok to kill. It's just the theology of slavery all over again

Alina Habba’s parents emigrated to the US from Iraq citing persecution.

MaryAnn always provides great film reviews: #FlickFilosopher www.flickfilosopher.com/2025/11/wake...

This AI slop is akin to hate speech: an intentional push of false narratives designed to drive people to acts of harm (and self-harm). This is digital snake oil, and we're seeing people DIE from it.

"All of this falls apart if humans don't adopt the tech. This is why you've seen Meta cram its lame chatbots into WhatsApp and Instagram. This is why Notepad and Paint now have useless Copilot buttons on Windows. This is why Google Gemini wants to "help you" read and reply to your emails."

A new feature on X revealed that many influential MAGA accounts are not actually based in the US. President Donald Trump has continued sharing their posts anyway. | WIRED www.wired.com/story/trump-...

This is *not* the sort of thing you see in this era, which makes it all the better that we are seeing it this weekend.

So far my cat Mal has not abused the Christmas tree I put up this weekend.

Former US military lawyers speak out: "The Former JAGs Working Group unanimously considers both the giving and the execution of these orders, if true, to constitute war crimes, murder, or both." Statement on Media Reports of Pentagon “No Quarter” Orders in Caribbean Boat Strikes 1/2

Nobody outside this country is wondering, like the pundit class does, what was wrong with Kamala Harris. Everybody outside this country is wondering what’s wrong with US.

Facts…

The best American flag is the battle flag of Tecumseh Sherman’s 23rd Corps, made from the tattered remains of Confederate banners.

Let’s be clear: these are extrajudicial killings. “Kill them all” Hegseth needs to be held accountable. What’s more, Trump promised the American people no new wars but is now manufacturing this conflict & lying about his motives. This warmongering has got to stop.

Remember when Amazon held a sale during Independent Bookstore Day in an effort to undercut indie bookstores? We didn’t forget. Support local bookstores during Small Business Saturday and beyond.

There are specific reasons Trumpists want war on Venezuela, but there‘s a generic one: they crave power to make war on anyone, any time, for completely fabricated reasons, and then to use the guise of war to increase violence and repression everywhere, including home. They are lawless bestial scum.

Professor Jack Goldsmith, head of George W. Bush Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel (OLC): "I do not believe that even the Bondi OLC could legally justify the events the Post reported." "There can be no conceivable legal justification for what the Washington Post reported."

Denial of flight. Let’s see how badly they screw up enforcing this.

Demolishing the East Wing of the White House before finalizing plans for what will be built above its ruins is a near-perfect metaphor for Trump's approach to economic policy. The only difference is the wrecking crew doesn’t claim the rubble is evidence of unprecedented growth.

"Gentry Beach, a college friend of Donald Trump Jr. and campaign donor to his father, has been in talks to acquire a stake in a Russian Arctic gas project if it is released from sanctions.” www.wsj.com/world/russia...

Moments ago, feds shove protesters out of the way as more NYPD officers arrive on scene. reporting for @thecity.nyc

Farewell to a modern great Playwright Sir Tom Stoppard dies at 88 www.bbc.com/news/article...

CARTOON OF THE DAY (From Clay Bennett)

New in PN: MAGA's Epstein gaslighting is unsustainable "The Epstein files are a 'hoax,' Trump says — a lie made up by Dems to make him look bad. Yet somehow, at the same time, there’s nothing in them that could make him look bad — b/c if there was, Biden would have released them. So which is it?"

The deranged madman now threatens to blow up commercial airliners flying in and out of Venezuela.

Five-byline alert: 🚨 “.. the full scope of [Witkoff’s talks] went much further, according to people familiar .. They were privately charting a path to bring Russia’s $2 trillion economy in from the cold—with American businesses first in line .. to the dividends. 🇺🇦 www.wsj.com/world/russia...

At some point in the future, Witkoff should be prosecuted for this.

We're disgusted with Hegseth, and we should be, but "Why don't we just bomb the boats?" strikes me as 100% Trump's idea, along the lines of "Why don't we just build a moat with alligators on the Rio Grande?" Simple-minded Fox News Grandpa nonsense.

So far, Trump has pardoned: Changpeng Zhao (founder, Binance) - pled guilty to money laundering. Facilitated millions in transactions for terrorist organizations such as Hamas. Ross Ulbricht (founder of the Silk Road) - the dark web Costco of illegal drugs. 1/3

This is the result of the CIA using children to kill people and yet a whole lot of people don’t want to recognize *American* culture, and in particular the culture of the War on Terror, at work here.

Good morning America. How are you? You’ve got mail: Riding on the City of New Orleans Illinois Central, Monday morning rail 15 cars and 15 restless riders Three conductors and 25 sacks of mail youtu.be/OfxoM6trtZE

Trump said today he'll be pardoning former Honduran President Juan Hernandez, who was convicted of drug trafficking and weapons charges in 2024 and sentenced to 45 years in prison. Waging a drug war on Venezuela while pardoning a narco-terrorist takes hypocrisy to a level once thought impossible.

Here's a gift link to the story that Hegseth is, well, not denying. wapo.st/49KbUJ1

This is what baffles me more than anything else. The Eagles dared Chicago to run the ball all game as if they were afraid of Caleb Williams. The Bears took advantage of that to create a 4 to 1 advantage in time of possession over Philly. bsky.app/profile/olli...

The DC shooting story is really getting to me because we literally trained this man as a child soldier for a death squad in a forever war and Stephen Miller et al want to blame it on other cultures? It's our culture, American culture, that killed that woman.

This is almost word for word what xenophobes in the 1930s and 1940s said about Miller's Jewish ancestors and relatives. He's so hateful he couldn't possibly recognize that of course.

this is just gutter racism

Good luck getting any Venezuelan nationals to help the troops in your upcoming land war, Donnie.

The DC shooter worked with the CIA and was "involved in dangerous and often deadly night raids and other missions to kill or capture members of the Taliban, al-Qaeda, the Islamic State and other terrorist groups" in Afghanistan. His vetting was described as "extensive." wapo.st/4pgh7Nt 🎁🔗

I don't recall where I found this, but I'd say this looks about right.

Also a category that includes his mother, paternal grandparents, and two of his three wives. But of course that's different, because neither he nor de facto President Miller actually care about immigration as such. They care about racism, and it's a farce to concede the pretense it's anything else.