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The 'kin' of ‘napkin’ means "little." ‘Nap’ comes from ‘nape,' which means “tablecloth.” So a napkin is a little tablecloth. 10/10, no notes.

Democrats actually do well in portions of the rural South, but that would require Politico to see rural Black Americans, which they don't. Democrats spy rare opening in rural America www.politico.com/news/2025/12...

I remember when one of the most delegitimizing things the Taliban/HiG dudes would do is stop random people and shake them down for money or food.

Either this marks the start of higher education’s total unraveling, or it is the jolt we need to end a nightmare that feels disturbingly similar to Red Scare hysteria.

At least 11 congressmen from 1865-1871 were arguably not citizens under Trump's interpretation of 14th A, our research finds. Yet no one challenged their eligibility to serve. Why not? Obviously, b/c no one who drafted or ratified the 14th A shared Trump's view. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

The white backlash that is materially devastating democracy, marginalized people, and the planet is all b/c of symbolic gains. As Juliet Hooker writes, white grievance leads to real grief for the rest of us (but also for themselves in the end, because there is only one world).

Delvin Francisco Rodriguez, 39, an immigrant from Nicaragua who has been in ICE custody since September, has died in a Mississippi hospital following a “failed test to determine brain function.” It's unclear what caused his death. @nickjudin.bsky.social reports:

We don’t spend enough time discussing how the entire MAGA movement is kept afloat by the constant threats of stochastic terrorism orchestrated by the president of the United States. Congress, the courts, much of the media … all kept in line by the mob boss and his army of anonymous goons.

DHS's handling of the incident raises questions about the department's oversight mechanisms to investigate employee misconduct. n.pr/4jlKsEc

Prison guards: - Watched a woman experiencing psychosis gouge out her own eyeballs. - Ignored a man’s beeping insulin pump for more than 24 hours before he died. - Left a man sitting in his own feces not eating for weeks, he lost 60 lbs before he died. All in San Diego County, last ~5 years.

And Merry Christmas to you too buddy.

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

In case people need a refresher: The Trump administration is fighting contempt proceedings y in federal court over what happened “inside CECOT” to human beings unlawfully renditioned there. Bari Weiss’s CBS News is now part of the coverup.

The Winter Solstice alignment at Stonehenge today. Photo credit: Nick Bull x.com/i/status/200...

Americans & Europeans needlessly exposing African babies to preventable diseases just to see if they can find something that would justify their preexisting antivaccine beliefs is not only unscientific and actually anti-science, it is very much reminiscent of colonialist, racist human rights abuses

LANKFORD: In 2010, before Obamacare kicked in, the normal healthcare premium was $215. HUNT: Right. But insurance companies could refuse to cover you for a preexisting condition LANKFORD: That's true.

I wrote about the conservative quest to restore the "true" Constitution, the Antebellum Constitution, shorn of the egalitarian nonsense in the Reconstruction Amendments, a document that replaces equality with a society of dominators and the dominated. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

@jessicavalenti.bsky.social has an important 🧵on some of the absurd focus on whether feminism is "good" for women. Read it and be frustrated that this conversation is still around and that the questions seem to be contested once again. 🤯

That’s what these ‘debates’ are really about: framing old fashioned oppression as some kind of high-brow concern for women’s happiness. You know what makes us happy? Bank accounts. Voting rights. The ability to leave a bad marriage and not have a miscarriage kill us.

Inside the federal government as Trump and DOGE pushed it past its breaking point in 2025, as told by some of the more than 1,200 federal workers @hannahnatanson.bsky.social and @merylkornfield.bsky.social have spoken to this year

Before and after DOJ realized they left Trump’s name in an Epstein document:

The most visible Republican house members, Marjorie Taylor Green, Nancy Mace, Elise Stefanik, etc. all leaving congress is a sign of women being purged from the Republican Caucus and the party writ large. I don't think anyone will shed a tear for them but that's what this is all about.

History of citizenship:

Happy winter solstice everyone. ❄️

Nothing to see here, just a right wing hyper-nationalist government going to their party’s youth event sponsored by a group with a martyred leader they’ve pledged to avenge, recruiting people to join their masked police force devoted to removing auslanders from ze homeland.

We're bringing back polio, measles, anti-semitism and now privateers on the high seas. One hundred percent guarantee they'll float a legitimate form of slavery before the end of 2026.

When “AI-enhanced pathology diagnostic systems” were presented with radiology results, they tended to identify demographic information from the images then use those demographics as the basis of diagnosis. Leading to errors in 1/3 of diagnoses for Black patients.

Who chose Steve Witkoff? Putin www.wsj.com/world/putin-...

I love to be told that feminism has failed women by women whose careers and ability to flourish in public life, let alone have a credit card, only exist because of feminism

Legal analyst Elie Mystal explains how Trump's latest executive order upended the Civil Rights Act. When it comes to civil rights violations or discrimination claims, the DOJ will no longer consider one specific kind of evidence: Math

Interesting to consider that if you were to go and deface the Kennedy center by removing Trump’s name, you’d be arrested and charged with a crime, but your act would be no more unlawful than what they’re doing right now.

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When the official policy of the government has become “ this must be fake, you’re too brown to be American” it’s time to stop pretending that this will all just go back to normal

Makes perfect sense.

Democracy is such a hassle.

if tumblr dies I need this video to make it's seasonal rotation here instead just in case, Happy holidays 🎄

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All the centers they’re cutting add up to less than $7 million in spending. UNC athletics budget is $185.4 million for the 2025-26 fiscal year.

Happy Hannukah! #Poliscicooks

This is a science counterpart to demolishing East Wing at the White House. But with far greater consequences. These people are dangerous zealots (sort of as Susie Wiles has put it), and every decent person must stand up to stop them. www.nbcnews.com/science/clim...

Tuskeegee 2025

If you spot a nice property occupied by a brown skinned family speaking Spanish or Somali, just call JD Vance's ICE Real Estate Hotline. They will give you a great deal on the place after kidnapping the current residents.

Meanwhile, Mike Johnson just told reporters that the House will *not* be voting this week on an amendment to extend soon-to-expire ACA subsidies. Many House Republicans in swing districts "did want to vote on this Obamacare Covid-era subsidy" but "it just was not to be."

In 1996 there was a mass shooting in Australia; 35 people were killed. Australia’s government passed a sweeping gun reform law in 12 days. 12 days. www.thebulwark.com/p/america-un...

The White House is not private property. It does not belong to Donald Trump. It belongs to the people. I’m introducing legislation to protect the building’s historic character against the president’s bulldozer and Marie Antoinette ballroom.

Wait? What? Isn’t that what you are doing Secretary Bessent?!?!

My electrician is a green card holder who's been here since he was a kid. He got married to a citizen, applied for citizenship, went to court for the papers and when he got there ICE kidnapped him and he's been locked up for a month.

when a poor person uses food stamps for a steak or homeless person spends $5 on a beer, it’s seen as proof that all poor people are so bad with money that they shouldn’t be given any, ever, for any reason. $77 billion out the window, and zuck’s legacy as a safe government contract bet is secure.