The Trump administration is excusing murder by ICE using the same lies as those told by Maduro’s regime. These lies are part of the logic of death squads. Govt controls the story & the next murder is easier. And suddenly this is normal and people simply disappear. snyder.substack.com/p/maduro-in-...

These people make me wonder why I've ever had imposter syndrome.

People are going to try and lure you into debates about whether Maduro was a good guy or not and the thing is, it doesn’t matter for the purposes of discussing whether violent kidnappings and extrajudicial murders by the US government are ok. No, they aren’t! End of convo.

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In case you missed it: I’ve got a new (warning: somewhat intense) story on @npr.org about all the ways faith leaders have pushed back against the Trump administration’s mass deportation campaign this year — including clergy directly confronting ICE agents and police. www.npr.org/2025/12/24/n...

In the Foundation series one of the signs of Imperial decay Asimov had was scholars merely reading previous works and summarizing those rather than doing primary research.

awfully rich of JD to call someone out for being inauthentic. a yalie whose law prof helped him write a memoir where he threw his family under the bus in order to craft his up-from-appalachia persona before he toddled off to be a venture capitalist

Between the speech, the Truth Social posts, the press-availability rants, and the presidential photo plaques, it's as if Trump is trying to surround himself with his own opinions, the way hoarders want to surround themselves with their own junk.

Where is this 2.6 BILLION dollars coming from?

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Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.

Keith Devlin’s excellent article! Did you know that Google’s first algorithm came from a master’s thesis question? My favorite: “The value for d they chose was around 0.85. (Sometimes math is like baking; you just see what proportion works.) Talk about “precision as needed!” Go play and explore!

As consolation bcuz somebody else got the Nobel Peace Prize, Trump got this phony FIFA peace prize. The fingernails on the prize look like those of the lady vampires Jonathan Harker encountered in Castle Dracula in the novel's 1992 movie version. Maybe the NBA will give him a peace prixe too.

I am curious to know how Pete Hegseth's teetotal pledge is holding up.

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trump: “no see we HAVE to blow up those boats in the caribbean, they could be carrying drugs!” also trump:

A bit too on the nose for thanksgiving

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the thing that strikes me about this — again, besides it being false — is the venom and disrespect for the people who come here to work and build better lives. they aren’t “servants.”

NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected. And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.* Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:

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Accidentally correct that unpaid labor obtained through threats and coercion *is* the American way.

Kind of wild that while food assistance was withheld from millions of families, one Trump-supporting billionaire (Ellison) saw his net worth grow more this year than the entire SNAP budget. And the YTD gains of the other four richest men would’ve fully covered salaries for all 2M federal employees.

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Timeline cleanse… 🍄🍄‍🟫

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“More and more cabinet members — Rubio, Miller, Noem — live on military bases now, & it's another parallel to Iraq, where the administration lived in the Green Zone. There’s something deeply unhealthy about a society where leaders are literally shut off from the communities that they govern.”

I still cannot believe that some of the most politically relevant movies of the recent era are the damn Star Wars prequels.

A majority of the days the government has ever been shut down, Donald Trump was president. www.howtoreadthisch.art/red-versus-b...

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A2: I love to put student work samples on the doc cam. I ask students to talk about what the student was doing and why she/he/they made those choices. We dig into the work BEFORE we defer to the “expert.” EVERYONE talks about math, not just one kid doing a “show and tell.” #ElemMathChat

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A1: Relationships, relationships, relationships! Routines, routines, routines! Teachers who take risks and show vulnerability model that for kids. It’s not only about right answers. It about using what we know to figure out things we don’t. Validate kids who take risks! #ElemMathChat

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Everyone is hope scrolling now

Media using junk data analysis makes for shitty decision-making in policy and governing matters. Real statistical understanding matters. #Statistics #Data #MathThatMatters #PoliticalScience #iTeachMath data4democracy.substack.com/p/the-new-yo...

We're currently at the "Jesus didn't say we should feed people" portion of the fall of American Evangelicalism.

We need less men with main character syndrome in the US.