Happy Holidays from RSVP! Our gift 🎁 to you is the debut of a new interview series, starting with @patrickleary.bsky.social, who sat down with @c19thnewshound.bsky.social this past year to discuss "Getting Started with Periodicals Research." Stay tuned for more in 2026! rs4vp.org/introducing-...

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Trump just endorsed a post calling for the arrests of Chris Wray and Merrick Garland. There's almost no media coverage of the sitting president supporting the arrest of a former FBI director and former Attorney General.

Enten highlights that Trump is underwater on every key issue: "The report card is negative. Every single day since March 12 Trump has been in the red. 281 days in a row. The bottom line is Americans don't like what Trump is doing and they haven't liked what Trump's doing for a long period of time."

is this bad? seems bad

There are conservatives who are trying to do to academia what Carr is doing at the FCC. That’s why they’re setting up these centers on campuses as conservative centers. There’s absolutely no reason that centers focused on democracy & civic discourse should be conservative (or liberal) centers.

This is extremely important

Virginia Heffernan wrote this shortly after the 2016 election and it still holds true

The road to recovery for Chiefs QB Patrick Mahomes starts now after undergoing successful surgery to repair multiple ligaments in his left knee. buff.ly/7gcjbaR

Mahomes is a genuinely good guy who is worried that he let his team down. And there are sick people celebrating his injury. Something is really wrong with our society. And rampant sports betting is part of the problem.

It wasn’t even close.

me: “I have so many things to do. I should do them.” also me: “I should write them out in a(nother) list with fancy pens.” then me: “well that was a good work session!”

It’s been two weeks since ICE took Yuanxin Zheng from his father. He is six years old. He’s still not home. This has to end.

Live every day as if this can happen to any one of us. This is where we are. This is our country.

Standing on my desk right now.

Rep. Grijalva says she was pepper-sprayed by ICE

The 19th century was the age of the first information revolution. In this talk, Professor Pablo Mukherjee FBA unpacks how historical insights into misinformation, media trust, and the speed of communication can help us understand and navigate today’s digital information age. https://bit.ly/449nhXf

BREAKING: The Supreme Court ruled to allow Texas to proceed with using a racially discriminatory voting map. Voters of color deserve to be heard – not silenced.

After World War II, 3 German U-boat crewmen were sentenced to death for machine-gunning Allied sailors who were clinging to life rafts after their boat was sunk. It's long been known in the military that this is a war crime. Pete Hegseth must be fired and prosecuted.

"Republican legislators around the country have identified the biggest obstacles to their unprecedented mid-decade redistricting: the courts and the voters. So they’re responding by launching an all-out war on both." - Billy Corriher www.democracydocket.com/opinion/to-p...

"Heading into Tuesday, Rs had underperformed Trump by an average of 13 points across dozens of state and federal special elections." Same again last night. As I keep suggesting conventional patterns are kicking in and people's brains are too melted by 2024 to see it: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/u...

Troops are on the Ground in Venezuela. This is not going to end well. Read it here: open.substack.com/pub/malcolmn...

I think a narrow R win is likely here, but that would be a result that should and will spark massive panic among House Republicans and probably kill the gerrymandering push in most red states.

Some 600 immigrant kids have been sent to federal custody by ICE this year. A 17-year-old was detained at a traffic stop because officers couldn’t make contact with his dad, who is deaf. Another kid ended up in a shelter after making a wrong turn.

NYT now predicting an R+5.6 finish in the TN-7 special election

ok so premature thoughts: 1. this turnout environment was more similar to a regular midterm just due to how nationalized this was 2. that type of turnout dynamic produces D+10-15 overperformances 3. while it is definitely not enough to win TN-07, there are 25-35 districts where that IS enough

A 6-year-old boy is missing after ICE arrested him and his dad in NYC last week and shipped them off to separate facilities. www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/02/i... @thecity.nyc @gwynnefitz.bsky.social

BREAKING NYT: The Trump admin just fired eight immigration judges in New York City. All the judges were dismissed from the immigration offices at 26 Federal Plaza — a building that houses the NYC headquarters of ICE and has become the epicenter of migrant arrests in the city.

Got a question about writing & publishing your scholarly book? A specific situation that you can’t find advice for on the Internet? Come to my AMA on Dec 3rd! I’ll can also talk abt editing & running an academic/editorial business if anyone has questions courses.manuscriptworks.com/courses/ama2...

Hello Bluesky! Starting on December 6, we'll share the daily entry from the line-a-day diary kept by John Quincy Adams 200 years ago. You can start exploring all 51 volumes of JQA's diaries here: www.primarysourcecoop.org/jqa/

"When Trump is cogent enough to understand what is happening, he commits one grotesque atrocity after the next, and when he is not, a bunch of scheming viziers elbow each other out of the way to commit their own." prospect.org/2025/11/21/r...

Ain’t nobody fighting wokeness like sleepy Don…😂

The Godfather of white collar crime... who's also willing to help the occasional drug lord if he is rich enough and politically aligned with MAGA.

I’m holding a new book proposal workshop on January 9th! I’m donating 50% of all registration fees today to @trevorproject.bsky.social There’s also a 25% discount for unfunded scholars Save your spot today & write an outstanding book proposal in 2026! courses.manuscriptworks.com/courses/outs...

The past decade has seen grave threats and unmistakable decline. But the past few days and weeks reveal that we have entered in a new and more perilous chapter here in the U.S. It must be a call to a new kind of action. My latest. open.substack.com/pub/davidrot...

If anyone is gift-seeking for a big feelings/delightfully excessive type of gal who perhaps enjoyed Lena Dunham’s limited series Too Much and/or Victorian literature and culture, perhaps this will be of interest: www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/rache...

The day that media institutions no longer serve their role as the fourth estate speaking truth to power — the day that they capitulate and cower at the feet of power — is the day that they are no longer serving their intended function as a public watchdog and educator.

The number of immigration detainees without criminal records held in detention after getting arrested by ICE has increased by over 2,000% since the start of the second Trump administration.

In case you missed this, the BBC edited a historian's speech about Trump to remove the claim that he's "the most openly corrupt president in US history." This came after Trump had threatened a $1 billion lawsuit. Elite capitulation continues. Read all about it here: newrepublic.com/article/2036...

The last time the Chiefs played the Cowboys was in 2021. The guys were having too much fun on the sideline and gave us the "Chiefs dance to everything" video. 😂

We have spent more than 1,000 years trying to separate the awesome prosecutorial powers of the state from the personal whims and vendettas of the head of state. Trump’s actions and ideology seek to reverse those gains. Here’s the history he’d like to reverse www.ifyoucankeepit.org/p/the-oldest...

The first official confirmation that Noem herself made the decision not to turn the planes around. A couple hundred men were tortured as a result — and soon after, the Supreme Court confirmed that the Trump admin’s Alien Enemies Act process was a total violation of due process.

Chris Jones and Arrowhead Stadium saved the Chiefs' season. I wrote about one of the most special moments I've witnessed live at a Chiefs game; The defiance of Jones and the crowd in the face of a lost season. It was incredible. mnchiefsfan.substack.com/p/watching-a...

It wasn't perfect or pretty, but the Chiefs showed a lot of fight and heart today. They need to get used to that feeling because it's going to be that way for the next six games as well.

Looking at the stats, it's remarkable it was so close. Nearly 500 yards of offense, a hundred yard rusher, 100% on fourth down, while holding the number one offense to just over 250, only 18 total after the third quarter, and held the league leading rusher to 58 yards. #Chiefs Dominate!

Marriage A-la-Mode, Plate V: The Death of the Earl, by Simon François Ravenet, after William Hogarth, 1745, 📸 by @evanvucci

Find you somebody who looks at you like Donald Trump looks at Zohran Mamdani.

trump is, first and foremost, a starfucker

this looks like an after school program where young people help out seniors at home