Please note that I started off trying to be nice.

BREAKING: The House Judiciary Committee has released Jack Smith's 255-page deposition transcript: judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

USPS quietly changed its postmark rules — mail is no longer dated when you drop it off. The “official” date is when it hits automated sorting — sometimes days later Which could have major implications for mail in voting — it’s a clever way to disenfranchise voters that’s going largely overlooked

In 2026 I want all of the decent people to remember one thing. You aren’t meant to be this disciplined, this self-sacrificing to survive. The environment is supposed to support good living. We can have that. You are not a failure. That is politics. That is all.

this seems specifically designed to break mail-in voting (where deadlines are defined by postmark)

sorry, i cant come over, i put a sweatshirt over a long sleeve tshirt and neither of them feel right around my neck and shoulders now

Remember: When Tylenol was poisoned *by an outsider* and killed people, the company recalled all their products & redesigned them. When Intel’s Pentium had a bug so obscure it affected 1 in _9 billion_ long division calculations, they recalled their chips. ChatGPT was made deadly *by its team*.

Once again, Richard Nixon’s presidency-ending crimes were harmless high school-level pranks compared to the daily lawlessness, corruption, & violation of our international treaty commitments that we now are seeing on a daily basis from Trump.

Early on in the Chernobyl project @jessicacalarco.com and I are doing, Jess asks “Why do we lie?” — and I spent the entirety of this wonderful piece with that question echoing in my head. There are at least four differently-motivated versions of disremembering at work here.

i don’t see how any of the benefits of chatgpt and other consumer-facing LLMs can possibly outweigh their incredible ability to induce suicides

In the US, we're only encouraged to "think of the children" when doing so serves capitalist ends.

I have benefitted from your past work but no longer know whether I can trust future work with your announcement that you’ll be using AI. That’s a significant roadblock to my providing financial support

I look forward to the Supreme Court explaining that cake decorating is expressive art but music is not

All of the money that changed hands in the Teapot Dome scandal totaled less than $10 million after adjusting for inflation, and it was considered so corrupt we still teach it in high school government classes a century later.

“it is illegal for you not to like me”

LeMonde said, not on our watch

80% of women in jails are mothers, and most of them are primary caretakers of their children. Mass incarceration has a ripple effect, causing trauma that can last generations within a single family.

So, is he saying that "heritage Americans" are the experts at fleecing the government?

I just taught my lecture course on mid-20th c US history, which starts with Harding and concludes with Nixon. For the first time, I had to pause and stress that those scandals were actually shocking at the time and, what’s more, that Americans actually demanded people be held accountable.

This is just going to always be my go-to response to this kind of thing anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...

The news of HHS potentially pulling funding for any hospital that provides gender affirming care for youth should terrify everyone. This means the govt can decide what care any of us can receive and hold funding hostage for any hospital that doesn’t bend to its will.

White men are 30% of the US and if they look around the room and see it’s less than 90% white men they think it’s affirmative action.

163 years ago in Mankato, 38 Dakota men were hung in the largest mass execution in our nation’s history. I’m grateful to the riders who continue to remind us the importance of fighting for accountability and healing for the Dakota people. www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...

How are these fits of presidential incontinence never covered as their own news events in NYT? Hours of sick hateful bile from the curdled joyless leader of the Christian nationalists sitting in the ruins of the tinsel trimmed White House he’s demolishing — seems like a story to me.

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"Did you see what Mark Cuban posted? Oh did you see the clapb—" You shake yourself awake in the cold North Atlantic water. You are not online. It is July of 1858. You are a baleen whale, and you have changed your mind. The future most not come to pass. The telegraph cable must break.

Remembering this 2016 instruction from @duchessgoldblatt.bsky.social today:

Anyway, here's the full story

The Wisconsin component of the analysis here is revealing. Evidence is consistent with DOGE strategically delaying contract terminations in WI until after the 2025 state Supreme Court elections to mitigate electoral risk.

"The Executive Unbound: Politicized Bureaucracy and Partisan Procurement under DOGE" lucabellodi.com/material/DOG...

An industry is 100% white: nothing to see here An industry becomes 99% white: grab the rocket launchers, file the lawsuits, make up the imaginary white men who are being discriminated against otherwise we will all die

Once again I want to say that this recent trend in US Healthcare where a random company associated with a random provider but no direct link to the in-person hospital system sends us a bill by e-mail weeks or months later with no details about the provided services is just going to cause scams.

The numbers are in. More people watched the bootlegged 60 Minutes CECOT segment than watched Trump’s Kennedy Center Honors on CBS.

#utpol Not sure what agreement Utah made with the Current Administration regarding relinquishing or weakening the state's role in election administration. Is there an MOU? stateline.org/2025/12/18/t...

Make a Bond movie academic: The Grant Is Not Enough

On birthright citizenship: The plain meaning of the text is against him. The original intent of the authors is against him. The traditional understanding through US history is against him. So he is left trying to invent some convoluted academic theory to justify his predetermined conclusion.

CBS has cancelled a story about the Christmas Nigeria bombings because Bari Weiss complained it implied that Nigerians are human beings without seeking an alternative perspective from Steven Miller.

Here's the deal, says USDOJ to states: we're going to send you lists of voters we think are ineligible, and you're going to take them off the rolls. That "would hand the federal govt a major role in election admin, a responsibility that belongs to the states under the U.S. Constitution." [Stateline]

DOGE was A LOT less likely to cancel contracts from companies that donated money to Republicans than companies that donated to Democrats.

New from Michael Miller and me at @thejop.bsky.social: Evidence that, in most areas that were affected by the decision, the Supreme Court decision gutting the Voting Rights Act in 2013 (Shelby County v Holder) increased the racial turnout gap. A thread... www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Think Tank Called ‘The Himmler Institute’ Assures Nation This All Legal https://theonion.com/think-tank-called-the-himmler-institute-assures-nation-this-all-legal/

I somehow missed this www.texasmonthly.com/being-texan/...

I'll add that I was careful to include this about consensus history in my piece with Evan and Paul. This was a problem when it first started. It is still happening. And it is pernicious. ~fin~

For me, however, those broader conversations are not apt for the birthright citizenship revisionism because they have shown their work to be methodologically flawed from the start, in addition to being substantively weak. No historically oriented scholar worth their salt would do this amateur stuff.

It may seem like liberals are hammering at these profs all the time, but they've set the terms, dropping "evidence" in op-eds and social media. Do we let misinformation fester? Folks offered interesting insight on scholarship and novelty, what is valued, and what counts as good. Check them out:

Consensus histories can be wrong, but scholars who want to challenge that still have to follow historical methods. That takes time and a lot of work. That’s not happening here. When claims are made on the fly that are easily debunked, that’s a huge red flag, and it should be pointed out right away.

Protests lead to change. The more people who protest, the more other people feel safe to also join protests. Once protests are made up of every kind of person, the police/military are much less likely to crack down on them. Which robs authoritarians of muscle. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

NEW: A prominent free speech group helped right-wing dark money score a legal win against an Ohio school board and its anti-bullying policy, which protected transgender and nonbinary students. www.importantcontext.news/p/how-a-free...