IT FEELS THAT WAY DOES IT ROSS? I WONDER WHY THAT IS.

So, to all the "RFK's got some good ideas" folks (Rachael Bedard, Leana Wen) and Jay Bhattacharya is "an excellent choice for NIH" (Steven Macedo, Frances Lee) and Vinay Prasad "will bring a breath of fresh air to FDA" (Adam Cifu, John Mandrola) groupies--you own this now too.

Heartbreaking. The University of Nebraska will terminate its entire Earth science department. One of the country's most successful and respected geology & climate programs: gone. When ideologues & politicians are threatened by the very act of studying climate change, I wonder: who of us is next?

You are ABSOLUTELY NOT going to regret listening to this bird:

Wow, that’s a pretty big point of disagreement, NPR. Maybe someone could investigate which point of view is correct and report on the truth of the matter. Do you know anyone who does that sort of thing?

I'll never get used to sheer, unadulterated meanness of this administration. They're completely unconcerned about lifting people up and solely focused on tearing people down. It is a movement that is absolutely devoid of a moral center. We need to present a clear moral vision in opposition.

oi a gorblins done nicked me amulet

this shit is just beyond parody, man

This is totalitarianism. Not rule of law democracy. And everyone who excused thus is potentially signing this nation’s death warrant.

Addressing the claim that America was built by "hard working people" by reminding everyone that America was *actually* built on the backs of enslaved Africans and on the genocide of Indigenous people. Support my advocacy: www.qasimrashid.com/subscribe

A reminder that Witkoff is a real estate guy with no prior diplomatic experience.

New: The men killed as they floated holding onto their capsized boat after the Sept 2 secondary strike did not appear to have radio or other comms devices, top military official overseeing the strike told lawmakers, undercutting claim they could have called for backup. www.cnn.com/2025/12/04/p...

Welcoming immigrants IS our culture, you Nazi.

ICE would not be able to carry out its enforcement regime without Amazon’s computing capacity. As internal documents make clear, without continued access to Amazon’s services “DHS and CBP would experience catastrophic, nation-wide outage impacts.”

I think they’re going to argue that the boat itself was the target of the second attack because it was still a threat in their imaginary “war” against “narcoterrorism”. Any survivors were incidental. There was no way that boat was going to complete its mission. It’s bullshit, but it’s all they got.

This is great news, and it should relieve a lot of stress on institutions that have been reeling since the cancellations. But a lot of damage has already been done to planning and operations, and they'll still need our support and love for all the work they accomplish, much of it behind the scenes.

Weird but I totally don't remember signing up to live inside a Black Mirror episode and yet

NYT: Is the President tired? Ms. Leavitt: Would a weary President be able to deliver a racist rant like that one?

There are 150,000-plus Somali-Americans. This is the President of the United States talking about U.S. citizens, including a member of Congress.

Vice signaling. What kind of person is so proud of immoral, criminal, inhumane actions that they broadcast their fantasy it was even worse? And what type of person likes watching that? Even when killing is necessary for security—and this wasn't close—it should be serious, forced by circumstances.

Rescued another waif this weekend: Victor Victrola VV-IX, made early in the year 1913. Needs some work, but hey, somebody's gotta preserve musical history...

"There is something compulsive about a telephone. The gadget-ridden man of our age loves it, loathes it, and is afraid of it. But he always treats it with respect, even when he is drunk. The telephone is a fetish." — Raymond Chandler, in 'The Long Goodbye' (1953). Huh. How times change.

Succinctly:

The White House’s new anti-media website includes denunciations of: -ABC, which bribed the president -CBS, which bribed the president and moved away from fact-based journalism trying to appeal to him and his fans -WaPo, which spiked a Harris endorsement and tilts coverage in Trump’s favor Fools.

For the economy's sake, I would strongly suggest that someone around Trump explain to him how tariffs work before he does this

When a politician says: we’ll deregulate health insurance and send you a “freedom account” check, ask: freedom to buy what? If insurers don’t offer real policies or can cherry-pick only healthy people, that money is a coupon for a store that’s not open.

Carbon capture and storage technology is, at its core, a calculated tactic by fossil fuel companies to perpetuate their environmentally destructive practices while giving the illusion that they’re addressing the very crisis they’ve been fueling for over a century.

Alternate take if you are not a Trump toady like Judge Winebox: Performative militarization of a relatively safe city — extremely so around the White House — puts lives unnecessarily at risk. This avoidable tragedy all falls on the administration.

we have to go back. to warn them.

“Press Conference As Humiliation Ritual: An Analysis of Trump and the U.S. Press through The Lens of Performative Sadomasochism” In this essay I will…

so. many. hands. have touched every single thing you eat, wear, use. none of us is independent; we all exist in a web of support, relying on people we have never met and may never meet for our safety, our sustenance, our joy, our satiety. you are alive because of so many people's labor.

As we hurtle headlong into America's monthlong orgy of overconsumption... Don't forget to listen to William S. Burroughs's "A Thanksgiving Prayer" today, folks! The holidays wouldn't be the same without it.

Christmas is coming, and the Black Friday sales signal we’re in peak gift-buying season. When you’re picking out gifts for friends and family this year, there’s a whole slew of tech products that are better to avoid. I put together a guide to help you through it.

When the strongest argument for your policy is a list of lies (I count 7) and exaggerations (another 5), you reveal more than a wonky list of truths ever would.

1/Senior US official caught coaching Russia on how to massage Trump on Ukraine deal. Why? Because we are entering a new international order based not in state interests but clique interests. Welcome to neo-royalism. www.cambridge.org/core/journal... www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

The war will end when Russia stops fighting. Therefore, pressure has to be put on Russia, so that they stop believing that they will win. Why is that so hard to understand?

Getting my “swagger” back by murdering millions of seniors

I really wish we'd stop calling them climate "skeptics" or "vaccine skeptics", if you jump off a cliff we don't call you a "gravity skeptic"

Witkoff is not buying the Russian narrative. He is selling it.

to keep functioning, a society must discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities

it's stunning how we've somehow normalized the President being completely fucking insane

Burnt down my house to avoid the mansion tax, take that Rachel and Keith! I am very smart.

He is truly pathological. As his numbers tank over high prices and people see this project as an example of his narcissism, Trump is just going all in. He wants a bigger ballroom. wapo.st/4prs3HI

Nature is beautiful: here you can see the adult buses circling together to protect the baby buses from busivores that would otherwise prey on them

Lord, I see what you've done for others...

Rep. Hakeem Jeffries said on WNYC that he receives only $10,000 from AIPAC's PAC, but FEC records show the group has flooded his campaign with more than $1 million in earmarked donations. A conduit used by AIPAC PAC, Democracy Engine, may be funneling more from the group.

Seeking to kneecap states and hand even more power over to his big tech cronies, the ever power thirsty and David Sacks gets ratioed. For now at least — this group is like mold and always returns www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

isaac chotiner came to my house and tricked me into admitting we weren’t out of ice cream in front of my five year old daughter

As we prepare ourselves for our Great Solemn Day of National Thanksgiving, let us be grateful to Our Beloved Leader for his greatest invention yet, potatoes!

Just a reminder that we could be living in an America in which Trump and his fellow conspirators are spending the rest of their lives in prison if we had serious politicians and a system that wasn’t hellbent on and designed toward self-destruction. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/w...