You can’t report illegal acts because you don’t want to compromise them being carried out is an interesting take, if true

Either it was a limited operation merely to arrest Maduro and move on, or, it is an ongoing major regime change committment that will open up a transition including international and private sector partners. It really can't be both

I don't agree with how Hitler removed Kurt Schuschnigg. But now that he has been removed, hoping for a smooth transition to democratic restoration in Austria. #Satire

You can read my take on Trump's illegal invasion of Venezuela here: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

The President unilaterally invades a country, kidnaps its leader, and asserts the US is in control of it. Yet, the media is treating it as a reasonable course of action.

Let me sum up the reaction of the German government: International law applies when our enemies violate it, it’s that simple.

“So, you see, you can’t argue in the abstract like those naïve protesters on college campuses are doing. You’ve got to look at the hard numbers if you’re going to make an informed decision about a potential blood-for-oil swap.”

As I and others have written, algorithmic wage discrimination combined with the myth of “independent contracting” allows platform companies to use “desperation scores” to determine how little to pay drivers. www.reddit.com/r/confession...

In his inaugural address as mayor of New York, Zohran Mamdani vowed not to back away from his ambitious campaign promises. "I was elected as a democratic socialist and I will govern as a democratic socialist." https://www.democracynow.org/2026/1/2/zohran_mamdani_inauguration_speech

One thing that gets my goat is to read *leftists* saying that "capitalism" has produced all the great wonders of modern technological advance (alongside the horrors it took to get here). "Capitalism" didn't produce those things; people did, working frankly in a whole variety of social arrangements.

Under the proposed rule issued by the Trump Administration today, any Medicare- or Medicaid-participating hospital would be barred from providing gender-affirming care to *any child*, even if the care is not paid for by Medicare or Medicaid. public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-23465.pdf

Full court press against trans people.

Note also that today HHS is proposing rules (a) to bar the use of federal Medicaid/CHIP funds to cover gender-affirming care for those under 18 (public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-23464.pdf) and

This is, of course, always where this was headed. It will only get worse.

Utah needs a striking amount of energy in the next 5 years. The governor has pledged to double production over the next decade. But lawmakers, with the governor's acquiescence, is passing laws that stand in the way of the fastest growing energy source: solar. www.propublica.org/article/utah...

25 years ago today, SCOTUS elected George W Bush president of the United States by blocking completion of a voting canvass in Florida. A subsequent canvass by the Associated Press showed that Bush's rival, Al Gore, had won the race in Florida—and thus the contest for the presidency—by 700 votes.

The titular wokeness being rolled back is the Civil Rights Act of 1964

To celebrate 40 years, we published the “Top 40” declassified documents from our first four decades. What's your favorite? How about Oliver North's handwritten reminder to call up the former Treasury secretary in re: blocking a Ford Foundation grant to the Archive? nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...

You might think from the headline that this is a story about a trans kid suffering medical consequences from a large drug dose but nope! It is just an interview with an estranged father who is angry that his child happily transitioned. archive.ph/Tmthz

Listening to the SCOTUS arguments in the latest free speech challenge to campaign finance, NRSC v FEC, I am struck by the fact that the 1A is both a primary cause of the political hellscape in which we find ourselves AND one of the most powerful defenses against it www.scotusblog.com/cases/case-f...

This one really surprised me. Federally Qualified Health Centers Are Suing Patients Over Unpaid Bills of as Little as $59, by @aliyyaswaby.bsky.social #fqhc

How has ACIP changed as an institution? How does it align with the ACIP charter? I learned a lot from this comment letter by @democracyforward.org & @nhelp.bsky.social democracyforward.org/wp-content/u...

12 former commissioners of the FDA came together to write a Perspectives piece for the New England Journal of Medicine; raising our concerns about recent changes to vaccine approval policy at the FDA and its implications for patients and public health.

Not remotely the most important ACIP observation, but I’m struck by how they’ve transformed the setup into something that looks like an official CDC broadcast rather than an actual advisory committee meeting. (Compare to the old pre-covid setup). Better for clips/soundbites/social media, I suppose?

The US is saying the quiet parts out loud.. 'We reject the disastrous “climate change” and “Net Zero” ideologies' 'Expanding our net energy exports will also deepen relationships with allies [..] and enables us to project power.' Is this the 'ally' Europe wants to depend on for its energy supply?

the rich want us all to actually just live in complete hell

One of the reasons Trump is in the White House is that people think both parties are equally corrupt. They're not, but statements like this make it really hard for people to see that truth.

🚨New article! "The Second Patent Bargain"!🚨 In it, I argue U.S. law can & should use patent term extension—an obscure but important provision & process—to unlock late-stage, detailed evidence of the safety & effectiveness of drugs, vaccines & other FDA-regulated products. 1/ 🧵

Today, @madisoncondon.bsky.social makes the case that we should stop thinking of climate change as an externality. The latest in our series on @alybatt.bsky.social's *Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature.*

Meanwhile, even if a reader takes the time to click on and read the article, they still have to scroll past two ads and a list of related stories to get to the "okay but" paragraph explaining that real scientists are highly skeptical of these new FDA claims.

Headlines like this are extremely dangerous. Because moms of young kids are the people who make the bulk of the vaccine decisions for famillies. And for a lot of them, "reading the news" looks like scrolling past headlines on social media in the spare moments of the chaos of caring for kids.

How did the @nytimes.com editors let this sentence appear? "Critics have likened Mr. Trump’s approach to extortion, while others have chalked it up as a cost of doing business with this administration." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...

The latest evaluation of bike lane projects in Boston continues to show that if you build bike infrastructure, people will use it. Full report: www.boston.gov/sites/defaul...

Our legal victory in AAUP v. Trump ensures that the Trump administration cannot use civil rights laws to pull federal research funds from universities, which undermines our 1st and 10th amendment rights. AAUP General Counsel Veena Dubal explains why this is a major victory for higher ed workers.

BREAKING: Federal judge rejects DOJ's effort to subpoena the names and medical records of children who have received gender-affirming medical care from the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

“scientific orthodoxy” must be the tortured wildfire metaphor version of “scientific evidence”

TRUMP [after spending 5 minutes with Zohran]: surplus value, it’s a very wonderful thing, very wonderful, and they’re stealing it. Can you believe that? We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to

If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features." There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.

NEW: As Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick drives billions of dollars in foreign payments to help build AI data centers in the US, his sons help run a company earning tens of millions in fees helping finance AI data centers. A NYT investigation. (Free link) www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/u...

I hope to see reporters asking the Red Sox today if this was just for the special events at Fenway over the past week, and either way, why they think it's appropriate to allow signs for the company trying to moneyball ICE deportations.

Palantir update via www.wired.com/story/alex-k...

LEAD CHANGE: Katie Wilson is now ahead of Mayor Harrell by... 91 votes. That's out of ≈270K! Seattle counted roughly 39K ballots today, & they broke in favor of Wilson by 11.4%, erasing the entirety of the incumbent's lead.

we are going to win

this “deal” is embarrassingly bad and every Dem who supports it deserves to be primaried Trump is reeling right now, his popularity is crumbling, and he keeps flailing and making stupid decisions. bailing him out now is fucking insane

this is what will show up if you invite me to your ai & copyright law conference

The US is the purple line bottoming out. Our economy may still roar, but we’re killing ourselves. Hoarding wealth, refusing to even ensure our kids have enough to eat. That line is an indictment. It reflects our warped values.

Also- the implication that people have not been paying for healthcare for the past 5 years shows that this person has no idea how normal people live and the challenges they face 🤬

This stuff really freaks me out. They see their future as one where the decisionmakers live in military installations, where the civil and military functions of government become merged.