MAGAZINER: How many veterans have you deported? NOEM: We haven't deported veterans MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea

Federal judges were given life tenure on the assumption that it would free them FROM political pressure, not free them TO apply it. And yes, all circuit judges will end up being politicians, but there should be limits, and some are clearly violating them.

“Donald, you are not going to believe just how hungry this caterpillar is.”

The biggest civics mistake ever made was teaching children we have “three co-equal branches of government.” Congress is the first among equals with checks and balances.

The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service

You really want to watch this: youtu.be/7kx67NnuSd0?... H/t @cadburymoose.bsky.social

There's a couple reasons so many IWW songs are set to the tunes of hymns and one is that the Salvation Army Band would show up and try to stop workers organizing by playing hymns to drown out speeches, so the Wobblies came up with words so they could sing along. SA has been trash all along.

"The requirement to refuse to comply with orders to commit law of war violations applies to orders to perform conduct that is clearly illegal or orders that the subordinate knows...are illegal. For example, 𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐞 𝐮𝐩𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩𝐰𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐝 𝐰𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐛𝐞 𝐜𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐲 𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐠𝐚𝐥." -DoD Law of War manual

New post by me on #MITPressReader @mitpress.bsky.social On the 100th anniversary of the #ScopesMonkeyTrial the ways we depict #evolution can still give an erroneous progressive view (that evolution leads to humans or ‘increased complexity’). thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/is-our-pictu...

Today is the 70th anniversary of Rosa Parks' arrest. Six myths: 1) She wasn't old or tired. 42 years old that day, she had a "life history of being rebellious" & had spent two decades helping to turn the Montgomery NAACP into a more activist branch alongside ED Nixon and Johnnie Carr.

this is mesmerizing

When asked why they make up lies for the right-wing instead of the left, the fake news creators said, "Look man. We tested everything. We write made-up stories for the right and the left. The left is not gullible enough." Hateful people are self-selected for gullibility. 🤷🏿‍♂️ Easy marks.

As usual, @gregsargent.bsky.social is correct that we know the current president has given illegal orders. One example missing here is that just yesterday a federal judge found that his ordering the National Guard to Washington, DC, violated not only federal law but the Constitution.

THREAD. A collection of photographs of excellent trees I have met on walks. You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.

There’s one person squarely to blame for Trump’s corruption, authoritarianism & assault on democracy: John Roberts. He’s enabled so much of Trump’s lawlessness while somehow escaping accountability for it New cover story from @pemalevy.bsky.social & me www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

One way to show solidarity without becoming "part of the story" -- which is a great fear for many in the press corps -- is for the next reporter to repeat the same question that the insulted journalist was trying to ask. And then again. And, if necessary, again. Until he answers the question

Fascinating. Tanzania is among those leading in an effort to re-green desertified areas, and rather than 'planting' trees, they have brought back old techniques to prompt dormant tree root systems to begin to regenerate into full trees again. www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5g6...

People have been misinterpreting Lolita since it came out and Nabokov was like "you're absolutely wrong; I wrote this to create a trap that you fell into and you should reflect on why you were so gullible about a monster."

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer. He is a computer safety researcher. And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine. In under 1600 words. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

"And rather than explain to these very real constituents that Republicans have sidelined us completely and created an authoritarian regime, I nodded and said, OK, you probably know more about it than I do."

taking a senior government job can mean a 10x or even 100x pay cut for certain fields. does seem to make good sense to take a look at both sides of that equation.

DHS confirmed it has stopped automatically storing officials' text messages. Instead, officials are supposed to take a screenshot, send that to their work email, download it onto their work computer and run a text-recognition program on it. Every time. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...

I've seen this go by a few times on TikTok now and I have to say, I love this idea. We need a way to convince people to keep running even if they don't win, maybe building the loss into it as a troll move is the secret.

The speed of light visualized on a world map. Credit: Dr James O'Donoghue

I'm loving the audio version of @vermontgmg.bsky.social 's oral history of D-Day, "When the Sea Came Alive" and am curious about the narrators. Anyone know where a full cast list, who read whom, can be found?

When I worked in WaPo Opinions in 2017-2018, senior editors specifically told junior editors not to factcheck Marc Thiessen and other MAGA columnists, otherwise they wouldn’t be able to publish anything by them at all, and “we need them for intellectual diversity.”

We literally do disagree about this, though. Some politicians want to take food from children and some politicians don't. Pretending this "isn't political" just allows the child-starving ghouls to get away with it. Tell people who supports the *political program* to feed children and who doesn't!

ICE followed the mother into a school and aggressively detained her along with her children. This is so heartbreaking 💔

Has Mike Johnson ever considered holding his daily presser an hour later to give him time to read a paper?

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A couple of weeks ago, Trump struggled with a broken umbrella as he boarded Air Force One. Let me tell you how we got to this point — and the tragic downfall of the noble umbrella. 🧵

Speaker of the House holding a formal presser to announce that Jesus is the king of everyone in the USA should be getting more attention

"New Far Side comics" was definitely not on my bingo card for this week. They're not bad! www.thefarside.com/new-stuff/

Personal gripe: the whole saying is "A few bad apples SPOIL THE BUNCH." Somehow this has transformed into "a few bad apples" being a phrase indicating "not a big deal", when the whole point is it IS a big deal because EVERYONE HAS GONE BAD THROUGH EXPOSURE

I don’t think you can “abuse” your right to protest

Incredible. Jack Posobiec references the earliest version of antifa -- the anti-fascists in the Weimar Republic who were opposed to the Nazi Party -- as the bad guys.

ICE just blatantly violated the law and arrested sitting Chicago Alderperson Jessie Fuentes while seeking to illegally arrest a patient in a hospital. Fuck these fascists.

First time this guy has ever made me laugh

So exhausting..

Indeed you may have encountered some of Hammerstein's (he dropped the aristocratic 'von' at this point) leadership principles in management studies. They're characteristically blunt and on point. They formed the basis for his wholesale overhaul proposals for the Weimar Republic's army. /7

Japan has a wrestling camp for kids where at the end they have a show match in front of their parents to show off what they learned. Thought you'd enjoy this.

This is equal parts amazing and _extremely_ disturbing. It should probably be watched by no one not already insane. But if you are insane, like I appear to be, have at it.

Happy 40th anniversary to "Thundercats". Opening animated by Masayuki (who was only 22 years old at the time).

This is correct. Mitch McConnell and John Roberts are, between them, the two public officials most responsible for what has happened to democratic governance. (Roger Ailes, Leonard Leo, Rupert Murdoch, the brothers Koch, etc on Mt. Rushmore, but not as public officials. Comey in here somewhere.)

This is an excellent piece, arguing that by blaming Trump, we give ourselves a pass, ignore the deeper institutional failures, and misstate the solution (whatever “this” is will outlive him).

Trump thinks going after kingpins will show the US is muscular & serious about stopping drugs. In fact, we have long known that the kingpin strategy does not reduce the flow of drugs, but it does increase violence from succession fights & turf wars. Trump would throw water on a grease fire.💥🔥

I'm not seeing enough people highlight that Cuban is an owner so he's talking his book: If teams were more important than players, owners would have another advantage when negotiating salaries. Cuban's not smart but don't be sure he isn't knowingly lying here.

It makes me emotional to see Judge Sooknanan showing that she values each individual child’s life at a moment when this administration is doing exactly the opposite