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We could lose 1/3 of our farms by next year and farmer suicides are through the roof.

Book we all should read: “There Is No Place for Us" by Brian Goldstone explores the troubling rise of the working homeless in America. CBS Sunday Morning did a segment today on this.

Jim Ryan's letter is not just surreal and troubling; it provides a series of deeply sobering lessons—about the perils facing public universities today; about what it means to "work with" this Department of Justice; & about what leadership does (and doesn't) entail at this especially fraught moment.

Former UVA president Jim Ryan, who resigned over the summer due to pressure from the Trump Administration, just shared this 12-page letter with the Faculty Senate, detailing his experience with the Board of Visitors and DOJ. It's a surreal--and troubling--read. drive.google.com/file/d/1Is6x...

They’re “bringing their cows with them”? I sometimes think I can imagine the utmost insanity, and then I learn I am so naïve as to what that can possibly be.

“FBI Director Kash Patel granted waivers to Deputy Director Dan Bongino and two other newly hired senior FBI staff members, exempting them from passing polygraph exams normally required to gain access to America’s most sensitive classified information…” www.propublica.org/article/fbi-...

The Trump Organization is reportedly in talks to bring a Trump-branded property to one of Saudi Arabia’s biggest state-owned real estate projects. In unrelated news, MBS is meeting Trump on Tuesday, in his first visit to the WH since the brutal murder of Khashoggi www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/w...

@realtimers.bsky.social My issue with very elderly politicians is not about their cognition, which can vary, but their failure to mentor and allow young people to replace them.

Devastating and important reads, especially the links at the end.

Government funding bill cuts food safety regulations. See the provisions for yourself www.snopes.com/fact-check/g...

But by all means don't regulate this stuff because obviously people can distinguish real from fake, and being fooled won't cause damage.🙄

Surely he's learned his lesson, right?🙄

been awhile since I felt a literal chill down my spine but this honestly scared the shit out of me

I want a government that doesn’t sound like a deeply damaged, bratty boy when it communicates with citizens exercising their First Amendment rights.

According to Fox News, if you are a racist Young Republican you are still a "kid" when you are 34, but if you are an Epstein victim, you are an adult when you're 15.

A clear message to the MAGA-faithful about the value of loyalty & a disgraceful exercise of the power the Founders entrusted the President with to do justice. x.com/kyledcheney/...

A TJRS Short story: An African student's Harvard dream crushed by Trump's ban on nonwhite visas www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-XI...

@nicollewallace.bsky.social Hope you get some R&R this weekend (seems appropriate to use the term from Vietnam soldiers getting off the field for awhile). Please take a break!

We should be encouraging supporting young people as they grapple with the future that WE left them! So infuriating that we keep patting them on the head. I subscribed to Teen Vogue the minute I learned it existed. Grr.

$50 mil seems low for the leader of Qanon who used military tactics to psyop millions of Americans into turning their backs on their country and to defend a sick, twisted pedophile-protecting insurgency to coup the United States. This isn't justice. This is a payoff. Unforgivable.

#ICYMI: The Department of Homeland Security says it intends to add state driver's license information to a swiftly expanding federal system envisioned as a one-stop shop for checking citizenship. By @jenafifield.bsky.social and @zachdespart.bsky.social

🚨BREAKING: DOJ reached a new low Friday after Pam Bondi publicly thanked Donald Trump for ordering the department to investigate ties convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein — a longtime friend and former confidant of Trump’s — had with several prominent Democrats and institutions.

Read and/or save for use when this tinder ignites.

If you’re in Austin Saturday afternoon, @katiephang.bsky.social and I will be in conversation & we’d love to have you join us at @texastribune.org’s #2025TribFest

Got that from somewhere

Wow, this is fascinating.

This is super bad for US citizens, especially on the left of the spectrum. Gives this authoritarian administration potentially the power to surveil & go after US citizens on spurious "funding of FTO" grounds. This whole antifa boogeyman is being fully weaponized. So dangerous.

The Justice Department argued in a new legal filing to the Supreme Court that Trump has unreviewable powers to flood U.S. cities with National Guard troops, marking the latest step in Trump’s authoritarian effort to militarize cities. https://bit.ly/49mfIA1

Kristi Noem hands out $10,000 bonus checks to select TSA workers

There sure is a lot of missing evidence when it comes to DHS.

I'm not funny.

Important case to track: Subranyam (Subu) Vedam was found innocent(!) after 43-year murder imprisonment but the minute he was released, ICE grabbed him. Deportation has been temporarily blocked but this is an important humanitarian case to follow!

Eric is truly a man of the people.

After Republicans refused to extend ACA subsidies, 4 Michigan insurers are dropping out of the ACA marketplace altogether. That’s 200,000 Michiganders who just lost their plans.

❌ No, Trump didn't say, "I got an MRI, it was perfect. They found nothing. The doctors were amazed. They said of all the MRIs done on presidents going back to George Washington, this is the first time nothing was found.” www.snopes.com/fact-check/t...

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The Danger After Trump Why The Hate Machine Won't Let Go open.substack.com/pub/therickw...

A true ally before it was popular! “Griffin never shied away from her label as an edgy comedian with a large queer following, even before it was a socially acceptable brand to claim.” Great profile of one of my favorite people. www.advocate.com/arts-enterta...

The first and last lines of Joni Ernst’s legacy as a human on earth will be that she was instrumental in the confirmation of the Sec of Defense most hostile to women serving in military, and she knew that when she voted for him.

Tonight we remember our dear friend and bandleader Cleto 💙

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I thought I just missed part of the video but apparently they really are calling TWO swimmers a “synchronized swim” event? So I guess now the duos in Olympics ice-dancing are “synchronized dancers”. Make it make sense.

Insane. How many judges does the oil industry own? Because they sure get a lot of crazy, nonsensical rulings in their favor.

Trump is spiraling so badly that he managed to completely botch an interview with…Laura Ingraham 😂 Read how it went off-the-rails and catch up on all the latest news in our latest bulletin: www.meidasplus.com/p/today-in-p...

Late last month, Elon Musk launched Grokipedia, an AI-generated encyclopedia with 855,279 articles, no human editors, and no way for users to request improvements beyond a suggestion box addressed ...