They didn't want to blow DJT Jr's Christmas gift of nose candy, I'm guessing.

“The good news is I was right. The bad news is I was right.” -Me every day

My first big lol of the day, thank you! Everything about this is hideous.

I'll listen to Aretha Franklin's version of Nessun Dorma! youtu.be/k33sINjn9o0?...

Same. 😭

when you're a size 8 but the 10 was on sale

This is Timothy Snyder's thesis in Black Earth and he's been way more right than wrong

Great work in and on Vienna by Stephen Naron and colleagues. One of these women figures in Black Earth and I was just looking at her testimony for my lecture on Kristallnacht for the Chicago Holocaust Museum at Am Torah www.freud-museum.at/en/exhibitio...

All super rich guys sound the same now. It’s all “I sleep four hours a night and spend the other twenty hours a day developing a product that’s going to bring us the best widespread poverty anyone’s ever seen.”

The problem with questioning birthright citizenship in the US context should not be looked at with its economic peers, but its geographic. There’s a historical reason it exists and it underpins the entire state organization in the Western Hemisphere. There exceptions in the WH also tie into that:

okay folks, “government name” doesn’t mean “work for the government.” it is a slang term meaning “your full name”

The 14th Amendment says that all people born in America, regardless of race are citizens and have a right to equal protection under the law. For SCOTUS to be remotely confused on that text speaks to their racism, not the Constitution (1/3) www.cnn.com/2025/12/05/p...

“After they broke up, Ferreira said in court records that Michael Leavitt had in the past threatened to try to get her deported.”

If you want to tell me the plain language of the Constitution means something entirely different, you ought to have a heavy burden. But because we've allowed the public practices of folk constitutionalism to atrophy into lawyerly monopoly (see below), there's a brute appeal to authority available.

It's largely lost today because we've allowed constitutional law to become the exclusive preserve of lawyers, but the original idea of written constitutionalism was partly one of public education, publicity, & (proto-)democracy—people should be able to read & come to know the law which binds them

reading this my main thought is that the leavitt family appears to be a bunch of degenerates and this woman was unlucky to enter their orbit

I've been sticking my head in the sand for at least the last 10 days. I just watched this great overview from HCR on YouTube to make sure I was mostly dialed into the shit show. I am. 😭 youtu.be/tPKtdmDxxNM?...

My new podcast "Burn Order" is about the decision to incarcerate tens of thousands of Japanese-American families during World War II, and the remarkable fight against it. 6 episodes in total -- Eps. 1 and 2 are posted now. 3 and 4 will post tomorrow, December 8: podcasts.apple.com/me/podcast/r...

Himes: "I think it's really important this video by made public ... it's important people see what it looks like when the full force of the US military is turned on two guys who are clinging to a piece of wood and about to go under just so they have a visceral feel for what it is we're doing"

The traditional runway at Dakar fashion week is replaced by pirogues ferrying models between Senegal's capital and the island of Ngor, just off the coast.

Yikes! 😫

I’ve tried with this guy. I really have.

"In response to Trump's order, attorneys general in 21 states sued the administration. Now, after a judge's ruling that Trump's actions were unlawful, libraries and museums across the country will have access to money that had been stuck in a months-long limbo..." www.npr.org/2025/12/04/n...

It’s important to remember there are two scandals here: 1. The Administration has likely committed war crimes. 2. But the entire operation - which now includes two dozen attacks - is illegal. In our democracy, the President CANNOT wage war without the consent of the people.

Short primer on her for those unfamiliar. If you have access to PBS Passport or can find it on your local @pbs.org station, I recommend the short documentary talked about, here. youtu.be/-3BfzcPvzRo?...

September 17, 2024.

Americans don’t even understand that the US government has been at war with them since LBJ. For as long as people think this is a new problem and that old solutions worked we won’t get anywhere different from where we are today

Do Europeans understand that Trump’s America just declared war on our way of life and on our Union?

Bientôt des coups d'état organisés par la CIA en Europe, façon Amérique du Sud ? En tout cas on est dans la ligne de mire de la nouvelle politique étrangère des USA.

Canada only mentioned in US NSS once, in the context of trade policy with China, suspect that we're being lumped-in with Europe on a lot of these "concerns". My other Canada take is that Ottawa was *allegedly* waiting for the US document to drop before releasing our long awaited NSS. Soon maybe?

trump admin approach to national security sounds like the kind of thing Charles Lindbergh would have written in 1939

Trump's national security strategy is out and some of the Europe sections are shocking. "...the growing influence of patriotic European parties indeed gives cause for great optimism." www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...

Elon Musk and his Russian friends call for the abolishment of the EU

The Russian government represents Putin and his cronies. Musk represents himself.

The baroque corruption schemes playing out in America and Russia completely outclass the kickback scandal in Ukraine. www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

We're teaching ethics effectively, I see: “We built Cluely so you never have to think alone again...Why memorize facts, write code, research anything—when a model can do it in seconds? The future won’t reward effort. It’ll reward leverage. So start cheating. Because when everyone does, no one is."

Worth reading for lots of reasons, but particularly because it closes with something I see in my work and travels speaking on writing and AI. Many, maybe most students do not want AI-mediated schooling or lives. We can offer them something better. www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...

Students desire engaging, meaningful learning experiences, but school is often not oriented around those things. This doesn't mean we can't change, though. Rather than rushing headlong into the arms of AI we have to focus on what matters as humans. www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/john-...

mine are dismayed and disgusted that the university is shoving it on them and allowing Google to table on campus to advertise Gemini

they absolutely want to know why the university is doing something in direct contravention of its supposed values and purpose, of the things they were sold to attend

This really is a must read for anyone in academia.

The tools v. technology take is spot on and it's not just human agency at stake but what it means to be distinctively human. AI can be yet another way we dehumanize education.

"Finland treats resistance to disinformation almost as a form of civil defence: an integral part of its broader security strategy."

One reason that the US (and the UK presumably, I don’t even go there) doesn’t teach children universal critical thinking and critical information literacy skills is that the idea that children should be able to evaluate or dissent from the lies of adults in society is politically contested.

“Media education in Finland begins as early as primary school, with media & science literacy integrated into the curriculum. Students learn how to spot deception across subjects…Training in scepticism &…critical thinking skills are not seen as purely academic matters but as essential to daily life.”

Most discussions about “misinformation” treat the problem as if people simply don’t have good enough critical-thinking skills. It sounds intuitive, but it’s not entirely accurate. The problem isn’t just individual ignorance, it’s the structure of the information environment people are placed into.

Finland has emerged as a global leader in countering “fake news”. Here's how they've done it

Truly bonkers.

When the House and Senate marked up stablecoin legislation, we raised all of these concerns - their anonymity, their nearly perfect design for money laundering. All the barn doors were left wide open. It’s used for crime because that is its purpose. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/t...

Smugglers, money launderers and sanctioned people once relied on diamonds, gold and artwork. Now, criminals have a far more practical alternative: stablecoins, a cryptocurrency tied to the U.S. dollar that exists largely beyond traditional financial oversight. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/t...