House Republicans block vote condemning fascism. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Twisting military code, the Trump administration says “all orders” from the president are “lawful orders,” and troops have no right to question him. trib.al/M0jcTz3 The comments come as Hegseth weighs court-martialing a Democratic senator for his part in a video reminding troops to follow the law.

Ukraine’s current corruption scandal may actually be a good thing. Why? Historically, it's the journalists that expose such corruption, and there is little accountability, if any. This time, the state initiated the investigation, showing that the reforms are working. How well remains to be seen...

"The CDC is now completely compromised after Trump and RFK Jr ousted or drove out real, well-intentioned and intelligent scientists," said one physician.​

"It is outrageously irresponsible that we still allow use of this dangerous poison in the United States," one campaigner said after the World Health Organization's International Agency for Research on Cancer dubbed atrazine a probable carcinogen.

Rep. @gene4va.bsky.social—who was a White House national security lawyer at the time of the 2019 call—said it “would shock people if they knew what was said.”

Eugene V. Debs, Defender of American Liberty | Released from jail on this day 130 years ago, the great socialist and labor leader​ delivered a speech we would do well to remember in these perilous times.

This isn't just about one man's moral failure. It's about a system where wealth creates impunity. Where the rules simply don't apply.

"The timing is not subtle. PNP is in the final stretch of collecting signatures for a veto referendum that would suspend House Bill 1 — the mid-decade GOP redraw designed to lock in a 7–1 Republican congressional map — and put it before voters in 2026."

Republicans lawmakers approved a sweeping anti-voting law Wednesday that sponsors framed as a direct response to a September letter sent by the DOJ demanding the state change its election laws or face federal litigation. https://bit.ly/4r8K1jT

While the Supreme Court has not yet said whether it will take up the case or allow the lower court’s injunction to stand, what happens next — in the coming days and weeks — will help determine the fate of democracy in Texas and nationwide.👇 https://bit.ly/49uOXtb

The administration’s rush toward war with Venezuela is reckless and unlawful. I won’t stand by while we’re marched into another disastrous intervention. Congress must reassert its constitutional authority and stop this escalation.

While pregnant, Tierra Walker had a cascade of health complications that threatened her life. Of more than 90 doctors who were involved in her care, not one offered her an abortion, according to medical records.

Why is India’s Modi government making nice with a group that practices one of the world’s most extreme versions of Islam, including banning girls and women from school and nearly all forms of employment?

Exclusive: US threatens to cut intel, weapons to press Ukraine into peace deal, sources say (Trump admin doing everything it can to make the US an unreliable partner and rewarding Vladimir Putin. Such great times! 😬) www.reuters.com/world/europe...

Looks like Mali is about to fall to JNIM, the al-Qaeda linked organization, as a result of the group's blockade of the capital. @wsj.com youtu.be/rPVv0yQSHKA?...

If you need help understanding or defining fascism: www.openculture.com/2024/11/umbe... #polisky #philsky #fascism

Better than their Covid advice to kill them I guess...

Pope Leo calls out world leaders for not stepping up to fight against climate change

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Why would releasing files that expose pedophiles be considered a national security concern?

AI companies are doing everything they can to ensure we don't regulate them.

They aren't even hiding the corruption

Artificial Intelligence And The New Era Of Terrorism: An Assessment Of How Jihadis Are Using AI To Expand Their Propaganda, Recruitment, And Operations And The Implications For National Security

A federal judge ruled that Trump’s deployment of National Guard troops to D.C. was illegal, concluding he lacks the authority to send in troops “for the deterrence of crime.”

Since the U.S. Government is now chasing Christians into the woods during church events, I'll share this one again. It's my apology to white evangelicals. They were right. I was wrong. baptistnews.com/article/dear...

"The excuse-making & the blame-shifting & the changing of terms that they do within their churches & denominations are now being played out in our nation's politics." @rickpidcock.bsky.social talks about the #EpstienFiles & includes my letter to #MegynKelly. ⬇️ podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

Adding to the long track record of the GOP tacitly endorsing the use of Nazi imagery, rhetoric, policies, and leaders, ranging from Speaker Boehner warning there were Nazis amongst the GOP in Congress a decade ago, through both Trump admins using blatant Nazi-inspired imagery, rhetoric, and policies

Trump says Democratic lawmakers should be executed for blandly stating a fact: soldiers are bound by law and duty to refuse unlawful orders.

The U.S. Border Patrol is monitoring millions of American drivers nationwide in a secretive program to identify and detain people whose travel patterns it deems suspicious.

The historian Richard Rhodes uses the term “public man-made death.” He was referring to war, but also Mao Zedong’s Great Leap Forward. We are in the face of a public man-made death now. And it is our opportunity to hold people accountable."

How people react to uncertainty has far-reaching socio-political consequences: A new ETH Zurich study found that people who perceive uncertainty as an opportunity are less likely to vote for right-wing populists. ethz.ch/en/news-and-...

DOH ATHAN | After nearly two decades in a refugee camp on the Thai-Myanmar border, a mother’s chance for a new life collapses as resettlement is halted. Battling grief, illness and despair, she tries to keep hope alive for her sons as camp life sparks a mental health crisis.

PSA: NORAD is conducting a live-fly air defense exercise in the Washington D.C. region during the overnight hours Wednesday from about midnight to 2 a.m. ET. Aircraft could, at times, fly as low as 1,000 feet and be visible from the ground.

2021. @adriennelaf.bsky.social @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

Immigration law is extremely complicated. And it’s all the more confusing when the people enforcing the law seem to be targeting immigrants who have every reason to think they are doing everything right. www.thebulwark.com/p/arrested-f...

As the FBI’s deputy director, Bongino receives some of the country’s most sensitive secrets, including the President’s Daily Brief. His ascent to that position without passing a standard bureau background check is unprecedented, insiders say. By @williamturton.bsky.social @chrisbing.bsky.social

Musk’s Grokipedia isn’t purging propaganda — it’s producing it. The AI encyclopedia praises white nationalists, sanitizes Holocaust denial, & revives racist pseudoscience. As @heidibeirich.bsky.social warns, it’s “another example of Musk proliferating hateful disinformation & far-right propaganda.”

"Besides water hoses, German Shepherds, Billy clubs and racial epithets, what truly makes today’s ICE agents — dressed like militarized Klansmen and women — any different from yesterday’s state-sanctioned terror?" baptistnews.com/article/the-...

WATCH: “When you don’t stand up to it you inherently make it ok.” Kanew calls out reporters who stood by as Trump said “QUIET PIGGY” to Catherine Lucey, and says by not standing up to his misogynistic, authoritarian bullying they let him bully journalism into irrelevancy.

Don’t worry y’all it’s just a “quiet time” in the labor market

The spirit of their definition will be almost certainly be analogous to when DeSantis's lawyers defined "woke" in court as: "The belief there are systemic injustices in American society and the need to address them.” @motherjones.com www.motherjones.com/mojo-wire/20...

"'Anatomy of Choice Alignment Index': how 10 Southeast Asian countries’ geoeconomic alignments have shifted over 30 yrs b/w the US & China, weighed across political-diplomatic, military-security, economics-trade, cultural-soft power, & 'signaling' indicators www.hinrichfoundation.com/research/art...

November 17, 2025

With Timor-Leste set to become ASEAN’s 11th member, our upcoming #CounterpointSEA issue asks: "Is #ASEAN ready for Timor-Leste?" Join our in-person panel discussion on 5 November for insights from Julia Lau, Johan Pahlepi, and Denis Hew. More info & registration: lkyspp.nus.edu.sg/cag/events/d...

The 7th issue of the ASEAN Bulletin is out now! Featuring commentaries by Dr Zhanibek Arynov on the potential for ASEAN–Central Asia cooperation and Ms Yujia Zhu & Ms Mrinalini Niranjan on ASEAN’s evolving definition of Economic Security. #ASEANBulletin lkyspp.nus.edu.sg/docs/default...

📢 New article alert! Jassie Cheng, Byron Chong & @drmagomez.bsky.social uses the 2C1D framework (Collaboration, Contribution, Diversification) to show how Singapore navigates constraints to advance its AI strategy. Read the full article here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Is the new ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) Strategic Plan 2026-2030 fit for purpose? In the latest ASEAN in Practice podcast ep, @denishew.bsky.social speaks with Yose Damuri (Executive Director of CSIS). Tune in: www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgZ8... Full transcript: lkyspp.nus.edu.sg/cag/publicat...

ECCHR filed a criminal complaint against TotalEnergies for complicity in war crimes, torture and enforced disappearance. The oil and gas major is accused of having supported Mozambican armed forces which allegedly detained and tortured dozens of civilians in 2021. 👉 www.ecchr.eu/en/press-rel...

Contrasting previous offline results, in 5 online studies, motivated empathy interventions for intergroup contexts failed to increase empathy or prosociality with outgroup members. @alexandertagesson.bsky.social @philipparnamets.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s44...