If Trump and the Republicans invade Venezuela, it means America has invaded Venezuela. How did we feel about those Germans that didn’t want Hitler to invade Poland? Remember them? No— as the world saw it, it was Germany that invaded Poland, and it will be America that invades Venezuela.

Does anyone want a survivorship bias shortbread

My interview with Andrew Tate & Laurence Fox

Don’t. Print. Lies. In. The. Newspapers.

Yup, and keep your money out of our politics also.

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A cliché in World War II movies: the U-boat or Japanese submarine sinks a ship, and then gleefully machine guns the helpless survivors in the water. The scenes reflect historical war crimes… and remind you who the villains are. Pete Hegseth has made murdering survivors official US policy.

not to absolve universities of agency, but the very fact that media institutions like @nytimes.com are unwilling or unable to describe a Trump-run “protection racket” in plain language is one reason said universities capitulate we can’t win if we sell each other out

Every single congressional Democrat needs to be out there, right now, insisting that Pete Hegseth resign right now and announcing that he will be held accountable for committing war crimes. If you do not demand accountability here and now, they will only become more emboldened.

a lot of words, none of them denying that Hegseth gave an order to kill helpless people who were stranded at sea after he blew up their boats

Yes, who is more likely to regard the sacrifice of people as abhorrent than those who follow a religion centered on celebrating the sacrifice of a person?

Again, there is no plan for running our universities without federal funding, or foreign students, at scale. But the public has no idea about this because no. one. is. telling. them. this. They expect their kids are still going to be able to do all the things at college in the next 4 years, & well:

Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization

People want to know why my gravy is so good. Bitch there’s 3 sticks of butter in there. That’s why.

I think that somewhere along the way something in Stephen Miller got fundamentally damaged. This is neither an excuse nor a mitigating factor; the dude is genuinely fucking evil and he and everything he stands for should be fought against and stopped. But he is something beyond mere sociopathy.

I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.

The Johnson Amendment protects our democracy from turning churches into dark-money Super PACs. A tiny Christian nationalist faction is trying to blow it up — with help from Trump’s IRS. We can’t let them gut it in a backroom deal. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

The DC shooting story is really getting to me because we literally trained this man as a child soldier for a death squad in a forever war and Stephen Miller et al want to blame it on other cultures? It's our culture, American culture, that killed that woman.

Years ago an Afghan friend of mine who was part of one of those units (and also suffers from debilitating PTSD) and myself pitched a mini series about this. We barely got into any doors...then Hollywood greenlit this piece of shit show "The United States Of Al" a comedy about the fall of Kabul

I can’t believe people in the room don’t push back. It doesn’t matter if he’s the president, part of holding him accountable is standing up to his bullying— especially if he’s doing it right in front of your face

We don't know much about the Trump mobile phone -- but we do have several URGENT QUESTIONS and @brbarrett.bsky.social is here to lay them all out. www.wired.com/story/9-urge...

This means NSF dissertation improvement grants in the social sciences are simply...not happening.

You’ve been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who’s coming to save you? (I think she’d succeed, too)

I just find this really sad. Imagine being so certain that you need slop machines to do your work, that you convince yourself that EVERYBODY must need them.

Reminder of who the real threat was, and who the threat has never been. Maybe today should be a day of atonement.

People will die, and are currently dying, because RFK was granted one of the most powerful megaphones in the country. Two people who could have thrown barriers in front of his climb decided not to; there's a sex scandal here but it is not the biggest scandal.

It's not just that the United States has stopped trying to promote liberal democratic ideas internationally. It's that the United States is actively trying to promote the contrary. It's trying to turn more countries into Hungary. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...

“We surveyed 552 Australian victims of data breaches. While financial impacts were reported by 29% of the respondents, many more—50%—reported emotional harm. Nearly one-third said a breach had affected their physical well-being.” www.wsj.com/tech/cyberse...

One interesting thing that has yet to trickle through data center politics yet: these things could shoulder HUGE property taxes. If the bit-watt spread remains really wide, developers are going to care a LOT more about getting the project done than the tax expense (similar to eg electricity supply).

This article heavily implies that ICE is being used in a custody dispute to help Karoline Leavitt's brother get his son and have the mother locked up in ICE detention

Now here’s the kind of news you drop going into a long holiday weekend. Maybe no one will notice. 🤡 @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...

Every good journalist has seen the reporters who think they are interesting or powerful because of their proximity to it. They’re often rewarded for blurring that line. Another bullseye from @sulliview.bsky.social

Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.

1/3 Massive efforts are being done to ensure states do not regulate GenAI. Regulations like CA’s AB-412. A transparency bill that terrifies Big Tech! On Dec. 8th, there is a major hearing on this bill. We need as many folks to show up! Come join in support of creatives! Rsvp link in thread!

Journalism used to a white-collar job for blue-collar people. Now you need family wealth to subsidize your career

the last 24 hours on X, summed up:

I've seen all sorts of instructions for how to turn off copilot on windows 11, but as an fyi, you can go into "add and remove programs" and just uninstall it. surprisingly, they let you do that. Does that remove every stupid ai thing? No idea, but in theory copilot is gone

Every Democrat in Congress should put out a video saying troops have an obligation to refuse unlawful orders. Make them prosecute all of you. This isn't a close call. I'd add Republicans too if I thought any of them had the courage to actually cross Trump on this.

The reason why platform companies do make it hard to find account location information is not because they believe in privacy, it's so that advertisers do not know how much is lost to low-tier engagement. Growth, at all costs, means avoiding publishing basic metadata so that advertisers don't sue.

I do appreciate that they've completely dropped the pretense.

good work guys you picked a fight in which Dems can stand up out of their permanent defensive crouch and go “our guy is a fucking astronaut and you’re an alcoholic tv host”

Every day, this administration does things that are almost too on-the-nose for me.

The Trump legal team gathers for an emergency meeting after the latest string of courtroom setbacks

We saw it with big tobacco, we saw it with the fossil fuels industry. When their own internal research showed the harm from their product, the defunded the research and attacked independent researchers coming to the very same conclusions. #ScienceUnderSiege

Seeing how much of the right-wing on Twitter is just bot farms, kinda lays bare how much hate and hatred is a project that needs to be constantly maintained, a fire that needs to be fed all the time lest it go out for a moment, so much time, effort, and resources to keep people angry and hateful.

The equivalent here are Nice Guys who insist on telling you that

Every bit of this only reinforces Joyce Carol Oates’ absolute roast of Elon Musk as fundamentally lacking in the ability to enjoy anything normally human. “I built a tool that can insult people in a social setting better than anything ever invented” is a real personal tell.

Instead of retiring, 3-5 GOP Congresspeople could stop this Administration cold. The culture in Congress that sees itself as the President’s handmaiden as opposed to the Article I branch has rotted every inch of it. Not just cowardice, a learned helplessness.