Ezra Klein's chart doesn't say what he thinks it says cepr.net/publications...

The level of anti-Muslim bigotry and harassment by MAGA is out of control, folks. They're going after kids just for praying peacefully and quietly. Vile stuff. Look what they did to Mamdani. Thankfully, the majority is rejecting it.

Human Rights Watch Report: "The Israeli government’s forced displacement of the populations of three West Bank refugee camps in January and February 2025 amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity" www.hrw.org/news/2025/11...

"America’s 902 billionaires are collectively worth more than $6.7 trillion, the most wealth ever amassed by the nation’s ultra-rich, according to Forbes." "Trump’s Cabinet is the wealthiest in US history, with a combined net worth of $7.5 billion." wapo.st/4ipXaBd

No single person, especially someone with zero expertise, should be able to just change the CDC website on a whim. The fact that federal health and science pages are no longer trustable is a catastrophe for public health and democracy.

"A senior State Department official said the new rules were 'a tool to change the behaviour of governments'." As I've said before, the Trump administration is not practicing isolationism, but rather a nefarious version of interventionism (I'd prefer isolationism to what they are doing here).

NEW: A copy of a letter from the Senate homeland security committee reviewed by @wired.com asks for documents linked to 300+ terms, including “mask mandates,” “origins of Covid-19,” “Trump voter," "red hat,” “sedition,” and much more. @awinston.bsky.social has the scoop www.wired.com/story/senato...

The Senate homeland security committee's chair has asked researchers to turn over troves of documents related to the January 6 attack, vaccines, and more, according to a letter reviewed by WIRED. www.wired.com/story/senato...

“Claudia Sahm, a former Fed economist who blasted Summers and others for sexism in a widely shared and highly critical 2020 blog post, sounded vindicated. “Okay, so maybe I wasn’t too mean to him…” she said on social media after the emails were made public last week.” www.wsj.com/us-news/larr...

this defies parody. also helps explain why Sec Bessent bizarrely blamed immigrants when confronted with a question about high beef prices

US Coast Guard allows real antisemitism and racism.

WAPO SCOOP: U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols wapo.st/3Mbd9a6

CIA Assassination Plots: The Church Committee Report 50 Years Later Read how the Ford administration tried to keep the landmark assassinations report secret nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...

CDC has overhauled its website to assert that “the claim ‘vaccines do not cause autism’ is not an evidence-based claim”

just outright disinformation — American Lysenkoism wreaking havoc and endangering our lives

Astonishing to stop and realize that, at any given moment, bands of masked men armed to the teeth are storming churches and daycares, terrorizing entire communities—and that most of the country's political establishment barely blinks.

"It’s impossible to imagine today’s crisis without the Roberts court having first undermined the foundations of our democracy." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

UN resolution on Gaza imposes 'illegal trusteeship' over Palestinians, says top legal expert

No Palestinians involved in the planning for governing Gaza.

"Active white nationalist groups operate in all but two U.S. states, Alaska and Vermont." Wonder why

"Jewish families with school aged children in California are increasingly not white or Ashkenazi. Instead of isolating the Jewish experience, the California curriculum could offer an analysis of antisemitism and racism together." jewishcurrents.org/in-californi...

FWIW, I've reached out to the Alliance Defending Freedom and the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty — groups that have long touted their support for religious freedom — about things such as the treatment of clergy, alleged inability of ICE detainees to access religious rites, etc. No response yet.

Let alone violating the millennia old tradition of sanctuary

The Christian right for decades has fear-mongered that federal agents (under Dem presidents) would "criminalize" Christianity and literally prevent them from worshipping. Now that Trump's stormtroopers are doing it ... crickets

Today in There Are No Rules Any More

This is the meeting at which things really started to change. The LA raids started a week later, as did courthouse arrests. Ever since then it’s been a total numbers game. www.wsj.com/us-news/prot...

As Bovino and masked DHS officers sweep another Home Depot looking to round up day laborers, a reminder of the meeting in May when Stephen Miller screamed at ICE to stop doing targeted enforcement, start hitting Home Depots and 7/11s and “just go out there and arrest illegal aliens.”

What’s behind Silicon Valley’s psychotic break with reality? Welcome to Apocalypse Capitalism. As one prominent tech VC put it: “Maybe if you aren’t trying to destroy the world, you’re not trying hard enough.” www.thenerdreich.com/silicon-vall...

I'm scared but that's their strategy: "hyperstition and memetic warfare as strategy"

“Many of the women say that they were pressured to have unwanted or unnecessary gynecological procedures while in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement”

Those claiming Dems should retreat on racial justice aren't hard-headed realists, they're pushing against the electoral tide rather than leaning into it. The story of Gen Z isn't about racist backlash or red-pilled young men. It's the most racially progressive generation in American history. 🧵

"Republicans’ Southern Strategy delivered temporary victories by activating racial resentment, but that strategy is approaching its expiration date."

9/🧵 What does this mean for Democratic strategy? All those debates about choosing between identity politics and economic populism? False premise. Young working-class voters with low racial resentment aren't choosing. They're ready for Medicare for All AND Black Lives Matter. Lean into the tide.

I hope this is sarcasm: "I’m starting to have a major trust deficit with the department,” said a Democratic Congress member “And I’m starting to believe that their motives are not pure and that they’re not being truthful and candid with Congress.”

The Mr. 5% of our times

⚓ Captain Yu’s two-year ordeal in a violent Honduras prison shows the brutal reality of seafarer criminalisation. The ITF stands with all seafarers unjustly detained or blamed for crimes they did not commit.✊ #SeafarerCriminalisation Read the full story👇

Indiana University removed a Lecturer from her "Diversity, Human Rights, and Social Justice" course after a student filed a complaint about a graphic the instructor showed in class, which included "Make America Great Again" as an example of "Covert White Supremacy." www.wfyi.org/news/article...

The Revolving Door Project calls on OpenAI, Harvard, and other companies associated with Larry Summers to cut ties with him, in light of the release of his correspondence with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Can I just say, besides my deep anger at the normalization of pedophilia, I am also deeply disturbed that a Harvard English Lit professor would so deeply misunderstand the point of Lolita. It was very much anti-pedophilia and the narrator is not one you are supposed to sympathize with.

So is Harvard going to launch an investigation into Larry Summers, his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, and the use of university resources to support him?

Trump Still Polling Well With Working-Class American Pedophiles https://theonion.com/trump-still-polling-well-with-working-class-american-pedophiles/

Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot says France is also concerned about US military operations in the Caribbean, citing violations of international law. This comes after the UK yesterday stopped sharing intelligence with the US over the execution of civilians in small boats. This will be a drip feed

Petro ordena suspender la colaboración de inteligencia con EE UU por los ataques a supuestas narcolanchas, tras conocerse que el Reino Unido ha tomado una decisión similar porque “no quiere ser cómplice" de los ataques y "cree que son ilegales”

That is great for all the academics critical of Israel who have been threatened or fired or iced out Oh wait

Venezuelans deported from the US to El Salvador were tortured, advocacy group alleges

Not a single person is asking to spend more time interacting with health insurance companies

Today at Bayetav center in Izmir, Turkey I will be talking about: Trump’s Demons: Migrants and intellectuals in the Nightmare Life of US Politics