In the Oak Park neighborhood of Detroit, Michigan, on November 17, 2025, an ICE goon tased a non-resisting woman and then threw her non-responsive body into his truck like a rag doll.

In April 2009, the Washington Post asked 10 writers to make the case for something that deserves to be tossed out as part of "spring cleaning." I chose Larry Summers. Better late than never. Unlocked version of my 16-year-old article below. naomiklein.org/why-we-shoul...

Relevant now: "Exposure to a field-specific faculty sexual misconduct incident decreases degree completion in that field by 3.4 percent four years after the incident. This decline is driven by incidents occurring after 2015, among which we observe a 7 percent decline in in-field degree completion."

Where we are as a country

I am once again asking white people to handle their Nuzzi/Lizza business in the privacy of their own pumpkin spiced brunch table and leave the rest of us the fuck alone with this poorly written bullshit

If women are underrepresented in STEM, it's at least partly because men like this offer mentoring, then embarrass themselves by assuming their mentees must be into them, then decide the best solution is to cut ties, which sends the signal to other faculty that the mentee must not be good enough.

Deaths are higher in emergency rooms of hospitals owned by private equity firms, per Harvard. They did the math: It’s cheaper to let someone die than save them with a procedure they can’t afford. This is what happens when profits take precedence over people.

I know this is old man yells at cloud but there is something in the constitution about this

Alan Dershowitz is one of those claiming Epstein was not a pedophile because he pleaded guilty to one count of having sex for money with a 17-year-and-10-month-old person. "That’s not a pedophile." See this important response from Julia Brown, the brave reporter who broke the news on this

I don’t want to formulate words yet, but my friend Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social of the Disability Visibility Project, has passed. Here are the words she left behind: www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...

Glad to see @sarahkendzior.bsky.social back!

Not a good look - Mayor Lurie’s choice to replace D4 supervisor didn’t last a full week on the job www.sfexaminer.com/news/politic...

I’m surprised JD Vance has left this tweet and reply up.

PSA: There is no Republican health care plan.

While veterans represent an estimated 12 percent of Florida’s 256 death row inmates, they account for nearly 40 percent of the 18 death warrants that the governor has signed this year.

In a joint hearing in the Jim Comey and Letitia James cases, Judge Cameron McGowan Currie gave no indication that she thinks Lindsey Halligan was lawfully appointed as interim U.S. attorney. But it wasn’t at all clear what Currie will do about it now.

pro tip: innocent people don't work this hard to keep the files that prove their innocence a secret

So, uh, the Jed Rubenfeld referenced here was disciplined by Yale Law for sexually harassing students. He's married to Amy Chua who among other things took to the pages of the NYT to defend Kavanaugh when he was under fire for sexually harassment. Ken Starr, well we know. This is just incredible.

Why did JD and Jack change their stance on the Epstein files since 2021?

Gee I wonder why Mike Johnson has been so desperate to keep the House out of session

So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!

oh so these people do pay attention to who politicians follow on social media, they just don’t care that the vice president follows a bunch of actual neo-nazis

"[P]rocedurally, had she denied the request, the Justice Department could have gone to another justice. Finally, and perhaps most importantly, by issuing the order herself, she was able to set the limits." 👇

Don Snoreleone bsky.app/profile/ronf...

40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion

SCHUMER is on the floor now making this offer to end the shutdown: Clean CR Bipartisan "minibus" of approps bills 1-year ACA funding extension Bipartisan cmte to negotiate on health care "This is a reasonable offer that reopens the government, deals with health care affordability."

Fox: Prices are up in the United States. For coffee, it's up almost 20%. Utility, up 11.7%. Electricity is up 5.1%. Vehicle repair, up 11.5%

Trump forgot to do his usual post after elections about how many of his endorsed candidates won.

Amarillo is one of the reddest towns in Texas. But I showed up because our campaign is not writing off any community. It was standing room only.

A federal judge dismissed a criminal conspiracy case against Boeing over two crashes of its 737 Max jetliner that killed 346 people. The gov. has a confession FROM BOEING admitting to all the elements of the conspiracy charge against it. Dismissing this case is outrageous.

Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.

Excessive force. PERIOD! They called them “violent mobs,” but the violence came from the guys with badges and body armor. 📌 Keep sharing videos, everyone, because they’re evidence.

Cops are great Also: record everything

Allow me to reintroduce myself. I’m Fred Wellman and I’m running for Congress to win next. Join us and let’s take back Missouri.

Beshear: Let me be clear. The president has both the funding and the authority to fund snap during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.

Our message to Andrew Cuomo was loud & clear in June. It’s louder & clearer tonight.

Brad Lander is at the victory party and, folks, he has the custom one-of-one “GOOD FUCKING RIDDANCE” shirt.

What’s amazing is that after he said he didn’t know who he was when asked last week, nobody bothered to tell him.

The guy obsessed with Biden’s auto-pen has no clue who he’s pardoned.

Have they considered allowing refugees from Nigeria to come to the United States?

I'm too tired to look up all the tweets from Trump and others about how Clinton should have been imprisoned for mishandling her emails. But you know.

My newsletter this week is a TRIVIA GAME: I put together a list of ten awful, racist quotes attributed Chief Justice William Rehnquist. I made up two of them. All the rest of them are real. Can you spot the two fake ones?

BREAKING: Democrats just tried to pass a standalone bill to fund WIC & SNAP to make sure families don't go hungry during the Republican shutdown. Republicans BLOCKED it. So Trump won't use emergency funds to keep SNAP running, and Republicans won't let any bills pass. Shameful.

Am I reading this correctly: the firms that opposed Trump's intimidation tactics have suffered no consequences, whereas the firms that struck deals gave away $900 million while jeopardizing any work with clients who have interests at odds with the government? There's a lesson in there somewhere.

OK folks, here's the deal. Spotify is running ICE recruitment ads and has ignored asks to stop. It's time to tell them we won't stream fascism - by cancelling our subscriptions. Here's how to get started: indivisible.org/cancel-spotify

I'd much rather my taxes go to poor people buying soda and chips than to rich people buying their 5th yacht and 10th mansion