This is ethnic cleansing www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/w...

Trump may have accidentally pardoned the pipe bomb guy?

My employer, Dartmouth College, today boasts it's 1st Ivy "to launch AI at an institutional scale." It is doing this by partnering--"more than a collaboration"--with Anthropic, a company that stole the books of many faculty, me included, which many of us are suing.

Hey Joe Kahn - how is it that you don’t get this? @nytimes.com

example of weak, timid NYT journalism. David Sanger looks at 3 important questions re the boat strikes. But never answers them. Acts like “gee seems like there’s an answer here but we don’t know.” www.nytimes.com/video/us/pol... @jeffjarvis.bsky.social @froomkin.bsky.social @markjacob.bsky.social

Elon Musk has engaged in hugely deceptive practices in advertising for years now without being held to account. The EU appears poised to demonstrate what a perfectly sane regulatory regime looks like. And Elon and his mini-mes will go crazy. bsky.app/profile/davi...

The night before the EU is expected to announce fines against X, JD Vance is already out running defense:

It's important for future reporting to identify by name the DOJ prosecutors who presented the request for an indictment to the grand jury so the proper disciplinary proceedings can be initiated against them. www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

There is no shame in this administration: Grand Jury Said to Decline to Re-Indict Letitia James www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/u...

Days after Donald Trump fell asleep during a televised Cabinet meeting, the president on Thursday again dozed off during a ceremony to mark the signing of a peace agreement between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Trump continued to doze after the leaders spoke. trib.al/6tBYEcg

Alright. That means the Supreme Court would let democrats keep their re-drawn maps, too, right? Right?

The NY Times said Trump labeling Somalis as “garbage” was “shocking in its unapologetic bigotry.” Then NYT put the story on Page 13. When Trump called for “termination” of the Constitution in 2022, NYT put it on Page 13, too. In case you wonder if NYT has learned anything in the last 3 years. 1/🧵

Trump is making public corruption legal. He's building a kleptocracy.

The Trump regime’s lawyers are doing legal gymnastics to argue that murder isn’t murder.

Trump/Hegseth instruction manual: 1. Invent a war where none exists. 2. Kill people by blowing up boats that aren’t attacking you. 3. Violate your own rules of war. 4. Call in the lawyers to explain why the clear violations are not really violations. 5. Blame it on “the fog of war.”

Trump didn't drain the swamp. He pardoned the swamp.

Total dictator move.

The Trump regime is murdering people in boats. They're desperately trying to confuse the issue with their "fog of war" bullshit. But the fact is, they're murdering people in boats.

Another cabinet meeting, another horror show as Trump’s sycophantic coterie praises Dear Leader. He, of course, couldn’t keep his eyes open except for when he was attacking Somalis & dodging responsibility for war crimes. @markjacob.bsky.social & I discuss. www.americaamerica.news/p/the-n-kore...

Terrific, detailed report by Block Club Chicago about how Homeland Security has lied its ass off about its immigration crackdown in Chicago. Nothing that Homeland Security says should be believed.

I'm so happy people are waking up to the horror of Trump's boat strikes. I think we're finally coming down from the 9/11 paranoia where people would believe any claim the government made about terrorism and support any amount of violence against anyone labelled a terrorist.

“The debilitating dictator has no one to rein him in. And that’s killing his presidency faster than imagined.” www.signorile.com/p/the-pro-de...

Minnesota State Sen. Zaynab Mohamed: “This isn’t about immigration, this isn’t about crime or anything, this is just about war against a community because he wants to create a race war in this country." www.kare11.com/article/news...

Cuellar is a Democrat, and Trump helped him escape punishment for corruption with a pardon. Trump also pardoned Democrat Rod Blagojevich, former governor of Illinois, who also was corrupt and got caught. Plus Republican Rep. George Santos. The through line isn't partisanship, it's pro-corruption.

Reporter: How do you decide which car to pull over? Border Patrol: None of your business. www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...

"She can be heard screaming as agents attempt to handcuff her. 'I’m a U.S. citizen, please help me,' she shouted after agents forced her to the ground. 'This is unfair. Why are you doing this to me?'” Gift link: www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...

Bari Weiss has a CBS town hall set with Erika Kirk, widow of Charlie Kirk. If you want to attend, you're asked a series of questions on an online form. The first question is: “Do you consider yourself a conservative? If so, why?” Via Jeremy Barr www.theguardian.com/media/2025/d...

Hey @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social, who's paying you? Stop praising an overt authoritarian. Stop praising the guy who's trying to tear down civilization. Stop praising a dark tetrad. Stop praising the guy who does everything Putin wants him to do. We don't trust you as house minority leader. Resign.

Republican Rep.Michael McCaul of Texas: The Russia has abducted at least 20,000 [Ukrainian]children.That is the number we can verify.But every expert I’ve spoken with believes the true figure is far,far higher… As a father of five,I can’t imagine any of my children being kidnapped

“To deliberately kill ‘survivors on a vessel who pose no immediate lethal threat to our armed forces,’ Broglio said, is ‘illegal and immoral.’ He explained that ‘the moral principle forbidding the intentional killing of noncombatants is inviolable.’” www.ncronline.org/news/catholi...

America’s strength is moral authority. We lose it every time we excuse cruelty done in our name. We can be better—and we must. open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

Reminder about Jan 6: it really happened It was a horror 140+ police were injured A range of violent weapons were used by attackers Chants to hang Mike Pence were heard There was a gallows and guns Pipe bombs diverted police as mob approached

NPR is not our friend. airbagmoments.wordpress.com/2017/04/29/m...

Nobody @npr.org is willing to admit that they changed a script about the teenage girls Epstein trafficked to describe them as "underage women". www.npr.org/sections/npr...

The third point, too. Cassidy owns this shanda because he & his GOP Senate colleagues, Thom Tillis, Susan Collins, and Lisa Murkowski, were cowards. Again, <10 people in Washington can end almost all of this today, & yet they are getting total free passes on a daily basis: bsky.app/profile/mcop...

COMMENTARY: As some divide Americans for power and profit, let's instead make this holiday season a time of inclusion and connection.

Brown University accepted nearly equal numbers of male and female students, but got almost twice as many female applicants. That math meant it was easier for men to get in. Trump's DEI ban may end gender balancing efforts that often benefit men.

Noise around Donald Trump an unwanted distraction to World Cup draw of dreams

I lost my job, my kid can't get a job to begin with, and my insurance premiums are literally doubling. But at least America will once again be a country where no car gets more than 20 MPG.

This is a million times worse than anything Hunter Biden was accused of doing in even the most fevered right-wing conspiracy dream

half assed story. Barely talks about the impact (dead children). “An unvaccinated six-year-old girl became the first person on American soil in a decade to die from measles.” No name, no details But it goes on and on about Bobby. It’s like covering football game without giving score & who won CRAP

With things like Olivia Nuzzi interview this week and their Mamdani interview in the closing weeks of the campaign, it's striking how @thebulwark.com has, over time, become a legitimately major influential news outlet beyond topics that are directly anti-Trump.

This story is not awful but like so much of NYT’s political coverage it focuses on process and a personality and ignores the consequences of RFK actions - the dead children. 1/n

This would be, without any doubt, a war crime committed by the United States. We prosecuted Germans and Japanese for doing this exact thing in WWII.

The former commissioners said they were “deeply concerned” by Vinay Prasad’s recent memo, which they framed as a “threat” to the FDA’s work and a danger to Americans’ health.

Important: Alvin Holsey, the commander who oversaw Trump's boat bombings and resigned w/no explanation, had concerns about legality of operation, WSJ reports. Recall that Rep Adam Smith told me he sought Holsey's testimony. Pentagon said No and Rs won't push for it. newrepublic.com/article/2025...

The Pentagon Inspector General report reveals Pete Hegseth's use of Signal to send sensitive information "could have resulted in failed U.S. mission objectives and potential harm to U.S. pilots."

Pete Hegseth's sloppy communication could have endangered our troops. He needs to resign.

A🧵 This is profoundly irresponsible by AGSulzberger’s NYT, @by-cjewett.bsky.social +eds. The normalization, “view-from-nowhere”, “born-yesterday”, stenography, “both-sides”, irresponsible headline are disgraceful. THE story is the CDC&FDA are being destroyed by antiscience & Americans will die. 1/n

Sorry to be a broken record but it's nuts to me that the New York Times would write an entire article summarizing a court ruling and refuse to provide a link to said ruling. This is a disservice to readers. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/01/n... Here's the ruling: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...