reposting this for no reason at all (so many reasons)

“.. $33 billion of value vaporize in six weeks.” @wsj.com $CRWV www.wsj.com/tech/ai/core...

🚨🚨In today's "the world's most trustworthy trading partner": #US suspends technology deal with Britain. 🧵 www.reuters.com/world/europe...

“.. Rarely a week goes by now without a European government, military or security chief making a grim speech warning the public that they are headed toward a potential war with Russia.” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/world/europe...

This is precisely the intention of vouchers. They are an elaborate plot to destroy the public education system, which is part of a larger plot to enslave the American population

Century of humiliation

Sartre didn’t smoke all those cigarettes at Café de Flore for you all to be saying that a racist political ideology is really nihilism

This guy gets it:

The Republican-led House has approved a measure to reinstate collective bargaining rights for nearly 1 million federal workers, voting to nullify a Trump executive order for the first time.

"The erosion of job security in higher education isn’t a bellwether for the general workforce — it’s the final frontier." www.chronicle.com/article/is-a...

Ramirez to Noem: "You lied on the record and you lied to members of this committee. You violated court orders by not turning around deportation flights bound for El Salvador where we know that hundreds of people under your leadership reported they were raped, beaten, and nearly died."

“.. Netflix and WBD .. may have a way out in today’s openly politicized regulatory environment, the lawyer suggested: ‘The way they don’t get sued is by spinning off CNN to a conservative.’” @semaforben.bsky.social www.semafor.com/newsletter/1...

A point of nuance here: "masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable" is how lynch mobs are described, not state-sanctioned executions.

Breaking news!!!

All that was old is new again. Dispatch from the archives.

I love getting older I love asking for 10% off something in the store because there’s damage to the packaging

North Carolina’s programs to repair and rebuild multi-family and workforce housing in western counties will begin accepting applications in early 2026, Gov. Josh Stein said this week. ncnewsline.com/briefs/nc-wi... #ncpol #WNC Story by @galenb.bsky.social

Copa, Wingo, Satena, and Boliviana halt Venezuela flights, citing navigation signal issues and safety concerns.

Australia's world-first ban requires 10 major online platforms to block users aged 16.

Gaza residents fear the return of full-scale war as Israel receives second-last captive's body.

A federal vaccine advisory committee is expected to discuss whether newborns should still get the hepatitis B vaccine — the first shot found to prevent cancer.

"genuine appreciation is somehow considered less intellectual than criticism" is such a word the number of times I've said I enjoyed something and IMMEDIATELY, like a starting pistol just went off, someone gallops in to do "too bad you are simply Not Smart Enough to have spotted this list of flaws"

Agreed. To state the obvious, Brett Kavanaugh was putting a smiley face on the authoritarian state. Violent abductions of innocent people are what it was always about. abovethelaw.com/2025/10/the-...

Agents in Key Largo, Florida ripped this woman wearing medical scrubs out of her car as she screamed she is a US citizen. Agents cuffed her and put her in one of their cars. She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:

"We are exporting the very labor of teaching and learning—the slow work of wrestling with ideas, the enduring of discomfort, doubt and confusion, the struggle of finding one’s own voice." This was my rationale for saying no GenAI in our MA; others disagreed. www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...

yep. also really can't overstate how much nuzzi is very much the product of an environment that rewards amoral ambition and frowns on people who sincerely believe anything

There was a tweet some years back that was like "Being a Democrat is like going to a concert where the band is telling everyone to calm down the whole time" and I think about it a lot

Gee, it’s almost as if the Secretary of Defense ordered his subordinates to carry out an order his department’s own Law of War manual explicitly states is illegal.

NC Supreme Court Justice Anita Earls wastes no time setting the agenda for voters next year. “The voters will have a real choice if Sarah Stevens is my opponent. She has voted to take away so many of the rights that I think are fundamental.” www.theassemblync.com/news/politic...

A college student complaining about a grade on a paper is not national news. Not even close. The details have minimal import outside the class itself. Well-funded political activists targeting profs and TAs—in this case because they're trans—with the help of elected state officials? National issue.

One day, these will be the incredibly dark moments we read about in the history books.

How Republicans commemorated Thanksgiving in 1869--with a multi-racial/multi-ethnic gathering of people at a table with a centerpiece celebrating universal suffrage and self-government, and with an engraving of Castle Garden, the pre-Ellis Island point of disembarkation for immigrants.

UPDATE: Another judge just dinged DOJ in another trans care subpoena case, with Judge Joun finding that DOJ missed a deadline, and, accordingly, their motion to alter the judgment in the Boston Children's Hospital case was "untimely." And, because DOJ also appealed, Joun has no further jurisdiction.

How can anyone continue to support this??

Amazing story, state legislator and Turning Points USA leader who crusaded against bogus voter fraud claims pleads guilty to attempted election fraud. azmirror.com/briefs/turni...

Hello from the Raleigh to Charlotte corridor, where the Piedmont operates like the Cascades and keeps breaking ridership records: www.axios.com/local/raleig...

“.. Maxwell’s legal team said she would invoke her Fifth Amendment rights if she sat with congressional investigators, the Kentucky Republican said in an interview.” @politico.com www.politico.com/live-updates...

Year-over-year gains in REAL earnings are slipping: 2.0% last year, 1.3% in July, 1.1% in August, and now 0.8%...

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“They saw my North Carolina Real ID,” he said. “They were looking for an ID or some sort of documentation, so at that moment, they could have let me free. But no, they decided to take me.”

After Texas news outlets made a public records request to see emails Gov. Abbott and Musk’s companies, state officials took months fighting and delaying their release. Then, they released 1,374 pages with all but 200 of those pages entirely blacked out. trib.al/gAr6UQy

If the president can just raise taxes and spend money without Congressional approval, the constitution is null and void.

Epstein survivor Sharlene Rochard talks with Jen Psaki in an exclusive interview tonight about how she, as a girl in her early teens, was brought to parties at Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago.

BREAKING: US President Trump announces he’s designating Saudi Arabia as a major non-NATO ally, and has asked Crown Prince MBS to join the board that will act as a transitional authority for war-torn Gaza. 🟠 LIVE updates: aje.io/aivosv

BREAKING: Federal agents detained at least three people in Durham on Tuesday, chasing them through a shopping center parking lot as stores locked down and shoppers fled.

New — I wrote about the myriad ways journalism’s moral rot manifests, and how our crumbling institutions have created the conditions for it to fester:

Border Patrol agents’ expected arrival in the Raleigh area has some local businesses finding ways to allow shoppers to stay at home.

Things that will get you kicked out of academia forever: - taking maternity leave at the wrong time - spending too much time with your kids - reporting harassment - not moving every 2-3 years - taking a partner's job/preferences into account - mouthing off before tenure