"Does this feel like or look like a well-run competent administration? It took them 10 months to discover that the United States doesn't grow bananas and that therefore if we tariff bananas that that's not going to bring banana factories on shore."

Pathetic.

Harvard Is Rejecting More Tenure Cases After Departments Approve Them | News | The Harvard Crimson share.google/qWfANVnnoJuC...

Yeah, but what’s going to relieve the mysterious sixth toe I just sprouted?

Do they really think that changing their story every five seconds makes them seem less criminal? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Kohler, the makers of a smart toilet camera, can access customers' data stored on its servers, and can use customers’ bowl pictures to train AI.

Prof Goldberg rocks - you should read his book!! www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...

if you ask me, the word of the year is sycophancy

This man may be the most racist president this country has ever had, and twelve presidents owned slaves

The government has asked for the grand jury materials to be released as part of the law requiring the Epstein files to be made public.

“Here’s how many cases of voter fraud Rokita, Morales found after suing the feds” electionlawblog.org?p=153332

I could not have put Marty's two-part thread any more eloquently or politely.

Why is Donald Trump’s name now on the @usip.org building? Who put there? And when?

There was a 13 point swing last night in TN-07. If we see a 13 point swing in South Carolina in Nov 2026 Lindsey Graham will be retired and I will be the first ever pediatrician Senator.

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:

Kavanaugh, J.

The boats the regime is claiming are going from Venezuela to the US would need to refuel over 20 times to get to Miami. They are lying to us.

Current US Policy: If you’re suspected of trafficking a small amount of drugs with no evidence, we will murder you, but if you’re convicted of trafficking an enormous amount of drugs with copious evidence, we will pardon you. Because we are currently a very stupid country.

it should probably be a bigger story that the richest man on earth and leading Republican is a fucking Nazi media needs to stop beating around the bush. this is Nazi shit.

No-strings-attached, zero-means-testing, no-questions-asked cash payouts have been proven, over and over again, to be the most effective form of charity/aid going. It gets people in housing, and it saves the state money. We know this. It's fact, not theory.

It's decided. Europe is closing the tap on Russian fossil fuels once and for all. Energy independence starts now. → link.europa.eu/tykVJf

Data centres are energy hungry but what if we could use their waste heat to heat our homes? That's exactly what happens in places like Finland: Cities are tapping the vast amounts of waste heat generated by data centres, and feeding it into district-heating networks.

“In 1999, I interviewed Prince for TIME and he told me to leave my tape recorder off because he didn’t trust what future technology might do with unauthorized recordings of his voice. At the time, I thought Prince was being paranoid.” time.com/7338205/rage...

NEW VIDEO: We uncovered footage showing Pete Hegseth in 2016 saying the military won’t follow unlawful orders — the same point he has recently criticized Democrats, including Sen. Mark Kelly, for making - and which Trump has said is punishable by death.

🚨 CNBC on latest jobs numbers: "A big miss on ADP payrolls. The private payroll company saying private payrolls shed 32,000 workers in Nov. That's the 4th negative number in past 6 months. The estimate was for +40,000, so the street was off ... this may be coming from being hammered by the tariffs"

1. Jared Kushner's trip to Moscow yesterday was not just unethical; it was illegal. You cannot accept tens of millions of dollars from foreign governments and simultaneously conduct high-level diplomacy for the federal government. It says it right in the Constitution.

While we were sleeping, a huge ruling: Federal judge blocks the Trump administration from warrantless immigration arrests in Washington, D.C. “without a pre-arrest individualized determination … of probable cause.” She addresses Kavanaugh stops head on. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The named stores know who most of the purchasers are if they used any form of payment other than cash. But I don't think they have an obligation to notify the purchasers and it doesn't look like they are stepping up on their own.

Ossoff says Trump administration blocked visit to ICE detention center www.ajc.com/news/2025/12...

Cory Doctorow on the AI* bubble: “With 30+% of the S&P 500 tied up in seven AI companies’ stock, the coming crash will definitely escape containment and crash the whole damned economy.” doctorow.medium.com/https-plural...

I have worked with women whose boyfriends are husbands literally sat in cars in the workplace parking lot while the women worked, policing them. Most of these men are abusive and do worse things later.

Appalling.

Family of victim in Trump drug boat killings files first formal complaint | Colombia | The Guardian www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

This is great, now Team Trump is acknowledging that illegal orders were given to kill survivors of the initial strike, the only question is who gave them? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Last week, ICE arrested and separated a father and son after a routine check-in. Six-year-old Yuanxin had just enrolled in the first grade at an elementary school in Astoria. Now he's in custody, alone. ICE won't say where. This cruelty serves no one. It must end.

George Will: "Pete Hegseth seems to be a war criminal. Without a war. An interesting achievement. ... The killing of the survivors by this moral slum of an administration should nauseate Americans. A nation incapable of shame is dangerous, not least to itself" www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

This this this

Blog Post: Another Shill Article Tries to Normalize the SAD Scheme #trademark blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/202...

NEW: Trump just called JD Vance incompetent.

this seems really, really huge

Breaking: "The Trump administration is launching an intensive immigration enforcement operation primarily targeting hundreds of undocumented Somali immigrants in the Minneapolis-St. Paul region..." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/u...

As a former admissions professional (yes, I've actually worked in the field I study, I'm so wild), I do think students apply to too many colleges which drives up workload for reviewing. I also think this should help people better understand how important the essay is at a lot of places (it's not).

Well look at that!

The memo associated w/ this chart closes with what I am reading as a thinly veiled threat

Apparently in Tennessee there are different poll opening times. 🗳️⏰ 👇🏾This is from their Secretary of State. The polls close at 7 pm central time. sos.tn.gov/elections/se...

The crested auklet is so cheeky. 😆

Even Hegseth's old Fox News colleagues are calling him out for throwing his subordinate under the bus.

Also, a lesson to every DOJ lawyer & law enforcement official. A lesson to everyone.

Who loves Costco even more now? ✋🏾 They not only didn’t bend the knee when it comes to DEI, they’re taking Trump head-on.