great outcome of a good policy that right-wingers reflexively resist

Excellent news. Now, will parents be able to put theirs down?

Not simply alarming. But not not alarming. Bernie Sanders: still thinking of politics as a place in which to try to do good.

www.cnbc.com/2025/12/03/m... What if the mousetrap you build is not particularly better than other mousetraps people already use?

The laughter at the end is chilling. He knows he’s saying something horribly immoral. He’s hoping someone will laugh. And they do.

There’s truly something deeply wrong with these people: all of them.

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202... Who could be expected to stay awake through such nonsense! Sleep, old man! Doze!

Fellow Profs: A note of cheer as we prepare Spring syllabi. This term I have been experimenting with having all required writing done in class, and I am impressed with the results. It's not an option in all contexts, I know. Just to say that more writing goals can be met this way than I had thought.

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

Enten: "This is probably the worst 10 day period for the president in the polls his entire second term. The numbers are just atrocious ... when your best poll has you 14 points underwater, you know it's truly bad and it's as bad as 26 points underwater ... -43 with independents! They despise him."

When I worked in WaPo Opinions in 2017-2018, senior editors specifically told junior editors not to factcheck Marc Thiessen and other MAGA columnists, otherwise they wouldn’t be able to publish anything by them at all, and “we need them for intellectual diversity.”

What a success! Let’s give him 20 billion to celebrate how good his approach to the economy is!

www.jpost.com/middle-east/... It reads like a satire, it’s so stupid, immoral, and dangerous. “According to the Washington Post, Gazans would be temporarily relocated, either through voluntary departures to another country or into restricted, secured zones within Gaza during reconstruction.”

I don’t know who she is. And probably everyone who does will pretend they don’t either once the president has her fired.

“Putin would eat you for lunch.” Today, exactly that happened.

I must be right because the person in the world who has the most to gain by our country falling apart said I’m right

Well, there you go then. More of our time and money wasted by Taco Trump.

Would 100% watch a sitcom in which Cuomo and Dershowitz end up roommates, Dershowitz is denied a pierogi every episode in exactly the same way, and Cuomo runs for successively lower-stakes office each week, only to lose again.

Guerrero!

SCOOP: Hegseth's texts about bombing Yemen derived from a classified email labeled "SECRET/NOFORN," per info provided to the DOD Inspector General for a forthcoming report, flying in the face of Trump administration claims that no classified info was shared www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Well, at least we are not eating our seed corn. We are feeding it to the birds.

This is basically like describing a Pizzagate promoter as someone "who writes often about child safety"

A new ProPublica data analysis adds to the mounting evidence that abortion bans have made the common experience of first-trimester miscarriage far more dangerous. Under Texas’ Abortion Ban, More Women Nearly Bled to Death During Miscarriage

Our future. "State-owned industries have been hollowed out, public subsidies redirected to political allies, and EU funds commandeered by power networks close to the government. Meanwhile, ordinary Hungarians contend with low real wages, high inflation, brain drain, and a hollowed middle class."

"The voicemail threatened to rig Mamdani's car to explode upon ignition, a plot that was foiled from the outset because the now Democratic nominee doesn't own his own vehicle." Yes indeed, we have a New Yorker running for Mayor!

"where radical hope may live when it has been let down by a culture committed to the destruction of social solidarity in the pursuit of individual wealth and by an intellectual culture that cannot imagine a world different from the one we do inhabit." Pleased this appreciation of Armstrong is out!

We're in so much trouble

Very pleased to be in this special issue devoted to museums and the stories they tell. "Tell me a story says the child, expecting something with a beginning a middle and an end, something new and yet recognizable, a narrative the familiar form of which brings comfort at night . . ."

His obsession with cosplaying Churchill is pathological--and it is embarrassing that he cannot even recognize the suffering of others. For example our President has not been able to play golf for weeks!

If you are in NYC and still thinking Cuomo is a good choice, know he’s getting money from Palantir,Peter Thiel’s company. #nycmayoralrace gizmodo.com/palantirs-ce...

Landers is out. Gave an uplifting, modest, inspiring speech.

Brad Lander, NYC Comptroller, has been assaulted and kidnapped. No exaggeration: ICE is the American Gestapo. MAGestapo open.substack.com/pub/virginia...

it is genuinely insane that we have just kind of acclimated to the fact that we have masked secret police now

Does anyone know where Brad Landers is being held? Shouldn't we be outside of wherever that is, showing support?

“…study from the London School of Economics says 50 years of such tax cuts have only helped one group — the rich.” www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/tax...

He needed air. The price was $539. When OptumRx dropped coverage of his $66 inhaler, Cole couldn’t afford the new price. 5 days later, he died from a severe asthma attack—with no inhaler. He paid with his life. www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news... #MedSky #SciSky #PedsSky #PulmSky

I have no tolerance for this shit. As a tutor, I met a person who had been in the TB death wards in Africa (not naming country for security reasons). They have so many cases they just warehouse the sick in a room. Very few survive.

Takes a lot of chutzpah to make a $290 million political donation, assume a powerful position in government, use that power to fire tens of thousands of people and do immeasurable harm to American state capacity, and expect not to have to answer for it afterwards.

Every American generation made more than their parents until 1980. Reagan fixed that - and it has not returned. The rich are doing better than before the great depression. Marie Antoinette would blush.

Jong-Fast: This would be the largest cut to food assistance in US history—and it will result in hungry kids. It’s also important to mention that this bill grows the deficit. I don’t know how it manages to do the two things you absolutely don’t want—starve children and grow the deficit—but it does.

Like I said a few times before, it was NEVER about campus protests or anti-semitism. It was always about seizing control of higher education through govt blackmail and coercion.

UnitedHealth secretly pressured nurses to change patients' records to include DNRs (Do Not Resuscitate) without their consent, so those patients would die instead of being saved with medical interventions that could cost UnitedHealth money. This is murder. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

talented people need to leave the country as soon as possible because we don't need them here with their . . . talent and training . . .

"Unlike the Russians, who could withdraw from the battlefield and go home at any time, the Ukrainians cannot withdraw from the battlefield. If they do, they will lose their civilization, their language, and their freedom." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

You know what happened today on that call with Putin? Nothing. Which is a story in itself: Putin's in charge. #Russia #Ukraine www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Un-American for thine, graduation for mine.

"fulsome" is an excellent term for the kinds of agreements Trump ultimately generates. I suggest someone in the media look up the word.

"If the goal is to redistribute the cost of government from the richest to the poorest, while enormously augmenting the president’s personal power to the detriment of Congress, then the Trump [tariff and tax] plans make a lot more sense." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

All the jobs are just patronage posts

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