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Why? Because that's how it is built. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/m...

“I’m a grok guy” — Vance futurism.com/future-socie...

Act Up speaks up when it is most needed.

in this specific respect AfD is to the left of the GOP, which probably says something about multiparty parliamentary politics and political discipline

On this day, 27 years ago, we relocated from the US to Singapore. We thought it would be a fun and relatively brief adventure (I was given a three-year contract), but it turned out to be so much more than that. Thanksgiving may have passed, but I am still grateful for the opportunity of a lifetime.

An excellent piece by @lollardfish.bsky.social

The fossil fuel conglomerates knew the impact their products would have just like big tobacco. Take these people to account.

"Runctitiononal features"? "Medical fymblal"? "1 Tol Line storee"? This gets worse the longer you look at it. But it's got to be good, because it was published in Nature Scientific Reports last week: www.nature.com/articles/s41... h/t @asa.tsbalans.se

This is a tragedy of epic proportions. www.theguardian.com/news/2025/no...

It's Thanksgiving! Are you getting your eels ready? It's tradition! The 1st Thanksgiving included a big table full of eels. And it's fitting. Tisquantum brought eels to the starving pilgrims that spring to celebrate their new treaty w/ the local Wampanoag tribe. 1/5 🗃️🧪

They did it again! NYC subway Thanksgiving 2025, via @scootercaster.com!

Happy Thanksgiving from The Ad Council!

Aside from the high seas murder spree, an order to court martial a sitting senator for 100% legal political speech, and to do so under blatant unlawful command influence, would probably be the clearest case yet of an order so manifestly unlawful there is a duty for anybody in uniform to refuse it.

May your Thanksgiving be not like this.

I saw The Harder They Come at a midnight screening at the Orson Welles Cinema in Cambridge, Massachusetts when I was 17. It played there for years and changed a lot of people's views on Caribbean music and the world, including mine. www.grammy.com/news/the-har...

The choices we make...

Wanna know how bad the Arizona legislator's petition forgeries were? Here's the examples from the Austin Smith indictment. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/24...

Cool, bro.

So maybe the guy who dismantled USAid thought this could offset the devastating impact of its gutting. Cool, bro.

Crockett on MTG resigning: "Honestly, I was like, you got to be kidding. You're on the other side of the president for one week and you can't take the heat? Imagine what it is to sit in my shoes."

I’ve never seen a clip of this man speaking that didn’t make me want to throw things. Snide, condescending and deeply dishonest. Feels like a villain from a bad 80s teen comedy.

Since February, according to my latest analysis, almost 600,000 Black women have been economically sidelined. The November 20, 2025, Jobs Report makes clear this isn’t a blip. It’s a structural crisis. That is not a recovery. It is a redistribution of opportunity.

"While other universities report that the humanities are shrinking, at Berkeley, the opposite is true. The music major is the fastest-growing major on campus. We are finding bigger classrooms because film is exploding. English is back to the numbers we saw 15 years ago. We are hiring" bit.ly/4ohKuOe

The current regime in the US is such a weird mix of hardcore white Christian nationalists and amoral transactionalists and grifters. I cannot see how the coalition will last. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Twitter pays people based on engagement (views, retweets, comments, etc). It appears that many MAGA accounts are based abroad and they use AI technology to generate low-effort rage bait. My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.

Boston's Mayor Wu playing with Yo-Yo Ma at Symphony Hall

Crazy framing, both literally and academically.

The level of corruption that is passed by as seemingly acceptable is astonishing. I am deeply concerned that when I eventually repatriate, I will not know the country I came from nearly 30 years ago.

Envious "’Brazil's democracy has reached sufficient maturity to steer away and prosecute pathetic illegal initiatives to defend the criminal organization that is responsible for a coup d'etat attempt in Brazil,’ he added.”

I would like to go to Galway next July, and I have a couple of ideas for papers. Anyone else going to #IAMCR2026 ? iamcr.org/galway2026/cfp

Cities in CA and other places need to get ahead of the "builder's remedy" and plan for higher density housing in a meaningful way. Otherwise, the developers will exploit opportunities to reap greater profits wherever they can, and it will lead to less than optimal urbanization.

More news of the deplorable.

Defending the deplorable. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/20/n...

The President of the United States just called for Democratic members of Congress to be executed. "HANG THEM", he posted. If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.

Clearly unbiased. So glad the super-rich have the tools to try to reshape reality.

We want to speak directly to members of the Military and the Intelligence Community. The American people need you to stand up for our laws and our Constitution. Don’t give up the ship.

Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged. Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.

I'm listening to the complete discography of Justin Townes Earle while working today. Yesterday it was Nanci Griffith. Two great American songwriters gone too soon.

A friend just reminded me about this essay that I wrote in July 2024 We are definitely playing the organizing game on a very, very hard level right now, but we can still win The key is to remember that Trotsky Was Right: leftists MUST make common cause with everyday libs archive.is/5EmUq

Listen to @warren.senate.gov here. Selling off student loans to private companies would threaten legal protections for borrowers. It would also be a giveaway to the wealthy, at the expense of working people. abcnews.go.com/Politics/war...

Thank you, Harvard Crimson. Summers is a predator and should be expelled from the academy. Tenure can be revoked for acts of moral turpitude. I am pretty sure this counts. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Another must-read column by Will Bunch.

The clubby rich pedophile world they're so sad to see gone isn't even "lost" or "gone," it's alive and well in the White House. Part of how it got there was by the NYTimes running interference for Trump while sitting on the story of a pedophile telling one of its reporters he could ruin Trump.

Thinking out loud: There's a lot of really heroic indy media documenting how inhumane Stephen Miller's dragnet is. We need a campaign noting that if you want to fix the housing market you need to fire Stephen Miller. www.nahb.org/advocacy/ind...

"We are not surrounded by cretinous, vicious imbeciles but mostly by careful, thoughtful people who may disagree with us but usually have good reasons for doing so." Fascinating & wise piece from @naomialderman.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...

My upstairs neighbor is learning to play the piano, or more precisely, The Entertainer by Scott Joplin. Over and over again for a solid hour, every day. Nothing else, just that song. I never thought I could come to loathe a song so much.

We're now at the RE-PARDONS stage of this presidency www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

Some inspiring words on cinema in the streaming era from the Pope. Yes, THAT Pope.

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