“We can talk about the law and politics all day long, six ways to Sunday, but the essential question is whether or not truth itself has lost its standalone value,” said Uddin. “These are not rhetorical questions. They are the measure of our moral decline.” thebarbedwire.com/2025/11/04/h...

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc


“What we’re about to embark upon is not merely a new chapter of the future of Tesla but a whole new book,” he announced. IT’S A COOKBOOK! www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

So DUMB www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/b...

Bari Weiss pushed tired, false climate arguments at the Free Press. @emorwee.bsky.social warns CBS could become a far more powerful fossil fuel industry mouthpiece. open.substack.com/pub/heated/p...

De hoagiemus non curat lex www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

“The distance between Fuentes and the mainstream Republican Party isn’t really that large,” said @hananiarichard.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...

1.1 million job cuts seems like a lot. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Somebody actually gets paid From our taxes to say crap like this: “Why are you just now deciding to write about this guy’s clown car word document ‘complaint’? Maddux said. He added the complaint “is not serious and you are not a serious person for writing about it.” www.kut.org/crime-justic...

STILL not failing. Sir. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/b...

When you dig into the battery drawer and it’s like commerce archaeology

Well, he's made friendly politicians more affordable, at least.

Still overpriced www.texastribune.org/2025/11/05/u...

Some of the local victories are exciting, too! www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...

I am taking particular pleasure in the complete collapse of trans-as-unbeatable-wedge-issue narrative this morning. It might be an 80-20 issue in voters minds, but it has to be on voters minds to matter. The results in VA demonstrate that it is very much not on voters minds.

This is GALVESTON. The Gulf is blue! What is happening?!

Supreme Court justices can read electron results, too. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...

TIME TO BUY THAT PIED A TERRE nypost.com/2025/11/03/u...

One more example of "AI changes everything — for the worse." Journals flooded with AI-generated letters. "There was a sudden emergence of authors who had published few or no letters before then but who suddenly had letters appearing on a regular basis —going, Dr. Chaccour said, 'from zero to hero.'”

Dear state officials, regents and big donors: If you're going to do your best to damage the integrity and reputation of a great Texas institution, it's gonna cost you. Oh, wait. It doesn't cost you. It costs us, the taxpayers. You must be so proud. www.texastribune.org/2025/11/04/t...

You know what? This is a good night.

Matchy-matchy

This ridiculous, expensive stunt got the legal consideration it deserved. www.texastribune.org/2025/10/31/t...

Just plain vicious. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

“Given the wording of the comment of the Texas Supreme Court, it does seem as you suggest that a judge who says, ‘For religious reasons I’m not going to perform the interracial marriage,’ that too would fall within the scope of the comment that the Texas Supreme Court issued."

It is worth saying that putting “Africana studies” in scare quotes as if it’s a ridiculous concept is not a political argument. It’s just racism. “Africa is not worthy of a major” is the implication. Yeah dude you’re just racist. (From Gerard Baker at the WSJ today) www.wsj.com/opinion/mamd...

Your job might be great, sure. But these people are living among puffins. insideclimatenews.org/news/0311202...

“I could not, would not, in good conscience go to my birth country,” Mr. Irving said, “when there is such an authoritarian bully in the White House, and when the craven Republicans in the House and the U.S. Senate are complicit in their silence.” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/s...

!!!!! pagesix.com/2025/11/03/e...

Louisiana — the red state that Mike Johnson nominally represents — has the second highest percentage of residents enrolled in SNAP in the nation. They’re pushing this fantasy about these being “Democrat programs” used only in blue states but that’s a PR fantasy divorced from reality.

something something autopen www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/u...

"The technology is new. Fox’s willingness to spread racist misinformation isn’t." @parkermolloy.com open.substack.com/pub/readtpa/...

Holy crap, WP. “The young politician was born into a life of wealth and privilege, and from that perch he adopted a worldview centered around destroying the economic system that made his adopted country thrive.” www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Costs $32 million. Saves consumers $40 billion. Even the Trump administration has to do the math now and then. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/c...

Oklahoma, poisoning Oklahomans. www.propublica.org/article/okla...

This may be the most frenetic and pathetic backpedaling yet. Instead, they're going to teach it phenomenology? www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...

At what point did I age into being “Mr. John”? No matter. Thanks, guys.

“But in fact, the emails showed that F.B.I. investigators took normal bureaucratic steps and precautions when opening the extraordinarily sensitive inquiry into Mr. Trump’s attempts to overturn the election using slates of electors pledged to him in states he had actually lost.”

“They are willing to hurt people at the bottom when they take care of their friends and priorities,” said Senator Patty Murray of Washington, the top Democrat on the Appropriations Committee. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/02/u...

Air pollution increases you risk of dementia. “‘Drill, baby, drill’ is totally the wrong approach…. All these actions are going to decrease air quality and lead to increasing mortality and illness, dementia being one of those outcomes.” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/h...

Nature really can heal, if you let it. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/c...

The cake is a lie.

“Whenever politics has messed too much with an independent university, the results are always disastrous.... It doesn’t turn out well for the university — or for the state for that matter.” To understand why UT is headed for big trouble, read up on Home Rainey.

“Wilson never married, never had kids,” writes @paulbegala.bsky.social — “But he damn sure had a family.” A beautiful tribute to a superfan. thebarbedwire.com/2025/10/31/l...

“'Highly polished, Statuary marble!' Mr. Trump declared on social media as he posted images of his new Lincoln bathroom, even as some households planned on handing out canned soup in lieu of candy." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/u...

Happy Halloween

oh wow look he's running the Kennedy Center like he ran his casinos www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...

"After Mace’s flight took off, the report states, an American Airlines gate agent approached the officers. According to the report, he 'stated he was in disbelief regarding her behavior. He implied that a US Representative should not be acting the way she was.'” www.wired.com/story/nancy-...

“Ethics experts have said the fact that the president’s son was involved with companies receiving such contracts was a new and particularly alarming conflict of interest.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/b...

“There is no bigger issue facing the world or America right now than climate change. It’s a five alarm fire, and we should be treating it like that, not retreating from the story.” @emorwee.bsky.social on the latest CBS travesty: climate cuts.