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.

The party that promised "free speech on campus" has made sure there can be no free speech on campuses.

Not advice, but my geology professor told us that technically tap water in your pipes is magma and when it is coming out of the faucet it is lava, and I have been annoying my friends with these facts for years. Truly endless amounts of pleasure.

An alarming story about Flock’s automatic license plate reader (ALPR) cameras ... "Often, officers will search cameras nationwide even if investigating a case in their own state. Typically this is done without a warrant, something that critics like the EFF and the ACLU have recently sued over."

Trump is the most soft on criminals president we have ever had www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/n...

I think in fact Ds should bring articles of impeachment on this. he just threatened to murder pols. idk. make republicans get on the record that they support this sort of thing.

Exactly the sort of "high misdemeanor" the founders were thinking of; not a crime because it's an abuse of power only a president is really capable of.

not sure I even need to say this, but Trump threatening the lives of Ds in Congress is in itself an impeachable offense for which he should be removed.

also we now have a “whites only” refugee policy. they aren’t trying to hide the white supremacy anymore. it’s overt and mainstream.

A Trump supporter started murdering his way through an assassination list of Democratic law makers FIVE MONTHS AGO. He murdered my colleague Melissa Hortman, and her husband Mark — and attempted to assassinate my dear friend John Hoffman and his wife Yvette. I was also on the hit list. WTF

Breaking: The FCC has voted 2-1 along party lines to eliminate cybersecurity requirements for telecom companies that the commission adopted at the end of the Biden administration. Telecoms had lobbied for the change. Democrats said it would invite another Salt Typhoon. Story coming shortly.

Polarize the shit out of this. Polarize the shit out of this. Polarize the shit out of this. Polarize the shit out of this. Polarize the shit out of this. Polarize the shit out of this. Polarize the shit out of this. Polarize the shit out of this. Polarize the shit out of this.

heres an example of politico covering the news while still covering for trump. the headline says trump is calling for a "trial" for dems. but what trump actually said is the dems should be offed. its very plain what he said. not saying so is a cover-up.

The Crimson Diamond is on sale for AdventureX! The event was one of the first times I showed TCD publicly and made me feel like a real game dev. It motivated me to continue onward. It brought me to London for the first time. What an adventure! ✨ store.steampowered.com/app/1098770/... #AdvX2025

This tracks: Cornell researchers: xAI's Grokipedia cites neo-Nazi website Stormfront 42 times, Infowars 34 times, and white nationalist website VDare 107 times www.nbcnews.com/tech/elon-mu...

A win for democracy advocates in Arkansas: This spring, I wrote the GOP had passed a real barrage of laws there to effectively kill the ballot initiative process. See below. A federal judge yesterday granted a preliminary injunction against many of the laws: arkansasadvocate.com/2025/11/19/j...

“I want their morale as low as possible because a team with low morale is ineffective.” Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter

Any President who calls for the opposition party to be hanged should be immediately impeached and removed from office.

Authoritarians are openly buying up major social networks (X, TikTok), and what's left of our broken mainstream media (CBS, CNN), then tasking Carr with bullying any stragglers into being feckless echoes of serious journalism. Carr is a joke, but the broader mission is still deadly serious.

It's Hillsfar time! WOOOO! www.twitch.tv/kikoskia

Good example of how an acronym can dehumanize consequences and mask what’s going on. Syntactically, “Diversity slayer,” “equity slayer,” or “inclusion slayer” sounds weird. They aren’t “slaying” these things; they’re promoting and supporting their opposites: segregation, unfairness, and exclusion.

i don’t think i’ve seen GOP congressional reps vote in numbers with democrats in about thirty years.

RFK Jr & his loyal henchmen (the Great Barrington Declaration dudes Jay Bhattacharya & Martin Kulldorff; Martin Makary; Dr Oz; Vinay Prasad) have been successfully dismantling the US vaccination system & achieved the return of deadly vaccine preventable diseases. This is the world they worked for...

xAI is currently in talks to raise $15 billion at a $230 billion valuation. The flagship product is self-identified "MechaHitler" chatbot with training so warped it describes Elon Musk as more physically fit than LeBron James. It is powered by gas turbines poisoning South Memphis.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY YUFFIE! 11月20日はユフィの誕生日ということで、以前描いた線画に着彩しました！

Lego Wednesday returns with the Ideas set Tree House (21318)! www.twitch.tv/aulddragon/

SCOOP — A former staffer for Rep. Jeff Van Drew (R-NJ), Natalie Green, 26, was charged today for falsely reporting she was attacked by 3 men who wrote "TRUMP WHORE" on her stomach bc of her job. It was staged by her + a friend. Van Drew isn't named in the complaint but I've confirmed w/ his office.

The Trump Administration is abandoning plans for the biggest-ever cut to Social Security Disability Insurance, which would have hit older workers hardest. The rule would have devastated up to 1.5 million workers' financial stability, retirement security & access to health care. wapo.st/4o48J24

I have watched The Hobbit so many times that when I see John Huston on screen speaking he seems dubbed.

The bar for impeaching a judge should be high but parroting conspiracist nonsense should be right up there with obvious corruption

It's not even a morality issue---it's an equity issue. In essence, about half the student body has to manage the prospect that approaching the professor for help, professional advice, guidance, or feedback is going to go sideways. Women in his classes are not getting the same class.

Yesterday, Trump defended the Saudi Crown Prince in the Oval Office. He said he had “nothing” to do with the murder of Jamal Khashoggi. But I reviewed a call while serving on Trump’s NSC that I believe would be of interest to the Khashoggi family and the American people. Release the transcript.

"We have a 2000s housing bubble level of financial engineering on top of a 1920s level of private unregulated lending on top of something bigger than a 1990s internet (or 1870s railroad) level of technology and infrastructure build-out." prospect.org/2025/11/19/a...

Presenting Ukraine with an ultimatum ain't great. To put it mildly. What was even more worrisome in the Axios rundown is that USA-Russia secret negotiation will also deal with 'security of Europe'. Bad sign. There's already a plan for that: NATO. Any new plan Russia created is very bad.

one thing about this is that in the wake of all of this kirk is basically forgotten. he was barely cold in the ground before his allies — before his *wife* — started scheming over what they could take for themselves. a real life parable.

Literally just lectured about this! In the late 1960s, air quality was so bad in several cities they had to turn on the street lights during the day so drivers could see. And yeah, the Cuyahoga River was so polluted it literally caught on fire.

"We've seen the early stages of what economists call stagflation. The '-flation' part is inflation, and you've all felt that at the grocery store. The 'stag-' part is stagnation, which is we've got rising unemployment and slower economic growth than we otherwise would have."

I'm currently finishing a book about the early years of the Civil Rights Division, when it famously prosecuted cases *against* the perpetrators of gun violence. This is such a sick perversion of a storied institution.

Marjorie Taylor Greene has been disliked by the left for years and years and had never had to fear for her life. She's been disliked by the right for 1 day and now has to hire security.

The "Frieren angle" thing, apart from just being delightful, also completely demolishes the pathetic "AI is democratising art" argument. Someone struggling with a difficult drawing received advice from hundreds of strangers who just wanted to help them improve their art.

wrote about the president’s flagrant and destructive corruption in a column that references street fighter, the simpsons, machiavelli, and a host of revolutionary-era americans (gift link)

I'd really want to know about the guardrails being implemented here, given our recent results in @nature.com showing that people are likely to ask LLMs to help them cheat with taxes, and that LLMs are likely to accept www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Yup. They need to be punished for what they tried to do. Make them squeal until they beg for a nationwide non-partisan redistricting system.

NEW: In 2024, Tierra Walker was sick and getting sicker. She was also pregnant. She knew abortion was illegal in Texas, but thought there was an exception for women like her, whose health was at risk. Doctors told her there was no emergency. Then she died. www.propublica.org/article/texa...

If you see this, post your getaway vehicle.

Nothing is a better demonstration of the anti-scientific nature of banning trans women from sports than the fact that the IOC's OWN STUDY found no evidence trans women have any advantage over cis women in sports, but they're planning on going ahead with banning us anyways

I think the level of sexual abuse that is going to be coming out of ICE would put the Boston archdiocese and Penn State to shame

this sounds like a great idea. luckily there are no extremely serious consequences to providing false information to the Internal Revenue Service

I think it should be a bigger deal that before Trump made him a life-tenured appeals court judge, Emil Bove was at DOJ taking the position that the White House should do war crimes

It is genuinely incredible to me how much evidence there is to support investing in the public good and how much animus there is to do this simple, effective thing.