Northwestern University should heed this warning.

Two babies were born in New York within a year of each other, soon after WWII. One, Rob Reiner, lived a life of humanity and achievement. He brought us delight and joy. His memory will be a blessing. The other, Donald Trump, will be remembered as an embarrassment to our nation.

This is college in the United States. Video from inside a Brown University building shows the moment that police found a group of students who were sheltering after the shooting on campus. This isn't freedom.

The Trump administration is threatening to deport a Chinese man who personally documented the Chinese government's massive detention system in Xinjiang. If forcibly returned to China, he faces the risk of state persecution for his invaluable & brave work. open.substack.com/pub/hrichina...

“As many as 150,000 residents of El Fasher remain unaccounted for since the city fell to the RSF.”

Northwestern deal raises questions about future of transgender care and rights www.axios.com/local/... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

Northwestern University, for one.

In some ways this is a useful reminder that a lot of the talk of European security guarantees to Ukraine have the whole thing backwards. For more than three years Ukraine has been guaranteeing European security by fighting and degrading the Russian armed forces. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

WATCH: Elon Musk is upset that Somalian Americans in Minnesota get to vote.

I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork

Some people have asked what I mean when I talk about the need for anti-corruption reforms. Here are some ideas.

Brett Kavanaugh's "minor inconvience" now includes beating people up and cutting off their wedding rings for [checks notes] "observing ICE from a distance."

My thoughts.

Kavanaugh abduction

We now learn that Fifa had a very specific "ask" in exchange for its "Peace Award" to Trump, with loads of gold trinkets, and that was dismissal of a criminal corruption case against senior Fifa officials. And Trump granted it. Another corrupt bargain, barely noticed (and ignored by US media).

Intravenous (IV) drug treatments (via hand) for early Alzheimer's disease, such as lecanemab (brand name Leqembi®) and donanemab (brand name Kisunla™), utilize MRI scans (umm, has he had those?) extensively for both patient screening and safety monitoring.

“.. THIS IS THE WAY A FASCIST TALKS: vilifying an ethnic minority, blaming them collectively for crimes, rallying crowds against them .. And this is the way a fascist audience responds: chanting .. and applauding his slurs ..” @saletan.bsky.social www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-atta...

Nice to see but friendly reminder that Martina has espoused transphobic and anti-surrogacy views on multiple occasions. Treat her suddenly renewed allyship with extreme caution.

The same hate that Navratilova promotes against the trans community. She’s talking out of both sides of her own hate-filled mouth.

PIIE: “.. If tariffs stay at current levels, they will impose an annual tax increase of $1,700 for an average household .. the largest tax increase on US households since 1982 as a share of GDP ..” www.piie.com/commentary/t...

“.. When the Fed cuts rates while $SPY is trading near all-time highs (within 1%), the market usually falls sharply 2–3 months later. That aligns closely with our model’s prediction of a serious correction beginning in February 2026.” (via OptionGeek)

“Inflation has risen from earlier this year.”

Even if we would stipulate that the *only* purpose of college is vocational training (ugh) if you think you, at 18 years old, not only know for sure what your future career will be but also know better than all the professors at a college what skills you will need for that career, why bother?

FITCH: DESPITE FULL-YEAR TARIFF IMPACT, US FISCAL DEFICIT EXPECTED TO WIDEN IN 2026 DUE TO TAX CUTS UNDER THE ONE BIG BEAUTIFUL BILL ACT

So real it’s not even satire. Not far off from being a biology teacher in the American Bible Belt Credit: Joe Flanders Comics

You can hear Jose scream in excruciating pain as an ICE vehicle runs over his foot while he's being detained. His family says Jose is a good man, with no criminal record, who works in roofing. He needs to be released from detention to receive appropriate medical care.

Read this: www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...

D.C. media can ask Gottheimer of #NJ05 why he claimed to be so concerned with the BBB's possible $15.8 billion a year impact, in the scheme of the $6 trillion annual federal budget, around 0.2%. Does he think that it was worth it to help block child tax credits and keep the economy brutal for 2024?

“Traumatized, humiliated, degraded.” The nurse, a US citizen, 4’11”, 85 lbs, says she was following orders when she was dragged out of her car by masked immigration agents in Florida. It was the 3rd time she had been stopped and told to produce ID. Free link ⤵️ www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

NEW: www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

We see new signs of the white supremacist dictatorship, big and small, every day now.

What kind of sick fuck could be opposed to eliminating prison rape?

He just ruined his entire career for the approval of a lying adjudicated rapist felon.

They’re killing people as a twitter joke. It’s depraved. Can’t let yourself lose the capacity to be appalled and disgusted and outraged by this.

41 minutes. www.cnn.com/2025/12/04/p...

Quite breathtaking story - military grade drones at Dublin airport which flew on the path Zelensky's plane took. The drones reached the flight path of his plane exactly the time it should have been there, but just missed it because Zelensky arrived ahead of schedule:

-The landlord kept the building in appalling conditions -Then hundreds of Trump agents rappelled down & swarmed in at night, trashing apartments, grabbing & zip-tying immigrants, US citizens, adults, kids -Now tenants are being forced out, days before the holidays Wells Fargo is in on this travesty

“Look, over there — Black people!!” – Bessent, essentially

I posted this here about a year ago. Seems like a good time to re-up it. cc: @macfarlanenews.bsky.social 👇👇👇

Starting now: DC Councilmember Brooke Pinto convenes a hearing of the Committee on the Judiciary and Public Safety about public safety issues facing DC.

Chairman Mendelson: “The DC Police Union has been very hostile to DC autonomy, they are very hostile to accountability measures, and I think they are front and center in these attempts to undo DC laws by Congress.”

And here is the registration ("inscription") link which will make sure you get the Zoom link: www.eventbrite.fr/e/the-most-a...

These are good moments to remember that the CEOs of all the biggest companies in America are happy to go to White House dinners and slap this guy’s back. They do not care about this. Remember this, years from now, when they want you to forget.

A 6-year-old boy is missing after ICE arrested him and his dad in NYC last week and shipped them off to separate facilities. www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/02/i... @thecity.nyc @gwynnefitz.bsky.social

Kushner said he wouldn't have a foreign policy role in this administration just like the Trump Organization said it wouldn't make new foreign deals, just like Karoline Leavitt said Trump has never engaged in a conflict of interest.

Analysis | Zelensky says he's serious about peace. It's impossible to evaluate that claim without seeing what kind of real estate portfolio he's offered to Kushner, Witkoff, and Trump.

Our son was born at a Northwestern hospital and sees a NU-affiliated pediatrician and it is really frustrating to know that he or any number of kids we know will be denied by this system care that otherwise would be provided under medical ethics but diverges from political ideology of those in power

Currently dorking out over this graph about child mortality with my brother. Just mind boggling to take in.