2/4: Most people don‘t realize that hand sanitizer doesn’t kill norovirus, so the best way to protect yourself is to practice good handwashing: use soap and water, scrub for ~20 seconds (or the “Happy Birthday” song x2).

⚡️ In a new Drop Site investigation, Ryan Grim and Murtaza Hussain reveal that Jeffrey Epstein quietly helped Alan Dershowitz orchestrate the smear campaign against John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt’s 2006 paper “The Israel Lobby,” newly obtained emails show. The scholars had argued in the paper...

Pretty convincing evidence here that the Trump administration was planning to jailbreak and provide asylum for Bolsonaro -- and that Trump inadvertently revealed the plan. And this, as the now-cliche goes, would have been a paralyzing scandal for any other administration.

I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.

“Texas desperately needs a place where we can tell our stories, where we can be ourselves, mourn our losses, and celebrate our victories,” writes @kitoconnell.com. Meet our newest newsletter writer and contributor, who’ll be spearheading our queer coverage 💕 thebarbedwire.com/2025/11/25/t...

Ah yes: youtu.be/VPjODKUxV5g?...

If you have ever thought that my journalism or my first book were net positives for the world, understand that they probably would not exist if I did not have a spouse who paid the mortgage. If I'd been a solo earner/parent, I likely would have left criticism, journalism or book writing long ago.

#OTD in 1863, 23,000 Union Troops storm Missionary Ridge in one of the all time epic charges in American military history decisively routing Confederate forces and opening the literal and symbolic “Gateway to the South” (1

My microwave sings a little song when my Hot Pocket is done. Should it have the right to vote?

The American healthcare system where your survival depends less on your doctor and more on a hedge fund’s quarterly targets.

WIRED: “ICE expands plans to outsource immigrant tracking to private surveillance firm… up to $280 MILLION…” Bounty hunting (nonviolent) immigrants. Cruelty is big business — spending our money to harm our own economy. An own goal. America’s Brexit. www.wired.com/story/ice-bo...

Despite Trump’s talk about reshoring manufacturing, there are now 59,000 fewer manufacturing jobs than there were in April when Trump promised to boost US manufacturing.

The BBC removed a line about Trump being the most openly corrupt president in American history...from a lecture about the cowardice of today's elites. I wonder if the BBC has heard of the Streisand Effect

I would decline to voluntarily cooperate. No way. Issue a subpoena and fight it out in court.

"device hoarding" is a phrase that would have made my grandparents become the Joker

Substack has an antiscience health disinformation problem. MAD recognizes the importance (& influence) of media ownership – which is why we are sounding warnings about Substack. Our latest w/ @lavidagata.bsky.social mediaanddemocracyproject.substack.com/p/substack-h...

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang was reportedly shocked that some managers don't want people constantly using AI. In an all-hands meeting he said: "My understanding is Nvidia has some managers who are telling their people to use less AI, are you insane? ...

“Why Wearing a Barrel As Pants is The New Hot Style”

I remember a white coworker telling me that he didn’t think I was seeing things from his perspective. I told him that I have to see things from his perspective every single day otherwise I wouldn’t be where I am today.

Here's how Greg Bovino denies tackling Scott Blackburn, while watching a video showing him tacking Scott Blackburn. legacy.www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

so if i understand this correctly, gaines has made her career by publicly calling trans athletes predators and threats to women while completely failing to ever mention even once that her mentor/college swimming coach was sexually assaulting and harassing women on the team while she was there?

ICE melts fast in the South because we bring the heat 🔥

This is a big deal bc insurance is one of the strongest levers for changing policy and behavior (the other being taxes). AI companies may have so much money they can self insure. But their enterprise customers don’t and this will cause them think twice about how they adopt and deploy AI.

Jimmy Cliff, légende du reggae, est mort

Zohran Mamdani just keeps making winning moves. Alondra on your technology committee is pretty much as good as it gets. Hot Damn.

Where is @wolvendamien.bsky.social because yeah they are trying to enmesh this before it goes kerplow They can’t make people use it .. so they’ll make people use it

"Israel" shares we are getting ready to harvest the celery that many will use while making their Thanksgiving stuffing. "I'm proud of the work I do that brings food to tables across the US. With our hands we do the hard work that feeds America." #WeFeedYou

Sign at the US Military Academy at West Point:

There is a whole underworld of exploited workers who make up the foundation of digital tech. We talk about content moderators, but content farms are also very exploitative industries where moderately educated people with reasonable English skills in the global majority are used to push content.

It’s official. @dougjones.bsky.social will run against Tommy Tuberville for Alabama governor. www.al.com/life/2025/11...

ALMOST! But he already disabled it!!

Truth Social users are not happy with Trump on this one. “A Great Fuck'n Honor??? Have you lost your fucking mind?????”

What I like about Zohran is he seems to be the one person to realize if he just remains a reasonable dude and lets everyone else be unreasonably horrible to him, they do their own smear campaigns. Literally all he has to do is gently interrogate whatever plops out of their mouths, it's hilarious.

The university closed spaces for Black and LGBTQ+ students rather than fight a state law that made it all but illegal to make campuses welcoming places in Alabama. But yes, conservatives are being stifled.

Will someone who loves and cares about Jerry Smith take away his Fox News machine

Notice a difference in how Democracy Docket framed Trump's threats vs how legacy media did? This is no accident. They are more interested in normalizing Trump to please their corporate overlords. Democracy Docket is only interested in providing you the truth. Support its work. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0

My god. After 4 days in ICE custody, they found the man in a shower stall hog-tied, with a sheet around his neck. The medical examiner claimed there were other instances of this. Which means this is not an isolated case. Trump's Lynching America

They lied about it. All of it. A thug cop shot an unarmed woman five times without justification, boasted about it to his colleagues, and then this administration tried cover it all up by arresting her and charging her with felonies.

I don't know who needs to hear this, but there's actually no need to tolerate swastikas in our military ever. We don't need policy papers on this. We don't need long discussions and to "better understand" those who wear them. We can just ban all Nazi imagery and call it a day.

I can't find it anymore, but somebody tagged me with their homemade Wide Awakes sign Apparently this sign has been making the rounds, because my Dad saw one of his friends share this exact photo on Facebook. My dad is very much Not On Bluesky, and neither is his friend Folks,, we have the juice

“Calling for, or even insinuating, members of Congress should be put to death, is a new low, even for Trump and is truly dangerous," said U.S. Rep. Shomari Figures, D-Mobile. "But the continued complicity, through the deafening silence of most of our Republican colleagues, is equally dangerous.”

The House has voted unanimously to repeal the provisions in the shutdown package which allow GOP Senators to sue the federal government and get as much as $1 million in damages - because the feds looked at their phone records in the Jan. 6 investigation.

These 20 House Democrats just joined Republicans in voting to fully repeal DC's police reform laws. Wiping off the books critical laws on use of force, transparency, and preventing violent cops from getting rehired. They think that they should have more say over DC police than the people of DC.

Somebody else pointed out: actually, I already have this guy up on the shop, which would also be perfect for this situation

How awful. This is outright health disinformation, lying to the American people. Not only is there massive evidence showing no link between vaccines & autism, there’s not even a plausible mechanism based on what we’ve learned about the genetics of autism, some environmental exposures in pregnancy

we are returning to the state in which the framers intended for the legislature, in which the lower chamber and the upper chamber absolutely despise one another

You see the thing about Republicans is they’re really passionate about states rights