🧵🧵🧵 7 questions for the Trump regime about the attack in Nigeria: 1. Is it now official U.S. policy that Christians under attack anywhere In the world will be defended by our military? 2. Will only Christians in trouble spots overseas get U.S. protection — not Muslims, Hindus or Zoroastrians?

I hope the lecturer sues the @#$@# out of the university.

No woman I know in academia would be surprised by this, but its good to see it documented like this, I guess.

More of this needed across the curriculum. Too bad this administration is too busy dismantling the Dept of Education...🤬 www.nytimes.com/2025/12/25/b...

The science museum in Berlin has a section on trains. Which is cool. The section on trains has a long mea culpa on the train company’s enthusiastic complicity in moving humans efficiently and lucratively. Which should make you stop and think.

After buying it for $18.8 billion, Walgreens' new private equity owner has eliminated paid holidays for all hourly workers on Christmas and New Year's. Last year, Walgreens had a CEO-to-Worker pay gap of 410 to 1. Corporate greed that would make even Scrooge blush.

BREAKING: when I heard that State was targeting for deportation a champion of fighting antisemitism & protecting kids in the digital sphere I had 1 thought: Let's sue! We @democracydefendersfund.org just joined w/ @robbiekaplan.bsky.social to do that. Proud to represent @imranahmed.bsky.social

The level of political incompetence it takes to let Trump do this bit right now is staggering.

And so this is Christmas For weak and for strong The rich and the poor ones The road is so long And so happy Christmas For black and for white For yellow and red ones Let's stop all the fight - John Lennon, Yoko Ono www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMH_...

The lesson of history is that tyrants cannot be appeased. Appeasement only feeds their insatiable hunger for power. Tyrants prey on people who feel unsafe and vulnerable. But without mass submission, a tyrant is powerless. Remember this.

Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse; The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, And 1 million Epstein files appeared from thin air

"Trump’s maneuvers to influence CBS blatantly violate even the most minimal guardrails of liberal democracy. Those blunt abuses of power matter a million times more than the specific content of a particular 60 Minutes segment."

The folks who have always screamed about “States' rights!” are suddenly BIGLY mad about SCOTUS saying troops CAN’T be sent to states over the objections of Governors…

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🚨BREAKING: Missourians filed a lawsuit Tuesday asking a court to stop the state from using its new congressional map until voters have the chance to approve or reject the measure in a referendum. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Just want to point out that this man was leading the whole Turning Point USA crowd in prayer last week. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crim...

Ukraine is not Russia. Greenland is not the U.S. Stand against bullies. Everywhere.

This struck me too. As Anne Applebaum doesn’t mention, she wrote a classic history of the Gulag.

blue states should create escrow accounts into which citizens pay their federal taxes but are withheld by the state until the federal government stops acting like its only obligated towards states that support the maga agenda

For no particular reason, a reminder that my YA novel DEEPFAKE which unfortunately came out in 2020 (ugh) features a deepfake cyberbullying incident.

"We are trading 50 years of ‘gold standard’ reputation for a single week of political quiet.” correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi, who is 100% correct. Bari Weiss is a shanda.

There are so many things to be enraged by right now, but women being gang-raped and ending up HIV positive and pregnant because a billionaire with the emotional age of five dismantled USAID has me 🤬🤯🤬 wapo.st/4pNVXX8

Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.

UPDATE: in point of fact there is not an innocent explanation for this.

Anyone at CBS with the details is morally obligated to leak what happened and who did what ASAP

Sounds like they're trying to Bari the story.

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Those of us who are not Jewish have to be more on our guard against antisemitism than ever right now, not just in the world but inside of our own hearts No one is fully immune to the propaganda flooding social media from all directions or the rising hysteria of this moment

“I think that we need to raise the moral outrage,” said Sister Susan Francois. “The fact that they waited — he died a week ago. They waited until a holiday weekend to release the news with this very un-Christian, un-human demonizing of this gentleman.”

Woman comes to US at age 6. Graduates nursing school. Work permit. No criminal record. Snatched and imprisoned by ICE for 6 months now. About to be forced back to Honduras. A life destroyed and one less nurse. Merry Christmas. www.nola.com/news/educati...

Did you know that people in the rest of the world are paying attention?

Really don't think this happens without Zohran

H/T @joannanovinswrites.bsky.social . This hit hard.

It was such a joy to celebrate Hanukkah with Mandy, Kathryn and their son, Gideon. As Jewish New Yorkers across our city prepare to light candles and mark the seventh night today, I wish you and your families a Hanukkah full of light and love. youtu.be/KIxAKyioXng

Numbers what do they even mean?

"A February 2025 report from RAND, a nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization, written by Carter C. Price found that if the system in place before 1975 had stayed in place, the bottom 90% of Americans would have had almost $80 trillion more in 2023 than they did." Reaganomics screwed Americans

Dude, you really thought they wouldn't come for you eventually? SMH. Ramaswamy Challenges Conservatives on Surging Bigotry on the Right www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/u...

As sold-her-soul-to-Satan Elise Stefanik exits public life, just a reminder that she and Rep. Jen Kiggans (R-VA02) were/are BFFs bluevirginia.us/2025/12/satu... cc: @ElaineLuria @EliCousin

It's a 21 state problem. buttondown.com/wellsourced/...

GIFT ARTICLE: Mitt Romney says the rich should pay more taxes. Uh, yeah....

one thing that is important to know is that BIRTH OF A NATION is so racist that people at the *time*, in 1915, were like, “holy shit this is racist”

It’s normal for the head of CBS news to weigh in on internal squabbles inside the conservative movement, right?

This is Nigel Tufnel math.

I think Asha Rangappa is right — they are lining up the external and internal enemies. Or trying to. This is very risky and will almost certainly blow up in their faces.

Maria Shriver, niece of JFK: He was a man interested in the arts, culture, education, language, history... It is beyond comprehension that the president has sought to rename this great memorial. C’mon my fellow Americans! Wake up! This is not dignified. This is not funny... It’s downright weird.

Can I split my vote equally, four ways?

I was still a regular columnist then, and was called "hysterical". The Americans Who Saw All This Coming—but Were Ignored and Maligned newrepublic.com/article/2042... via @newrepublic.com

What would be great is if Dem members in multiple states showed up at multiple ICE facilities at 10 a.m. tomorrow armed with this injunction.

Have now heard The Waitresses Xmas Rap and Springsteens Santa Claus is coming to town on the radio. Saw the LeeVees live. Now need Adam Sandlers Hanukkah song for it to really be December.

there is really no difference between the current administration and having the country run by david duke