Reminder: "Everything about the way the United States under Trump negotiated with the Taliban signaled desperation for a deal" Tim Weiner, The Mission, 2025

I feel much safer today knowing that we deported a Babson College student back to a country where she hasn't lived since childhood. She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.

– Physician practices are paid ~10% less for encounters with Black or Hispanic patients overall, and ~15% less for visits with Black or Hispanic children. These comparisons exclude payment differences associated with differences in visit content (e.g. RVUs,) or geographic market... (4/7)

Groovy …

This is the scandal. Trump isn’t targeting dangerous people. He’s targeting peaceful immigrants. Almost exclusively.

"I have never encountered a group of people who are more competent, more full of grace and empathy, more willing to serve others than nurses. Nurses should take over." www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Palantir worth 4x Lockheed … at 1/19th the revenue … ?!?

“..Trump in his second term has started scheduled events in the afternoon on average, at 12:08 p.m. .. The number of Mr. Trump’s total official appearances has decreased by 39 percent.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...

Uttter abuse of power.

Abuse of ‘authority’.

Neo-impressionists; National Gallery, London.

Good moment to revisit this excellent piece of research from my @brennancenter.org colleagues: Intimidation of State and Local Officeholders

The Polish prime minister reacts

Guess what movie I saw last night & LOVED from start to finish... #Wicked4GoodBeyondGREAT

Department of Regime 'Justice': "It was strongly suggested to me that Mel Gibson is someone who had a personal relationship with the president and that really should be all I needed to know." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Awwww.... "Denver science museum uses 1.5 million Lego bricks to tell the planet’s story" denverite.com/2025/11/21/d...

To the Coast Guard leadership signing off on this: You are trading your honor for political favor. By bowing to an administration that flirts with neo-Nazis, you are destroying the integrity of the service. If you can't define a swastika as hate, you aren’t fit to command. Period.

David Bier (of Cato) tweeted that CBP apparently instructed agents to threaten witnesses with arrest for recording arrests. Now it's blowing whistles and horns. "There are a number of nearly identical instances of this exact threat.” It continues in North Carolina. digbysblog.net/2025/11/20/o...

The President of the United States just called for my arrest and execution. In these moments, fear is contagious, but so is courage:

These liabilities aren’t all completely contingent … www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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.

very big story here: apnews.com/article/immi...

An executive order to ban state AI laws would put the future of the technology in the hands of a few power players

JARED BERNSTEIN: “.. Manufacturing is in a real slump, with emp down 5 months in row, down 94K over past year. We haven’t seen such trends outside of recessions for years. “.. Trump’s fingerprints are on this trend. It turns out that making factory production more expensive is bad for jobs.”

The US is losing blue-collar jobs for the first time since the pandemic—year-on-year job losses have hit 59k as manufacturing industries lose jobs at a rapid pace while growth in construction & transportation has nearly zeroed out

Look at broader measures of unemployment—including people who want a job but aren't in the labor force or who are working part-time but want a full-time job—and the labor market is nearly in the worst place since the pandemic.

No idea if this data is reliable. www.ft.com/content/c6a1...

"Paramount Skydance’s David Ellison, another guest at the dinner, has held talks with Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund and other big Gulf investors about backing his effort to buy Warner Bros. Discovery, according to The Financial Times." Dealbook.

Wow! Senators Kelly and Slotkin and Reps DeLuzio, Goodlander, Houlahan, and Crow encouraging members of the military to defy illegal orders!

Help elect Aftyn Behn.

Some 24 million US people are facing very large increases in their health insurance bills. My newsletter examines how these price increases will show up in US inflation. on.ft.com/47MdE2Z The unhealthy state of US price statistics

"The Trump Organization and a Saudi development partner announced a new project: a Maldives resort that allows investors to back the project via the blockchain, raising questions about who might participate. (NYT)" www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/u...

The Trump regime’s cuts to NIH grants disrupted more than 380 clinical trials, affecting over 74,000 participants. The cuts disproportionately impacted trials on infectious diseases and minority communities.

What an utter mess.

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com A green card holder returning from vacation. An asylum recipient at a “routine check-in.” A woman reapplying for her work visa. All of them were legally in the U.S. when they were suddenly arrested and detained by ICE. nyti.ms/4i5gsM5

Imagine escaping the literal Nazis, making it to America, living three quarters of a century there making your life, and then this:

Ultralight trackers make it possible, for the first time, to track the migration route of individual butterflies. Here are the routes taken by six monarchs this fall. Poor CMP032 got blown out to sea in New Jersey, and still managed to make it back to Florida. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/s...

Fun fact: the US sells more higher ed to China than soybeans

Horrifying, and eminently readable. Recommend!!

Today's global economy.

"Nearly a year into the Trump administration’s crackdown on immigration and visas, data reveals that new international student enrollment is down 17 percent since last fall." www.insidehighered.com/news/global/...

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/o... Buried way down deep in NYT, but by full editorial board fwiw.

Records we obtained, reported on by @motherjones.com, show the Trump admin is considering using drivers’ license info from all 50 states in its national data system. Election officials can use it to check voters’ citizenship—and remove people from voter rolls. americanoversight.org/trump-admin-...

More than seven weeks have passed since the last comprehensive release of detention and deportation numbers.

Military service personnel have been seeking outside legal advice about some of the missions the Trump administration has assigned them. The strikes against alleged drug traffickers and deployments to U.S. cities have sparked a debate over their legality.

Texas A&M clearly forgot to clear the football curriculum with Texas authorities before this game …

All praise the Gaza peacemakers! They're: -Dividing the strip into 2 zones -Pushing Gazans into one, which will see airstrikes and raids -doing reconstruction only in the other -promising a foreign force made up of Europeans, who aren't willing to do it You better be seen praising the peacemakers.

For two months, the U.S. government has been racial profiling as masked federal agents hunted for immigrants throughout Chicago. They’ve repeatedly snatched up U.S. citizens while traumatizing communities. “I felt like a piece of trash.” Here is our story www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/15/l...

‼️NEW, from Accra: West African woman deported by the United States to Ghana recently attempted suicide in custody, and several other deportees have been secretly transferred, according to Ana Dionne-Lanier, an attorney for one of the deportees. capitalbnews.org/deportations...

In normal times, it would be a major scandal for the President to direct his AG to criminally investigate his political opponents to deflect from his own involvement in a major scandal — and for the AG to immediately announce she is doing it. The Epstein scandal and cover up just got even bigger.