Are unthinkable acts plausible today? Read this opinion over at @forward.com forward.com/opinion/7936...

Nation Can’t Believe It On Harvard’s Side

Why should this surprise Ben Shapiro? If you allow a Nazi into the bar without throwing them out, then you are a Nazi bar. forward.com/news/793102/...

Pound for pound, Sammy Davis Jr. may have been the greatest performer of all-time. Some other contenders would be Prince, Stevie, Aretha, and I'm surely forgetting many. But Sammy could sing, dance, play a range of instruments, and cover it all up with kitsch due to the racism of his era.

well, archivists gonna archive. torrents remain undefeated www.404media.co/archivists-p...

@itsafronomics.bsky.social I thought you would find this inspiring. I did. 😀

Absolutely amazing obit of the Park Service’s oldest ranger. Gift link www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/u...

For this week’s DOOMSDAY MACHINES, I interviewed my good friend @cherylrofer.bsky.social about her +30 year career at Los Alamos — topics discussed include gender, lasers, and much more — doomsdaymachines.net/p/working-at...

Starbucks workers in Oviedo, a small city just north of Orlando, FL, today joined nearly 4,000 baristas unionized with @sbworkersunited.org who are currently on an open-ended unfair labor practice strike. End date? TBD. www.orlandoweekly.com/news/starbuc...

Funny you should mention that arstechnica.com/ai/2025/06/w...

SCOOP — Gregg Phillips, a conspiracy theorist with no emergency management experience who helped produce the election-denying documentary ‘2000 Mules’ with Dinesh D’Souza and has faced numerous legal inquiries, has been named head of FEMA’s Office of Response and Recovery. My story:

I'm not exaggerating when I say following @boltsmag.org rn will unlock money for our journalism. A generous reader, @russ41.bsky.social, has offered to donate $1 for every 1-person increase to our follower count. If you're not following @boltsmag.org yet, it'll directly help fund our reporting!

Apparently every Chinese academic in any field of “interest” to the PLA is getting their visa rejected for, more or less, presumptively being a spy. My friend’s visa is denied because she studies “neuroscience.” What she actually studies is jaw pain - but ICE is flatly rejecting all appeals.

This is 1000% true! The US has the opportunity to make sure Russia is not a factor on the world stage by just supplying any weapon short of nukes to Ukraine. More dead Russians will lead to the end of Putin and make the world safer.

My colleague, Dr. Vahid Abedini, was illegally detained by ICE on Saturday. He is currently being held without a court date in sight, despite being in the country legally. Please spread the word! We must ensure his due process rights are upheld. www.oudaily.com/news/ou-prof...

Randall Munroe created a beautiful thing today, and now I'm writing this with tears in my eyes. Thanks, @xkcd.com.

As a survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Viola Ford Fletcher bravely shared her story so that we’d never forget this painful part of our history. Michelle and I are grateful for her lifelong work to advance civil rights, and send our love to her family.

What do these corporations all have in common? -Lockheed Martin -Palantir -Microsoft -Amazon -Comcast -Google -Apple -Meta -HP -Nvidia -T-Mobile They all have lucrative government contracts — and they're all donors to Trump's ballroom.

Trump gave a green light to antisemitism. As the leader of the GOP, Trump backed Tucker Carlson’s softball interview with Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes. Trump is quick to denigrate Jews who don’t vote for him, but can’t condemn the antisemites who do.

The mainstream media that the right trashes GAVE us Donald Trump with their awful reporting on the economy cepr.net/publications...

The last penny has been minted. I joined CNN's Brianna Keilar to dive into what it all means. There's actually a whole lot of economics -- and politics! -- to this story. If the news today feels too heavy, this is a bit lighter. Come and have fun with us! www.youtube.com/watch?v=332A...

Tucker Carlson has hosted Hitler apologists on his show. Now he says Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a pastor who tried to kill Hitler, was not being Christian. He isn't making a theological argument. He's just morally inverting World War II and the Holocaust, to make space for their villains to rise again.

If the Center for American Progress does not quickly sever all ties with Larry Summers, we must make sure the Democratic Party severs all ties with CAP. www.americanprogress.org/people/summe...

how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...

Public records show DHS is deploying the "Homeland Security Information Network" at college protests and football games.

Chicagoans are making, sharing, and printing designs for whistles that can warn people when ICE is in the area. The goal is to “prevent as many people from being kidnapped as possible.”

The absolutely crazy story behind Trump's $2,000 tariff rebate checks deanbaker22.substack.com/p/the-absolu...

How do you spell megalomaniacal psychopath? TRUMP www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/...

Went back to the history of the Sicilian Mafia to illustrate something obvious but worth stating explicitly: The Trump administration behaves like an organized crime syndicate running a protection racket, not a representative government www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

Retired Nuclear Scientist @cherylrofer.bsky.social on the sheer bone-headedness of resuming nuclear testing. 🤦🏻‍♂️ www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/11/toug...

Absolutely brilliant and correct piece by @techdirt.com’s @mmasnick.bsky.social. Mamdani’s election proves that believing in something and leading others is the path to electoral success. www.techdirt.com/2025/11/06/m...

The long-running ideological war on libraries, education, and government workers is not separate from AI boosterism. It is the same ideological war on human knowledge and expertise. In some cases AI is being used to directly supercharge this effort: www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...

The #1 lesson from yesterday’s blowout: Humanities majors killed on the job market 1) Mamdani- Africana Studies 2) Spanberger -French 3) Sherill - Global History

Your boy has plans, I have plans too.

basically every 2024 truism is dead. Trump did not build a lasting multiracial coalition or turn young men into committed Republicans. You don’t need to cave on trans rights to win. The pundits have nothing left to tell you.

Now they are helping MAGAs live while others die. www.npr.org/sections/sho...

Mike Johnson: ‘My Christian Faith Is More About Not Jacking Off Than Feeding The Poor’

Private equity destroys 200-year-old book distribution company that libraries around the country rely on and now libraries are having trouble getting new books: www.404media.co/libraries-sc...

Food access is a human right. Everyone deserves to eat. In the past day, more people have googled the words "food bank" and "food pantry". Mutual Aid Food Access: www.mutualaidhub.org Donate to your Local Food Bank (money not food): www.feedingamerica.org/find-your-lo... #snap #blacksky #news

I wrote this in September 2024. If you want to understand where we are and how we got here, read it all. Gift link: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Also if you are going to pretend that Tucker Carlson is purely criticizing Israel, ignoring his storied history of antisemitic conspiracy and his choice to interview Nick Fuentes, you’re not a serious person. There are many critics who manage not to push replacement theory.

161 is a lot of recommendations, so over the next few weeks, we're going to highlight a few! Tell us which resonates with you and your work? 1/ 🧵🧵🧵🧵

NEW 📰: Building a more effective government that moves beyond the status quo requires honest reflection. Drawing on interviews with more than 45 former senior Biden officials, our latest report offers 161 practical recommendations for better governance. https://bit.ly/4312Zid

Feels like some fields are big on citing only by precedence, but don't realize there's another side which is NOT citing the work that is outdated, misleading, had poor methods in the first place, or otherwise made choices an author considers poorly done. I exercise this judgment constantly

honestly the only piece worth reading on the platner situation. @tressiemcphd.bsky.social is absolutely cooking here. (gift link)

Pet food is usually not covered by SNAP (depending on where you are), but needing to cover more groceries may take up what you would have spent on it. Many animal shelters have pet food pantries, so check your local if you're struggling to feed your pets.

Live footage from the White House Ballroom

Maybe it takes a nuclear scientist to cut to the core of an issue. @cherylrofer.bsky.social presents the perfect framing to address the transgressions of Trump and his administration. www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/10/mora...

Lots of US companies have done lots of dreadful things to Americans. But the symbolism of paying to destroy the White House is hard to top.