A federal judge ruled yesterday that Trump’s deployment of the National Guard in D.C. was unlawful. It illegally infringes upon the city’s ability to direct law enforcement and undermines Congress’s local authority, the ruling says. What comes next? @maustermuhle.bsky.social reports:

The new “my parents tv has motion smoothing” is “my parents LED lights belong in a hospital”

Kansas releases “Carry On Wayward Son” 49 years ago today — their breakthrough hit. “I brought in a song I’d written at the last minute and said: ‘Guys, maybe you ought to listen to this,’” said Kerry Livgren. “When they heard it, everybody’s eyebrows raised. .. And of course it changed everything.

Once again suggesting we just like... unplug the internet. It was clearly a mistake.

The Eric Schickler essay in Larry Bartel's symposium on "What Trump Has Taught Us About Political Science" is one of the most insightful pieces I've read in 2025. US institutions turned out to be weak, and we have to rethink conventional wisdom. open access: academic.oup.com/psq/advance-...

New Knives Out just dropped

Now, in the context of what just came out about Larry Summers, and also the history of the Comaroffs, we have to ask how zealously “prosecutorial” was Harvard really?

It would be fascinating to have a syndicated national newspaper of the best stories from college papers.

#BREAKING: Former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers will immediately leave his role as an instructor at Harvard while the University investigates his ties to child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.

Josh really doesn't get enough credit as a digital journalism pioneer — and as an entrepreneur who built something meaningful and lasting.

I have been dealing with a brewing family crisis today so forgive me when I say: what the fuck shit is this??

You might be Midwestern if

New: Reuters has tallied job losses, suspensions and investigations stemming from the reaction to Charlie Kirk's Sept. 10 assassination. Its findings: More than 600 Americans have been punished, and the figure is likely to be an under-count. www.reuters.com/investigatio...

Over 20,000 students stayed home from school Monday in Charlotte amid ICE raids, representing 15% of enrollment The district is nearly one-third Hispanic, per WBTV www.wbtv.com/2025/11/18/n...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate agrees to pass bill to force release of Epstein files, sending Trump legislation he initially opposed.

I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered. He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here : www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...

The reason we have laws* against bribery is that companies will absolutely bribe politicians at the very first opportunity if it is good for the bottom line, because they see it as a sound business decision, not a civilizational betrayal. /1

Like clockwork. ⏰ @cnbc.com www.cnbc.com/2025/11/17/c...

Infuriating to think that in just two months, Conde Nast's Vanity Fair hired Nuzzi while Conde Nast's Vogue absorbed and neutered Teen Vogue, laying off a number of talented writers who can write, and think, circles around Nuzzi.

This piece is important. It is also a great (annoyingly great) example of what a properly resourced team of journalists can do. There are five bylines and almost 20 additional reporting credits on this piece. I've wanted to write this story for months but... do not have that many colleagues

With my lukewarm takes on the proposed acquisition changes at DoD. (Mostly good, but expensive and lots of risks for interoperability. Can't wait to see how they move forward with dual-sourcing and licensed production - two things I supported at JPAC.)

Lots of people been asking for book recommendations for help with background context for the Ken Burns RevWar documentary, so I’m very grateful to my past self for putting this together so that my current self can be lazy: angrystaffofficer.com/2024/08/22/u...

Red and Blue Composition, by Ad Reinhardt, 1941 (flipped), 📸 by Andrew Mordzynski

The reason why most women my age couldn't care less if Bill Clinton goes down with the ship is that we were teens & young women when the Anita Hill and Monica Lewinsky scandals happened. It's rotten to the core. All the way down. Your "lost" era is not ours.

That’s created a de facto soft-budget constraint. U.S. policymakers have been able to run deficits rather than make tough fiscal choices. If that goes away — especially if it happens quickly because the idiots running our government destroy the foundations of 💵 dominance — we’re truly fucked.

What fresh legal doctrine is this?

Epstein was convicted in 2008. This dump of emails shows him *over a decade later* in constant communication with damn near everyone with any degree of power. There are emails from 2019, 11 years later, over decade later.

A federal appeals court upheld the hate crime convictions of three White men who chased Ahmaud Arbery through their Georgia subdivision with pickup trucks before one of them killed the running Black man with a shotgun.

Teenagers are old enough to have sex with middle aged men. They are not old enough to be trans. by Megyn Kelly

If you like Death by Lightning... The Garfield Memorial @ Lake View Cemetery in Cleveland, OH, is stunning, befitting a great man (it also provides a lovely panoramic view of the city) I hope the show means more people visit this special place. Afterward, go to Presti's bakery for treats.

Kansas Republican leaders couldn't rally enough support this fall for a special session on redistricting. It's just one example of lawmakers pushing back on a new round of partisan gerrymandering.

Amazing how there's only two genders but infinite gradations of underaged sex.

The unprecedented move, regulators say, targets sales to fans — especially out-of-town visitors — who might venture into local businesses hoping to watch live broadcasts from other host cities in wildly different time zones. By Startland News

“straight up giving the president a bar of gold” is where we’re at now on the “corruption isn’t real” scale good work, John Roberts

florence pew: thread

Jesus Christ.

One reason why elite schools (Columbia, Brown, Cornell) caving to Trump’s illegal impoundment and extortion is so galling — a betrayal, really — is that they would have won had they fought. By giving up, they guaranteed every other school will have to fight harder.

I just don’t see how we can pretend even for a moment that anything involving our federal government is remotely normal when the president is covering up his involvement in a child sex trafficking ring. Like, what are we doing here

kids, don't do drugs

I think it's the "saving up for braces" part of this story that adds a whole new level of ick. Like... that's a kid, man

when u off a guy and now you’re responsible for this dumbass boat

Ukraine has become a drone superpower — now its defense firms are ready to make some cash by selling to NATO countries. Read more: https://bloom.bg/4hTsGHz 📷: Kostyantyn Liberov/Libkos/Getty Images

The reaction of the sports world to the MLB gambling scandal seems weirdly muted. Like, this is the big one. Gambling directly impacting what we see on the field.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate passes bill to end the now-41-day government shutdown, sending it to the House for a final vote this week.

UPDATE: The Senate votes 53-47 to shoot down the Baldwin amendment to extend ACA funds for 1 year. A party-line vote with every Republican rejecting it.

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Do we have updates on when next vote in Senate will take place? And when is House is session?

My favorite day of the year. Happy Birthday, Marines!

BREAKING: The US Senate votes 60-40 to advance a bill to end the government shutdown