Accurate

Brett Kavanaugh (September 2025): The facts and how they relate to the law don’t matter. Assume ICE and other federal forces always act with integrity, always respect rights, and consistently impose minimal burden. Brett Kavanaugh (December 2025): Should I not have done that? Was that wrong?

Btw this is one of the biggest reasons why it’s not as easy as people think to start up independent newsrooms or just be an indie journalist on substack. If you are actually holding powerful and rich people to account, you WILL need legal representation. Not a matter of whether but when

the least shocking thing in the epstein files that wont get enough attention. police regularly arrest and charge victims to coerce them into participating, often jailing them in conditions that are worse.

Breaking news: The Supreme Court said it would not allow President Trump to deploy the National Guard in Chicago for now, a significant setback for his campaign to push troops into cities across the country.

Last post of 2025. In this Fanonian centenary moment, we’re reminded of our inability to wrench humanity out of occupation & oppression. As we hear of Thunberg’s arrest & the criminalisation of support to Palestine, the realisation that decolonisation is an ongoing process should inform our actions.

This aged like the finest of wines. Be not intimidated. These people are mediocre and incompetent.

Spoiler: !!! www.altaonline.com/books/g69701...

"Under this model, formerly colonized nations must ask permission to temporarily access their own heritage, accept conditions dictated by a British institution, and bear the financial and logistical burdens of care, while the museum retains ultimate control." British Museum fully delulu good lord

Germany!!!!!!!

Be like the Victorians and read a biography or two during the holidays 📚🎄 cliosfootnotes.wordpress.com/2025/12/22/i...

Ok, I don't usually do this, but the Molly Worthen piece on Christian Nationalism in the NYT? Apologetics. I'm on Xmas break and I don't feel like wasting my time breaking this down but let me just say this: WHO IS WE? Because some of us get Christian Nationalism, the NAR, and Dominionism.

No! Most presidents do not in fact name anything after themselves while they’re in office, because they’re not toddlers who constantly need to be the center of attention.

Und im Übrigen bin ich der Meinung, die AFD muß verboten werden!

The only "black" that the current administration will ever endorse. Many will get what I'm saying—many wont. The tea will scorch your lips and tongue. Sip it slowly. 🔥☕️ #ProudBlue #ResistanceRoots #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory www.cbsnews.com/news/epstein...

We at ProPublica obtained internal government data in May that showed the Trump administration knew the vast majority of Venezuelans sent to El Salvador had not been convicted of violent crimes. Our reporting is featured in Frontline. Read our full coverage: www.propublica.org/series/depor...

Parents everywhere are terrified that their teens’ sudden need to download the forbidden 60 minutes story is a gateway drug to wanting even more news

Absolutely shameful. This is a witch hunt: against trans people, against higher education, even against the very foundations of our democracy.

I don’t just chronically post. I also get grants, publish, and scratch and claw to get the stories of Black folks’ heard.

Bari Weiss is an example of how dangerous mediocrity can actually be.

INSTITUTIONAL FAILURE This could’ve been avoided 30 years ago. Maria Farmer’s 1996 FBI complaint has been unearthed in the Epstein files. It was the first time he was reported to the authorities. And they buried it. “If the FBI had listened to me in 1996, there would’ve been no more victims.”

So my first novel, The Survivalists (black woman lawyer falls in with a pack of Black Brooklyn doomsday preppers) is the San Francisco Public Library’s On The Same Page Pick for January/February 2026, and i’ll be doing an event there on 2/22 sfpl.org/books-and-me...

At this moment, I don't believe 2026 will be better than 2025. There will be more resistance and more oppression. There will be moments where we see possibilities and others where we feel despair. There will be losses and wins. The battle for justice and equality will be long.

When the disreputable NY Post has more integrity than your mainstream NEWS OUTLETS. We’re officially in La La land.

h/t @victorerikray.bsky.social

The kid and I started Scrooged with Bill Murray last night. He likes it so far.

On a call just now, Bari Weiss tells staff she held the CECOT story because it wasn’t ready & to advance a months-old story, they need "the principals" on record. Yesterday, CBS reporter Sharyn Alfonsi warned if they can only do stories when government responds, it “gains control” over 60 Minutes.

The USAID cuts will go down in history as one of the cruelest, most anti-humanitarian actions to ever occur. And as Vance declares the US a “Christian nation,” it’s worth pointing out that failing to help those who need it is a profoundly anti-Christian behavior.

CBS paid the president of the United States millions in bribe money and now they censor news reports so it does not annoy him. I don’t know how much plainer we can put this.

really cannot be emphasized enough that bari weiss has literally never done journalism. i don’t mean that in the pejorative sense. i mean that in the “has never performed the job she was hired to do” sense

People are taking “fake it til you make it” waaay too far, wow. We need a new adage like “learn it until you make it” or something.

"... I keep hearing from Trump administration officials about how much of a problem for them that Candace Owens has become." @swin24.bsky.social for @zeteo.com gotta say it will be world-historically funny if Candace Owens turns out to be the catalyst here zeteo.com/p/our-maga-c...

When a regime is white nationalist, reckless, & foolish.

Must-read article. 🎁 link below

First political hunger strikes in American history occurred on the Middle Passage ships carrying kidnapped Africans to be sold. Read about the term "speculum oris", a Medieval torture device used to force-feed enslaved Africans.

A reminder: Bari Weiss signed the Harper's Letter.

What's so frustrating in this moment of explicit government censorship is how many times groups like the ACLU and others told us they _had_ to defend neo nazis because of the principle of free speech. Now that fascists are in power, none of those principles are protecting marginalized groups.

The whole “only x percent of college professors are republicans” being treated as evidence of the supposed lack of ideological diversity at universities is so misleading. Most programs have quite a bit of epistemological, methodological & content diversity. Partisanship is irrelevant to most fields.

collectively, we're going to need a lot of imagination to figure out what institutions we'll build when the old ones crumble. we're seeing shit that was supposed to be impossible happen every day right before our eyes. we need a new paradigm. we need to expand our ideas about what is possible. quick

My god. From Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her ‘60 Minutes’ colleagues, posted by the NYT Michael Grynbaum:

The homes of more than 10,000 New Yorkers are now at stake. One of NYC's most notorious landlords, Pinnacle Group, has sent 93 buildings -- 5,000 rent-stabilized apartments -- to a bankruptcy auction actionnetwork.org/petitions/10...

President Trump’s spiteful defamation suit against the Pulitzer Prize Board may backfire, as the latter is now demanding Trump’s psychological records, prescription medication records, and tax returns in the discovery process. trib.al/qgeXZca

I feel like I'm going to get a lot of use out of this Pluribus screencap

She looks like she gets on stage every night to sing a 45 minute medley that’s mostly the n-word

Terrible--just terrible.

More from the important research by @lachlanmcnamee.bsky.social @salmamousa.bsky.social & @kylepeyton.bsky.social: The backlash to CRT and DEI was concentrated among educated & professional class centrists & Republicans. Working class, who Yglesias says backlashed, didn't actually care

the vice president is a klansman

I can still remember the lyrics to songs from the 1980s and 1990s. But I cannot recall why I entered this room in my house or what I said for the last three days. #perimenopause lololol and Le weep

Anyway, I read all of these anti-AI posts in academia as love letters to our disciplines. And that, at least, gives me joy in a weary world. So thank you.