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PBS NEWS WEEKEND has been cancelled and 34 jobs will be cut at WETA in Washington D.C. The NEWS HOUR West Coast bureau will also close and the updated daily West Coast broadcast will end. “We cannot fully compensate for the scope of the federal funding loss.” current.org/2025/11/weta... #PBS

in case this hasn’t made it over here yet amsaccountabilityarchive.carrd.co

@nytimes.com Ya know you could foreground just how corrupt and previously unheard of this is. "Blending Family and Governance, Trump Organization Talks Real Estate Deal With Saudis"

Stop and frisk laid the groundwork for this moment and many many people ignored that stop and frisk was and is a real problem.

If you thought women ruined the workplace, wait until you see what us enbies are doing. Flex hours, pay equality, plants on the desk, diverse hires, accessible desk spaces ... Real "9 to 5" shit, just like Dolly Parton taught us.

I am convinced that this is the greatest upcoming events flyer ever made. Mills College Center for Contemporary Music, mid-1970s

Her piece about Biden, which was itself badly written fiction, was itself a huge ethics scandal because her fuck boy was *running against him*

I will no doubt read and enjoy all your very good Nuzzi jokes, but I also want to say earnestly, so many of us (myself included) are on the verge of being pushed out of this industry and it's genuinely so dispiriting to see the worst among us, ethics-wise, get such preferential treatment.

Fatphobia goes hand in hand with transphobia and is rampant even in otherwise progressive spaces because it makes people feel a sense of control to police their own and other people's bodies. It is social poison and we will never eliminate transphobia without eliminating anti-fatness.

This is *depraved* -- glamor shots & an exculpatory feature for a woman who shit on the key central tenets of journalism, repeatedly. NYT is celebrating elite freedom from accountability. Actively celebrating it. You wouldn't put this in a satire, it's too ham-handed!

So old I remember when it was considered a political liability to hand out a presidential pardon to your son in law’s drug dealer buddy who went on to commit crimes of violence and sexual offenses. nypost.com/2025/11/11/u...

Indiana University, which has now been subordinated to the direct control of the Indiana GOP, announces that criticism of the MAGA movement and doctrines of the GOP is forbidden. An instructor is dismissed for speaking critical words about the MAGA movement.

New post at On a Pacific Aisle, with thoughts on Alexandre Kantorow , the Poiesis Quartet, and an imminent weekend of musical surfeit. pacificaisle.substack.com/p/inner-voices

Epistemic violence against sexual abuse accusers—smearing them as deluded, crazy, or incompetent—is something rapists know works, and they conspire to do it.

Let's make sure this gets lots of attention. I cheer them on.

The value of reading history is you know that in 1860 there were abolitionists who were so demoralized that they thought chattel slavery would be permanent. 5 years later those still alive had lived to see its end.

The Status Interview – Or How To Write Up a Senate Purge List talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-s...

It’s official: the SF Opera Ring cycle is coming in summer 2028, the first for music director Eun Sun Kim. #RTWT

@sfopera.bsky.social announces 2028 Ring performances and some of the casting. Exciting for many reasons: the singers, the Zambello production, and Eun Sun Kim's three consecutive triumphs in Wagner's operas. www.sfopera.com

Indiana University removed a Lecturer from her "Diversity, Human Rights, and Social Justice" course after a student filed a complaint about a graphic the instructor showed in class, which included "Make America Great Again" as an example of "Covert White Supremacy." www.wfyi.org/news/article...

AI is going to consume 13-15% of the nation's energy in 3-5 years. For what? For what?

Breaking News: Tatsuya Nakadai, the Japanese film star known for “Ran” and other classic movies, has died at 92.

Living with Long COVID often feels like living in a horror movie. Along with your disease comes a creepy Hive Mind refusal to acknowledge the dangers of COVID infection. In Vince Gilligan's new Apple TV show Pluribus, the Hive Mind comes to life: www.thegauntlet.news/p/pluribus-c...

“These most recent pardon recipients appear to have given Trump approximately $250,000 in combined political donations through 2025.” @alisond64.bsky.social for @forbes.com

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

The Democrat party that caved tonight is not the one we elected Tuesday. These are the collaborators still scrambling to cling to the old ways. We will get rid of them.

The thing @schumer.senate.gov appears to be doing where he gets everybody who’s retiring or was just sworn in to a six-year term to vote yes so he and a bunch more moderates can vote “no” to appear more progressive than they are is so insulting lol

A thread I posted earlier in the year.

Sure, some wild-eyed leftists like [check notes] Nate Silver and Matt Yglesias think Democrats were winning the shutdown and shouldn't have caved....

Bullet dodged: SCOTUS will not revisit Obergefell. Marriage equality remains the law of the land.

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

The kind of Ashkenazi centrism that’s on display in this article should be unacceptable. Not to mention that fiction isn’t all Jewish writers do and frankly I had no difficulty writing a Jewish book that’s coming out in April. Not to mention: write about the challenges Palestinian literature faces??

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer. He is a computer safety researcher. And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine. In under 1600 words. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

The model of holding individual senators responsible is broken here. The retirees clearly agreed to take the fall. Which is why the nos should get no credit for voting no unless they move to oust Schumer

And aid is still not getting through at the level the cease fire guaranteed

Unfortunately still true bsky.app/profile/adam...

Great job, @schumer.senate.gov. You've changed the story from "GOP hurting millions of Americans to please unpopular, failing, delusional despot who's destroying his party" to "Dems are too weak and divided in the face of Trump's strength to take a stand and protect Americans"

Dems backed Trump into a corner where he’s advocating for starving Americans and hemorrhaging support. If they vote to let him off the hook in exchange for nothing it’s a cataclysmic failure. I know people are in pain but insulating Republicans from political consequences is not the answer.

These 8 Senators sold us out to Trump: Hassan King Cortez-Masto Shaheen Kaine Fetterman Durbin Rosen Understand This Fact: Chuck Schumer is behind this. None of these 8 are up for reelection in 2026. Schumer asked them vote yes—they agreed. He's such a coward that he folded and won't even own it.

The coordinated nature of this—none are facing voters in 2026—means that either Schumer approved it or failed in his job as Senate Majority Leader to stop it. Dems voting "no" get zero credit until they demand a change in leadership. Schumer out as Leader, Durbin out as Whip.

BREAKING: Trump has pardoned Rudy Giuliani, John Eastman, Mark Meadows, Sidney Powell, and over a dozen others federally charged with attempting to interfere with 2020 U.S. election results

Healthcare is a human right. Democratic Senators should fight for it like lives depend on it because they do.

yes senator they're roasting you on Bluesky, sir yes full roast sir, the communists, the wine moms, Bill Kristol, they're all roasting you, sir no, sir, I haven't seen him in Waiting for Godot, but he's roasting you, too, sir

I gotta point out that if Nancy Pelosi were the Senate minority leader, she would have flayed those eight Senators on the subject of folding.

Primary these Democratic Senators for giving up the fight for the ACA subsidies: Angus King, Tim Kaine, Dick Durbin, John Fetterman, Maggie Hassan, Jeanne Shaheen, Catherine Cortez Masto and Jacky Rosen.

They're giving up on funding the AVA subsidies. Millions will not bee able to pay for their health insurance.

Barack Obama, if he gives one single goddamn about his legacy, should announce tomorrow that he will endorse, fundraise for & campaign in person with any quality Democratic candidate (with no Nazi tattoos) who primaries one of the defectors who is not retiring.

Today in @thenation.com: thrilled to have @gbbranstetter.bsky.social on how this week's elections should bury once and for all the toxic myth that trans people are to blame for the Democratic Party's political failures www.thenation.com/article/poli...