Quick explainer I did last night for the other apps. Please watch and share- the Trump administration is trying to bury this arbitrary and cruel restriction of our colleagues’ rights during the holidays. Don’t let them.

STOP CALLING IT AN IMMIGRATION CRACKDOWN! TAKING CITIZENSHIP FROM EXTREMELY VETTED NATURALIZED CITIZENS IS NOT A CRACKDOWN! IT'S BETRAYAL.

A former immigration judge alleged to DOJ that Trump fired her bc of her sex & national origin DOJ said equal employment opportunity laws don't supersede Trump's removal powers under Article II this is literally a claim to constitutional power to discriminate ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

Now that Trump has banned migration from 20 more countries, most in Africa, worth recalling this quote from Stephen Miller that we dredged up: "If you import the Third World, you become the Third World." newrepublic.com/article/2041...

For people thinking: "whew, it's just for classes where they teach about race and gender": (1) what is wrong with you? That's unacceptable. (2) the obvious goal is to dramatically expand this to limit what all faculty can teach

The ACA isn't just "health care for people who don't have a conventional employer." It also disallows something that was incredibly common 20 years ago, which I fear is getting lost to generational memory: insurance companies could deny you health care for essentially any previous health problem.

Conservatives rebranded bigotry and every time the media uses “wokeness” as a euphemism they are helping a movement that it quite literally erasing the history marginalized people’s role in American life.

If you replace woke/wokeness with decent/decency in almost any sentence it works

trumpcard.gov is live and the million dollar fees are all referred to as “gifts” or “contributions” to an undisclosed party lol

Chief Justice John Roberts has been working to neuter the Voting Rights Act since the beginning of his career—and he may soon achieve his goal, @davedaley3 argues. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

The titular wokeness being rolled back is the Civil Rights Act of 1964

"People often retreat into saying that democracy hasn’t fallen 'yet.'... But it’s not true for everyone currently living in America. Some people in America are already living under conditions that resemble dictatorship." www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-wage...

The measles outbreak in South Carolina is “accelerating” with no end in sight following Thanksgiving and other large gatherings, state health officials say.

The War of 1812 was caused in great part by Great Britain seizing US ships illegally. (Been re-reading Patrick O'Brien for mental health and so it's top of mind.)

Ladies and gentlemen, the meritocracy

The Notebook will restore your faith in humanity & our ability to connect to one another. Explore solidarity through topics like mutual aid, violence interruption, civil commitment & relationships behind and across bars @cornersresearch.bsky.social @jaricheson.bsky.social bit.ly/44KZuNu

In addition to all of the other benefits already reported about NYC congestion pricing, "In the first six months of the program, air pollution – in the form of particulate matter 2.5 micrometers and smaller – dropped by 22% in the Congestion Relief Zone (CRZ)" news.cornell.edu/stories/2025...

This remains one of the most disturbing stories of the year. A 1st trimester fetus incubated in a dead woman's body against the will of her family until a very early term birth when the corpse could no longer sustain life. www.cbsnews.com/atlanta/news...

Important for people to know the $75 mil payout from Northwestern to the government didn't turn on canceled grants that broaden participation in stem, physics, promote diversity etc... what this communicates about uni priorities is clear: dailynorthwestern.com/2025/12/03/c...

Diversity Day, 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.

When you google “what time is the game” it returns betting odds. I’m sure this is totally fine.

NO WORDS 🥺🤬🤬🤬

The Reactionary Centrist instinct—“things were bad, now are less bad, so why are ppl still trying to make them better?”—is generally obnoxious in the best of times, but also true that activists can over-reach, deny gains, etc. But when the govt is DESPERATELY trying to MAKE THINGS BAD AGAIN? C’mon.

Wow. The AEA has issued a life time ban against Larry Summers. www.aeaweb.org/news/aea-sta...

Professor Jack Goldsmith, head of George W. Bush Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel (OLC): "I do not believe that even the Bondi OLC could legally justify the events the Post reported." "There can be no conceivable legal justification for what the Washington Post reported."

WHOA. Trump says he will pardon Juan Orlando Hernandez, who once said that he wanted to “shove the drugs right up the noses of the gringos.” He had people killed as part of his narco-trafficking ring, which he at times operated directly out of his presidential office.

🤬 🙃 🤡 "Critics have likened Mr. Trump’s approach to extortion, while others have chalked it up as a cost of doing business with this administration" www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...

Congratulations!!! 🎉

This is spot-on. The UVA "deal" might be the worst/most dangerous (so far). With the help of UVA's leadership, Trump coerced a leading U.S. university to foreswear all efforts (including 100% lawful measures) to achieve diversity. A betrayal of our values. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

ICE employee among 16 men arrested in Bloomington sex trafficking sting, police say. "When he was arrested, he said, 'I'm ICE, boys,'" Hodges said during a press conference Tuesday. "Well, unfortunately for him, we locked him up."

Bullies gain power when their misconduct succeeds in causing righteous people to yield in the face of wrongdoing. That’s why voting for Trump's continuing resolution - without any protection against his health care cuts or his growing illegality - is a mistake. I voted NO.

And now, if you read the devastating piece about what Venezuelan deportees endured at the El Salvador torture prison, read what incarcerated U.S. citizens endure in Alabama prisons. State prisons in the U.S. that are massive systems of human rights violations. www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...

New: Videos show ICE/CBP agents are scanning peoples' faces on the street to verify citizenship. ICE has tool to instantly look up unprecedented number of databases with just a photo “I’m an American citizen so leave me alone” “Alright, we just got to verify that” www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...

"The removal eliminated a passage that read, “Our founders established ADL with the clear understanding that the fight against any one form of prejudice or hate cannot succeed without countering hate of all forms.”"

Love a goal in the first minute #USWNT

Hi Sally. When Weiss published a supposed expose on the death of George Floyd, a veteran criminal justice reporter showed in deep detail that the piece was not just wrong but filled with falsehoods and misrepresentations. Weiss did not retract the piece. What do you think of that?

www.theguardian.com/technology/2... "A prominent anti-DEI campaigner appointed by Meta in August as an adviser on AI bias has spent the weeks since his appointment spreading disinformation about shootings, transgender people, vaccines, crime, and protests."

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

So not for cause, or to address fraud, waste & abuse. For partisan political pain.

But you shouldn't be too surprised when they say stuff like this: "You were better off being a Black person in Charleston, S.C., in 1850, when they had an operating slave market than being conceived as a Black baby in New York City or Baltimore today."

News: Bari Weiss just sent a memo to staffers at CBS News asking them to produce a memo explaining "how you spend your working hours—and ideally, what you've made (or are making) that you're most proud of." One CBS News staffer puts it like this to me: "We just got Elon Musked."

Now this is a clear rejection! Thank you MIT

Cause the algorithms are increasingly shady and I don’t see much promotion, let me Gift Link this: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u...

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I cannot believe what we are subjected to, day after day.

we simply do not have a union anymore if the president is using troops from one state to invade others entirely on the basis of political disagreements

This is heavy.

Imagine if Obama had said this in front of military personnel about Republicans.

The media trots out the "deplorable" comment from a decade ago to castigate the left. Once a week now Trump implies that the military should destroy democrats, and it is just how things are.