In case it’s not obvious, Trump’s attorney general has, at his personal request, started an investigation into the Democrats and Dem allies mentioned in the documents released this week. But no-one else!

NEW on @indicator.media: A first *full-scale* comparison of Grokipedia v Wikipedia. Last week the awesome @harold.bsky.social rocked up to my desk bearing gifts. Hal had collected almost all 900K Grokipedia entries and compared them to their Wikipedia equivalents for text and citation similarity.

a pastor is preaching directly to the local police facing protesters. as he’s speaking, a law enforcement supervisor leads the line of police away and down the block.

I like thinking back to that news cycle a few years back where OpenAI's previous board issued all kinds of warnings about how Altman was a greasy little shit with endless financial conflicts of interest, and the entirety of the tech press jumped on the narrative that they were all unreliable cranks

I’m excited that Seattle will have a mayor who isn’t a multi-millionaire for the first time in over a decade!!!

the verge's follow up reporting on the nonexistence of the trump phone is excellent commitment to the bit www.theverge.com/news/820887/...

I’m back. substack.com/@sarahkendzi...

"the call for my resignation, right until the end, seemed so outlandish as not to be entirely believable. It also felt like a hostage situation, where the kidnapper threatens harm if you do not keep information about the demands confidential."

"the only offer on the table was that I needed to resign by 5pm that day or the DOJ would basically rain hell on UVA...If I did not resign that day, I was told that the DOJ would extract/block hundreds of millions of dollars from UVA before they would even negotiate."

Just to emphasize: "In the meantime, Paul Manning reached out directly to the DOJ lawyers to make sure he was not missing anything, and he said that they told him that if I didn’t resign, they would 'bleed UVA white.'"

D: Cute outfit, btw me: Thanks. Wore it 'cause it's easy to get out of D: Oh? me: at the dermatologist D: Oh.

I think people should be allowed to get abortions whenever they want for any reason. I don't give a shit and it doesn't affect me

[Enter two other Senators with a Messenger.] THIRD SENATOR Thou hast painfully discover’d; are his files As full as thy report?

Anyone who’s ever used emergency contraception or gains peace of mind by even having it on hand owes Dr Camp a debt of gratitude. What a force. (Also, I just learned one reason the FDA rejected it at first was that they said the name Plan B was too glib!) Great obit—no paywall.

The thing about cruelty and inhumanity is that the limits of who is affected keep expanding and expanding until we shove it back the other way

Here in Broadview, outside Chicago, a large group of faith leaders & protesters have gathered this morning outside of ICE’s detention center. This looks like one of the largest protests on Beach St. in weeks, where the city of Broadview is still enforcing a small “free speech” zone. It’s packed.

"It’s not surprising that the three Republican women who signed the discharge petition are divorced. "That gives them a level of psychological independence that married Republican women almost never enjoy." www.salon.com/2025/11/14/s...

Nancy Mace keeps insisting Trump "protects" women, even as she voted to release the Epstein files. This is incoherent, but her nonsense reflects a deeper dilemma facing all Republican women: keeping up their delusions about Trump. www.salon.com/2025/11/14/s...

You kiss your mom, your kids, your lovers... With a sphincter. Because your lips are a sphincter. youtube.com/shorts/L0qul...

a lot of big name physicists attended this conference, and many of them are ... very quiet about it now, most of all what they might have done there

In 2018, Lawrence Krauss got an email announcing the "Women in the World Summit." He fwded it to Jeffrey Epstein joking that they should make a "men of the world conference" with a list of famous rapists/sexual harassers. His signature makes it look like he put his name at the bottom of the list 💀

Jefferey Epstein, billionaire, hired a PR guy who had a Google alert for "Jeffrey Epstein" and celebrated when news broke that that's also the name of the director of Priceline bc he thought it might bury the child sex trafficking stuff. omg Tyler please just stop

this thread but especially this point is honestly where I'm at. the only thing that was ever going to take Trump down is the GOP deciding he can't hurt them personally anymore as much as he is hurting them collectively. that party is not made of patriots willing to go down for god & country.

For all those who need to hear/read this today (I know I did)... organizingmythoughts.org/burnout-is-n...

If you see this, post a bird (I may have been too online the last two days)

Weird not to lead with the item most people will immediately glom onto: they let her have a pet puppy.

WHAT. whhhhattttt. To be clear we are talking about Donald J. Trump fellating William Jefferson Clinton? IS THAT WHAT I AM READING

slightly obsessed about the end of this lady's effigy tomb with the voluminous folds of her dress and petite heeled shoes

First, let's back up. Noem has starred in a sprawling ad campaign she’s said is a crucial tool to stem illegal immigration—so crucial that DHS bypassed the normal competitive bidding process, designed to prevent waste & corruption in federal contracts www.propublica.org/article/kris...

NEW: We’ve uncovered the first known example of taxpayer money flowing from DHS to businesses controlled by Kristi Noem’s allies and friends. It’s part of a money trail that’s been shrouded in secrecy—and involves $220 million, a mysterious Delaware LLC & a horse named Gill.

Prohibited activities include advising Chinese graduate students. For reference, a recent Georgetown report estimated 16% of STEM graduate students in the US are Chinese nationals. This would take out entire fields at the knees, which is perhaps the point.

They rounded a bunch of random Venezuelans with tats and pretended they were in tren de aragua, then started blowing up random Venezuelan boats they claim “carried drugs,” in order to slowly groom their base into supporting a full ground war on Venezuela that was always about oil

Gotta be honest, it absolutely sucks watching the same people who call me a groomer just for being trans say that Epstein did nothing wrong because his victims were teenagers. PEOPLE WOULD RATHER THEIR KIDS BE RAPED THAN BE TRANS. And it is INFURIATING.

This is super bad for US citizens, especially on the left of the spectrum. Gives this authoritarian administration potentially the power to surveil & go after US citizens on spurious "funding of FTO" grounds. This whole antifa boogeyman is being fully weaponized. So dangerous.

Tremane Wood is alive in spite of the Supreme Court, which, this morning, rejected his request to block Oklahoma from executing him at 10am as punishment for a murder he did not commit Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt commuted the sentence to life in prison at 9:59 ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/trema...

And we knew this. This wasn't speculation. We studied it, we had the talking points. We trained volunteers to explain this to people. It's not a surprise. Rich people don't flee places with good quality of life when we increase the quality of life. They might try to cheat us, but they don't leave.

Are you there, Margaret? It's me, god. WHAT IN THE HOLY FUCK IS GOING ON DOWN THERE?

when you understand that patriarchy views children as sexual property it all makes sense. there's no hypocrisy. exposure to queerness & transness threatens to "corrupt" the father's property, to "lead them astray" into self-determination, to taint their future sexual value. CSA is permissible as >

Not for nothing, this is one reason why we say "pregnant patient" instead of "woman." It's not just for non-binary inclusion.

It was always inevitable that the loudest and best-funded (by people in Epstein's emails) anti-trans freaks who spent years trying to brand trans people as sexual predators, would instantly start defending Epstein. It's not hypocrisy, it's them reinforcing their hierarchy.

Happy partially muscled skeleton screaming before vanishing day to all those who celebrate.

Those of us who are SA survivors are used to the mass shrug in response to even the most overt evidence of horrific behavior. Epstein's crimes and the complicity of many influential figures involved have been known for decades (’05 to be exact). It's never mustered much interest or consequence.

Tonight’s highlight: stopped in the middle of a song to give a lecture on how when men make comments such as “why aren’t you in the kitchen?” to women performers, they’re essentially saying they would prefer dudes singing love songs to them. That was a good moment.

the way basic human decency hits these days is crazy

Conservatives claim that structural racism does not exist while simultaneously creating innovative new forms of structural racism like banning discussions of the concept.

When I was at Arizona, a colleague teaching a class described this exchange: Student: Where’s that idea in the textbook? Colleague: This is from one of my own articles S [angrily]: You mean you’re just MAKING IT UP?! C: Do you think textbooks are dug up out of the ground like turnips or something?

CHOTINER: So you had reasons for visiting the island? SUMMERS: Is butiful plce CHOTINER: Is that buttiful or beautiful? SUMMERS: 51 % of 1. Wmen or seenery, nt shr wich.

If you think this is badass, wait until we win. katforillinois.com/legal

The Epstein case against Trump is as if everyone is looking at a 500 piece puzzle with 2 pieces missing and pretending they can't make out the picture for certain.