youtu.be/zaSIa4Y_wB0?... A Long December - Counting Crows

Years ago, when I still wrote for SPIN, the great @danielkohn.bsky.social let me write about "A Long December", so of course I wrote a little about death and sadness and choosing to believe things can get better. www.spin.com/2021/12/a-lo...

It is true that no one has grasped this scope. But there are ways to deal with it. First, track the way that Kristi Noem is converting it to personal grift, like her propaganda campaign. Next, illustrate how this is a funding shift, from things Americans like to body snatching they hate.

The news has entirely failed to grasp the unprecedented scope of the ICE and DHS budgets. Nothing like it in modern history. A galaxy of public/private surveillance and caging institutions for $100,000,000,000s unleashed on a public that will be forever changed. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...

If you think that professors exist as repositories of knowledge that students ask for answers, you’re missing the entire point of a college education. We’re here to teach students how to do research, how to analyze and argue, how to think for themselves — how to find the answers on their own.

Thank you all 🙏🏻

A nation that allows criminals to be pardoned by the very person who orders their crimes, is a organized crime syndicate masquerading as a nation.

A whole lot happened this weekend. Catch up with today's Meidas+ bulletin (no paywall): www.meidasplus.com/p/this-weeke...

I’ve started a list of MAGA cracking substack.com/@mollyjongfa...

Imagine if they just subsidized newspapers and magazines the way they’re subsidizing this slop

Like even just nomenclature like "six figure income" has been divorced from any tangible connection to economic reality. It's a word without a real meaning

But still, employers still treat a 100k salary like an impossibility and even more embarrassingly we all pocket watch each other and act like anybody looking to get paid that much is either over-asking or some sort of traitor to the working class. Shit's changed!

I truly believe that we won't be able to fix the economy until we can get both workers and bosses to understand that $100,000 is no longer rich person money. So many peoples' sense of economic awareness is based on the 90s/2000s and never seems to update.

Way past time. I'm completely disgusted with the White House Press Corp who stand around and don't defend their colleagues. Same feckless group that lets him constantly tell blatant and easily disprovable lies without presenting facts. What a worthless lot.

Indiana state Sen. Michael Bohacek — a Republican — says he won't support Trump's effort to gerrymander the state after Trump used a slur to describe Gov. Tim Walz. "…perhaps he can use the next 10 months to convince voters that his policies and behavior deserve a congressional majority."

GEORGIA: Rodney Taylor, a double amputee barber here his whole life was 2 days away from getting new legs when Trump’s ICE goons grabbed him. He has been held almost a year, facing deportation to Liberia. What are we doing? www.thenation.com/article/poli...

"General, if you give me 30,000 names, I'll get you 30,000 packages. And she did." @markhertling.bsky.social and @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social give thanks to Operation Gratitude for all they do and offer a suggestion for folks who want to give back during this time of year.

@ucheblackstockmd.bsky.social says enhanced Obamacare subsidies helped to close the gap in racial health inequities and without the affordable plans and access to maternity care, the Black "maternal mortality rate will increase."

NEW: From our @markhertling.bsky.social, a eulogy for Sarah Beckstrom, the young National Guard soldier shot in Washington, D.C. This is a moving reflection about service, risk, death, grief, and remembrance. www.thebulwark.com/p/rememberin...

🚨🚨🚨If this does not bother/frighten you, read up on history or look at how present day authoritarian regimes lead. He is escalating because he is being boxed into a corner with truth unraveling around him.

"If the U.S. military operation is not an armed conflict of any kind, these orders to kill helpless civilians clinging to the wreckage of a vessel our military destroyed would subject everyone from SECDEF down to the individual who pulled the trigger to prosecution under U.S. law for murder."

The fentanyl problem he promised to fix was that he wasn’t profiting off of it.

November 29, 2025

BTW, these recent stories/leaks against Hegseth and Kristi Noem came from within the White House and MAGA. The knives are out, folks.

"Hegseth did not deny that two defenseless people were killed. We still do not know what, if anything, they were guilty of. Certainly, as they clung to the wreckage of a boat in the ocean, they did not pose an immediate threat to the United States." They killed them because they could.

Gavin's latest troll

They're not hiding it, folks—straight up neo-Nazi advertising, from the font to the language to the 11 stars for the Confederacy. Then you have the DHS openly using white nationalist language of "remigrate", which means ethnic cleansing. This is who MAGA is now.

sadly, we lost one of the greats but happily his works remain r.i.p. tom stoppard

RIP Tom Stoppard “It’s not the voting that’s democracy, it’s the counting” the rare literary reference that highlighted the value of election administration

Farewell to a modern great Playwright Sir Tom Stoppard dies at 88 www.bbc.com/news/article...

Goodbye to the master. ❤️

RIP to brilliant Tom Stoppard. One of my heroes... 🥲

“I love the theater. I'm a theater animal." ~Stoppard And the theater loved him back. The adj. "Stoppardian" entered the OED in ‘78. It means to employ elegant wit while addressing philosophical concerns - in the style of Tom Stoppard. “We shall not see his like again.” www.npr.org/2025/11/29/1...

I’m convinced that the current US political divide is largely driven by income inequality. “Per head, the US’s economic output is six times China’s, and yet, inexplicably, there seem to be more abjectly poor Americans than Chinese.”

Are you a business that's colluding with ICE? Caving to the biased attacks on DEI? Funding this administration for tax cuts? Guess what? #WeAintBuyingIt Nov 27–Dec 1, instead we are putting our money where are values are‼️

Shop local & support our communities! #WeAintBuyingIt

No, I’m not “just shopping somewhere else.” I’m taking back my power. My money goes where my values live, and that sure as hell isn’t Target, Amazon, or Home Depot this week. #WeAintBuyingIt

#WeAintBuyingIt — and we’re not alone. We’re turning boycotts into power, shopping into solidarity, silence into strategy. Join us. Redirect your dollars. They profit off our pain — we’re building a future they can’t sell. 💥 #WeAintBuyingIt

Economic Boycott~do what you can! Learn more at 👇🏼 weaintbuyingit.com #pinks

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Follow the money.

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