Thanks, Calvin.

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Woe—lo—woe! Hearest thou the wind in the tree? He that spoke but now is no longer in the room. archive.org/details/king...

Amazing: “But the Kennedy Center is not the current owner of trumpkennedycenter.org or trumpkennedycenter.com — because back in August, comedy writer Toby Morton registered those two domain names, expecting Trump and his allies to add Trump’s name to the D.C. landmark.”

is there anybody even denying that the pardons are paid for or do we just kind of all accept this now?

I did not understand this: one of the five Europeans the US has barred from traveling to the United States...is a permanent resident who lives with his family in the US. Now he is worried about being arrested and deported for the crime of monitoring online hate. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/25/u...

Never seen this so devastatingly and lucidly articulated.

When the clock strikes midnight on January 1, creative works from 1930 & sound recordings from 1925 will enter the public domain in the US, like: 💄 Dizzy Dishes, first Betty Boop cartoon 🕵️♀️ First 4 Nancy Drew novels 🚂 The Little Engine That Could 🎩 Morocco 🍑 Georgia on My Mind and many more! 🧵👇

nothing exceeds the mid-century weirdness of local radio advertising in the USA. (Broadcasting, Sept. 22, 1952)

This is a really good point that I had not run into before: these "creators" have no further insight into their alleged creation than the average audience member and that is why it cannot be called art (besides all the other obvious reasons).

Russian opposition leader sentenced to six years in prison

Merychippus to all who celebrate!

ICE refuses to accept hospital record confirmation of her birth in the US, puts her in a black hole in Texas. www.cbsnews.com/baltimore/ne...

A study of Trump's practice of stochastic terrorism against judges. www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...

Forceful response to the absurd sanctions by the US on NGO leaders and former EU Comm. Breton. Actions must follow: The EU is an open, rules-based single market, with the sovereign right to regulate economic activity in line with our democratic values & int. commitments ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

I too grew up in the USA South and think the whole humble, reaching-for-words through eyes-filled-with tears routine is the most dangerous weapon since Zykon-B.

Best explanation of the liar's dividend that I've ever seen.

To those who demand to know — on repeat — “why the media isn’t covering this” or “why reporters aren’t talking about that,” I urge you to read this from @washingtonpost.com’s @hannahnatanson.bsky.social. Reporters like her are heroes.

I know a fellow American working for a European civil service (American ally) who got detained and questioned for over six hours flying back to the states for the holiday because “why don’t you live and work in the USA” idk I don’t have a conclusion, this shit is just wild

Kinda insane how much Watchmen 2019 nailed it.

On the surface, MAHA sounds like it’s about healing, about fixing a broken system. Its appeal is rooted in a widespread, deeply felt experience of abandonment by our health care system—a system that feels extractive, cruel, expensive and overall indifferent to everyday suffering.

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

December Was Deadliest Month in Deadliest Year in ICE Custody Deaths There has been an alarming spike in immigrants dying while in ICE detention during the Trump administration

they're just going to launch a US rip-off of Aló Presidente.

🚨🚨 SCOOP @ms.now : The Department of Veteran Affairs has quietly implemented its abortion ban following a DOJ memo issued last week. This will affect 9 million veterans and their dependents, and has been a long time coming: It was outlined in Project 2025. Read/share 👇

NEW: A variety of military and intelligence contractors have already signed on to help ICE's immigrant bounty hunter program. A review of procurement data shows 10 companies stand to make up to *ONE BILLION* dollars from the program by 2027. theintercept.com/2025/12/23/i...

lol i cannot express how unpopular this is going to be

Brings together several points about this media fiasco. www.unpopularfront.news/p/60-minutes...

This is a really good list!

NEW: The National Park Service & Interior Dept. have not produced records related to the demolition of the WH's East Wing & construction of Trump's planned ballroom in response to a FOIA request by @publiccitizen.bsky.social. The watchdog org is now suing for records www.citizen.org/wp-content/u...

Daskalakis says that for him the lasting memory of 2025 will be the attack on the CDC on August 8, during which the police officer David Rose was killed. "That was one of my moments where I was like, we've crossed a threshold." And he does not mince words about who he sees as responsible: RFK jr.

The president has ended protected status of Ethiopians, Haitians, and Somalis and will deport thousands — including children who grew up in the US. Many will be forced to return to countries still experiencing armed conflict and instability. This decision puts lives at risk.

The US government has deported a US citizen with a Maryland birth certificate they claim is fake. This goes way beyond even denaturalizing an immigrant citizen. This person was born here.

at least they still have this www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-f...

2 years old! Both parents deported, weeks ago! Her sister got the call, ‘We’re being detained. Take care of Sofía.’” Sofía wakes in the middle of the night crying out for her mother and “takes her mom’s photo and hugs it." Sister needs $ for basic expenses as they work on reuniting the family.

"the researchers found that withdrawing support for rapidly advancing mRNA vaccine technology could result in over 49,000 preventable deaths annually among patients diagnosed with four major cancers"

Perhaps this is why the Honestly podcast never has production credits?

Immigrant activist Jeanette Vizguerra released from ICE custody after 9 months

With respect to the folks who worked on the CBS piece, I’d like to share some links to the many outlets who actually published and broadcast this story before CBS did. Please add yours www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontli...

Just a reminder that UATX got its start on a hideous campus developed by Harlan Crow, yes that Harlan Crow, in Dallas. This is a good piece on it! thenewinquiry.com/an-american-...

for sure someone way down the chain will get/is already fired

One of the revelations in the 60 Minutes CECOT story, as sourced by the UC Berkley students, is that Kristi Noem's torture porn video was filmed in a different part of the prison - not with the deported Venezuelans, but with domestic criminals from El Salvador.

Just watched the whole 60 Minutes CECOT episode. It's a pretty standard segment for 60 Minutes, taking something that's been reported on in other publications and formats and telling it to a wider audience with first person, on camera accounts. It's not earth shattering, but it is newsworthy.

Here is @toomuchtv.substack.com with the transcript. toomuchtv.substack.com/p/transcript...

Canadian tv networks once again serving as a valuable, inadvertent bulwark against US censorship

💔Kostiantynivka, Donetsk region Russia has turned life in this city into hell. 📷: Oleg Kornienko/Facebook

"We need to be able to make every effort to get the principals on the record and on camera." Bizarre. If you offer officials the chance to speak on camera and they decline, it isn't your job to hold a critical story until they change their minds. The right of reply is not a right to delay.

"You're only important around here as long as you're useful to them, and you will be for a time. When they're finished they'll throw you out without another thought." — Edward Murrow, 1958 (quoted p. 62 here) www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

Odds she had no idea that the story was even happening and Ellison saw the promo and freaked?

People on 60 Minutes have pretty consistently been brave and willing to give a damn to the point of losing their job rather than sell out their soul and this email is sadly probably going to be a part of that