Not wanting to disappoint you so much that it lies is the last quality I want in a computer.

Happy Chompsgiving!

My neighbors are mostly Mexican men. Right now they're setting up a tailgate across the street. They are all in various NFL jerseys and are throwing a football around in the cold (we've joked about how they're not used to WI weather) and laughing. In short, fuck Stephen Miller.

I’m just a naïve professor of politics, but it seems to me that it wouldn’t be *that* hard to mandate that every data center project add sufficient renewable capacity to zero out its impact on the grid. … and when the bubble bursts we’d at least be left with *some* kind of economic & social good.

"a single person of this demographic may have committed a crime, therefore we must punish the entire demographic" is a policy response you may recognize from fascist governments dedicated to ethnic cleansing elsewhere.

As you’re preparing for your Thanksgiving meal, remember the skilled work it took to get that food to your grocery store. Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.

Bragging time…in my Am Gov intro sections, I have an assignment where students have to file a FOIA request for any info they want from an exec agency. I’ve been doing this assignment for about 7 years now, and the single topic most students request from several agencies is info on aliens and UFOs -

This was an avoidable tragedy. There will be so many more with anti-vaxxers now in charge of our healthcare policy.

I was Scripps’s National Political Correspondent from 2016-18. The company’s news operation in the stations it owns across the country is honest and fair. Sinclair will make them right-wing propaganda outlets for an all-out push to prop Republicans up for the remainder of Trump’s term and beyond.

Yet another corporate giveaway as the oligarchs loot the treasury.

Photos from St. Paul today captured by MPR photojournalist Kerem Yücel. He filed them even after being hospitalized after being injured by a less lethal munition.

"It is against the TOS to be talked into suicide by our LLM" is possibly the most evil tech bro thing I've ever read

Everyone knows data centers use a ton of water. What hardly anyone knows: they can poison the water that remains. And in eastern Oregon, Amazon is doing exactly that.

Once again, if you are expecting the police to protect you and stop ICE, you will spend the rest of time waiting.

“Larry Ellison discussed axing CNN hosts with White House in takeover bid talks” 11/20/25 … 1/

Yet another billionaire throwing in with the MAGA movement.

ICE deported a woman who owned a home in the US for 30 years. A judge banned ICE from deporting her to Sierra Leone where she had been tortured, so it deported her to Ghana, which kidnapped her and sent her back Sierra Leone anyway. ICE is part of this illegal conspiracy.

Remember when Trump said he’d go after the “worst of the worst?” ICE just targeted a U.S. citizen high school student. That is not public safety—it’s cruelty.

Substack is spreading MAHA / RFK / antivax health disinformation, and that's an underrated part of why RFK Jr is currently in control of public health. This stuff helped get Trump elected and RFK installed at HHS. Substack needs to stop it.

1. In Tennessee, public libraries have closed for up to a week to facilitate a Trump-inspired book purge. Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett (R) has ordered most of the state's public librarians to remove children's books with LGBTQ characters or themes.

ICE arrests, detains British woman with US husband and newborn when she shows up for her green card interview. She’s now in a detention center, separated from her 6-month-old. No criminal record. She had overstayed her visa. www.lbc.co.uk/article/brit...

Wow — Senators Van Hollen, Smith, Murphy, Sanders, Warren, Markey, Merkley, Heinrich have created an official internal "Fight Club." They're challenging Schumer & Gillibrand's leadership, arguing the party is using an old, corporate-friendly playbook insufficient to take on Trump or win elections.

For scale: I spent eleven days in the maximum security wing of a local county lockup before a judge heard my case and moved me to min. I had one hour out of the cell a day. The cell was small. There was a speaker in the ceiling. By the end I was talking to the speaker and spending hours each day

About 90,000 people living near larger chemical plants face an unacceptable risk of developing cancer, the EPA says. New rules adopted last year could’ve cut that number to 3,000 residents — a drop of 97%. But Trump has halted those efforts.

This is heartbreakingly cruel and hypocritical. The same admin that has redefined refugee status to cover white South Africans is now going to drown thousands of refugees already approved for their status in red tape, potentially even seeking to strip some of their status and deport them.

In Morrow County, healthy adults were coming down with unexplained medical conditions, including diseases that usually afflicted the elderly. In a survey of 30 homes, at least 25 miscarriages and a half dozen people living with one kidney were reported. 🔗 www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

NVIDIA looked at this legacy and shouted "hold my beer."

Rix Road, the season finale of Andor Season 1, was released three years ago today. F the Empire. All of them.

The company essentially turned a dial that made ChatGPT more appealing and made people use it more, but sent some of them into delusional spirals. OpenAI has since made the chatbot safer, but that comes with a tradeoff: less usage.

On the patently unlawful boat strikes It's hard for USGs to claim ‘mistake of law’ or ‘advice of counsel’ – when they’re firing lawyers who wouldn't sign off on the strikes. WaPo's new revelations on firings or removals: 1) CIA General Counsel 2) NSC Legal Adviser 3) CIA Mission Center’s lawyer 🧵

DOGE did not fail in any way to accomplish its goals. Its goals were never efficiency or saving money. Its goals were to destroy as much of government as possible forever, and to steal data for the Space Nazi. DOGE is fading away like bank robbery gangs fade away after the robberies are done.

It is such a disorienting feeling when someone you care about but hadn't talked to that much in a couple of years dies suddenly because there is now a freshly dug hole inside of you and yet the day to day routine of your life has not been altered one bit. www.welcometohellworld.com/watertown-ma...

I have shared this in previous years, but I don't do new year resolutions. Instead, I pick a theme word or words. The past couple years (with an eye to the potential, then definite, looming Trump regime) have been about redundancy & adaptability. For 2026, I am choosing "light." In many senses.

This is sooner or later going to turn into a lawsuit and there's a decent chance he wins, at which point US companies are going to be stuck between violating sanctions and getting absolutely wrecked in European court and leaving Europe entirely.

To members of Congress: "You don't deserve our vote; you earn it. I guarantee that if you cave to cowardice, someone else will step up to take your place." - Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social

"the U.S. — one of the top emitters of greenhouse gases — did not send a delegation. Instead...announced a plan to open up new oil drilling off the coasts of California and Florida...and limit the EPA’s authority to protect wetlands and streams." www.nbcnews.com/science/envi...

Israel cannot break ceasefires, they can only “test“ them by killing dozens of people

Public opinion is not fixed! Pathetic as they are, Dem leaders still have ways to command media attention. If they would *use* it, we could do a lot more.

Dipshit is smashing out a car window with his gun, barrel first. Just rogue, cowboy stiff. There were two US citizens in the car. They were apprehended and detained for “obstructing” ICE by honking their horn to let people know ICE was in the neighborhood.

just great

Remember: the only way to save New York City from Donald Trump’s wrath is electing Andrew Cuomo.

Google has started automatically opting you in to let it read your stuff to train AI. You need to turn this off in SEVERAL places in your settings (not just for Gmail), if you want to maintain privacy and confidentiality. www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...

Grok: "The real Final Solution was the friends we gassed along the way"

It costs something like three times that amount to put someone in jail for the month. We know how to fix the homeless problem. We just need to *do* it.

It’s almost as if America’s oligarchs think democracy poses a major threat to their power and hence needs to be acquired like one buys a business competitor, so as to neutralize them.

Trump is filling his government with Nazis, consolidating authoritarian power, and eroding democracy at every chance. And yet these 86 House Democrats voted for a right-wing messaging amendment to say that the real authoritarians are the socialists. Pathetic.

AI on AI violence, part 1.

This article's well-designed graphs and visualizations make a compelling case that the standard wisdom that "most voters are moderates" overlooks the essential distinction between "moderate" and "null" ideology. "Null" voters may *ignore* left/right: "Give me practical help for folks like me?"

Trump has gone off the rails this morning, calling for democrats to be arrested & killed, which only means one thing: he knows his time is up. He will be impeached. He will be convicted. He will be removed. And this entire regime will be held accountable for its attack on our democracy and people.

Quite an opening.