Nearly 2,000 years after a devastating volcanic eruption destroyed and entombed a thriving Roman city, researchers are turning to the novel technique of digital archaeology to reveal the "lost Pompeii." https://cnn.it/4ptuGJy

I should have expected it, but it still shocks me how little news orgs care about the fact that corruption has destroyed nearly all consumer/labor/environmental/public safety protection and corporate oversight during Trump's second term media ownership supports this outcome

The whole government is run by idiots. Every single department.

The boat strikes are also considered extrajudicial killings under international human rights law. h/t to @stevevladeck.bsky.social for directing me to this very helpful and decisive article that answers all these questions. END/ www.justsecurity.org/126156/exper...

The US government is summarily executing people on a weekly basis without telling the American people any of their names or presenting any proof of their guilt, for alleged crimes that do not carry the death penalty in the US.

Tom Nichols on the Signalgate report: “Its conclusions are unequivocal and brutal: Pete Hegseth endangered the success of a U.S. military operation and put the lives of American military personnel at risk.” @radiofreetom.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

Yesterday the President fell asleep, yet again, during a televised fake Cabinet meeting staged so that each of his courtiers could heap praise on him, praise for which he couldn't stay conscious. He woke up just long enough to spew racism. Why is this not being treated as an emergency? >

a partial list — just Members of Congress:

NEW: Trump commuted the sentence of billion dollar Ponzi schemer David Gentile days into his sentence. Gentile's business history is long intermingled with former oligarch Michael Cherney, wanted by Interpol for alleged ties to Russian organized crime. jacquelinesweet.substack.com/p/trump-comm...

"First, Trump targeted illegal immigrants. Then he went after legal immigrants. Now, he’s attacking naturalized Americans, citizens who were born elsewhere...He’s trying to turn white against nonwhite Americans...The U.S. government now openly stands for bigotry." open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

Trump has pardoned: (1) A former Honduran president convicted of drug trafficking (2) Ross Ulbricht, who operated Silk Road, the dark web marketplace where illegal drugs were sold (3) Binance founder Zhao who failed to stop criminals from using Binance to move money tied to drug trafficking. 1/

I was trying in vain to figure out what Trump's game was in Venezuela, and now @mollymckew.bsky.social has written a brilliant two-part piece explaining it all...and, spoiler alert, it's not good for America, but very good for Russia, and is absolutely terrifying. www.greatpower.us/p/the-war-on...

"When senior leaders disparage legal oversight, sideline JAG officers, impede the ability of the press to report, or treat accountability as the enemy, they do more than risk unlawful action. They weaken the moral foundation that makes our military credible in the eyes of the American people...

".. in his return to the presidency this year, Trump has seldom ventured across the country to anywhere other than his own clubs. .. Everyone around Trump, and everything he is seeing on TV and on his phone, is telling him that he’s right."

Just in last 48 hours: -President pardons Honduran prez serving 45 years for conspiring to smuggle cocaine to US -BUT ALSO on verge of war w/VZ based on unsupported claims its govt. is smuggling cocaine to US -DefSec openly committing war crimes -Trump envoy selling out Ukraine for deals with Russia

“We shed as we pick up, like travelers who must carry everything in their arms, and what we let fall will be picked up by those left behind. The procession is very long and life is very short. We die on the march. But there is nothing outside the march so nothing can be lost to it.” — Tom Stoppard.

AUTHERS: Global markets “may be drowning in liquidity. And that might explain why a deregulated and ever more confident financial economy is coexisting with a real economy that many find intolerable.” @johnauthers.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

The unifying aim of all Trump pronouncements and actions is to trash the constitution and impose a white supremacist militarized autocracy by EO and truth social decree - the latest attack on naturalization and birthright citizenship is an ugly new escalation of that barbaric aim.

This is unhinged, unadulterated white nationalism that is so off-the-charts fascist not even David Duke would have said that in public.

A reminder: Trump 1.0 ordered the Afghanistan withdrawal, and Trump 2.0 granted the shooter asylum this past April. Trump 2.0 also dismantled the joint terrorism task force, and gutted our national security apparatus.

Three things about the Witkoff tapes: 1) It appears Western intelligence services have decided to let Witkoff (and Trump) know they have recordings of their traitorous conversations w/Russia. 2) This Ukraine "deal" was all Witkoff's idea. 3) Congressional leaders should demand he be fired.

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“.. The unusual government intervention .. is fueling some concerns, including the opacity of the process, the potential for favoritism, corruption and market distortions, along with the possible loss of taxpayer funds should the investments fail.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...

I really don’t think we can overstate the harm that the tech ethos of move fast and break things (followed by the unsaid “and then just move on”) has done beyond tech. Government, ngos, universities, public schools that have invited the folks who think like this in keep ending up gutted

Do Americans really want a president who always obeys the Russian dictator?

The "peace president."

hey don't be so hard on yourselves; it delivered oceans of sensitive government and citizen data to billionaires

Some of the people who I knew were worried about Trump’s illegal orders in the first term: The VP, chief of staff, national security advisor, comms director, secretary of state, defense secretary, DHS secretary, attorney general, national security advisor. And many more.

JICYMI - they have disbanded DOGE - desperately trying to cut and run the destructive legacy of Trump and Musk degrading the United States Govt. There needs to be accountability and don’t forget Dems like Ro Khanna who rushed to legitimize this BS. www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...

They’re going to steal elections. Blue states MUST return to paper ballots. This is not a drill.

Sometimes you see a story and you know exactly who else needs to see it. Hey @timcushing.bsky.social and @jmiers230.bsky.social www.scientificamerican.com/article/racc...

Why is the WH pushing Ukraine to accept a Russian plan that paves the way for another war? The document offers some hints, declaring that the U.S. would also somehow take charge of the $100 billion in frozen Russian assets supposedly to invest this money in Ukraine and receive “50% of the profits.”

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 🧵

Trump just going through Putin's checklist: - weaken COP, G20, other intl. institutions of US-led global order - abandon Ukraine and eventually NATO - tariffs break down US global econ power, trash alliances - vaporize our soft power - USAID, etc - disable cyber protections - promote anti-vax

Houlahan points out that courts have found Trump has taken at least 150 unlawful actions since re-taking office, "so yes, those kinds of things are going on. Just because you are the president doesn't mean everything that comes out of your mouth is lawful."

Trump says Dems should be killed for warning about his illegal orders. Then in 48 hours: —Judge finds Trump DC troop op is ILLEGAL —Military lawyers: boat strikes ILLEGAL —Probe into ILLEGAL mortgage inquiries —Judge probes ILLEGAL ICE flights —Study: DOJ defied courts 26 times

If you receive an illegal order, you have a duty to disobey. This isn’t controversial. A President calling for the execution of anyone who reminds service members of this oath is showing us why the duty to disobey illegal orders is so important in the first place.

"Quiet, Piggy" and "Things Happen" are the distillation of Trump to his very essence. One manifests his vileness and misogyny. The other his dangerous amorality. They are a window into where his soul would be if he had one.

"U.S. goods exports also fell in August, shrinking $500 million to $179 billion as the rest of the world bought fewer American consumer goods, cars and car parts, and gold." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/u...

Terrific

1/This week has seen a blitz of what looks like corruption sandals: Saudi development deals for US military tech, Pakistani payments to Trump insiders for tariff relief, Swiss gold bars for a trade deal. Far from a payoff, this is a reordering of internat'l system. www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/mxthh...

It’s important that we recognize after all this time that Trump doesn’t believe in the concept of sex crimes. What’s more, he takes the idea of such crimes as a personal affront, an attack on how he has treated women his whole life.

Not something that's easy to explain to the average person but man the Trump administration is doing everything to diminish America's standing in the world.

If you believed Trump when he called Russian election interference, Ukraine extortion scheme, J6 and the Epstein sex trafficking ring all hoaxes... You might want to have your damn head examined!

Best case: The President of the United States knew about a pedophilia ring and did nothing to stop it. Medium case: He also used his office to protect the perpetrators. Worst case: Because he was one of the perpetrators.

I think we need to start visualizing the Trump Presidency ending, and socialize it. For it is the right thing to do for the country and the American people.

Obviously the Epstein Files are bad and should be treated seriously, but what should also be treated seriously are the the concentration camps, the overt bribery in exchange for pardons, the looting of the public treasury, and the perversion of the justice system to persecute political enemies.

*lowering myself into a tomb* Me: Imagine if Biden etc etc

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The harmful economic policies of Trump and Republicans are crushing the American people. The U.S. lost an average of 11,000 jobs per week last month. Also, release the Epstein Files.