A service member died today while serving at his order. Another fights for their life. Couldn't you tell?

Endowing a faculty position runs about $2–3 million, in case you were wondering

“You’re a stupid person” — Trump lashes out at a reporter who presses him on the fact that the suspected DC shooter was actually thoroughly vetted before he was let in the US from Afghanistan

Miles, an Indigenous actor best known for her roles in “Northern Exposure,” “Smoke Signals,” “Wyvern” and “The Last of Us,” handed them her tribal ID from the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation in Oregon. Yet, Miles recalled one agent calling it “fake.”

you've tweeted 452k times since december 2013. that's 103 tweets a day. assuming you sleep 8 hours a day, that's a new tweet every ten mins for twelve years. talking about how to attract a high value man. brother, you need to attract a HIGH VALUE JOB

FYI: the “disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan” was negotiated and begun by…. Donald Trump

This administration thinks everything can be blamed on the prior and the truth is ... you can sort of do that if you know how to be subtle, but if every official is _screaming_ the name of the previous POTUS they only seem impotent and a bit deranged. As time goes by the worse it is.

This is a really big story that should not be missed. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

The war will end when Russia stops fighting. Therefore, pressure has to be put on Russia, so that they stop believing that they will win. Why is that so hard to understand?

Doubling down on assertions of power by messing with ... a god-amn American hero ... for ... literally quoting the military code of justice ... seems ... unwise?

Besides the rampant civil rights abuses, the attempt to reverse migration by making life miserable is anti-productive in the same way corporate downsizing by misery is ... the people with the most options (talents/skills/etc) will be among the first to go. Check immigrant Drs in rural hospitals...

The extent to which the tech companies are becoming energy companies is one of the biggest stories of the year.

I don't see how Tesla's Model 3 can survive if Benz can offer an alternative EV this cheap, with this kind of performance, on top of the 15% tariff that it's charged in the US. Imagine what this model does to Tesla in Europe, where Benz pays no tariffs.

My latest, about @siembranc.bsky.social and how they organized in North Carolina to counter Operation Charlotte's Web and Border Patrol's latest anti-immigrant crackdown, co-published in @thenation.com and @southernstudies.bsky.social www.thenation.com/article/poli...

“.. Japanese officials said the message was worrying: the president didn’t want friction over Taiwan to endanger a detente reached last month with Xi, which includes a promise to buy more agricultural products from American farmers ..” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/world/china/...

Hey, congratulations to all of Olivia Nuzzi’s horny media critic defenders. Heckuva job!

@sdonnan.bsky.social on Trump's $21 trn foreign investment claim (& what we had to give up in order to get what we did get which was a lot < $21 trn) #EconSky www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

Now here’s the kind of news you drop going into a long holiday weekend. Maybe no one will notice. 🤡 @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...

🤔👀 www.thehandbasket.co/p/fema-emplo...

You saying something so obnoxious that a large number of relative strangers all take time out of their evening to go on record as not agreeing with it isn't a "pile on"

"It was supposed to be a celebratory milestone, the final step in the process to obtain U.S. permanent residency. Instead, as each interview with an immigration officer wrapped up, federal agents swooped in, handcuffed the foreign spouse and took him or her away."

In the old days you would order something online and never know if it would arrive in a day, a week or many months. Now, the seller, the fulfillment center, the shipper, and some mysterious spooky entity all weigh in poorly: 'We have received a confirmation of your preparation for shipment' x 20

The recent sharp rise in Black women's unemployment is striking, even as it has largely escaped notice.

FACT CHECK: 73% of people detained by ICE have no convictions. See the data for yourself 👉 https://ow.ly/8iJL50XyazA

This should be a major scandal. The Blaze falsely reported that a former U.S. Capitol Police officer was the Jan. 6th pipe bomber. But it wasn’t just another miss by conservative media promoting conspiracies. Someone in US intel - at ODNI - was promoting it: www.cbsnews.com/news/jan-6-p...

Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff isn’t working for the US, or for humanity. He’s working for Vladimir Putin. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

“..Trump in his second term has started scheduled events in the afternoon on average, at 12:08 p.m. .. The number of Mr. Trump’s total official appearances has decreased by 39 percent.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...

I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.

Washington D.C. observer John Heilemann: It's only a matter of time before retired & active-duty military personnel turn on Trump. Hegseth focusing on Mark Kelly could be the straw that broke the camel’s back within the military ranks. Yes please! #ProudBlue #Pinks #TrumpisaNationalDisgrace

Republican senator now publicly defending Mark Kelly

⚡️ In a new Drop Site investigation, Ryan Grim and Murtaza Hussain reveal that Jeffrey Epstein quietly helped Alan Dershowitz orchestrate the smear campaign against John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt’s 2006 paper “The Israel Lobby,” newly obtained emails show. The scholars had argued in the paper...

There is NO FUCKING EXCUSE for this to be happening. I had a baby die in my arms of pertussis some fifty years ago. It was a HORRIBLE death. But my fellow nurses said to me, "It's almost stamped out now, they're all getting the shots, we won't be seeing this again." HOW THE FUCK ARE WE HERE. 😡

Spoke to @melodyschreiber.com about the only story that matters re Olivia Nuzzi--her role in elevating RFK Jr, a man who is doing and will do so much harm to global health, even for decades after he leaves this position. I don't care about her hikes in the desert, her exile or her terrible prose.

Olivia Nuzzi wrote an entire story based on unnamed sources about Biden's decline, reinvigorating calls for him to leave the race -- and the whole time, she was working on RFK Jr.'s behalf, according to her ex-fiance. newrepublic.com/article/2035...

"If you’re going to challenge a scientific consensus, you better know the material. Most of us, most of the time, don’t—so deferring to expert consensus is usually the rational strategy..." -AlexTabarrok marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevo...

This is their playbook: No warning, no transparency, no coordination. Their goal here isn’t safety, it’s to sow chaos, fear, and intimidation.

Happy St Catherine’s Day! She’s the patron of women students, anyone who works with wheels (e.g., potters), tanners, philosophers, and librarians. She’s also my confirmation saint. I love this painting of her by Caravaggio.

Yikes. (via @steverattner.bsky.social)

I was interviewed by the wonderful journalist @melodyschreiber.com for this piece—which focuses on the REAL story: Nuzzi “used her position of power, as a journalist, to advise and elevate the world’s most prominent anti-vaccine activist to the most influential health position in the United States”

This is a pro death march. People, especially kids, will get sick and some will die. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

As far as i can tell, people are recording/yelling while wearing their pajamas and sandals, and the feds respond by pointing their weapons at the crowd and then gassing a residential block.

Beyond delighted to catch up with Mary Carillo on the occasion of her being voted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame. Lots of stuff here, including the importance—and costs—of saying the things others in the sport don’t and won’t. Watch at Bounces: www.benrothenberg.com/p/mary-caril...

Rejection rate for all types of credit (auto loan, credit card, credit card limit increase, mortgage, mortgage refinance) over past 12 months rose to a series high of 24.8% in October according to NewYorkFed latest SCE Credit Access Survey. #EconSky

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.

Neither journo -- Andrew Ross Sorkin or Becky Quick -- bothered to challenge Bessent on his Sunday morning inflation LIES on Meet the Press. Great job, guys. Way to go. Allowing people to continue lying usually works out really well (as we're seeing on a daily basis).

ICYMI: DOJ is fighting an effort to force Elon Musk to testify in a lawsuit that accuses him of unlawfully directing the dissolution of USAID while he was an adviser to Trump, arguing he should be shielded as a former high-level executive branch official buff.ly/EvDUpgz

Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.

years of spouting disinformation on Fox News taught him to never fact check before making a claim

Young people feel like we've lost agency over our lives. We can't *really* pick where to live, or whether to change jobs, or how many kids to have -- the cost of living makes us feel trapped. Younger candidates can powerfully speak to that emotional truth. talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/young-c...