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“The sunshine bores the daylights out of me-chasing shadows moonlight mystery” - Mick Jagger
“The sunshine bores the daylights out of me-chasing shadows moonlight mystery” - Mick Jagger
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Democratic lawmakers who publicly urged the intelligence community and military members to disobey unlawful orders said they’re facing an FBI inquiry following President Donald Trump’s call for them to be tried for sedition.
Veteran Democrats Who Defied Trump Say They’re Under FBI Probe
Democratic lawmakers who publicly urged the intelligence community and military members to disobey unlawful orders said they’re facing an FBI inquiry following President Donald Trump’s call for them to be tried for sedition.
bloom.bg
November 25, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Democratic lawmakers who publicly urged the intelligence community and military members to disobey unlawful orders said they’re facing an FBI inquiry following President Donald Trump’s call for them to be tried for sedition.
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After ousting the BLS director and scrapping the October jobs and inflation reports, Trump is now canceling release of the advance Q3 GDP estimate.
Trump doesn't mind turning the lights off on the economy because he’d rather Americans not know how badly it’s doing under him.
Trump doesn't mind turning the lights off on the economy because he’d rather Americans not know how badly it’s doing under him.
November 25, 2025 at 8:45 PM
After ousting the BLS director and scrapping the October jobs and inflation reports, Trump is now canceling release of the advance Q3 GDP estimate.
Trump doesn't mind turning the lights off on the economy because he’d rather Americans not know how badly it’s doing under him.
Trump doesn't mind turning the lights off on the economy because he’d rather Americans not know how badly it’s doing under him.
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Lying to the Supreme Court... which will still probably rule in its favor
This is the same playbook the Trump administration ran in Portland, where DHS officials falsely accused local police of failing to help them (or not arriving quickly enough). Strikes me as a problem that the government lies so freely to the Supreme Court now. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...
November 25, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Lying to the Supreme Court... which will still probably rule in its favor
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1. After the shutdown fight, Republicans promised Democrats a vote on extending enhanced ACA subsidies, which cover 20 million Americans.
Now, new reporting shows that Republican negotiators want to make a trans funding ban a requirement for the extension.
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Now, new reporting shows that Republican negotiators want to make a trans funding ban a requirement for the extension.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
Republicans Privately Pushing Anti-Trans Funding Ban For ACA Subsidy Deal After Shutdown Compromise
The proposal, which was first detailed in the Wall Street Journal, could harm transgender people even in blue states if it becomes part of the negotiated deal.
www.erininthemorning.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:02 PM
1. After the shutdown fight, Republicans promised Democrats a vote on extending enhanced ACA subsidies, which cover 20 million Americans.
Now, new reporting shows that Republican negotiators want to make a trans funding ban a requirement for the extension.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
Now, new reporting shows that Republican negotiators want to make a trans funding ban a requirement for the extension.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
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"DOGE: It’s your turn to send us a pointless, time-consuming email explaining what exactly it was that you did here." @petridishes.bsky.social imagines DOGE's exit interview:
A DOGE Exit Interview
It’s the agency’s turn to send a pointless, time-consuming email explaining its accomplishments.
bit.ly
November 25, 2025 at 1:30 PM
"DOGE: It’s your turn to send us a pointless, time-consuming email explaining what exactly it was that you did here." @petridishes.bsky.social imagines DOGE's exit interview:
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In rural America, public radio saves lives
In rural America, public radio saves lives
In remote Alaska, public radio station KYUK is crucial during natural disasters. Without federal funding, how will it survive?
www.motherjones.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:31 PM
In rural America, public radio saves lives
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Republican state legislator and Turning Points USA leader who crusaded against bogus voter fraud claims pleads guilty to attempted election fraud.
Turning Point leader, former GOP Rep pleads guilty to attempted election fraud | Arizona Mirror
Austin Smith election fraud guilty plea: Former GOP Rep admits forging 100+ signatures on ballot petitions in Arizona
azmirror.com
November 23, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Republican state legislator and Turning Points USA leader who crusaded against bogus voter fraud claims pleads guilty to attempted election fraud.
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For chemist Kris Hansen, 3M was a family affair; her father was a creator of the company’s N95 face masks.
Yet, after she found 3M’s forever chemicals in human blood, the company repeatedly doubted her work and stopped her research on the chemicals.
By @fastlerner.bsky.social
Yet, after she found 3M’s forever chemicals in human blood, the company repeatedly doubted her work and stopped her research on the chemicals.
By @fastlerner.bsky.social
How 3M Executives Convinced a Scientist the Forever Chemicals She Found in Human Blood Were Safe
Decades ago, Kris Hansen showed 3M that its PFAS chemicals were in people’s bodies. Her bosses halted her work. As the EPA now forces the removal of the chemicals from drinking water, she wrestles…
propub.li
November 29, 2024 at 5:00 PM
For chemist Kris Hansen, 3M was a family affair; her father was a creator of the company’s N95 face masks.
Yet, after she found 3M’s forever chemicals in human blood, the company repeatedly doubted her work and stopped her research on the chemicals.
By @fastlerner.bsky.social
Yet, after she found 3M’s forever chemicals in human blood, the company repeatedly doubted her work and stopped her research on the chemicals.
By @fastlerner.bsky.social
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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
All DOGE accomplished was purging critical government staff, handing private data to outsiders, and sentencing thousands in developing countries to death by gutting USAID.
I don’t say this lightly: if there were any justice in this world, the people responsible for this devastation would be in jail
I don’t say this lightly: if there were any justice in this world, the people responsible for this devastation would be in jail
DOGE 'doesn't exist' with eight months left on its charter
U.S. President Donald Trump's Department of Government Efficiency has disbanded with eight months left to its mandate.
www.cnbc.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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
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Does Anyone Even Remember Trump Once Favored Medicare for All? | Who's going to pay for covering everybody, including the currently uninsured? "The government's going to pay for it," Trump said in a 2015 interview.
Does Anyone Even Remember Trump Once Favored Medicare for All?
Who's going to pay for covering everybody, including the currently uninsured? "The government's going to pay for it," Trump said in a 2015 interview.
www.commondreams.org
November 25, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Does Anyone Even Remember Trump Once Favored Medicare for All? | Who's going to pay for covering everybody, including the currently uninsured? "The government's going to pay for it," Trump said in a 2015 interview.
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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.
ICE detains 4 U.S. citizens in Oregon this week, advocacy group says
They included a 17-year-old high school student and two women filming ICE activity in Canby.
www.oregonlive.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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.
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READ @antoniajuhasz.bsky.social: Trump’s Vendetta Against Wind Is Gutting Jobs and Raising Prices www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol... via @rollingstone.com
Trump's Vendetta Against Wind Is Gutting Jobs and Raising Prices
Unionized workers are fighting Donald Trump's attacks on wind energy. In Baltimore, they're preparing for the “Green Workforce of the Future."
www.rollingstone.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:42 AM
READ @antoniajuhasz.bsky.social: Trump’s Vendetta Against Wind Is Gutting Jobs and Raising Prices www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol... via @rollingstone.com
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Tick, tock: the GOP is desperately trying to run out the clock on ACA subsidies.
Even Trump wants to extend Obamacare—but Republicans stopped him
Tick, tock: the GOP is desperately trying to run out the clock on ACA subsidies.
www.motherjones.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Tick, tock: the GOP is desperately trying to run out the clock on ACA subsidies.
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The story told here--one where anecdata suggests agency and autonomy have run amok and nameless activists are to blame--certainly rhymes with the NYT's disastrous panic about trans kids. Then you realize it's literally being written by the same author.
Autism rates have increased in recent decades, but the reasons are more complicated than what Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has presented. Hear more on today's episode of "The Daily." nyti.ms/480eqtm
The Autism Diagnosis Problem
Autism rates have increased in recent decades, but the reasons are more complicated than what Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has presented.
nyti.ms
November 24, 2025 at 9:36 PM
The story told here--one where anecdata suggests agency and autonomy have run amok and nameless activists are to blame--certainly rhymes with the NYT's disastrous panic about trans kids. Then you realize it's literally being written by the same author.
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The @nytimes.com is using the anti-trans playbook—and even the same reporter, Azeen Ghorayshi—to go after the autistic community now. They’ve come a long way in the wrong direction since the Science Times was one of the best sections of the paper. Their reporting is often ignorant and irresponsible.
Autism rates have increased in recent decades, but the reasons are more complicated than what Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has presented. Hear more on today's episode of "The Daily." nyti.ms/480eqtm
The Autism Diagnosis Problem
Autism rates have increased in recent decades, but the reasons are more complicated than what Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has presented.
nyti.ms
November 24, 2025 at 9:49 PM
The @nytimes.com is using the anti-trans playbook—and even the same reporter, Azeen Ghorayshi—to go after the autistic community now. They’ve come a long way in the wrong direction since the Science Times was one of the best sections of the paper. Their reporting is often ignorant and irresponsible.
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If only Donald Trump could read:
“OUR AMERICAN CODE OF MILITARY OBEDIENCE REQUIRES THAT, SHOULD ORDERS AND THE LAW EVER CONFLICT, OUR OFFICERS MUST OBEY THE LAW.”
“OUR AMERICAN CODE OF MILITARY OBEDIENCE REQUIRES THAT, SHOULD ORDERS AND THE LAW EVER CONFLICT, OUR OFFICERS MUST OBEY THE LAW.”
November 24, 2025 at 8:08 PM
If only Donald Trump could read:
“OUR AMERICAN CODE OF MILITARY OBEDIENCE REQUIRES THAT, SHOULD ORDERS AND THE LAW EVER CONFLICT, OUR OFFICERS MUST OBEY THE LAW.”
“OUR AMERICAN CODE OF MILITARY OBEDIENCE REQUIRES THAT, SHOULD ORDERS AND THE LAW EVER CONFLICT, OUR OFFICERS MUST OBEY THE LAW.”
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Yesterday on Truth Social, Trump shared a screenshot of a pro-Trump MAGA account on X asking if foreign-born citizens should be barred from holding elected office.
The X account in question is being run from Africa
www.wired.com/story/trump-...
The X account in question is being run from Africa
www.wired.com/story/trump-...
Trump Is Boosting MAGA X Accounts Operating Overseas
A new feature on X revealed that many influential MAGA accounts are not actually based in the US. President Donald Trump has continued sharing their posts anyway.
www.wired.com
November 24, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Yesterday on Truth Social, Trump shared a screenshot of a pro-Trump MAGA account on X asking if foreign-born citizens should be barred from holding elected office.
The X account in question is being run from Africa
www.wired.com/story/trump-...
The X account in question is being run from Africa
www.wired.com/story/trump-...
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He literally tweeted this out.
“SHOULD ORDERS AND THE LAW EVER CONFLICT, OUR OFFICERS MUST OBEY THE LAW.”
This plaque is displayed at West Point. It’s the law. Not sedition.
“SHOULD ORDERS AND THE LAW EVER CONFLICT, OUR OFFICERS MUST OBEY THE LAW.”
This plaque is displayed at West Point. It’s the law. Not sedition.
November 24, 2025 at 8:48 PM
He literally tweeted this out.
“SHOULD ORDERS AND THE LAW EVER CONFLICT, OUR OFFICERS MUST OBEY THE LAW.”
This plaque is displayed at West Point. It’s the law. Not sedition.
“SHOULD ORDERS AND THE LAW EVER CONFLICT, OUR OFFICERS MUST OBEY THE LAW.”
This plaque is displayed at West Point. It’s the law. Not sedition.
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oh look, the most predictable thing imaginable is happening now
PUNCHBOWL: “.. GOP members messaged us over the weekend saying that they, too, are considering retiring in the middle of the term. Here’s one particularly exercised senior House Republican:
@punchbowlnews.bsky.social
@punchbowlnews.bsky.social
November 24, 2025 at 3:40 PM
oh look, the most predictable thing imaginable is happening now
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Although these findings from JWST are yet to be confirmed, they mark the closest astronomers have come to locating the universe’s most ancient stars
www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...
www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...
The James Webb Telescope May Have Seen the First Stars in the Universe
Although these findings from JWST are yet to be confirmed, they mark the closest astronomers have come to locating the universe’s most ancient stars
www.scientificamerican.com
November 23, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Although these findings from JWST are yet to be confirmed, they mark the closest astronomers have come to locating the universe’s most ancient stars
www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...
www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...
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Former Finnish PM Sanna Marin put it bluntly: “To end the conflict, Russia must leave Ukrainian territory.”
Just one point. Nothing more to discuss.
Just one point. Nothing more to discuss.
November 21, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Former Finnish PM Sanna Marin put it bluntly: “To end the conflict, Russia must leave Ukrainian territory.”
Just one point. Nothing more to discuss.
Just one point. Nothing more to discuss.
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Put on a gaiter, a ball cap, a pair of cargo khakis, and a police vest you can buy off of Amazon, and you too can lead a life of crime under the Trump regime (ICE or not).
HOUSTON: A church employee pretended to be ICE to extort a masseuse for money who is in the country legally with a temporary visa
November 24, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Put on a gaiter, a ball cap, a pair of cargo khakis, and a police vest you can buy off of Amazon, and you too can lead a life of crime under the Trump regime (ICE or not).
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Would make Cox the THIRD Republican governor in recent years to expand his state's Supreme Court to shift its ideological balance rightward, after Arizona and Georgia.
Reminder: Republicans love "court packing" when it suits them:
Last week Utah Gov. Spencer Cox appointed anti-abortion culture war zealot John Nielsen to the state supreme court, & may now expand the court to create a majority more favorable to Republican legislators: www.sltrib.com/news/politic...
Last week Utah Gov. Spencer Cox appointed anti-abortion culture war zealot John Nielsen to the state supreme court, & may now expand the court to create a majority more favorable to Republican legislators: www.sltrib.com/news/politic...
November 24, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Would make Cox the THIRD Republican governor in recent years to expand his state's Supreme Court to shift its ideological balance rightward, after Arizona and Georgia.
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This is exactly why this piece is so important. The national conversation has largely flattened the effects of the VRA -- and it's potential demise -- to which party controls Congress. There's so much more to the VRA than that, and so much more on the line
I, for one, have only really thought about the VRA through the prism of federal elections, not local elections.
But this well-reported piece reminds us that ending the VRA will have an impact on ALL levels of representative government.
Via @pascalsabino.bsky.social.
boltsmag.org/voting-right...
But this well-reported piece reminds us that ending the VRA will have an impact on ALL levels of representative government.
Via @pascalsabino.bsky.social.
boltsmag.org/voting-right...
Black Residents in West Tennessee Just Won Fairer Districts. Now Comes SCOTUS. - Bolts
The Supreme Court may further erode the Voting Rights Act in an upcoming decision. Beyond affecting Congress, that would reverberate across local governments nationwide.
boltsmag.org
November 22, 2025 at 10:40 PM
This is exactly why this piece is so important. The national conversation has largely flattened the effects of the VRA -- and it's potential demise -- to which party controls Congress. There's so much more to the VRA than that, and so much more on the line
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Fawning over an alleged murderer is not a good look for an American president.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/o...
Opinion | No, Mr. President, We Cannot ‘Leave It at That’
Working with imperfect partners does not mean that the United States should cover up and lie about their misdeeds.
www.nytimes.com
November 23, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Fawning over an alleged murderer is not a good look for an American president.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/o...