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Sarah Darer Littman
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MG and YA novelist, INFLUENCED out now, Sydney Taylor Honor book SOME KIND OF HATE, DEEPFAKE, and many more. Teacher, dot connector, columnist. Leviticus 19:33 sarahdarerlittman.com
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Mamdani: For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty
January 1, 2026 at 8:00 PM
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kevinmkruse.bsky.social
Ladies and gentlemen, the brilliant mind who’s been called the “philosopher behind JD Vance”
bernybelvedere.bsky.social Berny Belvedere @bernybelvedere.bsky.social · 9h
"All serious historians agree."
January 1, 2026 at 4:16 PM
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freedomreadproject.bsky.social
Happy New Year from the Freedom to Read Project! 🎉📚
Thank you to every librarian, educator, parent, student, and advocate who stood up for access to books in 2025. Your voices and courage matter. Here’s to resilience, community, and a 2026 filled with curiosity, truth, and unbanned books.
January 1, 2026 at 3:38 PM
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katiephang.bsky.social
And here is the link (on the House GOP Judiciary YouTube channel) to the video portion of Special Counsel Jack Smith’s deposition:

youtu.be/lR-bhPzQYUE
December 31, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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emptywheel.bsky.social
Jim Jordan staffer: Why did you subpoena Jim Jordan's phone records?

Because Mark Meadows told us he had never seen Jim Jordan scared before.

legacy.www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
Q The team's work, the prosecutor's work. So you subpoenaed Speaker 20 McCarthy's toll records after he became Speaker, and you sought records from 21 November 2020 through January 8th, 2021. What were you looking for with his records? 22 Like what did you do with the information you obtained? 23 A Okay. So the relevance of those records, there would be several examples, 24 but his contacts with either co-conspirators, the President, or conduits of information to the 25 President was relevant to our investigation. An example I could give you is, on January 6th, wu 1 we had information from Mark Meadows, who was present for a call where Congressman 2 McCarthy was asking for help. He was asking the President to come to his aid while the 3 Capitol was being seized. a Getting the exact tol records for when that happened was relevant for our 5 investigation both to question other witnesses about it so we had an accurate timeline and 6 also to corroborate that the call happened at approximately the time witnesses said it 7 happened. 8 Q Butts pretty significant to subpoena the Speaker of theHouse's toll records, 9 right? 10 A We followed Department policy, and we followed all legal requirements in 11 getting those records. 2 Q 1mean, you know, to get the information you're looking for, nobody disputed 13 the Speaker and the President were having communications on January 6th. So one way. 14 you could have gotten that information is you could have asked the Speaker's lawyer to look 15 at his phone records and to give you the information you needed, right? 6 A Well, you say now that nobody is disputing, but my experience in criminal 17 investigations i that people often at trial dispute things that you never thought were going 18 tobein dispute during the investigation, and so, when | conduct a criminal investigation, | 19 don'tassume there will be no disputes.
December 31, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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drewharwell.com
New: We got an internal ICE document revealing its $100 million ad plan to bring in 14,000 new hires: deals with "tactical" influencers; ads to gun & military buffs; and geo-targeting phones around NASCAR races and gun shows.

A "wartime recruitment" mode with paramilitary branding: wapo.st/44QrP5j
ICE plans $100 million ‘wartime recruitment’ push targeting gun shows, military fans for hires
An internal ICE document shared among immigration officials details plans to use influencers and geo-targeted ads to rapidly hire thousands of deportation officers.
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December 31, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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It's stuff like this that makes it so amazing whenever somebody yells at Pete Hegseth or whoever in a restaurant and the entire news media superstructure spends 10 days fretting over civility and comity.
semperloquatius.bsky.social semperloquatius.bsky.social @semperloquatius.bsky.social · 1d
Oh. my. god. This is the Asst. US Atty General calling people -- in print -- "hoes."
December 31, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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thebookerprizes.com
Reconnecting with reading doesn’t need to feel like a challenge, here's how to create good reading habits in 2026 (and beyond!)

Read the full article here:
https://thebookerprizes.pulse.ly/h5b4bo9jjw
December 31, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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Editorial: A badly misguided honor for Charlie Kirk www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/12/30/e...
Editorial: A badly misguided honor for Charlie Kirk
Florida’s effort to memorialize Charlie Kirk ignores many other civil rights icons who go unrecognized for their good works.
www.orlandosentinel.com
December 30, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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samthielman.com
here comes @attackerman.bsky.social
Watching Bari Weiss Murder Investigative Journalism at CBS
Notes from someone who's withstood White House demands to delay an accurate story—and who once even had a 60 Minutes piece spiked
www.forever-wars.com
December 30, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Heartbreaking.... wapo.st/4jn0kGo
Tatiana Schlossberg, journalist and granddaughter of JFK, dies at 35
In November, she announced her terminal cancer diagnosis in a New Yorker essay that took aim at one of her cousins, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
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December 30, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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mamafoo2000.bsky.social
Sobering Sunday read.

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December 28, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social
A 'Malignant Narcissist' is a severe personality type combining traits of NPD with antisocial features, marked by grandiosity, lack of empathy, manipulation, and aggression, often finding pleasure in others' suffering, exhibiting paranoia, and actively exploiting and harming people without remorse.
December 28, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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petersagal.bsky.social
In this Op-Ed by the now fired DOJ Pardon Attorney criticizing Trump’s numerous pardons of donors etc, she also criticizes Biden’s pre-emotive pardons of family and prominent Trump targets before leaving office.

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/26/o...
Opinion | I Was the President’s Pardon Attorney. He’s Making a Mockery of the Pardon Process.
www.nytimes.com
December 28, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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derekgottliebphd.com
At the end of this year, it does us some political good to read some of the really straightforward writing on the state of our domestic politics. Because we have to be honest with ourselves. @radleybalko.bsky.social's writing is exemplary here.
Trump’s Immigration Nightmare: It Is Happening Here
With astonishing speed, the administration has toppled the most cherished pillars of a free society. And the experts agree: It’s all going to get much, much worse.
newrepublic.com
December 28, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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alecluhn.com
The US invented the solar panel & wind turbine, notes @billmckibben.bsky.social:
"We could have owned these technologies, & instead we’ve just ceded them to our theoretical main rival... I don’t think there’s been an act of national self-sabotage quite like this." www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘This is the Costco of energy, man!’: author Bill McKibben on the promise of renewables
The activist and author of Here Comes the Sun discusses rapid advances in solar and wind power and how the US ceded leadership in the sector to its main rival
www.theguardian.com
December 28, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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chadloder.bsky.social
"Why Peter Thiel is leaving Silicon Valley" (2018)
December 27, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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mbkplus.bsky.social
The guy who put a 19 year old named Big Balls in charge of gutting key government services: “experience matters when lives are at stake”
robertscotthorton.bsky.social Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 5d
Best Twitter riposte of the day
December 28, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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jlazarus.bsky.social
All of the money that changed hands in the Teapot Dome scandal totaled less than $10 million after adjusting for inflation, and it was considered so corrupt we still teach it in high school government classes a century later.
bgrueskin.bsky.social Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 5d
Corruption so pungent, it wafts right off the page:

Lobbyists who do pardon deals “say their going rate is $1 million. Pardon-seekers have offered some lobbyists close to the president success fees of as much as $6 million if they can close the deal.”

Gift link www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Inside the New Fast Track to a Presidential Pardon
Even some of the president’s closest advisers have been surprised by a number of the recent series of pardons.
www.wsj.com
December 27, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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reuning.bsky.social
Update. The ICE supervisor, who is 47, was arrested for domestic violence against his non-citizen partner who he started a relationship when she was 18 and he was 40.

www.fox19.com/2025/12/22/i...
December 25, 2025 at 3:01 PM
sarahdarerlittman.com
But it's all a hoax, right? 🙄
‘Ghost resorts’: as hundreds of ski slopes lie abandoned, will nature reclaim the Alps?
With the snow line edging higher, 186 French ski resorts have shut, while global heating threatens dozens more
www.theguardian.com
December 27, 2025 at 12:53 PM
sarahdarerlittman.com
We all know adjuncts are paid peanuts, have no job security & few benefits. In today's episode of "adjuncts are treated like 💩", I started getting this message in Word on my laptop. Called IT, and unbeknownst to me, adjunct licenses have been downgraded so we can only use Office 365 online.
Screenshot of MS Word with "View Only - Activate Microsoft 365" message
December 27, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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markjacob.bsky.social
🧵🧵🧵 7 questions for the Trump regime about the attack in Nigeria:
1. Is it now official U.S. policy that Christians under attack anywhere In the world will be defended by our military?
2. Will only Christians in trouble spots overseas get U.S. protection — not Muslims, Hindus or Zoroastrians?
December 26, 2025 at 2:18 PM
sarahdarerlittman.com
I hope the lecturer sues the @#$@# out of the university.
texastribune.org Texas Tribune @texastribune.org · 8d
Texas A&M University will not reinstate a lecturer who was fired after a video of her teaching about gender identity in a children’s literature class went viral, despite a faculty appeals panel unanimously concluding that her dismissal was not justified.
Texas A&M won’t reinstate fired lecturer despite findings
A vice chancellor upheld the firing of Melissa McCoul, seen in a viral video being confronted by a student on her gender identity teachings, saying the termination was done with “good cause.”
www.texastribune.org
December 26, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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disabilitystor1.bsky.social
No woman I know in academia would be surprised by this, but its good to see it documented like this, I guess.
johnholbein1.bsky.social John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 8d
Experimental evidence that students are more likely to contest grades when they are delivered by an evaluator with a female-sounding name.

"These findings suggest that women in evaluative positions face disproportionate resistance when delivering negative assessments."
December 26, 2025 at 12:38 PM