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“I’ve got the best poll numbers I’ve ever had! Red hot!!!”
November 22, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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November 22, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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In this tough and moving essay, Caroline Kennedy's 35-year-old daughter Tatiana Schlossberg reveals that she is terminally ill with leukemia. She has some choice words about how her cousin Bobby has made the limited time she has left worse. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
A Battle with My Blood
When I was diagnosed with leukemia, my first thought was that this couldn’t be happening to me, to my family.
www.newyorker.com
November 22, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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Just an absolutely gutting essay by Tatiana Schlossberg, a writer, mother of two young children, and cousin of RFK Jr who is dying of leukemia.

www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
November 22, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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The Guardian’s investigation into the Free Birth Society is a clear example of a closed, high-risk counterpublic. It can be examined directly through the lens of disordered discourse described in my work.
demos.co.uk/research/ver...
November 22, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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It's time to remove laptops from classrooms.

24 experiments: Students learn more and get better grades after taking notes by hand than typing. It's not just because they're less distracted—writing enables deeper processing and more images.

The pen is mightier than the keyboard.
November 20, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Fascinating thread on trumps, so called, peace proposal
Some notable things in what's being called the "Trump peace plan" but which could not have been more clearly written in Moscow if it came with a 2 for 1 deal on tickets to the Bolshoi Ballet. 🧵
November 21, 2025 at 12:14 PM
All the good data I've seen appears to show maga was more effective in getting their people out to vote than Democrats.
You don't lose millions of voters from 2020 to 2024 during the time you're in power, no less - because of suppression. It's a comforting rationalization, but it's not true.
Two biggest reasons she lost:

The non-Trumpers who chose not to vote because of Gaza.

Years of vote suppression and disenfranchisement by GOP legislators finally bore fruit.

Why the press refuses to talk about these things is a bit baffling.
November 21, 2025 at 11:32 AM
The United States president and his minions are not acting in good faith in Ukraine. The stink of corruption permeates all the USA.
A meaningless exercise by an utterly incompetent and weak US administration.
The US peace plan for Ukraine calls for Kyiv to cede swaths of land currently under its control and offers big concessions to Russia, including a ban on any future expansion of the Nato military alliance. on.ft.com/4oaGlf0
November 21, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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Musk's AI chatbot Grok repeated a long-debunked antisemitic trope about Auschwitz that experts told The Cube contradicts overwhelming evidence.
Elon Musk's Grok revives a long-debunked claim about Auschwitz
Musk's AI chatbot Grok repeated a long-debunked antisemitic trope about Auschwitz that experts told The Cube contradicts overwhelming evidence.
l.euronews.com
November 21, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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For what it’s worth, as a commander and officer it was my duty, moral obligation, and legal requirement to first question and then to not obey any illegal order I was given.

The same is true for everyone who swear their oath.

Hope that clears things up.
November 20, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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Military ethicist here. I used to be Associate Chair of Leadership, Ethics, and Law at USNA. We consistently taught our midshipmen that they should refuse to obey illegal orders. The Uniform Code of Military Justice makes this obligation clear. “I was just following orders” is not an excuse, period.
November 20, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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The corrupted CDC website refers to a Danish study (Andersson et al) and "a statistically significant 67% increased risk of Asperger's syndrome per 1 mg increase in aluminum exposure among children born between 2007 and 2018 (Supplement Figure 4)." It's worth putting this into context. Short 🧵
November 20, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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On this Trans Day of Remembrance, we remember the bright and courageous trans people whose lives were stolen by hatred. Their absence is felt across our city.

We will honor them by building a New York where every trans person can live safely, fully and freely.
November 20, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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from the former BLS commissioner whom Trump fired this summer:
So great to see BLS back to work measuring and informing us about our large and dynamic economy.

It’s a great institution full of dedicated civil servants deeply committed their mission. They have had a tough year, and everyone is covering for someone who left. I thank them all for their service.
November 20, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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🔊 Sound on!

Watch @johnsweeneyroar.bsky.social chase Nigel Farage across the Essex Riviera: Clacton-upon-Sea.

With a very simple question that the Reform leader is refusing to answer...

"Mr Farage, who introduced Nathan Gill to a Russian spy?"
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November 20, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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when I was young, i used to wonder how people like this would fare in life, as they didn't seem suited for gainful employment. it turns out, the internet allowed them to accumulate a massive audience of similar idiots, enriching them and turning them into a presidential advisor
November 20, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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On a flight to Charlotte to try to chat with Greg Bovino, so kindly asking once again for your support.

If you’ve missed my past filmed coverage, here is a video I took of Border Patrol tackling and detaining a landscaper in Skokie.
November 19, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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Usually, JVL is the prince of darkness, but I have to agree with him that we may be seeing the high water mark of Trump here. Consider his evidence:
November 19, 2025 at 9:28 PM
We are lost!
From Frontline episode July 15, 2025
The mobster version of law.
November 19, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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⚠️ Sitting US senators and representatives are publicly communicating to the members of the US military and intelligence communities that they should not obey illegal orders:
We want to speak directly to members of the Military and the Intelligence Community.

The American people need you to stand up for our laws and our Constitution.

Don’t give up the ship.
November 19, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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It's hard out there for a lickspittle.
November 19, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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Swedish Deputy PM: Sweden needs to pick its friends wisely, and we are choosing Canada… So when we come to America, we come to Canada now.
November 19, 2025 at 8:30 PM