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Got 15 minutes? Check out my recent TEDx talk: Why This Isn’t a New Cold War
Why This Isn't a New Cold War | Michael McFaul | TEDxMidAtlantic
Former U.S. Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul tackles one of the most debated questions in geopolitics: are we entering a new Cold War? Drawing on firsthand experience with world leaders, he…
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November 25, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Got 15 minutes? Check out my recent TEDx talk: Why This Isn’t a New Cold War
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🚨 Recent court decisions should make it clear how vitally important JUDGES are.
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November 25, 2025 at 1:20 AM
🚨 Recent court decisions should make it clear how vitally important JUDGES are.
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Oh, he predicted the recent rise of socialism?
After Occupy Wall Street, Bernie Sanders' 2016 strength, the election of AOC and the Squad in 2018, etc? How could he possibly have seen that coming?
We'd all better listen to this seer's other views which I'm sure aren't creepy and insane.
After Occupy Wall Street, Bernie Sanders' 2016 strength, the election of AOC and the Squad in 2018, etc? How could he possibly have seen that coming?
We'd all better listen to this seer's other views which I'm sure aren't creepy and insane.
Bari Weiss’s The Free Press (now part of corporate media) is pushing this Ad on Musk’s X. It portrays Peter Thiel as some sort of savant.
This is the same guy, you know, who has been giving lectures about the AntiChrist.
The “Free” Press is more like The Billionaire Press.
This is the same guy, you know, who has been giving lectures about the AntiChrist.
The “Free” Press is more like The Billionaire Press.
November 25, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Oh, he predicted the recent rise of socialism?
After Occupy Wall Street, Bernie Sanders' 2016 strength, the election of AOC and the Squad in 2018, etc? How could he possibly have seen that coming?
We'd all better listen to this seer's other views which I'm sure aren't creepy and insane.
After Occupy Wall Street, Bernie Sanders' 2016 strength, the election of AOC and the Squad in 2018, etc? How could he possibly have seen that coming?
We'd all better listen to this seer's other views which I'm sure aren't creepy and insane.
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Wow.
U.S. District Judge Cameron McGowan Currie ruled Lindsey Halligan's appointment unlawful and the prosecutions against New York Attorney General Letitia James and former FBI Director James Comey therefore invalid.
Both indictments are dismissed without prejudice.
U.S. District Judge Cameron McGowan Currie ruled Lindsey Halligan's appointment unlawful and the prosecutions against New York Attorney General Letitia James and former FBI Director James Comey therefore invalid.
Both indictments are dismissed without prejudice.
November 24, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Wow.
U.S. District Judge Cameron McGowan Currie ruled Lindsey Halligan's appointment unlawful and the prosecutions against New York Attorney General Letitia James and former FBI Director James Comey therefore invalid.
Both indictments are dismissed without prejudice.
U.S. District Judge Cameron McGowan Currie ruled Lindsey Halligan's appointment unlawful and the prosecutions against New York Attorney General Letitia James and former FBI Director James Comey therefore invalid.
Both indictments are dismissed without prejudice.
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How Oregon’s Data Center Boom Is Supercharging a Water Crisis
Amazon has come to the state’s eastern farmland, worsening a water pollution problem that’s been linked to cancer and miscarriages.
Rolling Stone reports in collaboration with @thefern.org: www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
Amazon has come to the state’s eastern farmland, worsening a water pollution problem that’s been linked to cancer and miscarriages.
Rolling Stone reports in collaboration with @thefern.org: www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
November 25, 2025 at 1:27 AM
How Oregon’s Data Center Boom Is Supercharging a Water Crisis
Amazon has come to the state’s eastern farmland, worsening a water pollution problem that’s been linked to cancer and miscarriages.
Rolling Stone reports in collaboration with @thefern.org: www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
Amazon has come to the state’s eastern farmland, worsening a water pollution problem that’s been linked to cancer and miscarriages.
Rolling Stone reports in collaboration with @thefern.org: www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
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Ohio lawmakers have brought back up a bill to add party labels to candidates in local school board elections with a new amendment that would also eliminate all elected seats on the State Board of Education, making the entire body governor-appointed ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/11/24/o...
Ohio bill would add political parties to school board races, reduce State Board of Education seats • Ohio Capital Journal
The Ohio legislature brought back up a bill that would add party names to local school board elections, and added an amendment that would eliminate elected seats on the State Board of Education,…
ohiocapitaljournal.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Ohio lawmakers have brought back up a bill to add party labels to candidates in local school board elections with a new amendment that would also eliminate all elected seats on the State Board of Education, making the entire body governor-appointed ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/11/24/o...
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Republicans moving for more conservative domination of school boards in Ohio, both state and local
Ohio lawmakers have brought back up a bill to add party labels to candidates in local school board elections with a new amendment that would also eliminate all elected seats on the State Board of Education, making the entire body governor-appointed ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/11/24/o...
Ohio bill would add political parties to school board races, reduce State Board of Education seats • Ohio Capital Journal
The Ohio legislature brought back up a bill that would add party names to local school board elections, and added an amendment that would eliminate elected seats on the State Board of Education,…
ohiocapitaljournal.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Republicans moving for more conservative domination of school boards in Ohio, both state and local
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My new podcast!
"Burn Order" - 6 episodes.
Free to listen on any podcast app, or online.
First 2 episodes come out for everyone on Monday 12/1.
MSNBC Premium subscribers get them early -- this Friday 11/28.
Listen to the trailer here and follow the series...
podcasts.apple.com/me/podcast/r...
"Burn Order" - 6 episodes.
Free to listen on any podcast app, or online.
First 2 episodes come out for everyone on Monday 12/1.
MSNBC Premium subscribers get them early -- this Friday 11/28.
Listen to the trailer here and follow the series...
podcasts.apple.com/me/podcast/r...
Rachel Maddow Presents: Burn Order
News Podcast ·
podcasts.apple.com
November 24, 2025 at 5:20 PM
My new podcast!
"Burn Order" - 6 episodes.
Free to listen on any podcast app, or online.
First 2 episodes come out for everyone on Monday 12/1.
MSNBC Premium subscribers get them early -- this Friday 11/28.
Listen to the trailer here and follow the series...
podcasts.apple.com/me/podcast/r...
"Burn Order" - 6 episodes.
Free to listen on any podcast app, or online.
First 2 episodes come out for everyone on Monday 12/1.
MSNBC Premium subscribers get them early -- this Friday 11/28.
Listen to the trailer here and follow the series...
podcasts.apple.com/me/podcast/r...
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BREAKING: 23-year DOJ veteran fired after being caught in video sting predicting partisan handling of Epstein files sues to regain job. Joseph Schnitt says firing violates 1st Amendment because his comments were intended to be private www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
Former DOJ official whose remarks about Epstein files were recorded sues over firing
In the lawsuit, Joseph Schnitt claims he was secretly recorded during private conversations with a woman he met on Hinge.
www.politico.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:36 AM
BREAKING: 23-year DOJ veteran fired after being caught in video sting predicting partisan handling of Epstein files sues to regain job. Joseph Schnitt says firing violates 1st Amendment because his comments were intended to be private www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
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The volume of water needed to cool the servers in data centers has become a nationwide resource issue.
Volume isn’t the most pressing problem in Morrow County, however. The issue is pollution, which Amazon’s data centers have exacerbated since its arrival.
🔗 www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
Volume isn’t the most pressing problem in Morrow County, however. The issue is pollution, which Amazon’s data centers have exacerbated since its arrival.
🔗 www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
November 25, 2025 at 1:38 AM
The volume of water needed to cool the servers in data centers has become a nationwide resource issue.
Volume isn’t the most pressing problem in Morrow County, however. The issue is pollution, which Amazon’s data centers have exacerbated since its arrival.
🔗 www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
Volume isn’t the most pressing problem in Morrow County, however. The issue is pollution, which Amazon’s data centers have exacerbated since its arrival.
🔗 www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
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I’m sure these two things have ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with each other.
November 24, 2025 at 7:38 PM
I’m sure these two things have ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with each other.
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The Trump Admin has conducted 21 unauthorized military strikes in the Caribbean & East Pacific—killing 83 people—without giving Americans a full explanation. I’m leading my colleagues in demanding the declassification & public release of documents justifying these airstrikes.
November 24, 2025 at 5:21 PM
The Trump Admin has conducted 21 unauthorized military strikes in the Caribbean & East Pacific—killing 83 people—without giving Americans a full explanation. I’m leading my colleagues in demanding the declassification & public release of documents justifying these airstrikes.
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Seeing OLC’s “Murder Memo” would be interesting in the context of the debate over lawful orders.
The Trump Admin has conducted 21 unauthorized military strikes in the Caribbean & East Pacific—killing 83 people—without giving Americans a full explanation. I’m leading my colleagues in demanding the declassification & public release of documents justifying these airstrikes.
November 25, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Seeing OLC’s “Murder Memo” would be interesting in the context of the debate over lawful orders.
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Former nursing home executive and convicted fraudster Joseph Schwartz was pardoned by Trump earlier this month.
Schwartz secured the pardon after paying two other convicted fraudsters nearly $1M to lobby Trump on his behalf.
Everything is for sale. youtube.com/watch?v=NflcWXdV-B0&feature=youtu.be
Schwartz secured the pardon after paying two other convicted fraudsters nearly $1M to lobby Trump on his behalf.
Everything is for sale. youtube.com/watch?v=NflcWXdV-B0&feature=youtu.be
Trump’s Pay-to-Pardon Scheme
Robert Reich
youtube.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Former nursing home executive and convicted fraudster Joseph Schwartz was pardoned by Trump earlier this month.
Schwartz secured the pardon after paying two other convicted fraudsters nearly $1M to lobby Trump on his behalf.
Everything is for sale. youtube.com/watch?v=NflcWXdV-B0&feature=youtu.be
Schwartz secured the pardon after paying two other convicted fraudsters nearly $1M to lobby Trump on his behalf.
Everything is for sale. youtube.com/watch?v=NflcWXdV-B0&feature=youtu.be
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Five discharge petitions have succeeded since Johnson became speaker.
That’s more than the prior three decades, says Politico: www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
That’s more than the prior three decades, says Politico: www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
November 24, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Five discharge petitions have succeeded since Johnson became speaker.
That’s more than the prior three decades, says Politico: www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
That’s more than the prior three decades, says Politico: www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
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Maybe putting a dozen narcissistic poser Fox hosts in charge of sprawling federal agencies with millions of combined employees and vastly important responsibilities with enormous power wasn’t the greatest plan.
November 24, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Maybe putting a dozen narcissistic poser Fox hosts in charge of sprawling federal agencies with millions of combined employees and vastly important responsibilities with enormous power wasn’t the greatest plan.
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NEW: The criminal cases against James Comey and Letitia James are gone … for now. A look at the loose ends and questions that remain after a judge tossed the indictments and declared the lead prosecutor to be illegitimate.
w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
November 24, 2025 at 11:52 PM
NEW: The criminal cases against James Comey and Letitia James are gone … for now. A look at the loose ends and questions that remain after a judge tossed the indictments and declared the lead prosecutor to be illegitimate.
w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
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Remember the outrageous “podcasting patent” EFF defeated? Under the USPTO's proposed new rules, that challenge probably never would’ve been allowed.
The Patent Office Is About To Make Bad Patents Untouchable
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has proposed new rules that would effectively end the public’s ability to challenge improperly granted patents at the Patent Office itself. We need EFF sup...
www.eff.org
November 24, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Remember the outrageous “podcasting patent” EFF defeated? Under the USPTO's proposed new rules, that challenge probably never would’ve been allowed.
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Donald Trump and Russ Vought already sidelined the financial cop on the beat protecting you from scams.
Now they want CFPB staff to recite a “humility” pledge to kiss up to the big banks.
Donald Trump is Wall Street first.
Now they want CFPB staff to recite a “humility” pledge to kiss up to the big banks.
Donald Trump is Wall Street first.
Consumer Bureau’s Bank Examiners Criticize New ‘Humility Pledge’
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Donald Trump and Russ Vought already sidelined the financial cop on the beat protecting you from scams.
Now they want CFPB staff to recite a “humility” pledge to kiss up to the big banks.
Donald Trump is Wall Street first.
Now they want CFPB staff to recite a “humility” pledge to kiss up to the big banks.
Donald Trump is Wall Street first.
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American life and America itself are now being shaped—in terrible, even tragic ways—by people who really did mislead and outright lie to Congress under oath.
We’re Led by an Administration of Liars
Trump insisted Comey be prosecuted for supposedly lying to Congress—but his own administration is full of officials who lied to Congress.
lnk.thebulwark.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:00 AM
American life and America itself are now being shaped—in terrible, even tragic ways—by people who really did mislead and outright lie to Congress under oath.
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Biden granted mercy to most everyone on federal death row before leaving office. Trump retaliated by putting them in some of the harshest conditions of longterm isolation that American prisons can impose.
Another must-read by @laurengill.bsky.social boltsmag.org/death-row-cl...
Another must-read by @laurengill.bsky.social boltsmag.org/death-row-cl...
Death Row Prisoners Granted Clemency by Biden Brace for "Living Hell" Under Trump - Bolts
Trump officials are retaliating by imposing the harshest conditions in the entire federal prison system, including near total isolation.
boltsmag.org
November 24, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Biden granted mercy to most everyone on federal death row before leaving office. Trump retaliated by putting them in some of the harshest conditions of longterm isolation that American prisons can impose.
Another must-read by @laurengill.bsky.social boltsmag.org/death-row-cl...
Another must-read by @laurengill.bsky.social boltsmag.org/death-row-cl...
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Exactly why was she ever considered a moderate?
What has she ever done to deserve that label that hasn’t been a faux objection vote when the outcome wasn’t already forgone?
What has she ever done to deserve that label that hasn’t been a faux objection vote when the outcome wasn’t already forgone?
In case anyone is wondering what kind of campaign Collins intends to run next year, now we know. No achievements, only hate:
Susan Collins backs referendum to overturn Maine’s protections for transgender students
www.bangordailynews.com/2025/11/24/p...
Susan Collins backs referendum to overturn Maine’s protections for transgender students
www.bangordailynews.com/2025/11/24/p...
Susan Collins backs referendum to overturn Maine’s protections for transgender students
Collins' office said she signed onto the petition because she agrees with President Donald Trump’s interpretation of Title IX.
www.bangordailynews.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Exactly why was she ever considered a moderate?
What has she ever done to deserve that label that hasn’t been a faux objection vote when the outcome wasn’t already forgone?
What has she ever done to deserve that label that hasn’t been a faux objection vote when the outcome wasn’t already forgone?
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A new documentary, "Thoughts and Prayers," looks at how gun violence has led to school lockdown drills becoming a universal part of childhood in America.
That sparked the growth of an entire industry of active shooter preparedness products.
Watch part of Amna Nawaz's interview with the filmmakers
That sparked the growth of an entire industry of active shooter preparedness products.
Watch part of Amna Nawaz's interview with the filmmakers
November 25, 2025 at 12:07 AM
A new documentary, "Thoughts and Prayers," looks at how gun violence has led to school lockdown drills becoming a universal part of childhood in America.
That sparked the growth of an entire industry of active shooter preparedness products.
Watch part of Amna Nawaz's interview with the filmmakers
That sparked the growth of an entire industry of active shooter preparedness products.
Watch part of Amna Nawaz's interview with the filmmakers
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If the orders to bomb these boats are so lawful, why won’t the Trump administration publicly release the DOJ legal rationale?
a cartoon of batman wearing a blue cape and mask with his hand on his chin .
ALT: a cartoon of batman wearing a blue cape and mask with his hand on his chin .
media.tenor.com
November 24, 2025 at 5:20 PM
If the orders to bomb these boats are so lawful, why won’t the Trump administration publicly release the DOJ legal rationale?
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Seems like every day some senator who voted to confirm RFK Jr is pissed off at him about something.
November 25, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Seems like every day some senator who voted to confirm RFK Jr is pissed off at him about something.