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The most important story of 2025 that we're not talking about enough (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/u...
Kids Rarely Read Whole Books Anymore. Even in English Class.
www.nytimes.com
December 12, 2025 at 12:01 PM
The most important story of 2025 that we're not talking about enough (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/u...
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Buttigieg on Indiana: "The big part of how Trumpism works is to make you feel totally disempowered. To make him feel inevitable. And yet the clear takeaway from this is he is not unstoppable and you are not without power."
December 12, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Buttigieg on Indiana: "The big part of how Trumpism works is to make you feel totally disempowered. To make him feel inevitable. And yet the clear takeaway from this is he is not unstoppable and you are not without power."
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It's not just social media. Looks like visitors to the US from Europe and other countries that are part of the visa waiver program will have to submit an enormous amount of data about themselves and their families, including DNA, if proposed new rules are accepted
December 12, 2025 at 12:24 PM
It's not just social media. Looks like visitors to the US from Europe and other countries that are part of the visa waiver program will have to submit an enormous amount of data about themselves and their families, including DNA, if proposed new rules are accepted
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“I’m just one [Scientist, Doctor, Epidemiologist, Nurse, Mother, Person] what can I do?” said millions of people.
So glad you asked! Go here and do these things: standupforscience.net/impeach-rfkjr
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So glad you asked! Go here and do these things: standupforscience.net/impeach-rfkjr
Follow @standupforscience.bsky.social
standupforscience.ne
December 12, 2025 at 1:39 PM
“I’m just one [Scientist, Doctor, Epidemiologist, Nurse, Mother, Person] what can I do?” said millions of people.
So glad you asked! Go here and do these things: standupforscience.net/impeach-rfkjr
Follow @standupforscience.bsky.social
So glad you asked! Go here and do these things: standupforscience.net/impeach-rfkjr
Follow @standupforscience.bsky.social
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Happy to have contributed to this week's @spiegel.de cover story. www.spiegel.de/ausland/wie-...
December 11, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Happy to have contributed to this week's @spiegel.de cover story. www.spiegel.de/ausland/wie-...
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HARWOOD: “What distinguishes Trump’s second presidency is the breadth and depth of its crookedness… an orgy of corruption and criminality that threatens the American experiment itself.” zeteo.com/p/trump-corr...
December 12, 2025 at 1:39 PM
HARWOOD: “What distinguishes Trump’s second presidency is the breadth and depth of its crookedness… an orgy of corruption and criminality that threatens the American experiment itself.” zeteo.com/p/trump-corr...
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Their closing message to Indiana: change your maps to artificially benefit the President's political party or 'roads will not be paved' as punishment.
They are openly saying this.
Who would want to live in a country that works like that?
They are openly saying this.
Who would want to live in a country that works like that?
December 11, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Their closing message to Indiana: change your maps to artificially benefit the President's political party or 'roads will not be paved' as punishment.
They are openly saying this.
Who would want to live in a country that works like that?
They are openly saying this.
Who would want to live in a country that works like that?
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This is what is going to happen. There will be a thin top layer of non-digital universities — and all the tech billionaires will send their kids to those places.
Total success to the first college/university that pledges to be AI-free and brand it as an opportunity to receive a real education.
My employer, Dartmouth College, today boasts it's 1st Ivy "to launch AI at an institutional scale." It is doing this by partnering--"more than a collaboration"--with Anthropic, a company that stole the books of many faculty, me included, which many of us are suing.
December 11, 2025 at 1:39 PM
This is what is going to happen. There will be a thin top layer of non-digital universities — and all the tech billionaires will send their kids to those places.
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I will be joining Jessica Yellin for a live conversation on "News Not Noise" today, 12/11 at 12pm ET.
newsnotnoisejessicayellin.substack.com/podcast
newsnotnoisejessicayellin.substack.com/podcast
News Not Noise with Jessica Yellin | Jessica Yellin | Substack
Separating the news from the noise. We give you information, not a panic attack.
newsnotnoisejessicayellin.substack.com
December 11, 2025 at 1:58 PM
I will be joining Jessica Yellin for a live conversation on "News Not Noise" today, 12/11 at 12pm ET.
newsnotnoisejessicayellin.substack.com/podcast
newsnotnoisejessicayellin.substack.com/podcast
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Given recent press attention to the rotation of South African oligarchs through the White House, I am re-posting "Oligarchs’ Island," which I wrote back in November 2024.
snyder.substack.com/p/oligarchs-...
snyder.substack.com/p/oligarchs-...
Oligarchs' Island
A Sitcom Pitch in a Tragic Moment
snyder.substack.com
December 11, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Given recent press attention to the rotation of South African oligarchs through the White House, I am re-posting "Oligarchs’ Island," which I wrote back in November 2024.
snyder.substack.com/p/oligarchs-...
snyder.substack.com/p/oligarchs-...
If you care so much about our people, why does @uninoticias.bsky.social & @noticiastelemundo keep running ICE ads?
December 11, 2025 at 4:30 PM
If you care so much about our people, why does @uninoticias.bsky.social & @noticiastelemundo keep running ICE ads?
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I need you to listen to and share this story - of how Trump is preparing to abandon Ukraine in exchange for Russian money for his billionaire friends.
It could be the greatest corruption of American foreign policy in our history. Russia gets Ukraine. Trump's friends get rich.
It could be the greatest corruption of American foreign policy in our history. Russia gets Ukraine. Trump's friends get rich.
December 9, 2025 at 10:45 PM
I need you to listen to and share this story - of how Trump is preparing to abandon Ukraine in exchange for Russian money for his billionaire friends.
It could be the greatest corruption of American foreign policy in our history. Russia gets Ukraine. Trump's friends get rich.
It could be the greatest corruption of American foreign policy in our history. Russia gets Ukraine. Trump's friends get rich.
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An earlier version of the NSS specifically said that the US should try to pry Italy, Austria, Poland and Hungary away from the EU
www.defenseone.com/policy/2025/...
www.defenseone.com/policy/2025/...
December 10, 2025 at 10:30 AM
An earlier version of the NSS specifically said that the US should try to pry Italy, Austria, Poland and Hungary away from the EU
www.defenseone.com/policy/2025/...
www.defenseone.com/policy/2025/...
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It's great that the media, Congress is going all Watergate on one of Trump's many crimes, the 'double-tap' murder of 2 Caribbean sailors
But the reality is that Trump's death cult has killed hundreds of thousands, mostly through senseless USAID cuts
My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
But the reality is that Trump's death cult has killed hundreds of thousands, mostly through senseless USAID cuts
My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
The Trump regime murders that aren’t on video | Will Bunch Newsletter
Plus, troubled Mount Airy Lodge is a perfect Trump venue.
www.inquirer.com
December 9, 2025 at 5:54 PM
It's great that the media, Congress is going all Watergate on one of Trump's many crimes, the 'double-tap' murder of 2 Caribbean sailors
But the reality is that Trump's death cult has killed hundreds of thousands, mostly through senseless USAID cuts
My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
But the reality is that Trump's death cult has killed hundreds of thousands, mostly through senseless USAID cuts
My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
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If the US can seize a Venezuelan tanker carrying sanctioned oil, then can other tankers in other places, say the Baltic or the Black Sea, also be seized?
December 11, 2025 at 12:37 AM
If the US can seize a Venezuelan tanker carrying sanctioned oil, then can other tankers in other places, say the Baltic or the Black Sea, also be seized?
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Wag the Dog: Trump Wants War and The Spoils to Distract From His Failing Administration
open.substack.com/pub/thelefth...
open.substack.com/pub/thelefth...
December 11, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Wag the Dog: Trump Wants War and The Spoils to Distract From His Failing Administration
open.substack.com/pub/thelefth...
open.substack.com/pub/thelefth...
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People need to acknowledge that all of the loud voices on the "Dems have to move to the center" team are paid by a Super PAC with the express purpose of electing more moderate Dems. They are not putting impartial empirical research out there. it's just Super PAC fundraising masquerading as "data"
none of these people (inclusive of UK labour) seem to understand that voters want their leaders to *lead* them, not reflect their own ill thought preferences back at them
December 10, 2025 at 5:03 PM
People need to acknowledge that all of the loud voices on the "Dems have to move to the center" team are paid by a Super PAC with the express purpose of electing more moderate Dems. They are not putting impartial empirical research out there. it's just Super PAC fundraising masquerading as "data"
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“Your kids should get less for Christmas than kids have in a communist China.”
Trump: "You can give up certain products. You could give up pencils. Because under the China policy, every child can get 37 pencils. They only need 1 or 2. They don't need that many. You always need steel. You don't need 37 dolls for your daughter. 2 or 3 is nice. So we're doing things right."
December 10, 2025 at 4:25 PM
“Your kids should get less for Christmas than kids have in a communist China.”
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God is trying to tell us that vouchers are bad and vaccines are good.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/u...
Bird Flu Is Suspected After Vulture Carcasses Sat Rotting Outside Ohio School
www.nytimes.com
December 10, 2025 at 4:28 PM
God is trying to tell us that vouchers are bad and vaccines are good.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/u...
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The mass deportation of undocumented people was one of Hitler’s largest coercive policies before the war. This set off a chain of events which can give us a useful perspective on where we are now.
snyder.substack.com/p/self-terro...
snyder.substack.com/p/self-terro...
Land War or Self-Terrorism?
Trump's Likely Next Step
snyder.substack.com
December 10, 2025 at 4:52 PM
The mass deportation of undocumented people was one of Hitler’s largest coercive policies before the war. This set off a chain of events which can give us a useful perspective on where we are now.
snyder.substack.com/p/self-terro...
snyder.substack.com/p/self-terro...
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Could this be a textbook illustration of narcissism?
He is not well.
If someone’s grandpa posted this on Facebook, the family would be discussing assisted living by dinner.
If someone’s grandpa posted this on Facebook, the family would be discussing assisted living by dinner.
December 10, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Could this be a textbook illustration of narcissism?
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CINCINNATI: “ICE agent arrested on domestic violence charges for for alleged assault, strangulation”
www.wlwt.com/article/ice-...
www.wlwt.com/article/ice-...
December 9, 2025 at 7:14 PM
CINCINNATI: “ICE agent arrested on domestic violence charges for for alleged assault, strangulation”
www.wlwt.com/article/ice-...
www.wlwt.com/article/ice-...
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Wow -- Russia reportedly plotted last year to plant bombs on US-bound flights (gift link) giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
December 9, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Wow -- Russia reportedly plotted last year to plant bombs on US-bound flights (gift link) giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
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Trump claims each blown-up Venezuelan boat “saves 25,000 American lives.”
@jvl.bsky.social lays out the facts, walks through the math, the drug routes, and the reality, and breaks down why Trump's lie matters. lnk.thebulwark.com/4aCcPeI?utm_...
@jvl.bsky.social lays out the facts, walks through the math, the drug routes, and the reality, and breaks down why Trump's lie matters. lnk.thebulwark.com/4aCcPeI?utm_...
December 8, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Trump claims each blown-up Venezuelan boat “saves 25,000 American lives.”
@jvl.bsky.social lays out the facts, walks through the math, the drug routes, and the reality, and breaks down why Trump's lie matters. lnk.thebulwark.com/4aCcPeI?utm_...
@jvl.bsky.social lays out the facts, walks through the math, the drug routes, and the reality, and breaks down why Trump's lie matters. lnk.thebulwark.com/4aCcPeI?utm_...
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Given that the Russians quite literally drafted our capitulation plan for Ukraine one has to wonder about whether there wasn’t at least a bit of cutting and pasting here.
"The Kremlin on Sunday welcomed U.S. President Donald Trump's new national security strategy and said it largely accorded with Russia's own perceptions, the first time that Moscow has so fulsomely praised such a document from its former Cold War foe."
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/china/...
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/china/...
Kremlin says new US security strategy accords largely with Russia's view
It was the first time that Moscow has so fulsomely praised such a document from its former Cold War foe.
www.reuters.com
December 7, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Given that the Russians quite literally drafted our capitulation plan for Ukraine one has to wonder about whether there wasn’t at least a bit of cutting and pasting here.