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A country that had begun to make progress in believing women is regressing. In this environment, it becomes more and more difficult for victims to come forward, which means that the people committing crimes against them are going to get away with it. Again.
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Which Side Is DOJ on: The Epstein Files
With apologies for writing about such a serious topic as we enter the Christmas holidays, these developments seemed too important to ignore.
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December 26, 2025 at 12:17 PM
A country that had begun to make progress in believing women is regressing. In this environment, it becomes more and more difficult for victims to come forward, which means that the people committing crimes against them are going to get away with it. Again.
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Found the CBS feedback form. Left a message about Bari www.cbs.com/showfeedback...
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December 24, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Found the CBS feedback form. Left a message about Bari www.cbs.com/showfeedback...
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Was about to share one of my favorite Christmas stories, but then I stumbled upon this one, and well, it chose itself. An absolutely lovely story for this year.
December 25, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Was about to share one of my favorite Christmas stories, but then I stumbled upon this one, and well, it chose itself. An absolutely lovely story for this year.
I can only reply to indirectly in quote post. That might be part of the communication problem. Also the “App doesn’t turn mentions and others into mostly hate”
No shock. This app has turned my mentions, and others, into mostly hate. But there are a few people worth connecting with
CRAZY how it's easier these days to have a real discussion on X, or threads, than on here.
CRAZY how it's easier these days to have a real discussion on X, or threads, than on here.
December 25, 2025 at 12:37 AM
I can only reply to indirectly in quote post. That might be part of the communication problem. Also the “App doesn’t turn mentions and others into mostly hate”
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Le recours sans précédent à la violence contre les partisans de l’opposition et les citoyens ordinaires a brisé l’image de la Tanzanie en tant qu’îlot de stabilité et défenseur de l’État de droit. La résolution de cette crise nécessitera une médiation active de haut niveau.
Quelle suite après la « catastrophe nationale » en Tanzanie ?
Le recours sans précédent à la violence contre les partisans de l’opposition et les citoyens ordinaires a brisé l’image de la Tanzanie en tant qu’îlot de stabilité et défenseur de l’État de droit.
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December 24, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Le recours sans précédent à la violence contre les partisans de l’opposition et les citoyens ordinaires a brisé l’image de la Tanzanie en tant qu’îlot de stabilité et défenseur de l’État de droit. La résolution de cette crise nécessitera une médiation active de haut niveau.
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Pro Trump supporter Bari Weiss tried to suppress 60 Minutes from showing this video.
Here is the video. You know what to do.
Here is the video. You know what to do.
The 60 minutes segment Bari Weiss killed is here: www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...
December 23, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Pro Trump supporter Bari Weiss tried to suppress 60 Minutes from showing this video.
Here is the video. You know what to do.
Here is the video. You know what to do.
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to Bari (verb): To attempt to bury a damaging political story—only to amplify it massively by drawing attention to the act of censorship itself.
Example:
“They tried to Bari the segment, but it got Streisanded and everyone watched it twice.”
Example:
“They tried to Bari the segment, but it got Streisanded and everyone watched it twice.”
December 23, 2025 at 11:40 AM
to Bari (verb): To attempt to bury a damaging political story—only to amplify it massively by drawing attention to the act of censorship itself.
Example:
“They tried to Bari the segment, but it got Streisanded and everyone watched it twice.”
Example:
“They tried to Bari the segment, but it got Streisanded and everyone watched it twice.”
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April 19, 2025 at 5:03 PM
If you are looking for great sustainable fashion, please consider Salvage Renaissance, the brand founded by my wife.
We provide spectacular clothes & accessories that have been upcycled by skilled artisans.
Look great & do something great for the planet.
salvage-renaissance.com
We provide spectacular clothes & accessories that have been upcycled by skilled artisans.
Look great & do something great for the planet.
salvage-renaissance.com
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While the administration focuses on pseudo-terrorists like the drug cartels, the Venezuelan state, and antifa, it risks losing focus on the battle against actual no-kidding terrorist like Islamic State and Al Qaeda. wapo.st/4qrV8U5
Opinion | Trump is losing sight of America’s real terrorist threat
ISIS and al-Qaeda thrive as Trump recklessly reallocates scarce security resources.
wapo.st
December 22, 2025 at 12:47 PM
While the administration focuses on pseudo-terrorists like the drug cartels, the Venezuelan state, and antifa, it risks losing focus on the battle against actual no-kidding terrorist like Islamic State and Al Qaeda. wapo.st/4qrV8U5
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"Pulling the Supreme Court back from the cliff is something progressives should view as far preferable to the alternative—where it may not just be the Court that gets pushed over the edge and into oblivion, but our entire constitutional (and democratic) order."
Me in today's issue of "One First":
Me in today's issue of "One First":
198. Progressive Judicial Institutionalism
There's important daylight between those who are critical of the present degree of judicial power in the United States in general and those who are critical of the current Supreme Court, specifically.
www.stevevladeck.com
December 22, 2025 at 12:50 PM
"Pulling the Supreme Court back from the cliff is something progressives should view as far preferable to the alternative—where it may not just be the Court that gets pushed over the edge and into oblivion, but our entire constitutional (and democratic) order."
Me in today's issue of "One First":
Me in today's issue of "One First":
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It will be hard for many European citizens not to wonder whether Belgium forced EU taxpayers to assume a multi-billion euro risk in order to protect Russian money — whatever the actual technical mechanisms of the arrangement.
December 19, 2025 at 10:12 AM
It will be hard for many European citizens not to wonder whether Belgium forced EU taxpayers to assume a multi-billion euro risk in order to protect Russian money — whatever the actual technical mechanisms of the arrangement.
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This is an incredible new resource from my colleagues at the Brennan Center. Litigators, take note!
If the Supreme Court takes originalism seriously, then lawyers have to as well. Our new guide shows them how to win.
A New Playbook for Countering Originalism in Court
If the Supreme Court takes the theory seriously, then lawyers have to as well.
www.brennancenter.org
December 16, 2025 at 9:10 PM
This is an incredible new resource from my colleagues at the Brennan Center. Litigators, take note!
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Rob Reiner directed my favorite movie in the world, and then made all my dreams come true by, with Cary Elwes, organizing a cast reunion table read Zoom fundraiser for WisDems. A heart, spirit, and talent bigger than the whole world. May his and Michele's memory be a blessing.
December 15, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Rob Reiner directed my favorite movie in the world, and then made all my dreams come true by, with Cary Elwes, organizing a cast reunion table read Zoom fundraiser for WisDems. A heart, spirit, and talent bigger than the whole world. May his and Michele's memory be a blessing.
Rand Paul is an idiot and people who believe him are bigger idiots.
December 15, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Rand Paul is an idiot and people who believe him are bigger idiots.
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Kudos to the Missouri activists who gathered 300,000+ signatures to freeze Trump’s plan to rig districts there….
The “Show Me” State Shows Up for Democracy
A Herculean Effort by Missouri Activists To Freeze a Gerrymandered Map
open.substack.com
December 10, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Kudos to the Missouri activists who gathered 300,000+ signatures to freeze Trump’s plan to rig districts there….
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1. I agree with this take 2. This is far more optimistic than I'm used to seeing from The Bulwark and I'm down with it.
"They wanted this to go differently."
The crackdown isn’t going as planned. Courts are blocking schemes, cities are pushing back, and protesters are making life very uncomfortable for Trump’s enforcers.
@billkristolbulwark.bsky.social and @timmiller.bsky.social explain how resistance is working.
The crackdown isn’t going as planned. Courts are blocking schemes, cities are pushing back, and protesters are making life very uncomfortable for Trump’s enforcers.
@billkristolbulwark.bsky.social and @timmiller.bsky.social explain how resistance is working.
December 8, 2025 at 11:17 PM
1. I agree with this take 2. This is far more optimistic than I'm used to seeing from The Bulwark and I'm down with it.
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Heather Cox Richardson offers the most lucid explanation(s) of the way Trump and his cronies are taking a hammer to our beautiful America. Get her daily letter wherever you get your podcasts.
December 8, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Heather Cox Richardson offers the most lucid explanation(s) of the way Trump and his cronies are taking a hammer to our beautiful America. Get her daily letter wherever you get your podcasts.
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Cornish artist Kirsty Elson creates art with driftwood and other found material #WomensArt
#December7th #ArtAdvent 🎄
#December7th #ArtAdvent 🎄
December 7, 2025 at 5:53 AM
Cornish artist Kirsty Elson creates art with driftwood and other found material #WomensArt
#December7th #ArtAdvent 🎄
#December7th #ArtAdvent 🎄
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An excellent piece by Yasmin Khan in @theguardian.com – and I’m very relieved the preposterous case against her has been dropped. www.theguardian.com/food/comment...
I called my recipe book Sabzi – vegetables. But the name was trademarked. And my legal ordeal began
The granting of patents and trademarks to foods and words from the global south is part of a long colonial grab. It’s time to realise we share what we cook, and what we call it
www.theguardian.com
December 4, 2025 at 11:39 AM
An excellent piece by Yasmin Khan in @theguardian.com – and I’m very relieved the preposterous case against her has been dropped. www.theguardian.com/food/comment...
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Remember the part in the old Peter Pan play where Peter tells the boys and girls in the audience that if they all just clap harder they can save Tinkerbell?
That's what Trump's Cabinet Meeting reminded me of. A bunch of children wildly applauding him, all in an effort to bring him back to life.
That's what Trump's Cabinet Meeting reminded me of. A bunch of children wildly applauding him, all in an effort to bring him back to life.
December 3, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Remember the part in the old Peter Pan play where Peter tells the boys and girls in the audience that if they all just clap harder they can save Tinkerbell?
That's what Trump's Cabinet Meeting reminded me of. A bunch of children wildly applauding him, all in an effort to bring him back to life.
That's what Trump's Cabinet Meeting reminded me of. A bunch of children wildly applauding him, all in an effort to bring him back to life.
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Bash: "Do you believe if there was a second strike to eliminate any survivors that it constitutes a war crime?"
Mark Kelly: "It seems to."
Bash: "If you received that order, would you have carried it out?"
Mark Kelly: "No…Going after survivors in the water is unlawful."
Mark Kelly: "It seems to."
Bash: "If you received that order, would you have carried it out?"
Mark Kelly: "No…Going after survivors in the water is unlawful."
November 30, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Bash: "Do you believe if there was a second strike to eliminate any survivors that it constitutes a war crime?"
Mark Kelly: "It seems to."
Bash: "If you received that order, would you have carried it out?"
Mark Kelly: "No…Going after survivors in the water is unlawful."
Mark Kelly: "It seems to."
Bash: "If you received that order, would you have carried it out?"
Mark Kelly: "No…Going after survivors in the water is unlawful."
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“It’s terrible that I was right.”
"Modern dentistry is great. But your dentist doesn’t insist you worship him.” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/t...
The Writer Who Dared Criticize Silicon Valley
www.nytimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 12:13 PM
“It’s terrible that I was right.”
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FULL STORY: Border Patrol chief Greg Bovino, and the agents who led a series of increasingly aggressive raids across Chicago and its suburbs, falsely depicted ordinary Chicagoans as professional agitators determined to mount a violent resistance, a federal judge determined. @wttw.bsky.social
Border Patrol Chief Greg Bovino, Federal Agents Repeatedly Lied About What They Did During Aggressive Immigration Raids: Judge
U.S. District Court Judge Sara Ellis used a blistering 233-page ruling to painstakingly detail how agents falsely asserted in court and in official reports that they had been confronted with unrelenti...
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November 24, 2025 at 2:59 PM
FULL STORY: Border Patrol chief Greg Bovino, and the agents who led a series of increasingly aggressive raids across Chicago and its suburbs, falsely depicted ordinary Chicagoans as professional agitators determined to mount a violent resistance, a federal judge determined. @wttw.bsky.social
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“I think that many of these college journalists are laser-focused on their beats, are developing great sources among administrators, faculty and students, and are unfazed by the possibility that their stories might piss off a valued source or two” — Columbia Journalism School professor Bill Grueskin
You know what media is NOT bending the knee in the Trump era? College journalists! The Harvard Crimson's brutal takedown of the lecherous ex-prez Larry Summers is just the latest example of students showing a failing 'grown-up' media how it's done
My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
College journalism exposes the rot of ‘grown-ups’ | Will Bunch Newsletter
Plus a history lesson on the real ‘Charlotte’s Web,’ and fascism,
www.inquirer.com
November 18, 2025 at 9:18 PM
“I think that many of these college journalists are laser-focused on their beats, are developing great sources among administrators, faculty and students, and are unfazed by the possibility that their stories might piss off a valued source or two” — Columbia Journalism School professor Bill Grueskin