John Schwartz
@jswatz.bsky.social
UT Austin journalism professor; former NYT, WP. he/him.
“The content of the course was the reason for the dismissal and not the stated reason: failure of academic responsibility,” the council wrote in the report. www.texastribune.org/2025/11/10/t...
Texas A&M panel: Firing violated professor’s academic freedom
University officials dispute the faculty council’s conclusion. Melissa McCoul lost her job after a video of a classroom debate went viral.
www.texastribune.org
November 11, 2025 at 3:24 AM
“The content of the course was the reason for the dismissal and not the stated reason: failure of academic responsibility,” the council wrote in the report. www.texastribune.org/2025/11/10/t...
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"For decades, president after president has sought to rid the US of its image as a bullying, imperialistic nation," writes journalist and author Steven Greenhouse. "But under Trump, the Ugly American is back."
Brutish, bullying, imperialistic: the Ugly American is back | Steven Greenhouse
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:01 PM
"For decades, president after president has sought to rid the US of its image as a bullying, imperialistic nation," writes journalist and author Steven Greenhouse. "But under Trump, the Ugly American is back."
Trump’s people are working so hard to wreck the planet. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/c...
Trump Officials Accused of Bullying Tactics to Kill a Climate Measure
www.nytimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Trump’s people are working so hard to wreck the planet. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/c...
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I kid you not, Hegseth and everyone signing off on these need to be shipped off to the Hague when we retake power.
The U.S. military killed six people on Sunday in two more strikes on boats suspected of smuggling drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said, without providing evidence. The strikes raised the death toll in the campaign to 76 people.
U.S. Military Kills 6 in Strikes on Suspected Drug Boats, Hegseth Says
The latest strikes raised the death toll in the campaign to 76 people in 19 attacks in the Pacific and the Caribbean Sea since early September.
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November 10, 2025 at 4:30 PM
I kid you not, Hegseth and everyone signing off on these need to be shipped off to the Hague when we retake power.
i'll bet these guys miss @sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social now www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/b...
A MAGA Senator Promised Hope for a Dying Ohio Mill. Then Reality Set In.
www.nytimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:52 PM
i'll bet these guys miss @sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social now www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/b...
Yeah, the Trump crowd tore down the West Wing. But they've taken a bulldozer to the military, too. One more incredibly, needlessly destructive move by this reckless administration. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...
Hegseth Is Purging Military Leaders With Little Explanation
www.nytimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Yeah, the Trump crowd tore down the West Wing. But they've taken a bulldozer to the military, too. One more incredibly, needlessly destructive move by this reckless administration. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...
“It is anti-American at its core.” A great story from @danbarry58.bsky.social about yet another Trump fiasco of ego and sycophancy in the making
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A Two-Headed Coin That Always Comes Up ‘Trump’
www.nytimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 9:04 PM
“It is anti-American at its core.” A great story from @danbarry58.bsky.social about yet another Trump fiasco of ego and sycophancy in the making
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/u...
My grandson likes the label maker.
November 9, 2025 at 6:46 PM
My grandson likes the label maker.
Not even a concept of a plan, after all these years. Still floundering. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/u...
Trump Renews Attacks on Obamacare in New Push Over Government Shutdown
www.nytimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Not even a concept of a plan, after all these years. Still floundering. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/u...
Buy BS birth control theories, get pregnant. It’s natural! www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/u...
The MAHA-Fueled Rise of Natural Family Planning
www.nytimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Buy BS birth control theories, get pregnant. It’s natural! www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/u...
What a joy to find that the geeat Sharon Begley had written an advace Watson obit. Her genius shines from beyond the grave in this lively, smart and unsparing piece. www.statnews.com/2025/11/07/j... via @statnews.com
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 4:29 PM
What a joy to find that the geeat Sharon Begley had written an advace Watson obit. Her genius shines from beyond the grave in this lively, smart and unsparing piece. www.statnews.com/2025/11/07/j... via @statnews.com
Trump wants to put the “mort” in mortgages.
November 9, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Trump wants to put the “mort” in mortgages.
Hellbent on starving children. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...
Trump Administration Live Updates: Officials Demand States ‘Undo’ Work to Send Full Food Stamps
www.nytimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Hellbent on starving children. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...
It’s murder. Plain and simple.
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Trump has accused boat crews of being narco-terrorists. The truth, AP found, is more nuanced
One was a fisherman struggling to eke out a living on $100 a month. Another was a career criminal. A third was a former military cadet.
apnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 2:16 PM
It’s murder. Plain and simple.
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0.5 % annual risk ... is a key metric for running a large insurance business in the NE. Why isn’t that level of risk the planning lever for governments... driving building codes, land use decisions, and investment priorities? @scrawford.bsky.social
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Insurers plan for extreme events that could crater their solvency. Shouldn’t all levels of government do the same?
What if a storm like Melissa hit the northeast US?
susanpcrawford.substack.com
November 8, 2025 at 3:29 AM
0.5 % annual risk ... is a key metric for running a large insurance business in the NE. Why isn’t that level of risk the planning lever for governments... driving building codes, land use decisions, and investment priorities? @scrawford.bsky.social
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I'm seeing criticism of this story, but I recommend reading it. It's a great piece by science writer @kchang.bsky.social about the ways that Avi Loeb of Harvard is leading discussions of science out past where the buses run, and it's told with wit and worry. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/s...
The Harvard Scientist, Kim Kardashian and the Comet That Probably Isn’t an Alien Spaceship
www.nytimes.com
November 8, 2025 at 11:33 PM
I'm seeing criticism of this story, but I recommend reading it. It's a great piece by science writer @kchang.bsky.social about the ways that Avi Loeb of Harvard is leading discussions of science out past where the buses run, and it's told with wit and worry. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/s...
My wife went to a meeting this morning; they served bbq. She didn't like the sandwich, so she tossed it in the kitchen trash can when she got home. I opened the trash can, saw the container, opened it and saw the sandwich and ate it. It was pretty good! But now she's making it sound like I'm weird.
November 8, 2025 at 11:28 PM
My wife went to a meeting this morning; they served bbq. She didn't like the sandwich, so she tossed it in the kitchen trash can when she got home. I opened the trash can, saw the container, opened it and saw the sandwich and ate it. It was pretty good! But now she's making it sound like I'm weird.
This is what happens when you cut funding for public education.
November 8, 2025 at 4:55 PM
This is what happens when you cut funding for public education.
@drjuliamoonwall.bsky.social thanks for adding me!
November 8, 2025 at 4:42 PM
@drjuliamoonwall.bsky.social thanks for adding me!
Dang, @stevevladeck.bsky.social is super smart www.stevevladeck.com/p/190-snap-wtf
190. SNAP WTF?
A very quick explainer on why Justice Jackson issued an "administrative stay" in the SNAP case late on Friday night, and on what's likely to happen next
www.stevevladeck.com
November 8, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Dang, @stevevladeck.bsky.social is super smart www.stevevladeck.com/p/190-snap-wtf
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Let's see how many First Amendment violations we have in this one edict:
Religion ✔️
Speech ✔️
Peaceably assemble ✔️
Petition the government for redress of grievances ✔️
Press ❓(not quite, but they'll figure out a way)
Religion ✔️
Speech ✔️
Peaceably assemble ✔️
Petition the government for redress of grievances ✔️
Press ❓(not quite, but they'll figure out a way)
“Federal authorities told demonstrators Friday that there would be ‘no more prayer’ in front of or inside the Broadview ICE facility, in a move that mystified local leaders and raised legal questions.” blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/07/f...
Feds Tell Faith Leaders 'No More Prayer' Outside Broadview Facility
In a possible violation of the First Amendment, federal officials instructed demonstrators to stop holding religious gatherings outside the immigration processing facility in suburban Broadview after ...
blockclubchicago.org
November 8, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Let's see how many First Amendment violations we have in this one edict:
Religion ✔️
Speech ✔️
Peaceably assemble ✔️
Petition the government for redress of grievances ✔️
Press ❓(not quite, but they'll figure out a way)
Religion ✔️
Speech ✔️
Peaceably assemble ✔️
Petition the government for redress of grievances ✔️
Press ❓(not quite, but they'll figure out a way)
There is no reason for this cruelty. “One day he got 26 letters, leading one of the officers to ask him what kind of work he did. ‘I said, “I work in a dog park, and the community—everybody knows me.”’ ” @mikehalltexas.bsky.social with a story that should outrage anyone who reads it.
He Was a Beloved Dog Trainer and an Asylum Seeker. Why Was He Detained?
The humans love him, and so do the canines. What happened when ICE took Seyre Mussa Traore away.
www.texasmonthly.com
November 7, 2025 at 11:41 PM
There is no reason for this cruelty. “One day he got 26 letters, leading one of the officers to ask him what kind of work he did. ‘I said, “I work in a dog park, and the community—everybody knows me.”’ ” @mikehalltexas.bsky.social with a story that should outrage anyone who reads it.
“We can talk about the law and politics all day long, six ways to Sunday, but the essential question is whether or not truth itself has lost its standalone value,” said Uddin. “These are not rhetorical questions. They are the measure of our moral decline.” thebarbedwire.com/2025/11/04/h...
When Storytelling Is Called ‘Terrorism’: How My Friend and Fellow Journalist Was Targeted by ICE
As a DACA recipient, Ya'akub Ira Vijandre’s arrest holds drastic implications for the state of free speech in America.
thebarbedwire.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:54 PM
“We can talk about the law and politics all day long, six ways to Sunday, but the essential question is whether or not truth itself has lost its standalone value,” said Uddin. “These are not rhetorical questions. They are the measure of our moral decline.” thebarbedwire.com/2025/11/04/h...
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One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 6, 2025 at 9:00 PM
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
“What we’re about to embark upon is not merely a new chapter of the future of Tesla but a whole new book,” he announced.
IT’S A COOKBOOK!
www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
IT’S A COOKBOOK!
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Elon Musk wins $1 trillion pay package tying him to Tesla for a decade
In an era of skyrocketing CEO pay, the award is unprecedented. The deal sets up Elon Musk to become the world’s first trillionaire.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 6, 2025 at 10:21 PM
“What we’re about to embark upon is not merely a new chapter of the future of Tesla but a whole new book,” he announced.
IT’S A COOKBOOK!
www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
IT’S A COOKBOOK!
www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...