Just saw NYTimes Peter Baker piece. Big fan, but I can’t worry about the cosmetics of this presidency when its psychosis, criminality, and authoritarianism are dominating the news.
December 21, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Just saw NYTimes Peter Baker piece. Big fan, but I can’t worry about the cosmetics of this presidency when its psychosis, criminality, and authoritarianism are dominating the news.
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December 20, 2025 at 2:00 PM
If you are looking for a weekend read, I hope you will consider my @talkingpointsmemo.com series on the realities of mass deportation and the emerging Undocumented Underground that is fighting back. talkingpointsmemo.com/undocumented...
Wonder what happened last night in Phoenix.
December 20, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Wonder what happened last night in Phoenix.
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I'm not even going to repost a screengrab of his post about Rob Reiner but man it really needs to be said every single day: Trump truly is the biggest piece of shit in the world, a man of absolutely no good qualities and seemingly limitless bad ones. Support for him is just so damning.
December 15, 2025 at 3:55 PM
I'm not even going to repost a screengrab of his post about Rob Reiner but man it really needs to be said every single day: Trump truly is the biggest piece of shit in the world, a man of absolutely no good qualities and seemingly limitless bad ones. Support for him is just so damning.
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Extraordinary courage from Ahmed al Ahmed, a Muslim, 43-year-old father of two, who bravely risked his life to save his neighbors celebrating Hanukkah.
Praying for his full & speedy recovery.
And so deeply inspired by his example.
Praying for his full & speedy recovery.
And so deeply inspired by his example.
December 14, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Extraordinary courage from Ahmed al Ahmed, a Muslim, 43-year-old father of two, who bravely risked his life to save his neighbors celebrating Hanukkah.
Praying for his full & speedy recovery.
And so deeply inspired by his example.
Praying for his full & speedy recovery.
And so deeply inspired by his example.
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I would like the phrase and concept of "common decency" to make a comeback
December 10, 2025 at 3:30 PM
I would like the phrase and concept of "common decency" to make a comeback
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St Nicholas, Harwich, on his feast, seen from the sea. He was a popular dedication for medieval urban ports. In East Anglia alone Kings Lynn, Ipswich, Dunwich, Yarmouth, Salthouse, Wells and Blakeney also had churches dedicated to him, and there were chapels at Lowestoft, Southwold and Aldeburgh.
December 6, 2025 at 9:39 AM
St Nicholas, Harwich, on his feast, seen from the sea. He was a popular dedication for medieval urban ports. In East Anglia alone Kings Lynn, Ipswich, Dunwich, Yarmouth, Salthouse, Wells and Blakeney also had churches dedicated to him, and there were chapels at Lowestoft, Southwold and Aldeburgh.
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Wanted: Kalshi and Polymarket markets on duration of Trump dozing off at future events where he has to sit and listen www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
December 3, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Wanted: Kalshi and Polymarket markets on duration of Trump dozing off at future events where he has to sit and listen www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
So in the context of that kind of special election result, how long do people keep taking orders from the ranting old clown at yesterday’s Cabinet meeting? Where to look for data on that?
Don't know the final results here but looking like maybe a 15 pt swing toward the Dems from 2024. You absolutely can't extrapolate a special election to a midterm. But that kind of flip in a special is a Defcon 1, we're all going to die type warning for the House GOP.
December 3, 2025 at 12:42 PM
So in the context of that kind of special election result, how long do people keep taking orders from the ranting old clown at yesterday’s Cabinet meeting? Where to look for data on that?
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Don't know the final results here but looking like maybe a 15 pt swing toward the Dems from 2024. You absolutely can't extrapolate a special election to a midterm. But that kind of flip in a special is a Defcon 1, we're all going to die type warning for the House GOP.
December 3, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Don't know the final results here but looking like maybe a 15 pt swing toward the Dems from 2024. You absolutely can't extrapolate a special election to a midterm. But that kind of flip in a special is a Defcon 1, we're all going to die type warning for the House GOP.
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Important context that should always be noted in coverage, and too often isn't, because they're deliberately obfuscating this: "designated [foreign] terrorist organization" has nothing to do with legal authority for the use of force. It bans material assistance and triggers financial sanctions.
November 29, 2025 at 5:54 AM
Important context that should always be noted in coverage, and too often isn't, because they're deliberately obfuscating this: "designated [foreign] terrorist organization" has nothing to do with legal authority for the use of force. It bans material assistance and triggers financial sanctions.
If I had away to crank up the volume on Goldsmith, I would.
A running theme of Trump II is cautious, level-headed, mainstream, career professional experts sounding existential alarms about how we aren't panicking nearly enough.
I know you already know, but for other folks who don't, Goldsmith was previously head of OLC, is a genuinely brilliant mind on executive authority and separation of powers, and is usually very cautious about making claims this unqualified and direct. That he is saying it so starkly is v significant
November 29, 2025 at 6:11 AM
If I had away to crank up the volume on Goldsmith, I would.
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A running theme of Trump II is cautious, level-headed, mainstream, career professional experts sounding existential alarms about how we aren't panicking nearly enough.
I know you already know, but for other folks who don't, Goldsmith was previously head of OLC, is a genuinely brilliant mind on executive authority and separation of powers, and is usually very cautious about making claims this unqualified and direct. That he is saying it so starkly is v significant
November 29, 2025 at 6:05 AM
A running theme of Trump II is cautious, level-headed, mainstream, career professional experts sounding existential alarms about how we aren't panicking nearly enough.
That’s how I read it.
Do I understand correctly that there is now a dispute within the administration about whether this "peace plan" was written by Russians or Americans?
November 23, 2025 at 2:28 PM
That’s how I read it.
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Today's the feast of St Cecilia, patron saint of music, here in glass by Harry Ellis Wooldridge, 1873 at Thursford, Norfolk. There's a link to Voces8 singing 'Hymn to St Cecilia' by Benjamin Britten (born #OTD 22 November 1913) in the quoted thread, his setting of WH Auden's poem. 1/3
November 22, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Today's the feast of St Cecilia, patron saint of music, here in glass by Harry Ellis Wooldridge, 1873 at Thursford, Norfolk. There's a link to Voces8 singing 'Hymn to St Cecilia' by Benjamin Britten (born #OTD 22 November 1913) in the quoted thread, his setting of WH Auden's poem. 1/3
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Seriously - go look at the front pages of Axios, Politico, WaPo and NYT right now. Is there any sense of the depth of America’s betrayal of Europe? Does the coverage reflect in any way how GOP has suddenly made America subservient to Russia? That’s a nyet.
November 22, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Seriously - go look at the front pages of Axios, Politico, WaPo and NYT right now. Is there any sense of the depth of America’s betrayal of Europe? Does the coverage reflect in any way how GOP has suddenly made America subservient to Russia? That’s a nyet.
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Public universities are on course to pay fired football coaches more than $1 billion in severance in the last 10 years. Repeat, a BILLION dollars to a handful of fired gym teachers. My suggestion for fixing this: regulate the spenders, not the players.
www.theatlantic.com/culture/2025...
www.theatlantic.com/culture/2025...
How to Fix the Mess of College Sports
Athletic departments are spending too much money on the wrong things.
www.theatlantic.com
November 20, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Public universities are on course to pay fired football coaches more than $1 billion in severance in the last 10 years. Repeat, a BILLION dollars to a handful of fired gym teachers. My suggestion for fixing this: regulate the spenders, not the players.
www.theatlantic.com/culture/2025...
www.theatlantic.com/culture/2025...
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New from me:
Kash Patel is engaged in purges, removal of real accountability, and impunity for loyalists at the FBI.
Researchers told me that these are the exact patterns that create abusive national security organizations under authoritarianism. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/how-the-fb...
Kash Patel is engaged in purges, removal of real accountability, and impunity for loyalists at the FBI.
Researchers told me that these are the exact patterns that create abusive national security organizations under authoritarianism. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/how-the-fb...
How the FBI Became the Face of Deprofessionalization
What research tells us about national security under authoritarianism
donmoynihan.substack.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:39 PM
New from me:
Kash Patel is engaged in purges, removal of real accountability, and impunity for loyalists at the FBI.
Researchers told me that these are the exact patterns that create abusive national security organizations under authoritarianism. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/how-the-fb...
Kash Patel is engaged in purges, removal of real accountability, and impunity for loyalists at the FBI.
Researchers told me that these are the exact patterns that create abusive national security organizations under authoritarianism. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/how-the-fb...
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i think vance is only interesting inasmuch as he extremely unprincipled and thus a good guide to where the GOP is going (gift link)
Opinion | JD Vance Is Idling at the Edges of American Politics
www.nytimes.com
November 16, 2025 at 2:34 PM
i think vance is only interesting inasmuch as he extremely unprincipled and thus a good guide to where the GOP is going (gift link)
Remember. Yes! Remember.
November 13, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Remember. Yes! Remember.
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I feel like I just met JD Vance for the first time.
Word of the Day is ‘catchfart’ (17th century): an obsequious individual who sucks up to the boss and always follows the political wind.
November 7, 2025 at 12:28 PM
I feel like I just met JD Vance for the first time.
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There is something wrong with the president
Trump: "For generations Miami has been a haven for those fleeing communist tyranny in South Africa. I mean, if you take a look at what's going on in parts of South Africa. Look at South Africa, what's going on. Look at South America, what's going on. You know, we have a G20 meeting in South Africa."
November 5, 2025 at 9:32 PM
There is something wrong with the president
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November 5, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.
November 1, 2025 at 12:31 AM
We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.
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ALL AGAINST TRUMP
October 31, 2025 at 10:48 PM
ALL AGAINST TRUMP