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December 30, 2025
December 30, 2025
The hallmark of the first year of President Donald J.
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
December 31, 2025 at 9:32 AM
December 30, 2025
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NYT just ran a bizarrely credulous piece about New College, the school that DeSantis and Rufo have turned upside down.
There is one good outcome of the article: This @donmoyn.bsky.social post, which is one of the best pieces of media criticism I've read all year.
open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...
There is one good outcome of the article: This @donmoyn.bsky.social post, which is one of the best pieces of media criticism I've read all year.
open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...
The NYT Recruiting Brochure for New College
A failing Ron DeSantis higher ed experiment gets a boost
open.substack.com
December 28, 2025 at 8:00 PM
NYT just ran a bizarrely credulous piece about New College, the school that DeSantis and Rufo have turned upside down.
There is one good outcome of the article: This @donmoyn.bsky.social post, which is one of the best pieces of media criticism I've read all year.
open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...
There is one good outcome of the article: This @donmoyn.bsky.social post, which is one of the best pieces of media criticism I've read all year.
open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...
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Elon is still going on about this. Rep Omar represent Minneapolis, still known as one of the whitest places in America at 59% white. Moreover Omar won this seat by *32pp*. It is one of the largest margins anywhere. You can’t steal a seat that blue.
December 28, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Elon is still going on about this. Rep Omar represent Minneapolis, still known as one of the whitest places in America at 59% white. Moreover Omar won this seat by *32pp*. It is one of the largest margins anywhere. You can’t steal a seat that blue.
Done. Happy New Year!
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December 27, 2025 at 3:42 AM
Done. Happy New Year!
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Signal boosting
This vehicle in journalism, is actually practicing genuine journalism. That matters
This vehicle in journalism, is actually practicing genuine journalism. That matters
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December 26, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Signal boosting
This vehicle in journalism, is actually practicing genuine journalism. That matters
This vehicle in journalism, is actually practicing genuine journalism. That matters
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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.
open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
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.
open.substack.com
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.
open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
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The DOJ identified at least 10 co-conspirators who worked with Epstein and Maxwell. It’s obvious to anyone with two eyes that Epstein and Maxwell were engaged in organized crime, yet NO ONE ELSE involved in Epstein’s sex trafficking ring has faced criminal charges. Why?
December 23, 2025 at 6:15 PM
The DOJ identified at least 10 co-conspirators who worked with Epstein and Maxwell. It’s obvious to anyone with two eyes that Epstein and Maxwell were engaged in organized crime, yet NO ONE ELSE involved in Epstein’s sex trafficking ring has faced criminal charges. Why?
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"Of the 40 biggest claims on DOGE’s list, The Times found only 12 that appeared accurate" www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u... the business genius, at it again
How Did DOGE Disrupt So Much While Saving So Little?
www.nytimes.com
December 25, 2025 at 1:14 PM
"Of the 40 biggest claims on DOGE’s list, The Times found only 12 that appeared accurate" www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u... the business genius, at it again
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Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house
Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse;
The stockings were hung by the chimney with care,
And 1 million Epstein files appeared from thin air
Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse;
The stockings were hung by the chimney with care,
And 1 million Epstein files appeared from thin air
December 24, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house
Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse;
The stockings were hung by the chimney with care,
And 1 million Epstein files appeared from thin air
Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse;
The stockings were hung by the chimney with care,
And 1 million Epstein files appeared from thin air
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The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
December 23, 2025 at 1:28 AM
The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
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At least we have the foreign press to tell us how it is
December 22, 2025 at 1:10 PM
At least we have the foreign press to tell us how it is
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I see this all the time in FB book groups. Someone sincerely asks for recommendations (fiction) and a third of the replies are stuff from assigned reading lists (yawn!!!).
People, we have the internet.
If the asker wanted a high school reading list, they could have just Googled.
People, we have the internet.
If the asker wanted a high school reading list, they could have just Googled.
December 22, 2025 at 2:31 PM
I see this all the time in FB book groups. Someone sincerely asks for recommendations (fiction) and a third of the replies are stuff from assigned reading lists (yawn!!!).
People, we have the internet.
If the asker wanted a high school reading list, they could have just Googled.
People, we have the internet.
If the asker wanted a high school reading list, they could have just Googled.
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This has been precisely my experience. I experimented a lot with ChatGPT for research-related work, summarizing, discovery, etc. The more I knew about a topic, the more errors and misleading assertions I saw in the bot’s outputs.
suspect a big reason why many academics and others who work in areas where getting facts RIGHT is key are disinterested in using LLMs for research:
they’ve tried it, they keep noticing major errors in output, and they conclude that having to verify all that doesn’t actually save them time.
they’ve tried it, they keep noticing major errors in output, and they conclude that having to verify all that doesn’t actually save them time.
December 22, 2025 at 2:41 PM
This has been precisely my experience. I experimented a lot with ChatGPT for research-related work, summarizing, discovery, etc. The more I knew about a topic, the more errors and misleading assertions I saw in the bot’s outputs.
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as foretold by the prophesy
![Managing requires certain kinds of soft skills, ones I am not confident you possess. They weren’t necessary in your cushy Wall Street Journal op-ed job, or your cushier New York Times op-ed job. They were barely required at the publication you invented, The Free Press. So now you’re the head honcho at CBS News. [highlighted text] Let’s say you decide to skip levels to directly edit a 60 Minutes story. It doesn’t even have to be a controversial story to make all hell break loose — because you have neither the credibility nor the relationships required to take this kind of work on. And what’s more, you’ve got a news division composed exclusively of ambitious piranhas below you — not your handpicked cronies, like Tyler “I wish to see Hollywood virgins” Cowen. These people have decades in television, and you have a newsletter and a history of throwing your colleagues under the bus. [end of highlight]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:j3tpb4iabrq3ukfaui6eymwf/bafkreiblgfxjkl4p7yos56wttujnqclubnwegqcdc7g74pdovoe24kzonu@jpeg)
December 22, 2025 at 3:48 AM
as foretold by the prophesy
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This catches something really important. The risk
is less that this crew changes the regime and more that while trying to do so they cash out the whole thing. Which is one more powerful reason why resistance is patriotic.
is less that this crew changes the regime and more that while trying to do so they cash out the whole thing. Which is one more powerful reason why resistance is patriotic.
The U.S. is giving dying mall vibes.
I can't explain it, but you know I'm right.
I can't explain it, but you know I'm right.
December 19, 2025 at 2:03 AM
This catches something really important. The risk
is less that this crew changes the regime and more that while trying to do so they cash out the whole thing. Which is one more powerful reason why resistance is patriotic.
is less that this crew changes the regime and more that while trying to do so they cash out the whole thing. Which is one more powerful reason why resistance is patriotic.
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The "poverty penalty."
Excellent points.
Excellent points.
December 18, 2025 at 1:47 PM
The "poverty penalty."
Excellent points.
Excellent points.
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Cis people really have no idea how it feels to watch a regime hold a press conference to admit, on camera, the pogrom against trans people they've been waging for 11 months is not only real, but they're going to double down on genocide and try to wipe out all the children first.
December 18, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Cis people really have no idea how it feels to watch a regime hold a press conference to admit, on camera, the pogrom against trans people they've been waging for 11 months is not only real, but they're going to double down on genocide and try to wipe out all the children first.
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Yelling, lying; yelling, lying; yelling, lying. So inspiring.
December 18, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Yelling, lying; yelling, lying; yelling, lying. So inspiring.
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The ACA isn't just "health care for people who don't have a conventional employer." It also disallows something that was incredibly common 20 years ago, which I fear is getting lost to generational memory: insurance companies could deny you health care for essentially any previous health problem.
I'm dubious about Amazon's commitment to keeping pre-existing conditions a thing of the past.
December 14, 2025 at 11:50 PM
The ACA isn't just "health care for people who don't have a conventional employer." It also disallows something that was incredibly common 20 years ago, which I fear is getting lost to generational memory: insurance companies could deny you health care for essentially any previous health problem.
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Swell.
"Americans who don’t get insurance through their employer would be given cash directly into an account, which would reportedly be paired with a high-deductible health plan, meaning higher insurance premiums would be replaced by higher out-of-pocket costs."
newrepublic.com/post/204247/...
"Americans who don’t get insurance through their employer would be given cash directly into an account, which would reportedly be paired with a high-deductible health plan, meaning higher insurance premiums would be replaced by higher out-of-pocket costs."
newrepublic.com/post/204247/...
Mike Johnson Finally Reveals GOP’s Health Care Plan—and It’s Rough
Johnson presented his caucus with 10 ideas but told them just to pick a few to implement.
newrepublic.com
December 11, 2025 at 5:09 AM
Swell.
"Americans who don’t get insurance through their employer would be given cash directly into an account, which would reportedly be paired with a high-deductible health plan, meaning higher insurance premiums would be replaced by higher out-of-pocket costs."
newrepublic.com/post/204247/...
"Americans who don’t get insurance through their employer would be given cash directly into an account, which would reportedly be paired with a high-deductible health plan, meaning higher insurance premiums would be replaced by higher out-of-pocket costs."
newrepublic.com/post/204247/...
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You can tell from the way he jokes about it that the boat strike campaign is a very legal, very discriminating operation.
Performative killing for the amusement of the U.S. President.
Performative killing for the amusement of the U.S. President.
Trump: "The problem is nobody wants to go fishing anymore. They don't want to get in boats. They don't want anything to do with boats. I think we've destroyed the boat market. Other than that it's been very effective."
December 10, 2025 at 1:49 AM
You can tell from the way he jokes about it that the boat strike campaign is a very legal, very discriminating operation.
Performative killing for the amusement of the U.S. President.
Performative killing for the amusement of the U.S. President.
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Update on one of the 29 wars Trump says he personally ended.
December 8, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Update on one of the 29 wars Trump says he personally ended.
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HOPE WALZ: “What world are we f*cking living in? I draw the line at Gus. You people are f*cking disgraceful.”
She says MAGA loyalists are now driving by their home and yelling “R*tard!” at her family and her special needs brother after Trump called GovTimWalz the R word.
She says MAGA loyalists are now driving by their home and yelling “R*tard!” at her family and her special needs brother after Trump called GovTimWalz the R word.
December 7, 2025 at 3:37 PM
HOPE WALZ: “What world are we f*cking living in? I draw the line at Gus. You people are f*cking disgraceful.”
She says MAGA loyalists are now driving by their home and yelling “R*tard!” at her family and her special needs brother after Trump called GovTimWalz the R word.
She says MAGA loyalists are now driving by their home and yelling “R*tard!” at her family and her special needs brother after Trump called GovTimWalz the R word.
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Tom Nichols: “This ongoing game show of ‘strike a boat every day’ […] is making us into worse people — every one of us, whether we’re in uniform or just ordinary citizens. It is spiritually and morally corrosive on every level.”
@radiofreetom.bsky.social
@radiofreetom.bsky.social
December 6, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Tom Nichols: “This ongoing game show of ‘strike a boat every day’ […] is making us into worse people — every one of us, whether we’re in uniform or just ordinary citizens. It is spiritually and morally corrosive on every level.”
@radiofreetom.bsky.social
@radiofreetom.bsky.social