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This is a genuine question:
At that moment, a reporter says something like, "That's a lie! Why do you continue to lie to the American people?"'
Other than generating viral posts and driving the news cycle for a few hours, what do you think would then happen?
At that moment, a reporter says something like, "That's a lie! Why do you continue to lie to the American people?"'
Other than generating viral posts and driving the news cycle for a few hours, what do you think would then happen?
This the core problem with the White House Press Corps encapsulated: Karoline Leavitt just lied right to your face, you know she's incorrect, and you just move on to your next topic.
It matters that she's wrong and/or lying about it! Stay there!
It matters that she's wrong and/or lying about it! Stay there!
Q: You acknowledged that CPI in January was 3%. In September, the last month we have data, it was also 3%
LEAVITT: It's 2.5%
Q: Not in September. It was 3%
LEAVITT: I have it in front of me
LEAVITT: It's 2.5%
Q: Not in September. It was 3%
LEAVITT: I have it in front of me
December 11, 2025 at 10:46 PM
This is a genuine question:
At that moment, a reporter says something like, "That's a lie! Why do you continue to lie to the American people?"'
Other than generating viral posts and driving the news cycle for a few hours, what do you think would then happen?
At that moment, a reporter says something like, "That's a lie! Why do you continue to lie to the American people?"'
Other than generating viral posts and driving the news cycle for a few hours, what do you think would then happen?
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This is necessary
Handwritten and oral exams are making a comeback
AI is accelerating a tech backlash in American classrooms
Handwritten and oral exams are making a comeback
econ.st
November 30, 2025 at 7:32 PM
This is necessary
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So not only were we busy telling the world what we were doing on insecure Signal chats, we were shooting down our own people at the same time. It has costs to put incompetent people in charge of national security, and I fear we are just beginning to pay them.
www.businessinsider.com/navy-warship...
www.businessinsider.com/navy-warship...
A Navy warship mistook US fighter jets for enemy missiles and opened fire. The targeted pilot saw his life flash before his eyes.
New documents reveal how the USS Gettysburg shot down an F/A-18 and nearly hit a second one above the Red Sea last year.
www.businessinsider.com
December 6, 2025 at 12:05 AM
So not only were we busy telling the world what we were doing on insecure Signal chats, we were shooting down our own people at the same time. It has costs to put incompetent people in charge of national security, and I fear we are just beginning to pay them.
www.businessinsider.com/navy-warship...
www.businessinsider.com/navy-warship...
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This short video will give you a sense of the significance of Ukrainian History Global Initiative's project, and of the work of some colleagues.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuWh...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuWh...
What Deep and Global History Of Ukraine Really Means
YouTube video by Ukrainian History Global Initiative
www.youtube.com
December 6, 2025 at 4:38 PM
This short video will give you a sense of the significance of Ukrainian History Global Initiative's project, and of the work of some colleagues.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuWh...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuWh...
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We are told that, under stress, the humanities must be sacrificed. But amidst a war of aggression scholars in Ukraine have undertaken one of the most ambitious knowledge projects of our time. It's a privilege to be involved with Ukrainian History Global Initiative
snyder.substack.com/p/ukrainian-...
snyder.substack.com/p/ukrainian-...
Ukrainian History Global Initiative
The Creative Humanities During a War of Destruction
snyder.substack.com
December 6, 2025 at 4:38 PM
We are told that, under stress, the humanities must be sacrificed. But amidst a war of aggression scholars in Ukraine have undertaken one of the most ambitious knowledge projects of our time. It's a privilege to be involved with Ukrainian History Global Initiative
snyder.substack.com/p/ukrainian-...
snyder.substack.com/p/ukrainian-...
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And Ukrainian journalists, civil society, and legal institutions still work.
The baroque corruption schemes playing out in America and Russia completely outclass the kickback scandal in Ukraine.
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
Trumpian Corruption Is Worse Than Ukrainian Corruption
The people of Ukraine want an honest government, even as American and Russian kleptocrats circle their country.
www.theatlantic.com
December 7, 2025 at 7:54 PM
And Ukrainian journalists, civil society, and legal institutions still work.
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Tucker Carlson has hosted Hitler apologists on his show. Now he says Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a pastor who tried to kill Hitler, was not being Christian. He isn't making a theological argument. He's just morally inverting World War II and the Holocaust, to make space for their villains to rise again.
November 13, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Tucker Carlson has hosted Hitler apologists on his show. Now he says Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a pastor who tried to kill Hitler, was not being Christian. He isn't making a theological argument. He's just morally inverting World War II and the Holocaust, to make space for their villains to rise again.
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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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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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As a Quaker organization, we abhor all violence because we believe every person has sacred worth.
We are deeply disturbed by the wanton, unrestrained violence we are seeing this administration carry out - both at home and abroad. Thank you, Sen. Murphy, for sounding the alarm.
We are deeply disturbed by the wanton, unrestrained violence we are seeing this administration carry out - both at home and abroad. Thank you, Sen. Murphy, for sounding the alarm.
What we are watching - as U.S. citizens are dragged out of cars and illegal war is waged in the Caribbean - is the corruption of the most sacred power we give the President - the power of violence.
We are no longer a democracy if the regime can use violence without restraint.
We are no longer a democracy if the regime can use violence without restraint.
December 5, 2025 at 9:52 PM
As a Quaker organization, we abhor all violence because we believe every person has sacred worth.
We are deeply disturbed by the wanton, unrestrained violence we are seeing this administration carry out - both at home and abroad. Thank you, Sen. Murphy, for sounding the alarm.
We are deeply disturbed by the wanton, unrestrained violence we are seeing this administration carry out - both at home and abroad. Thank you, Sen. Murphy, for sounding the alarm.
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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-...
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"Whoever is in your life,
those who harm you,
those who help you;
those whom you know
and those whom you do not know —
let them off the hook,
help them off the hook."
Leonard Cohen on the antidote to anger and the meaning of resistance: www.themarginalian.org/2024/07/18/l...
those who harm you,
those who help you;
those whom you know
and those whom you do not know —
let them off the hook,
help them off the hook."
Leonard Cohen on the antidote to anger and the meaning of resistance: www.themarginalian.org/2024/07/18/l...
December 11, 2025 at 6:02 PM
"Whoever is in your life,
those who harm you,
those who help you;
those whom you know
and those whom you do not know —
let them off the hook,
help them off the hook."
Leonard Cohen on the antidote to anger and the meaning of resistance: www.themarginalian.org/2024/07/18/l...
those who harm you,
those who help you;
those whom you know
and those whom you do not know —
let them off the hook,
help them off the hook."
Leonard Cohen on the antidote to anger and the meaning of resistance: www.themarginalian.org/2024/07/18/l...
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The Kremlin likes to exercise rhetorical dominance over Trump and they say this in the safe knowledge that we won’t invade or that if we do it will be a disaster. Trump might think of Putin as a friend but that’s not how Russia sees the US. The US is to be humiliated, fragmented, and weakened.
I’m totally lost. I thought we were invading Venezuela. And now allies with Russia. So the friend of my “friend”
is…?
is…?
"The Russian President expressed solidarity with the Venezuelan people and confirmed his support for [the Maduro] government's course in defense of the country's sovereignty."
December 11, 2025 at 6:01 PM
The Kremlin likes to exercise rhetorical dominance over Trump and they say this in the safe knowledge that we won’t invade or that if we do it will be a disaster. Trump might think of Putin as a friend but that’s not how Russia sees the US. The US is to be humiliated, fragmented, and weakened.
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I just read that trump claimed
82% of Ukrainians demand a peace settlement.
No.
That’s a lie.
A Ukrainian is speaking.
82% of Ukrainians demand a peace settlement.
No.
That’s a lie.
A Ukrainian is speaking.
December 11, 2025 at 6:01 PM
I just read that trump claimed
82% of Ukrainians demand a peace settlement.
No.
That’s a lie.
A Ukrainian is speaking.
82% of Ukrainians demand a peace settlement.
No.
That’s a lie.
A Ukrainian is speaking.
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The request came from the Center for American Rights, a nonprofit law firm that has played a prominent role in the news-distortion investigations spearheaded by FCC Chairman Brendan Carr.
After NPR and PBS defunding, FCC receives call to take away station licenses
NPR and PBS stations targeted by group involved in Carr’s news-distortion probes.
arstechnica.com
December 11, 2025 at 6:18 PM
The request came from the Center for American Rights, a nonprofit law firm that has played a prominent role in the news-distortion investigations spearheaded by FCC Chairman Brendan Carr.
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Collecting data at the edge of an unstable glacier is risky business. One team is getting help from robots, and listening in on the sounds of air bubbles bursting and calving icebergs rumbling to learn more about melting ice.
What The Sounds Of Melting Glaciers Can Tell Us
A glacier’s edge can be a dangerous place to do research. This team is using robots and sound samples to monitor the melting ice.
buff.ly
December 11, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Collecting data at the edge of an unstable glacier is risky business. One team is getting help from robots, and listening in on the sounds of air bubbles bursting and calving icebergs rumbling to learn more about melting ice.
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The actor Sir Ian McKellen, a Shakespearean actor also known as the wizard Gandalf in all three “Lord of the Rings” films, is coming to Chicago Shakespeare Theater for a one-night benefit performance in January.
Ian McKellan will perform Shakespeare — and Gandalf — in Chicago
The actor Sir Ian McKellen, a Shakespearean actor also known as the wizard Gandalf in all three “Lord of the Rings” films, is coming to Chicago Shakespeare Theater.
trib.al
December 11, 2025 at 6:23 PM
The actor Sir Ian McKellen, a Shakespearean actor also known as the wizard Gandalf in all three “Lord of the Rings” films, is coming to Chicago Shakespeare Theater for a one-night benefit performance in January.
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Looming over all the details here of dishonesty, etc. is that in the first weeks of the Administration's deportion push, they deported a man in error.
And rather than simply admit that and bring him back, they have gone to Kafka-esque lengths to punish him for the effrontery of being innocent.
And rather than simply admit that and bring him back, they have gone to Kafka-esque lengths to punish him for the effrontery of being innocent.
BREAKING: Judge Paula Xinis orders the immediate release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia from immigration custody
December 11, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Looming over all the details here of dishonesty, etc. is that in the first weeks of the Administration's deportion push, they deported a man in error.
And rather than simply admit that and bring him back, they have gone to Kafka-esque lengths to punish him for the effrontery of being innocent.
And rather than simply admit that and bring him back, they have gone to Kafka-esque lengths to punish him for the effrontery of being innocent.
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In our latest 'Little Gold Men' episode, Jacob Elordi reveals to @beccamford.bsky.social what Frankenstein’s creature has to do with Jesus, if Nate from ‘Euphoria’ can find redemption next season, and why he hates talking about AI: “It’s so f--king boring.”
'Frankenstein' Actor Jacob Elordi Returned to the Euphoria Set a Movie Star
The Australian actor, who plays the creature in Guillermo del Toro’s moving film, on how his career has transformed since the first season of HBO’s hit series—and why he hates talking about AI: “It’s ...
www.vanityfair.com
December 11, 2025 at 6:37 PM
In our latest 'Little Gold Men' episode, Jacob Elordi reveals to @beccamford.bsky.social what Frankenstein’s creature has to do with Jesus, if Nate from ‘Euphoria’ can find redemption next season, and why he hates talking about AI: “It’s so f--king boring.”
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Loved talking to Jacob Elordi about Frankenstein, Euphoria, and what he loves about cinema. He also had some frank thoughts on AI: "I have no tolerance for it—nor the ever encroaching, constant conversation that we keep having about it." www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/st...
'Frankenstein' Actor Jacob Elordi Returned to the Euphoria Set a Movie Star
The Australian actor, who plays the creature in Guillermo del Toro’s moving film, on how his career has transformed since the first season of HBO’s hit series—and why he hates talking about AI: “It’s ...
www.vanityfair.com
December 11, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Loved talking to Jacob Elordi about Frankenstein, Euphoria, and what he loves about cinema. He also had some frank thoughts on AI: "I have no tolerance for it—nor the ever encroaching, constant conversation that we keep having about it." www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/st...
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MAGAZINER: How many veterans have you deported?
NOEM: We haven't deported veterans
MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea
NOEM: We haven't deported veterans
MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea
December 11, 2025 at 4:22 PM
MAGAZINER: How many veterans have you deported?
NOEM: We haven't deported veterans
MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea
NOEM: We haven't deported veterans
MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea
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Our new Age Verification Resource Hub is live at EFF.org/Age — and next week (12/15–12/17), we’re hosting an AMA on r/privacy to talk about it. Come ask us anything about what these sweeping laws really mean for your rights and safety.
Age Verification and Age Gating: Resource Hub
Age verification (or age-gating) laws generally require online services to check, estimate, or verify all users’ ages—often through invasive tools like ID checks, biometric scans, or other dubious
www.eff.org
December 11, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Our new Age Verification Resource Hub is live at EFF.org/Age — and next week (12/15–12/17), we’re hosting an AMA on r/privacy to talk about it. Come ask us anything about what these sweeping laws really mean for your rights and safety.
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all of this AND it all houses an incredible goodreads scoop
This is a really disturbing story on several levels and certainly anyone who interacts with the Pentagon specifically or the administration more generally should read it:
I asked the Pentagon about Pete Hegseth's mentor. Then the threats started.
Journalism in the second Trump administration gets personal.
www.motherjones.com
December 11, 2025 at 5:29 PM
all of this AND it all houses an incredible goodreads scoop