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Here are the people and institutions that gave me hope in 2025. 1/ www.thenation.com/article/soci...
The Public Health Heroes of 2025
The Trump administration wants to destroy our health infrastructure. These warriors aren't letting that happen without a fight.
www.thenation.com
December 19, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Here are the people and institutions that gave me hope in 2025. 1/ www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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"AOC understands how wrestling works, and she understands that wrestling is popular media now and popular media is politics now."
Patrick Gaspard and Tim Miller on Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's response to whether she could beat JD Vance in 2028.
Patrick Gaspard and Tim Miller on Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's response to whether she could beat JD Vance in 2028.
December 19, 2025 at 11:01 AM
"AOC understands how wrestling works, and she understands that wrestling is popular media now and popular media is politics now."
Patrick Gaspard and Tim Miller on Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's response to whether she could beat JD Vance in 2028.
Patrick Gaspard and Tim Miller on Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's response to whether she could beat JD Vance in 2028.
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“I didn't expect this book to be analyzed like ‘The Great Gatsby,’” hockey smut author Rachel Reid tells WIRED. www.wired.com/story/heated...
From Queer-Baiting to Neurodivergence: ‘Heated Rivalry’s Author Tackles Fan Theories and Controversy
“I didn't expect this book to be analyzed like ‘The Great Gatsby,’” hockey smut author Rachel Reid tells WIRED.
www.wired.com
December 19, 2025 at 11:04 AM
“I didn't expect this book to be analyzed like ‘The Great Gatsby,’” hockey smut author Rachel Reid tells WIRED. www.wired.com/story/heated...
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One of the best things I’ve read this year: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Melissa Hortman Died in a Shocking Act of Political Violence. This Is the Story of Her Life
Melissa Hortman died in a shocking act of political violence. This is her story
www.rollingstone.com
December 19, 2025 at 5:28 AM
One of the best things I’ve read this year: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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REALLY good game. survival city-builder/management. gorgeous art, big blue skies, big blue waves (your city rolls up and down on them!), big nice whales
December 18, 2025 at 8:50 PM
REALLY good game. survival city-builder/management. gorgeous art, big blue skies, big blue waves (your city rolls up and down on them!), big nice whales
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This is a blow to the conservative effort to embed Christian teachings in state standards in Oklahoma. There have been a number of efforts to push education in the state to the right, which I detailed in this story. It has been a testing ground and remains an interesting state to watch.
December 17, 2025 at 10:31 PM
This is a blow to the conservative effort to embed Christian teachings in state standards in Oklahoma. There have been a number of efforts to push education in the state to the right, which I detailed in this story. It has been a testing ground and remains an interesting state to watch.
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Why CBS News Hired Cancel Culture's Biggest Grifter (ft. Michael Hobbes)
youtu.be/qNlW_kjBnTY
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December 16, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Why CBS News Hired Cancel Culture's Biggest Grifter (ft. Michael Hobbes)
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Reports that Jared Kushner dropped Trump Tower in Belgrade are good news. It shows that resistance works, despite an authoritarian regime working with US administration and money from the UAE. It will further isolate Vučić and reduce the interest of Trump in Serbia.
www.wsj.com/world/trump-...
www.wsj.com/world/trump-...
After Backlash, Jared Kushner Drops Plan to Build a Trump Hotel in Serbia
For more than two years, the U.S. president’s son-in-law had sought to build a complex of towers in a central Belgrade site once bombed by NATO.
www.wsj.com
December 15, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Reports that Jared Kushner dropped Trump Tower in Belgrade are good news. It shows that resistance works, despite an authoritarian regime working with US administration and money from the UAE. It will further isolate Vučić and reduce the interest of Trump in Serbia.
www.wsj.com/world/trump-...
www.wsj.com/world/trump-...
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Liz Cook in Defector!
Two nights playing with fire at Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelce's steakhouse: defector.com/two-nights-p...
Two Nights Playing With Fire At Patrick Mahomes And Travis Kelce's Steakhouse | Defector
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — As celebrity restaurant mascots, athletes offer a tidy sense of vertical integration: Why not supply the very calories they need to expend on the field? I’m surprised there are so…
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December 16, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Liz Cook in Defector!
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Google AI summaries are ruining the livelihoods of recipe writers: ‘It’s an extinction event’
Google AI summaries are ruining the livelihoods of recipe writers: ‘It’s an extinction event’
AI Mode is mangling recipes by merging instructions from multiple creators – and causing them huge dips in ad traffic
www.theguardian.com
December 16, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Google AI summaries are ruining the livelihoods of recipe writers: ‘It’s an extinction event’
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🧵 NSF is reducing external review requirements and eliminating routine expert panels, citing staff shortages that this administration implemented. This change expands program officer authority. But the solution to flawed accountability isn't less public accountability.
NSF plans to streamline merit review to heal self-inflicted staffing wound www.science.org/content/arti...
NSF pares down grant-review process, reducing influence of outside scientists
Memo cites overburdened staff, but some say move also aims to elevate White House priorities
www.science.org
December 16, 2025 at 12:33 AM
🧵 NSF is reducing external review requirements and eliminating routine expert panels, citing staff shortages that this administration implemented. This change expands program officer authority. But the solution to flawed accountability isn't less public accountability.
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Today @raxkingisdead.bsky.social with a lyrical remembrance of Rob Reiner, written with a tenderness that will do you good (as it did me)
flaminghydra.com/issue-463/
flaminghydra.com/issue-463/
Love story / Green day
Rax King remembers Rob Reiner; the metamorphosis of Amy Chu
flaminghydra.com
December 16, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Today @raxkingisdead.bsky.social with a lyrical remembrance of Rob Reiner, written with a tenderness that will do you good (as it did me)
flaminghydra.com/issue-463/
flaminghydra.com/issue-463/
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Less than 48 hours after the deadly attack at Sydney's Bondi Beach that left more than a dozen dead, Australian authorities announced proposals for sweeping new gun laws. n.pr/48UTa7g
Australia announces strict new gun laws. Here's how it can act so swiftly
Less than 48 hours after the deadly attack at Sydney's Bondi Beach that left more than a dozen dead, Australian authorities announced proposals for sweeping new gun laws.
n.pr
December 15, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Less than 48 hours after the deadly attack at Sydney's Bondi Beach that left more than a dozen dead, Australian authorities announced proposals for sweeping new gun laws. n.pr/48UTa7g
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Tom Brady absolutely had some intrusive thoughts in that moment
December 15, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Tom Brady absolutely had some intrusive thoughts in that moment
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All eyes (should be) on the Georgia Public Service Commission. Voters there recently elected two Dems to the this powerful body, but the decision on Georgia Power's $15B proposal likely won't wait until they are sworn in:
apnews.com/article/geor...
apnews.com/article/geor...
Georgia Power says it needs a huge increase in power capacity to meet data center demand
Georgia's largest utility wants to spend more than $15 billion to increase its electricity capacity by 50% over the next six years to serve data centers.
apnews.com
December 14, 2025 at 8:20 PM
All eyes (should be) on the Georgia Public Service Commission. Voters there recently elected two Dems to the this powerful body, but the decision on Georgia Power's $15B proposal likely won't wait until they are sworn in:
apnews.com/article/geor...
apnews.com/article/geor...
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“Solar is no longer just cheap daytime electricity, now it’s anytime dispatchable electricity,” said Rangelova. “This is a game-changer for countries with fast-growing demand and strong solar resources.”
This is incredible (good news too): “After a 40% fall in 2024 in battery equipment costs, it’s clear we’re on track for another major fall in 2025…The economics for batteries are unrecognizable, & the industry is only just getting to grips with this new paradigm”
www.pv-magazine.com/2025/12/12/b...
www.pv-magazine.com/2025/12/12/b...
Batteries now cheap enough to make dispatchable solar economically feasible
Energy think tank Ember says utility-scale battery costs have fallen to $65/MWh outside China and the United States, enabling solar power to be delivered when needed.
www.pv-magazine.com
December 14, 2025 at 8:25 PM
“Solar is no longer just cheap daytime electricity, now it’s anytime dispatchable electricity,” said Rangelova. “This is a game-changer for countries with fast-growing demand and strong solar resources.”
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Jason crushed this, got damn, what an essay.
“A few years ago, every amateur historian with a bit of European heritage was chuffed to learn that Charlemagne was almost certainly among his ancestors.” www.liberalcurrents.com/they-were-al...
They Were All Our Ancestors
Nationalism chooses sides in the most awful family drama of all time. It sides with the evildoers, and never with their victims, and teaches you to do the same.
www.liberalcurrents.com
December 13, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Jason crushed this, got damn, what an essay.
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60,000 is the *low end* estimate.
So, El Fasher looks like one of the worst single event atrocities to happen this century so far, but the evidence has come in such a trickle it seems to only now be getting verified
At least 60,000 murdered in Sudanese city, which resembles ‘a slaughterhouse’
Satellite evidence shows extent of paramilitary massacre in El Fasher
www.irishtimes.com
December 13, 2025 at 5:04 AM
60,000 is the *low end* estimate.
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The man knew how to own a newspaper.
I hope the world we’re in keeps making Arthur L. Carters: people driven to achieve economic success and then spend the dividends on journalism that elevates community and collective responsibility to make a better world. He lost millions publishing The Nation! RIP.
Arthur L. Carter, 93, Dies; Investment Banker Founded a Cheeky Newspaper
www.nytimes.com
December 13, 2025 at 3:27 PM
The man knew how to own a newspaper.
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Delighted to have the opportunity to discuss the current influenza surge in today's Belfast Telegraph; the virus itself, what we should be doing to mitigate it - vaccination, ventilation, masks - and how infection control has become ideological.
www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/health/...
www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/health/...
‘Not a pleasant Christmas for the NHS’: ‘Super flu’ mutation will further stress NI healthcare system, says biorisk expert
The early surge in a so-called ‘super flu’ strain of the influenza virus is going to “dramatically stress” the Northern Ireland healthcare service in the run-up to Christmas, a biorisk expert has said...
www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk
December 12, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Delighted to have the opportunity to discuss the current influenza surge in today's Belfast Telegraph; the virus itself, what we should be doing to mitigate it - vaccination, ventilation, masks - and how infection control has become ideological.
www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/health/...
www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/health/...
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio has ordered U.S. diplomats to use Times New Roman in official communications and drop Calibri.
Our Declassified humor unpacks this American war on woke fonts 👇
www.politico.eu/article/us-w...
Our Declassified humor unpacks this American war on woke fonts 👇
www.politico.eu/article/us-w...
US wages war on woke fonts
It’s goodbye to Calibri and hello (again) to Times New Roman.
www.politico.eu
December 12, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Secretary of State Marco Rubio has ordered U.S. diplomats to use Times New Roman in official communications and drop Calibri.
Our Declassified humor unpacks this American war on woke fonts 👇
www.politico.eu/article/us-w...
Our Declassified humor unpacks this American war on woke fonts 👇
www.politico.eu/article/us-w...
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No surprise that the nuclear industry is undermining renewable energy in the US. They’ve been doing that in France for a long time.
How a Nuclear-Fossil Fuel Alliance Is Winning the Fight for Energy Dominance
The once unlikely partnership’s influence now reaches right into the White House, where President Trump wants to ban certain renewable projects.
www.bloomberg.com
December 12, 2025 at 3:06 AM
No surprise that the nuclear industry is undermining renewable energy in the US. They’ve been doing that in France for a long time.
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Talking about what we get wrong about the Montgomery Bus Boycott and Rosa Parks— and how the real, fuller story gives us much more for our struggle today on @democracynow.org :
www.democracynow.org/2025/12/10/m...
www.democracynow.org/2025/12/10/m...
What Activists Can Learn from Rosa Parks on the 70th Anniversary of Montgomery Bus Boycott
What are the lessons from the Montgomery bus boycott launched 70 years ago this month? The boycott, which sparked the civil rights movement, began after the arrest of Rosa Parks for refusing to give u...
www.democracynow.org
December 12, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Talking about what we get wrong about the Montgomery Bus Boycott and Rosa Parks— and how the real, fuller story gives us much more for our struggle today on @democracynow.org :
www.democracynow.org/2025/12/10/m...
www.democracynow.org/2025/12/10/m...
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“What most struck me is the brutality and physical violence involved in every story,” said Sen. Richard Blumenthal. “This is stuff that should be unrecognizable as America. It should make everyday Americans outraged.”
By @nicolefoy.bsky.social
By @nicolefoy.bsky.social
Immigration Agents Have Often Grabbed and Mistreated Citizens, Congressional Investigators Find
Prompted by ProPublica’s reporting, an investigation by Senate Democrats documented the experiences of nearly two dozen citizens wrongly detained by immigration agents, contradicting the Trump adminis...
www.propublica.org
December 11, 2025 at 11:00 PM
“What most struck me is the brutality and physical violence involved in every story,” said Sen. Richard Blumenthal. “This is stuff that should be unrecognizable as America. It should make everyday Americans outraged.”
By @nicolefoy.bsky.social
By @nicolefoy.bsky.social
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A planned rule to set new silica exposure limits—and finally address Appalachia’s devastating black lung crisis—has been under continued assault by coal bosses and the Trump admin. Now, it looks like it’s off the table entirely.
New for @inthesetimes.com: inthesetimes.com/article/the-...
New for @inthesetimes.com: inthesetimes.com/article/the-...
The Trump Administration Ramps Up Its War On Coal Miners
A planned rule to set new silica exposure limits—and address Appalachia’s ongoing black lung crisis—has been under continued assault. Now, it looks like it's off the table.
inthesetimes.com
December 11, 2025 at 11:06 PM
A planned rule to set new silica exposure limits—and finally address Appalachia’s devastating black lung crisis—has been under continued assault by coal bosses and the Trump admin. Now, it looks like it’s off the table entirely.
New for @inthesetimes.com: inthesetimes.com/article/the-...
New for @inthesetimes.com: inthesetimes.com/article/the-...