Nunya Taylor-Joy
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We all have forests in our minds. Forests unexplored, unending. Each of us gets lost in the forest, every night, alone.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
We all have forests in our minds. Forests unexplored, unending. Each of us gets lost in the forest, every night, alone.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
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Today's newsletter: I read the Jack Smith transcript Republicans released on New Year's Eve so you don't have to. Here are 12 takeaways:
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House Republicans Buried the Jack Smith Transcript on New Year’s Eve. I Read It So You Don’t Have To.
12 takeaways from Smith's closed-door testimony
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January 1, 2026 at 8:53 PM
Today's newsletter: I read the Jack Smith transcript Republicans released on New Year's Eve so you don't have to. Here are 12 takeaways:
www.readtpa.com/p/house-repu...
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Trump golfed 1/4 of the days he was president in 2025. Costing US taxpayers to pay his Golf clubs $110,600,000.
January 1, 2026 at 3:32 PM
Trump golfed 1/4 of the days he was president in 2025. Costing US taxpayers to pay his Golf clubs $110,600,000.
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I don't want thick blood pouring through my heart. I want nice, thin blood pouring through my heart. Does that make sense?
January 1, 2026 at 3:25 PM
I don't want thick blood pouring through my heart. I want nice, thin blood pouring through my heart. Does that make sense?
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I hope history remembers Jack Smith's succinct answer about what caused the attack on the US Capitol on Jan 6.
January 1, 2026 at 4:42 PM
I hope history remembers Jack Smith's succinct answer about what caused the attack on the US Capitol on Jan 6.
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Once you look for, "does this [article / op-ed / claim by a politician] consider the 80% of Americans who live in urban areas to be real Americans?" you will see it everywhere, because the answer is usually "no."
I'm entirely serious about this: until you internalize the view that urban America is Real America, you won't see the urgency of structural reform of an American government whose fundamental structures so disadvantage its population centers—the great engines of its prosperity, progress, & culture.
Another good practice for the New Year would be for all the non-fascists in America who want to opine about politics to really begin believing that urban America is Real America & that its denizens are The Authentic People. Get some self-respect & drop the volkish nationalist view that they're not
January 1, 2026 at 4:05 PM
Once you look for, "does this [article / op-ed / claim by a politician] consider the 80% of Americans who live in urban areas to be real Americans?" you will see it everywhere, because the answer is usually "no."
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Jack Smith: The evidence made clear that President Trump was, by a large measure, the most culpable and most responsible person in this conspiracy. These crimes were committed for his benefit. The attack that happened at the Capitol as part of this case does not happen without him.
December 31, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Jack Smith: The evidence made clear that President Trump was, by a large measure, the most culpable and most responsible person in this conspiracy. These crimes were committed for his benefit. The attack that happened at the Capitol as part of this case does not happen without him.
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Question: But the president’s statements that he believed the election was rife with fraud—those are statements protected by the First Amendment, correct?
Smith: Absolutely not. If they are made to target a lawful government function and are made with knowing falsity, then no, they are not.
Smith: Absolutely not. If they are made to target a lawful government function and are made with knowing falsity, then no, they are not.
December 31, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Question: But the president’s statements that he believed the election was rife with fraud—those are statements protected by the First Amendment, correct?
Smith: Absolutely not. If they are made to target a lawful government function and are made with knowing falsity, then no, they are not.
Smith: Absolutely not. If they are made to target a lawful government function and are made with knowing falsity, then no, they are not.
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People voting for Trump believed him when he said he was so rich he couldn't be influenced by money.
You got a lying conman, who got rich by money laundering for the Russia mob and taking bribes and cheated people who worked for his companies.
Now he's stealing from our country, selling us out.
You got a lying conman, who got rich by money laundering for the Russia mob and taking bribes and cheated people who worked for his companies.
Now he's stealing from our country, selling us out.
December 31, 2025 at 3:28 PM
People voting for Trump believed him when he said he was so rich he couldn't be influenced by money.
You got a lying conman, who got rich by money laundering for the Russia mob and taking bribes and cheated people who worked for his companies.
Now he's stealing from our country, selling us out.
You got a lying conman, who got rich by money laundering for the Russia mob and taking bribes and cheated people who worked for his companies.
Now he's stealing from our country, selling us out.
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I’ve been wondering for the last year when we’d get to the library destruction phase and here we are. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/c...
NASA’s Largest Library Is Closing Amid Staff and Lab Cuts
www.nytimes.com
December 31, 2025 at 7:44 PM
I’ve been wondering for the last year when we’d get to the library destruction phase and here we are. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/c...
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When Nick Shirley arrived to "test" if he could enroll his son "Joey" in Minneapolis day cares, his viral video omitted that he showed up with an entourage of masked men acting like security, multiple vehicles including vans, cameras, and men who wouldn't identify themselves. One day care owner /
December 31, 2025 at 4:21 PM
When Nick Shirley arrived to "test" if he could enroll his son "Joey" in Minneapolis day cares, his viral video omitted that he showed up with an entourage of masked men acting like security, multiple vehicles including vans, cameras, and men who wouldn't identify themselves. One day care owner /
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Domestic terrorist fails to gain access to a child care center; pouts about it to TV news.
Nick Shirley at the US Capitol on January 6th, 2021.
December 31, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Domestic terrorist fails to gain access to a child care center; pouts about it to TV news.
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Since the mid 90s, but *especially* since 9/11 every single time the media apparatus or the state has essentially said that it's open season on some subgroup of people living in USA, they get attacked. But people still doubt the existence or deny the function of stochastic terrorism in American life
This is the impact of networked incitement. And now every other “citizen journalist” wannabe Nick Shirley is on the ground in Washington, Ohio, and I assume elsewhere trying to break/make the next viral story. There’s potential for this to spin further out of control, hoping it doesn’t
Somali-run day care in Minneapolis broken into, vandalized
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December 31, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Since the mid 90s, but *especially* since 9/11 every single time the media apparatus or the state has essentially said that it's open season on some subgroup of people living in USA, they get attacked. But people still doubt the existence or deny the function of stochastic terrorism in American life
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Anyway it is a stupid analogy, used to confuse more than clarify.
They are tacitly issuing a recall of the 20th century HE compact because the current political and technical class don’t intend to have a middle class. Without the latter you don’t need the system we built.
They are tacitly issuing a recall of the 20th century HE compact because the current political and technical class don’t intend to have a middle class. Without the latter you don’t need the system we built.
December 31, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Anyway it is a stupid analogy, used to confuse more than clarify.
They are tacitly issuing a recall of the 20th century HE compact because the current political and technical class don’t intend to have a middle class. Without the latter you don’t need the system we built.
They are tacitly issuing a recall of the 20th century HE compact because the current political and technical class don’t intend to have a middle class. Without the latter you don’t need the system we built.
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I am telling you that a large part of their dysfunction is that several Trump officials imagine themselves, constantly, as being in a social media sizzle reel where they display status and dominance over others. Their online personas are driving their actual behavior.
Kash Patel made the FBI buy a custom fleet of armored BMW X5 for him to ride around in. trib.al/9pBbwTB
Patel’s FBI spokesperson claimed—without evidence—that this is actually saving the American taxpayer money. The standard version of the X5 costs about $70,000.
Patel’s FBI spokesperson claimed—without evidence—that this is actually saving the American taxpayer money. The standard version of the X5 costs about $70,000.
December 24, 2025 at 2:40 PM
I am telling you that a large part of their dysfunction is that several Trump officials imagine themselves, constantly, as being in a social media sizzle reel where they display status and dominance over others. Their online personas are driving their actual behavior.
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Daycare centers were also the primary target of the Satanic panic, because fundamentally American religious conservatism is opposed to women having jobs outside the home.
Trump guys are about to Comet Pizza every third daycare center because they think they are all fronts for Somali money laundering. They're only doing this near cities with progressive mayors. This is straight up Government by LibsOfTikTok.
December 30, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Daycare centers were also the primary target of the Satanic panic, because fundamentally American religious conservatism is opposed to women having jobs outside the home.
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I like that, underneath all of this grousing, the answer to "Why I'm Leaving Harvard" is that he agreed to a phased retirement four years ago, at retirement age, and now he's retired. It's like saying you're leaving the restaurant because you finished eating dinner.
The reason this Harvard history professor decided he was done with one of the best and most privileged jobs in the world was, in his own words, because he was forced to lecture in a mask during peak Covid.
I’m not making this up.
I’m not making this up.
December 31, 2025 at 2:04 AM
I like that, underneath all of this grousing, the answer to "Why I'm Leaving Harvard" is that he agreed to a phased retirement four years ago, at retirement age, and now he's retired. It's like saying you're leaving the restaurant because you finished eating dinner.
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The richest man on earth, the richest man in human history, personally obliterated the US agency that had been preventing these horrors.
He sneered that he had to miss some good parties in order to spend his weekend erasing the agency these people had depended on.
Inhuman.
He sneered that he had to miss some good parties in order to spend his weekend erasing the agency these people had depended on.
Inhuman.
Please read this & speak out.
Understand how relatively modest US investments in health systems and commodities can stem an unspeakable burden of suffering.
Understand how relatively modest US investments in health systems and commodities can stem an unspeakable burden of suffering.
A maternity ward doctor donated his own blood during surgery to keep a pregnant patient alive.
One woman gained fewer than 10 pounds over her entire pregnancy.
Another collapsed and had seizures during labor.
One woman gained fewer than 10 pounds over her entire pregnancy.
Another collapsed and had seizures during labor.
December 31, 2025 at 3:03 AM
The richest man on earth, the richest man in human history, personally obliterated the US agency that had been preventing these horrors.
He sneered that he had to miss some good parties in order to spend his weekend erasing the agency these people had depended on.
Inhuman.
He sneered that he had to miss some good parties in order to spend his weekend erasing the agency these people had depended on.
Inhuman.
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Please read this & speak out.
Understand how relatively modest US investments in health systems and commodities can stem an unspeakable burden of suffering.
Understand how relatively modest US investments in health systems and commodities can stem an unspeakable burden of suffering.
A maternity ward doctor donated his own blood during surgery to keep a pregnant patient alive.
One woman gained fewer than 10 pounds over her entire pregnancy.
Another collapsed and had seizures during labor.
One woman gained fewer than 10 pounds over her entire pregnancy.
Another collapsed and had seizures during labor.
What I Saw at a Maternity Ward in Kenya After the U.S. Cut Off Food and Foreign Aid
Photographs tell a story of two mothers determined to help their babies gain enough weight to leave the hospital — only to face little to no food again.
www.propublica.org
December 31, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Please read this & speak out.
Understand how relatively modest US investments in health systems and commodities can stem an unspeakable burden of suffering.
Understand how relatively modest US investments in health systems and commodities can stem an unspeakable burden of suffering.
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None of this is “good faith political debate,” and it’s not a coincidence that all these outlets are suddenly interested in the same “discussion” at the same time.
Treating women’s humanity like a thought exercise makes it that much easier to legislate away
Treating women’s humanity like a thought exercise makes it that much easier to legislate away
December 20, 2025 at 11:25 PM
None of this is “good faith political debate,” and it’s not a coincidence that all these outlets are suddenly interested in the same “discussion” at the same time.
Treating women’s humanity like a thought exercise makes it that much easier to legislate away
Treating women’s humanity like a thought exercise makes it that much easier to legislate away
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For everything else about Trump, it's remarkable how similar his natsec process is to George W. Bush.
It's seemingly almost entirely driven by an insular and small group of people with pathological fixations on working informally to steer all American policy toward their decades-long grievances.
It's seemingly almost entirely driven by an insular and small group of people with pathological fixations on working informally to steer all American policy toward their decades-long grievances.
December 31, 2025 at 2:52 AM
For everything else about Trump, it's remarkable how similar his natsec process is to George W. Bush.
It's seemingly almost entirely driven by an insular and small group of people with pathological fixations on working informally to steer all American policy toward their decades-long grievances.
It's seemingly almost entirely driven by an insular and small group of people with pathological fixations on working informally to steer all American policy toward their decades-long grievances.
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Pretty sure this is the best reporting I've seen explaining this youtube.com/shorts/f_l9X...
What’s going on with the daycares in Minneapolis?
YouTube video by Dave Jorgenson
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December 30, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Pretty sure this is the best reporting I've seen explaining this youtube.com/shorts/f_l9X...
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This headline is a lie. That's not what happened.
Trump is politicizing a resolved fraud case to terrorize Somalis, encourage creeps to prowl Minnesota daycares under the guise of "investigating, and harass Tim Walz.
NPR is lying and pretending Trump did it out of concern. This is sick.
Trump is politicizing a resolved fraud case to terrorize Somalis, encourage creeps to prowl Minnesota daycares under the guise of "investigating, and harass Tim Walz.
NPR is lying and pretending Trump did it out of concern. This is sick.
President Trump's administration announced that it's freezing child care funds to Minnesota after a series of fraud schemes in recent years. n.pr/3MXgGcF
Trump administration says it's freezing child care funds to Minnesota
President Trump's administration announced that it's freezing child care funds to Minnesota after a series of fraud schemes in recent years.
n.pr
December 31, 2025 at 1:32 AM
This headline is a lie. That's not what happened.
Trump is politicizing a resolved fraud case to terrorize Somalis, encourage creeps to prowl Minnesota daycares under the guise of "investigating, and harass Tim Walz.
NPR is lying and pretending Trump did it out of concern. This is sick.
Trump is politicizing a resolved fraud case to terrorize Somalis, encourage creeps to prowl Minnesota daycares under the guise of "investigating, and harass Tim Walz.
NPR is lying and pretending Trump did it out of concern. This is sick.
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Guys do you think they're melting the ice caps so they can make us work an extra hour sooner
December 31, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Guys do you think they're melting the ice caps so they can make us work an extra hour sooner
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This headline really does conservatives' work for them!
Medicaid is not "abortion funding"—it's money for birth control, STI testing, etc without which clinics that (separately) provide abortion will go bankrupt. GOP argues that money is fungible but funding isn't for abortion ffs
Medicaid is not "abortion funding"—it's money for birth control, STI testing, etc without which clinics that (separately) provide abortion will go bankrupt. GOP argues that money is fungible but funding isn't for abortion ffs
HHS Wins Reversal of Order Barring Block on Abortion Funding
A federal appeals court undid a preliminary injunction on Tuesday that barred the Trump administration from pausing Medicaid reimbursements to health centers offering abortion care.
news.bloomberglaw.com
December 31, 2025 at 1:15 AM
This headline really does conservatives' work for them!
Medicaid is not "abortion funding"—it's money for birth control, STI testing, etc without which clinics that (separately) provide abortion will go bankrupt. GOP argues that money is fungible but funding isn't for abortion ffs
Medicaid is not "abortion funding"—it's money for birth control, STI testing, etc without which clinics that (separately) provide abortion will go bankrupt. GOP argues that money is fungible but funding isn't for abortion ffs
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Aside from the sheer entitlement of a man who had a FORTY year career in Harvard and is whining about things changing, there is something about how much the pandemic has radicalized so many people. Simply being asked to mask seems to have broken some people’s minds entirely.
The reason this Harvard history professor decided he was done with one of the best and most privileged jobs in the world was, in his own words, because he was forced to lecture in a mask during peak Covid.
I’m not making this up.
I’m not making this up.
December 31, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Aside from the sheer entitlement of a man who had a FORTY year career in Harvard and is whining about things changing, there is something about how much the pandemic has radicalized so many people. Simply being asked to mask seems to have broken some people’s minds entirely.