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I’ve been updating this post about JD Vance’s ski vacation to Vermont...
I’ve been updating this post about JD Vance’s ski vacation to Vermont with new information in the comments, including a video of Vance skiing and being called “Putin’s puppet” as...
Trump Betrays Ukraine in White House Ambush of Zelenskyy
Here’s a straightforward description of Trump’s “ambush” of Volodymyr Zelenskyy from Heather Cox Richardson: Today, President Donald Trump ambushed Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky in an attack that seemed designed to...
Good Trouble: JD Vance Chastised by Vermont Snow Reporter
JD Vance, fresh off of helping his boss ambush & insult a foreign leader in the White House yesterday afternoon, is on vacation in Vermont with his family this weekend...
“Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth last week ordered U.S. Cyber Command to stand...
“Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth last week ordered U.S. Cyber Command to stand down from all planning against Russia, including offensive digital actions.” Because the US is a Russian ally (or...
Trump Ejects Zelenskyy From White House
Trump just kicked Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy out of the White House after berating him for being “disrespectful” in the Oval Office. The astonishing turn of events could scramble international...
Elon Musk, Apartheid, and America’s New Boycott Movement. An excellent piece by...
Elon Musk, Apartheid, and America’s New Boycott Movement. An excellent piece by Clara Jeffery on how boycotts can work to combat evil and the lessons we can take from the...
Re: fighting back against this criminal & corrupt administration: AOC sent a...
Re: fighting back against this criminal & corrupt administration: AOC sent a letter to the US Attorney General asking whether she’s under investigation for “educating her community about their constitutional...
Dana Milbank responds to the WaPo’s pivot to focusing on “personal liberties...
Dana Milbank responds to the WaPo’s pivot to focusing on “personal liberties and free markets” with a piece *in the Post* calling Donald Trump “the single greatest threat to ‘personal...
From Zeynep Tufekci, a reminder that people who get the measles “lose...
From Zeynep Tufekci, a reminder that people who get the measles “lose much of their immune memory”, which leaves them “more vulnerable to many other diseases for years afterward”.
More good reporting from Wired on white nationalist Stephen Miller’s role the...
More good reporting from Wired on white nationalist Stephen Miller’s role the ongoing coup. “Miller is carrying out the daily work of governance while Trump serves as head of state,...
How Elon Musk Executed His Takeover of the Federal Bureaucracy
This is excellent reporting by the Times (although at times it makes Musk’s actions sound heroic rather than unconstitutional, criminal, and treasonous) on how Elon Musk took over a huge...
From Rolling Stone, a list of 20 essential movies starring Gene Hackman....
From Rolling Stone, a list of 20 essential movies starring Gene Hackman. The French Connection, The Conversation, Superman, No Way Out, Mississippi Burning, The Royal Tenenbaums. Phew. 💬 Join the...
Touch Grass is a screen time limiting app for iOS that requires...
Touch Grass is a screen time limiting app for iOS that requires photographic evidence of you actually touching grass to unblock apps on your phone. (Is there a “touch snow”...
How to Persuade the Vaccine Hesitant
I loved this short thread from Andrew Miller about how his pediatrician wife helps parents who are skeptical of vaccinating their children change their minds. So my wife is a...
In What We Trust?
The central point of Dr. Brooke Harrington’s essay about the destabilization of “basic systems we count on to make our society function” over the past month is bang on: This...
What Makes for an Effective Boycott?
From Choose Democracy and Build the Resistance, Boycott Central is a fledgling resource about boycotts. I found this checklist of requirements for effective boycotts really interesting & useful: a target...
When Social Security checks stop showing up because of gov’t employee purges,...
When Social Security checks stop showing up because of gov’t employee purges, millions of Americans will finally understand what’s going on. “It is no exaggeration to say this will kill...
“Democracy Dies in Darkness” Wasn’t a Warning; It Was Our End Goal....
“Democracy Dies in Darkness” Wasn’t a Warning; It Was Our End Goal. “When it comes to choosing whether or not to resist authoritarianism, I believe Snyder meant to write, ‘Do...
DOGE’s Chaos Reaches Antarctica. “If the Antarctic program budget is cut, then...
DOGE’s Chaos Reaches Antarctica. “If the Antarctic program budget is cut, then they’ll…get to the point where they can’t even keep the station open. If the South Pole [station] is...
“The Covid Alarmists Were Closer to the Truth Than Anyone Else”
From David Wallace-Wells, a reminder that those who were considered alarmists at the beginning of the pandemic were ultimately proved right — it actually was an alarming situation. Today, the...