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Exclusive: Hegseth ordered everyone killed in the first alleged drug boat strike on Sept. 2, prompting a second hit to finish off survivors in the water in a mission led by SEAL Team 6. Ordering no quarter could legally perilous www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Exclusive: Hegseth ordered everyone killed in the first alleged drug boat strike on Sept. 2, prompting a second hit to finish off survivors in the water in a mission led by SEAL Team 6. Ordering no quarter could legally perilous www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Recommended. Makes a very good case for why our history should be told in full. After all, perfection is not believable.
“A democracy whose citizens operate with fundamentally different understandings of the past and its implications cannot sustain itself,” @clintsmithiii.bsky.social writes:
Tell Students the Truth About American History
We owe it to Americans of all ages to be honest about the country’s past, including its contradictions.
bit.ly
November 17, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Recommended. Makes a very good case for why our history should be told in full. After all, perfection is not believable.
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“A democracy whose citizens operate with fundamentally different understandings of the past and its implications cannot sustain itself,” @clintsmithiii.bsky.social writes:
Tell Students the Truth About American History
We owe it to Americans of all ages to be honest about the country’s past, including its contradictions.
bit.ly
November 17, 2025 at 5:15 PM
“A democracy whose citizens operate with fundamentally different understandings of the past and its implications cannot sustain itself,” @clintsmithiii.bsky.social writes:
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Editors have a really hard job, and the good ones can make something unreadable readable, and the great ones can make something unreadable into something good. But they're basically invisible, until someone tries to write without one.
November 17, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Editors have a really hard job, and the good ones can make something unreadable readable, and the great ones can make something unreadable into something good. But they're basically invisible, until someone tries to write without one.
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65 years ago on Nov. 14, little Ruby Bridges was escorted into an all-white elementary school in New Orleans. Norman Rockwell, renowned for blissful depictions of Americana, did this remarkable painting for Look magazine. Printed as a double page, over-size spread, it's his masterpiece.
November 15, 2025 at 3:02 PM
65 years ago on Nov. 14, little Ruby Bridges was escorted into an all-white elementary school in New Orleans. Norman Rockwell, renowned for blissful depictions of Americana, did this remarkable painting for Look magazine. Printed as a double page, over-size spread, it's his masterpiece.
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The Arkansas Department of Human Services: SNAP participants "should now expect to receive full benefit amounts for November, and that these funds will be disbursed to cards late tonight into tomorrow."
Full November SNAP benefits to be issued to cards beginning late this evening - Arkansas Department of Human Services
(LITTLE ROCK, Ark.) — The Arkansas Department of Human Services (DHS) is advising Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) beneficiaries that they should now expect to receive full benefit amo...
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November 13, 2025 at 6:49 PM
The Arkansas Department of Human Services: SNAP participants "should now expect to receive full benefit amounts for November, and that these funds will be disbursed to cards late tonight into tomorrow."
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We’ve been told DHS has received guidance from the USDA and that 100 percent of SNAP benefits will be available as of midnight tonight.
November 13, 2025 at 5:28 PM
We’ve been told DHS has received guidance from the USDA and that 100 percent of SNAP benefits will be available as of midnight tonight.
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Breaking: Marion County agrees to pay out $3M for newspaper raid, express regret kansasreflector.com/2025/11/11/m...
Marion County agrees to pay out $3M for newspaper raid, express regret • Kansas Reflector
A handful of county-level officials who were involved in a small-town Kansas newspaper raid in 2023 will pay a cumulative $3 million to three journalists and a city councilor.
kansasreflector.com
November 11, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Breaking: Marion County agrees to pay out $3M for newspaper raid, express regret kansasreflector.com/2025/11/11/m...
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NEW: Donald Trump has pardoned a long list of allies in his bid to subvert the 2020 election including:
-Rudy Giuliani
-John Eastman
-Mark Meadows
-Sidney Powell
-Ken Chesebro
-Christina Bobb
-Kelli Ward
-Jenna Ellis
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
-Rudy Giuliani
-John Eastman
-Mark Meadows
-Sidney Powell
-Ken Chesebro
-Christina Bobb
-Kelli Ward
-Jenna Ellis
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
November 10, 2025 at 5:56 AM
NEW: Donald Trump has pardoned a long list of allies in his bid to subvert the 2020 election including:
-Rudy Giuliani
-John Eastman
-Mark Meadows
-Sidney Powell
-Ken Chesebro
-Christina Bobb
-Kelli Ward
-Jenna Ellis
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
-Rudy Giuliani
-John Eastman
-Mark Meadows
-Sidney Powell
-Ken Chesebro
-Christina Bobb
-Kelli Ward
-Jenna Ellis
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
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A quality shared by virtually every good politician I’ve ever met is being extremely quick to bury a grudge if it stops mattering
November 5, 2025 at 11:55 PM
A quality shared by virtually every good politician I’ve ever met is being extremely quick to bury a grudge if it stops mattering
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The guy who got famous betting against the housing market in 2007 just before that bubble burst - played by Christian Bale jn “The Big Short” - just wagered $1 billion on the collapse of the AI boom.
www.wsj.com/livecoverage...
www.wsj.com/livecoverage...
Michael Burry Returns With Two Big Shorts: Palantir and Nvidia
Signs of an AI bubble abound: Stock valuations have become uncomfortably rich, AI-related debt is ballooning, and a sustainable financial model for the technology has largely yet to emerge. Now Michae...
www.wsj.com
November 4, 2025 at 9:35 PM
The guy who got famous betting against the housing market in 2007 just before that bubble burst - played by Christian Bale jn “The Big Short” - just wagered $1 billion on the collapse of the AI boom.
www.wsj.com/livecoverage...
www.wsj.com/livecoverage...
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Today is the first day of Arkansas' candidate filing period for the 2026 midterms and state elections.
President Donald Trump, as part of a stream of social media posts backing Republicans, has endorsed all four House members (the president previously announced his support for Sen. Tom Cotton).
President Donald Trump, as part of a stream of social media posts backing Republicans, has endorsed all four House members (the president previously announced his support for Sen. Tom Cotton).
November 3, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Today is the first day of Arkansas' candidate filing period for the 2026 midterms and state elections.
President Donald Trump, as part of a stream of social media posts backing Republicans, has endorsed all four House members (the president previously announced his support for Sen. Tom Cotton).
President Donald Trump, as part of a stream of social media posts backing Republicans, has endorsed all four House members (the president previously announced his support for Sen. Tom Cotton).
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I use Claude (an AI) to scan my posts for spelling and grammar errors. On the most recent post (about the East Wing, link below), I got a really amazing addendum.
www.pbump.net/o/yes-most-a...
www.pbump.net/o/yes-most-a...
October 30, 2025 at 3:03 PM
I use Claude (an AI) to scan my posts for spelling and grammar errors. On the most recent post (about the East Wing, link below), I got a really amazing addendum.
www.pbump.net/o/yes-most-a...
www.pbump.net/o/yes-most-a...
Still my favorite pop song:
Don Henley releases “Boys of Summer” 41 years ago today.
“I was driving down the San Diego freeway,” he said, “and got passed by a Cadillac Seville, the status symbol of the right-wing, upper-middle-class American bourgeoisie .. and there was this Grateful Dead 'Deadhead' bumper sticker on it!"
“I was driving down the San Diego freeway,” he said, “and got passed by a Cadillac Seville, the status symbol of the right-wing, upper-middle-class American bourgeoisie .. and there was this Grateful Dead 'Deadhead' bumper sticker on it!"
October 27, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Still my favorite pop song:
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@qjurecic.bsky.social is answering your questions about the role of the courts and the expansion of executive power during the second Trump administration. Ask her anything at 2 p.m. ET: www.reddit.com/r/Law_and_Po...
October 23, 2025 at 5:33 PM
@qjurecic.bsky.social is answering your questions about the role of the courts and the expansion of executive power during the second Trump administration. Ask her anything at 2 p.m. ET: www.reddit.com/r/Law_and_Po...
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To be totally frank, I think a lot of progressive activists are not particularly interested in thinking about beating Trump as an ends unto itself, and mostly interested in the energy he produces only insofar as they can transmute it into energy for policy change, and it's often been our downfall.
October 16, 2025 at 3:17 PM
To be totally frank, I think a lot of progressive activists are not particularly interested in thinking about beating Trump as an ends unto itself, and mostly interested in the energy he produces only insofar as they can transmute it into energy for policy change, and it's often been our downfall.
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One of the mistakes the progressive activist class keeps making is conflating anti-Trump fury with left-wing political ideology, so that a huge anti-Trump movement is seen as a mandate for populism, and populist policy is seen as a way of advancing anti-Trumpism. They're very separate things
October 16, 2025 at 3:14 PM
One of the mistakes the progressive activist class keeps making is conflating anti-Trump fury with left-wing political ideology, so that a huge anti-Trump movement is seen as a mandate for populism, and populist policy is seen as a way of advancing anti-Trumpism. They're very separate things
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An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.
October 8, 2025 at 10:34 PM
An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.
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Jerome A. Cohen was the “dean” of China scholars in the U.S. He was also a great friend to dissidents and democrats. Jerry has passed away at 95. For The Next Move, the publication of @renewdemocracy.bsky.social, I have written an appreciation. www.thenextmove.org/p/a-scholar-...
A Scholar of China and a Friend to Its Persecuted
On Jerome A. Cohen, a great, and good, helmsman.
www.thenextmove.org
October 3, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Jerome A. Cohen was the “dean” of China scholars in the U.S. He was also a great friend to dissidents and democrats. Jerry has passed away at 95. For The Next Move, the publication of @renewdemocracy.bsky.social, I have written an appreciation. www.thenextmove.org/p/a-scholar-...
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🛢 Historically unprecedented: 38% of Russia's refinery capacity was shut down after Ukrainian drone attacks, — RBC
As a result, gasoline production in September fell by 1 million tons, and its deficit on the domestic market reached 20% of consumption.
As a result, gasoline production in September fell by 1 million tons, and its deficit on the domestic market reached 20% of consumption.
October 1, 2025 at 8:11 AM
🛢 Historically unprecedented: 38% of Russia's refinery capacity was shut down after Ukrainian drone attacks, — RBC
As a result, gasoline production in September fell by 1 million tons, and its deficit on the domestic market reached 20% of consumption.
As a result, gasoline production in September fell by 1 million tons, and its deficit on the domestic market reached 20% of consumption.
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They imagine a swing voter as a cross-pressured moderate who will be persuaded by whatever side seems most reasonable, when the reality is most swing voters aren’t paying attention to policy debates and only wake up for sensational controversies that cross over into mainstream discourse
October 1, 2025 at 3:01 PM
They imagine a swing voter as a cross-pressured moderate who will be persuaded by whatever side seems most reasonable, when the reality is most swing voters aren’t paying attention to policy debates and only wake up for sensational controversies that cross over into mainstream discourse
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The Atlantic Announces Free Digital Subscriptions for All U.S. Public High Schools
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The Atlantic Announces Free Digital Subscriptions for All U.S. Public High Schools
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www.theatlantic.com
September 17, 2025 at 9:59 PM
The Atlantic Announces Free Digital Subscriptions for All U.S. Public High Schools
www.theatlantic.com/press-releas...
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It is crazy that I just had to put this PSA on LinkedIn. LINKEDIN!
September 15, 2025 at 5:24 PM
It is crazy that I just had to put this PSA on LinkedIn. LINKEDIN!
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I really hate “do better.” It’s sloth-fueled arrogance tossed from a BarcaLounger.
September 13, 2025 at 9:15 PM
I really hate “do better.” It’s sloth-fueled arrogance tossed from a BarcaLounger.