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www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/u... “But, for the fourth year in a row, the huge charity failed to give away the minimum amount required by law — and the donations it did make went largely to charities closely tied to Mr. Musk himself.” An example of what not to become. #greed #fraud
Elon Musk’s Foundation Grows to $14 Billion, but Gives Little to Outsiders
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December 2, 2025 at 7:16 PM
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/u... “But, for the fourth year in a row, the huge charity failed to give away the minimum amount required by law — and the donations it did make went largely to charities closely tied to Mr. Musk himself.” An example of what not to become. #greed #fraud
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The Resistance Revival Chorus has a message for Home Depot: We don't want deportations at The Home Depot parking lots! #WeAintBuyingIt want to organize your own carols?!? Heres lyrics: bit.ly/holidaycarol...
November 28, 2025 at 5:31 PM
The Resistance Revival Chorus has a message for Home Depot: We don't want deportations at The Home Depot parking lots! #WeAintBuyingIt want to organize your own carols?!? Heres lyrics: bit.ly/holidaycarol...
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Kelly: He runs around on stage talking about lethality and the warrior ethos.. That’s not the message that should be coming from the Secretary of Defense… He runs around on a stage like he’s a 12 year old playing army. It’s embarrassing.
December 1, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Kelly: He runs around on stage talking about lethality and the warrior ethos.. That’s not the message that should be coming from the Secretary of Defense… He runs around on a stage like he’s a 12 year old playing army. It’s embarrassing.
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Call them “LLeMmings”—the people who outsource their thinking to ChatGPT and other AI products. @lilashroff.bsky.social reports on a new kind of decision making—that could come with a cost:
The People Outsourcing Their Thinking to AI
Rise of the LLeMmings
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December 1, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Call them “LLeMmings”—the people who outsource their thinking to ChatGPT and other AI products. @lilashroff.bsky.social reports on a new kind of decision making—that could come with a cost:
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“We lost everything. We lost our country. We lost our flag. We lost our family, we lost our brothers, and we lost our dignity.”
Read more about the "Zero Units" who served alongside Americans, helping them fight, then evacuate Afghanistan.
Feature: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Read more about the "Zero Units" who served alongside Americans, helping them fight, then evacuate Afghanistan.
Feature: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
December 1, 2025 at 4:09 PM
“We lost everything. We lost our country. We lost our flag. We lost our family, we lost our brothers, and we lost our dignity.”
Read more about the "Zero Units" who served alongside Americans, helping them fight, then evacuate Afghanistan.
Feature: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Read more about the "Zero Units" who served alongside Americans, helping them fight, then evacuate Afghanistan.
Feature: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Court disqualifies Trump ally Habba as top New Jersey federal prosecutor - www.reuters.com/world/us-app... “.. unlawfully appointed as the top federal prosecutor in New Jersey and disqualified her from supervising cases in a decision rebuking the Republican president.”
Court disqualifies Trump ally Habba as top New Jersey federal prosecutor
A federal appeals court determined on Monday that Alina Habba, a former personal lawyer to Donald Trump, was unlawfully appointed as the top federal prosecutor in New Jersey and disqualified her from ...
www.reuters.com
December 1, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Court disqualifies Trump ally Habba as top New Jersey federal prosecutor - www.reuters.com/world/us-app... “.. unlawfully appointed as the top federal prosecutor in New Jersey and disqualified her from supervising cases in a decision rebuking the Republican president.”
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I wish all figures of authority cared about moms and babies. But some don’t. Some even want you to hurt. And those are the people who cast doubt on the vaccination miracle that has allowed so many of us to live longer and better.
kentuckylantern.com/2025/11/25/t...
kentuckylantern.com/2025/11/25/t...
Third unvaccinated Kentucky baby dies of whooping cough • Kentucky Lantern
A third unvaccinated infant in Kentucky has died of pertussis as public health officials urge Kentuckians to get vaccinated against the disease.
kentuckylantern.com
November 30, 2025 at 11:39 PM
I wish all figures of authority cared about moms and babies. But some don’t. Some even want you to hurt. And those are the people who cast doubt on the vaccination miracle that has allowed so many of us to live longer and better.
kentuckylantern.com/2025/11/25/t...
kentuckylantern.com/2025/11/25/t...
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The Craziest Thing In The World Is That We Could End Poverty, But We Don't
It’s just so insane how this doesn’t sit front and center in our attention all the time.
www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/the-crazie...
It’s just so insane how this doesn’t sit front and center in our attention all the time.
www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/the-crazie...
The Craziest Thing In The World Is That We Could End Poverty, But We Don't
Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley):
www.caitlinjohnst.one
December 1, 2025 at 2:05 AM
The Craziest Thing In The World Is That We Could End Poverty, But We Don't
It’s just so insane how this doesn’t sit front and center in our attention all the time.
www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/the-crazie...
It’s just so insane how this doesn’t sit front and center in our attention all the time.
www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/the-crazie...
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We just published a deep look into David Sacks, the White House's AI and Crypto czar. The story examines how he has been able keep hundreds of stakes in AI-related and crypto companies as he influences gov policy in those very industries.
Here's what we found:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/t...
Here's what we found:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/t...
Silicon Valley’s Man in the White House Is Benefiting Himself and His Friends
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 7:24 PM
We just published a deep look into David Sacks, the White House's AI and Crypto czar. The story examines how he has been able keep hundreds of stakes in AI-related and crypto companies as he influences gov policy in those very industries.
Here's what we found:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/t...
Here's what we found:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/t...
“When you allow a machine to summarize your reading, to generate the ideas for your essay, and then to write that essay, you’re not learning how to read, think, or write.” #education
Universities are racing to incorporate AI into their curriculum—but there’s a better way to prepare students for the future, Michael Clune argues.
Colleges Are Preparing to Self-Lobotomize
The skills that students will need in an age of automation are precisely those that are eroded by inserting AI into the educational process.
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November 30, 2025 at 7:35 PM
“When you allow a machine to summarize your reading, to generate the ideas for your essay, and then to write that essay, you’re not learning how to read, think, or write.” #education
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American scientists were once able to go about their work free of political interference. But since Donald Trump returned to office, government scientists with disfavored views have been fired or muzzled.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/12/08/the-undermining-of-the-cdc
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/12/08/the-undermining-of-the-cdc
The Undermining of the C.D.C.
The Department of Health and Human Services maintains that it is hewing to “gold standard, evidence-based science”—doublespeak that might unsettle Orwell.
www.newyorker.com
November 30, 2025 at 5:30 PM
American scientists were once able to go about their work free of political interference. But since Donald Trump returned to office, government scientists with disfavored views have been fired or muzzled.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/12/08/the-undermining-of-the-cdc
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/12/08/the-undermining-of-the-cdc
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“Trump has delivered many of the rewards that Biden merely dangled before the Saudis,” Franklin Foer writes. One reason may be the kingdom “licensing the Trump name for a series of lavish mega-projects across the Gulf”:
Why the Gulf Monarchs Shower Trump With Gifts
Until now, no president had yielded to royal temptations from abroad.
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November 30, 2025 at 5:00 PM
“Trump has delivered many of the rewards that Biden merely dangled before the Saudis,” Franklin Foer writes. One reason may be the kingdom “licensing the Trump name for a series of lavish mega-projects across the Gulf”:
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"For years, going to the movies was an almost definitionally American habit," Caitlin Flanagan writes. She reflects on her childhood spent growing up at the movies and what it means that "we're running out of stories to tell one another."
The Movies Got Small, and So Did We
Going to the movies with my dad
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November 30, 2025 at 5:45 PM
"For years, going to the movies was an almost definitionally American habit," Caitlin Flanagan writes. She reflects on her childhood spent growing up at the movies and what it means that "we're running out of stories to tell one another."
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They’re simultaneously arguing that soldiers have to follow all orders from the president, legal or not, but they get to ignore orders from a federal judge if they feel they’re not legal.
KARL: Did you know about the judge's order when you issued your order for the planes to continue?
KRISTI NOEM: This is an activist judge. We comply with all federal orders that are lawful and binding.
KRISTI NOEM: This is an activist judge. We comply with all federal orders that are lawful and binding.
November 30, 2025 at 5:43 PM
They’re simultaneously arguing that soldiers have to follow all orders from the president, legal or not, but they get to ignore orders from a federal judge if they feel they’re not legal.
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I'm really glad to see someone like Kelly finally saying this. bsky.app/profile/atru...
Mark Kelly: "This president, when he says things like 'third world countries,' what is he really saying? I think what he's saying is he doesn't want brown people in our country. And that's disturbing. It's un-American."
November 30, 2025 at 4:29 PM
I'm really glad to see someone like Kelly finally saying this. bsky.app/profile/atru...
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Over 24 days in 1946, the German novelist Hans Fallada produced a rare, and now timely, literary touchstone. The novel—based on a Gestapo file—is an exploration of the sometimes corrosive, sometimes energizing nature of fear, Hillary Kelly writes.
How Terror Works
A 1947 German novel explores the sometimes corrosive, sometimes energizing nature of fear.
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November 29, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Over 24 days in 1946, the German novelist Hans Fallada produced a rare, and now timely, literary touchstone. The novel—based on a Gestapo file—is an exploration of the sometimes corrosive, sometimes energizing nature of fear, Hillary Kelly writes.
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Wait so there are Peter Thiel-backed landlocked seasteading libertarian cities that the current Honduras govt wants to get rid of that Roger Stone has been advocating for that JOH also supports? And Stone has also been advocating for JOH 's pardon?
www.nytimes.com/2024/08/28/m...
www.nytimes.com/2024/08/28/m...
The For-Profit City That Might Come Crashing Down (Published 2024)
www.nytimes.com
November 29, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Wait so there are Peter Thiel-backed landlocked seasteading libertarian cities that the current Honduras govt wants to get rid of that Roger Stone has been advocating for that JOH also supports? And Stone has also been advocating for JOH 's pardon?
www.nytimes.com/2024/08/28/m...
www.nytimes.com/2024/08/28/m...
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Five-byline alert: 🚨
“.. the full scope of [Witkoff’s talks] went much further, according to people familiar .. They were privately charting a path to bring Russia’s $2 trillion economy in from the cold—with American businesses first in line .. to the dividends. 🇺🇦
www.wsj.com/world/russia...
“.. the full scope of [Witkoff’s talks] went much further, according to people familiar .. They were privately charting a path to bring Russia’s $2 trillion economy in from the cold—with American businesses first in line .. to the dividends. 🇺🇦
www.wsj.com/world/russia...
November 29, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Five-byline alert: 🚨
“.. the full scope of [Witkoff’s talks] went much further, according to people familiar .. They were privately charting a path to bring Russia’s $2 trillion economy in from the cold—with American businesses first in line .. to the dividends. 🇺🇦
www.wsj.com/world/russia...
“.. the full scope of [Witkoff’s talks] went much further, according to people familiar .. They were privately charting a path to bring Russia’s $2 trillion economy in from the cold—with American businesses first in line .. to the dividends. 🇺🇦
www.wsj.com/world/russia...
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Tom Stoppard, playwright of dazzling wit and playful erudition, dies aged 88
Tom Stoppard, playwright of dazzling wit and playful erudition, dies aged 88
A theatrical sensation since the 1960s, whose dramas included Arcadia, The Real Thing and Leopoldstadt, Stoppard also had huge success as a screenwriter
The playwright Tom Stoppard, whose playful erudition dazzled the theatregoing world for decades, has died aged 88.
One of a select band of writers from any discipline to earn his own adjective – “Stoppardian” – in the Oxford English Dictionary, he delighted in the most improbable juxtapositions: philosophy and gymnastics in Jumpers (1972); early 19th-century landscape gardening and chaos theory in Arcadia (1993); rock music, dissident Czech academics and the love poetry of Sappho in Rock ’n’ Roll (2006). Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Tom Stoppard, playwright of dazzling wit and playful erudition, dies aged 88
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The acclaimed writer Tom Stoppard has died, at 88. For the award-winning playwright, “art is a game within a game—the larger game being life itself,” Kenneth Tynan wrote, in 1977.
www.newyorker.com/magazine/197...
www.newyorker.com/magazine/197...
Tom Stoppard, Withdrawing with Style from the Chaos
From 1977: For the playwright, art is a game within a game—the larger game being life itself, an absurd mosaic of incidents and accidents.
www.newyorker.com
November 29, 2025 at 7:33 PM
The acclaimed writer Tom Stoppard has died, at 88. For the award-winning playwright, “art is a game within a game—the larger game being life itself,” Kenneth Tynan wrote, in 1977.
www.newyorker.com/magazine/197...
www.newyorker.com/magazine/197...
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Demolishing the East Wing of the White House before finalizing plans for what will be built above its ruins is a near-perfect metaphor for Trump's approach to economic policy. The only difference is the wrecking crew doesn’t claim the rubble is evidence of unprecedented growth.
November 29, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Demolishing the East Wing of the White House before finalizing plans for what will be built above its ruins is a near-perfect metaphor for Trump's approach to economic policy. The only difference is the wrecking crew doesn’t claim the rubble is evidence of unprecedented growth.
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Time to ask: In whose interests is American foreign policy being conducted?
"By dangling multibillion-dollar rare-earth and energy deals, Moscow could reshape the economic map of Europe—while driving a wedge between America and its traditional allies"
Read this excellent @wsj.com account of the business deals behind the "peace"negotiations
www.wsj.com/world/russia...
Read this excellent @wsj.com account of the business deals behind the "peace"negotiations
www.wsj.com/world/russia...
Make Money Not War: Trump’s Real Plan for Peace in Ukraine
The Kremlin pitched the White House on peace through business. To Europe’s dismay, the president and his envoy are on board.
www.wsj.com
November 29, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Time to ask: In whose interests is American foreign policy being conducted?
“We’re on a trajectory where soon all our information will be stored and analyzed by artificial intelligence controlled by governments and billionaire megacorporations who can then use that information to surveil, manipulate and oppress us.”
It's Getting Harder And Harder To Preserve Our Mental Sovereignty
Our rulers see AI as an opportunity to recapture the degree of social control that was shaken by the arrival of widespread internet access.
www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/its-gettin...
Our rulers see AI as an opportunity to recapture the degree of social control that was shaken by the arrival of widespread internet access.
www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/its-gettin...
It's Getting Harder And Harder To Preserve Our Mental Sovereignty
Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley):
www.caitlinjohnst.one
November 29, 2025 at 4:21 PM
“We’re on a trajectory where soon all our information will be stored and analyzed by artificial intelligence controlled by governments and billionaire megacorporations who can then use that information to surveil, manipulate and oppress us.”
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Johnson is the latest of a long line of GOP House speakers who were "beleaguered" and "overwhelmed" because of their party's overlapping pathologies and inability to govern in a non-corrupt way
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
‘In Triage Every Day’: A Beleaguered Speaker Says He’s Overwhelmed
www.nytimes.com
November 28, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Johnson is the latest of a long line of GOP House speakers who were "beleaguered" and "overwhelmed" because of their party's overlapping pathologies and inability to govern in a non-corrupt way
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
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20-year-old West Virginia National Guard member, Sarah Beckstrom, died a day after volunteering to serve in DC so that others could enjoy Thanksgiving with their families. She deserves our gratitude, not political exploitation by a shameless president who scapegoats immigrants to swell his power.
November 28, 2025 at 2:09 PM
20-year-old West Virginia National Guard member, Sarah Beckstrom, died a day after volunteering to serve in DC so that others could enjoy Thanksgiving with their families. She deserves our gratitude, not political exploitation by a shameless president who scapegoats immigrants to swell his power.