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Booklover, Pizza eater, Center poised and hoping for a better tomorrow.
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My visit to PBS's "Story in the Public Square," including some discussion of using words like "fascism."
www.pbs.org/show/story-p...
www.pbs.org/show/story-p...
Story in the Public Square
A weekly interview series where storytelling meets public affairs.
www.pbs.org
December 1, 2025 at 10:27 PM
My visit to PBS's "Story in the Public Square," including some discussion of using words like "fascism."
www.pbs.org/show/story-p...
www.pbs.org/show/story-p...
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Now that Pete Hegseth is making cartoon jokes about the accusations that he gave illegal "no quarter" orders, good time to reup this:
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
A Confederacy of Toddlers
The Trump administration is a regime of troubled children.
www.theatlantic.com
December 1, 2025 at 4:24 AM
Now that Pete Hegseth is making cartoon jokes about the accusations that he gave illegal "no quarter" orders, good time to reup this:
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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No question seeing Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia changed my life, esp this line: “We shed as we pick up, like travellers who must carry everything in their arms, and what we let fall will be picked up by those behind. The procession is very long and life is very short.” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/t...
The Language of Tom Stoppard, Ablaze With Energy and Urgency
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 2:56 AM
No question seeing Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia changed my life, esp this line: “We shed as we pick up, like travellers who must carry everything in their arms, and what we let fall will be picked up by those behind. The procession is very long and life is very short.” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/t...
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Trump doesn’t care if Ukrainians die, or Russians die, or Europeans die, or Americans die. If he can make a deal with Putin to make money, he will.
November 30, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Trump doesn’t care if Ukrainians die, or Russians die, or Europeans die, or Americans die. If he can make a deal with Putin to make money, he will.
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By Dan Hollaway’s own standards, it should be acceptable to let all the air out of his tires and then drone strike him while he’s waiting for AAA
Pete Hegseth will face prosecution for real war crimes, not imagined ones, so there's no problem.
And come on, no one believes a podcaster is going to murder military police and martial court judges over one douchebag that's no longer in office.
And come on, no one believes a podcaster is going to murder military police and martial court judges over one douchebag that's no longer in office.
November 30, 2025 at 10:23 PM
By Dan Hollaway’s own standards, it should be acceptable to let all the air out of his tires and then drone strike him while he’s waiting for AAA
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We must never believe what we are being told. We must not believe these charlatans who would deceive us for their cynical political, immoral, and godless purposes.
November 30, 2025 at 4:38 PM
We must never believe what we are being told. We must not believe these charlatans who would deceive us for their cynical political, immoral, and godless purposes.
The ARTS are the bridge.
November 30, 2025 at 3:28 PM
The ARTS are the bridge.
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"In the last court term, I wrote ten dissenting opinions, more than any other justice. Have you previewed the horror show on the docket for this term? Alito just winked at me and asked if it’s too soon to joke that I don’t have the brain processing power to do this job."
With America on My Last Fucking Nerve, I, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, Dissent
You know me as the first Black woman to serve on the Supreme Court. Over the past three years, I’ve tried changing the system from within. I’ve wri...
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November 18, 2025 at 3:00 AM
"In the last court term, I wrote ten dissenting opinions, more than any other justice. Have you previewed the horror show on the docket for this term? Alito just winked at me and asked if it’s too soon to joke that I don’t have the brain processing power to do this job."
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A eulogy for Specialist Sarah Beckstrom, God bless her and those like her
www.thebulwark.com/p/rememberin...
www.thebulwark.com/p/rememberin...
Remembering Spc. Sarah Beckstrom and Honoring Her Service
A soldier lost in Washington, and what her death means for those who served beside her.
www.thebulwark.com
November 30, 2025 at 4:19 AM
A eulogy for Specialist Sarah Beckstrom, God bless her and those like her
www.thebulwark.com/p/rememberin...
www.thebulwark.com/p/rememberin...
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So far, Trump has pardoned:
Changpeng Zhao (founder, Binance) - pled guilty to money laundering. Facilitated millions in transactions for terrorist organizations such as Hamas.
Ross Ulbricht (founder of the Silk Road) - the dark web Costco of illegal drugs.
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Changpeng Zhao (founder, Binance) - pled guilty to money laundering. Facilitated millions in transactions for terrorist organizations such as Hamas.
Ross Ulbricht (founder of the Silk Road) - the dark web Costco of illegal drugs.
1/3
November 29, 2025 at 7:44 AM
So far, Trump has pardoned:
Changpeng Zhao (founder, Binance) - pled guilty to money laundering. Facilitated millions in transactions for terrorist organizations such as Hamas.
Ross Ulbricht (founder of the Silk Road) - the dark web Costco of illegal drugs.
1/3
Changpeng Zhao (founder, Binance) - pled guilty to money laundering. Facilitated millions in transactions for terrorist organizations such as Hamas.
Ross Ulbricht (founder of the Silk Road) - the dark web Costco of illegal drugs.
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In 2024, America took the simplest IQ test any nation has ever had to take. Elect to the Presidency a man who had been convicted of 34 felonies, found liable for fraud and sexual assault and who said he wanted to be a dictator. Or elect his opponent. A binary choice.
We flunked it.
We flunked it.
(www.cnn.com/election/202...)
I would feel better about this country if I thought Trump HAD stolen the election. Because the alternative is even worse. That we chose this. I didn’t and you didn’t. But many of us did by voting for him again or, by not voting at all or by voting third party.
I would feel better about this country if I thought Trump HAD stolen the election. Because the alternative is even worse. That we chose this. I didn’t and you didn’t. But many of us did by voting for him again or, by not voting at all or by voting third party.
Exit poll results 2024 | CNN Politics
See all exit polls data for the 2024 US elections. For more information on voting and election results, visit cnn.com/election.
www.cnn.com
November 29, 2025 at 6:22 PM
In 2024, America took the simplest IQ test any nation has ever had to take. Elect to the Presidency a man who had been convicted of 34 felonies, found liable for fraud and sexual assault and who said he wanted to be a dictator. Or elect his opponent. A binary choice.
We flunked it.
We flunked it.
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. @theatlantic.com has some some of the best writers around.
But, under the guise of being moderate and nuanced, they were also perfectly happy to elevate right disinformation talking points to numb people to the risks of COVID and MAHA.
My latest.
sciencebasedmedicine.org/if-the-atlan...
But, under the guise of being moderate and nuanced, they were also perfectly happy to elevate right disinformation talking points to numb people to the risks of COVID and MAHA.
My latest.
sciencebasedmedicine.org/if-the-atlan...
If The Atlantic Wishes to Honestly Understand the Origins of MAHA, They Need to Investigate The Atlantic.
The Atlantic has some of the best writers around. But they were also eager to launder right-wing talking points under the guise of a being liberal, reasonable, and moderate publication, able to see a
sciencebasedmedicine.org
November 28, 2025 at 11:08 AM
. @theatlantic.com has some some of the best writers around.
But, under the guise of being moderate and nuanced, they were also perfectly happy to elevate right disinformation talking points to numb people to the risks of COVID and MAHA.
My latest.
sciencebasedmedicine.org/if-the-atlan...
But, under the guise of being moderate and nuanced, they were also perfectly happy to elevate right disinformation talking points to numb people to the risks of COVID and MAHA.
My latest.
sciencebasedmedicine.org/if-the-atlan...
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all the other stuff. A beautiful cover story by Elizabeth Breunig against the death penalty. A profile by Tyler Austin Harper of the author Thomas McGuane. Book reviews and poems. A look back at Sammy Davis, Jr. an entire issue on the “Unfinished American Revolution”. It’s a great magazine.
November 27, 2025 at 2:13 AM
all the other stuff. A beautiful cover story by Elizabeth Breunig against the death penalty. A profile by Tyler Austin Harper of the author Thomas McGuane. Book reviews and poems. A look back at Sammy Davis, Jr. an entire issue on the “Unfinished American Revolution”. It’s a great magazine.
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(Remember, MSNOW is MSNBC)
Joining MSNOW at 3 to discuss this, among other things
Hegseth is a dude-bro sporting some questionable tattoos, a creation of television who’s acting as if he won "The Apprentice: The Nuclear-Weapons Season."
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
November 26, 2025 at 7:50 PM
(Remember, MSNOW is MSNBC)
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Can’t get over this amazing photo of forever First Lady Michelle Obama. What an icon. 💙
November 25, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Can’t get over this amazing photo of forever First Lady Michelle Obama. What an icon. 💙
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My name is Shawn Harris. I am a Democrat, husband, father, Retired Brigadier General, farmer, and I am running to replace Marjorie Taylor Greene in Congress. Leadership Matters. Pass it on!
November 25, 2025 at 7:02 PM
My name is Shawn Harris. I am a Democrat, husband, father, Retired Brigadier General, farmer, and I am running to replace Marjorie Taylor Greene in Congress. Leadership Matters. Pass it on!
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Pete Hegseth is right: Mark Kelly shouldn't be a senator.
He should take Hegseth's job and be SECDEF.
I'll be on MSNOW at 4pm to talk more about it.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
He should take Hegseth's job and be SECDEF.
I'll be on MSNOW at 4pm to talk more about it.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Senator Mark Kelly Is in the Wrong Job
He should be secretary of defense.
www.theatlantic.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Pete Hegseth is right: Mark Kelly shouldn't be a senator.
He should take Hegseth's job and be SECDEF.
I'll be on MSNOW at 4pm to talk more about it.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
He should take Hegseth's job and be SECDEF.
I'll be on MSNOW at 4pm to talk more about it.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Mark Kelly for President.🗽
Seems a good time to share this piece I wrote about Mark Kelly's roots. smolenyak.medium.com/6-things-you...
6 Things You Didn’t Know about Mark Kelly’s Roots
It’s an understatement to say that Sen. Mark Kelly has an impressive resume. Navy Captain turned astronaut turned Senator and married to…
smolenyak.medium.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Mark Kelly for President.🗽
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Seems a good time to share this piece I wrote about Mark Kelly's roots. smolenyak.medium.com/6-things-you...
6 Things You Didn’t Know about Mark Kelly’s Roots
It’s an understatement to say that Sen. Mark Kelly has an impressive resume. Navy Captain turned astronaut turned Senator and married to…
smolenyak.medium.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Seems a good time to share this piece I wrote about Mark Kelly's roots. smolenyak.medium.com/6-things-you...
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What time do you get in?
Officially moving to Chicago tomorrow. I assume JB Pritzker will be waiting for me at the airport
November 25, 2025 at 1:13 PM
What time do you get in?
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The rapid growth of artificial intelligence in education and online platforms demands urgent action to protect young people, according to Pope Leo XIV. Speaking at a Vatican-hosted conference on... https://loom.ly/xt4QMKY
November 25, 2025 at 2:06 PM
The rapid growth of artificial intelligence in education and online platforms demands urgent action to protect young people, according to Pope Leo XIV. Speaking at a Vatican-hosted conference on... https://loom.ly/xt4QMKY
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November 24, 2025 at 11:37 PM