David Sanderson
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narrator: 50 years ago...
me: [nods] in 1945
narrator: in 1975...
me: what
me: [nods] in 1945
narrator: in 1975...
me: what
November 25, 2025 at 2:11 AM
narrator: 50 years ago...
me: [nods] in 1945
narrator: in 1975...
me: what
me: [nods] in 1945
narrator: in 1975...
me: what
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I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
We can't exclude the possibility that Trump will agree to a deal that 'gives away' Taiwan.
Xi Jinping took the unusual step of calling Trump today to discuss Taiwan and Ukraine. That comes as tensions between China and Japan soar over the Japanese PM saying Japan's military could defend Taiwan. Trump admires Xi, who aims to steer him. Our story: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/b...
Xi Presses Trump on Taiwan as They Agree to Meet in China in April
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:53 AM
We can't exclude the possibility that Trump will agree to a deal that 'gives away' Taiwan.
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As a historian, I have been torturing myself by watching some of the series that the White House in cooperation with Hillsdale College produced about American Independence (tellingly, they avoid the word "revolution").
There are so many errors that it is hard to know where to begin. But I'll try
There are so many errors that it is hard to know where to begin. But I'll try
November 22, 2025 at 11:33 PM
As a historian, I have been torturing myself by watching some of the series that the White House in cooperation with Hillsdale College produced about American Independence (tellingly, they avoid the word "revolution").
There are so many errors that it is hard to know where to begin. But I'll try
There are so many errors that it is hard to know where to begin. But I'll try
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Holy shit. So Elon decides it would be nice to know what region of the world people are posting from. So they add that little feature.
2 hours later they figure out that many Trump supporters with millions of followers are posting from other countries. Surprise!
That "feature" is now gone.
2 hours later they figure out that many Trump supporters with millions of followers are posting from other countries. Surprise!
That "feature" is now gone.
November 23, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Holy shit. So Elon decides it would be nice to know what region of the world people are posting from. So they add that little feature.
2 hours later they figure out that many Trump supporters with millions of followers are posting from other countries. Surprise!
That "feature" is now gone.
2 hours later they figure out that many Trump supporters with millions of followers are posting from other countries. Surprise!
That "feature" is now gone.
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"US senators say they spoke with Rubio about Trump’s Ukraine peace plan who denied it is a US plan." Welcome to the Topsy Turvy administration in which six or seven people are pursuing their own private foreign policy, and much of it is scripted by a hostile foreign power.
US senators say they spoke with Rubio about Trump’s Ukraine peace plan who denied it is a US plan
U.S. senators critical of President Donald Trump’s approach to ending the Russia-Ukraine war say they spoke with U.S.
apnews.com
November 23, 2025 at 1:53 AM
"US senators say they spoke with Rubio about Trump’s Ukraine peace plan who denied it is a US plan." Welcome to the Topsy Turvy administration in which six or seven people are pursuing their own private foreign policy, and much of it is scripted by a hostile foreign power.
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The entire West comes together to reject the Dmiriev 28-point plan to which Trump affixed his name. This would appear to mark the absolute modern low point of US diplomatic influence on he world stage.
November 22, 2025 at 11:19 PM
The entire West comes together to reject the Dmiriev 28-point plan to which Trump affixed his name. This would appear to mark the absolute modern low point of US diplomatic influence on he world stage.
Amazing. Australia, of course, is going in the opposite direction.
Breaking WaPo:
The U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify the swastika as a hate symbol, according to a new policy that takes effect next month.
The policy similarly downgrades the classification of nooses and the Confederate flag, though display of the latter remains banned.
The U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify the swastika as a hate symbol, according to a new policy that takes effect next month.
The policy similarly downgrades the classification of nooses and the Confederate flag, though display of the latter remains banned.
U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”
www.washingtonpost.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Amazing. Australia, of course, is going in the opposite direction.
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The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.
![Excerpt from a BBC article: ""We usually work, 10, 11 or 12 hours a day," says a 49-year-old woman from Jiangxi unwilling to give her name. "On Sundays we work around three hours less."
She is in an alleyway, where a dozen people are huddled around a row of bulletin boards.
They are reading the job ads on the board, while examining the stitching on a pair of chinos draped over it.
This is Shein's supply chain. The factories are contracted to make clothes on order - some small, some big. If the chinos are a hit, orders will ramp up and so must production. Factories then hire temporary workers to meet the demand their permanent staff cannot fulfil.
The migrant worker from Jiangxi is looking for a short-term contract - and the chinos are an option.
"We earn so little. The cost of living is now so high," she says, adding that she hopes to make enough to send back to her two children who are living with their grandparents.
"We get paid per piece," she explains. "It depends how difficult the item is. Something simple like a t-shirt is one-two yuan [less than a dollar] per piece and I can make around a dozen in an hour.""](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ks3gpa6ftoyaq7hmf6c4qx4c/bafkreiber7g4o5pujmzmjjzsp5dkz7blfexburuwjispfpv6dki7akjb7a@jpeg)
November 20, 2025 at 12:07 AM
The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.
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When I arrive at the party
November 19, 2025 at 5:53 AM
When I arrive at the party
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Just the president of the United States rationalizing that a Washington Post reporter was basically asking to be murdered and cut to pieces with a bone saw because of his reporting.
As he sits next to the thug who ordered it.
As he sits next to the thug who ordered it.
Trump suggests Khashoggi had it coming: "You're mentioning someone that was extremely controversial. A lot of people didn't like that gentleman that you're talking about. Whether you like him or didn't like him, things happen. But he knew nothing about it. You don't have to embarrass our guest."
November 18, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Just the president of the United States rationalizing that a Washington Post reporter was basically asking to be murdered and cut to pieces with a bone saw because of his reporting.
As he sits next to the thug who ordered it.
As he sits next to the thug who ordered it.
Such an amazingly bizarre headline.
The NYT has a huge talent for anodyne news presentation.
The NYT has a huge talent for anodyne news presentation.
November 16, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Such an amazingly bizarre headline.
The NYT has a huge talent for anodyne news presentation.
The NYT has a huge talent for anodyne news presentation.
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If women are underrepresented in STEM, it's at least partly because men like this offer mentoring, then embarrass themselves by assuming their mentees must be into them, then decide the best solution is to cut ties, which sends the signal to other faculty that the mentee must not be good enough.
The emails have Summers reporting to Epstein about his attempts to date a Harvard economics student & to hit on her during a seminar she was giving.
November 16, 2025 at 12:13 AM
If women are underrepresented in STEM, it's at least partly because men like this offer mentoring, then embarrass themselves by assuming their mentees must be into them, then decide the best solution is to cut ties, which sends the signal to other faculty that the mentee must not be good enough.
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Watching right-wingers suddenly discover that Trump is a bad person is wild
November 15, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Watching right-wingers suddenly discover that Trump is a bad person is wild
That's the problem for Trump, the more he tries to deflect the more attention he draws to himself.
Breaking: Trump on AF1 says he 'doesn't care' about the Epstein files getting released.
He then adds: 'You have to go into Epstein's friends.' He lists Reid Hoffman and Bill Clinton but not himself.
He then adds: 'You have to go into Epstein's friends.' He lists Reid Hoffman and Bill Clinton but not himself.
November 15, 2025 at 3:09 AM
That's the problem for Trump, the more he tries to deflect the more attention he draws to himself.
Maybe, just maybe, is not truthful about what he got up to with Epstein.
Maybe there's a wonderful secret.
Maybe there's a wonderful secret.
Leavitt, this week: "President Trump kicked him out because Jeffrey Epstein was a pedophile and he was a creep."
Trump, asked in 2019 if he had “any suspicions” that Epstein was molesting underage women: "No, I had no idea. I had no idea."
@sbg1.bsky.social www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...
Trump, asked in 2019 if he had “any suspicions” that Epstein was molesting underage women: "No, I had no idea. I had no idea."
@sbg1.bsky.social www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...
The Epstein Scandal Is Now a Chronic Disease of the Trump Presidency
Read the e-mails—this isn’t going away anytime soon.
www.newyorker.com
November 14, 2025 at 3:44 AM
Maybe, just maybe, is not truthful about what he got up to with Epstein.
Maybe there's a wonderful secret.
Maybe there's a wonderful secret.
Teal inroads into the Senate, largely at the expense of the Libs, would be a marvellous thing.
For one thing Labor would finally have some credible opposition.
#auspol
For one thing Labor would finally have some credible opposition.
#auspol
Moderates did what they always do, proving themselves irrelevant. The mimsy Lib time servers in the Senate who couldn't win a House seat better hope the community independents movement doesn't get its act together with a Senate ticket.
One I prepared earlier michaelwest.com.au/teal-senate-...
One I prepared earlier michaelwest.com.au/teal-senate-...
Teal Senate ticket – why we can’t have nice things - Michael West
Coverage of the week’s polls concentrated on the Coalition’s plunge, its road to nowhere. Is a “Teal” Senate ticket plausible?
michaelwest.com.au
November 14, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Teal inroads into the Senate, largely at the expense of the Libs, would be a marvellous thing.
For one thing Labor would finally have some credible opposition.
#auspol
For one thing Labor would finally have some credible opposition.
#auspol
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What a sentence.
November 13, 2025 at 9:22 PM
What a sentence.
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Thomas Massie to CNN on the Epstein files: "This vote is gonna be on your record for longer than Trump is gonna be president. And what are you gonna do in 2028 and 2030 when you're in a debate … and they say, 'How can we trust you? You covered up for a pedophile back in 2025.'"
November 13, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Thomas Massie to CNN on the Epstein files: "This vote is gonna be on your record for longer than Trump is gonna be president. And what are you gonna do in 2028 and 2030 when you're in a debate … and they say, 'How can we trust you? You covered up for a pedophile back in 2025.'"
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thinking about how i get anxious writing emails because i don't want to sound like a moron while larry summers is apparently typing emails like this:
u kno she dint want to talk tomorrow. make me bad pheel.
u kno she dint want to talk tomorrow. make me bad pheel.
November 13, 2025 at 1:38 AM
thinking about how i get anxious writing emails because i don't want to sound like a moron while larry summers is apparently typing emails like this:
u kno she dint want to talk tomorrow. make me bad pheel.
u kno she dint want to talk tomorrow. make me bad pheel.
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Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.
November 13, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.
Epstein Files Live Updates: Trump Named in Emails Released by Democrats and Republicans
www.nytimes.com
November 12, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Thinking about the millionaires...
New York millionaires: threatening to flee the city since 2009
November 8, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Thinking about the millionaires...