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Trump is the most soft on criminals president we have ever had www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/n...
A Fraudster Pardoned by Trump Gets 37 Years for Running Ponzi Scheme
www.nytimes.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Trump is the most soft on criminals president we have ever had www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/n...
After the Kirk shooting, Republicans postured about concerns of extremist violence and dangerous rhetoric, but they have never cared about these things. Trump has been inciting violence for his entire political career, from the Tree of Life synagogue to a Walmart in El Paso to January 6 to today.
Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) says someone showed up to her D.C. office today and made white supremacist threats. Capitol Police had to intervene.
This was hours after Trump said Democrats in Congress should be executed.
"When leaders promote hate, hate shows up."
This was hours after Trump said Democrats in Congress should be executed.
"When leaders promote hate, hate shows up."
November 21, 2025 at 3:54 AM
After the Kirk shooting, Republicans postured about concerns of extremist violence and dangerous rhetoric, but they have never cared about these things. Trump has been inciting violence for his entire political career, from the Tree of Life synagogue to a Walmart in El Paso to January 6 to today.
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Trump’s 28-point proposal drawn up with Russia and without Ukrainian and European input is filled with non starters for Kyiv and Brussels: ceding Donbas as DMZ and recognition of it as Russian; reduction of Ukraine’s army; enshrining in constitution that Ukraine country won’t seek NATO membership….
US plan for Ukraine-Russia peace calls on Kyiv to cede land under its control on.ft.com/48rlqiQ
US plan for Ukraine-Russia peace calls on Kyiv to cede land under its control
Ukrainian officials say President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is being pressed to agree to terms negotiated by the US and Russia
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November 21, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Trump’s 28-point proposal drawn up with Russia and without Ukrainian and European input is filled with non starters for Kyiv and Brussels: ceding Donbas as DMZ and recognition of it as Russian; reduction of Ukraine’s army; enshrining in constitution that Ukraine country won’t seek NATO membership….
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Remember a couple of days ago, when the Vice President of the United States talked about being a “Grok guy”?
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November 21, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Remember a couple of days ago, when the Vice President of the United States talked about being a “Grok guy”?
youtube.com/shorts/rzAQk...
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NEW: Mississippians still have not received their full SNAP benefits more than a week after the government shutdown ended due to problems with a 40-year-old computer system running on COBOL.
And there is no guarantee they'll get them before Thanksgiving—or even by December.
And there is no guarantee they'll get them before Thanksgiving—or even by December.
Mississippians Still Waiting on Full SNAP Benefits
Mississippi SNAP recipients are still waiting for full payments more than a week after the government shutdown ended due to technical issues.
www.mississippifreepress.org
November 21, 2025 at 12:07 AM
NEW: Mississippians still have not received their full SNAP benefits more than a week after the government shutdown ended due to problems with a 40-year-old computer system running on COBOL.
And there is no guarantee they'll get them before Thanksgiving—or even by December.
And there is no guarantee they'll get them before Thanksgiving—or even by December.
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Crow: "It just tells us everything that we need to know that reminding people to obey the law, reminding people to obey the Constitution, is somehow criminal in Trumpworld and should be responded to with death threats. It's very, very telling."
November 20, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Crow: "It just tells us everything that we need to know that reminding people to obey the law, reminding people to obey the Constitution, is somehow criminal in Trumpworld and should be responded to with death threats. It's very, very telling."
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For context, the US has only had one year of 6% GDP growth in the 21st century, and that was 2021, and the result of correction following -2% contraction in 2020. During his first term (where things were better) Trump never broke 3%.
November 20, 2025 at 9:47 PM
For context, the US has only had one year of 6% GDP growth in the 21st century, and that was 2021, and the result of correction following -2% contraction in 2020. During his first term (where things were better) Trump never broke 3%.
Goldman has one of the most optimistic GDP forecasts among serious players. They’re at 2.5%. The Fed is (last I checked) at 1.6%, and that’s actually a slight upgrade.
No serious person is projecting 6%. But Lutnick has his job because he’s not a serious person.
No serious person is projecting 6%. But Lutnick has his job because he’s not a serious person.
November 20, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Goldman has one of the most optimistic GDP forecasts among serious players. They’re at 2.5%. The Fed is (last I checked) at 1.6%, and that’s actually a slight upgrade.
No serious person is projecting 6%. But Lutnick has his job because he’s not a serious person.
No serious person is projecting 6%. But Lutnick has his job because he’s not a serious person.
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Call your senators and representative, and tell them that you support Sen. Slotkin and Kelly and the representatives exercising their freedom of speech and reminding our servicemembers of their right and duty to uphold our laws and Constitution and refuse illegal orders. Urge them to censure Trump.
Here's a slightly different follow up: "Speaker Johnson, do you believe members of the armed forces should follow unlawful orders?"
Mike Johnson responds to my question about saying Democrats committed treasonable by death
November 20, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Call your senators and representative, and tell them that you support Sen. Slotkin and Kelly and the representatives exercising their freedom of speech and reminding our servicemembers of their right and duty to uphold our laws and Constitution and refuse illegal orders. Urge them to censure Trump.
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There's also nothing wrong with that, SO LONG AS YOU MAKE SURE THAT PERSON HAS REVIEWED AND CONFIRMED THE ACCURACY OF THE PHRASING YOU DRAFTED for them.
But you ABSOLUTELY need to make sure that they do that
But you ABSOLUTELY need to make sure that they do that
This is a lawyer thing that is far more common than lawyers like to admit. It comes from backwards reasoning. ”We want result X. We have to put on testimony Y. Who knows about those facts and is qualified? Do a declaration for him and put it in there.”
A senior ICE official just admitted in an evidentiary hearing in Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s case that someone else drafted his declaration in the case and he didn’t know what certain words meant.
November 20, 2025 at 7:25 PM
There's also nothing wrong with that, SO LONG AS YOU MAKE SURE THAT PERSON HAS REVIEWED AND CONFIRMED THE ACCURACY OF THE PHRASING YOU DRAFTED for them.
But you ABSOLUTELY need to make sure that they do that
But you ABSOLUTELY need to make sure that they do that
November 20, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Here's a slightly different follow up: "Speaker Johnson, do you believe members of the armed forces should follow unlawful orders?"
Mike Johnson responds to my question about saying Democrats committed treasonable by death
November 20, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Here's a slightly different follow up: "Speaker Johnson, do you believe members of the armed forces should follow unlawful orders?"
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the arguments i have with my students about whether they need to do the integral themselves
(yes, because i need to know you know how to do it and you know what you're asking wolfram alpha to do when you have it do it for you instead)
(yes, because i need to know you know how to do it and you know what you're asking wolfram alpha to do when you have it do it for you instead)
Meanwhile: "The UC San Diego report notes that more than a quarter of the students who placed into the elementary- and middle-school-level remedial course last year had earned straight A’s in their high-school math classes. Almost all of them had taken advanced math courses in high school." 🎢 ♾️ 🍎
‘A Recipe for Idiocracy’
What happens when even college students can’t do math anymore?
www.theatlantic.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:58 PM
the arguments i have with my students about whether they need to do the integral themselves
(yes, because i need to know you know how to do it and you know what you're asking wolfram alpha to do when you have it do it for you instead)
(yes, because i need to know you know how to do it and you know what you're asking wolfram alpha to do when you have it do it for you instead)
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Important: House Dem leaders just said Trump's call for execution of Dems has prompted them to contact US Capitol Police and House Sergeant at Arms to "ensure the safety of these members and their families."
Treat Trump like an unhinged menace. He's weak and in deep political trouble. Don't let up.
Treat Trump like an unhinged menace. He's weak and in deep political trouble. Don't let up.
November 20, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Important: House Dem leaders just said Trump's call for execution of Dems has prompted them to contact US Capitol Police and House Sergeant at Arms to "ensure the safety of these members and their families."
Treat Trump like an unhinged menace. He's weak and in deep political trouble. Don't let up.
Treat Trump like an unhinged menace. He's weak and in deep political trouble. Don't let up.
NPR punching me right in '90s on a Thursday morning.
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Goo Goo Dolls: Tiny Desk Concert
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November 20, 2025 at 4:58 PM
NPR punching me right in '90s on a Thursday morning.
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Public officials reminding members of the armed forces to obey the law shouldn't be remotely controversial, but it is in this administration because ordering violations of the UCMJ, domestic, and international law is a major feature of this administration's policy.
November 20, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Public officials reminding members of the armed forces to obey the law shouldn't be remotely controversial, but it is in this administration because ordering violations of the UCMJ, domestic, and international law is a major feature of this administration's policy.
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the nuzzi story is fun and all but at the center of it is the elevation of a man who has dedicated his life to making children catch preventable diseases to a position where he can enact harm at enormous scale
CDC has overhauled its website to assert that “the claim ‘vaccines do not cause autism’ is not an evidence-based claim”
November 20, 2025 at 3:19 AM
the nuzzi story is fun and all but at the center of it is the elevation of a man who has dedicated his life to making children catch preventable diseases to a position where he can enact harm at enormous scale
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Good morning everyone!
Democracy Docket v. Washington Post.
Democracy Docket v. Washington Post.
November 19, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Good morning everyone!
Democracy Docket v. Washington Post.
Democracy Docket v. Washington Post.
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Notorious neo-Nazi websites go offline after NewsChannel 5 exposes targeting of children www.newschannel5.com/news/newscha...
Notorious neo-Nazi websites go offline after NewsChannel 5 exposes targeting of children
Two notorious neo-Nazi websites have been taken offline following an exclusive NewsChannel 5 investigation that revealed how they have been used to target children.
www.newschannel5.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Notorious neo-Nazi websites go offline after NewsChannel 5 exposes targeting of children www.newschannel5.com/news/newscha...
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SCOOP — A former staffer for Rep. Jeff Van Drew (R-NJ), Natalie Green, 26, was charged today for falsely reporting she was attacked by 3 men who wrote "TRUMP WHORE" on her stomach bc of her job. It was staged by her + a friend.
Van Drew isn't named in the complaint but I've confirmed w/ his office.
Van Drew isn't named in the complaint but I've confirmed w/ his office.
Employee of a Federal Official Charged with Conspiracy to Falsely Report Violent Attack and Giving False Statements to Law Enforcement
A New Jersey woman was charged with conspiring and falsely reporting to law enforcement that she had been violently assaulted with a firearm due to her employment with a federal official.
www.justice.gov
November 19, 2025 at 11:22 PM
SCOOP — A former staffer for Rep. Jeff Van Drew (R-NJ), Natalie Green, 26, was charged today for falsely reporting she was attacked by 3 men who wrote "TRUMP WHORE" on her stomach bc of her job. It was staged by her + a friend.
Van Drew isn't named in the complaint but I've confirmed w/ his office.
Van Drew isn't named in the complaint but I've confirmed w/ his office.
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Anyone in academic medicine or public health who attempts to rehabilitate Bhattacharya, Makary, Prasad etc and grant them endowed chairs or professorships should be asked to account for the generational damage these dangerous men are inflicting on millions of
“…Bhattacharya and Memoli’s proposal reflects the spread of a dangerous philosophy that Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the secretary of HHS, has been pushing for years: a dismissal of germ theory, or the notion that infectious microbes are responsible for many of the diseases that plague humankind.” 💀
November 19, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Anyone in academic medicine or public health who attempts to rehabilitate Bhattacharya, Makary, Prasad etc and grant them endowed chairs or professorships should be asked to account for the generational damage these dangerous men are inflicting on millions of
If you’re going with “sure, he thought there was a racial hierarchy of intelligence, but I don’t think he was racist,” then any commentary on politics or ethics or really much of anything is not worth taking seriously.
She comes off in this book as the intellectual peer of her ex-husband
November 19, 2025 at 9:58 PM
If you’re going with “sure, he thought there was a racial hierarchy of intelligence, but I don’t think he was racist,” then any commentary on politics or ethics or really much of anything is not worth taking seriously.
Also, since the Trump administration and political ideologues like Thiel and Yarvin already want state capitalism, this is really the direction the GOP is shifting.
Here is Fuentes literally arguing for National Socialism.
Lest you think it sounds silly or he has no actual space to succeed here, he has been laying the groundwork of propagandizing to the anti-Zionist left since Oct 7th.
So have many other far right influencers. And they've succeeded.
Lest you think it sounds silly or he has no actual space to succeed here, he has been laying the groundwork of propagandizing to the anti-Zionist left since Oct 7th.
So have many other far right influencers. And they've succeeded.
November 19, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Also, since the Trump administration and political ideologues like Thiel and Yarvin already want state capitalism, this is really the direction the GOP is shifting.