Sarah Darer Littman
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MG and YA novelist, INFLUENCED out now, Sydney Taylor Honor book SOME KIND OF HATE, DEEPFAKE, and many more. Teacher, dot connector, columnist. Leviticus 19:33 sarahdarerlittman.com
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Just the latest incident: Jamie Raskin had his security increased after pardoned Jan. 6 defendant Taylor Taranto, who was previously convicted for an incident involving threats against Raskin and Barack Obama, allegedly showed up near the Maryland congressman's house.
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Scoop: Security upped for Rep. Jamie Raskin after alleged incident involving Jan. 6 defendent
A man who previously threatened Raskin and Obama was allegedly recording video near the congressman's home.
www.axios.com
December 4, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Just the latest incident: Jamie Raskin had his security increased after pardoned Jan. 6 defendant Taylor Taranto, who was previously convicted for an incident involving threats against Raskin and Barack Obama, allegedly showed up near the Maryland congressman's house.
www.axios.com/2025/12/04/j...
www.axios.com/2025/12/04/j...
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Blaming Biden for every damn thing has gotten really old.
Trump swore he’d fix everything on “day one,” and his voters swallowed it hook, line, and sinker.
Folks are finally waking up to the scam. And this poll is not just Democrats.
Trump swore he’d fix everything on “day one,” and his voters swallowed it hook, line, and sinker.
Folks are finally waking up to the scam. And this poll is not just Democrats.
December 4, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Blaming Biden for every damn thing has gotten really old.
Trump swore he’d fix everything on “day one,” and his voters swallowed it hook, line, and sinker.
Folks are finally waking up to the scam. And this poll is not just Democrats.
Trump swore he’d fix everything on “day one,” and his voters swallowed it hook, line, and sinker.
Folks are finally waking up to the scam. And this poll is not just Democrats.
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Himes: "What I saw in that room was one of the most troubling things I've seen in my time in public service ... any American who sees the video that I saw will see the US military attacking shipwrecked sailors."
December 4, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Himes: "What I saw in that room was one of the most troubling things I've seen in my time in public service ... any American who sees the video that I saw will see the US military attacking shipwrecked sailors."
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Okay, WERK!!
December 4, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Okay, WERK!!
Most Immigrants Arrested in City Crackdowns Have No Criminal Record www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
ICE Arrest Data Shows Many Immigrants With No Criminal Record
In high-profile operations, more than half of those arrested had no criminal record, an analysis shows.
www.nytimes.com
December 4, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Most Immigrants Arrested in City Crackdowns Have No Criminal Record www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Horrifying story: Chicago promoted two police officers even after investigators found they engaged in sexual misconduct. That’s because the Chicago Police Department’s promotions system allows officers’ disciplinary records to be ignored.
w/ @invisible.institute
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Chicago Promoted Two Police Officers After Investigators Found They Engaged in Sexual Misconduct
The Chicago Police Department’s promotions system allows officers’ disciplinary records to be ignored. Despite years of reform efforts, nothing has changed.
www.propublica.org
December 4, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Horrifying story: Chicago promoted two police officers even after investigators found they engaged in sexual misconduct. That’s because the Chicago Police Department’s promotions system allows officers’ disciplinary records to be ignored.
w/ @invisible.institute
w/ @invisible.institute
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Millions are losing health care, but hey, a ballroom!
Unbelievable.
Unbelievable.
WASHINGTON (AP) — White House is expected to submit plans for a new ballroom to planning commission this month, Trump-appointed chair says.
December 4, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Millions are losing health care, but hey, a ballroom!
Unbelievable.
Unbelievable.
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Chris Rufo—a prominent anti-DEI crusader—-says the “idea that private companies should be able to prioritize hiring married men w/ families is completely within the bounds of rzbl debate, &…it's absurd that individuals cannot hire whomever they want [ie, discriminate] in their own companies…” 1/
December 4, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Chris Rufo—a prominent anti-DEI crusader—-says the “idea that private companies should be able to prioritize hiring married men w/ families is completely within the bounds of rzbl debate, &…it's absurd that individuals cannot hire whomever they want [ie, discriminate] in their own companies…” 1/
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This administration literally pardoned over a thousand people for doing exactly this.
Patel on J6 arrest: "When you attack American citizens, when you attack our institutions of legislation, when you attack our nation's Capitol, you attack the very being of our way of life."
December 4, 2025 at 6:48 PM
This administration literally pardoned over a thousand people for doing exactly this.
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December 4, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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A fair trade off: extreme weather, species extinction, loss of habitable land, and more disease in exchange for bringing back the Woody. Hooray.
Sean Duffy on slashing fuel economy standards: "This rule will actually allow you to bring back the 1970s station wagon. Maybe a little wood paneling on the side. We can bring back choice to consumers."
December 4, 2025 at 5:08 PM
A fair trade off: extreme weather, species extinction, loss of habitable land, and more disease in exchange for bringing back the Woody. Hooray.
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Four people have been arrested in Eastbourne and Brighton as part of an investigation into extreme right-wing terrorism, Counter Terrorism Policing South East said.
Four arrested as part of investigation into extreme right-wing terrorism
All four suspects are currently in police custody
www.independent.co.uk
December 4, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Four people have been arrested in Eastbourne and Brighton as part of an investigation into extreme right-wing terrorism, Counter Terrorism Policing South East said.
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So many ways to sell your soul and this man chooses one of the very worst and then gets on stage and tells us all about it.
Palantir CEO Says Making War Crimes Constitutional Would Be Good for Business
Alex Karp vows to use his
gizmodo.com
December 4, 2025 at 11:14 AM
So many ways to sell your soul and this man chooses one of the very worst and then gets on stage and tells us all about it.
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🎉 “ALA welcomes the good news that IMLS is restoring all federal grants that had previously been terminated. This means that libraries across the country will be able to resume vital services for learning, imagination, & economic opportunity." #librarysky www.ala.org/news/2025/12...
ALA welcomes reinstatement of all federal IMLS grants to libraries
Today, the American Library Association (ALA) greeted an announcement by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) that it had reinstated all the agency’s grants.
www.ala.org
December 4, 2025 at 12:05 AM
🎉 “ALA welcomes the good news that IMLS is restoring all federal grants that had previously been terminated. This means that libraries across the country will be able to resume vital services for learning, imagination, & economic opportunity." #librarysky www.ala.org/news/2025/12...
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The only reliable data we are going to get on this stuff now comes from the private sector. bsky.app/profile/atru...
🚨 CNBC on latest jobs numbers: "A big miss on ADP payrolls. The private payroll company saying private payrolls shed 32,000 workers in Nov. That's the 4th negative number in past 6 months. The estimate was for +40,000, so the street was off ... this may be coming from being hammered by the tariffs"
December 3, 2025 at 1:41 PM
The only reliable data we are going to get on this stuff now comes from the private sector. bsky.app/profile/atru...
Citizens United will go down in history as one of the worst SCOTUS decisions ever. It's contributed to the destruction of American democracy
Several of this year's state and local elections saw new highs of spending, especially from megadonor-fueled super PACs. bit.ly/3XvkAvp
Odd-Year Elections Break Spending Records
Several state and local elections this year saw new highs of spending, especially from megadonor-fueled super PACs.
www.brennancenter.org
December 3, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Citizens United will go down in history as one of the worst SCOTUS decisions ever. It's contributed to the destruction of American democracy
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An estimate of the energy cost of producing one single 10 second Sora video: one kilowatt hour.
- Deplete and then recharge your iphone 17 68 times
- 10% of daily German household use
- 5.5 hours of Netflix
- ~4hrs of gaming
This is probably a huge underestimate
www.linkedin.com/posts/alista...
- Deplete and then recharge your iphone 17 68 times
- 10% of daily German household use
- 5.5 hours of Netflix
- ~4hrs of gaming
This is probably a huge underestimate
www.linkedin.com/posts/alista...
December 3, 2025 at 1:25 PM
An estimate of the energy cost of producing one single 10 second Sora video: one kilowatt hour.
- Deplete and then recharge your iphone 17 68 times
- 10% of daily German household use
- 5.5 hours of Netflix
- ~4hrs of gaming
This is probably a huge underestimate
www.linkedin.com/posts/alista...
- Deplete and then recharge your iphone 17 68 times
- 10% of daily German household use
- 5.5 hours of Netflix
- ~4hrs of gaming
This is probably a huge underestimate
www.linkedin.com/posts/alista...
The Song That Can Fuel Your Purpose cloakinginequity.com/2025/12/03/t...
The Song That Can Fuel Your Purpose
I remember hearing “This Little Light of Mine” long before I truly understood it. I was a small child in a church in the early 1980s, surrounded by families who carried both joy and heaviness in th…
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December 3, 2025 at 1:31 PM
The Song That Can Fuel Your Purpose cloakinginequity.com/2025/12/03/t...
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My undying admiration will go to any reporter who brings up all the evidence of former Honduras President Hernandez's crimes running drugs, and reminds that he was convicted by a jury, and ask Trump how he can claim to be tackling the drug problem while letting such a large trafficker go free.
December 2, 2025 at 9:45 PM
My undying admiration will go to any reporter who brings up all the evidence of former Honduras President Hernandez's crimes running drugs, and reminds that he was convicted by a jury, and ask Trump how he can claim to be tackling the drug problem while letting such a large trafficker go free.
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Not just a tragedy for America, but, given the central place the US occupies in the research ecosystem, a tragedy for the world.
“Thousands of very competitive projects in areas like cancer, diabetes, aging, neurological disorders and public health improvements most like went unfunded in 2025.
Similarly, at the National Science Foundation, the roughly 3,000 fewer new grants encompassed reductions to every area of science”
Similarly, at the National Science Foundation, the roughly 3,000 fewer new grants encompassed reductions to every area of science”
The U.S. Is Funding Fewer Grants in Every Area of Science and Medicine
A quiet policy change means the government is making fewer bets on long-term science.
www.nytimes.com
December 2, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Not just a tragedy for America, but, given the central place the US occupies in the research ecosystem, a tragedy for the world.
How about they just pay their fair share of taxes instead? www.cnbc.com/2025/12/02/m...
Michael and Susan Dell to donate $6.25 billion to fund 'Trump accounts' for 25 million U.S. kids
The billionaire CEO of Dell Technologies told CNBC he first heard of the idea of seeding accounts from hedge fund manager Brad Gerstner.
www.cnbc.com
December 2, 2025 at 12:57 PM
How about they just pay their fair share of taxes instead? www.cnbc.com/2025/12/02/m...
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Which parents are the ones who get "parental rights?" In Bellbrook-Sugarcreek School District (OH), it's those who want to ban books featuring any "sexuality content" or "gender ideology." Inside the school board's educationally-destructive new policy:
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Which Parents Get "Parental Rights?" In This Ohio School, It's Those Who Hate LGBTQ+ People
Bellbrook-Sugarcreek School District has segregated LGBTQ+ books in the high school library, among other acts of book censorship.
bookriot.com
December 1, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Which parents are the ones who get "parental rights?" In Bellbrook-Sugarcreek School District (OH), it's those who want to ban books featuring any "sexuality content" or "gender ideology." Inside the school board's educationally-destructive new policy:
bookriot.com/bellbrook-su...
bookriot.com/bellbrook-su...
Look! It's the author @debbimichiko.bsky.social and her husband Bob! A chemist, a chef and an author craft soy sauce on the CT coast ctmirror.org/2025/11/30/c...
A chemist, a chef and an author craft soy sauce on the CT coast
For Bob Florence, brewing soy sauce at home was a hobby. Then James Wayman, a chef who was conducting his own soy experiments, got involved.
ctmirror.org
December 1, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Look! It's the author @debbimichiko.bsky.social and her husband Bob! A chemist, a chef and an author craft soy sauce on the CT coast ctmirror.org/2025/11/30/c...
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Last week: In response to WaPo’s story on the Sept. 2 boat strikes, the Pentagon says “This entire narrative is completely false.”
Today: The White House confirms that a 2nd strike happened and that “Secretary Hegseth authorized Admiral Bradley to conduct these kinetic strikes”
Today: The White House confirms that a 2nd strike happened and that “Secretary Hegseth authorized Admiral Bradley to conduct these kinetic strikes”
December 1, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Last week: In response to WaPo’s story on the Sept. 2 boat strikes, the Pentagon says “This entire narrative is completely false.”
Today: The White House confirms that a 2nd strike happened and that “Secretary Hegseth authorized Admiral Bradley to conduct these kinetic strikes”
Today: The White House confirms that a 2nd strike happened and that “Secretary Hegseth authorized Admiral Bradley to conduct these kinetic strikes”
Love this piece by @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social , especially that it ends in E Pluribus Unum. We never should have changed our national motto. Because E Pluribus Unum is what made America special. (NOT in the Apple TV Pluribus way, lol)
Solidarity Stitches Us Together: Today, World AIDS Day, Is Also the 70th Anniversary of Rosa Park's Historic Protest
I saw two radically different versions of what a quilt could be yesterday and yet they spoke to the same issues. I caught the show Routed West: Twentieth-Century African American Quilts in California ...
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December 1, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Love this piece by @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social , especially that it ends in E Pluribus Unum. We never should have changed our national motto. Because E Pluribus Unum is what made America special. (NOT in the Apple TV Pluribus way, lol)