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I honestly don't understand why Trump is mad. Cuellar always votes with the Republicans.

“The real task isn’t “teaching people to spot misinformation.” It’s rebuilding conditions where verification, deliberation and accountability are possible. Critical thinking only works when the world around it gives those skills a place to take root.” 🧵

Haaaaaayy

Opened my meditation app for the first time in months and it was all "omg I missed you! So glad you're back, so proud of you, you're doing such a good thing! Shall we set some usage goals to keep you on track?" And frankly I find this rude, we both know I've been gone, just let me come back quietly

Maybe the Trump administration and congressional GOP will show how seriously they take fighting antisemitism? Lol. Jokes aside, pretty terrifying shit for us Jews. Because not only do these kids feel ok making a human swastika but also sharing it on social media. Hope their parents are ashamed.

““This lost revenue amounts to almost half of the tax revenue collected by Ohio for its General Revenue Fund in fiscal year 2024.””

“If Trump does not immediately retract his words, if the administration proceeds with raids, deportations, or policies targeting entire communities, it will be complicit in a moral atrocity.”

Someone else said it with regards to the far right JFK is alive conspiracy stuff, but American fascism is weird because fascism is inherently nostalgia driven for a fake better past, but since America is young/weird it's just boomer nostalgia/"remember these guys?"

Serenity

(I'm an Arsenal girlie but Mo Salah is my king.)

I've been thinking a lot about this: It's not a war crime, in that WE ARE NOT AT WAR. It's something even worse than a war crime, I think, with the understanding that war crimes are plenty bad. What's the legal framing of "the President made the decision to start murdering randos on the high seas"?

i love houston man

Rikers Island is a blight on New York City, on the current mayor, and on our legal system which continues to be stuck in the muck of inaction even as the deaths mount every year. Mayor-Elect Mamdani, it falls to you to #ShutDownRikers. @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social

Today is Sunday, Dec 7 Good morning ❤️ eat take your meds hydrate tell your people you love them let them love you back (and if you, like me, have come down with an unfortunate cold: tea & soup!) We are here. This is real. Let's build a home for each other and fight like hell.

If the idea of the political talk show was to bring in elected officials and hold them accountable, then these programs have failed. If it’s to make money or to push a particular ideology, then it’s been a wild success.

Some people in Germany want to ban the Alternative for Germany, a far-right party, to prevent a repeat of Nazism. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...

Putin believes he’s winning his war on the West. He may be right. The trouble is, the better his weeks, the less incentive he feels to compromise over Ukraine @markgaleotti.bsky.social www.thetimes.com/world/russia...

The Trump administration's new national security strategy says European allies face the "prospect of civilizational erasure" and backs far-right parties across the continent www.haaretz.com/us-news/2025...

"In so expertly depicting grasping climbers who happily make their livings by taking advantage of the gullibility and media illiteracy of other people, they’ve ensured that I no longer like those people... I’m not going to root for people whose job is ripping other people off."

A Syrian military officer who had coordinated with Iran’s IRGC terrorists told AFP on Sunday that “Tehran abandoned Bashar al-Assad two days before the collapse of his regime.” www.i24news.tv/en/news/midd...

Hostile powers sending spies to west’s universities, says former security chief Canadian expert David Vigneault warns of China’s ‘industrial-strength’ attempts to steal new technologies www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

I’ve only saved two non-family member voicemails and one was Steve Spurrier linked here and the other was the late Sen. Tom Coburn telling me I was destroying America with my reporting.

The White House is ready to broker a summit between Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and Egyptian President al-Sisi, but conditions it on Bibi approving a strategic gas deal with Egypt and taking other steps to entice Sisi to meet. @barakravid.bsky.social www.axios.com/2025/12/07/e...

in honor of Duke winning the acc championship do people want to hear the voicemail Steve Spurrier left me in 2008 while I was in class explaining to me how the coaches’ poll bosses told him he couldn’t continue his tradition of putting Duke at No. 25?

Okey dokey. Man Who Swallowed Stolen Fabergé Egg Passes It Naturally, Police Say The man ingested the egg locket at a jewelry store in New Zealand last week, according to the authorities. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/w...

“There is only one way forward from this stagnate state of affairs: taking Palestinian agency and self-determination seriously. To do so, the international community and all relevant actors to this conflict must apply the lessons of prior peace negotiations, not just in 🇮🇱 /🇵🇸 but around the world.”

for what it's worth i'm not sure that the "Jasmine Crockett can't win a statewide race" conventional wisdom is as settled as people think it is. She's constantly doing resist media hits and for a base that wants a "fighter" she certainly appears to fit that bill. I wouldn't totally underestimate her

the reason no one with name recognition wants to run for Governor is that everyone wants to win a statewide seat in texas where they don't actually have to deal with texas politics. Who wants to be a Dem governor with *this* legislature? At least if you're a Dem senator you get to confirm judges

“New moms said the shifting health advice from the Trump administration has made an already seemingly endless number of decisions feel even more daunting”

Well, they do host liars every week, but Schmitt doesn’t have to look far to see one of them

Yep. That's a house sparrow.

This was a real tough watch at times, as intended, but also somehow light and cozy. Wild tonal shifts back and forth from traumatic to silly satire that are pretty seamless. Genuinely very funny too. Another true poster made it big. ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Every time the CFP committee makes their announcements, I’m convinced they’re just making bets on the room about how bad their excuses can be without people calling for a revolution. “We looked at wins for 9 vs 10, and when it came to 11 vs 12, we looked at losses. And mojo. Gotta have mojo.”

My initial reaction on viewing the clip : “This dumb fuck!”

if I wanted to torture someone I'd make them swallow a thousand eyelashes.

Despots don’t “retire”. Asked by a journalist at the press conference alongside German Chancellor Friedrich Merz whether he would retire in order to attain a pardon, Netanyahu answered: 'No' www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Sighing, pressing the "Everybody is 12" button

Always. "We will not know what will work—you have to take step after step."

Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly of the U.S. District Court for the District of DC entered a TRO last night preventing the DOJ from using the evidence gathered from Prof. Daniel Richman (James Comey’s former attorney) in the Comey prosecution. She held Prof. Richman is “likely to prevail” in the case.

Feh! Democracy, schemocracy.. who needs it? U.S. Special Envoy to Syria Tom Barrack: “Israel can claim it’s a democracy but in this region, what’s worked the best, whether you like it or you don’t like it, is a benevolent monarchy.”

the only a&m football game i went to in college was a&m vs PVAMU. Those students showed up and were so lit dude. I'm so happy for them

me: I really need to stop doing this thing where I stay up all night working on projects. also me:

After an Israeli settler attack, West Bank Palestinian farmer wakes from coma to a life upended www.haaretz.com/west-bank/20...

South Africa revokes visa waiver for Palestinians after probe into mysterious Gaza charter flight www.ynetnews.com/article/ryhs...

MAGA hates America, and, Europe, you’re on your own. 🧵

Along Israel’s expanding Yellow Line, the war in Gaza never ended Israeli forces are advancing beyond stipulated boundaries, where Palestinians say supposedly safe neighborhoods are coming under fire without warning. By Ruwaida Amer www.972mag.com/gaza-yellow-...

The past two years have been the most destructive for Palestinians since 1967, with extreme practices becoming policy norms, a report by 12 Israeli human rights organizations found www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

As Israel keeps bombing southern Syria, Syria’s interim president, Ahmed al-Sharaa, accuses Israel of fighting “ghosts” and exporting its crises to other countries after the war in Gaza. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

The Tamimi family's long fight for the Palestinian cause www.lemonde.fr/en/m-le-mag/...

A video of the raid and arrests on the Tamimi home www.instagram.com/p/DR6q7ZFjN_...

Did Jimmy Haslam write this

In Nabi Saleh.. they’ve arrested Bilal Tamimi, his wife Manal, their son Samer, also arrested are Wisam Iyad Tamimi, Dina Abu Maryam, and Alaa Muhammad Tamimi. Injuries and Arrests in Ongoing Occupation Aggression in the West Bank and Jerusalem www.sadanews.ps/en/news/2556...

As Israel keeps bombing southern Syria, Syria’s interim president, Ahmed al-Sharaa, accuses Israel of fighting “ghosts” and exporting its crises to other countries after the war in Gaza. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

There are entire vast edifices online built to skim attention and brand recognition away from the actual work of reporting and writing, and it drives me abosolutely fucking nuts

Is there anything more to say? Kremlin says US national security strategy document ‘largely consistent' with Russia's vision www.aa.com.tr/en/europe/kr...

If this is true -- which I honestly doubt -- it would be another example of Elon Musk being incredibly late to any memetic trend that crosses his path, and sweatily grabbing onto it in liue of anything so complex as a personality

"Trump has said that he was “98% involved” in the selection of this year’s slate of honorees: Sylvester Stallone, George Strait, Gloria Gaynor, KISS and Michael Crawford."

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller December 6,1948

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller December 04,1939

“President Donald J. Trump and his cronies have abandoned the principles of democracy and openly embraced the hierarchical society the U.S. fought against in World War II.” heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/december-6...

SUNDAY WITH NANCY AND SLUGGO

Hey someone died! Okay I’m gonna say that again in a southerly direction.

This show really has take a dive. It’s supposed to be about the revolution. Instead it’s about the manufactured soap opera. Still holding out for someone to die because Claire isn’t going to grow a pair any time soon.

Finally saw the first episode of Pluribus and now I'm craving a donut

While a Border Patrol agent ate at a Charlotte Longhorn Steakhouse last month, someone stole his uniform, badge, laptop and magazines. Aside from a Border Patrol uniform, badge and $2,000 laptop, a fanny pack with pistol magazines & a $2K Border Patrol radio was taken. Per Charlotte-Mecklenburg PD

our king speaks to us from the beyond

All the Christmases roll down towards the two-tongued sea, like a cold and headlong moon bundling down the sky that was our street ... In goes my hand into that wool-white bell-tongued ball of holidays resting at the rim of the carol-singing sea Dylan Thomas, A Child's Christmas in Wales prose

Some shows start to act as fanfic of themselves. I feel like one of the hardest things has to be keeping that narrative ascent. I think not being precious about keeping the characters and status quo intact is one way. When they start to pile up and things have to be found for them to do, they slow

Almost every day I ask my cat how it is that a goose and a cat ended up living together. He doesn't get it either

People have strong feelings about Duke and Indiana, but they both clearly belong in the playoffs

I love these with all my heart.

Still possible and plausible given this country that Luigi didn't do it and another young guy with access to a gun and a grievance against health insurance companies did it. Because America. Which would also be weird considering how "Luigi" has become a verb with a specific meaning.

Going to need some streams for the football games as I'm currently bedridden and don't have a TV

Oh man was that Urban Meyer working for Fox? Haven’t seen him since that video

lol Cignetti just snatched that microphone from Klatt like it was the CFP invite

This is New York, friends.

so i haven’t paid attention to football in a long time and you people are trying to tell me Indiana can play football now?

omg, Duke is beating UVA? hahahaha sickos yessssszzz

I need this kid to stop talking it’s ruining the moment for me

I liked Mendoza a lot more before he started talking. Woah.

Look what god did to them man

the houston city council race mailers are getting a little wild

Virginia: basketball school

Only a “sports economics scholar” could look at this schedule and think Vanderbilt might be the 6th best team in the country.

Cheryl Rofer knows what she is talking about ...,

America’s team, baby

Unbelievable play call. Hell of a throw. Wow.

Best moment I’ve seen for Hoosier football since I watched them run for 550 yards against Bill Curry in person

Devastating. And while the drop in state funding (in real dollars) isn’t the only cause, it’s a huge one in this case and across the country.

Heyyy NYC! @anyonecomics.bsky.social is holding a winter fair on Sunday, 12/7 - featuring comics creators like @priyahuq.art @rpdub.bsky.social and more! Go get your holiday presents from awesome local artists! www.anyonecomics.com/events/anyon...

Call me a killjoy, but you should not be able to purchase something that will grow into a 15 foot long apex predator (with serious husbandry requirements!) for the price of a new iPhone

The weird thing about going to reptile expos is that sometimes you'll see a dude selling a whole ass Nile crocodile hatchling for like 700$, which is...not the correct amount of money

The Shakespeare Theatre’s GUYS AND DOLLS is superb and Julie Benko was especially incredible and dead ass funny

I moved here 20 years ago from Baton Rouge and the late night options were better there than in DC. it’s always been like this.

Not sure I’m sold on IU, though, mainly because I think it should be illegal to have brothers as the starting and backup QBs

Gutsy play call on third and 8 when they’ve been having red zone trouble all day and a beautiful pass from Mendoza

without birthright citizenship in the united states, you don't have a democracy and you don't have rule of law. revoking birthright citizenship gives fascists free rein to purge the country of literally anyone they don't like. it opens the door to atrocities and mass murder. i am not exaggerating.

Sadly, he was holding the camera.

Pete Hegseth ordered the U.S. military on Sept. 2 to kill all 11 people on a suspected drug-smuggling boat because they were on an internal list of military targets, the commander overseeing the operation told lawmakers, according to multiple sources. www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

The Delaware River and Bay Authority has a delightful ferry float they bust out for the Lewes Christmas parade. (Previous year photo from someone else here, I was busy holding a toddler.)