Carolyn Sissoko

Saying what US media won’t.

“Putin and Trump, the predators’ alliance.”

2026 is going to be a great year to run for office. It’s not too late in most places! runforwhat.net

CONFIRMED: Eileen Higgins, a Democrat, will be the new mayor of Miami.

She'll be the city's first Democratic mayor since the 1990s. She flipped the office from Republicans, and does so easily. She leads the DeSantis-endorsed Emilio González 59/41 right now with most ballots counted.

i mean, we have learned (Gödel, Church, Turing, et al) that we cannot—hard *cannot*—automate the process of proving *mathematical* truths.

general knowledge? forget it

I need you to listen to and share this story - of how Trump is preparing to abandon Ukraine in exchange for Russian money for his billionaire friends.

It could be the greatest corruption of American foreign policy in our history. Russia gets Ukraine. Trump's friends get rich.

When the capital development of a country becomes a by-product of the activities of a casino, the job is likely to be ill-done.

Every Democratic presidential candidate needs to include in their platform having majority of justices on the Supreme Court who believe in the Constitution

Once again, LLMs can’t believe reality is real.

Bring back physical price tags and manual cash registers!

Price tags are a comparatively recent invention (1860s-1880s or later in England and much of the US), necessitated by the expansion of commercial life and division of service labor.

A distinctive feature of high liberalism.

5. BTW, Paramount's legal analysis is incorrect. CFIUS still has jurisdiction to review the transaction regardless of whether the Saudis and others have nominally waived governance rights. There are plenty of other ways for huge investors to influence a corporation.

Kushner and Saudis back hostile takeover of Hollywood giant Jared Kushner is funneling $24 billion from Middle Eastern governments to back a hostile bid for Warner Bros. Discovery—all while advising President Trump on foreign policy.

1. Paramount's hostile takeover bid for Warner Bros. Discovery exposes Jared Kushner's game

Kushner is not running a private equity fund. He's running an influence peddling operation.

It's spelled out on page 42 of Paramount's new SEC filing

For example, a cause of action to undo it or force divestment or punitive damages or something like that specifically for corruptly trading favorable media coverage in exchange for government action, such as a particular regulatory approval. And that'd be a good thing to have going forward, too.

With this there would have been no Mo Farah. No Freddie Mercury. No Lenny Henry. No George Michael. No Meera Syal. No Sadiq Khan. No Sajid Javid. No Salman Rushdie. No Hanif Kureishi.

Honduras Issues Warrant for Juan Orlando Hernández The country’s attorney general said he had issued an international arrest warrant for Juan Orlando Hernández.

Breaking News: Honduras has issued an international arrest warrant for its former president who was recently pardoned by President Trump.

I think “the president’s allies are promising to destroy media institutions the president doesn’t like to curry favor with him” is very bad, actually

Folks might not know a lot of people are getting *very* upset that the materials they request are not available in the libraries/archives they're requesting from.

We're getting lots here at the Library of Virginia: requests of documents likely surfaced by large language models that *do not exist*.

If Paramount is allowed to take over Warner Bros. Discovery, the conservative billionaire Ellison family will control:

Paramount Studios
CBS
CNN
MTV
HBO
Comedy Central
Nickelodeon
Cartoon Network
Warner Bros.
DC Studios
Fandango
New Line Cinema
TNT Sports
TBS
Oracle

And more.

Tenants Seek to Unionize One Private Equity Firm's Entire Housing Portfolio By organizing renters across Capital Realty Group’s affordable housing complexes, the Tenant Union Federation hopes to bring sectoral bargaining to negotiations with large landlords.

Back in September I wrote about a push by tenants to organize unions in several properties across the country owned by a single private equity firm, Capital Realty Group.

Since then tenants have staged several protests, including at CRG's offices. (Cont'd)

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz Amnesty International, interviewing migrant detainees, identifies use of the confinement box. There can be no denying it is a torture prison

They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.

Read this as an American woman and then go break something.

Join CFPB Union NTEU 335 for a rally & special holiday presentation How The Vought Stole Your Money Thursday, December 11@1pm CFPB HQ 1700 G Street NW Washington DC The author of Project 2025 is trying to destroy our democracy. It's time we stop him.

☃️☕ You’re invited to a CFPB Union rally! 🪧💈
HOW THE VOUGHT STOLE YOUR MONEY
1-2pm Thursday, Dec 11
CFPB HQ, 1700 G Street NW, Washington, DC

There will be hot cocoa, good people and good vibes, as well as a special holiday performance.

YouTube video by Tiera Tanksley Howard University AI Panel

You think LLM-based chatbots can help students learn? Think again.

Take a few minutes to listen to Dr. @drtanksley.bsky.social clear explanation why this is very bad, harmful idea, especially for Black students.

#Critical_AI_Literacy

www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mtc...

Wins 2025 hands down

And got elected with SCOTUS' help.

How a Cryptocurrency Helps Criminals Launder Money and Evade Sanctions

When the House and Senate marked up stablecoin legislation, we raised all of these concerns - their anonymity, their nearly perfect design for money laundering. All the barn doors were left wide open. It’s used for crime because that is its purpose. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/t...

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.

UNL used bad data to make $27.5 million cuts, faculty say UNL's faculty takes issue with the data used by the university to propose program budget cuts. The eliminations are partially financial, but all of the programs up for elimination made more money in s...

It is also grossly ironic to use faulty data to cut the statistics program.
www.dailynebraskan.com/news/unl-use...

Heartbreaking. The University of Nebraska will terminate its entire Earth science department.

One of the country's most successful and respected geology & climate programs: gone.

When ideologues & politicians are threatened by the very act of studying climate change, I wonder: who of us is next?

In the world where I am come from if market makers are gone it means the leverage ratio is binding and balance sheet constraints bite. We fail to consider that more often than not, market makers sometimes just don’t pick up the phone.

i think to understand the meaning of the birthright citizenship clause to the framers of the 14th amendment, you have to understand significance of dred scott to the civil war republican party. dred scott wasn't just a bad ruling, it was understood as a rejection of the declaration itself.