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New: Reuters has tallied job losses, suspensions and investigations stemming from the reaction to Charlie Kirk's Sept. 10 assassination. Its findings: More than 600 Americans have been punished, and the figure is likely to be an under-count.

www.reuters.com/investigatio...

Miller scared of Constitution

Stephen Miller is scared because Democrats are calling on U.S. military service members and intelligence professionals to honor their oaths to the Constitution.

Miller knows they can’t do that and enforce Trump’s unconstitutional agenda - which Miller himself has shaped.

Opinion | Jamal Khashoggi: What the Arab world needs most is free expression The Arab world needs a modern version of the old transnational media so citizens can be informed about global events.

I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered.

He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :

www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...

Trump in response to an Epstein question: "ABC, your company, your crappy company is one of the perpetrators. I think the license should be taken away from ABC because your news is so fake and so wrong. And we have a great commissioner, a chairman, who should take a look at that."

It’s pretty simple.

When you do a huge armed midnight raid on an apartment building rounding up and terrorizing children and later find out there were no criminals there everyone involved resigns in shame and we have loud showy Congressional hearings.

NEW: In his first interview since his arrest for protesting outside the Chicago-area ICE facility, @revdrmichaelwoolf.bsky.social tells me he has "bruises all over my body."

Even so, he said, “the cruelty that goes on that facility … must be 100 times worse." religionnews.com/2025/11/15/a...

It all would have been much easier if, as would have happened if we were remotely a serious country, it all ended with the Access Hollywood interview.

After @mandophotos.bsky.social photographed federal agents pointing rifles at 26th/Lawndale yesterday, I inquired with DHS about what threat had prompted them to pull weapons on a busy commercial strip (pictured). This is the response I got from a representative of the United States government.

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Universal healthcare. We MUST separate healthcare from employment.

Text from a NYT article: Emissions have come down, but there's still far to go. Call this good-ish news. Lower emissions mean the arc of temperature increase has curved downward over the past 10 years. If countries stick to current policies, the global average temperature is projected to rise by 2.5 to 2.9 degrees Celsius by the end of the century.

The claim that “emissions have come down” in this @nytimes.com @sominisengupta.bsky.social article on where we are ten years post-Paris is FALSE.

Global emissions were at an all-time high in 2024.

As it stands this claim is misinformation. They need to issue a correction!

The article is even worse than the headline.

BREAKING EXCLUSIVE MUST CREDIT: Lunch for jurors in the “sandwich guy” trial are a variety of sandwiches, according to a source familiar with lunch.

That’s a hell of a way to run a news organisation.

I worked 43 years in journalism, for a lot of news organisations, but I never encountered such political pressure being exerted by the top on news stories.

Stories with predetermined narratives that fit the leader’s personal views.

The challenges we now face must be met by a bold progressive populist movement that strengthens democracy and shakes up the system.

We can’t simply return to the path we were on before Trump.

We cannot accept the status quo of Big Money dominating our politics and economy.

A painting of a bird beside the text "in the old days we let smart people run shit"

Mistake-filled legal briefs show the limits of relying on AI tools at work Judges around the world are seeing error-riddled legal briefs that were generated with the help of artificial intelligence.

“Judges around the world are dealing with a growing problem: legal briefs that were generated with the help of artificial intelligence and submitted with errors such as citations to cases that don’t exist”

apnews.com/article/arti...

The healthcare system is crashing.

Obama: It is not as if we didn't see some of this coming. I will admit it is worse than even I expected, but I did warn you all. I did. You can run the tape.

Sometimes work is a refuge.

I love how Rep. Joe Neguse reframed this question.

Oh she is magnificent here!!

1. Faithful Support of Administration of the Law and the President's Policies Weight: 25% This is the most critical element for reviewing the job performance of someone who serves under the elected President. Faithful administration of one's role in the Executive Branch requires commitment to the principles of the Founding. including equality under the law and democratic self-government. All Senior Professionals must clearly and demonstrably support implementation of the President's policy priorities through specific results that align with and advance the President's specific policy agenda.

Leadership staff at HHS are now being evaluated for their loyalty to Trump. It makes up a quarter of their review criteria.

The political purge of science is in full force.

www.huffpost.com/entry/hhs-em...

I invite all the cold-hearted, selfish Christian Nationalists in the Trump administration and Congress to point to the scripture wherein Jesus told them to withhold from the poor, needy, and hungry so they had more money to give instead to Herod's $300,000,000 golden ballroom. I'll wait.

And many tenured profs are on 10-month contracts.

That’s how we do it too. The master syllabus is goals/objectives/learning outcomes. Usually does not have a schedule of topics.

I have no idea.

We have a “master syllabus” for every class. It’s very basic though.

I am often tweaking the syllabus the night before class begins. 45 days is insane—most of us are off contract until about 15 days before classes begin.

The sacred American spaces desecrated by the American president The American faithful must find their voice if the divine American idea is to survive

There is no current writer whose wisdom and insight I respect more than @mollymckew.bsky.social’s. This piece beautifully sums up where we are, what we face, and how we shall prevail, and it has left me in tears: