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Most accounts on Twitter turn out to be Russian MAGA bots. Here’s why Bluesky has an intellectual diversity problem

i have never been less surprised by anything in my life. i am unsurprised. i am negative surprised.

How billionaires took over American politics The current concentration of wealth is unlike anything in history. So is billionaires’ involvement in politics.

In the last ten years, the number of billionaires in the US has nearly doubled and their collective wealth has nearly tripled. Their political contributions makeup an increasing share of campaign funding. Great reporting from @washingtonpost.com with data from @opensecrets.org

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I was looking at protest photos from NC and if this isn’t the shadiest, most southern ass sign… I love you, Durham!

Ok,
I have not
Read the post
Or the poem
But you all's posts
Have alarmed
And freaked me out
So I will log off
To avoid
Reading the post
Or the poem
And will have a nice day
For you all

gambling for kids, but make it educational so it’s fine???

We spent a year investigating billionaires for @washingtonpost.com.

We found: the wealthiest 100 Americans gave $1.1 billion to influence the 2024 elections — 140x more than they did in 2000. And almost all of that giving boosted Republicans.

washingtonpost.com/politics/int...

Mamdani’s meeting with Trump comes with a power disadvantage The president has threatened to yank federal aid and send the National Guard to patrol the Big Apple.

This piece normalizes the “temperamental president” and his threats to engage in extralegal punishment against New York City.
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

Thanks to his new Tesla pay package, Elon Musk could stand to make $3 billion more per year than all 1.4 million elementary school teachers in the U.S. combined. Still wondering if inequality is out of control?

Chart showing detention population, among those arrested in the interior, by criminal record, May 2019 through present. There are three lines shown. (1) Prior conviction (which rises from around 9,000 in January 2025 to just over 16,000 in November 2025), (2) Pending criminal charges (which rises from around 5,000 to 15,000), and (3) No criminal record (which rises from around 1,000 to 21,000).

NEW: ICE has finally released post-shutdown detention data. The latest data reveals that a full 40%(!) of people arrested in the interior and held in ICE detention have no criminal record; no criminal charges or prior convictions. That is up from just 4% when Trump took office.

Mike Johnson's official bio says he has "two decades of previous experience in Constitutional law." Yet, when Trump threatens to execute Democratic members of Congress, he suddenly has no opinion.

This is what shameful cowardice does to someone like Johnson and it is how he will be remembered.

Amazing the things you could have learned just by asking people rather than building a police state and increasing inflation.

We Asked Roblox’s C.E.O. About Child Safety. It Got Tense.

This interview is a snapshot into where tech companies are with online harassment right now.

They know how to end it, but they decided not to spend the money. They’re prioritizing growth (and profit) above all else. And they’re blaming YOU for logging on to the platform they designed to be unsafe.

WHAT??? How are we not seeing more coverage of this???

The Batman effect: The mere sight of the 'superhero' can make us more altruistic If "Batman" appears on the scene, we immediately become more altruistic: in fact, research conducted by psychologists from the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, shows that the sudden appear...

When pregnant woman boarded a subway car, 38% of the time someone offered her a seat. If someone dressed as Batman was also in the car it rose to 68%.

phys.org/news/2025-11...

Student's alleged threat sparks concern at UB Authorities search UB student's home amid alleged shooting threat. Multiple firearms confiscated; no ongoing campus threat, says UB Police.

1. UBuffalo student overheard threatening to "shoot up the school" with AR-15 in his backpack.

2. He is president of the campud chapter of the marquee conservativeb group Young Americans for Freedom.

3. This should be in the New York Times.

www.wgrz.com/article/news...

TEN MONTHS IN:

The national debt is higher.

The trade deficit is wider.

The inflation rate has worsened.

The unemployment rate is up.

Pope Leo denounces "extremely disrespectful" treatment of immigrants in U.S. "We have to look for ways of treating people humanely, treating people with the dignity that they have."

Pope Leo denounces "extremely disrespectful" treatment of immigrants in U.S. www.axios.com/2025/11/19/p...

This is the first story I ever did that got more than a million views

The New York Times on Tuesday said that it did not intend to renew Mr. Summers’ contract as a contributing writer for the Opinion section.

Because of the current public uproar, we will (eventually) stop paying the sex-trafficker bff who's pushed sadistic economic policy and spouted racist and misogynistic invective for *decades*

Pritzker Shares Beers, Books and Well-Wishes With Pope Leo XIV in Vatican Visit Sharing art, books and local beer, Gov. JB Pritzker on Wednesday called it an “honor” to meet with the pope in the Vatican to express “the pride and reverence of the people of this great state.”

Pritzker Shares Beers, Books and Well-Wishes With Pope Leo XIV in Vatican Visit

Editing an R&R and for some reason, only yaght rock will do.
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No idea what is wrong with me today.

If the plan is to tell consumers to pull back severely on consumption during the holidays, you’re trying to find a way to rationalize a recession.

“Adults don’t need gifts” == economic decline is imminent

I'm sure I'm not the only person to say this, but just look at the new org chart ontology here: school funding under the Dept of Labor, conveying that education is solely abt job training; language programs under the State Dept because statecraft is of course why we learn languages...

"In effect, the Supreme Court has outright told judges to do as they say, which is to follow precedent as the Court explained it in writing, and not as they do, which is to grant the Trump administration’s every request"

I've always found it quite telling how little white liberals seem to care about things going on in Mississippi jails...

She Left Harvard. He Got to Stay. Did the university’s handling of one professor’s sexual-harassment complaint keep other women from coming forward for decades?

My thoughts this week, for obvious reasons, are with the brave, heroic women who went through hell the last time Harvard let this same problem fester for years on end.

NYT pitchbot never misses

i'd say it did. the public put a group of thieves, vandals and extremists in office last november and they promptly went about destroying everything that might work to limit their ability to loot, steal and inflicting pain on the people they hate

ah yes, reject and resubmit 🫡