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...

Tell Students the Truth About American History We owe it to Americans of all ages to be honest about the country’s past, including its contradictions.

“A democracy whose citizens operate with fundamentally different understandings of the past and its implications cannot sustain itself,” @clintsmithiii.bsky.social writes:

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.

Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

For no particular reason….posting former U.S. Attorney General John Mitchell’s mugshot before he went to Federal prison for committing numerous crimes on behalf and or/at the direction of President Nixon including obstruction of justice and conspiracy.

Remember: The richest 1% evade over $160 billion in taxes every year.

That amount would fund SNAP for a year with money to spare.

Ask yourself who the real freeloaders are.

They’re all just looting the treasury now

This is a better answer than I gave on The Source to @kaitlancollins.bsky.social last night.

Firm Tied to Kristi Noem Secretly Got Money From $220 Million DHS Ad Contracts The company is run by the husband of Noem’s chief DHS spokesperson and has personal and business ties to Noem and her aides. DHS invoked the “emergency” at the border to skirt competitive bidding rule...

$143 million in taxpayer money has gone to a mysterious company created just days before it got the money to create a Homeland Security ad campaign starring the deeply corrupt Kristi Noem. A firm with close ties to Noem is secretly cashing in on the deal, according to ProPublica.

BREAKING: The Supreme Court denied an attempt to challenge Obergefell v. Hodges, the case affirming marriage equality nationwide.

Our freedom to marry remains the law of the land.

pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.

There is nothing an American president could do worse for his own people than starving the poor right before Thanksgiving.

Except for, I don’t know, lying about a plague and getting a million of his own citizens killed. Oh wait, let’s also not forget the time that he:

sallow (comparative sallower, superlative sallowest) (of skin) Yellowish. (most regions, of light skin) Of a sickly pale colour. (Ireland) Of a tan colour, associated with people from southern Europe or East Asia.

My favourite Hiberno-English-ism isn't any of the obvious ones, it's the fact that when we say "sallow" we mean the opposite of what everyone else means. It's not sickly yellow, it's healthy, positive

HOW MANY CHILDREN HAS ICE TAKEN IN 2025? • -25,000 CHILDREN separated from their families by ICE so far in 2025 — a 15% increase over 2024. • 2,342 CHILDREN separated at the southern U.S. border since May 2025. • 1,000 TODDLERS (under 3) arrested and detained in ICE operations between late 2024 and mid-2025. • Tens of thousands of kids still UNACCOUNTED FOR in the system - either lost, unmonitored, or handed to unknown sponsors. WHERE ARE THESE CHILDREN?

Ahem

Socialism is what they called public power.

Socialism is what they called social security.

Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.

Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.

—Harry Truman, 1952

Why are ICE agents being paid during the shutdown, but not air traffic controllers? 🤨

incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty

Just an idea for you to tweet (or whatever you use these days) An alternative strategy for limiting flights from major airports would be closing small (private jet) airports and sending those air traffic controllers to the main hubs. But that would impact private jets and that would be terrible.

Text from a friend:

I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.

Mamdani: "Yes, aunties."

Auburn University requires faculty to review courses to comply with anti-DEI law Auburn's provost office posted a web site on how to comply with state and federal DEI mandates on Oct. 31.

Disturbing news out of Auburn University, where the admin is pressuring professors to sign a statement saying they're complying with an "anti-DEI" law and TPUSA is holding a rally and trying to record classes.

I hear faculty are terrified to sign, worried this is a pretense for mass firings.

Damn, even the cat voting?

OpenAI pirated large numbers of books and used them to train models.

OpenAI then deleted the dataset with the pirated books, and employees sent each other messages about doing so.

A lawsuit could now force the company to pay $150,000 per book, adding up to billions in damages.

The Bible says so…or does it? On this week’s “More To The Story,” religious scholar and TikTok star Dan McClellan examines how some Christian nationalists use—and often abuse—the Bible to gain political power.

"The hot new thing right now is to be a Christian nationalist...And unfortunately, it means hurting an awful lot of people along the way."

Religious scholar and TikTok star Dan McClellan examines how some Christian nationalists use—and often abuse—the Bible to gain political power.

Lots of you have been asking for the syllabus for the lecture course -- "America at 250" -- that I'm teaching with David Blight and Beverly Gage.

Here you go:
president.yale.edu/sites/defaul...

ICE followed the mother into a school and aggressively detained her along with her children.
This is so heartbreaking 💔

This is amazing. And it’s truly the stuff of nightmares.

Three months from now:

Why Trump Was Right to Put the New York Times Editors into a Work Camp