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Two panels commemorating the contribution of Black American soldiers towards the liberation of the Netherlands in World War Two have been quietly removed from a cemetery in Limburg. It follows a complaint by right-wing think tank The Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission.

The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.

Grumpy that so many media folks who built their own personal brand around opposition to the Iraq War have decided to pass over the destruction of USAID in complete silence. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Ukraine Update: The Looming Fall of Pokrovsk? - Lawyers, Guns & Money There’s an excellent Lawfare podcast on the current situation at the front in Ukraine, especially regarding the difficult situation in and around Pokrovsk. It includes quite a lot of discussion on pro...

The Looming Fall of Pokrovsk, and other observations about the front… www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/11/ukra...

every single post in this thread is a treasure. I can't stop laughing

And it's hard to build that branding back when Democrats have to go hat in hand to the wealthy or they'll get swamped by a flood of GOP spending. SCOTUS has created a political system where money talks, and boxing out the populist left is not an accidental byproduct. 5/

Broken Windows” is such a remarkable essay - in both great and horrible ways - because Wilson and Kelling REALLY get that. 2/2

My vibes about the crime vibes issue are that it’s “pre-media”: when people who vote say crime they don’t mean crime, they mean visible disorder- visible homeless, teenagers who laugh at them, silly stuff like that. 1/2

My 11-year-old sitting with her pile of Halloween candy, sorting it into a bar graph

We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.

A reminder here that these men and women have jobs, lives, and families they’re away from.

Florida Universities to Stop Hiring Foreign H-1B Workers Under DeSantis Plan

This is a bad idea. Recruiting talented people from other countries is a good thing. American universities have been very good at it in particular. Recruiting talented people tends to benefit everyone. We should keep doing it. I am speaking in short sentences for the benefit of the Governor.

I think it's wise in this day and age, when the Supreme Court has said that people can be randomly stopped and asked for papers, that everybody should carry their papers

From an International Studies Association email about whether it’s safe to travel in the United States. I don’t disagree with the legal assessment but It’s sentences like this one that make me — an institutionalist to the core — want to burn this entire motherfucker down.

OTOH, when I was designing a negotiations course for undergrads earlier this year, based on notes from one I took 25+ years ago as an MBA, one of the many changes that struck me was that in 1998 a large company combined CEO/founder/major shareholder was considered a rare exception.

Change in income/wealth distribution in the US? It’s been going on for a while, so partly prelude, partly last 25 years.

“Essentially, Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara believed that he could address the Vietnam manpower problem while simultaneously resolving the issue of low-scoring recruits by placing them in front of educational videotapes.”

great quote from @drfarls.bsky.social to start the day with!

Newark! Lived there for 8 years. Love that city.

One of the best examples of this is the Battle off Samar, where the IJN forces are "Japan, the old name" and destroyers named shit like "Island Wind" meanwhile Taffy 3 is escort carriers named for random bays and DEs named after civil war officers and KIAs so obscure they don't even have a wiki page

unlike the rest of these folks (and unlike appellate judges and supreme court justices), the job of a district judge is essentially to see what's in front of them

Retweet as this, in two crisp sentences, is the platonic ideal of a social media post:

The Deal? - Lawyers, Guns & Money Most any discussion of Israel-Palestine in the United States these days boils down to intra-coalitional warfare. Unsurprisingly, the ceasefire that began yesterday is being weaponized for conflict with the Democratic coalition: There are a great many people who are deeply invested in the argument that Biden could have ended the war by applying even the […]

The Deal?

Venezuelan politician María Corina Machado wins Nobel peace prize Leader of country’s opposition receives award after scrutiny surrounding committee and comments by Donald Trump * Nobel peace prize – latest Venezuelan opposition politician María Corina Machado has won the Nobel peace prize. The committee commended Machado as a “brave and committed champion of peace” who “keeps the flame of democracy burning during a growing darkness”. Continue reading...

Venezuelan politician María Corina Machado wins Nobel peace prize

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems... SIMON: What? SHAPIRO: ...Or saying... SIMON: You imagine that? SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over. SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level. SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this. SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

Kentuckians need to understand how foreign policy affects their lives | Opinion OpEd: During the midterms, voters need to pay attention to the issues — from bourbon to aerospace — that affect them most.

What foreign policy means for Kentucky www.kentucky.com/opinion/op-e...

I will repost every portland frog joke

Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish? Sick of scrolling through junk results, AI-generated ads and links to lookalike products? The author and activist behind the term ‘enshittification’ explains what’s gone wrong with the internet – and ...

This is so good from Cory Doctorow on all the tricks Amazon uses to get both consumers to pay more, and how businesses on the platform end up paying it 45-51 cents on every dollar.

Plus he rightly calls for regulatory change, not just individual consumer action
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New from me @mollykinder.bsky.social Josh Kendall and Maddie Lee: how should we be tracking the impact of AI on the labor market? Tldr: no signs of major disruptions yet, but we plan to update our trackers monthly 1/

all of these videos are horrifying. what feels so singularly striking and scary to me in all of them is the individual seething contempt and rage of these agents

Trump attacks 9 universities: Sign the alumni petition to defend your school now Are you an alum outraged by Trump's attacks on universities? Defend your school now by signing this alumni petition in support of these 9 universities as well as campus communities across America.

Are you an alum outraged by Trump's attacks on universities? Defend your school now by signing this alumni petition in support of these 9 universities as well as campus communities across America. alumni.controlshift.app/petitions/tr...

‘Nickname’ is not ‘nick’ + ‘name.’

It was originally ‘ekename.’

‘Eke’ was the Middle English word for “also” or “in addition.”

Since ‘ekename’ began with a vowel, people used ‘an’ before it.

Over time, 'an ekename' became 'a nickname.'

YouTube video by jdubv007 King Ralph Royal Family Portrait

I think @dandrezner.bsky.social missed out on the King Ralph Contingency youtu.be/tqhZiDux9y8?...

In my house, it already has.