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Can You Identify Lines From These Classic Science Fiction Novels? (Gift Article) Try this short quiz to see how many popular lines from 20th-century science fiction novels have remained in your memory bank.

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I was shocked that I missed one!

What the Deported Venezuelans Went Through in El Salvador Forty men sent to El Salvador by the Trump administration have shared disturbing accounts of abuse by a regime that America paid to imprison them.

Will the world ever forgive us?
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

Brazil Defied Trump and Won

Standing up to authoritarian bullying works better than acquiescence.

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Opinion | How the Elite Behave When No One Is Watching: Inside the Epstein Emails

This long NYT op-ed is an excellent read and a good dissection of the Epstein debacle and what it means for how the elite rule over us.

Gift Link.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...

Elon Musk’s Worthless, Poisoned Hall of Mirrors How X blew up its own platform with a new location feature

"They’ve traded reality for profit and prioritized technologies that aren’t just soulless and amoral, but inhuman in the most literal sense of the word."

1/2 Up to 1/3 of MAGA online is not from the USA.

2/2 And a good % is bot traffic.

Entrepreneurs are leaving the UK in droves, minister admits The business secretary says tax rises have led to an exodus of the wealthy but he claims others are attracted to Britain because of ‘excitement’ in the economy

Look in vain for evidence to support the “leaving in droves” @thetimes.com headline.
www.thetimes.com/article/ecdc...

Trump Administration Live Updates: Judge Tosses Criminal Charges Against James Comey and Letitia James

“Trump Administration Live Updates: Judge Tosses Criminal Charges Against James Comey and Letitia James”

Gift Article:
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...

Elon Musk’s Worthless, Poisoned Hall of Mirrors How X blew up its own platform with a new location feature

www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

If a quark is the smallest existing thing, then there’s no explanation of what it is made of. Does anyone have any answers? Answer (1 of 31): Quarks really have no size to speak of in the first place. Like other fundamental entities, such as electrons and photons, it makes no sense to mention any diameter or such in the cl...

If a quark is the smallest existing thing, then there’s no explanation of what it is made of. Does anyone have any answers? www.quora.com/If-a-quark-i...

What works for you? A big key to getting my life together was trying different stuff until it fit me

Great article about defeating writer's block, or any other kind

badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/what-works...

Restrained, Beaten, Asphyxiated: New York Prison Guards’ Brutality Grows

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/n...

Gift Link. Hang these guards. No trials.

Why Study History? Civic education can help us to see that not all problems have solutions, to live with tentative answers, to accept compromise, to embrace responsibilities as well as rights—to understand that democrac...

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Chicago immigrants left with hope, trauma and resolve after Operation Midway Blitz
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Opinion | Ukraine needs Russia’s frozen $200 billion immediately, Europe With Trump seeking Kyiv’s capitulation to Russia, now is the moment for decisive European action.

Gift article. wapo.st/44uXtF0
So Belgium is holding up the funds?! Not a good look Belgium.

An Anatomy of the MAGA Mind Under Trump, post-liberal intellectuals have abandoned tradition for radicalism and scholarship for vulgarity.

“What’s clear is that MAGA ideologues have entered a downward spiral of ever cruder language and thought, usually with notes of bigotry and xenophobia, and sometimes blatant ugliness, as if to show their bona fides.”

And we call that intellectual progress???
www.theatlantic.com/books/2025/1...

Opinion | RFK Jr. Turns the CDC Against Vaccines The agency’s website is revised to spread autism fears, despite serious science finding no link.

The WSJ Editorial page just ripped him. As straight up as I’ve seen them in criticism of administration. www.wsj.com/opinion/rfk-...

"Only the Best and Most Serious People" The consequences of Trump inserting unfit sycophants in positions of power are tragic and immeasurable

The consequences of Trump inserting unfit sycophants in positions of power are tragic and immeasurable. www.americaamerica.news/p/only-the-b...

Should the government just ban high prices? Voters love this solution to the affordability crisis. They’re wrong.

Price controls are (usually) a bad way to distribute scarce resources.

If you're worried working-class people are getting priced out of certain markets, just give them money and tax the rich (while you work to increase the supply of the scarce good) www.vox.com/politics/470...

Hoot de la day!

Mamdani’s Meeting With Trump Scrambled the MAGA-Sphere

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/s...

It's an informative 7 minute "Listen" article. Worth it.

My trust is not being restored.

More Americans are getting their power shut off, as unpaid bills pile up Average electricity costs have risen 11 percent since January, more than three times the rate of inflation.

[gift 🔗] Clean energy is cheaper, faster, better.
But that's not the solution the Admin fools want, bc they are fossil-fueled.
Data center oligarchs are pushing our grid to the limits, forcing upgrades we all pay for - Americans on average paying 11% more for electricity now than in Jan 2025.

Opinion | Trump Has Put the Military in an Impossible Situation

Best analysis on this I've read from a long time NYT columnist and former JAG. Gift article: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...

The Pun Show: Can the President Order the Military to Break the Law? 📱 YouTube video by Machine Pun Kelly

Today on the Pun Show, I'll be discussing what it means for the US Military to "refuse to not follow an unlawful order."

What does it mean, what does it apply to, and how is it relevant to the strikes in the Caribbean? I'll get to all of that.

Hope you can join me! youtube.com/live/kgY6gEw...

‘That doesn’t exist’: Trump shutters Elon Musk’s DOGE agency ahead of schedule The move ends a controversial federal efficiency effort that once aimed to overhaul government spending and technology systems.

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Somewhat lost in all the Nuzzi/Lizza drama is that RFK Jr. is a monster who is going to get untold numbers of children killed. (gift link)
www.wsj.com/opinion/rfk-...

That MAGA Account Might Be a Troll From Pakistan How X blew up its own platform with a new location feature

I wrote about the fake account blowup on X this weekend. A genuine post-truth nightmare and proof that these companies have polluted their platforms so thoroughly and traded reality for profit that they've undermined the very idea of what the internet is supposed to be.

The People Carrying Out Musk’s Plans at DOGE (Gift Article) The Times has identified more than 70 people within the so-called Department of Government Efficiency, a group formed by Elon Musk that in a short few weeks has radically upended federal agencies.

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

What the Deported Venezuelans Went Through in El Salvador Forty men sent to El Salvador by the Trump administration have shared disturbing accounts of abuse by a regime that America paid to imprison them.

Earlier this year, the United States deported 252 Venezuelans to El Salvador and paid its government to imprison them. Now two human-rights organizations have found that all of those men were physically abused, Conor Friedersdorf writes: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...