Wendy Wetzel

Gibbs had to walk in because he’s so tired from carrying the whole team.

 "I don't think we're going to turn the page on this moment until there’s a very consistent & clear message...that cruelty, especially cruelty to the point of wishing death on people, is so far beyond the pale that you can't have a career in public life when you do that." @davidfrenchjag.bsky.social

Let’s do it!

The Not-So-Impressive “New” Health Care Ideas Republicans Want to Rush Out What GOP leaders are missing in their mad scramble to remake health care policy.

NEW: Republicans say they have “new ideas” to fix the looming health-care premium spike. @citizencohn.bsky.social took a look at them.

Read why the GOP’s health-care scramble is a mess of fantasy economics and rushed policy in the latest edition of The Breakdown.

If you're the parent of a disabled kid, I just want to tell you I know it's hard and I know you feel like you're failing constantly, but you're doing it and you're doing the best you can and your kid absolutely loves you for it.

Hey authors! Check to see if Anthropic stole your book to train their slop generator on. You’re entitled to $1500 per stolen Work.

Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim
secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/

“The president’s vision to take a sledgehammer to the Department of Education’s ability to function will cause student suffering. The founders believed that education was critical to the full experience of citizenship; it was where students learned arts, sciences, humanities and how to engage with one another. But putting that vision into place left the nation with a system where inequities — in content and classroom composition — were left in place. America began to undo those inequities, and the department protected that progress. Now, less than three months into Mr. Trump’s second presidency, the administration has done everything in its power, and some things beyond its authority, to ensure we are equal no more.“

My essay from April on the dismantling of the department, and the administration’s commitment to returning American education to a time before the Civil Rights Act, when the nation’s most vulnerable students were largely unprotected: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/o...

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.

I spent October traveling to schools throughout the South talking to students about American history. What I found were young people who understand we can tell a story that includes both the positive and the negative. As one 8th grader in Memphis said, “Doesn’t seem that hard, just say both things.”

Thanks for highlighting this!

Trump doesn’t have to call on House Republican to vote to release the file.

Trump can order Bondi and Patel to release the files. Tomorrow.

The question is, has he already ordered Bondi and Patel to destroy some of the files after they went through them months ago.

Cris Collinsworth was not a fan of the DPI call on Rock Ya-Sin that sealed the Lions fate tonight

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.

a man in a suit and tie is dancing in a field . Alt: Mr. Bean, in a suit and tie, is standing on a field, checking his watch, and lying down

Longest Sunday in ages and still an hour until the #Lions kick off.

Immigrants are so poor and backwards, they're eating (white) people's cats and they're eating their dogs!

Also, immigrants are so rich and elitist that they're stealing all the good Ivy League admissions spots from deserving (white) students in America!

There's no problem Vance won't blame on immigrants, even if he has to invent the problem himself.

A few weeks ago he was insisting immigrants lived in cramped squalor and their (white) neighbors had a right to be upset about that.

Now they're so rich they're snatching up all the good houses? OK.

I don't like the comma after "squeaky"

They Led at Saddleback Church. ICE Said They Were Safe. - Christianity Today A Colombian couple prayed with neighbors and raised their children in one of America’s most influential churches. What did we gain from their deportation?

My story in the Nov @christianitytoday.com asks, What did we gain by deporting two leaders at @Saddleback Church? And what is a couple to do when ICE assures them "they're never going to kick you out?" Thanks for reading! 🙂 www.christianitytoday.com/2025/11/ice-...

This is beautiful and heartbreaking, @andyrolsen.bsky.social.

They Led at Saddleback Church. ICE Said They Were Safe. - Christianity Today A Colombian couple prayed with neighbors and raised their children in one of America’s most influential churches. What did we gain from their deportation?

Worth it to sit down and settle in with this remarkable, nuanced piece from my colleague @andyrolsen.bsky.social

Months of reporting on the deportation of one church-leading couple www.christianitytoday.com/2025/11/ice-...

I did not know these exist! 😮

AUTHORS!!

Remember that case where a bunch of authors sued AI for stealing their work? And WON?

Well, the settlement money has been announced. Each WORK that got thefted will be compensated $3k (split 50/50 bw publisher + author). So authors will be compensated $1500 per WORK stolen.

More here:

MAKE Men Read Books

Love this idea of a "Human Written" seal.

Let my gravestone read "PUNCTUATION GOES INSIDE THE QUOTATION MARKS."

In case you're wondering how bookish creatives are feeling about the constant AI talk:
"Reading through all of this makes me unspeakably sad about the future of humanity and glad my life is more than half over."

Left a salty voice mail. We didn’t come this far for nothing!

Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux has become an internet sensation after an Associated Press photo captured him outside the Louvre on the day of a crown jewels heist.

Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...

1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️

Eeek Pluribus OH MY.

Ep 1 was intense!