Nick Baumann

SCOOP: Sources tell me Donald Trump's name was added to the exterior of the US Institute of Peace building ahead of Thursday's peace agreement signing between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), which will be held inside the building. Confirming if it's been officially renamed.

How George Soros changed criminal justice in America The liberal funder has spent tens of millions of dollars swinging dozens of district attorney races, drawing a backlash from the right.

George Soros has used his billions to change how crime and punishment work in America. But what happens when you don't want his money? @bethreinhard explains: www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Agents in Key Largo, Florida ripped this woman wearing medical scrubs out of her car as she screamed she is a US citizen. Agents cuffed her and put her in one of their cars.

She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:

Don’t need an app to tell me it was the kind of year where I listened to “O-o-h Child” by the Five Stairsteps, conservatively, 125 times

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Just a devastating Spotify Wrapped year for me, an otherwise normal person who relies on one of two extremely hypnotic playlists to put my small children to sleep

yeah by then the steady stream of jokes had slowed to a trickle

"I am told that writers used to be interesting." www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/1...

Let's See What's Going On Down At The Piss Factory Our "we're not Enron" memo is raising many questions which are already answered by our memo.

"the best engineering whiz kids" @rusty.todayintabs.com i see what you did there: www.todayintabs.com/p/let-s-see-...

Case that lets billionaires spend big on elections never reached Supreme Court A less-recognized campaign finance case from 2010 paved the way for the super PACs frequently used by billionaires such as Elon Musk to spend big on elections.

The forgotten court case that was the origin of the super PAC www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

FDA to impose strict new vaccine requirements, claiming child covid shot deaths Vinay Prasad, the nation’s top vaccine regulator, said his team concluded that coronavirus shots were linked to children’s deaths, necessitating a new approach.

Big change: FDA to impose strict new vaccine requirements under RFK Jr ally

Vinay Prasad signaled changes to annual flu shots, concurrent vaccines + more

Prasad said his team found link between covid-19 shots and kids' deaths, necessitating a new approach overall

with @rachelroubein.bsky.social

Hearing reports that they are the East Side Boyz. I regret the error.

Really betraying the east side boys by appearing at the west side's most famous event.

Lil Jon at the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade.

Millennial Parents: We’ve arrived.

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...

Amazing to learn that Isaac Chotiner can apparently just come for you in your replies. Like suddenly realizing you're swimming in open ocean

yes people call the friday after thanksgiving Brown Friday.

yes plumbers get lots of holiday calls.

yes it's because you overwork your disposals, pour fat/gravy/grease in your sink, and clog hosts' toilets.

holidays are hard enough as it is.

don't make them harder.

The company essentially turned a dial that made ChatGPT more appealing and made people use it more, but sent some of them into delusional spirals.

OpenAI has since made the chatbot safer, but that comes with a tradeoff: less usage.

The Next COP Needs to Confront ‘Overshoot’ The Paris Agreement goal of limiting warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius is now all but impossible. Limiting — and eventually reversing — the damage will take some thought.

somebody is going to do geoengineering, it's just a matter of time heatmap.news/climate/cop-...

Young Candidates Can Speak to the Affordability Crisis Because They’re Living It This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and...

Young people feel like we've lost agency over our lives. We can't *really* pick where to live, or whether to change jobs, or how many kids to have -- the cost of living makes us feel trapped.

Younger candidates can powerfully speak to that emotional truth. talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/young-c...

important to realize just how seriously feelings of powerlessness in the face of vast structures & a learned understanding of the futility of individual effort are generational givens that anybody my age or older (work hard! succeed! things work out!) has no way to fully grasp—but we need to try

The angry & mocking replies & quotes from what I imagine are liberals is yet another bit of evidence that Americans of all stripes don't grasp how angry Canadians are about American belligerence. Pointing out the origin of "americano" insists on missing the point of the gesture.

Seems fine www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...

The problem with affordability literalism is that we have just about as much purchasing power as ever before. So if there’s an economic component to this era of bad feelings, it’s probably not mechanically tied to sticker prices. www.offmessage.net/p/taking-aff...

Taking "Affordability" Seriously ...but not literally.

Thought experiment: What if things got cheaper overnight, but people still felt shitty about the future, and politics in America proceeded all but unchanged? www.offmessage.net/p/taking-aff...

Trump has spent 13 years promising a health-care plan Over the past decade, former president Donald Trump has touted a forthcoming health care plan, only to repeatedly blow past his own deadlines without a plan.

Video: Trump has spent 13 years promising a health care plan: www.washingtonpost.com/video/politi...

From The Washington Post:
The concentration of wealth among the richest Americans is unlike anything in history — and so is billionaires’ influence in politics.

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...

Someone just texted me to tell me about the time their friend was invited to a fundraiser at a home owned by a guy named Rich Person.

Absolute all-timer of a name/quote pairing here: www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

CBS News boss Bari Weiss saved pro-Israel reporter’s job after he lobbied to her directly: report Barie Weiss instead fired Debora Patta, whose coverage in Gaza drew the ire of US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee, according to a report.

CBS News boss Bari Weiss saved pro-Israel reporter’s job after he lobbied to her directly: report