John Schwartz

U.S. ready to cut support to Scouts, accusing them of attacking 'boy-friendly spaces' Documents show the U.S. military is planning to sever all ties with the organization formerly known as the Boy Scouts.

These dunces are unAmerican.

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C.D.C. Quietly Appoints Doctor Critical of Vaccines as Second in Command

This is a CRIME. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/h...

Fifteen Years

i’m not crying you’re crying

xkcd: Fifteen Years

magnificent.

I would like to be interviewed by Isaac Chotiner because I have always wondered what it would be like to witness my own death.

From the candidate I got a klobásník! I love democracy, but it might kill me.

Millions of us didn't.

I'm sure it was a good career while it lasted.

Texas Workers Keep Dying in the Heat - Inside Climate News Despite its blazing temperatures, Texas has no labor protections for heat. That leaves workers, especially immigrants, vulnerable on the job.

“This is a basic human right, the ability for you to stop and drink water and be in the shade.," said Ana Gonzalez, organizing and advocacy director at the Texas AFL-CIO. "It’s just insane to me that this is a debate.” A sobering story from @psskow.bsky.social insideclimatenews.org/news/2411202...

Epic take-down of Roger Pielke Jr's appallingly shoddy academic "work", which he's used--as an attack dog of the Koch Brothers-funded think tank AEI--to discredit the case for climate action:

Wealthy People Have Always Shaped Universities. This Time Is Different.

“I kind of yearn,” Mr. Nassirian said, “for the gilded age when billionaires satisfied their extracurricular interests by collecting Fabergé eggs and prized ponies.”
Hands off higher ed, you rich yahoos.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/u...

My wife and I have been canvassing for the Pflugerville mayoral run-off, and at one house the homeowner is a professional cookie decorator and she gave us a couple of incredible soft sugar cookies with frosting and it’s been a couple of days but I’m all still DEMOCRACY, Y’ALL!

When your plane falls out of the sky or collides with another plane because we’ve let everything go to hell, you’ll leave a natty corpse. And that’s what everyone wants, right?

A statement today from @nationalacademies.org "affirmed that childhood vaccines are safe for the general population (and have) long-established benefits of preventing illness and averting death." This is in response to misinformation published on the CDC website under orders of RFK Jr.

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Judge Dismisses Cases Against Comey and James, Finding Trump Prosecutor Was Unlawfully Appointed

A president is not a king. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/n...

but we hear about people who veer off course, even if they aren't household names. and so the impressions accumulate

Headline: "Judge Tosses Criminal Charges Against James Comey and Letitia James."

Having often given NYT headline-writers a hard time, let me be sure to congratulate whoever decided on "Tosses" for this breaking news.

Nicely done! Keep it up.

Transmissible to editors of The Atlantic?

Oh come ON, guys.

Can you reheat a Thanksgiving turkey in the dishwasher? This Texas smokehouse says yes This Texas smokehouse claims the dishwasher produces a moist, tender Thanksgiving turkey. Here’s the surprising method and why some families swear by it.

I love my students. Full of surprises. www.statesman.com/entertainmen...

Read the Facebook attacks trying to stir people up over higher water fees and mischaracterizing the multi-use development downtown, which will generate tax revenue, as a "Taj Mahal." Doug has been part of a council that has spent wisely to ensure we will HAVE water. The attacks are very MAGA.

The Trump Trade is Unraveling Tells from the crypto crash

"For now, let me just reiterate that Bitcoin has become a Trump trade, and Bitcoin’s declining price is an indicator of Trump’s declining dominance over the G.O.P."
@pkrugman.bsky.social

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Three lessons in unethical media behavior Plus: Some moments that made me proud to be a journalist

For those of us who teach journalism students about ethics, we've had some astonishingly clear lessons recently, including one from a former NYT reporter. Great stuff from @sulliview.bsky.social
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“Firefly” or no deal.

Pflugerville has 80,000 people, but it's a small town. My wife and I are canvassing for a mayoral runoff and picked up voter info cards. We mentioned a voter who had been reading attacks on our candidate, Doug Weiss. Doug said: next time you're with someone like that, call me. I'll talk to them.

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

A brilliant essay by @anandwrites.bsky.social about the insular elite he calls "the Epstein class": "On matters small and big, from the price of eggs to whether the sexual abuse of children matters, what they sense is a sneering indifference. And a knack for looking away."

Some folks have suggested this is about not paying gasoline taxes, and that is the stated purpose, But I’d like to see the figures justifying that charge based on what I’d pay, considering my driving habits. At 20 cents a gallon, I’d have to drive more than 27,000 miles a year to hit $200. I don’t.

I love everything about my electric Mini, especially passing up gas stations. But Texas makes me pay an extra $200 to renew my registration.

Donald Glover says he had a stroke Glover, who performs under the moniker Childish Gambino, shared the information on stage at Tyler, the Creator's Camp Flog Gnaw festival in Los Angeles.

"They say everybody has two lives and the second life starts when you realize you have one," Glover said. abc7ny.com/post/donald-...

Still life with menudo. Life is good, y’all, and even better if you can meet a friend at Joe’s Bakery for breakfast.