Durham, North Carolina showing up!

Fascinating that Burns declined to mention that Charleston SC was defended on the backs of enslaved labor. White SC troops were enraged when Continental Army MG Charles Lee ordered them to dig trenches. They thought that was not white men’s work

WOMEN WAGING WAR In the AMERICAN REVOLUTION HOLLY A. MAYER

The fact that they don’t have Dr Holly Mayer on to talk about camp followers is a crime

One, she’s the absolute best on this subject

Two, she’s a gem of a human

The funny thing about this meeting is that Mamdani didn't back down on a single policy point or anything he's said about Trump.

Don't forget: President Trump relentlessly attacked@zohrankmamdani & did everything to stop his win. It's funny how his tune changed when confronted with Mamdani's actual focus on affordability — something Trump claims to care about. Let this be a lesson: Always stand up to a bully. 3:45 PM • 11/21/25 • 20K

This guy has his finger on the pulse of his party's base in a way that others in his caucus unequivocally just do not

Two things can both be silly/dumb at once:

• A former SEAL specifying that he was in D Co at Army jump school rather than A, B, or C Co like that’s a flex

• The idea of *GWOT* paratroopers being “used to being behind enemy lines”

I am not forgetting about the Epstein files. I am not forgetting about the threats of executions, or about DHS/ICE/CBP, nor the corruption. But it’s certainly good to watch and laugh about how thoroughly Mamdani commanded the White House today, without once cowering from Trump or a press question.

Israeli press is irate that Trump didn't push back on Mamdani saying the US funds genocide against Palestinians

Ryan Grim @ryangrim X.com Trump and Mamdani giving the country a vision of what bottom v top rather than left v right politics could look like is, if not historic, a genuinely novel development 4:11 PM • 11/21/25 • 99K

the takeaway from the Zohran Trump meeting is that Trump is a gullible fool who will temporarily bend to the last charismatic person he talked to.

Zohran played him perfectly but that doesn’t mean Trump is good now. He’ll go back to fascism tomorrow morning after he talks to Stephen Miller

this is your brain when your entire politics is just a set of aesthetics

remember 'only Andrew Cuomo can handle Trump'

Queens men meet — Queens Daily Eagle The first man from Queens to be elected president and the first Queens resident to be elected mayor of New York City met for the first time in the Oval Office on Friday.

The Queens Daily Eagle remains undefeated.

Reuters reports that the U.S. has threatened to cut intel sharing and weapons supplies for Ukraine to press it into agreeing to Trump's 28-point plan. Sources say Kyiv is "under greater pressure from Washington than during any previous peace discussions." Trump wants it signed by Thursday.

It's important to understand what this ad does and why it is so threatening to the Trump admin. It gets to social identity theory, which posits that we have many identities, and the one which is salient in a given context will dictate how we think/behave in a particular situation. 1/

The Harvard Crimson kids are kicking ass on this Larry Summers story.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Kristen Bell, Malcolm McDowell, more had 'no knowledge' their voices would be used in Fox News Jesus podcast Kristen Bell, Malcolm McDowell, and more stars had 'no knowledge' that their voices would be used in a Fox News podcast about Jesus until this week, as they recorded audio for a separate project 15 ye...

This is perfect. A Fox 52 episode podcast about the life of Jesus, apparently built on subterfuge, theft and lies. Many or most of the actors billed as participating had their voices repurposed from other work and didn't even know they were part of it. ew.com/celebrities-...

she’s a hero

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Oh hell yes

A true fan

It’s an explicit propaganda network. In case someone needed any more evidence.

NEW: The Court has ruled that the National Guard deployment to DC is illegal and granted a preliminary injunction.

As we made clear from the beginning: the US military should not be policing American citizens on American soil.

This is a victory for DC, Home Rule, and American democracy.

The lame duck dictatorship Trump is fighting his "war within" on multiple fronts and losing them all.

"Trump’s invasion of NC has been met w/ rapidly organized opposition & is likely to result in another political backfire in a state with a critical upcoming Senate race. Much of the resistance emanates from churches, demonstrating again how repulsed many Americans are by Trump’s war on the nation."

she’s so fucking eloquent dawg

The people who say "why this obsession with Palestine? why don't you post about Sudan?" never post about Sudan themselves.
What they mean is "it's fine you don't care about Sudan. You should be similarly indifferent to Palestine"

(of course, many people do post about both and other crises)

And all of this connects directly to the discussion here.

Right now, NIH institute directors are civil servants and experienced, top-expert scientists. That is the way NIH has run for decades.

It looks like Trump and Vought are planning to politicize those positions.

They lied about it. All of it. A thug cop shot an unarmed woman five times without justification, boasted about it to his colleagues, and then this administration tried cover it all up by arresting her and charging her with felonies.

If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."

There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.

Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter Clifford “Buzz” Grambo patrols the streets of Baltimore to keep his neighbors safe—and make federal agents uncomfortable.

After 20 years in the Navy, Buzz Grambo thought he'd spend his retirement playing video games and watching baseball. Instead, he patrols the streets of Baltimore to protect his neighbors from ICE. He even upgraded his scooter to a Segway that reaches 26 mph to keep up with the agents. My latest: