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1/ Trump nominated Linda McMahon, the co-founder of World Wrestling Entertainment, to lead the Education Department that he has repeatedly vowed to dismantle. Like Betsy DeVos, Trump’s first-term education secretary, McMahon has no significant bac... Subscribe: Get the Daily Update in your inbox for...

There are plenty of pundits and thinkpieces making the rounds right now, desperately reaching for any angle they can offer to explain why the recent electoral failures of the Democratic Party. But there's only one that's actually worth your time: the new season of Collective Action Comics, a "podcas...

1/ Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg asked to postpone Trump’s criminal sentencing in his hush money case. In a letter to Judge Juan Merchan, the district attorney’s office acknowledged that Trump is not likely to be sentenced “until after t... Subscribe: Get the Daily Update in your inbox for...

Whoever took the file went by the alias "Altam Beezley."

Why class politics is unlikely to succeed where identity politics failed.

1/ Trump confirmed that he plans to declare a national emergency “on day 1” to use the military to carry out “the largest deportation program in American history.” Trump responded “TRUE!!!” at 4:08 am to a post on his personal social media network... Subscribe: Get the Daily Update in your inbox for...

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 18. 2024 ...comes to us from prehistory: The sexual politics of Donald Trump's world comes to us straight from prehistory. It starts with Trump himself, then moves on from there. Based on reporting, we're talking about Gaetz and Hegseth and Musk oh my! After that, you can throw in t...

In the MIT Technology Review, Mat Honan makes two points about changes in the world of social media with both Bluesky and Threads seeing massive growth in November accelerated by the election and people leaving Twitter. The era of everyone having a uniform social media experience is ending. And that...

Roxane Gay: “To suggest we should yield even a little to Mr. Trump’s odious politics, to suggest we should compromise on the rights of trans people, for instance, […] is unacceptable. It is shameful and cowardly.” Yes, yes, yes, 1000% this.

By following characters through their whole lives, the FX show explores what it means to get older as a radical The post Say Nothing Tells A Complex Story About Politics And Violence appeared first on Aftermath.

Image by J. F. Horrabin, via Wikimedia Commons Bertrand Russell may have lived his long life concerned with big topics in logic, mathematics, politics, and society, but that didn’t keep him from thinking seriously about how to handle his own day-to-day relationships. That hardly means he handled eve...

I interviewed Philip James about Civic Band, his "slowly growing collection of databases of the minutes from civic governments". Philip demonstrated the site and talked through his pipeline for scraping and indexing meeting minutes from many different local government authorities around the USA. We ...

#Bananagate is upon us.

I’m so thankful for the young people who will take up the political fight from here. I’ll be 50 next year, have been obsessed with politics and progressive causes since high school. 2024 has burned me. I hardly care what happens. All I can focus on now is family and making a nice space on the web. &...

Are politics just as messed up in your country as they are in mine? The Dutch government has once again survived a crisis night, barely four-and-a-half months after being sworn in. This time, the crisis was triggered by a possibly racist and polarizing quote from a minister. One of the secretaries o...

The Voyage of Magellan, Chapter 18: Sex, Politics, and Religion

Alliances with national governments are no longer enough.

Two weeks from today, Thanksgiving will be over. I feel that autumn has zoomed by too quickly--I always feel that way, regardless of whether or not we've had a hurricane to disrupt everything (and part of my brain is still reeling at the idea that we've had such a huge amount of storm damage in the ...

I am feeling somewhat better now. Last week, I was suffering from “election depression. On the night of the election, we turned the TV off at 10pm. In the morning, neither my wife nor I wanted to turn the TV on, but we did, and the first words we see are “TRUMP WINS”. Ugh. As […]

1/ Trump asked Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to serve as secretary of health and human services, putting one of the nation’s leading vaccine skeptics in charge of America’s health care agencies. Kennedy has spread discredits conspiracy theories that vacci... Subscribe: Get the Daily Update in your inbox for...

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All dialogue 100% overheard. Your article reads smoothly and is engaging. Here’s a slightly polished version with minor adjustments to enhance flow and clarity: We are outside Quito, Ecuador, touring a rose-growing farm with a small group. Upon arrival, an enthusiastic member of the family that owns...

1/ Trump named Matt Gaetz his pick as attorney general. Trump called Gaetz, once the subject of a Justice Department sex-trafficking investigation involving a 17-year-old girl, a “deeply gifted and tenacious attorney” who would end the “the partis... Subscribe: Get the Daily Update in your inbox for...

Sometimes it takes a little chemical inspiration to send you in the right direction.

Jordan Libowitz from Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington on Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy's potential ethical obligations.

What to expect: deregulation justified as boosts for the economy, and platitudes about the importance of clean air and water.

Erin McKean goes down a rabbit hole of WWII resistance diaries, “dipping into the thoughts of people who were also made heartsick and distressed by fascist politics”. 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →

With Election Day in the US come and gone, I have completed updates to the Kamala Campaign Timeline website. This site covered the day-by day events of the Harris-Walz campaign from Joe Biden’s withdrawal from the race through Election Day. Each daily entry contains a link to the CNN daily blog for ...

1/ A New York judge postponed his decision on whether to dismiss Trump’s 34 felony convictions of orchestrating an illegal conspiracy to influence the 2016 presidential election by falsifying business records. Trump has argued that his return to t... Subscribe: Get the Daily Update in your inbox for...

Around 1 a.m. on July 27, 2017, I woke up, opened my politics Twitter list, and lay in the dark watching (via tweets) the Senate’s failed vote to repeal parts of the Affordable Care Act. Around 1:30 a.m., Arizona Senator John McCain cast the deciding vote to save the ACA. For the next hour and...

Today's links Boss politics antitrust: Trump will use Xi Xinping's "anti-corruption" playbook. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2009, 2014, 2019 Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appearances: Where I've been. Latest books: You keep readin' em, I'll keep writ...

As the latest election cycle in the USA winds down and people across the country and world begin to reckon with the results — and their consequences — you could be forgiven for thinking that science is in a lot of trouble. Confidence in science and scientists has waned in recent years, particularly ...

Commentary on how we can make things happen in our communities despite that occurs in the world of politics.

1/ Trump demanded that the next Senate Republican leader allow him to make appointments to his administration and the courts without Senate approval. Trump, who has promised to be dictator “for Day One,” insisted that the next Senate Republican le... Subscribe: Get the Daily Update in your inbox for...

The ground game is everywhere, now.

I made this sign to try to capture how I’m feeling about everything right now.

This is the first time I’ve ever reposted an old Love of All Wisdom post, because, despite its being nearly … Continue reading →

Over the past decade, the idea of an important geopolitical space called the "Indo-Pacific" has become integral to the grand strategizing of countries inside and outside this vast geographical area.

If you haven't freaked out yet about Trump resuming office, Al Franken's latest podcast episode, "The Coming Hellscape," might do the trick. His guest, political scientist Norm Ornstein, and longtime observer of American politics, says Trump's victory could be devastating to the country. — Read the ...

I try to process the election results and talk about where the country goes from here, as dispassionately as I can.

Alex Garcia and myself hosted the first Datasette Open Office Hours on Friday - a live-streamed video session where we hacked on a project together and took questions and tips from community members on Discord. We didn't record this one (surprisingly not a feature that Discord offers) but we hope to...

Just like in 2016, Donald Trump benefited from having a loud propagandist with access to an influential media bullhorn.

I think of myself of as an optimist. It makes me insufferable sometimes. When someone is having a moan about something in the news and they say something like “people are terrible”, I can’t resist weighing in with a “well, actually…” Then I’ll start channeling Rutger Bregman, Rebecca Solnit, and Han...

Racists have become emboldened on the internet after Donald Trump's election win.

I thought about writing a longer blog post about the election. But I'm not really sure I have that much more to say. I could see the next 4 years going any number of ways, from nuclear mishaps/catastrophes, to more general chaos, to an administration that manages to do some good and some bad. I expe...

Obviously people are shocked, and particularly shocked at the rejection of normal sensible politics by the rubes who have elected an oaf, a criminal and a rapist to the White House, again. But the trouble is that this kind of thing keeps happening, or nearly happening, and not just in the United Sta...

Some random thoughts about...everything

1/ Biden vowed to ensure a “peaceful and orderly transition,” calling on Americans to “accept the choice the country made” and to “bring down the temperature.” During his six-minute remarks, Biden said he hopes the 2024 election “can lay to rest t... Subscribe: Get the Daily Update in your inbox for...