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Why are some liberals turning Charlie Kirk into a martyr for liberal democracy?
Holding him up as a champion of dialogue paints him in a false light to millions who might only know him in death, writes Lindsay Beyerstein.
www.editorialboard.com
My latest: Charlie Kirk was a gutter bigot who built his career on censorship and bussed insurrectionists to the Capitol on J6. Why are liberals like Ezra Klein trying to paint him as a paragon of reason and dialogue?
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So there IS still some gold in Moscow. newsukraine.rbc.ua/news/russian...
Russian gold reserves rapidly sold off to support collapsing ruble
Read more
newsukraine.rbc.ua
November 27, 2025 at 2:47 PM
So there IS still some gold in Moscow. newsukraine.rbc.ua/news/russian...
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That Day 1 solution has proven this to be an extremely long day
⚡️ Putin refuses to budge on territorial demands in Ukraine ahead of Witkoff's Moscow visit.
Putin reiterated that the U.S. peace plan could serve as the basis for future agreements, adding that the text needs further discussion.
Putin reiterated that the U.S. peace plan could serve as the basis for future agreements, adding that the text needs further discussion.
Putin refuses to budge on territorial demands in Ukraine ahead of Witkoff's Moscow visit
Putin reiterated that the U.S. peace plan could serve as the basis for future agreements, adding that the text needs further discussion.
kyivindependent.com
November 27, 2025 at 2:42 PM
That Day 1 solution has proven this to be an extremely long day
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Super disgusting how many genAI bros sending death threats to Sam Altman for killing their 4o therapist sexbot who tells them they are literal magical prophets whose very real unified theories of everything will save the world think that it's users' fault for getting suicided by chatbot
November 27, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Super disgusting how many genAI bros sending death threats to Sam Altman for killing their 4o therapist sexbot who tells them they are literal magical prophets whose very real unified theories of everything will save the world think that it's users' fault for getting suicided by chatbot
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well that tracks
(also should put to rest any bleating about “vetting” but we live in hell so)
(also should put to rest any bleating about “vetting” but we live in hell so)
November 27, 2025 at 2:20 PM
well that tracks
(also should put to rest any bleating about “vetting” but we live in hell so)
(also should put to rest any bleating about “vetting” but we live in hell so)
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"This Thanksgiving weekend, here are small, legal, meaningful acts of resistance that every American can do."
#DemVoice1 #ProudBlue #Pinks
Read the full Guardrails piece: bit.ly/48dfn0a
#DemVoice1 #ProudBlue #Pinks
Read the full Guardrails piece: bit.ly/48dfn0a
November 27, 2025 at 12:59 AM
"This Thanksgiving weekend, here are small, legal, meaningful acts of resistance that every American can do."
#DemVoice1 #ProudBlue #Pinks
Read the full Guardrails piece: bit.ly/48dfn0a
#DemVoice1 #ProudBlue #Pinks
Read the full Guardrails piece: bit.ly/48dfn0a
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Thanksgiving Menu at the Plaza Hotel in New York City (1899)
Thanksgiving Menu at the Plaza Hotel in New York City (1899)
Above, we have the menu for an 1899 Thanksgiving dinner at the Plaza Hotel in New York. If you were a turkey, you had it relatively easy. But the ducks? Not so much. On the menu, you'll find Mallard d...
www.openculture.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Thanksgiving Menu at the Plaza Hotel in New York City (1899)
We've found him, the one person who will say no to Trump:
Trump wants a bigger White House ballroom. His architect disagrees.
The president and James McCrery had argued in recent weeks over the project’s size, with Trump pushing him to expand the ballroom.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 27, 2025 at 2:00 PM
We've found him, the one person who will say no to Trump:
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When the strongest argument for your policy is a list of lies (I count 7) and exaggerations (another 5), you reveal more than a wonky list of truths ever would.
November 27, 2025 at 1:33 PM
When the strongest argument for your policy is a list of lies (I count 7) and exaggerations (another 5), you reveal more than a wonky list of truths ever would.
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This seems like an important story.
The US is deregulating banks. Will the rest of the world follow?
New rules will boost lending and profits and entrench American dominance. But critics say they could lead to another crash
www.ft.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:49 AM
This seems like an important story.
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I'm old.
If you're not, listen to this.
Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder.
Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever.
It's literally never been more important.
If you're not, listen to this.
Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder.
Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever.
It's literally never been more important.
November 27, 2025 at 4:21 AM
I'm old.
If you're not, listen to this.
Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder.
Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever.
It's literally never been more important.
If you're not, listen to this.
Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder.
Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever.
It's literally never been more important.
I was watching a guy fighting a traffic ticket. He was explaining how the turn he made was legal because traffic had been rerouted for the parade and the judge exclaims: "I was in that parade!" He beat the ticket.
Me at every NYC parade:
is curtis sliwa at the parade
November 27, 2025 at 1:51 PM
I was watching a guy fighting a traffic ticket. He was explaining how the turn he made was legal because traffic had been rerouted for the parade and the judge exclaims: "I was in that parade!" He beat the ticket.
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Six families—MOSTLY KIDS—are still struggling to survive famine, unceased fire, displacement. This link is the only way they can afford survival needs like shelter/tents, infant supplies, healthcare, food.
Read that back with hope. Click "weekly" to sustain it. chuffed.org/project/hope...
Read that back with hope. Click "weekly" to sustain it. chuffed.org/project/hope...
Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle
We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that…
chuffed.org
November 27, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Six families—MOSTLY KIDS—are still struggling to survive famine, unceased fire, displacement. This link is the only way they can afford survival needs like shelter/tents, infant supplies, healthcare, food.
Read that back with hope. Click "weekly" to sustain it. chuffed.org/project/hope...
Read that back with hope. Click "weekly" to sustain it. chuffed.org/project/hope...
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‼️‼️ Newly released emails show the FBI spent almost $1 million in overtime analyzing the Epstein files as part of an effort dubbed the “Special Redaction Project."
FBI’s Frantic Scramble to Redact Epstein Files Revealed
A trove of emails shows all-nighters and almost $1 million in overtime as Trumpworld debated releasing the Epstein files.
www.thedailybeast.com
November 27, 2025 at 3:51 AM
‼️‼️ Newly released emails show the FBI spent almost $1 million in overtime analyzing the Epstein files as part of an effort dubbed the “Special Redaction Project."
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Me at every NYC parade:
is curtis sliwa at the parade
November 27, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Me at every NYC parade:
Did we ever find out what stories Olivia Nuzzi allegedly caught and killed? Normally that means paying someone for information, locking them into an NDA, and not publishing their story.
The "reporter" lady fucking sources and running catch and kill ops is a huge part of the issue with journalism but so is the corrupt sack of shit ex who knew about all this and said nothing till he felt personally betrayed and is now tossing out tidbits in planned instalments to have you pay him
November 27, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Did we ever find out what stories Olivia Nuzzi allegedly caught and killed? Normally that means paying someone for information, locking them into an NDA, and not publishing their story.
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They’ve been enabled all their lives which is why they felt entitled enough to pull of J6. The pardon has emboldened them in those thoughts.
Lol it’s not soft on crime so much as it is enabling. January 6ers think a pardon = immunity from everything. So they keep doing illegal things thinking they’re protected forever.
A J6er pardoned by Trump just got arrested for crimes against two kids. One victim, only 11, says 44-year-old Andrew Paul Johnson abused him 3 times.
Kids pay the price for Trump's soft-on-crime policies.
#Jan6 #TrumpPardons
Kids pay the price for Trump's soft-on-crime policies.
#Jan6 #TrumpPardons
November 27, 2025 at 12:49 PM
They’ve been enabled all their lives which is why they felt entitled enough to pull of J6. The pardon has emboldened them in those thoughts.
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Tragic. This funded my dissertation research and many of the students in our program.
NEW from me - NSF cancels grant scheme for social science research.
Seems the NSF quietly archived ALL calls for DDRIG grants in the SBE directorate. This is a massive blow for PhD students wanting to do cutting-edge social science research. 🏺🧪
Seems the NSF quietly archived ALL calls for DDRIG grants in the SBE directorate. This is a massive blow for PhD students wanting to do cutting-edge social science research. 🏺🧪
Today's biggest science news: Doomed comet explodes | Comet 3I/ATLAS course alteration | Dark matter detected?
Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2025: Your daily feed of the biggest discoveries and breakthroughs making headlines.
www.livescience.com
November 27, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Tragic. This funded my dissertation research and many of the students in our program.
A vaccine is a cheat sheet for your immune system.
💉 One thing I rarely see explained is how vaccination *is* "natural immunity".
The immunity is developed by your body not the vaccine. The vaccine itself doesn’t do the work.
I think the confusion partly comes from a phrase scientists use. 🧵⬇️
1/n
The immunity is developed by your body not the vaccine. The vaccine itself doesn’t do the work.
I think the confusion partly comes from a phrase scientists use. 🧵⬇️
1/n
RFK Jr.’s new CDC deputy director prefers “natural immunity” over vaccines
Ralph Abraham is “dangerous,” but somehow not the worst among those considered.
arstechnica.com
November 27, 2025 at 12:59 PM
A vaccine is a cheat sheet for your immune system.
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Alternative medicine grifters will tell you to “follow the money!”
Just not their money…
Just not their money…
November 27, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Alternative medicine grifters will tell you to “follow the money!”
Just not their money…
Just not their money…
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The D.C. shooting suspect had worked with C.I.A.-backed units in Afghanistan
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...
The D.C. shooting suspect had worked with C.I.A.-backed units in Afghanistan.
www.nytimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 12:55 PM
The D.C. shooting suspect had worked with C.I.A.-backed units in Afghanistan
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...
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Populist publics are becoming increasingly transnational theloop.ecpr.eu/populist-pub...
🔮 Populist publics are becoming increasingly transnational
Brought together by a shared ideology, converging around global events, and united in their support for radical-right leaders, populist audiences on social media are becoming increasingly global. Fran...
theloop.ecpr.eu
November 27, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Populist publics are becoming increasingly transnational theloop.ecpr.eu/populist-pub...
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If you want to see how quickly everyone goes into manufacturing consent mode, compare the full-court press tonight to the response to any of the people ICE has shot in the last few months, some of whom died.
November 27, 2025 at 1:21 AM
If you want to see how quickly everyone goes into manufacturing consent mode, compare the full-court press tonight to the response to any of the people ICE has shot in the last few months, some of whom died.
What does he do all day?
Speaker 'barely holding it together' and 'crushed by his workload': NYT
Speaker 'barely holding it together' and 'crushed by his workload': NYT
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) made several revealing admissions about the stressful and chaotic nature of his job, according to a recent New York Times report.The Times' Annie Karni wrote in a Wednesday article that Johnson turned what was meant to be an easy interview with a friendly podcast h...
bit.ly
November 27, 2025 at 12:55 PM
What does he do all day?
Of course it's putrid. Miller put his heart and soul into it.
November 27, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Of course it's putrid. Miller put his heart and soul into it.
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Wow. BBC journalists are now not even allowed to report the censored line from my Reith Lecture, that Trump is “the most openly corrupt president in American history.”
You can hear how carefully they’re forced to tiptoe around it. So chilling...
You can hear how carefully they’re forced to tiptoe around it. So chilling...
November 27, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Wow. BBC journalists are now not even allowed to report the censored line from my Reith Lecture, that Trump is “the most openly corrupt president in American history.”
You can hear how carefully they’re forced to tiptoe around it. So chilling...
You can hear how carefully they’re forced to tiptoe around it. So chilling...