Cognoscere
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Punk Rock, Rock Steady, Blues, Funk & Jazz. Crawfish, BBQ, and everything New Orleans. Don’t forget Tequila.
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Bill McKibben reviews 2025 in climate change: a bad year for the United States, a better one for China. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/9kTJci
A Low Point of Human Inaction on Climate Change
The second Trump Administration’s assault on the environment has been as damaging as expected, but other developments this year give at least some hope for the future.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
December 9, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Bill McKibben reviews 2025 in climate change: a bad year for the United States, a better one for China. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/9kTJci
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I rediscovered this post I wrote in May, about how Trump has shifted the money the US used to spend on curing cancer into snatching your neighbors.
I think I'll keep harping on this point.
www.emptywheel.net/2025/05/09/s...
I think I'll keep harping on this point.
www.emptywheel.net/2025/05/09/s...
Stephen Miller's War on Cancer Cures - emptywheel
Stephen Miller is cutting your access to health care and cancer cures to pay to deport your nurse assistant and cancer researchers (and, given the unnecessary bump in DOD spending, to invade Canada to...
www.emptywheel.net
December 9, 2025 at 4:00 PM
I rediscovered this post I wrote in May, about how Trump has shifted the money the US used to spend on curing cancer into snatching your neighbors.
I think I'll keep harping on this point.
www.emptywheel.net/2025/05/09/s...
I think I'll keep harping on this point.
www.emptywheel.net/2025/05/09/s...
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A perfect example of how AI boosters want to make people simulacrums so they can charge them a fee to be themselves. Altman wants to replace Dr. Spock's classic sublime advice—"Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do."—with total reliance on his expensive stochastic parrot.
Jimmy Fallon: "And do you use ChatGPT when raising your baby?"
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
December 9, 2025 at 4:36 PM
A perfect example of how AI boosters want to make people simulacrums so they can charge them a fee to be themselves. Altman wants to replace Dr. Spock's classic sublime advice—"Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do."—with total reliance on his expensive stochastic parrot.
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We wanted to understand the Trump administration's plan to end the war in Ukraine. So we talked to three unvaccinated Joe Rogan listeners at a Jersey Mike's in Cape May.
December 9, 2025 at 3:47 PM
We wanted to understand the Trump administration's plan to end the war in Ukraine. So we talked to three unvaccinated Joe Rogan listeners at a Jersey Mike's in Cape May.
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In a sworn declaration, Emil Bove says he hasn't been "authorized" to discuss his "privileged" advice to Kristi Noem regarding the El Salvador-bound immigrant flights from March.
The latest in the contempt proceedings before Boasberg. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
The latest in the contempt proceedings before Boasberg. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
December 8, 2025 at 5:12 PM
In a sworn declaration, Emil Bove says he hasn't been "authorized" to discuss his "privileged" advice to Kristi Noem regarding the El Salvador-bound immigrant flights from March.
The latest in the contempt proceedings before Boasberg. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
The latest in the contempt proceedings before Boasberg. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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It’s a joke on many levels. It craps on what has made America special, and at the same time is meaningless and impossible to implement. The is no strategic purpose to the Administration. Trump just does whatever idiotic and corrupt thing crosses his addled mind.
The new National Security Strategy is a propaganda document, designed to be widely read. It is also a performative suicide. Hard to think of another great power ever abdicating its influence so quickly and so publicly. It will be worth following the reactions around the world, not just in Europe.
Trump's national security strategy is out and some of the Europe sections are shocking. "...the growing influence of patriotic European parties indeed
gives cause for great optimism."
www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...
gives cause for great optimism."
www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...
December 6, 2025 at 3:13 PM
It’s a joke on many levels. It craps on what has made America special, and at the same time is meaningless and impossible to implement. The is no strategic purpose to the Administration. Trump just does whatever idiotic and corrupt thing crosses his addled mind.
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NEW - The Data Doesn’t Lie: How ProPublica Reports the Truth in an Era of False Claims
As federal data becomes less available, our editor-in-chief @sengelberg.bsky.social explains how our journalists are providing readers with precise numbers.
As federal data becomes less available, our editor-in-chief @sengelberg.bsky.social explains how our journalists are providing readers with precise numbers.
The Data Doesn’t Lie: How ProPublica Reports the Truth in an Era of False Claims
As federal data becomes less available, our journalists are doing shoe-leather reporting to provide readers with the precise numbers.
www.propublica.org
December 6, 2025 at 3:15 PM
NEW - The Data Doesn’t Lie: How ProPublica Reports the Truth in an Era of False Claims
As federal data becomes less available, our editor-in-chief @sengelberg.bsky.social explains how our journalists are providing readers with precise numbers.
As federal data becomes less available, our editor-in-chief @sengelberg.bsky.social explains how our journalists are providing readers with precise numbers.
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Will Mike Johnson get the McCarthy treatment? A group of Republican congresswomen has attacked Johnson in a rebellion that has rocked the unity and subservience that has defined the response of most of the party’s rank-and-file to Trump’s second-term agenda —
Trump’s Republicans turn on Speaker Mike Johnson as party unity frays
Congressional leader becomes a lightning rod for growing discontent amid concern over next year’s midterm elections
www.ft.com
December 6, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Will Mike Johnson get the McCarthy treatment? A group of Republican congresswomen has attacked Johnson in a rebellion that has rocked the unity and subservience that has defined the response of most of the party’s rank-and-file to Trump’s second-term agenda —
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Longtime Sports Illustrated columnist Reilly also wrote the book Commander in Cheat which documented the many ways that Trump cheats at golf.
December 6, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Longtime Sports Illustrated columnist Reilly also wrote the book Commander in Cheat which documented the many ways that Trump cheats at golf.
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Rise up and demand that ICE be abolished.
Inside ICE Detention: Stripped, Shackled, Starved
Overcrowded facilities, poor medical care, and deaths in custody.
Systematic violations of civil and constitutional rights.
What are you still waiting for, America?
ICE continues to kidnap people & use violent tactics!
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Overcrowded facilities, poor medical care, and deaths in custody.
Systematic violations of civil and constitutional rights.
What are you still waiting for, America?
ICE continues to kidnap people & use violent tactics!
Thread 1/2🧵
December 5, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Rise up and demand that ICE be abolished.
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Taxpayers are paying for FBI Agents to escort Kash Patel's girlfriend's drunk friends home after nights of partying, and pulling elite tactical agents away from SWAT missions to chauffeur his girlfriend around.
...something, something, waste and fraud...
www.ms.now/news/kash-pa...
...something, something, waste and fraud...
www.ms.now/news/kash-pa...
Kash Patel ordered FBI detail to give girlfriend’s pal a lift home: sources
FBI agents have grown increasingly concerned by Patel’s use of the bureau’s strapped resource.
www.ms.now
December 5, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Taxpayers are paying for FBI Agents to escort Kash Patel's girlfriend's drunk friends home after nights of partying, and pulling elite tactical agents away from SWAT missions to chauffeur his girlfriend around.
...something, something, waste and fraud...
www.ms.now/news/kash-pa...
...something, something, waste and fraud...
www.ms.now/news/kash-pa...
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The US govt is screaming—in words, actions, and now a strategic document—that America has switched sides in the world, preferring authoritarians and a transnational white nationalism over liberal democracy.
Like Russia, a US foreign policy goal is to undermine the EU.
Will Europe finally listen?
Like Russia, a US foreign policy goal is to undermine the EU.
Will Europe finally listen?
‘Civilisational erasure’: US strategy document appears to echo far-right conspiracy theories about Europe
Official text, signed by Donald Trump, outlines plan to ‘cultivate resistance’ in EU nations to their ‘current trajectory’
www.theguardian.com
December 5, 2025 at 2:43 PM
The US govt is screaming—in words, actions, and now a strategic document—that America has switched sides in the world, preferring authoritarians and a transnational white nationalism over liberal democracy.
Like Russia, a US foreign policy goal is to undermine the EU.
Will Europe finally listen?
Like Russia, a US foreign policy goal is to undermine the EU.
Will Europe finally listen?
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The Administration is degrading the country's scientific R&D capabilities, that have been built up over many decades. These capabilities can't just be switched back on later.
Gonna wallow for a second: I'll share more info tomorrow, but over the last couple weeks, we've finally put our NSF center on ice as we continue to just not get paid and run out of money. I'm just so sad and angry about it. No real "but" at the end of this
December 5, 2025 at 4:05 AM
The Administration is degrading the country's scientific R&D capabilities, that have been built up over many decades. These capabilities can't just be switched back on later.
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As the MAGA coalition continues to crumble, right-wing media is sticking to the core message: If Trump or his allies do it, it’s good. If the media reports it, it’s fake. If critics object, it’s a hoax.
Boat strikes: War crime or "fake news" hoax? - Salon.com
Even as some Republicans turn on the ghastly Pete Hegseth, right-wing media can't handle the truth
www.salon.com
December 4, 2025 at 6:54 PM
As the MAGA coalition continues to crumble, right-wing media is sticking to the core message: If Trump or his allies do it, it’s good. If the media reports it, it’s fake. If critics object, it’s a hoax.
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Wow, Adm. Holsey didn't leave of his own accord, Hegseth pushed him out. What looked like the SOCOM head resigning rather than do war crimes now looks like SecDef canning him to facilitate war crimes.
Congress should have him testify, and would've already if war-crime-sympathetic GOP didn't run it.
Congress should have him testify, and would've already if war-crime-sympathetic GOP didn't run it.
Exclusive | Hegseth Asked Top Admiral to Resign After Months of Discord
The relationship between the Pentagon chief and Adm. Alvin Holsey had been rocky since Trump’s inauguration.
www.wsj.com
December 4, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Wow, Adm. Holsey didn't leave of his own accord, Hegseth pushed him out. What looked like the SOCOM head resigning rather than do war crimes now looks like SecDef canning him to facilitate war crimes.
Congress should have him testify, and would've already if war-crime-sympathetic GOP didn't run it.
Congress should have him testify, and would've already if war-crime-sympathetic GOP didn't run it.
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This fetid landmark, this historical stain on humanity is primarily due to the stunningly reckless obliteration of America's foreign assistance agency earlier this year.
Led by the richest man on earth. In secret, on a weekend. With zero analysis or discussion of its catastrophic impacts.
Led by the richest man on earth. In secret, on a weekend. With zero analysis or discussion of its catastrophic impacts.
For First Time in Decades, Child Deaths Will Rise This Year
Almost a quarter of a million more children around the world are projected to die in 2025 than in 2024.
www.wsj.com
December 4, 2025 at 4:18 PM
This fetid landmark, this historical stain on humanity is primarily due to the stunningly reckless obliteration of America's foreign assistance agency earlier this year.
Led by the richest man on earth. In secret, on a weekend. With zero analysis or discussion of its catastrophic impacts.
Led by the richest man on earth. In secret, on a weekend. With zero analysis or discussion of its catastrophic impacts.
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The top Democrats on the House and Senate intelligence committees say the Pentagon inspector general report on Pete Hegseth’s use of Signal shows a pattern of recklessness. https://to.pbs.org/4pP2L6C
Read the full report on Hegseth's use of Signal from the Pentagon inspector general
The inspector general found that Hegseth endangered U.S. personnel when he used Signal to convey sensitive information about a strike against Yemen’s Houthi militants, the Associated Press reported We...
to.pbs.org
December 4, 2025 at 7:03 PM
The top Democrats on the House and Senate intelligence committees say the Pentagon inspector general report on Pete Hegseth’s use of Signal shows a pattern of recklessness. https://to.pbs.org/4pP2L6C
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If you assume the Trump regime is lying, you'll be right more often than wrong.
December 4, 2025 at 7:04 PM
If you assume the Trump regime is lying, you'll be right more often than wrong.
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A corrupt president pardons a corrupt member of Congress for corrupt reasons. With multiple guilty pleas establishing a bribery-laundering scheme, Hakeem Jeffries still called the case “thin” and sought cover in a bribery-plagued Supreme Court.
A lesson in squandering potential inroads with voters.
A lesson in squandering potential inroads with voters.
December 4, 2025 at 1:54 PM
A corrupt president pardons a corrupt member of Congress for corrupt reasons. With multiple guilty pleas establishing a bribery-laundering scheme, Hakeem Jeffries still called the case “thin” and sought cover in a bribery-plagued Supreme Court.
A lesson in squandering potential inroads with voters.
A lesson in squandering potential inroads with voters.
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The New York Times sued the Defense Department over its press policy prohibiting journalists from soliciting any information not explicitly authorized for release by the government.
The New York Times sues the Pentagon over press restrictions
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s requirement that journalists pledge not to solicit any unauthorized information violates the First and Fifth amendments, the newspaper alleges, calling it “an attempt ...
www.washingtonpost.com
December 4, 2025 at 2:30 PM
The New York Times sued the Defense Department over its press policy prohibiting journalists from soliciting any information not explicitly authorized for release by the government.
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Kelly: He runs around on stage talking about lethality and the warrior ethos.. That’s not the message that should be coming from the Secretary of Defense… He runs around on a stage like he’s a 12 year old playing army. It’s embarrassing.
December 1, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Kelly: He runs around on stage talking about lethality and the warrior ethos.. That’s not the message that should be coming from the Secretary of Defense… He runs around on a stage like he’s a 12 year old playing army. It’s embarrassing.
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This administration is filled with the absolute dumbest, meanest, cruelest pieces of shit.
And they're so *proud* to be dumb, mean, cruel pieces of shit too. They delight in it. They brag about it.
It's vice signaling as a way of life.
And they're so *proud* to be dumb, mean, cruel pieces of shit too. They delight in it. They brag about it.
It's vice signaling as a way of life.
December 2, 2025 at 1:35 AM
This administration is filled with the absolute dumbest, meanest, cruelest pieces of shit.
And they're so *proud* to be dumb, mean, cruel pieces of shit too. They delight in it. They brag about it.
It's vice signaling as a way of life.
And they're so *proud* to be dumb, mean, cruel pieces of shit too. They delight in it. They brag about it.
It's vice signaling as a way of life.