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Hourly Cosmos

@hourlycosmos.bsky.social

Mars - Blackcraig Butte - Gale Crater - 150 MP - Nasa's Curiosity SOL 3386 - From Andrea Luck (andrealuck.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2n41EcP

Credit: Nasa/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/AndreaLuck

Mars Curiosity on its way up to Mount Sharp inside Gale Crater

MastCam Right
13/02/2022

Easy Zoom: www.easyzoom.com/image/321602

69 Photos - Source: mars.nasa.gov/raw_images/1024806?site=msl#.Yg5rbfy-Cgo.tw...

Credit: Nasa/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/AndreaLuck

twitter.com/andrluck/status/1494330440026497031?s=20&...

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November 26, 2025 at 11:00 PM

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Benjamin Wittes

@benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org

Flowchart!

November 26, 2025 at 7:58 PM

Jeff

@jammaj.bsky.social

On today’s #DogShirtTV, @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org, Alicia Wanless @lageneralista.ca & the #GreekChorus meander from topic to topic, covering #journalism awards, #Canadian border control, the #Jewish community of #Finland, and much more.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvhG...

A Wandering Conversation

YouTube video by #DogShirtTV

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November 26, 2025 at 10:30 PM

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Mick Ryan

@warinthefuture.bsky.social

One of the clearest, logical thinkers and strategic communicators on why Russia must not win - and why Ukraine needs more support, not more pressure to sign a deal that favours Russia.

Kaja Kallas @kajakallas.bsky.social · 9h

We still need to get from a situation where Russia pretends to negotiate to a situation where they need to negotiate.

Extract from my press remarks following today’s informal Foreign Affairs Council ↓

November 26, 2025 at 8:55 PM

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Lawfare

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Today, Fulton County Judge Scott McAfee granted the state of Georgia’s motion to dismiss the case against President Trump and his alleged conspirators, which focused on alleged attempts to overturn the results of the Georgia 2020 presidential election. Read the order, from Isabel Arroyo.

Fulton County Judge Dismisses Georgia Conspiracy Case Against Trump

The president will no longer be prosecuted for alleged conspiracy to overturn Georgia’s election results in 2020.

www.lawfaremedia.org

November 26, 2025 at 8:57 PM

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Mark Hamill

@markhamillofficial.bsky.social

TPUBLICAN is perfect if the "T" stands for TRAITOR.

November 26, 2025 at 7:21 PM

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Sam Bagenstos

@sbagen.bsky.social

Important developments. The Montana Supreme Court has played a really important role in heading off far-right conservatism in the state, so of course the Republican Party is weaponizing the ethics process to attack them.

Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 6h

Pretty alarming that Republican lawmakers in Montana are no longer even pretending to respect the state supreme court as part of a co-equal branch of government

Montana Republicans Are Trying to Hijack the Montana Supreme Court

The state’s highest court ruled against GOP lawmakers in a few high-profile cases. GOP lawmakers are responding in kind.

ballsandstrikes.org

November 26, 2025 at 7:22 PM

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Ada Palmer

@adapalmer.bsky.social

tldr Poverty line is calculated as 3x a year’s food budget b/c the calculation dates to the 60s when food was 1/3 of spending. Food is now 1/16 of spending due to other costs rising hugely, so the official US poverty line for a family of 4 is $35,000 but updating the logic it should be $140,000!

TKarney @pecunium.bsky.social · 10h

We have a “poverty trap” and it’s driving the destruction of social cohesion.

The “poverty line” is’t 35,000, it’s $150,000, and making more than one, and less than the other is worse than being “poor”.

Which is why the rage.
www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...

Part 1: My Life Is a Lie

How a Broken Benchmark Quietly Broke America

www.yesigiveafig.com

November 26, 2025 at 7:22 PM

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Carl Quintanilla

@carlquintanilla.bsky.social

Other than that, it’s gonna be great. 🤡

@cnbc.com

November 26, 2025 at 3:36 PM

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Walking Gal

@docjanicel.bsky.social

Yikes! A winter storm is bearing down on northern Michigan

From Detroit Free Press:
Massive snowstorm is about to hit northern Michigan, Upper Peninsula

Massive snowstorm is about to hit northern Michigan, Upper Peninsula

A winter storm is set to bring heavy lake-effect snow to parts of Michigan. Here's how much could accumulate, according to the weather forecast.

www.freep.com

November 26, 2025 at 3:56 PM

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Kim Lane Scheppele

@kimlanelaw.bsky.social

Social science takes time. Here, social scientists analyze a decade of evidence to show that a Supreme Court decision designed to suppress the black vote actually did. SCOTUS may soon obliterate the rest of the Voting Rights Act and we should not be shy about calling out what's going on here.

Kevin Morris @kevintmorris.bsky.social · 3d

As we all wait for Callais to come down, our piece showing that Shelby County increased the racial turnout gap in most of the covered parts of the country has cleared the replication check and is incoming at JOP.

Gutting the VRA was bad, actually.

November 26, 2025 at 3:58 PM

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Anna Bower

@annabower.bsky.social

NEW: Skandalakis is now moving to dismiss Trump’s Georgia case

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 12d

BREAKING: Pete Skandalakis, executive director of the Prosecuting Attorneys’ Council of Georgia, has appointed himself to prosecute the case against Trump and others in Fulton County.

The move follows a court ruling that disqualified Fani Willis from pursuing the case.

ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER
BY THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR:
ORDERED: That under the authority contained in O.C.G.A. § 15-18-5, Peter J.
Skandalakis, Executive Director, Prosecuting Attorneys' Council of Georgia, or his designee, is hereby appointed to act as District Attorney rat, fortre time pea d beal in i o prostition, a master ta
n, arrest or Gran
Jury proceedings, whichever comes first, until all appeals are exhausted, the following case, to wit: State v. Donald John Trump, et al., clerk's number 23SC/88947, Fulton County, and pursuant to O.C.G.A. § 15-18-5
(c) shall receive no additional compensation for such services except that actual expenses incurred shall be reimbursed by Fulton County at the same rate as provided for district attorneys in O.C.G.A. § 15-18-12.
This 14h day of November 2025.
Peter J. Skandalakis, Executive Director

November 26, 2025 at 3:54 PM

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Minna Ålander 🌻

@alanderminna.bsky.social

Made an effort to establish a timeline of this latest iteration of essentially the same old attempt by the Trump administration to force a peace deal, doomed to fail like the previous three times.

The number of plot twists would have been amusing, if it wasn’t so cruel to Ukraine.

The Rise and Fall of the Dim-Wit Plan

The latest iteration of a "secret US-Russia peace plan for Ukraine" would have been funny, if it wasn't so cruel to Ukraine.

open.substack.com

November 26, 2025 at 1:52 PM

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Molly McKew

@mollymckew.bsky.social

US Commission tasked w/ evaluating Chinese threat:

-China is supporting Russia, Iran, North Korea
-China is looking for excuses to escalate, pattern of hybrid activities
-defeating Russia would weaken China

POTUS: “Our relationship with China is extremely strong!”

www.axios.com/2025/11/26/c...

China seeks "alternative world order," U.S. commission warns

The commission's report is a hefty read, coming in at 700-plus pages with dozens of recommendations.

www.axios.com

November 26, 2025 at 3:07 PM

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Eric Columbus

@ericcolumbus.bsky.social

When you stub your portmanteau

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

wut

There is a new word for a TRUMP REPUBLICAN, which is almost everyone (GREAT POLICY IS THE KEY!). It is, TEPUBLICAN??? Or, TPUBLICAN???

November 26, 2025 at 2:06 PM

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Jenn Wong

@jennwong.bsky.social

The more things change...

Wilbert Lee "Pappy" O'Daniel: Texas Governor, Senator, and Music Pioneer
by George N. Green. Updated July, 2025
www.tshaonline.org/handbook/ent...

At the behest of radio fans, he filed for governor on May 1, 1938. During the Democratic primary campaign in one-party Texas, he stressed the Ten Commandments, the virtues of his own Hillbilly Flour, & the need for old-age pensions, tax cuts, & industrialization.
While posing as a hillbilly, he acted under the professional direction of public-relations men. Accompanied by his band, the Hillbilly Boys, & the Bible, he attracted huge audiences, especially in rural areas. In the primary he smashed the other candidates & eliminated the usual necessity of a runoff. He had pledged to block any sales tax, abolish capital punishment, liquidate the poll tax (which he had not paid) & raise old-age pensions; but he reneged on all these promises. He unveiled a tax plan, secretly written by manufacturing lobbyists, that amounted to a multiple sales tax, but the legislature voted it down.
O'Daniel won again in 1940, after divulging that he had wired President Roosevelt that he had confidential information about a fifth column in Texas. No one ever found the traitors.

The governor & several Texas business leaders began attacking organized labor in the spring of 1941, but most of the provisions of the ensuing O'Daniel Anti-Violence Act were eventually discarded by the courts. O'Daniel began packing the UT Board of Regents with people who wanted to limit academic freedom & ferret out alleged subversion on campus. These regents, along with those selected by his successor, Coke Stevenson, eventually fired UT president Homer Rainey & provoked a 9-year censure of UT by the American Assoc. of University Professors. As governor, O'Daniel enjoyed little success in putting across his agenda. He was unable to engage in normal political deal-making with legislators, vetoed bills that he probably did not understand, and was overridden in 12 out of 57 vetoes-a record. But he was able largely to negate his ignorance, his isolation, and his political handicaps with masterful radio showmanship.

O'Daniel ran for the Senate in a special election in 1941. He edged his leading opponent, New Deal congressman Lyndon Johnson, in a flurry of controversial late returns. After taking office in August, O'Daniel introduced a number of antilabor bills, all of which were defeated overwhelmingly. In running for reelection the next year, he faced former governors James Allred & Dan Moody. He charged that there was a conspiracy among Moody, Allred, the professional politicians, the politically controlled newspapers, and the "communistic labor leader racketeers" to smear & defeat him. Some prominent conservatives & conservative newspapers, embarrassed by O'Daniel, endorsed New Dealer Allred in the runoff. But posturing as a supporter of President Roosevelt, O'Daniel hung on to enough rural & elderly voters to win barely.
During the war years he & Senator Tom Connally supported the Republican-Southern Democratic coalition more often (74 votes) than any other Southern duo in the Senate. O'Daniel was the leading campaigner for the Texas Regulars, a third-party effort to siphon off enough Democratic votes in Texas in 1944 to deny Roosevelt a fourth term. The president carried Texas and was reelected despite O'Daniel's inflammatory "educational" broadcasts.
O' Daniel was shunned and ineffective in the Senate. With public opinion polls giving him only 7 percent support in 1948, he announced that he would not run again since there was only slight hope of saving America from the communists.
He bought a ranch near Ft Worth, invested in Dallas real estate, and founded an insurance company. He attempted comebacks in the Dem gubernatorial primaries of 1956 and 1958; in the campaigns he ranted about blood running in the streets because of the "Communist-inspired" Supreme Court decision desegregating the nation's schools.
He failed to make the runoff on both occasions, although in 1956 he carried sixty-six counties with almost 350,000 votes. O'Daniel died in Dallas on May 12, 1969

November 26, 2025 at 2:31 PM

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Lawfare

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On Lawfare Daily, @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org spoke to @lapatina.bsky.social and Eric Ciaramella about the last week's machinations surrounding a potential Russia-Ukraine peace deal and whether the United States is abandoning Ukraine. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/lawf...

November 26, 2025 at 2:39 PM

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joe positive

@joepositive.wtf

after 18 years, I've finally developed a little baby non-accidental spiccato!

I am SO happy!

congratulate me please

November 26, 2025 at 2:12 AM

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Roger Parloff

@rparloff.bsky.social

In JGG, Govt repeats previous positions in response to Boasberg's contempt inquiry. Says DAG Todd Blanche & PADAG Emil Bove gave legal advice, & Secy Noem made decision. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

November 26, 2025 at 1:24 AM

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Atticus Finch (of Georgia)

@atticus59914029.bsky.social

Not to start any debates, but dressing is superior to stuffing in every way and and all self-respecting Southerners must agree.

And some of y'all have no idea what I'm even talking about. 😂

November 26, 2025 at 12:00 AM

Jeff

@jammaj.bsky.social

@evegaumond.bsky.social talked to CBC/Radio-Canada as part of a report on elections and online misinformation, details in her latest Substack post.

citetour.substack.com/p/reseaux-so...