Catherine Keyser
@profkeyser.bsky.social
Former prof. China specialist. Foster/adoptive Mom. Think globally, act locally, but do not forget to look up to the stars. It's where we came from.
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Mike Johnson claims releasing the Epstein files could jeopardize future cases and even threaten national security. None of that survives contact with the facts. And the national security excuse only raises bigger questions about who Epstein really was.
Full video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=717o...
Full video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=717o...
December 3, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Mike Johnson claims releasing the Epstein files could jeopardize future cases and even threaten national security. None of that survives contact with the facts. And the national security excuse only raises bigger questions about who Epstein really was.
Full video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=717o...
Full video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=717o...
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Rep. Roger Williams defends members of Congress trading stocks: "I think we gotta be careful that we don't limit Congresspeople to where they can do nothing ... from a financial standpoint, it's not easy being up in Congress."
December 3, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Rep. Roger Williams defends members of Congress trading stocks: "I think we gotta be careful that we don't limit Congresspeople to where they can do nothing ... from a financial standpoint, it's not easy being up in Congress."
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this is literally what the nazis did. the nazis claimed that that 98 percent of prostitution worldwide was controlled by Jews.
Tom Emmer pushes racist lies on Fox: "80% of the crimes being committed in the Twin Cities and Minnesota are being committed by Somalis"
December 3, 2025 at 3:23 PM
this is literally what the nazis did. the nazis claimed that that 98 percent of prostitution worldwide was controlled by Jews.
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In Madrid, Heritage’s Kevin Roberts rallied alongside CitizenGO, Vox, and ADF, pushing the same Christian nationalist agenda behind Project 2025. Roberts escalated his Opus Dei rhetoric and called to rebuild “Christendom” — a warning sign of how U.S. extremism is now embedding itself inside Europe.
Heritage’s European Offensive: Exporting America’s Christian Nationalist Project
Heritage president Kevin Roberts took his Project 2025 message to Madrid, joining a lineup of anti-LGBTQ and anti-woman figures from CitizenGO, Vox, ADF International, and beyond. He made no mention o...
globalextremism.org
December 3, 2025 at 3:29 PM
In Madrid, Heritage’s Kevin Roberts rallied alongside CitizenGO, Vox, and ADF, pushing the same Christian nationalist agenda behind Project 2025. Roberts escalated his Opus Dei rhetoric and called to rebuild “Christendom” — a warning sign of how U.S. extremism is now embedding itself inside Europe.
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As of Sept. 30, Ohio lawmakers eliminated a key legal tool used to rein in air pollution from power plants and industrial sites. Now, advocates are suing to restore that right. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/12/03/o...
Ohio scrapped a key tool to fight air pollution. Advocates want it back. • Ohio Capital Journal
As of Sept. 30, Ohio lawmakers eliminated a key legal tool used to rein in air pollution from power plants and industrial sites. Now, advocates are suing to restore that right.
ohiocapitaljournal.com
December 3, 2025 at 3:30 PM
As of Sept. 30, Ohio lawmakers eliminated a key legal tool used to rein in air pollution from power plants and industrial sites. Now, advocates are suing to restore that right. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/12/03/o...
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After becoming a congressional leader, a politician’s stock portfolio beats out those of peers by 47 (!!!) percentage points a year through trades timed around bills and firms that later get government contracts
www.nber.org/papers/w34524
via @florianederer.bsky.social
www.nber.org/papers/w34524
via @florianederer.bsky.social
December 3, 2025 at 1:42 AM
After becoming a congressional leader, a politician’s stock portfolio beats out those of peers by 47 (!!!) percentage points a year through trades timed around bills and firms that later get government contracts
www.nber.org/papers/w34524
via @florianederer.bsky.social
www.nber.org/papers/w34524
via @florianederer.bsky.social
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Icymi: A week before Thanksgiving, the Trump administration deleted the Federal Report on Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women
The ‘Not One More’ report recorded indigenous deaths and disappearances, and provided resources and policy suggestions to address the crisis
www.jezebel.com/trump-admin-...
The ‘Not One More’ report recorded indigenous deaths and disappearances, and provided resources and policy suggestions to address the crisis
www.jezebel.com/trump-admin-...
December 3, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Icymi: A week before Thanksgiving, the Trump administration deleted the Federal Report on Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women
The ‘Not One More’ report recorded indigenous deaths and disappearances, and provided resources and policy suggestions to address the crisis
www.jezebel.com/trump-admin-...
The ‘Not One More’ report recorded indigenous deaths and disappearances, and provided resources and policy suggestions to address the crisis
www.jezebel.com/trump-admin-...
It's called diagnostics. Just requires certified testing. It's not an isdue
My hot take is that I don't give a fuck if someone without disabilities gets an accommodation. They get a slightly better grade on a test? Tests are just part of a grade or portfolio and also, who FUCKING CARES. I care that a disabled person isn't *penalized* for needing more time.
Balancing "no person with a disability should be denied accommodations" with "it's important to discourage non-disabled people from pretending to be disabled to take advantage of these accommodations" is really difficult and I don't have a great answer for what anyone should do about it.
December 3, 2025 at 3:36 PM
It's called diagnostics. Just requires certified testing. It's not an isdue
Amen
📌"The killing of the survivors by this moral slum of an administration should nauseate Americans. A nation incapable of shame is dangerous, not least to itself. As the Ukraine "peace plan" demonstrated.
Pete Hegseth seems to be a war criminal. Without a war. An interesting achievement."
-George Will
Pete Hegseth seems to be a war criminal. Without a war. An interesting achievement."
-George Will
December 3, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Amen
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Sadism is central to Trump-MAGA politics, and it's getting worse:
*Hegseth tweets vile cartoon on bombings
*Megyn Kelly wants bombing victims to "bleed"
*Sick new WH video glorifies migrant suffering
On the pod, @paulwaldman.bsky.social and I go deep on sadism/MAGA:
newrepublic.com/article/2038...
*Hegseth tweets vile cartoon on bombings
*Megyn Kelly wants bombing victims to "bleed"
*Sick new WH video glorifies migrant suffering
On the pod, @paulwaldman.bsky.social and I go deep on sadism/MAGA:
newrepublic.com/article/2038...
Trump Tirades at Media Darken as MAGA Bloodlust on Bombings Boils Over
As Trump and MAGA hit new levels of depravity on his boat bombings and anti-immigrant crackdown, the writer of a piece connecting these dots discusses the centrality of sadism to Trump-MAGA politics.
newrepublic.com
December 3, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Sadism is central to Trump-MAGA politics, and it's getting worse:
*Hegseth tweets vile cartoon on bombings
*Megyn Kelly wants bombing victims to "bleed"
*Sick new WH video glorifies migrant suffering
On the pod, @paulwaldman.bsky.social and I go deep on sadism/MAGA:
newrepublic.com/article/2038...
*Hegseth tweets vile cartoon on bombings
*Megyn Kelly wants bombing victims to "bleed"
*Sick new WH video glorifies migrant suffering
On the pod, @paulwaldman.bsky.social and I go deep on sadism/MAGA:
newrepublic.com/article/2038...
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This timing makes a lot more sense now, doesn’t it?
Adm. Alvin Holsey resigned in October as commander of U.S. Southern Command right after flagging concerns about those U.S. military strikes on “suspected” drug boats in the Caribbean.
He served for 37 years.
Adm. Alvin Holsey resigned in October as commander of U.S. Southern Command right after flagging concerns about those U.S. military strikes on “suspected” drug boats in the Caribbean.
He served for 37 years.
December 3, 2025 at 2:14 PM
This timing makes a lot more sense now, doesn’t it?
Adm. Alvin Holsey resigned in October as commander of U.S. Southern Command right after flagging concerns about those U.S. military strikes on “suspected” drug boats in the Caribbean.
He served for 37 years.
Adm. Alvin Holsey resigned in October as commander of U.S. Southern Command right after flagging concerns about those U.S. military strikes on “suspected” drug boats in the Caribbean.
He served for 37 years.
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Mention this op-ed to get a 5% discount on guacamole at Whole Foods!
Jeff Bezos and the Washington Post are at it again.
December 3, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Mention this op-ed to get a 5% discount on guacamole at Whole Foods!
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“Experts point to increased profanity as an example of disinhibition”
www.nytimes.com/2024/10/28/u...
“Trump has seemed confused, forgetful, incoherent or disconnected from reality”
www.nytimes.com/2024/10/28/u...
POTUS “has become increasingly ‘disinhibited’”
www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump...
www.nytimes.com/2024/10/28/u...
“Trump has seemed confused, forgetful, incoherent or disconnected from reality”
www.nytimes.com/2024/10/28/u...
POTUS “has become increasingly ‘disinhibited’”
www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump...
December 3, 2025 at 1:43 PM
“Experts point to increased profanity as an example of disinhibition”
www.nytimes.com/2024/10/28/u...
“Trump has seemed confused, forgetful, incoherent or disconnected from reality”
www.nytimes.com/2024/10/28/u...
POTUS “has become increasingly ‘disinhibited’”
www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump...
www.nytimes.com/2024/10/28/u...
“Trump has seemed confused, forgetful, incoherent or disconnected from reality”
www.nytimes.com/2024/10/28/u...
POTUS “has become increasingly ‘disinhibited’”
www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump...
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NYT documents the vote share shift from 2024 to last night's special election in Tennessee. Note the blue arrows.
December 3, 2025 at 1:51 PM
NYT documents the vote share shift from 2024 to last night's special election in Tennessee. Note the blue arrows.
Don't care, in fact They want to control population by killing off large chunks of the population in the belief that the weak and brown need to go to ease pressure on the planet. 21C eugenics...
Trump’s new vaccine regulator is stepping up anti-vax policies. He blames, without any evidence, that 10 children died from Covid vaccines. Now he’s changing the rules for all vaccines including flu shots and slowing down the process of approval. What will this mean for the next pandemic?
December 3, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Don't care, in fact They want to control population by killing off large chunks of the population in the belief that the weak and brown need to go to ease pressure on the planet. 21C eugenics...
A natural progression in our gun sickness. The only country in the world to be gripped by a sickness around guns.
After shuttering the White House of Gun Violence Prevention in Jan., Trump is opening a new office in DOJ’s civil rights division called the Second Amendment Rights Section on December 4th - to expand gun-rights protections - while infringing on our #FreedomToLive!
www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
US Justice Department plans gun rights office within civil rights unit
The Justice Department plans to expand gun-rights protections with a new office in its civil rights division dedicated to enforcing the U.S. constitutional right to bear arms, according to plans share...
www.reuters.com
December 3, 2025 at 1:55 PM
A natural progression in our gun sickness. The only country in the world to be gripped by a sickness around guns.
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Be sure to also check out the video abstract below! 📺👇
'Dirty hands, savage enemies, and bad apples: A taxonomy of war crimes apologia' 🌎
New Review of International Studies article and video abstract by Neil Christopher Renic and Jessica Wolfendale co-authored with Christopher Elliott 🌟
Read and watch it here! 👉 https://ow.ly/WIKs50XAtge
New Review of International Studies article and video abstract by Neil Christopher Renic and Jessica Wolfendale co-authored with Christopher Elliott 🌟
Read and watch it here! 👉 https://ow.ly/WIKs50XAtge
December 2, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Be sure to also check out the video abstract below! 📺👇
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🔥🔥URGENT🔥🔥
Clarksville Election Day Drop-In Phonebank or Canvass
With Team Aftyn
Montgomery County #Tn07
Tues., Dec. 2
Anytime from 9:00 am-3:00 pm
Address given at RSVP
Register Here: www.mobilize.us/aftynforcong...
For Phone Bank: Bring a phone, charger and a laptop if desired.
Clarksville Election Day Drop-In Phonebank or Canvass
With Team Aftyn
Montgomery County #Tn07
Tues., Dec. 2
Anytime from 9:00 am-3:00 pm
Address given at RSVP
Register Here: www.mobilize.us/aftynforcong...
For Phone Bank: Bring a phone, charger and a laptop if desired.
Clarksville Election Day Drop-In Phone Bank OR Canvass! With Team Aftyn! · Aftyn for Congress
HELP US GET OUT THE VOTE ON ELECTION DAY! ⭐️
Join Team Aftyn either on the doors to help us connect directly with voters in Clarksville OR reach out to voters across the district through our in-perso...
www.mobilize.us
December 2, 2025 at 4:52 AM
🔥🔥URGENT🔥🔥
Clarksville Election Day Drop-In Phonebank or Canvass
With Team Aftyn
Montgomery County #Tn07
Tues., Dec. 2
Anytime from 9:00 am-3:00 pm
Address given at RSVP
Register Here: www.mobilize.us/aftynforcong...
For Phone Bank: Bring a phone, charger and a laptop if desired.
Clarksville Election Day Drop-In Phonebank or Canvass
With Team Aftyn
Montgomery County #Tn07
Tues., Dec. 2
Anytime from 9:00 am-3:00 pm
Address given at RSVP
Register Here: www.mobilize.us/aftynforcong...
For Phone Bank: Bring a phone, charger and a laptop if desired.
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Not just a tragedy for America, but, given the central place the US occupies in the research ecosystem, a tragedy for the world.
“Thousands of very competitive projects in areas like cancer, diabetes, aging, neurological disorders and public health improvements most like went unfunded in 2025.
Similarly, at the National Science Foundation, the roughly 3,000 fewer new grants encompassed reductions to every area of science”
Similarly, at the National Science Foundation, the roughly 3,000 fewer new grants encompassed reductions to every area of science”
The U.S. Is Funding Fewer Grants in Every Area of Science and Medicine
A quiet policy change means the government is making fewer bets on long-term science.
www.nytimes.com
December 2, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Not just a tragedy for America, but, given the central place the US occupies in the research ecosystem, a tragedy for the world.
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From AI tools to social media-style news sites, Under 30 honorees like Aaron Parnas, Eli Rallo and more are shaping the media industry of tomorrow.
30 Under 30 Media 2026: The Founders Building AI For Artists, Democratizing News, And Shaping The Future Of Video
From AI tools to social media-style news sites, Under 30 honorees like Aaron Parnas, Eli Rallo and more are shaping the media industry of tomorrow.
www.forbes.com
December 2, 2025 at 11:49 AM
From AI tools to social media-style news sites, Under 30 honorees like Aaron Parnas, Eli Rallo and more are shaping the media industry of tomorrow.
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🚨Election Day Phone Banking for Aftyn Behn.
❓Don’t live in Tennessee?
‼️Neither do I folks, but I live in the United States.
💯 Each of us has a role, a place in this fight. Take yours, with me today. Share and participate.
www.mobilize.us/tappactionco...
❓Don’t live in Tennessee?
‼️Neither do I folks, but I live in the United States.
💯 Each of us has a role, a place in this fight. Take yours, with me today. Share and participate.
www.mobilize.us/tappactionco...
Election Day Phone Banks for Aftyn Behn · TAPP Statewide Action Councils
Join Planned Parenthood Votes, alongside our allies at TIRRC Votes Action PAC and The Equity Alliance Fund Action PAC, for Election Day Community Phone Banks for Aftyn Behn!
We will be calling suppor...
www.mobilize.us
December 2, 2025 at 1:40 PM
🚨Election Day Phone Banking for Aftyn Behn.
❓Don’t live in Tennessee?
‼️Neither do I folks, but I live in the United States.
💯 Each of us has a role, a place in this fight. Take yours, with me today. Share and participate.
www.mobilize.us/tappactionco...
❓Don’t live in Tennessee?
‼️Neither do I folks, but I live in the United States.
💯 Each of us has a role, a place in this fight. Take yours, with me today. Share and participate.
www.mobilize.us/tappactionco...
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Hegemonic suicide
“Thousands of very competitive projects in areas like cancer, diabetes, aging, neurological disorders and public health improvements most like went unfunded in 2025.
Similarly, at the National Science Foundation, the roughly 3,000 fewer new grants encompassed reductions to every area of science”
Similarly, at the National Science Foundation, the roughly 3,000 fewer new grants encompassed reductions to every area of science”
The U.S. Is Funding Fewer Grants in Every Area of Science and Medicine
A quiet policy change means the government is making fewer bets on long-term science.
www.nytimes.com
December 2, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Hegemonic suicide
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This Giving Tuesday, you can help us inform a more just and secure world. Please donate now.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wePi...
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Why Fact-Based Analysis Matters: Support Just Security This Giving Tuesday
YouTube video by Just Security
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December 2, 2025 at 1:42 PM
This Giving Tuesday, you can help us inform a more just and secure world. Please donate now.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wePi...
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I believe folks know the important work we're doing at @justsecurity.org, especially in these challenging times.
But we made this short video as a reminder!
We really need your support this #GivingTuesday.
For tax-deductible gifts: justsecurity.org/donate/
But we made this short video as a reminder!
We really need your support this #GivingTuesday.
For tax-deductible gifts: justsecurity.org/donate/
December 2, 2025 at 1:43 PM
I believe folks know the important work we're doing at @justsecurity.org, especially in these challenging times.
But we made this short video as a reminder!
We really need your support this #GivingTuesday.
For tax-deductible gifts: justsecurity.org/donate/
But we made this short video as a reminder!
We really need your support this #GivingTuesday.
For tax-deductible gifts: justsecurity.org/donate/
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Sen. Mark Kelly: "For most of Donald Trump's career, bullying people has worked out for him, but not now, because I won't let it happen. President Trump is trying to silence me, threatening to kill me for saying this true, and he sent his secretary after me, and it's not going to work."
December 2, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Sen. Mark Kelly: "For most of Donald Trump's career, bullying people has worked out for him, but not now, because I won't let it happen. President Trump is trying to silence me, threatening to kill me for saying this true, and he sent his secretary after me, and it's not going to work."