Rubio's Friday the 13th speech at the Federalist Society sings the virtues of U.S. empire and expansionism. www.state.gov/releases/off...
Victor Silverman
@victorsilverman.bsky.social
Author, Filmmaker, Professor of Contemporary US and International History. Emeritus Professor Pomona College.
It’s official: Measles is no longer a disease that is eliminated in the US. I can’t emphasize enough how catastrophic a failure this is when a vaccine that is 97% effective exists.
After 26 years, the US has lost its measles elimination status | CNN
Thanks to widespread vaccination, measles had been considered “eliminated” as a continually transmitting illness in the United States since 2000. But not anymore.
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“This is what the leadership of President Trump looks like” -- Markwayne Mullin & Sean Duffy just held a Beavis & Butt-Head-like press conference in which they conveyed no information to the American people about today's ground stop, but went on political rants & gargled President Trump Supercut:
Markwayne Mullin: “This is what the leadership of President Trump looks like”
"An update to the private communications network that connects America's air traffic control system caused the system to reboot, leading to a crash and a communications outage, multiple sources told CBS News."
FAA issues nationwide ground stop due to "extraordinary circumstances," White House says no indication of "nefarious act"
The Federal Aviation Administration on Friday issued a rare nationwide ground stop on all departing flights. Officials said it appeared to be a telecommunication outage.
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Five months after delivering her high school valedictorian speech, Maria Flores Garcia is being held at an ICE detention facility in Louisiana with her mother following a routine immigration check-in last week, according to CNN affiliate WUSA-9. Garcia is a freshman at the University of Maryland.
The scare quotes around "SMART" seem to have been warranted
Our brilliant plan of putting people who think reading is gay in charge of everything has hit an unexpected snag.
They call the new AI air traffic control system SMART. Ouch
James Fallows@jfallows.bsky.social · 2d agoOne passage from that article. Again, no evidence yet of what the cause was.
The "new AI-powered air traffic modernization system called SMART" from @jfallows.bsky.social in NYT
James Fallows@jfallows.bsky.social · 2d agoOne passage from that article. Again, no evidence yet of what the cause was.
Microsoft, FAA, NWS. Next up....? This may bring an end to AI bubble
Reuters@reuters.com · 2d agoUS National Weather Service reports nationwide internet, communications issues reut.rs/4ArI0Db
No idea yet what caused the "nationwide groundstop" of air travel right now. Have an article in Sunday's NYT Magazine about whether air travel system is eroding margins of safety. www.nytimes.com/2026/11/12/m...
Is Air Travel Getting Less Safe?
Experts fear the Trump administration is ignoring the enormous strain on the U.S. aviation system, even as accidents and close calls increase.
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Trump, Musk, and Putin are engaged in a joint project to get Ukraine to bow down to Russia, making concessions that Russia has failed to win on the battlefield. Pro-democracy Americans can't do much about that without the White House. But at least the press could stop calling Trump efforts "peace."
Ukraine says Starlink restrictions are back as US envoys land in Moscow
Army struggles to intercept Russian jet-powered drones, just as Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner meet Vladimir Putin
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California voters just gave billionaires another gift. www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...
California voters passed a measure that spells trouble for the state’s safety net
OPINION: The apparent passage of Prop 42 could have long term consequences on California’s finances, Justin Ray writes.
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if you can break the back of reactionary politics in mississippi you can do it anywhere.
Why does Musk’s board let him keep his job after taking unilateral national security action in Ukraine and impregnating dozens of people, but Huang is now facing the axe. One hypothesis: the judges who babysit them
Colom won Hinds County, where Medgar Evers killed, by 61 points He won Leflore County, where Emmett Till lynched, by 51 He flipped Forrest County, named after KKK founder Nathan Bedford Forrest He improved by 28 points from 2024 in Neshoba County, where Chaney, Goodman & Schwerner murdered
Ari Berman@ariberman.bsky.social · 4d agoBefore Voting Rights Act only 6.7% of eligible Black voters were registered in Mississippi This was state where Emmett Till, Medgar Evers, Chaney, Goodman & Schwerner murdered Now Scott Colom is first Black US Senator from Mississippi since Reconstruction www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
A lot of you clearly don't understand how ballot curing works down south... The Carolinas cure their ballots then chop them up. In SC they use mustard on their cured ballots. In TN they have wet and dry cured ballots but some are bundled together like ribs or separated and put between bread
Data centers do not create local jobs
Michael Hicks@profhicks.bsky.social · 4d ago1/ Proud to share the first peer reviewed study on labor market effects of #DataCenters entrance. Authors include Mckenzie Boyce and Brian Whitacre at @okstate and Dagney Faulk at @BallState. jrap.scholasticahq.com/article/1726...
Scott Colom will defeat Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith in a major upset to become the first Democrat that voters in deep-red Mississippi have elected to the chamber in more than four decades, CNN projects. https://cnn.it/48ModTb
Last year, the administration removed NSF staff from its specially designed HQ to launch 'A New Golden Age of HUD'. With Thiel deputies in charge at OSTP (Krasios) and in the wings (O'Neill), how are things going for our nation's premier basic science agency in this 'Golden Age of Science'? 👇
Inside NSF’s ‘Depressing’ New Headquarters
NSF employees say their new headquarters is a major downgrade from their old building, with poor telecommunications connectivity and limited meeting spaces.
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Scott Colom has won the Mississippi Senate race, CNN projects
It's much harder to do horse race or palace intrigue stories when the real political division is the large, anti-authoritarian coalition which spans traditional ideological lines and a smaller authoritarian coalition which does not. The commentariat desperately wants substance-less politics.
wow -- CNN broadcast footage of an Arlington guard yelling at a group with Pete Hegseth to "MAINTAIN SILENCE ... PAY RESPECT!" after someone in his entourage started laughing at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
Fairweather Fascists? "Some U.S. companies with close ties to President Trump are taking steps to gain favor with Democrats, worried they will become targets if Republicans lose control of the House." Remember: They'll try to buy both sides to evade accountability. 🎁 www.wsj.com/politics/ele...
Exclusive | Corporate America Cut Big Checks to Trump. Now CEOs Fear Subpoenas Are Coming.
Tech firms are courting Democrats and hiring advisers to prepare for potential investigations if Republicans lose control of the House.
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El secretario de Estado de Estados Unidos, Marco Rubio, ha gastado 1,2 millones de dólares en vuelos para asistir a los partidos de fútbol americano de la Universidad de Florida (UF), donde juega uno de sus hijos.
Marco Rubio ha gastado 1,2 millones de dólares en vuelos para ver partidos de fútbol americano - EFE
El secretario de Estado de Estados Unidos, Marco Rubio, ha gastado 1,2 millones de dólares en vuelos para asistir a los partidos de fútbol americano de la Universidad de Florida.
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once again asking if any of my fellow historians have undergrad legal history syllabi they'd be willing to share? I've got one fairly developed but would love to fill some gaps... 🗃️