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Maybe what your fiction-loving medieval curious friend/relation/acquaintance needs for the holidays is a copy of my The Queen’s Companion. Crusades! Eleanor of Aquitaine! Famine! Sea voyages! 📚💙 ⏳📚 #historicalfiction www.amazon.com/Queens-Compa...

Good thread on that Maine Marist poll. This is not a democracy when pollsters feel they have to do this. (Not saying the tv is right or Jackson will win but your replies are your replies)

Good thread on that Maine Marist poll. This is not a democracy when pollsters feel they have to do this. (Not saying the tv is right or Jackson will win but your replies are your replies)

Seven highlights from the House Judiciary Committee's jaw-dropping new report on Trump's sexual depredations, including a very detailed account of a new rape Trump committed in the Plaza Hotel in Atlantic City.

This is how you can tell RFK really has never set foot in a hospital. (And as if he reads literature. As if he reads at all. Give me a break.)

This report is genuinely overwhelming, in terms of the evidence both against Trump and of a ham-fisted cover-up. Including one instance in which Ghislaine Maxwell was actually about to mention one of Trump's young accusers and Todd Blanche told her to stop talking. The media response is "yawn."

The House Judiciary Committee Democrats have released a report containing testimony from 11 women regarding allegations of sexual assault, including a new rape allegation, against President Trump in relation to Jeffrey Epstein that the lawmakers say has been deliberately covered up by the DOJ.

NEW: "Donald Trump was an active participant in Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse of young women during the mid-to-late 1990s," per new House Judiciary Dem report. Report has new allegation that Trump raped a 24-year-old and then promised the victim a visa & NYU admission, demanding she stay quiet.

Bolsonaro-friendly mayors appear to be sabotaging public transport on Election Day. Buses aren’t running in Lula-friendly areas, flights and ferries mysteriously canceled. Traffic lights have gone out and people’s power cut in Salvador, indigenous people’s travel restricted

The recent Starlink / Starshield incident in Ukraine has created a dangerous precedence for the US export industry, many haven't yet grasped. The sudden deactivation respectively curtailing of those systems without warning not only cost precious lives, but also equipment worth millions.

"The vision that comes to all the makers of the world, before they make a new thing, whether it be a song, or a sword, or a chalk-cut horse, half a hillside high." The genius of Rosemary Sutcliff.

Condescending bullshit.

In case you’re wondering where the ad came from and why Vance supported it so vocally.

Susan Collins is falsely claiming she's won tariff exemptions, and media outlets are letting her get away with it. In fact, the admin is swapping some 50% tariffs for other 50% tariffs, as they did when they swapped out road salt. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

These lines were in RFK Jr's inaugural speech as HHS Secretary in February 2025. No idea why Trump is repeating them now.

#earlyvote analysis in Iowa, Kansas, and Nebraska reveals signs of life for Republicans michaelmcdonald.substack.com/p/midwest-ea...

Ramaswamy has produced an attack ad weaponizing the rape of his opponent, Amy Acton, when she was 12 years old. It features Acton’s mother, who abandoned Acton after she was raped by her step-father, fleeing the state with her husband. Here is the corporate money helping fund that ad.

🇺🇸‼️🇺🇦 Trump likely wants to force Ukraine to capitulate before the G20 summit in December, — WP   Russians have used Trump “as a battering ram to force Ukraine to hand over Donbas” and make peace on Moscow’s terms.

As one of the candidates featured in these polls - the infamous one in late June that showed me plummeting into single digits (which was at odds with our internals) - here's the impact of this "experiment"

Here’s the ad that has Florida Republicans going the prior-restraint route. (The details of the grand-jury report have been widely known and shared for 2 months.)

“I told you once that I was searching for the nature of evil. I think I’ve come close to defining it: a lack of empathy.... Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy.” — Dr. Gustave Gilbert, U.S. Military Chief Psychologist in the Nuremberg Trials, Nuremberg Diary

"Ya, we should make disbelieving child sexual abuse allegations a centerpiece of our campaign" - Republican strategist in 2026

Huge follow-up reporting to my scoop: The Guardian confirmed America Next—the conservative nonprofit founded by Bobby Jindal that was offering students $ to disrupt El-Sayed events—paid a firm registered to Tommy Teepell’s dad Timmy $250k for “canvassing and influencer marketing” against El-Sayed.

Family estrangement isn't new. The present moral panic is a version of Wilhoit's Law: there are family members whom the family code protects but does not bind and those whom the code binds but does not protect. Elders can denigrate you, police your politics, choose your mate, blackmail you. 7/_

This comic is over 16 years old (it's old enough that if it were a person, it might conceivably be starting to check out universities' websites) and it's no less relevant now than when it was first published. Speaking as a university webmaster: Dammit.

How did a small Islamic principality on the eastern coast of Spain – the Taifa Denia – become a major maritime power in the eleventh-century Mediterranean Constructing the Medieval Maritime State of Islamic Denia www.medieval.eu/constructing...

Four Canadian Armed Forces members have died and dozens more are seriously wounded as a result of a massive fire at CFB Wainwright, Prime Minister Mark Carney says. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... via @theglobeandmail.com

If you left Twitter because it’s owner was evil, you should probably leave Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp… (so should I)

Zelenskyy that restrictions on Starlink systems remain. Interceptor drones can't function, logistics and operations hobbled. The maximum speed is 161 kph; "exceeding this limit causes the Starlink connection to cut out completely, resulting in the loss of the drone." www.ft.com/content/e267...

Meeting with separatists as your first attempt to “rebuild” relations with Canada while still refusing to say you want *all* the tariffs and the attacks against Canada to end? Eat shit you stupid, fascist sympathizing, fuck

Maybe it's for the best if less women go to U Chicago

Meta has censored more than 1,000 pro-Lula accounts during the Brazilian Presidential Election. Evidence shows that the social media giant clearly interfered in the election. paydayreport.com/meta-censors...

Raphaël Glucksmann wins French center-left's presidential primary

#Zelensky gives weight to claims that #Trump Admin has halted intelligence sharing w #Ukraine "Unfortunately, there was no warning from our partners" before Russia launched five ballistic missiles at civilian infrastructure in #Kyiv early Tuesday #UkraineWar

Here are the details: literally any time, any place, any network.

Watch an ICE agent run down and then run over a man. The man was was then writhing on the ground, saying "You broke my leg! You broke my leg!" Agents didn't help him. And btw, the man wasn't the target of their operation.

🧵 Carney and Zelenskyy discussed the new agreement between US and Russia to supply diesel to US. PM Carney was clear: this agreement is in direct opposition to the efforts of Ukraine, Canada, and our allies to create peace and stability in Europe.

Go ahead. Mess with Canada. See what that gets you.

Zacharia is on the board of White Rose Resistance, an extremist abortion “abolitionist” organization that wants to prosecute people who have abortions for homicide:

Not once during the whole Middle Ages was an execution live-streamed.

"From 1980 to 1987, Carson taught Classics at Princeton as an instructor and later assistant professor, but was not granted tenure at the end of her term"

Congratulations to Anne Carson, winner of the 2026 @nobelprize.org in Literature! Anne Carson's oeuvre is immense, and this award is so well deserved. To acknowledge the occasion, we're unlocking "The Mirror of Simple Souls" from our archive. Read on: kenyonreview.org/piece/januar...

This has been talked 2 death over the yrs, but the PQ promise of free trade w/ CDA (or US or EU) post-separation seems especially crazy in the geopolitical moment / desperate scramble for private investment. More likely to be a Brexit-style shock/isolation for QC, if on a smaller scale.

I don’t talk about it a lot but this sums it up for me.