Brett Kavanaugh's "minor inconvience" now includes beating people up and cutting off their wedding rings for [checks notes] "observing ICE from a distance."

What started as relief that RFK Jr. did not go shirtless this time quickly curdled into a creeping suspicion that something was deeply wrong. That the "pull-ups" we were witnessing were not, in fact, real. 🙏 to @caseyjohnston.bsky.social for the sharp, much-needed clarity

So a large number of people not currently working in factories think they would be better off if they worked in factories. If we’re talking about unionized factories they are probably right.

“Tincher said she’s even more motivated after her arrest to volunteer to support immigrants in her community.”

*flattening out terms and claiming everything is AI to boost your investment* haha fuck yeah yes *same flattening causes you to get swept up in a huge backlash* what the fuck this sucks

Now that I realized it exists, I’m watching Heated Rivalry. And I love that Scott and Kip get an episode, but don’t love the casting on either of them.

Somehow I only just realized that the reason everyone is talking about the hockey books is that there’s a show of it. Clearly I’m tracking public events super well. (But ask me anything about local politics in my city!)

Folks might not know a lot of people are getting *very* upset that the materials they request are not available in the libraries/archives they're requesting from. We're getting lots here at the Library of Virginia: requests of documents likely surfaced by large language models that *do not exist*.

"Are you impressed by Richard Hanania?" has become a good litmus test. Value debate over substance? Influenced by X? Have trouble with bad faith? Taken in by fancier words? Think showing you're open to toxic ideas makes you better than people who aren't? Matt Yglesias, Jared Polis — any others?

Congress made a choice: tax breaks for billionaires but no help on health care for middle and working-class Americans. There's still time for them to act. Learn more in this #CareTalk episode with @charlesgaba.com: youtube.com/live/FI9_Sif...

I keep hearing that JD Vance has no chance of ever being elected president because he's just a pathetic suck-up living in the shadow of more charismatic men and nobody likes him. Boy, we have memory-holed the FUCK out of George H. W. Bush.

Just put the lights on the tree and made our first batch of @jeffmorgen.bsky.social eggnog so now the holiday season is fully in force.

Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. (Not actually that) hard mode: no Star Wars, LOTR, or Marvel.

Copy editors do important work. Like keeping the paper of record from looking like a different kind of joke than usual.

“There are plenty of reform proposals out there, and they’re perfectly practical; Congress can change the size of the court (as it has done many times before), impose term limits, and much more. All that’s necessary is the will to do it.”

The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service

Ok, this is good.

Now I get why she didn’t make it as a child actor

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All I want for Christmas is for the worst people in the world to experience some consequences

What does it say about this country that that the kind of open, rank bigotry Trump administration officials regularly express towards black immigrants apparently has no social cost because of the number of Americans who quietly agree or don't care.

2006 I managed the campaign for a candidate who in 2004 had lost by 20. We won by 7.

Dedham Priest pissing off all the right people by removing Jesus from the church's nativity scene and putting up an ICE WAS HERE sign in His place. www.boston25news.com/news/local/i...

Love how Megyn Kelly is apparently like "I am all in on Trumpism when it comes to murder and I will loudly show loyalty on that front, but I am not getting f'ing Mar-a-Lago face."

As Jared Kushner prepares to meet with Putin today on behalf of Trump, REMEMBER: After taking billions from the Saudis and other foreign governments, Kushner explicitly said he would not have a foreign policy role in this administration. popular.info/p/jared-kush...

Hegseth is very transparently blaming a Navy admiral for his own decision. Let this be a lesson for every other military officer: The Trump administration will issue unlawful orders, then blame you for following them.

Christian, too many to name. Totally secular, the Kinks, "Father Christmas. "Time to Remember the Poor" only gets Christian at the end, so I'm counting it as semi-secular. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgVt...

It’s useful to think about things like this in numbers of tenure track professors. $33M is 358 assistant professors. Or about fourteen percent of the total number of full-time faculty at Michigan State.

Excellent context from @devilstower.bsky.social on Pete Hegseth’s crimes.

They’re simultaneously arguing that soldiers have to follow all orders from the president, legal or not, but they get to ignore orders from a federal judge if they feel they’re not legal.

My kid turned four a few weeks in. We had to cancel his party with his friends. But our neighbors, many of them in their 80s, put on costumes & came out in the yard & cheered him while he rode his bike from one end of the complex to the other.

Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷

“There were no cervical cancer cases diagnosed in women aged <25 years in 2021 – the first time that this has occurred in data going back to 1982. This remarkable achievement is almost certainly due to the impact of HPV vaccination.” From report.cervicalcancercontrol.org.au #vaccinationsaveslives

Here’s the thing: pie crust is bad in desserts. (I’m open to savory pies in crust.) Apple crisp is good. Key lime pie in a crumb crust isn’t really my thing, but fine fine. Pecan pie filling without a crust is excellent. Ditto pumpkin pie filling.

So either Trump spoke to Bolsonaro about plotting to escape to the US right before the latter got caught trying to saw off his ankle monitor, or Trump imagined a conversation he didn’t have. Both scenarios are incredibly dark

I am super-pro-public transit, and use it way more than the average American, but I live near a light rail station with very, very stable and predictable scheduling, and even then I would not use it for many things I use a car for because the cost of transit is time.

America putting most of its eggs in the generative AI basket, China going hard into green tech. When history looks back on this period, someone is going to look awfully stupid.

Further details on the Election Night mis-reporting of results from me in @cambridgeday.com . Perhaps more questions than answers, though? bsky.app/profile/camb...

My story on Connecticut’s only immigration court — published this week — features an interview with a judge let go in September: www.ctinsider.com/news/article...

It’s sounding like this was prescient?

Ok, there are 87,000 people on this island? That this plan was evil is self-evident, but that number shows how incredibly fucking stupid it also was.

I would like men who are now just learning that their women friends and loved ones were harassed by their professors to ask themselves this: why do you think your women friends never told you?

It’s widely known (and, I think, pretty uncontroversial) that learning requires effort — specifically, if you don’t have to work at getting the knowledge, it won’t stick. Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.

So it took a judge and the head of security for the court to prevent ICE from kidnapping a high school student who was not even the person they were looking for.

Another way to look at this is the administration is celebrating a 17% decline in one of our most prestigious and profitable exports

Learned this morning that insulated mugs are like Tupperware: you might have five mugs and five lids but you will only have one actual matching set.

NARRATOR: Roth quite clearly did not name call & we need our leaders to stop granting <every bad faith premise> of the far right authoritarians' lawless assault on higher education before we push back.