Someone remake “It’s a Wonderful Life” but Mr. Potter believes that hoarding is morally required so he can devote resources to delivering a far future with trillions of humans while George Bailey is like, “Gosh Darnit! What if taking care of people today is what takes care of people in the future?!”

My neighbor made us a Chinese lion bean cake for Christmas!

So Bari Weiss’s first real editorial intervention at CBS is to repress coverage of American concentration camps.

Betty Reid Soskin, the National Park Service’s oldest ranger, has died. She was 104.

Noooooooo!! Mah pennies!!!!

Rest in pence?? OMG, rude

So happy that @volts.wtf put this on his podcast. As a cognitive psychologist by training and a current enviro person, this speaks directly to me. I also appreciate all the embedded links because my social identity knowledge is still at Psych 101 levels.

Think I have conclusively demonstrated that the search tool for the limited release Epstein Files published so far by the Justice Department does not work

I posted a comment on DailyKos about surveillance cameras not being effective at solving or preventing crime and I'm getting pushback, of course. The question is how long I'm willing to do the XKCD "someone is wrong on the internet!" thing before I'm done 😅

Oh my god I was right

"We here at Bank of America remember a time when a woman couldn't get a credit card without her husband's approval. Wouldn't that be fun again?"

Motherfucka that is just the Hunger Games, what??????

Extremely bleak

Tesla finally found a customer for cybertrucks! It's, uh, SpaceX.

David Brooks, who wrote in the NYT last month, "The Epstein Story? Count Me Out" is... in the latest Epstein photo dump published by @oversightdemocrats.house.gov. He should absolutely be fired by NYT for this. Major conflict of interest that he didn't disclose.

Today, ProPublica launched a first-of-its-kind app to help you find out where your generic drugs come from and what the factories that made them are like. Here’s how to use it.

weiss does not know how to run a news organization, and so she's doing what she does best: hosting fatuous "debates" involving the people in her group chats www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

Washington’s refusal to regulate AI is a corruption story. Just ask Donald Trump and Speaker Mike Johnson.

techbros: we have created AGI cognitive scientists: you fucked up a perfectly good spreadsheet is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety

Another excellent @jamellebouie.net column: We do not have a president, we have a junta (my word), unelected extremists empowered by the Supreme Court and the so-called unitary executive. Gift link. The Man Who Rules the Country Presides Over Nothing www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/o...

Linguistic dispatch from Santiago

Campbell’s Unveils New Line Of Self-Defense Soups https://theonion.com/campbells-unveils-new-line-of-self-defense-soups/

I keep saying this but no one is connecting the dots. The war is to satisfy legal preconditions for mass removal *domestically* of Latinos (i.e., suddenly a lot of people are going to be “Venezuelan” for purposes of removal). This is 100% Stephen Miller…oil claim is to make grandpa go along

A reminder: www.greatpower.us/p/the-war-on...

Frustrated Gunman Can’t Believe How Far He Has To Drive To Find Nearest Planned Parenthood Clinic https://theonion.com/frustrated-gunman-can-t-believe-how-far-he-has-to-drive-1819578452/

NEW: I’m leading a bipartisan effort with Rep. Thomas Massie to end forever wars by repealing a 2001 provision letting the White House bypass Congress. For decades, both parties have used this to conduct military operations with little to no oversight. It’s time for that to end.

Earth's largest land animals are limited by salt. Sodium availability constrains the density and distribution of elephants, giraffes and rhinos across Africa, and offers a new explanation for the so-called 'missing megaherbivores'. www.nature.com/articles/s41... Free access: rdcu.be/eTPY2

“I’m looking all over, and there’s just no way we can make this any worse,” Trump said

I'm searching Getty Images and found some photos credited to the Boston Herald that redact the faces of ICE/federal agents. They don't redact the face of the guy they're arresting. I'm curious about the ethics of doing this. I don't think I've ever seen this on Getty before.

When the eyeglasses come off, you know it's about to get serious.

These ridiculous mega-projects like "datacenters in space" (doomed by thermodynamics) make a LOT more sense when you realize they're massive Ponzi schemes designed to transfer wealth from pension funds to VC's through "fee stacking." It's the old Assets Under Management con. It should be illegal.

I'm sorry, on what authority??

What!?

ICE trying to ORDER a church to REMOVE A NATIVITY SCENE is one of the most astonishing First Amendment violations I've seen in ever

if bright colors mean poisonous then shouldn't little children, evolutionarily speaking, not be attracted to then? As in, anyone who was, died??

haha omg

a billionaire who sees undermining political sovereignty as an alternative to paying a relatively minor fine is a problem that will have to be dealt with eventually

I'm not sure it's in the self interest of America's tech bro billionaires to suggest that we bring back public executions to punish the most destructive people in our society.

A Palantir billionaire just called for public hangings. “It's time to bring back masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable,” writes Joe Lonsdale. This is where Silicon Valley authoritarianism is heading: www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale...

It starts with knowing the truth. Don’t allow yourselves to be gaslit into believing this is a real question.

The second chapter of my dissertation was published in @PNAS today! I’m really proud of this perspective, and I want to share a few additional thoughts. The full article is available at the link below open-access (1/) doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

Hallmark Christmas movie

Study Finds Processed Meats Carcinogenic But They Were On Sale https://theonion.com/study-finds-processed-meats-carcinogenic-but-they-were-on-sale/

literally what the fuck

very key. Trump doesn't care abt signalgate and he likes blowing up civilian boats. but this IG report provides a convenient trap door under Pete Hegseth. If GOPs want to be done, theyve now got a way to be done. talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things...

rampant overcharging because it's cheaper to pay the fines than to only charge the amount the item is listed for