Sink drug boats and kill the survivors (no evidence offered), pardon drug kingpins convicted in court of law (lots of evidence offered) — www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/w...

To put a finer point on this whole thing: "Two people with direct knowledge of the operation" — presumably uniformed military leaders — are accusing the U.S. Secretary of Defense of personally ordering specific war crimes. That's a historic accusation.

Ordering no quarter, as Hegseth effectively did, isn't a newfangled modern war crime. It was understood as a crime as far back as the Revolutionary War. Washington threatened to do reprisals over it. The bad guy in 'The Patriot' is (very loosely) based off a British officer who was notorious for it.

If you want to read the full @propublica.org investigation into CIA-backed Afghan Zero Units, here's Lynzy Billing's award-winning piece from 2022:

Good catch!

thinking of this classic tweet on thanksgiving day

Far from being an eternal symbol of Pilgrims-and-Indians lies, Thanksgiving was, for a good portion of its history, a symbol of social reform and abolitionism

"They had submitted extensive paperwork and paid fees. The foreign spouses had been fingerprinted and passed medical exams. None had criminal records. None had entered the country illegally. They had already been granted employment authorization." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...

I will never stop using TikTok, sorry to say.

I again absolutely beg everybody to understand the whole pilgrim thing is a recent addition to Thanksgiving.

They like Trump and want to help him

The existence of Christian Watson implies the existence of Jewish Sherlock

You guys ever pet a cloud?

The quality of lip syncing at this Thanksgiving Day Parade is...highly variable.

Abe Lincoln made Thanksgiving a holiday for everybody to get together and think about how nice it was to not have died destroying the Confederacy. I will fight the desperate, lonely rearguard to defend it as an institution forever, the whole Pilgrim-centric thing is an anachronism!

Poor Helen

The Knicks defensive player of the game photos absolutely kill me every time.

The first notes of "Farewell to Words" changed my life in a way I could almost feel, kinetically.

Arcarsenal ~ Run Away With Me Thunder Road Witness

I am again just in awe of the quality of modern headline construction.

I 100% thought Columbo was wearing a yarmulke in the first shot

Tomorrow I will defeat my family.

Oh hey The Knicks.

I didn't think the Yankees would have any interest in Cease (and that would be defensible,) but the Jays getting him is less than ideal.

Teams just pay for Ks. It’s the most predictable, reliable way to prevent runs and being able to miss bats with spin is something that ages better than nearly anything else—velo can wane but wicked break can last forever.

I rules that this dude was a VP at the company and was still entirely bought into insane conspiracy theories about their product. Cooked brains, as far as the eye can see.

The Dick Ripper shirt is an absolutely amazing item for somebody cooler and more confident than me.

I need everybody to read this and understand what’s going on. These are spouses of US citizens in the country legally. They have entry clearance and green cards, they’ve passed background checks and have no criminal records. ICE is taking them anyway. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...

Waste, fraud, and abuse.

I would love to know the overlap between "experts" and "investors" in this cohort

We have to put a moratorium on "sparks" as a transitional phrase in headlines. This is just insane use of language.

Thanks to David I thought of the RFK sexts, but addressed to Slimer. And now you have to, as well.

Go Blue

"Musk’s new pay package, however, does not require a big surge in sales growth. The CEO can unlock a multibillion-dollar award if Tesla averages 1.2 million vehicles annually over the next decade, along with share appreciation. That is about a half-million fewer than the company sold in 2024."

Hard not to notice that this is describing a landscape where public aid is pretty brutally means tested, and thus it's very, very difficult to climb out of the trap of housing/childcare/healthcare if you aren't supremely lucky

above all, poster bushido demands that you should not cry foul about a fight you started.

There is NO FUCKING EXCUSE for this to be happening. I had a baby die in my arms of pertussis some fifty years ago. It was a HORRIBLE death. But my fellow nurses said to me, "It's almost stamped out now, they're all getting the shots, we won't be seeing this again." HOW THE FUCK ARE WE HERE. 😡

Hell of a quote from the dude here. Guess it runs in the family.

"It is against the TOS to be talked into suicide by our LLM" is possibly the most evil tech bro thing I've ever read

Need to put an immediate end to "Democrats should say XYZ" posts. Just say what you believe instead of playing comms consultant.

@blandalytics.pitcherlist.com marches on Toronto at dawn

Spending this slow day at work really watching just way too many videos about how to get the best results with a Moka Pot, because one time I got it *perfect* and I've been chasing that high for a year+ now.

The moo deng fandom is dying. Reskeet if youre a *real* dengist

Describing somebody keeping a phone for longer than a year or two as "hoarding" is *chef's kiss*

The entire US GDP is going into Heat 2

Accidental Bronson needs to come to Bsky.

this was probably my favorite bit: www.baseballprospectus.com/news/article...

I think this is also a very revealing phrase for Bari to use, because "40 yards" is an objective measurement, so to change those lines you by definition are moving where the actual conversation is. I'm not sure if she actually grasps, that, though.