FWIW, Yoo was given a tenured professorship at UC Berkeley in the 1990s, before the Bush Admin started, and long before Chemerinsky was at Berkeley. The real question is, why didn't Berkeley *fire* Yoo from his tenured professorship? In 2008, the then-Dean argued that the law prohibited that.

When I was on CNN's northeast desk, the first job at 6a every morning was to read the local papers. That guided some of what the massive CNN machine followed every day. When those papers die, CNN doesn't hire new regional reporters. What you get instead is more panel shows, more punditry.

We were *this close* to having the Nintendo AVS, which would have been beyond a game console and more like an evolved Commodore 64.

Kim Gordon of Sonic Youth posted this Christmas greeting on FB and this kid (maybe her grandson?) has the most Sonic Youth expression imaginable.

The Netflix and Amazon broadcasts are a great reminder that live sports is a deeply, deeply difficult type of TV that requires huge crews of profoundly skilled and experienced people who have worked together for a long time to look natural

Me:

DOJ briefly uploaded this letter from Jeff Epstein to serial child molester Larry Nassar: "Our president shares our love of young, nubile girls. When a young beauty walked by he loved to 'grab snatch,' whereas we ended up snatching grub in the mess halls of the system."

In 2022, Bari Weiss ran this viral first-person piece by a top Levi’s executive. She claimed she was hounded out of the company because of her vocal stance on COVID restrictions. There are no quotes from the company. Or her colleagues. Not even a “no comment.” www.thefp.com/p/yesterday-...

!! Here’s a link to full video of the 60 Minutes segment that Bari Weiss killed last minute, via @jasonparis.bsky.social: is.gd/paU8Ko (It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)

This is so sad

who calls the shots where you get your news? defector.com/products

The ruling allows Florida to continue with the lowest standard for the death penalty in the nation, requiring just 8 out of 12 jurors to agree on death.

Why decline all these chances to defend feminism? Because to participate would be accepting the premise that our rights and humanity are up for debate in the first place. Once you’ve conceded that it’s reasonable to ask whether women’s equality was a mistake, you’ve already lost.

The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality. And trans lives are grounded in reality. We see y'all. No matter what. www.popsci.com/science/tran...

They booked a bunch of 14 year old models to come to a Mar A Lago party, told them to dress sexy and tried to ply them with alcohol.

The photos of those Haitian refugees was his first big break, as they earned him the Robert Capa Gold Medal award, which catapulted his career. But at the moment he took the images, he and the other men on the boat thought they were going to die. He had this to say about the experience:

This framing is dishonest. It was a bipartisan bill. Enough Republicans actually defected and voted no to kill the bill. Three Democrats crossed over to save it. They should be stripped of their committee assignments and thrown out of the party, quite frankly.

I guess the photographer got that $1000

Just say women. This is taking forever.

As with most things Trump related, I think there's no point looking for a 14-dimensional chess explanation for what anyone is doing. I don't think Wiles is a savvy operator playing a Vanity Fair journalist to advance her own interests. I thinks she's a damaged person enabling other damaged people.

for those that wanted to see the clip of him being genuinely annoyed at the suggestion ai podcasts are good after he spends time glazing ai music lol

Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.

To give you an example of how small the Jewish community is, the guy who sang at the wedding of some of my best pals last weekend - and who I know - lost his cousin (Rabbi Eli Schlanger ז״ל) in the Bondi Beach attacks There are so few Jews in the world, it’s hard to explain

The ACA isn't just "health care for people who don't have a conventional employer." It also disallows something that was incredibly common 20 years ago, which I fear is getting lost to generational memory: insurance companies could deny you health care for essentially any previous health problem.

They used to "laugh and call him names." Now they're all dead

Two victims of previous school shootings — Mia Tretta, who was shot in the stomach in 2019 at Saugus High School, and Zoe Weissman, who survived the 2018 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School — are now at Brown. Gun violence is out of control in this country.

The answer to this is, obviously, start eating children.

Any Pennsylvania senator has to play both sides. The meaning changes with time but Casey was masterful at it, and before him Specter. This is something else. It has no practical political basis on either side.

Orcas have started targeting commercial ship control systems, like rudders, to disrupt or break them. Eyewitnesses feel unnerved by the precision of these attacks in how the orcas ignore peripherals and know exactly what to do. Well, duh. Sophisticated intelligence as good or better than our own.

Today is the 10th anniversary of one of the stupidest tweets ever written

That's right

““Very frankly,” Ronald Reagan said of Roots, “I thought the bias of all the good people being one color and all the bad people being another was rather destructive.”” — Reaganland: America's Right Turn 1976-1980 by Rick Perlstein

In 1983 Reagan voters were 48/44 opposed to MLK day and Reagan himself still thought MLK might have been a Communist. We know this because he said it to his friend Meldrim Thompson, a former NH governor who sat on the board of the John Birch Society in 1983.

Prison rape is wrong. Jokes about prison rape are wrong. Eliminating protections against prison rape is wrong. If another country sentenced a criminal to be raped, we'd consider it a crime against humanity. BUT A large segment of Americans regard prison rape as a de facto part of the sentence.

Every year I see the panic-inducing headlines "IS CANNED PUMPKIN ACTUALLY PUMPKIN" Designed to get us all to click because wHaT iS In oUr FoOd!? And like, the answer is yeah ok it's not a Jack O' lantern pumpkin but the REAL answer is: WHAT THE FUCK IS PUMPKIN www.snopes.com/fact-check/c...

the Comet Ping Pong attack was nine years ago today—weeks after Trump’s 2016 win—and inspired by a conspiracy theory promoted by Jack Posobiec, who was recently invited to the White House, demands antifa be designated a terrorist group, and asked questions as “press” at the Pentagon this week

Jews have been forced by society to be experts on this topic because every single goy we meet demands we state our position on it before they decide if we’re a good Jew or a bad Jew but yeah ok we’re just too ignorant to understand. The goyim will always hate us no matter what we do. We cannot win

She was first in her family to go to college. She’d been in the U.S. since she was seven. They grabbed at the airport on her way to surprise her family for thanksgiving. They put her in shackles. Her ankles, her arms, and her waist. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/u...

Target: We will comply in advance like cowards, please keep shopping here while we jack up the prices and let quality slip into the trash Costco: We kept the price of staple goods stable to protect our customers. We’re suing to get the tariffs removed from everyone. www.nbcnews.com/business/bus...

a lot of people debating the merits of that dogshit essay meanwhile the girl’s mom is retweeting demands to ban all trans people from teaching at any level. it’s forest for the trees shit

reminds me thoroughly of how conservatives love to fill pharmacies with people who refuse to do the pharmacist's actual job of giving you your fucking medicine

if you ask students to list the causes of the Irish famine and they just say “the Irish are demonic” can you really not fail that kid?

Absolute debasement of academic standards *student submits opinion in psych class *gets bad grade *instructor says she can make whatever arguments she wants but must draw on empirical sources *student & Turning Point says her religious freedom & first amendment rights violated *professor suspended

Each July 4th Americans celebrate a successful war of anti-colonial liberation. Each Thanksgiving Americans celebrate the colonists who occupied North America against the will of the original inhabitants. The rest of the year is spent not thinking about the tense relationship between those 2 things.

If the U.S. was at war, Pete Hegseth's order would be a war crime, a military lawyer said. Instead, it might just be murder. wapo.st/49KbUJ1

There might be no better example of the war coming home than a CIA trained teen death squad recruit getting asylum in the US and then shooting a bunch of soldiers who were deployed to DC for no reason other than Kabuki Security Theater

This is murder. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

absolutely harrowing description of adx supermax in colorado boltsmag.org/death-row-cl...