This and the discussion about how academics can now just read AI summaries of things really drives home how much these guys always confuse the product for the goal. You don't do a coloring sheet because you want to have a colored sheet at the end!!! The coloring is the point!!!

Woman comes to US at age 6. Graduates nursing school. Work permit. No criminal record. Snatched and imprisoned by ICE for 6 months now. About to be forced back to Honduras. A life destroyed and one less nurse. Merry Christmas. www.nola.com/news/educati...

i really think there is legit political space for running on "we are going to dismantle ICE"

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

the vice president is a klansman

Three Dems in the House voted for Marjorie Taylor Greene's bill to criminalize having trans children

Betty Reid Soskin, the beloved historian, musician and oldest U.S. park ranger until her 2022 retirement, died Sunday at her Richmond home.

Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.

UPDATE: in point of fact there is not an innocent explanation for this.

Dude spent literally like 15% of his net worth on this. Could you imagine Bezos doing that? Musk?

i’m just going to assume the 90% of pages that they blacked out is ONLY donald trump

Pantone just updated their Color Of The Year

Maria has been accused over the years of fabricating her story that she had gone to the FBI. After finding the document in the trove, I called her. She broke down in tears. “I’ve waited 30 years. I can’t believe it. They can’t call me a liar anymore.” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/u...

Costco in West Oakland is great for everyone. Blue collar workers and young men especially reeling with high unemployment in Oakland need these pro-union, good paying jobs. it also helps reverse a food desert and brings tax revenue to Oakland instead of Emeryville. Lots of wins here.

Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.

“Gantchev suffered from type 2 diabetes and told his wife no diet accommodations were made for him. She and Anna said the small amount of food that is given to people detained at North Lake was not enough for maintaining Gantchev's blood sugar levels.”

This is heartbreaking, this man had family and friends who loved him and none of this needed to happen

Every single democratic senator voted to confirm Marco Rubio as Secretary of State. Every single one. Not one “no” vote.

This relates to what @theferocity.bsky.social said on Wednesdays vibe check. We are acting differently and this sums up why.

Trump is now using the FBI to criminalize criticism and protests against his regime .. a textbook dictator move. Things have got very bad, very quickly. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

There's a dark triad for predatory scammer types: refusing to pay their bills; constantly name-dropping and social-climbing in pursuit of new marks; escalating depravity as if in an attempt to see if there's anything they can't get away with. The problem is that millions of Americans are like this.

“Tell your children who the cowards were.”

TAPPER: “This is one of the documents Trump’s DOJ released. It’s 100 pages. ALL BLACK. That’s the ‘transparency’ we’re getting.” #TrumpEpsteinCoverup

Oh my god I was right

'how do we get our employees to be more loyal and not leak dirt' well here's one wild ass plan

Congratulations to everyone who wrote an op-ed about how he just wants americans to eat better

"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future." - @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit. Incredible words. Listen to all of it!

One small way to try to re-establish social trust would be to transparently disclose *in this very column* that you hung out with Jeffrey Epstein. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/o...

hell, I think it's perfectly reasonable for someone *not to have known who Epstein was* in 2010. It wasn't a massive story then! But you've got to disclose that you met him *when you write about him now*.

Forget about the nonsense stories like the Kennedy Center being renamed or whatever Bari Weiss is doing At least 3,800 immigrant children were detained in 2025. Now, kids are not supposed to be kept more than 20 days At least 1,300 of them have been held longer than 20 days-some for over 4 months

David Brooks writing about how there was nothing to see with the Epstein Files while not disclosing *he was in them* is at least a Nuzzi-level journalistic scandal What I'm saying is, get ready to see a nude painting of David Brooks in the NYT within weeks

if any journalist of color I know had their photo included in the Epstein files, they would be immediately fired and blacklisted from contributing or working full-time for other media companies

But not investigating Larry summers relationship with… the pedophile?????

One of the most striking things about youth suicide rates is how much they differ between states. A sixfold difference is massive! ojjdp.ojp.gov/statistical-...

Had the three Dems who voted for this held the line and voted no, they could have blocked it.

An ICE agent in Minneapolis pinned a pregnant woman’s face into the snow and knelt on her body. She was also dragged across the pavement by her wrist.

7 Dems joined House Republicans in voting for a bill that would enable ICE agents to strip search 12-year-olds. Henry Cuellar (TX-28) Don Davis (NC-01) Laura Gillen (NY-04) Jared Golden (ME-02) Vicente Gonzalez (TX-34) Adam Gray (CA-13) Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (WA-03)

I grew up a mile from a mall that died when I was in my teens and this is so fucking accurate. We’re already at the “everyone is afraid to go there because of the crowd” phase.

Yes

Broadcast network executives should be ashamed that they carried that gaslit tirade.

Henry Cuellar, Don Davis, and Vicente Gonzalez joined Republicans in voting to criminalize trans health care. The bill passed only 216 to 214. 4 Republicans voted no. If they did too, it would have failed. clerk.house.gov/evs/2025/rol...

None of the examples in this article are “restarting the world’s idea machine.” They are AI tools helping scientists automate rote or routine tasks.

This also happened during Trump’s first term. That 2024 dip? That’s when Democrats went on the defensive, and let Trump and MAGA dictate the immigration narrative. Why, it’s almost as if political leadership (good and bad) can actually drive public opinion, instead of always following it.

Apart from the fact the leader of the right mocked Reiner, one small difference is that Reiner's day job was making movies that people loved, while Kirk's starting point was creating enemies list of professors to be fired or harassed. These are not the same things.

they keep emphasizing that these are on "known narcotrafficking routes" and like, those are just route-routes. there are not special ocean highways for drugs.

He was buddies with a pedo but in a tasteful, honorable way

I often think about Zohran Mamdani saying “to get to any of us, you’re gonna have to go through all of us.”

Some Dems have told themselves only ~1% of the population is trans so they can dip their toe in the anti-trans filth and come out clean. I don't have any trans family members—but it still makes me irate. I see it as a huge red flag, a sign you are unprincipled and untrustworthy. And I'm not alone.

We are parents of a trans kid and our family takes this very, very personally. If you intentionally make life harder for our beloved daughter, it’s EXTREMELY hard to think of you as an ally, to say the least. @amyklobuchar.com - you still send us requests for money, while hurting our kid. Disgusted.