Things are Terrible, but this isn't. Be weird.

Trump set new Kentucky records w/his 64.4%, 2024 win. The nat'l poverty rate is 10.6%. In Kentucky, it's 16.6%. Jim Beam employed some 1500 Kentuckians - up til now, anyway. Congratulations, MAGA, you've scored another big middle finger from your lord and master.

I just spent six years writing a book. I learned how to use archives, how to handle secondary sources, how to structure a 140k-word argument. I fell so hard in love I went back to school for a PhD. Now people ask how I use LLMs to write or summarize and I can only think “You don’t value what I do.”

It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans. 🧵 1 of 9

I HOPE EVERYONE HAS A GREAT HOLIDAY WEEKEND, EXCEPT OUR CLINICALLY ILL FELON PRESIDENT, STEPHEN MILLER, JD VANCE, JD’S COUCH, JD’S FUTON, KASH KANT KATCH ‘EM PATEL, KOSPLAY KRISTI, PARTICIPATION-TROPHY PETE, KAROLYN’ LEAVITT, SECRETARY BRAINWORM, AND MIKE “ALWAYS ON HIS KNEES” JOHNSON. — GCN

The only "2 weeks notice" that the American people want is his resignation.

"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!

BREAKING MS NOW: FBI deputy director Dan Bongino has quietly told confidants he plans to formally leave his job early in the new year and will not be returning to headquarters to work this month, according to eight people briefed on his account. www.ms.now/news/bongino...

I wrote about the word of the year

FOUR REPUBLICANS just signed the House Democratic discharge petition to force a House vote on the Hakeem Jeffries bill to extend health care tax credits for 3 years: Brian Fitzpatrick (PA), Mike Lawler (NY), Rob Bresnahan (PA), and Ryan Mackenzie (PA). Gives it the required 218 signatures. Huge news

Posting a free archive link to Stephen King's Rob Reiner eulogy in the Times because everybody should read it: archive.ph/keKfp It's a gorgeous piece of writing for its restraint. It says more by inference than words ever could. King obviously wrote it quickly & under pressure. He's a genius.

Only someone with a toddler mentality would be like, “well, he DID say that one time that MMR is the most effective way to prevent measles so I guess that’s okay then”. Kennedy is dangerous to every human being. He is superficial, selfish, arrogant, vain, and utterly devoid of human compassion.

Easily preventable. But republicans want people to die. www.cbsnews.com/news/measles...

Indeed. Unlike Charlie Kirk, you can describe and quote the Reiners' work in a glowing memorial piece. You can't do that with Kirk—his life's work was advocating for hatred and bigotry—and the NYTimes didn't. Honestly portraying him would have been, as they say, inconceivable.

I learned about the DoD investigation by tweet, and I learned they’re “escalating” it the same way last night. This just shows again how Pete Hegseth is not a serious person. And there's nothing he can do to stop me from fighting for this country.

This may be peak both sides. (How many of you have heard of Jennifer Welch?)

Speaking ill of the dead is controversial, particularly when it was a violent death. It’s edgy; it’s sensitive; best avoided in most cases, etc. Baselessly making another person’s murder *about yourself,* and then approving of it, is a different thing. That is delusional, narcissistic, sociopathic.

John Oliver really was not kidding about the overwhelming rebellious power of just saying “Fuck you, make me.”

The human cost of Trump's gutting of USAID: By the time Tor Top’s mother was sick with cholera, the nearby clinic had been shuttered for weeks. He bundled her into a canoe & paddled toward the nearest hospital, 8 hours away. Less than halfway into the journey, his mother died. New, @propublica.org

This entire weekend

You all realize that if the massacre in Australia happened to ANY other religious group on one of their biggest holidays, the world would be outraged & calling it terrorism & demanding an end to the “religious persecution”. Yet somehow, when it’s Jewish people, it’s just another day. /1

CBS News Exclusive | While it's appropriate to mourn the students murdered at Brown University, we cannot be distracted from the real tragedy at America's colleges: the silencing of conservative voices.

Loomer got the NSA deputy director nom pulled

The emergence of Nadine and her Great Guard Dog Caper:

A tiny trial in New York has shown that personalized mRNA vaccines can provoke massive, lasting immune responses against pancreatic cancer, even as sweeping federal cuts now threaten the fragile labs required to produce them. theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/a-breakthr...

It turns out Donald Trump doesn't need a pandemic to destroy the economy.

So, El Fasher looks like one of the worst single event atrocities to happen this century so far, but the evidence has come in such a trickle it seems to only now be getting verified

I am a comfortable, influential PhD and published author and broadcaster, and I don’t understand why people of color buying a snack at Cinnabon don’t just reason with the person shouting racial slurs at them, for the good of World Socialism. Today in the Atlantic

DeSantis is moving forward with proposals to eliminate K-12 vaccine mandates for hepatitis B, varicella and Haemophilus influenzae type b or Hib and pneumococcal conjugate vaccine for children attending child care.

The EU just decided to indefinitely immobilise Russian assets. This ensures that up to €210 billion in Russian funds stay on EU soil, unless Russia fully pays reparations to Ukraine for the damage it has caused. (1/2)

hey man, I think there's something wrong with your website: there should be 600 similar articles about people who got fired for making jokes about Charlie Kirk, but I'm not seeing a single one? must be a database error or smth, IDK

If a candidate tells you what would happen if the other nominee is elected - and it happens just like she said - by definition you cannot say she ran a bad campaign. She ran on the truth. And folks should ask themselves why the truth was not enough for them. - From the years 2016 and 2024

all i'm saying is that there were better options

This should be the biggest story in the country right now. The sitting US President was extorting state lawmakers from his own party by threatening to withhold public money if they didn’t gerrymander for him. I don’t know how else to say it…

Indiana’s Senate has voted AGAINST the GOP gerrymander that’d have locked in a 9-0 map. This keeps the 7-2 map in place, saving two Democratic seats heading into 2026. The vote failed big, 19/31. The MAJORITY of the GOP senators opposed it!

I don’t want to become “a consumer” when I am injured or ill. I don’t want to shop for a bargain. At that point I am a PATIENT IN NEED OF CARE AND TREATMENT. I want to live in a country where all of us have access to medical care regardless of job status or income.

Lindsey Graham voted to confirm RFK Jr. The people of South Carolina should vote for @drannieandrews.com.

When the winner of the Nobel peace prize smuggled herself over the water and out of Venezuela to attend the ceremony in Oslo this week, her allies called the Pentagon to ask them not to arbitrarily murder her. www.wsj.com/world/americ...

The measles outbreak in South Carolina is “accelerating” with no end in sight following Thanksgiving, state health officials said

Good morning. Today, Senate Republicans have one last opportunity to vote to save the ACA tax credits. If they refuse, they are CHOOSING to let premiums more than double, and they would force millions of Americans to go uninsured.

Excellent work, everyone, really great work. Take the rest of the day off.

Republican policies are crushing Floridians who are working harder than ever to make ends meet. It's time to put our families first.

The coveted FIFA Peace Prize is nice, but I'm really holding out for the Taco Bell Baha Blast Award for Advanced Physics and Frycookery.

“I am so bored by AI. One of the things I love about the theatre is AI can’t do it.” Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻

This is a white supremacist rally. Anyone who attends something like this or still supports the leader of this movement should be unwelcome in your home and shunned from civil society. Period. We’re way past the point where this crap should be tolerated from anyone. Cast them out.

Democrat Eileen Higgins wins Miami mayor’s race, beats South #Florida Republican candidate endorsed by President Convicted Felon. She becomes Miami's first female mayor. www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c... via @miamiherald.com