This was exactly Adolf Eichmann's job.

Pretty weird for me how the guy I spent two years investigating at my first local newspaper job was just arrested on suspicion of murdering his wife, and it’s a national tabloid story… Appreciate everyone linking to my 2018 investigation, which you can read here: www.desertsun.com/in-depth/tec...

Trump is banning fact-checkers--yes, those people who do the research to learn the truth--from entering the USA. When Trump says he supports free speech, what he means is supports his right to lie. Those who tell the truth are therefore his natural enemies.

I see some people talking about the anti-AI crusade going too far and I just...... This is not a Twitter cancelation campaign we are fighting a war with the richest and most powerful people who have ever existed, who've sunk the GDP of a nation into poisoning Black Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

58,000 words, whew

“Something like the plate tracker helps to encourage and promote legal transparency and legal accountability, especially when they're going around, switching plates, trying to hide, trying to be undetectable,” said Sherman Austin. Full story: lataco.com/ice-license-... By Aisha Wallace-Palomares

as a grandchild of four survivors of nazi concentration camps,

I get that everyone on Bluesky has seen the CECOT video but my question is how does the scale of its spread compare to what might have happened if it had aired on 60 Minutes? Scanning the media, the story seems to have already disappeared. Bluesky is a specific audience.

'Smallest audience ever': Kennedy Center Honors tank on CBS after Trump takes over www.rawstory.com/trump-kenned...

Thread about how academic book writing goes

The FDA says tight underwear is a medical device if trans people enjoy wearing it. More on the nonsense from our federal government by @alyssaur.bsky.social www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

It is EXHAUSTING not only being made responsible for coming up with new kinds of assignments for our students; it's also tedious reading op-eds that suggest the core problem is a crisis in teaching. But, as Chris and I lay out here, this isn't a crisis in teaching; it's an attack on learning.

Her writing drains charisma from a blank screen

Southern California getting drenched. Watch for urban and burn scar flooding too My explanation www.forbes.com/sites/marsha...

The third Hobbit movie in particular is a filmmaking crime

Underdiscussed point: how much responsibility Substack bears for Bari Weiss being in the position she is now in. Fuck substack

In retrospect (at least to me, maybe others said it at the time) Substack was set up like a pyramid scheme - tales of big payouts and subscriber numbers to early top-of-the-pryamid adopters like Yglesias and Weiss attracted new writers who brought new readers whose attention was directed upwards

the quality of work that bari weiss produced at THE FREE PRESS was dogshit-tier bad (even by the standards of right wing slop) but it was a financial success anyway because Substack's right wing owners and other oligarch benefactors heavily promoted it. A timeslot hit

Holy crap the Pentagon posted a $850 billion dollar loss this year

"USPS posted a *$9 billion* loss in 2025." did the US Navy post a profit last year?

they put the postal service in the fucking constitution it is a public service and not supposed to make a fucking profit aaaaaaaaaaa

It is 2010 and Thomas Chatterton Williams is releasing an awful anti-woke memoir. It is 2019 and Thomas Chatterton Williams is releasing an awful anti-woke memoir. It is 2025 and Thomas Chatterton Williams is releasing an awful anti-woke memoir. It is 2032 and

🔁 Loop closing. 24 years ago I submitted my thesis that described how well LHCb could measure asymmetries in this very rare decay, notably A_FB, with 5 years of running. Now we publish this result, with many more asymmetries and intriguing discrepancies with the theoretical prediction. ⚛️🧵

As an actual Religious Studies scholar, it is an insult to our field to describe anything this student wrote about gender as "Bible-based."

We don’t spend enough time discussing how the entire MAGA movement is kept afloat by the constant threats of stochastic terrorism orchestrated by the president of the United States. Congress, the courts, much of the media … all kept in line by the mob boss and his army of anonymous goons.

Ötzi and a 45,000-year-old Siberian were both infected with a cancer-causing strain of HPV. This is fascinating, and a reminder that we have a vaccine that *prevents cancer* and everyone eligible should get it.

Coming soon to Woodbury, MN: wapo.st/4axtwZ4

Two significant new multistate lawsuits were filed in Oregon this week: - New York is leading a group of states in suing over Russ Vought's efforts to destroy the CFPB by starving it of funding. The case is assigned to Judge Ann Aiken (Clinton). Complaint: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

If you’re wondering why your friends in academia are a little on edge right now, it’s because an eighteen-year-old who hasn’t done the reading, doesn’t look at the assignment, and has does no critical thinking skills more complex than “because I think it’s in the Bible” can literally end your career

At last month's LA Auto Show, Volkswagen found the perfect marketing hook for its gas-guzzlers: the Los Angeles wildfires. Yes I am not kidding. Also, I counted electric vehicles on the show floor and was (mostly) not encouraged. Wrote more here: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/finding-am...

Writing this academic book as a person with tenure and the complete support of my editor and press to be creative in all the ways I need to be has been utterly terrifying because I have total freedom and I have never let myself just do whatever the fuck I wanted with my craft

The reality for the other students is that they are no longer enrolled in a psychology class. It is a Psychology plus My Personal Christian Beliefs class. Every class at OU is now a My Personal Christian Beliefs class. Every time any student raises such beliefs, instructors have to accept them.

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

here we go, again:

Assuming they bought new X5 Protection VR6s, those are built in South Carolina and cost $345,000 each.

Now that Bari Weiss pulled a segment telling the truth about Trump's deportations to let Stephen Miller have his say (i.e. spread propaganda), it's a good time to check out our deep dive into Miller's real worldview and agenda, which doesn't pull any punches: newrepublic.com/article/2041...

Now that Stephen Miller is calling for CBS to fire journalists who are trying to tell the truth about Trump's mass deportations, it's a good time to check out our deep reported dive into Miller's real worldview and agenda:

The Trump War on Christmas www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Whew this interview where Kate Winslet talks about how even though she was poor, bursaries helped make it possible for her to go to theater school, which she estimates costs 30x more now. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

🙏🏽

Hawai‘i is nearing a pivotal deadline on military land leases, exposing how the US has long abused Hawaiian land and opening a rare chance for Native communities to assert Indigenous sovereignty and demand the land’s return for public and ecological healing.

A farcical remix of drapetomania that nonetheless demonstrates exactly how our ideas around mental health are socially constructed and political.

I had so much fun revisiting the movie Waiting to Exhale and its impact, which might be even bigger than you remember, for NPR. 30 years later, 'Waiting to Exhale' endures www.npr.org/2025/12/24/n...

It's actually worse. The Supreme Court has held 9-0 -- Clarence Thomas and other executive power fanatics included -- that detainees rendered to another country via the Alien Enemies Act are entitled to a pre-deportation hearing. There is no legal debate whatsoever.

In all, Dayana, a U.S. Citizen, was stopped three different times in roughly the same area of Key Largo and around the same time of day NOV 7: Dayana is stopped, her husband, the passenger, is detained and taken by #immigration agents NOV 15: Dayana is stopped, then let go DEC 3: This happened 👇

new video up on jd vance youtu.be/zJuikC2nouc?...

Sometimes I think about how Stephenie Meyer should have talked to a physicist about vampire temperatures

Kavanaugh feeling mildly sad about how he’s going to be remembered in the history books

the best way to protect Jewish people from fascism in the US is to fight fascism in the US. It is not to protect a violent fascist government in Israel.