Bill Clinton releasing a statement saying 'release the Epstein files, you cowards' was not on my bingo list.

Dudes Rock

also that even more than in the past the rich and powerful are looking for sycophants who can tell them they're actually brilliant, a trend that has worsened ever since the rich got mad at ordinary people on social media telling them they were shit.

The Olivia Nuzzi story and the Bari Weiss at CBS story are the same story, which is that the upper echelons of legacy media are absolutely rife with people who worship power and don't feel burdened by any sense of responsibility to their profession or the public.

If you needed more evidence that Bari Weiss isn't the sharpest crayon in the box, the fact that she (a) personally spiked the story (b) in a way that left her fingerprints all over the decision (c) at the last possible minute, thus guaranteeing maximal exposure and blowback.

really cannot be emphasized enough that bari weiss has literally never done journalism. i don’t mean that in the pejorative sense. i mean that in the “has never performed the job she was hired to do” sense

@tomflood.bsky.social need a TRR for keeping a pair of gloves intact for more than a week for a 2 and 5yo

Make the case that I should vote for the crypto shill in my deep blue district, I'll wait.

What if Mar-a-Lago was the real Comet Pizza basement all along?

weiss does not know how to run a news organization, and so she's doing what she does best: hosting fatuous "debates" involving the people in her group chats www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

i would simply not have started my tenure as head of CBS news by pissing off every journalist who works there if I wanted to avoid having every single embarrassing thing that happens leak to the press immediately.

hilarious projection from a rich guy on a sinecure

incredible that the oldest scam in the book — “look away from the greed and poor leadership that destroy your chance to make a career, it is the [blanks] that stole your job!” — still works

the fun socks here add to the impression that he's a child

occurs to me that we might be getting the "there's a problem of lonely males with no friends or romantic partners" and "there's a lucrative industry of toxic male influencers who tell young men to act like assholes" causation arrow backwards

Hell yeah

it really is jarring how quickly crypto scammers have straight up bought the US government www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/t...

Imagine if cities demanded the same of car manufacturers.

He’s got all the backbone and personality of an empty Men’s Wearhouse suit.

Yes that's their goal. And to make everyone else feel so precarious that bosses feel confident in mistreating them bsky.app/profile/thea...

Virginia Heffernan wrote this shortly after the 2016 election and it still holds true

[mounts well-worn soapbox] The fanciest predictive ped safety analysis would fall short of just taking a dang inventory of the crossings at every bus stop pair systemwide. There’s not a single big correlate to ped fatalities that isn’t addressed by focusing on/around bus stop pairs.

@tomflood.bsky.social did you ever make stickers or shirts out of the “evolution of a revolution” piece?

Once again I must point out that the same people who support this were adamant that being told to wear a mask in a hospital was fascism.

"This is his life’s work: a madman whose ideas can cause a tremendous quantity of completely pointless illness and death." prospect.org/2025/12/15/k...

I always wondered if it drove the truly wealthy insane that they had spent their one life on this Earth on the pursuit of something as hollow as infinite money and it turns out the answer is a resounding yes

Sounds about right.

Guillotine doors making A Comeback in the funniest possible way. It’s Minicar time baby

The water cooler at The Atlantic is filled with everyone’s farts and they just stand around and huff them, I guess

One argument I used to make to my students about why it was important to learn history (and historical thinking) is that someone was always going to be trying to tell you things were natural or had always been this way and that you needed to be able to see that as an exercise of power.

Making sure a Variety editor knows that a chia pet ad ended up airing in prime time on WCBS is a god tier level of knife twisting.

they should categorically ban people with Kalshi and Polymarket accounts from having security clearances

I would like to bring over my theory for solving America’s deadly roads. I call it the “Gay Truck Rule” and it would save thousands of lives every year.

I think it’s progressive to be able to live in a society where we implement solutions for problems like drunk driving like ignition interlocks that aren’t “going to jail”, I don’t think that’s carceral or anti-civil liberties and you should have to explain how it is if you’re going to say that

time to turn the behavior change campaign messaging up to 11.

The only historic preservation I recognize is these historic BITS

This is only one stmt, but if Waymo's official position is it is ok for robots to break laws protecting children as long as they do it "better" than some metric they & only they have cooked up and which they & only they evaluate, I don't think it will go well for them or the communities they serve.

Legalizing small apartment buildings, in part by allowing single-staircase designs, increases fire safety

1. For at least 10 years, Pepsi has conspired with Walmart to force up grocery prices. That’s the shocking evidence made public today in an unsealed FTC lawsuit. The suit was abandoned in May by the Trump FTC just before it was to be un-redacted. We went to court to get it unsealed & won.

Hell, disincentives to driving make driving better. Combining the two is why congestion pricing works so well.

someone tell the California ACLU who is disproportionately more likely to be killed in traffic accidents including those involving people under the influence

As I never tire of reminding people, the two plausible alternatives to automated traffic enforcement are that we either rely on the discretion of individual police officers or we simply don't enforce traffic laws at all. We have been trying both alternatives now and they are failing us.

Bicycles travel at the speed of observation.

my favorite reaction to this was "what if i need to flee an emergency"

Indianapolis Star, November 22, 1918

Everything the experts and people knowledgeable about congestion pricing said would happen has happened, and nothing the ignorant doomers whined about for years on X and in community meetings has happened. bsky.app/profile/fund...

This happened in my city last week. Since it seems like the entire world is obsessing over the potential dangers of teens riding ebikes lately, I feel like a reminder is in order: drivers are far and away the greatest threat to your kid and everyone else on the road, and always will be.

* executive orders cannot limit state regulations * "AI" is not interstate commerce and thus is reserved by the 10th Amendment to a state only issue * these are 9th grade civics things that anyone in attendance of this event should be embarrassed to have forgotten

My hero of 2025