Local police *do* investigate porch piracy and they find the same thing over and over: People who steel packages are homeless, drug addicts or teenagers. More rarely, and in the suburbs, theft rings. None of these categories requires a federal intervention www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

And there are signs of foreign actors involved in the wave of anonymous pizza deliveries that various judges perceived as an intimidation tactic:

NEW: One brought a gun home. One moved. Others improved home security. Life as a federal judge in the age of Trump: www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...

The take appears to be: The CBS segment was not sensational enough, and it would have benefited from some imagined confrontation with a SAO, therefore Bari was right to intervene in the final seconds and take it down? Barely an argument here. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

It gets better: Next year MTA will start selling bonds backed by toll revenue, with plans to issue up to $15 billion in congestion pricing–backed debt Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

—Los muebles son de importación. —¿De dónde? —De Mesopotamia.

Firing up the new gas grill. For like 20 years I was a charcoal purist — and I was wrong. Folks it's December, I need a steak now

Maybe it's too much to ask of a poasting account but this is unfair

Sharyn Alfonsi's memo stands out for being respectful. She paid respect to the editors, standards people and lawyers who reviewed the story and explained to staff that Bari Weiss would not discuss the decision with her — that's transparency not disrespect.

"What did it cost?" "Everything" www.nationalreview.com/news/exclusi...

Wholesome timeline refresh www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMGb...

Not for nothing but this is a very good memo from Sharyn Alfonsi

I have never, once in my career, heard of a news org responding to a decline-to-comment with, “Well, we’ll hold it until you do.” The reason is obvious — it gives the subject of your story a pocket veto.

I don't remember this actually?

Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

Looking forward to reading the tick-tock on this decision

Your annual reminder that in The Christmas Carol, it was Jacob Marley who did the deal for Ebeneezer Scrooge's last chance at redemption (via @thisismaz.bsky.social)

I agree with Liam and there's little doubt that if there is a drop that people on both sides of the aisle are going to miss the border connection

Soon we're going to get a new count for homelessness in the US and I'm calling it now: the new count is going to register a massive drop. That's because there was a surge in shelter counts in January 2024 due to migrant shelters, which have since been dismantled. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

I see there’s Homelessness Discourse today. Good evidence that the recent national surge in homelessness numbers was due to an increased migrant arrivals. But in general, differences in US homelessness rates attributable to the cost and availability of rental housing in a given area.

I don't think liberals realize how badly it's likely to go down with Americans that Trump slapped his name on the Kennedy Center

The James Webb Space Telescope is so freaking cool. The mainstream media should spend more time telling us what it's up to: gizmodo.com/runaway-blac...

Whoa, this cover!

Some of these redactions are almost like modern art

Luka Doncic, welcome to The War on Cars.

This is precisely how fascism works, by grabbing at and taking away a little more freedom whenever events lend themselves to it. Bit by bit you lose your rights, until you turn around and realize the road you're on has been long, and democracy is well behind you over the horizon.

I love my two blackout drunk Minnesota sons

Shorter Kate Wagner: “say what you will about the tenets of National Socialism, at least it has an ethos”

We literally had a project to give the streetcar & buses dedicated lanes, and mayor Bowser killed it to get cars to the stadium faster.

*Free speech guy meme* I think it's reasonable to get upset when a would-be tyrant defaces symbols of the republic.

A terrible and unfortunately predictable take

It's true, it's hardly the bike lane alone driving the cost into 11-digit territory. But anyone who's ever driven across the Chesapeake Bay Bridge knows how especially useless a pedestrian lane is *for this particular bridge*

Yes!

Adding a pedestrian lane to the Chesapeake Bay Bridge at a cost of $1 billion as a treat for cycling organizations is a concise illustration of how the groups drive up infrastructure costs

"Investigations reporter Katherine Long tried to convince Claudius it was a Soviet vending machine from 1962, living in the basement of Moscow State University." www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anth...

Fascinating story from Fadwa Hodali on how Christmas festivities are taking shape in Bethlehem, Palestine www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

People who aspire to be academics: I wish to live a life of the mind Actual academics:

I don't see why having the CEO interview subjects instead of a sitdown with a seasoned CBS anchor is something viewers would prefer. I do see why the CEO and subjects like that more

if the mta sold F/M swap merch they'd be funded for the next decade

Today the Trump administration changed the name of HUD's Office of Systemic Investigations to the Office of Special Investigations, so maybe don't hold your breath

Trump Announces 5,000% Increase In All Numbers

The Vanity Fair photographer from the Susie Wiles story. Holy. Shit. www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...

From your lips to the DC Council's ears

The fact that they sat for these portraits... man I don't know www.vanityfair.com/news/story/t...

This is my ENTIRE personality right now. Ask @akmattos.bsky.social

I don't know if this is an aging thing or a media thing or a terrible thing but death is driving all my entertainment choices: watching Robert Redford, reading Frank Gehry, playing Joe Ely

"Wiles is out by the end of the day" they took glamour shots for this story! This is an enormous flex www.vanityfair.com/news/story/t...

so many bluesky literacy champions missing that the Wiles interview was conducted a) over the previous 11 months and b) by Vanity Fair.