Trump's tirade reminded me of Jimmy Carter's malaise speech. Both faced a public unhappy with the economy and both gave a White House speech that, while reflecting their very different personal temperaments, blamed Americans for having a bad attitude. Neither took responsibility for the bad economy.

Trump Administration Plans to Break Up Premier Weather and Climate Research Center www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/c...

18 December 1894 | Dutch Jew, Jonas Lubig, was born in Amsterdam. He was deported to #Auschwitz from #Westerbork in October 1943. He did not survive. --- Learn about the fate of Jews deported from the German-occupied Netherlands to Auschwitz: http://lekcja.auschwitz.org/32_en/

Angels take many forms. substack.com/@mealsnminut...

Take that Santa! This is me upside-down and naked in a fireplace – Brooke DiDonato’s best photograph www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Love it www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

Robert Samuelson, the award-winning economics columnist who wrote for Newsweek and The Washington Post for decades, has died at 79.

The foreshadowing seems to be becoming a little... blunt

“Nuclear arms offend our shared humanity and also betray the dignity of creation, whose harmony we are called to safeguard.” - Pope Leo XIV

"He took every Advanced Placement class he could, earned a scholarship to Brown and worked at Wawa over the summer to make enough money to buy a laptop, according to his two sisters."

I've been following this story to see where it gets pick up and so far only The Prospect and Bloomberg and Law360 have given this any play at all. Both the facts alleged in the FTC claim and the fact that Trump dropped this case should be huge front page stories. bsky.app/profile/dday...

Google AI recipe summaries are ruining the livelihoods of recipe writers (& creating bad food). "The more interaction people had with AI, the less they wanted to engage with it. Half the respondents rated AI content less trustworthy than content made by a human." www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

At least 12 dead in terror attack at Bondi Beach after mass shooting

Agree with Greg — this part has long confounded me. Abrego Garcia agreed to go. But the admin wanted him to suffer. These people are monsters.

"If you do a lot of crap that’s unpopular, you won’t be popular. That’s a rather basic rule of politics, and Trump is not escaping it..." link.motherjones.com/public/42930...

Just when I thought I couldn't admire the man more... 🎯 🎯 🎯 💯 💯 💯 👍 👍 👍

Researchers at the University of California San Francisco track how abortion comes up on television. They say the trends from 2025 are concerning. n.pr/4oQlr52

🚨NOLA and suburbs: IG would not let me download this, hence the screenshot. Starving families out and keeping people from going to work out of fear is their plan. 🚨This will come to your neighborhood eventually. Think about how/what you/we can do to help before they arrive.

After Marcelo Gomes da Silva was arrested by ICE on his way to volleyball practice in Milford, he made a promise to the men he shared a cell with: He’d be a voice for immigrants unfairly detained. He's one of Boston Globe Magazine’s Bostonians of the Year. trib.al/p9Edy6F

Not horrendous enough.

GIFT ARTICLE Steve Cropper dies at age 84. Memphis Soul guitarist. Legendary songwriter, musician, and member of the Blues Brothers. Stax Records. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/a...

Is it true Trump plans to put a giant horizontal observation deck on top of the Washington Monument transforming the obelisk into a giant T?

It's like they discover some really cool, easy way for the government to do something and think everyone before them must have been an idiot not to do it that way. The concept that it might be illegal precisely because it is an easy way for the government to do things never occurs.

Either Kevin will quickly grew to hate the job. They will be disrespected because of Trump, undermined because of Trump, and bullied constantly to lower rates by Trump. I can't imagine a more depressing job. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

When cameras are installed, they issue many violations in the first month, followed by a steep decline in the second month. This suggests that the cameras effectively deter speeding by changing underlying driver behavior rather than relying on sustained revenue extraction.

Our new study provides rare causal evidence about NYC’s speed camera program. We find large reductions in collisions (30%) and injuries (16%) near intersections with cameras. www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1... @astagoff.bsky.social ky.social @brendenbeck.bsky.social nbeck.bsky.social 🧪

Am I wrong to be curious about the overlap of the Epstein party list and the P. Diddy party list? A portrait of Dorian Gray hangs in some closet.

12 December 1892 | John Fletcher was born in Dundee in Scotland. In 1921 he became a French citizen and changed his name to Jean. In #Auschwitz from 8 July 1942. No. 45544 He perished in the camp on 29 July 1942.

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12 December 1909 | Norwegian Jewish woman, Sara Weinstock, was born in Kristiania (today Oslo). She arrived at #Auschwitz on 1 December 1942 and was murdered in a gas chamber together with her daughter Jenny Marie. ---

Arkansas Public Television Drops PBS. AETN to Big Bird, "Drop Dead". 2 million dollar annual cost too much, meanwhile 6.3 million paid to fired football coach Sam Pittman to stop coaching the Razorbacks. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/b...

Buttigieg on Indiana: "The big part of how Trumpism works is to make you feel totally disempowered. To make him feel inevitable. And yet the clear takeaway from this is he is not unstoppable and you are not without power."

New! We worked with the Public Interest Research Group to test a bunch of LLM-driven toys ahead of the Christmas. That sexual talking teddy bear wasn't a one-off; it turns out disturbing behavior is deeply built into these toys across the board.

"We are the ones we've been waiting for." MacKenzie Scott yieldgiving.com/essays/we-ar...

MINNEAPOLIS: “All I did was step outside as a Somali American citizen, and I got chased by a masked person, assaulted, kidnapped. It was inhumane. If this is what’s happening to a 🇺🇸 citizen on camera, imagine what could happen to your loved ones.”

A +12 Trump district covering Oconee and Athens-Clarke counties (UGA and very conservative county neighboring it) flips.

GIFT ARTICLE New tech, new battlefields, and an administration fighting a culture war, what could go wrong? www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

tbf I think the US disconnection between GDP and human flourishing is by far the worst in the rich world www.kff.org/other-health...

In addition to all of the other benefits already reported about NYC congestion pricing, "In the first six months of the program, air pollution – in the form of particulate matter 2.5 micrometers and smaller – dropped by 22% in the Congestion Relief Zone (CRZ)" news.cornell.edu/stories/2025...

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holy shit this is a helluva ad from the democrat running for michigan secretary of state. watch and pass it on!

Folks might not know a lot of people are getting *very* upset that the materials they request are not available in the libraries/archives they're requesting from. We're getting lots here at the Library of Virginia: requests of documents likely surfaced by large language models that *do not exist*.

Reject any and every lie of this regime that they are fighting the drug trade. Their boss pardons a drug kingpin who helped bring 400 tons of cocaine into the U.S.

Via Chicago: "Immigration & Border Patrol agents routinely took actions that not only infuriated civil libertarians & everyday residents but broke urban policing protocols meant to limit danger for suspects, protesters, passersby and even officers themselves." www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/07/e...

Notre Dame finishes 10-2. They don't want to play in a meaningless bowl game. Good. Expand the football playoff to 32 teams, use the bowls to name the 31 playoff games. 16 first round bowl games 8 sweet sixteen bowl games 4 elite eight bowl games 2 final four games 1 National championship game

The most realistic scene in DS9 is when Gul Dukat whined about how the Bajorans never erected a statue in his honor. A prophetic text.

Where's a Terminator when you need one?

What an incredible capture — truly a split-second miracle shot! ⚡🌲 Lightning striking at the perfect moment… that’s the kind of photo you only get once in a lifetime.