The new knives out is TWO AND A HALF HOURS? these things should be a cool 100 minutes come on now

I wouldn’t have guessed People magazine would be among the few rising to meet the moment. But it surely is.

Growing up a trash ass part of the Midwest, a highlight of everyone’s year was going to the county fair and paying $5 to take three swings at an old Mercury Cougar with a baseball bat or a sledgehammer. I believe the fire department raised about half their budget that way. Just a thought.

posted about my Apple ID woes, please share widely? hey.paris/posts/appleid/

the cycle usually goes like this: 1. Dems refuse to seriously challenge corporate power 2. The electorate gets frustrated, votes Republican, believes populist lies 3. Dems point out things are shitty, get re-elected, lack the backbone to challenge corporate power 4. rinse, wash, repeat

Yeah we have more Revolutionary War history than Boston or Philadelphia. No, we don't make it our whole personality nygroove.nyc/nyc-revoluti...

Just noting that no one is ever going to seize a tanker full of solar energy www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...

'Why don't people from countries with free universal healthcare, generous public safety nets, no gun crime and high taxation want time to the US?' Is that what you mean?

My dad was a state judge and made me take the KERRY EDWARDS bumper sticker off my car in 2004 because the title was in his name.

I see the Australian social media ban is off to a great start. Nobody knows you're a dog on the Internet. 🐕

Over 250 people quarantined in South Carolina as measles outbreak rages flip.it/suFsPa

Jimmy Fallon would host the Hunger Games.

I see this sort of proud posturing a lot and it's really a wonderful way to loudly demonstrate to everyone you have absolutely no idea what's going on

Mamdani won the race for mayor but this guy might have done himself the most good in that contest. www.politico.com/news/2025/12...

It's truly wild to me that this just keeps happening. Coca-Cola runs an AI ad and people overwhelmingly react with disgust. They do it again, and people are disgusted again. Now McDonald's makes an AI ad that's so bad that so many people are furious about it they pull it down. People hate AI slop!

Yessssssss!

me dressed up and exercising at the airport before my 8 hour flight

Remember the fuss when The Martian was nominated in the comedy categories of the Golden Globes? That was 1,000,000 x closer to a comedy than most of the musical/comedy nominations this year. If I Had Legs I’d Kick You is a psychological drama with a couple of laughs in it.

They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.

Friends tell me that John Noble Wilford has died. A giant of American journalism and a genius of science writing across many disciplines, John wrote the most famous lede in the history of journalism: “ Men have landed and walked on the moon.” Godspeed, Noble John. www.nytimes.com/2019/07/18/s...

I can’t believe that in this day and age, people are still wearing fir.

UPDATE: Another Chicago-area church has put up an immigration-themed Nativity scene. A church member at Urban Village Church sent this one along, where Mary, Joseph and Jesus are gone and replaced with a sign that reads: “Due to ICE activity in our community, the Holy Family is in hiding.”

To be very clear: Kennedy's team is messing with a vaccine which has led to a 99 percent drop in the incidence of hepatitis B, which kills, early and painfully, 25 percent of the children who get it.

The Trump administration said on Friday that it would waive an $11 million fine levied against Southwest Airlines over the company’s 2022 holiday travel meltdown, when the airline canceled nearly 17,000 flights. The penalty had been part of a fine imposed by the Biden administration.

If they pretend they haven’t heard about the story of the day, end the interview right there. “I’m sorry, Senator, we wanted to get your perspective on this story, but it seems you’re not fully aware of what’s going on.”

From the @wsj.com chief foreign correspondent

My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’

a billionaire who sees undermining political sovereignty as an alternative to paying a relatively minor fine is a problem that will have to be dealt with eventually

These are just petty, cruel people.

A+. Perfect. 10/10. No notes.

My question would be, "Do you think it's ok to murder people for carrying drugs, and are you familiar with a man named Rodrigo Duterte?"

The fact that four hostile drones tried to hit Zelenskyy’s plane & it’s barely a blip in the news cycle should terrify everyone. We’ve been dragged so deep into the chaos era that an attempted strike on a world leader doesn’t even break through. When this becomes normal, the world is in real danger.

listen I don't have any illusions about the United States military, what it does, or how many times this has happened before but the fact that they sat there for 41 minutes, watched two scared, human beings desperately struggling to stay alive, and then murdered them has fucked me up so deeply

🚨 I am hearing from multiple sources that the EU Commission is announcing its first DSA fine tomorrow against X on ad transparency, blue check & dark pattern, and researcher access to data. The fine is in the "100s of millions of Euros." Elon about to get big mad.

If you’re not a normie cradle Catholic, you might have a hard time imagining what unbelievable assholes right wing Catholics are.

I don’t really understand why the media doesn’t ask why shooting a missile at this boat was necessary, it’s a boat not a plane, the coast guard had days to intercept it

is there anything more 2025-coded than “white” being the pantone color of the year

Virginia state Senator Louise Lucas' answer to the SCOTUS ruling on Texas.

This Pantone decision would be in Ralph Ellison’s updated “The Invisible Man.”

“Nakedly” partisan? They are clearly wearing robes

This rules people.com/halle-berry-...

It even has its own page on German Wikipedia, which contains this amazing picture.

Occasionally, I read something and fall deeply in love, all over again, with the German language. Today's unbearably cute discovery is the colloquialism for toddler: "dreikäsehoch". Literally, "three-cheeses tall".

So Democrats came out of today's meeting saying the double-tap boat murder video was deeply disturbing and Republicans came out sporting wood and saying, "Good kill!" - We have two different classes of representative in Congress right now. One shouldn't be allowed within 1,000 feet of a school.

Holy shit. Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

This being Kash Patel’s FBI, I expect there will immediately be revealed embarrassingly abundant, publicly available evidence that the suspect was elsewhere at the time.

does anyone else notice the giant lady doesnt cut up your hot dogs anymore!?

Finally, we've stumbled on something an LLM could do as well as humans.