Alaska brought in a "ringer" to it's medical board to ban health care for trans people. Turns out, he has tons of CSAM material, including of infants. He appears to have committed suicide in a fire. Tell me again that trans people are the baddies. www.erininthemorning.com/p/anti-trans...

Yes, yes yes make fun of how they look! That’s really the only thing they care about deep down.. by the way, Steven Miller is 5‘4“ tall. youtube.com/shorts/-pwut...

“the data show the epicenter of antisemitic attitudes is young adults on the far right.”

How Movies Created Their Special Effects Before CGI: Metropolis, 2001: A Space Odyssey & More www.openculture.com/2025/12/how-...

Extraordinary courage from Ahmed al Ahmed, a Muslim, 43-year-old father of two, who bravely risked his life to save his neighbors celebrating Hanukkah. Praying for his full & speedy recovery. And so deeply inspired by his example.

Nance Mace: "Like Elon said the other day, he can't go out in public b/c one mistake and you're dead. I had an incident just 3 weeks ago - it was the last time I was in public - I had a leftist person come up to me aggressively, physically threaten me in front of a group, including my security."

And champing at the bit, to be sure.

Tech bros don’t actually understand the sci-fi they claim to love. Thank you Al Jazeera English for having me on.

I am shadow-banned and was previously banned-banned for quoting Johnny Cash lyrics. Now I've quoted a dark TS Eliot poem and fear my Bluesky account may implode. If you like this article, please share it! Thank you sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/bell-fount...

Jason Lee Van Dyke apparently scrubbed a lot of his social media to run for elected office, so here's a thread of him explaining how much he hates democracy and why he identifies as a fascist. 🧵 "Here's my take on this: fuck democracy. For years now I have identified as a fascist..."

Criminal Demands He Not Be Prosecuted

“I am so bored by AI. One of the things I love about the theatre is AI can’t do it.” Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻

Did we all die during COVID and we're now in hell? I'm not convinced this isn't the case.

hi, i'm doing research. please tell me about collectives / communities / groups that focus on offline physical media production & sharing. zines, cassettes, irl swapmeets - anything that has seen a resurgence as a reaction to streaming / AI / internet enshittification!

I've outlined the structure and presumptions of the National Security Strategy so you can more easily see how much of it builds off wildly false assumptions about America's strength. www.emptywheel.net/2025/12/08/t...

Once a Russian asset, always a Russian asset. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Breakfast of champions

This is the appropriate response any time these guys pretend they don’t know what’s going on

FIFA peace prize is more like a nfl laureate in brain safety

Masterful reframing, Molly. Thank you.

Thanks, right back atcha.

Good morning and more of them to ya

There isn't a mic drop fast or hard enough for this shlamiel.

Had a blast talking about the collection and a number of other writing topics. Most detailed questions I think I've gotten on a pod to date. Thanks for having me on!

here's today's post: "things to be thankful for in these dark times" — let’s appreciate the good, and mock the stupid. thanks for reading, and please sign up for my daily newsletter so you never miss a post —

It’s easy to forget that, amid all the Trump administration’s attacks on democracy this year, there are ample reasons to be grateful — and even hopeful — as we begin to bring 2025 to a close. Here are six things we’re feeling thankful for this year. www.democracydocket.com/analysis/six...

Wanna watch Thanksgiving fun in NYC but network TV coverage got you down? #Telrmundo is your and my friend!

NEW: A Harvard study found that the children of women who contracted COVID-19 while pregnant may be at an increased risk for autism and other neurodevelopmental diagnoses, raising new concerns about the CDC’s decision to stop recommending the vaccine to pregnant women.

Just a quick reminder that...

The regime’s approach to Venezuela continues to be the purest expression of Trump’s authoritarian ambitions.

While Maryland Gov. Moore posted about Trans Day of Rememberance, his state was torturing a trans woman by denying her hormones and housing her with men--according to her lawyer--for 2 months. All of this for "hate crime" charges from alleged vandalism of a trans symbol near a Catholic school.

Me, on how Pam Bondi's shenanigans from last week will likely backfire. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTdP...

Google has started automatically opting you in to let it read your stuff to train AI. You need to turn this off in SEVERAL places in your settings (not just for Gmail), if you want to maintain privacy and confidentiality. www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...

We are in the John Wick universe

Remarkable: Rep Chrissy Houlahan, one of the Dems that Trump called for executing, tells me her office literally filled out a Capitol Police threat report that listed "the president" as the person making the threat. It's at 9:20 on our pod. Much more like that here: newrepublic.com/article/2034...

Ukraine is rejecting Trump’s plan right now at the UN Security Council. ⬇️

I'll be listening to this later today.

Hey... It's my favorite kind of meme as well!

Open call! Our final call for artists in 2025 is a brand new project called Flow, reimagining the life of a river through sound! 🏞️ The project is a collaboration between Cities and Memory, the University of Padova and the University of Würzburg. citiesandmemory.com/flow

In this podcast we chat about the physics of coffee making, ponytails, toilet flushes and much more from the book Physics Around the Clock 🧪⚛️. ow.ly/5STm50Xtv0y

I'm not saying the outage was caused by a DNS misconfiguration, but it was caused by a DNS misconfiguration.

We are SOOOOOOO great, aren't we?

Ya know how Charlie Kirk used to ask people 'What is a woman'? Interviewers and reporters should ask trumpists 'What is a fascist '.

This is going to be a big old thread where I dump thoughts, reactions, charts etc from the @iea.org World Energy Outlook 2025 :) www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlkP... www.iea.org/commentaries...