"I'm so proud to be able to help kids in my community" says man paying his share of tax. And I've still got enough to buy a big house and retire, it's great". No?

He isn't "losing" this money. This is called "paying tax like a responsible citizen and not hiding your money offshore" and we need to start recognising and applauding it.

While so many other countries are violating the human rights of migrants and refugees, Canada should stand as a beacon of hope. Do better @mark-carney.bsky.social and @anitaoakvilleeast.bsky.social . We do not want to be like the USA! www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

DOGE was premised on one of the deepest lies of American politics: that the federal government doesn't work well & is wasteful. Since the federal government at least was actually quite well run at the level of ordinary bureaucracy & has intense rules for constraining waste, it could never succeed

Your regular reminder that Pam Bondi only has this job because she takes bribes.

There is a genuine sadness to this era of tech. This IS the Rot Economy, and what you get when growth is all that matters. Every person defending LLMs is ultimately defending growth itself. It’s not about technology and hasn’t been for a long time. It’s about more things to sell and develop for.

Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing a text, writing an email, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing since the dawn of time.

This is a model for what actual masculinity should be. Men don’t need to spend more time in caves beating their chests with other men; they need to take their daughters to a meaningful thing and talk to them about it. Relatedly I think the biggest cure for toxic masculinity is platonic women friends

"The Maltese Falcon" era of San Francisco is officially now more dangerous than the version today which makes every tech investor want to invent Robocop

People who think evil, corrupt, and incompetent don’t go together have it backwards. Instead of looking to Hollywood to explain real world evil, look to Hannah Arendt. Uncorrupt people of integrity won’t do evil. And evil leaders work to elevate incompetents because that helps ensure their loyalty.

never attribute to malice or stupidity that which can be explained by malice and stupidity

He is promising, on camera, to break his oath to the Constitution by illegally and unconstitutionally usurping the exclusive authority of Congress. Sprinkle in a little 'blowing up the Union' to boot

Found your Christmas present

This is nice.

Do you suppose even ONE GUY from the Epstein documents is saying "oh damn, maybe I shouldn't have been such a shorteyes, maybe the problem is me" or nah?

It's funny how us parochial Americans generally seem to perceive that the EV revolution is stalling or reversing when in fact it's accelerating rapidly worldwide. 25% of cars sold globally in 2025 were EVs! It's mostly just the US that's being left behind

The Cracker Barrel thing was THIS YEAR. We have three more years of this shit. Anybody who makes it to 2028 without looking like Nosferatu will be required by the state to start a skincare brand.

This is totally underreported. Trump is not just going after "illegals." He's going after people who were here legally, by changing their status. These are people who entered the US the right way, and never broke a law. Now they are subject to Trump's whim, his ICE goons, and inhuman detention.

The cashier at Target should be able to work full-time and afford their bills with a little left over. That’s not radical.

uh www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

Not now, haunted Victorian shoes

All they want for Christmas is you! Or your world, anyway.

There's no such thing as owning too many books. There is such a thing as owning too much other furniture that blocks the space for more bookshelves, however.

"since they are Canadian I would not rule out treachery" I'm quite content to have authoritarian regimes and their media lackies switch the Canadian stereotype from gormless apologizers to untrustworthy rogues. Fuck it, white supremacists neo-Nazi regimes should see us as not someone to trust.

I'm assuming Kavanaugh was drunk? I mean, good ruling, can't believe it came from this court.

Dr. Wife's family has a Christmas tradition of preparing a "cheeseball" according to a specific recipe. I put this in scare quote because THERE IS NO CHEESE USED IN PREPARING THIS OBJECT. An key ingredient for it is a spreadable meat called braunschweiger, which used to be sold be Schnieder's.

This victim told a driver that she couldn't report Trump raping her because "They will kill me." In 2021, another victim said that Epstein told her girls who don't behave are fed to alligators and took her where they die. He threatened to kill her and her son.

There's no real social benefit to commercial gambling and there's a massive difference between the sudden heavy investment in casinos across NYC and your weekly poker game with a 20 dollar buy in.

The tide is bloody, red and deep, And my convictions will not keep, And poems by Yeats are very deep And poems by Yeats are very deep.

Whose bird this is, I think I know His falcon cannot hear him though; He will not see the widening gyre That set the blood-dimmed tide to flow. That great rough beast must think it queer, That Bethlehem is very near In what strange desert did it wake As centers fell apart this year?

Had we but falcons enough, and time, This widening gyre would be no crime. Yet the blood-dimmed tide shall flow, Vaster than empires, far less slow. And if the center cannot hold— Well then, lady, let’s be bold!

On DOGE’s watch, federal spending did not go down at all. It went up. But is still led to cuts that closed offices, canceled programs and deprived people of food, medicine and other aid. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u...

love that software developers are advertising AI functionality in every single app now and it's up to you to try to figure out if they mean "this has spellcheck" or "everything you create in this app will sync in real-time to sam altman's personal laptop" or something in between

Most festive thing in the world. You can stop looking now.

I have always said it, I will continue to say it, we are limiting the productive potential of millions of freaks by demanding they earn a wage to survive instead of enabling them to do whatever thing their brain is broken for

i say this with nothing but love for all of you to whom this applies, but the moral rot in elite journalism is because journalism is a trade and it should be done by tradespeople and instead it's been professionalized in a way that makes it cozy to capital instead

Oh we haven‘t done it this year yet so for good measure: - „Hallelujah“ isn‘t a Christmas song it‘s a horny Jewish song - „Baby It‘s Cold Outside“ doesn‘t need anymore terrible new versions it never lacked consent it‘s about a horny woman wanting to fuck a guy despite societal expectations

Greta Thunberg arrested for holding a sign opposing genocide. When peaceful protest is a crime, democracy is in deep trouble. Happening under a Labour Government.

if bari weiss had tried to do 9/11 there'd be three towers now

I sleep with a knife under my pillow in case someone with assorted meats and cheeses breaks in and needs to make a charcuterie board

I kind of like this whole “We won’t buy your liquor but we will air your state-suppressed news stories” niche that Canada’s apparently carved out.

Often I find that one's wife doesn't want to appear greedy and so she expresses her vast desire for fact tranches in ways so microscopically subtle that a lesser man would never notice them.

Reading a book on eels and have asked Valerie to tell me when she is ready to hear her first tranche of eel facts to what has so far been a curious lack of response

In the meadow we can build a snowman. We can pretend that he is Parson Brown. We can scream "Religion is the opiate of the masses!" And kick and beat the snowman til he's down.

We at ProPublica obtained internal government data in May that showed the Trump administration knew the vast majority of Venezuelans sent to El Salvador had not been convicted of violent crimes. Our reporting is featured in Frontline. Read our full coverage: www.propublica.org/series/depor...

Our so-called opposition party can't afford to be cute or coy with what's happening here. It's not just naked corruption, it's ethnic cleansing, treason, atrocities, with naked corruption threaded through it. Personally profiting from slave labor and torture.

America desperately needs opposition politicians running on a platform of tribunals, truth & reconciliation committees, and severe punishment for the worst offenders in this administration.