Even chicken pox can be no small thing to the wrong person. I had it aged 30 and have reduced lung capacity from the scarring. Friend who got it aged 44 was off work for 3 months.

Zelensky lands in Miami. Not a single US official is on hand to greet him. In the language of diplomacy this send an unequivocal message of coldness and hostility. Compare it with the lavish pomp and red carpet shown to Putin when he landed in Alaska a few weeks ago.

Something something peanut farm

Phang: If that happened in January, how in the actual hell is Blanche now telling the American people that they suddenly discovered a million more documents? GTFOH. As far back as January, the entirety of the Epstein files were transferred to Main Justice at DOJ…

Always repost Big Challenges

Nah you're fine everyone already knows

"tell me we didn't just fire a dozen $500,000 missiles at a $200 camel" "sir, no evidence of any camel present, sir!"

Dean Martin, born Dino Paul Crocetti, son of Italian immigrant Gaetano Crocetti Frank Sinatra, son of Italian immigrants Antonino Sinatra and Natalina Garavanta Merry Christmas to everyone except Stephen Miller and his enablers and handlers

merry christmas, my gf got us a print sub to @theonion.com and gave it to me like this

The incredibly corrupt, lawless, & unconstitutional nature of the entire DOGE enterprise requires Elon Musk and lots of other people to spend the rest of their lives in jail.

Conservative political correctness is out of control.

Donald Trump: the president who destroyed ISIS in record time in his first term and also the president who is boldly taking on the ISIS terrorists in his second term.

I loved this. And I want to note the whole “there were no autistic people before …” discourse has an answer here: just the people were sent away in the incarceration (yes “care homes” like this), and if they fled, they were just abandoned by society, usually to die.

'I drank coffee and read old books and waited for the year to end.' Richard Brautigan, Trout Fishing in America.

Look, I'm sure that Nolan's adaptation of "The Odyssey" will be fun, but I highly doubt it will be as good as the original.

Yeah this is just what his communications team wants right now

Fantastic cat toy recommendation from @hollyqueenofspayeds.com Bertie loves it!

i post this story every christmas, and will keep doing so until it stops making me cry merry christmas xx

Extremely funny to call the pope “holier-than-thou”

Scum, all you faithful.

Having a normal Christmas morning

Trump in 2024: I "was never on Epstein’s Plane". Trump DOJ 5 years ago: "Donald Trump traveled on Epstein's private jet many more times than previously has been reported (or that we were aware)". Stop breaking the the law. Release ALL the Files.

Indeco IFP28X pulverizer with googly eyes.

I wanted to figure out what changed between the DOJ's initial Epstein Files Vol. 8 document dump (which they quickly pulled) and the version they replaced it with. I had a few hours of free time for PDF forensics hacking today. Here's my initial analysis of what changed: github.com/chad-loder/e...

I mean yeah it’s an authoritarian takeover but can we take some comfort in the fact that the people doing it are INSANELY stupid?

1 - the exec branch can't decline to spend $ Congress appropriated 2- the fed govt can't use federal $ to extort states over policy/political disagreements 3-the fed govt can't use federal $ to impose conditions unrelated to the funding program 4-the fed govt can't use federal $ to coerce states

We’re trying to imagine the Republican freakout if literally any of this was about Obama or Biden

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

Shout out to the parent who thought the best way to keep their kid entertained on the train was to bring along a xylophone

It's like the 12 days of Streisanding.

Ok. Now had a chance to check and, well, at least some docs do appear to be straight up classic redaction fail. And there are some *interesting* bits here. www.justice.gov/multimedia/C...

Over the next 20 years emigration and falling birth rates will topple many western countries.

I still tell students to go to the library, look up the book that seems right and then step back and look over the whole shelf too.

The political commissar does not want the regime news to report on the president’s foreign gulag. that’s where we are.

Wow. Last used ~1934, inherent contempt would in effect bring Bondi to trial in the House & by majority vote empower the House to put her in jail. Far more effective than other options (criminal referral to her own DOJ or endless civil litigation), it'd be a huge bipartsan stand against the Admin.

🚨 The DOJ appears to have redacted Donald Trump’s name from the allegations made in this exhibit in the Epstein files. Trump’s name was in the original release. Now, it’s blacked out. See for yourself.

Mr. Beast, all my friends and I were saying how good at boxing you’d be

So, just to confirm, the BBC can’t keep Robin Ince on the air because his trans allyship brings the organisation into disrepute, but they can keep David Walliams, who performed Nazi salutes at the recording of this very show, on the air despite him being predatory towards women. Cool. Very normal.

It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans. 🧵 1 of 9

WELKER: Why was this photo of a desk with a drawer open containing photos of Trump taken down? BLANCHE: You can see in that photo there are photos of women. We learned there were concerns about them. W: Are you saying those women are victims of Epstein? B: No, that's not what I'm saying.

Merry Christmas!

QUICK SEARCH OF EPSTEIN FILES RELEASED BY TRUMP ADMINISTRATION: 109 hits on the word "Clinton." 2 hits on the word "Trump."

“The New York Times contacted Ms. Farmer about a report stamped with the date of Sept. 3, 1996. She broke down in tears. “I’ve waited 30 years,” she said. “I can’t believe it. They can’t call me a liar anymore.”

If we treated him like a normal president he’d be in prison right now

While a bunch of journalists were at the Kennedy Center taking pictures today, I asked the VP of Facilities and Operations at the Kennedy Center a direct question: “Matt, is this the first time that you’ve defaced a public building?“ Only at Law Dork: www.lawdork.com/p/q-and-a-de...

What the absolute fuck is this nonsense now?