FWIW shit like this is why the original story about Hillary Clinton’s email server was always just fucking nonsense. Series of tubes guy was in fact the elected official with the most technological expertise at the time.

It is. You can actually search visible text on the redacted documents and the completely UNredacted document appears in the results 😭

Why was Dershowitz's name redacted?

So once upon a time, I got savaged on Twitter for saying that all a man in the games industry had to do to end a woman’s employment at the same company was sexually harass her. As soon as it happened, the timer began counting down. (Thread)

At Religion Dispatches, I wrote about scholars who are attempting to change the default of nonconsensual pregnancy tests in emergency rooms. It's never been a good idea, but post Dobbs it's really dangerous. religiondispatches.org/nonconsensua...

This person analyzes American politics for a living www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

It’s not even that they watched it and didn’t like it, they’re going to kill us all because it took an extra .01 seconds to scroll past the tile on the app.

elites in the most powerful country in human history: We should end democracy because I found “She Hulk” on Disney Plus mildly annoying. average homeless trans person with three dollars and an internet connection: Really, Stephanie? The 1987 Brookings translation? For shame.

When you don’t grow up in NYC no one teaches you how much you’re supposed to tip building staff for the holidays and it’s stressful every year.

the fix is to understand you won't always know what people are talking about and learn to be okay with it

A gritty reboot of ducktales where huey duey and louie help mine workers in south africa unionize and overthrow flintheart glomgold

Imagine being a Chinese admiral or general who trained your entire life for Gotterdammerung and then France blows up America for you because a senile reality TV show host doesn't understand how the Mercator projection works and therefore thinks Greenland is 87 times the size of the solar system.

Investigator's notes from interview with Epstein survivor re: Dersh and Larry Summers found in this morning's big drop presented without comment

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"The political process," and not environmental law, governs the development of a Delaware-sized oil and gas field in central Wyoming, drilling companies argue in a lawsuit that challenges the Converse County Oil and Gas Project. Conservationists say ongoing drilling is illegal.

Which is how we end up with a bunch of people getting knee jerk defensive AF when we tell them Charlie Kirk wasn’t a good dude just because he was a Christian.

lucky for trump people arent interested in true crime stories and haven't shown a habit of following the twists and turns of crime stories - that have very clearly defined heroes and villains - for years and years on end. so nothing to worry about w this epstein stuff.

FWIW, I think that piece on Christian Nationalism is at best, naive. It's very frustrating as someone who grew up in Evangelical MAGA-land and is personally acquainted with Dominionist politics, to see people parachute into those communities and miss the story.

It's also striking to me how often they writers encounter MAGA Christians who are polite to them and think their short encounters are indicative of who those people are. Christian nationalists are often ignorant but rarely stupid.

Said it before, I'll say it again: A LOT of political journalism is really just bad travel writing

You ever have those mornings where you just look in the mirror for a minute and wonder how exactly you ended up who you are www.yahoo.com/news/article...

What a stupid year

I tell ya the incentive stucture around "if I say something ignorant or uninformed on here, people will jump to correct me and I will learn interesting things without putting any work in" is troubling

Flintheart Glomgold was originally ALWAYS South African! The whole reason he wasnt in the 87 version of Duck Tales was specifically to downplay Apartheid going on at the time and the way he made his money was literally exploiting and helming African Diamond mines.

one thing i will say is that i am no longer surprised by things that seem “too on the nose” when it comes to either trump or epstein. neither of these men have ever, in their entire lives, been subtle about anything.

the one thing we've learned from review of jeffrey epstein's communications is that the man neither knew nor understood the meaning of nuance

This may be the Trumpiest thing he's ever done. Stamping his name on an existing design, which itself was based on a previous European design, which was cancelled because it ended up costing twice as much as projected and wasn't able to do its job And it's much smaller than he claims

Hi what do we do when the blue collar jobs are replaced by robots since the same people who insist one is inevitable also insist the other one is?

You spent 6+ years of your life going to college and getting a professional degree/certification. It's time for you to start working on an assembly line!

Something very funny about de santis praising Coolidge for “immigration.” Coolidge’s immigration policy was that people named de santis shouldn’t be allowed to come here bsky.app/profile/anth...

Scrooged features a TV executive who is producing a version of A Christmas Carol, undergoing the exact same phenomena depicted by Dickens. Yet he never notices this, & acts surprised when things play out as they do. If you made a version of it today, this would not be the case. In this essay I will

“okay but what does the president say I CAN give this year, besides no more than two dolls and up to three pencils?” don’t worry, this gift guide has you covered

I started to write a year-end review - but it hasn’t been a normal year. werd.io/2025-in-revi...

It was a lot more amusing when it was just aluminum foil on your head, and not unclear information from the justice department to protect people who sexually assaulted children.

I hated the comment by "60 Minutes" exec producer Tanya Simon that “we defended our story, but she wanted changes, and I ultimately had to comply.” She didn't have to comply. She could have quit. "I ultimately had to comply" is what fascists love to hear.

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Which makes me wonder if they “accidentally” uploaded it on purpose to have something to debunk so now they can say “see it’s all fake” but that’s pointless conspiracy thinking because we live in the stupidest dystopia ever.

Who could have possibly predicted this? 🤡

Just another day in America. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Aaaaaand as I was saying … bsky.app/profile/mcle...

His wife says they were refusing to properly treat his diabetes. The facility where he died is a private prison.

He’s definitely dying, right? They just keep humoring him along with their fingers crossed that today will be the day?

The guy who famously crosses every border in one night without documentation?

did labor unions accomplish that or did boring ineffective shitlibs in Congress accomplish that

It is pretty funny for Bari Weiss, a person with no reporting experience, to take over a respected news organization full of investigative reporters and producers who have seen some real shit, and then be surprised and frustrated there are leaks.

iCloud, Mega, and as a torrent. Archivists have uploaded the 60 Minutes episode Bari Weiss spiked.

Honestly it's going to be pretty fun watching her try to run a national news organization that is 100 percent united in hating her guts

Maybe it’s because I’m Jewish but I really never understood how it’s worse or really different than any other Christmas music.

thinking about the analogies we use for ai hucksterism and i don't think "asbestos" is very good asbestos, while bad, functioned really well at its intended job, and is basically safe except during installation and removal i think lead is a better analogy

I am highlighting a bunch of examples of people genuinely trying to use LLMs and genuinely not finding them very useful to illustrate that this really isn’t just a “rabid AI haters who’ve never actually tried it” conversation