The @apnews.com was able to pull together more biographical details about Renee Good. Give it a read, if only to fight the garbled information that is floating around about her.

I want to find the consultant who convinced Dems to stick with this framing, tie them to a stake, light a match, and tell everyone they have to decide between caring about saving them or caring about milk being 2% cheaper

Because they like swords and can't read. Saved you a click

Apple Photos Reminds Man He Was Nude In Capitol Building 5 Years Ago

Never forget.

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I was told that Congress was finally back in session today. How, exactly, are we going to be able to tell?

Smoth’red in errors, feeble, shallow, weak

I feel like "academic hiring" discourse is always kind of downstream of the fact that in the 50s we started building a giant public system to make a college education almost universally available and in the 80s and 90s we started taking it apart to go back to the only-the-rich model

Books are keeping me sane. Read more last year than any previous period of my life, and I was a lit major in university.

witnessed class warfare today (robot vacuum got stuck on a broom)

Buy one, get tu?

Denmark PM Mette Frederiksen: “I would therefore strongly urge the United States to stop the threats against a historically close ally & against another country & another people who have very clearly said that they are not for sale" Denmark handles foreign policy for Greenland

We cannot become numb to the outrage of this. The wife of the President’s Senior Advisor threatens a sovereign nation.

How should America's occupying forces govern Venezuela? We asked four unvaccinated MAHA moms at an Amway party in Jacksonville.

You know what? This year has actually gotten off to a pretty low-key, no breaking news, stress-free start wait nevermind

if you are talking today about how bad maduro was and were alive, at all, during the run-up to the iraq war you are potentially the dumbest person to ever live

Do I dare to skeet "impeach"?

go Robert Mueller and the rule of law

I mean, given that Congress and the Supremes aren’t up to the task, maybe our best hope for justice is The Hague. I welcome intervention by foreign governments— come get him and his brownshirted lackeys. Please! Any day now would be fine.

Most of the derangement about Mamdani is for the obvious reasons but part of it is also that a surprising amount of people were committed to the Cuomo rehabilitation project because they hated the idea that anything could have consequences for men of the right class.

Perfect description of my people. I may have grown up by the ocean in So Cal, but my parents *never* went to the beach. Too busy fixing the car or whatever. We did not talk about messy things like emotions.

The pod save crew is wholly irredeemable braying jackasses, but Stewart is frustrating because he consistently leads the horse to water, but then says "What can be done about thirst, really?" and shoos the horse away.

Extreme wealth begets a political power that begets policy choices that lead to even more extreme wealth concentration. Unless basic U.S. tax policy changes, we are mathematically certain to reach a point where oligarchy becomes unbreakable.

My parent lived for 18 months *on hospice* so I’m not holding my breath. (Hoping, sure.)

Starting the year with insights and renewed vigor for the fights ahead. (One of the few authors who should do all their own narration.) share.libbyapp.com/title/9777677

Magic Johnson was the grand marshal of the Rose Parade today, and as someone who remembers his November 1991 HIV announcement: if you had told anybody that day that he would be alive and healthy 34+ years later, I don't think they would have believed you. Medicine and research—they work.

Just making sure that 2025 is definitely over

Last year I read 275 titles. More than usual, because I have to turn myself into an entrepreneur thanks to Trump/Vaught pushing me into a dissatisfying early retirement. (Wow, do I have things to say about business books!)

When he says it’s a massive dose, you know that’s because he cannot say “baby” aspirin. Put this together with the one-sided facial droop, and he has already had (at least) TIAs.

When you get the reputation of being the guy with the encouraging words on New Year's Eve, it can start to come through as a little pressure -- what if the situation on the ground is worse than usual? what if people are more scared than they usually are, and with cause? what use are good vibes then?

[Clock strikes.]

We will only really come out of this if we have some kind of de-Nazification program. Perhaps it’s truth and reconciliation model, or a prosecutorial model, or a hybrid. But if we don’t it will just fester and grow.

This was my most popular post of 2025 and also ever

ICYMI: The deposition transcript of Former Special Counsel, Jack Smith, has been released by the House Judiciary Committee. (I’ll share my thoughts and observations after I’ve had the chance to review it.) judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

The rumors about daycare centers are extremely "fit" for virality: having both novelty & familiarity (drawing on anti-immigrant tropes of criminality & exploitation); making emotional/identity appeals; are *participatory* in that ppl can create their own “evidence” by investigating local centers.

Sometimes, when I get overly excited about the tiny bird in the yard, I worry I’m turning into my mother. But then I remember that the earliest pieces of art made by humans depicted animals, and realize it’s okay to be a little bit like mom and share that innate joy. merlinbirds.org/species/ruckin

This is a public health crisis and cis people acting like it isn’t because it targets trans children primarily (even though it will affect cis children too!!) is nasty business

I don’t know who needs to hear this but posting “new year, new me” on social media isn’t gonna fix you. That’s what pretty new notebooks are for obviously

THIS. I am an academic and have more research ideas than I can shake a stick at. The idea (lol) that I would need an idea-generating machine is so absurd to me. I just want Outlook search to work. Come on.

Dude is very, very good at deep-cut symbolism

Once again, @theguardian.com's journalism shows the way: Donald Trump in his own words – the year in racism and misogyny www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

I yearn for the days of stomping the emergency brake decisively on arrival at a destination. Would be nice not being screamed at by my own car when I put the turn signal on — I KNOW THERE’S A CAR THERE THAT’S WHY I’M FUCKING SIGNALLING.