Also Americans were younger. People age, get sicker, preexisting conditions become more complicated, shit happens. Prices are going up because you cannot stop the forward motion of time. And if MAGA had any uniting principle, it’s that they can magically reverse time.

Video essay: That OU Essay Is Supposed to Be Bad I approached the OU essay as an editor and realized it didn’t want to be fixed. Thoughts on craft, refusal, ugliness, and why some writing is bad on purpose. (Weekends are the perfect time for new content, right?) www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvCm...

Why decline all these chances to defend feminism? Because to participate would be accepting the premise that our rights and humanity are up for debate in the first place. Once you’ve conceded that it’s reasonable to ask whether women’s equality was a mistake, you’ve already lost.

Bloomberg's editorial board is wrapping up 2025 with a growing list of things to be worried about (via Bloomberg Opinion)

WATCH: DuBois & Dickerson sign off from Bari Weiss’ CBS News(max) for the last time

This is just patently NOT for the demographic CBS traditionally pulls in. It would be funny to watch it bomb if it also guaranteed Weiss would be held responsible for her incompetence.

Very cool!

"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future." - @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit. Incredible words. Listen to all of it!

CNN has a show with a similar line. That the problem with this country is we just aren’t talking to each other. It’s the kind of diagnosis that a toddler would land on.

Are these the same companies that told us the robot could do it?

President of Ukraine: Let's look at Russia's history since 1991. It keeps bringing war and hatred from Chechnya to the Balkans, from Moldova to Syria, from countries in Central Africa to Ukraine. Russia chooses conflict over peace.

"On the grounds of never interrupting your enemy while he is making a mistake, Xi Jinping is 2025’s winner." My column on how Trump has given China a great leap forward. as.ft.com/r/dbe877e6-6...

An unmitigated disaster after a horrendously incompetent year.

Now that I can get behind. Hello, we can build up to it with a focus on other international sport like Cricket and Rugby. Tennis and Golf at least.

Also we've fetishized "debate” in these spaces as some kind of civic good, when what matters is competence, trust, shared purpose. Medicine, engineering, boardrooms aren’t organized around debate or requirements of false balance. We've poisoned public discourse by insisting it be adversarial.

the people of this great republic yearn for locomotive transport

Broke: Unitary Executive Woke: Article 1 Revivalism Bespoke: American Prime Minister

The most hilarious thing about this all is that for those of us who were plugged into the conservative media sphere ten years ago, you remember Beck nearly bankrupted his company because he wanted to create original artistic programming with practical sets and effects.

I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork

Anger. Thats all they got and they can’t keep their base angry al the time.

This is why @radiofreetom.bsky.social keeps telling y'all the fight isn't over yet. It's not.

Eight months ago vs today. 🤡 @atrupar.com @cnbc.com @cbsnews.com

Donald Trump and Xi Jinping talk a good game about AI, robots and other futuristic marvels. Deep down, though, both have a nostalgia for the 1950s econ.st/44Nmonu Illustration: Chloe Cushman

Cannot imagine what would be so attractive about technology made in an era before everything was so aggressively abusive and predatory and pre-broken to people who have never known anything else

The fact that the powers that be hinged the entire economic system of the US on an AI bubble, hoping it would spark a tech race fueled with government support, only for it to collapse inside of a year is hilarious.

Frankly I think we are all owed damages and restitution.

Sitting in a comfortable home with a steady income; living a life of almost unbearable tedium and routine; fantasizing about the psychopathologies potentially unleashed by the fall of civil society, the only freedom still possible for him.

cannot stress enough how bad it is to give teenage boys a "see this person naked" button. massive, multi-axis disaster

a lovely obituary but this in particular really got me

The same is true in a different way, and along different political lines, with China. China is both idealized and demonized in popular imagination. In both cases it is mostly treated merely as a foil for domestic American concerns, not a real place with real people.

I keep trying to type somEthan, but it’s all just exasperating. The US under Trump openly antagonizes European economic stability, boosts its darkest internal enemies, are openly rewarding Russia for bringing conflict back to the continent and is now offended they don’t stand their and take it.

What if Trumpism wanes, Dems sweep, the public recommits to liberal democracy, and . . . it doesn't matter because the institutions have been compromised beyond repair? www.thebulwark.com/p/what-if-it...

This is evil. That's it. No cursing or witty retort. This is just evil.

It’s hilarious when you think about how hard mass media went in the paint for Bezos earlier this year to try and sell him to the American public. They tried with Blue Origin, with his wedding, with AI, and none of it worked.

In LESS THAN A CALENDAR YEAR these absolute cretins figured out, oh yeah, Donald Trump is old and maybe not a magical send-it-back-to-2019 switch we can flip and I personally loathe the shit out of them for it. Thermostatic public idiocy more like

The world is moving on.

"That's right—three." Herblock's cartoon of Uncle Sam having to teach Congress about the balance of powers, after the Brown v Board decision and during Senator McCarthy's anti-communist crusade, May 1954.

A shelter received a donation of stuffed toys and let each dog pick 1. How selfless. They each only pick 1.

Kelly: He runs around on stage talking about lethality and the warrior ethos.. That’s not the message that should be coming from the Secretary of Defense… He runs around on a stage like he’s a 12 year old playing army. It’s embarrassing.

Thinking of this for no reason. www.cfr.org/news-release...

Great speech by European Parliament member Reinier van Lanschot (video from October 8): "How many Russian drones did it take to shut down European skies? About five. How many drones are over Ukraine? About 500. Every night. If we face that, we're not prepared at all.⤵️

lol he's spiraling today wonder what set him off.

Estimated FY2026 tariff revenue: $207 billion. Estimated FY2026 individual income tax revenue: $2.6 trillion.

I think we can safely say that the Leavitt's brother called ICE on his ex, the mother of his child, and I have to say: I have no desire to respect, find common ground or share the country with these monsters.

Beck's outfit. Of course. In my eventual study, the efforts to mainstream Glenn Beck both as an insider (Fox) and as a disruptor (TheBlaze) will be a feature. I'd argue you don't have Bari Weiss without him. Hell, you probably don't have Joe Rogan without him. And he was supposed to fail.

It would be the funniest thing ever if Elon Musk kills Las Vegas: proving definitively that the mob are more humane and better businessmen than billionaires.

A ruling class can prop an economy up for a but, but a fraction of the population can only consume so much.

John Adams is having a terrific laugh right now.