these democrats aren’t up for re-election anytime soon, so if you want to send a message, you’ll have to flood the zone and primary them all. because we aren’t getting supreme court reform with this current batch

This type of rhetoric can easily lead to horrendous ends. We are already seeing a lot of grave injustices. It can get a lot worse.

NEW — I spoke to DoorDash about the White House claiming the company's report shows "inflation has been tamed" and whether that's an interpretation one should make. An economist also weighed in, pointing out dictatorships use data obfuscation as a tool, and right now they're "grasping at straws."

1) Ethics officials at Fannie Mae investigate how Bill Pulte got Letitia James mortgage docs 2) They send findings to Inspector Gen. of FHFA, which Pulte heads 3) IG sends it to Lindsay Halligan, new USA prosecuting James 4) IG and ethics officials are all fired. www.wsj.com/finance/regu...

They THINK they're punishing the blue state, when in fact, if that blue state that grows a big chunk of your food, and has the busiest shipping ports in the nation, suddenly can't ship that stuff out to, say, red states? OOPSIE.

I'd blame the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act. It created extraordinary value that everyone has been bidding over (and somehow never been taxed on...)

No end to the ego

They're mostly cowards, but they're also certainly all opportunists. They're all about to walk off a political cliff with healthcare, so they're going to be even more eager for cover and distraction in the new year.

GOP legislators can't afford to mess with MAGA when MAGA is a unified force, but now the fractures are obvious and everyone's preoccupied. They know Trump is historically unpopular, they know his base is a mess, AND They know holidays are coming, and tariffs will sting hard.

I can't even fathom what January will look like, except probably very bad for the Trump regime. Absent a major black swan event, I don't see a path to power consolidation for them at this point. For a number of reasons, not just Epstein. (Thread)

you could fact check this — there aren’t 30 million illegal immigrants and there is no evidence that the presence of an immigrant in say houston has any impact on housing in madison, wisconsin — or you could note straightforwardly that this is just nazi rhetoric

If you have tenure at Texas A&M and aren't maliciously emailing the president a dozen times every day to ask if you can say this or you can say that, then what's the point in having tenure?

Epstein offered the NY Times photos of Trump with young girls in bikinis during his first campaign in 2015. The NY Times declined them because they were just too busy hyperventilating over Hillary’s private email server. Support independent media.

In Bovino's upside down world, there is no difference between an armed gang member preying on others in his community and a guy working 12 hours a day washing cars, flipping burgers, or installing sheetrock to feed his family — and he wants you to hate and fear both men equally.

What sick dogshit place are we living in where "child sex trafficking and pedophilia" is an "issue" and not a "put everyone in jail and throw away the whole jail" situation

If you’d like some local Scottish context for this global uprising of elite arse-grabbers and other sex offenders leading a backlash of clueless bleating zombies against Me Too, then I’d advise people to look at the circumstances that led to the creation of the Alba Party.

At the Texas Book Festival I was asked what would happen if all 8 billion people on the planet were replaced by clones of me, and I noted that meant there would be 8 billion people who couldn't do math but could generate snarky quips, which meant we would all be dead of sarcasm in under two weeks.

Me, wisely: "But *his* emails"

one to be aware of, browsers allow any website to go full screen, so now ClickFix are faking Windows update reboot prompts to get remote access for ransomware groups. cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog...

Last night I wondered if the "evergreen" post implies the existence of a "nevergreen" post, a take that is useless from the moment it's published. Then I remembered that Bret Stephens, Ross Douthat, and David Brooks are all highly paid commentators.

We present Tensorswitch🧮: a new nearly optimal hash-based polynomial commitment scheme from tensor codes! Joint work with Benedikt Bünz, Ron Rothblum and @defund.bsky.social 📚: ia.cr/2025/2065

Reminder that conservatives don't care www.politico.eu/article/epp-...

Focusing on clearer warnings to novices than making every advanced user install a whole different OS flavor is definitely an improvement

ANOTHER version of Chat Control is in the works in EU, time to get loud again! mastodon.social/@chatcontrol...

UC students, feel free to lodge complaints about me, I will be so hilarious about it online.

bring back shame

This isn’t even the stuff they’re trying to actually stop from getting out.

read the story bc the whole thing is nuts but this is 👀

But *their* emails?

It's so stupid for me to get pissed about this, but I still remember the radical shift when Advil went over-the-counter, when I was a freshman in college— I was wrecked by cramps, non-functional, & suddenly, this cheap miracle fixed it all in 20 min

My god (sorry I’m late on a bunch of this stuff. But wow!) According to this NYT report, the head of the FBI and the Attorney General are holding meetings *in the Situation Room* with GOP lawmakers they are trying to pressure to rescind their votes to release the Epstein info. This is madness.

Jeffrey Epstein advised Steve Bannon that the lawyers representing Brett Kavanaugh in his confirmation hearing should accuse Christine Blasey Ford of being on medications that cause false memories or memory loss.

Today is a good day to remember, and to say, that the #MeToo movement was right, and was righteous, and has been vindicated over and over again. There was no overreach. There was no excess. There was no they-went-too-far. So much work remains to be done.

If the Epstein materials were anywhere between exculpatory and bad-but-survivable for Trump, the White House would almost certainly be behind congress pushing to release them. Instead they directed the house to take two months off and are pressuring republicans in the situation room.

BREAKING: Rep. Adelita Grijalva signs the Epstein discharge petition, serving as the 218th vote to force the bill to the floor for a full vote of the House.

The Epstein story gets a something that is tearing at the heart of the electorate: elite impunity. The idea that wealthy and powerful people can do terrible things *at scale* and face no consequences for them. Whatever political party actually stops it could rule the country for a generation.

Yeeeessssss www.theverge.com/games/815061...

Steam Frame is looking neat They're adding FEX to Proton, an x86 to ARM translation layer (with support for passthrough for compatible API calls like Vulkan graphics, thus no performance penalty). Tldr you'll be able to play almost anything on the built-in processor, and stream the rest

"[T]hat’s why Trump is ranting about tariffs. Not because he wants to give out free — in reality, unlawfully seized money that American consumers already paid — money. But because he doesn’t want to pay any consequences for his unlawful actions."

As @manuelmueller.foederalist.eu highlighted, @beckermax.bsky.social, @johannaflach.bsky.social and I wanted to dig deeper into how far-right parties are already shaping EU politics. Here is our analysis for @swp-berlin.org:

The best* part about this whole mess is that the DoorDash “data” is mostly just recycled BLS data from five months ago. *worst

Windows 11 now supports some 3rd party Passkey apps natively. In Settings navigate to Accounts, select Passkeys then click Advanced Options techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/windows...

NEW The letter the BBC could send back to Trump A proposal for a reply to his $1bn claim By me. Enjoy. emptycity.substack.com/p/the-letter...

From street marches to court battles to the ballot box - we’ve challenged the power of this exceptionally unpopular president. The lesson from each success we've had is that we need to ramp the political pressure up, always up, not back down, now more than ever.

Going to be writing some things for MSNBC/NOW. Here’s a look at how Trump says great things are going to happen when they aren’t because he wants you not to be mad about the bad things that actually *are* happening. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

They have completely broken government