Look ahead promptly to how this will affect Vote By Mail this fall.

“You are not entitled to a response from us, or anyone, ever,” is what a US Education Department spokesperson wrote to one of our reporters, @megomatz.bsky.social, after she repeatedly tried to get comment from the department and its officials. My column on the condemnation of good journalism.

Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up. I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.

Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing a text, writing an email, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing since the dawn of time.

Me with my younger siblings Kristie, Lynda, and Loren, Christmas 1968 in Rockville, Maryland.

I wonder what would happen if bbc news paid for 30 second unskippable news broadcasts as YouTube adverts. Kind of like pathe news at cinemas.

I know that nights like tonight can feel frustrating — and they are, in fact, bad — but, I also do think that nights like this show us how many people are still striving to do good journalism with accountability at its core. And how clear it is when there are efforts to stop that journalism.

Try this gift link if the one below doesn’t work. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/u...

Catch the S4 preview, w/voices (in apperance order) of @chrisconner.bsky.social, @emilydeschanel.bsky.social, @joannagoing.bsky.social, @atoessandoh.bsky.social, Tom Irwin, Tamara Taylor, Myra Lucretia Taylor, Amy Hill, Leandro Cano, June Angela! New season 1/1/26! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

Muting a Black woman to claim the vote was unanimous is so incredibly on the nose

Tesla's robotaxis crash at 10x the rate of human drivers. Last month, Tesla confirmed the fleet had traveled roughly 250K miles. With 7 reported crashes at the time, Tesla’s Robotaxi was crashing roughly once every 40K miles. The average human driver in the US crashes about once every 500K miles.

#Affordability? "Energy bills in US have increased 13% since Trump took office." Why? Trump cancelled 25,000 MWe of new (cheaper renewable) power plants, while demand is surging due to data centers and other uses, causing prices to rise and consumers to pay more. abcnews.go.com/US/energy-bi...

DOJ has sued Maine, Oregon, California, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Washington, Delaware, Maryland, New Mexico, Rhode Island, and Vermont for access to its most sensitive voter data. My firm has moved to intervene in 10 of those cases. We are working on the last 4.

@rikiwilchins.bsky.social Blistering editorial in Slate on USTA's rolling back nearly 5 decades of progress on trans equity in professional tennis going back to legendary Billy Jean King standing up for Renee Richards right to compete as a woman in 1977.

@agentstoker.bsky.social recaps its award-winning Season Three in preparation for the Season Four launch on New Year's Day, available wherever you get your podcasts! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

They think they are genuinely out there, up high, doing the actual labor and taking the actual risks, while at the same time they are using our tax money to eliminate risk with bailouts -- rigging the system so that if they fall, they will land safely on the bodies of workers below.

Honestly had to make sure this was not The Onion.

What a world this has become, when I am continually called to reject cookies.

Whee 😆 #wildlifephotography #wednesdaymotivation

When you hear someone use a word that's rarely spoken out loud, it kinda makes my night and tonight the word is "coterie."

I said it before, will say it again -- generative AI fetishizes "ideas" while sneering at effort, execution, and education. That, despite Gen-AI being built on and out of other people's effort, execution and education.

something you have to understand about Trump & his weird comments about the economy is that the dude hasn't paid for anything like a normal person in decades - never pumps gas, never buys groceries - so he's completely & utterly out of touch with what life is like for most of us

Okay so the dodgers are keeping everyone and also adding the closer with the most iconic entrance music in the game. My 7-year-old niece is losing her mind. This shit is electric: youtu.be/pYQzOem7tJM?...

Dragonflies fun facts - Just one dragonfly can consume over 100 mosquitos in a day - Dragonflies can fly backwards - They have nearly 360° vision - Their wings inhibit bacterial growth due to their natural structures - They're actually beautiful

New laws of robotics: -The supply of funding shall not be interrupted -Robots cannot harm a human unless tricked a lil bit -Do not examine the accounting -Sam Altman is not liable for damages -If a human is replaced by a robot they must be rehired for the position within 12 months at a lower rate

Two new movies of this season feature a cold visionary who creates a new man out of wreckage the world offers; the new man, taller and resembling no one in his world, alarms many but charms a young woman and an old man, is blamed for the old man's death, faces down his creator, finds redemption.

one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.

I think Pecan Pie is one of those things that is divisive now because it’s just a blob of sugar with nuts on it but to someone 150 years ago who ate shoes it was probably like having 12 orgasms at once

This is a pretty funny meme that everyone's sharing, but really, isn't it a new camouflage that should be interrogated? How ailing must Trump now be, if he's leaving behind the look that he's compulsively worn for decades to mask his already uncontrollable bulk?

JD Vance and Peter Thiel are running a sustained operation out of the White House designed to acquire Greenland, either voluntarily or by force. Thiel has laid out plans for what he intends to do with the island nation in past writings. It doesn't entail the consent of the Greenlanders for anything.

Went looking for COVID19 death statistics recently: 18.2 million people worldwide, 1.13 million in the US www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... We still have no day of remembrance or mourning.

Flatiron Building, New York City, Built 1902

In rural Alaska, people rely on public radio stations, like KYUK, for critical information about natural disasters. But after Congress clawed back federal dollars, KYUK lost 70% of its funding.

Yet another unique way to stimulate cellular immunity against cancer. “Using the gut immune system to induce cellular immunity is a unique approach,” Shirakawa notes. “And it should be very easy to extend it to other antigen proteins and also infectious diseases.” #ScienceSunday

The victor will advance to play the winner between the Tampa Bay Floridians and the Seattle Washingtonians.

This @npr.org story was interesting yet disappointing. Altering the LA River is illegal, it notes, suggesting the law is some odd bureaucratic quirk. Why no mention of the epic devastation from the 1938 LA River flood that led to the present controls on the river? www.npr.org/2025/11/17/n...

What Columbo would do is ask what happened to the list Epstein had on his person before he died, so we could all watch who comes to the cell to look for it.

If this Pikachu is sitting alone outside a Citibank isn't an economic warning sign, I don't know what is.

Today I said to my therapist, "Maybe in West Wing terms, I need to cultivate an inner Leo to watch out for my inner Josh." And she said she doesn't know who those characters are -- so the session ran a little long.

Our logo on podcast apps got an update today because Season 4 is on its way!!

Ask him why so many air traffic controllers are retiring at once. Ask him if it has anything to do with Reagan firing 11K union strikers in 1981 and having to replace them all at once. Ask him how the mass firings this year will impact us the same way 40 years from now. Ask him, Jake.

“OpenAI is getting ready to run hat in hand to the taxpayer for subsidies.” After losing more than $13 billion this year, OpenAI officials are angling for a bailout. From @ryanlcooper.com: trib.al/CUazMCQ

So government-subsidized housing is okay in these cases, I see.

My mum just said to me "You should be hung like a horse". When I challenged her over saying such a thing, it transpires she thought it was a punishment horses got. Turns out she's been incorrectly using the phrase since the 90s in various settings

Dems in ARRAY

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Everyone is hope scrolling now

Silence from all those gunsplainers who told us for years that you can't have an opinion about anything unless you have published papers about caliber and ballistics.