"It’s fitting, then, that Podhoretz’s final piece of writing, published this April, landed at The Free Press, Bari Weiss’s latter-day neocon website."

[Twin Peaks' James Hurley changing a diaper] 🎵 just poo / and pee 🎵

Worth noting, I guess, that inside of a year we've gone from administration officials taking selfies of themselves at CECOT and bragging about how it's hell on earth to now getting their horrible little media worms to kill stories about it

THE GRINCH: and to all a good night!!! *five minutes later* CINDY LOO WHO'S MOM: hey can we talk? thanks for bringing back the presents and cutting the roast beast but - did you talk to my kid? THE GRINCH: uh, yes, uh, when I wa- CINDY LOO WHO'S MOM: okay so don't ever talk to my kid again

Whatever news value is in Lizza's continued substacking it as a revenge lap timed to his ex's book release is virtually the same journalistic malpractice as saving scoops for a book instead of publishing when timely. He's a minor villain in this relatively but he still should have gone public in 24.

An attorney couldn't stop using Grok (?!) to help draft filings, producing "a flood of tainted filings" & apparently triggering the implosion of a law firm & 3 lawyers' careers 🤖😵 The court called her misconduct "particularly egregious & prolific" cases.justia.com/federal/dist...

Becoming a One Hundred Twelver

This and the discussion about how academics can now just read AI summaries of things really drives home how much these guys always confuse the product for the goal. You don't do a coloring sheet because you want to have a colored sheet at the end!!! The coloring is the point!!!

Oh, Weiss-washing

"The day after Nagasaki, Truman issued his first affirmative command regarding the bomb: no more strikes without his express authorization. He never issued the order to drop the bombs, but he did issue the order to stop dropping them." Alex in 2015 changed how I write/talk/think about the bomb.

"At the Energy Department, one worker prepared memos arguing that his projects would cut costs for American homes and businesses. Someone decided to cancel many anyway. So he, like other employees, began deleting: Any mention of “carbon.” “Sustainability.” The word “green.”

It's an older relic from the last Trump era but it has I believe found its time.

For anyone unfamiliar, from his Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy book

the most important christmas tradition is watching the muppet christmas carol with friends. the next most important is the annual crashout over them ruining the dvd release by taking the TURNING POINT SONG OUT OF THE FUCKING MOVIE AND BUTCHERING IT

Greetings citizens! Today is the first of Nivôse, our Jacobin notable is Maximilien Robespierre “Citizens, do you want a Revolution without a Revolution?”

I think it's actually quite beautiful we live at the same time as a writer and orator whose style is so distinctive, and has pushed the boundaries of the English language so far, that you hear the phrase "her undergarments, sometimes referred to as panties" and immediately know that's the President

Historians say "murdered by zoomer with incomprehensible politics" was one of the leading causes of death in the mid 21st century- to be exceeded only by "Climate, Miscellaneous"

Nakatomi runs on UNIX

A November YouGov poll had ICE favorability underwater by 14 points among all Americans and 37(!) points among political independents today.yougov.com/politics/art...

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Paul and Tate getting their brains turned to mashed potatoes the moment they stepped in the ring with somebody in the same weight class who isn't afraid to punch back feels like God flashing a big red warning sign to our country.

This isn’t actually true. It’s clearly not the same photo. There’s also no such implication; the imagery in the dump is heavily redacted to the point where the faces on nude paintings get black boxes. The Epstein material is confusing enough without this breathy true crime investigator nonsense.

"In 2019’s Alita: Battle Angel, the upper class literally lives in a floating city, where they receive monthly shipments of exceptional organs harvested from the underclass below. It’s modern organ transplant disparities blasted to hyperbolic proportions." slate.com/technology/2...

Excellent article from Sigfried Hecker on the history of nuclear testing, hydronuclear tests, and the CTBT. I think this link provides access. Let me know if it doesn't. #nukesky

If you put every American with pre-1776 ancestors in North America in one room, it would look a lot different than these people imagine it would.

The fact of the matter is that even if we removed all dehumanizing immigration restrictions, the vast majority of people would stay where they are because barring overwhelming danger most people don't like uprooting themselves to move to a strange place where they don't know anybody

“how many days of Christmas are there?”

An American beast. Tamed. #WorldBollardAssociation

Do it? Dan, I'm not a Republic serial villain. Do you seriously think I'd explain my master-stroke if there remained the slightest chance of you affecting its outcome? I did it thirty-five minutes ago

Haven't seen a holiday season with this big a redacted document drop from the feds since the Torture Report

Looking up immunization schedules on the NM DOH website and it redirects to CDC pages with "updated August 2025" at the top, and it's wild how little time it took for the nurgling appointed to run HHS to completely destroy trust in the recommendations.

Support for US war in Venezuela: -among Venezuelans: 23% -among Americans: 22% Opposition to US war in Venezuela: -among Venezuelans: 55% -among Americans: 58% The people don't want war. x.com/stephensemle...

Senators who voted for the $901 billion military bill accepted 3.5x as much money from military contractors as those opposed. Helps explain why the Senate is so comfortable ignoring public opinion. www.stephensemler.com/p/1-in-10-vo...

Bus posting.

post-its were a vast improvement over 3M's initial ready scribe tool, the Sticky Notary

And my contribution to this and the Abundance conversation: “Having an abundant space economy is meaningless if the continual reentry of satellites destroys the ozone layer and renders the planet uninhabitable.”

The war on vaccines is a war on child mortality on the side of death, & everyone who did anything to aid and facilitate RFK Jr's rise to authority over vaccine rules has a hand in the future rise in child deaths. Widespread vaccination for a time was a pinnacle of human achievement, undone by fools

makes me want to chew glass wapo.st/4aXfzn5

From 2014: some history and reporting I should revisit in light of everything www.uuworld.org/articles/cha...

"At the time, Spanish wine exports provided one fourth of Spain's foreign trade revenue. Franciscans chose to ignore this economic law and smuggled vines out of Spain into New Mexico around 1629." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Mex...

it's darkly funny that one of the most obvious forked paths in the last half century is what if the man who is now president had instead been just a middling Broadway producer, but the arts world has said no to him more resoundingly and consistently than the American electorate, and so here we are

Dedicating memorials to oneself while alive is tempting fate in an incredible way

via Breaking911, here are the radio transmissions from Providence police responding to the Brown University shooting Officers standing outside not entering during the critical moments, allowed the shooter to escape The public wants police to take on risk but there is no incentive for them to do so

Anduril Presents: the Better Butter Battle Book

This is a @dcpierson.bsky.social "Architect of New York" bit

The Grink Was No Angel

Cindy Loo-Who doing a Who's Land Is It Anyway bit that completely ruins the Whoville Christmas vibe. "The Grinch is just a guy," muttered the mayor afterwards, "we don't have to make this a whole thing."

Cask of Amontillado modern AU

Warner easily the most below-replacement democratic Senator, right? Fetterman a disaster obviously and there's other issues with leadership but at rank and file Warner is voting like Blue Virginia is a fluke and not a durable fact.