I’m convinced that all the hand-wringing about this is made 100% by and for people who have only ever lived and socialized among liberals and who feel vaguely insecure about that. If you are from a politically mixed or mostly conservative place, it’s hard not to laugh at it!

This is good legal writing. No purple prose in the intro. The lawyers just cut straight to the crazy ChatGPT outputs and let them speak for themselves.

"Give me back my tablet" is the #1 nephew phrase which was probably also hollered four thousand years ago by a babylonian merchant

"Caitlin Flanagan, Chris Cilizza—these are not people who produce investigative journalism. These are take-merchants and mouthpieces who publish what powerful people tell them over text and DM as if it's a transgressive secret and not a comms strategy." Good Lord, this is savage, lol

NEW: Judge Waverly Crenshaw's previous memorandum order was unsealed today. It cites evidence that Deputy AG Todd Blanche charged Kilmar Abrego Garcia BECAUSE he won his challenge to his unlawful deportation. www.courtlistener.com/docket/70475...

Exclusive: The CIA carried out a drone strike earlier this month on a port facility in Venezuela, sources told CNN, marking the first known US attack on a target inside that country. This is the attack Trump has repeatedly alluded to in recent days. www.cnn.com/2025/12/29/p...

Somehow we’ve ended up in a position where the richest most powerful people in the world are innocent benevolent bystanders while a college professor with no tenure is part of a decadent and corrupt establishment that controls everything

We could make it a strict liability crime/tort if your image generator is used to generate CSAM of a real person What‘s that you say, this would effectively outlaw image generators? Feature, not a bug

Happy Pop-Tarts Bowl Day to all who celebrate

Driving while live-streaming is pretty much the definition of reckless behavior and I hope the prosecutor called out the defense attorney for his nonsense on rebuttal.

Dean Martin, born Dino Paul Crocetti, son of Italian immigrant Gaetano Crocetti Frank Sinatra, son of Italian immigrants Antonino Sinatra and Natalina Garavanta Merry Christmas to everyone except Stephen Miller and his enablers and handlers

A colleague described a job applicant as “a cubic zirconia in the rough.”

At least 11 congressmen from 1865-1871 were arguably not citizens under Trump's interpretation of 14th A, our research finds. Yet no one challenged their eligibility to serve. Why not? Obviously, b/c no one who drafted or ratified the 14th A shared Trump's view. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Former head of trust and safety at Twitter, Yoel Roth, demonstrating the intellectual dishonesty of “In Covid’s Wake” by showing how they distorted his own words to make them say the opposite of what he was arguing.

This is insane

Here's a particularly juicy nugget I found in my reporting . . .

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Those roving patrols and racial targeting that Kavanaugh allowed? This is what they led to. www.propublica.org/article/immi... (from Oct)

Very funny to see Alito complain about the court skipping full briefing and oral arguments for a quick shadow docket decision when he has signed onto innumerable orders that pull the exact same tricks and rebuked colleagues who complain about it ... www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

So this, from CNN today, on the (alleged) Epstein-Nasser letter, strikes me as a dog that didn't bark. The FBI requested handwriting analysis of the letter in 2020. It's 2025. If the analysis said "no match" or "inconclusive," I HAVE to think the DOJ would have released that: "Look at these scams!"

Playing as a demigod solider for a xenophobic human empire is Woke now because by the Emperor the Ultramarines geneseed should make everyone white and the Cadians, a world where literally everyone is a solider, shouldn't have female commanders!

Weird how The Free Press was able to publish all of these without comment from the Washigton University Transgender Center at St. Louis Children's Hospital.

[Interior, FBI Crime Lab, Scully & Mulder look over The Grinch's corpse in the autopsy room] Scully: Odd, his heart appears to have been 3 sizes larger than normal, but there's stretch marks on his aorta, as if it grew suddenly. What could've done this? Mulder: Not what, who. Cindy Lou Who.

So Bari Weiss’s first real editorial intervention at CBS is to repress coverage of American concentration camps.

Read the full email Sharyn Alfonsi sent her team about CBS pulling their segment on the Trump admin’s deportations of Venezuelan migrants

right, Trump’s total lack of filter comes across as authentic to people even if every word that comes out of his mouth is a lie JD has the politician stink

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Putin played Witkoff like a violin. “There was just one thing: Witkoff would be expected to come alone, without any CIA handlers, diplomats or even an interpreter, a person familiar with the outreach said.“

Summarizing the Bari Press spectrum of allowable opinion

This studio awards-season email is really matching the current mood in a way I’m not sure they intended.

Oh my God, McSweeney’s grand strategy is working.

This has unfortunately been the political cycle in this country my adult entire life (roughly coinciding w this whole century thus far)—Rs break shit, voters bring in Ds to fix the mess, then kick them out to let Rs break things again—& its hard not to notice that every loop in the cycle gets worse

oh my god

I had to find this incredible footage and it's true. Master Chief handed off the Xbox Bowl trophy, which has a functioning ASUS ROG Xbox Ally X at the center of it, to Butch Jones for the Arkansas State victory tonight.

Read the whole thing, but especially this recognition of how anti-alarmists in the press ignore the firsthand experiences of critics who have lived in the midst of rightwing fanaticism

It has been pointed out to me that there is a PERSON in that dark hallway behind Wiles. bsky.app/profile/skel...

Yanqui Chavismo

The Vanity Fair photographer knew what he was doing. (I doubt I’m the first to notice this but it hasn’t graced my TL)

Here's Trump judicial nominee Justin Olson today, admitting than in 2015, he gave a sermon in which he said that “marriage was not intended for all people,” including “our handicapped friends or our persons with physical disabilities that might prevent the robust marriage that we’re called to.”

ICE Accidentally Publishes A ‘Watch List’ Of Immigration Lawyers, Which Is Definitely A Normal Thing For The Government To Do https://abovethelaw.com/2025/12/ice-accidentally-publishes-a-watch-list-of-immigration-lawyers-which-is-definitely-a-normal-thing-for-the-government-to-do/

This lie is at the core of so much of what is broken in US Christianity.

I'm not sure if people realize the murder strikes are taking place across a large region. It's quite staggering. www.newsweek.com/map-us-strik...

First Combat Use of Underwater Kamikaze Drones: Russian Kilo class Submarine Disabled in Novorossiysk The Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) has carried out a special operation in the port of Novorossiysk, marking the first-ever combat use of underwater kamikaze drones.

“Was heavily engaged with the University of Missouri football and basketball teams” is the new funniest I’ve ever seen on LinkedIn

As a kid I had a diecast model of a Blackbird with a detachable D-21 on top. It was cool as shit.

so if you personally pay donald trump you get a fast track to a green card

someone in the replies looking up this property and realizing the price is so low because it was a meth lab is such an amazing commentary on right-wing delusion simply perfect. chefs kiss. 10/10. no notes

I was right. It was a meth lab. Its on the dea's clandestine lab registry. Incident august 4th, 2004. Has probably been abandoned for the last 20 years. www.dea.gov/clan-lab