NEW: We downloaded a new batch of around 11,000 Epstein documents that were briefly on the DOJ website today. They include wide-ranging references to President Trump. wapo.st/4b3ycG6

@artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social i have a special request

and it's only downhill from here out

there is one and only one political strategy, and that is: “hang trump like an anchor around the neck of every single elected republican and the party itself.” no ‘friends across the aisle.’ no ‘the fever will break.’ anyone not on board with that has to go. no exceptions

“I just realized we never had a wedding for the cat and the dog. They've been living in sin.”

we are 20 years into the social media era. i think it’s basically impossible to argue from this vantage that the experience has been a good one for society - for individual health, for social cohesion, for political stability; the list goes on. it looks less like progress and more like a plague.

I don’t mean to sound extreme, but I don’t think we should have torture camps for people with criminal records either.

post on your facebook so your aunt sees it

My quote of the day Masha Gessen

logging onto limewire under dark of night to download 60 minutes

bari weiss,

One of the more important stock-taking moments to watch a bootlegged news program censored in your country.

you have a patriotic duty to share this with your family this holiday. tell them they tried to cover it up

captain sisko: you take my ship's name out of your damn mouth

that entire building is one big federal conspiracy case if democrats have the courage to investigate come 2027

It is again time to post the real tree my dad put up in the late 80s

Let's pull the number up to the top: $75 billion per year That's the economic cost of taking Nobel prize-winning, life saving technology and chucking it in the trash as a vice signal

one of the things weiss suggested cutting was the section with the stanford students, where they show how a lot of this stuff is double checked

everything I hear from the charity world is apocalyptic at the moment.

what a downgrade tho

my first reaction to this news was "did FDA"s corrupt leadership do this review correctly to ensure consumer safety", so that's where we are in december 2025

grimch

Agree with this entire op-ed and especially so when preprints are published before peer review. Thinking of the Covid study from researchers at Yale etc that hints that bad immune response could be from Covid vax, while the study didn't control for Covid infections during this time.

idk about y’all, but

welp

PURRIBUS (2025)

There is a ton of evil, hardcore satanic level evil, in this country/world, so I shouldn’t be surprised but holy shit how do certain people live with themselves I don’t think I’m particularly exception on anything, including morality, I think I’m like most people just doing the best we can, and…

look, the chicago pope has made his will clear — the chicago bears shall win, and notre dame shall not

something we need to get better at is not taking the bait when a very corrupt person justifies themselves by saying something that's in bad faith and also self-evidently stupid. if you're spending your time explaining why the stupid thing they said is stupid you're not talking about their corruption

The always spectacular Snowcap #hummingbird at @tapirvalley.bsky.social #CostaRica #birds #nature #hummingbirds

Why Denmark’s vaccine schedule works for Denmark — but not for the United States: "...the two countries have fundamentally different health care systems, disease burdens, and policy priorities." www.statnews.com/2025/12/19/d... via @statnews.com @jakescottmd.bsky.social

“It turns out that banishing the slur from public discourse was, in fact, important. Because now it’s back and it turns out that it does matter when subtext becomes actual text, when terrible people enable open hatred and bigotry, encouraging others to emulate them, degrading us all.”

@washingtonpost.com piece featuring over 1,000 interviews with federal employees. #altgov family spread the word. wapo.st/4b14KAy

ok yeah people got mad, but this is also a public danger because it can cause wrecks, block emergency vehicles, and scatter pedestrians all over the city streets in dangerous weather conditions…

This is a reminder of how much it matters that pediatricians, public health specialists, scientists and members of the public who care about vaccines and science based recommendations continue to speak up. Many voices break through. www.politico.com/news/2025/12...

Many thanks to cofounder @asinclair.bsky.social & the entire SCIMaP team (scienceimpacts.org) for collaborative work to confront federal cuts to science and medical research; together, our effort was recognized as a 2025 Public Health Hero in @thenation.com. a 🧵 www.thenation.com/article/soci...

and this lil guy was watching

For my last Buying Power of the year, I wrote about one way to think about the divergence in consumer sentiment (bad) and behavior (free-spending) this year: It’s the YOLO economy, typified by the expanding popularity of services like Klarna and Affirm. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

thank you chicago pope!

big believer that TNG was so great in part because the enterprise was a family ship instead of a warship

christmas card photo

you should def direct your $$ away from major media orgs bending the knee but i do not know the way around the problem that we actually need major media orgs with resources and scale. doesn't mean it should be the existing ones, but there's no indie way to spend months reporting out one CECOT story

this is some sick shit

what is this, rfk jr.’s research agenda?

due to a need for additional reporting, tonight's CBS 60 Minutes Special Report has been replaced with an in-depth look at where to find movies with actresses who are virgins, presented by Tyler Cowen

she bari’d the story

i have some great mouse detective trauma that surfaced during that SNF shot inside the clock tower

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