LUCY: Let’s face it, Charlie Brown. We all know that censorship has ruined Christmas. That’s why we have to support the academic renegades on the intellectual dark web and their righteous fight against the suppression of free speech.

NEW: A variety of military and intelligence contractors have already signed on to help ICE's immigrant bounty hunter program. A review of procurement data shows 10 companies stand to make up to *ONE BILLION* dollars from the program by 2027. theintercept.com/2025/12/23/i...

This is Nellie Bowles, no?

Watch: The Lives of Others, 2006, a film by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck. It won an Academy Award for Best International Feature Film.

Year 1 data on congestion pricing in Manhattan… * Vehicle traffic: -11% * Foot traffic: +3.4% * Storefront vacancy: -0.9% * Pollution: -22% * Revenue for mass transit: $548M So YES this has been a huge success.

1/ )In the early 2000s I was working on Time magazine’s website when we agreed to delay online publication of the magazine cover story (about a new Mac desktop) for a day so Steve Jobs could announce it first at an Apple event (yes, I know). I spent all of Saturday making sure that everyone who

Thread of stories run by Bari Weiss's group blog that did not ask the targets of (frequently uncorroborated) accusations for comment, let alone give them a preemptive veto over the story:

here's the 60 minutes cecot video part 1 of 5 - recorded/uploaded by and all credit to @jasonparis.bsky.social I just reduced background noise, chopped the 14 minutes into 3 minute segments each compressed under 100 mb for bsky's limits, cropped and rotated a few degrees for easier viewing on here

My Cherokee ancestors would like a word

Trump Announces New ‘Dodger Dividend’ For Anyone Who Avoided Military Service https://theonion.com/trump-announces-new-dodger-dividend-for-anyone-who-avoided-military-service/

I don’t know how it works at the New York Times, but my editors at The Guardian would never let me publish this if they knew that I was one of the elites who spent time with Epstein. And if I published it without telling them, I would be out of a job.

NYT: “In a newly obtained recording of a phone call from late 2020, President Trump can be heard pressing the speaker of the Georgia House of Representatives to hold a special legislative session to overturn Mr. Trump’s election loss.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/u...

".. When you hope and wait for something to develop that doesn’t, you start looking at countries south of Mexico,” said the current official, who, like nine others interviewed for this story, spoke on the condition of anonymity .. @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

This is metal

Is it Larceny? I bet it's Larceny....

People say you’re driving a moral panic, that you’re blocking good regulation, that there’s no point in resisting. And then you enforce a phone ban and miracles happen (qualitatively): nymag.com/intelligence...

"Companies Are Desperately Seeking 'Storytellers' That they Hope to Fire When the Robot Storytellers Are Ready"

The $4.3 billion space telescope Trump tried to cancel is now complete arstechnica.com/space/2025/1...

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...

In 2015 I was on the R Train, reading ‘The Turner House’, when a woman asked me ‘Can I take your picture reading that book’? ‘Sure-why?’ ‘My friend wrote that book and she’ll be so happy to see someone reading it.’ Can’t wait, 10 years later, to read ‘The Wilderness’ on the same train

please take a moment to appreciate Tesla's epic accomplishment of coming dead last in the auto industry in reliability, despite making relatively expensive cars with a tiny fraction of the moving parts www.consumerreports.org/cars/which-b...

This was so cool: www.bbc.com/future/artic...

Oh dear God

Here are the top 10 most popular post-1945 American authors at the Seattle Public Library over the last 20 years.

The kind .. you find … in a second hand store

Journalistic malpractice and NYT headline writing, a sample.

Um who, in your opinion, is responsible for this frayed world, @washingtonpost.com ?

Rain is wet, sugar is sweet Clap your hands, stomp your feet Everybody, everybody know McRib calls, you got to go

Denmark has labeled the United States as a potential security concern for the first time in an annual report released by one of its intelligence agencies, offering more evidence of the increasingly fraught transatlantic alliance between Europe and the US.

It’s been two weeks since ICE took Yuanxin Zheng from his father. He is six years old. He’s still not home. This has to end.

This is fascinating, as an example of where an AI tool, used properly and carefully, can help people understand things. This is why I get annoyed at the people who insist that there are no positive uses of AI tools. Yes, many use it poorly. But used well, it can be very useful.

This was fun roverai.cc/why-humans-w...

NEW: All the myriad Jeffery Epstein document releases have gotten hard to keep track of. Ahead of the DOJ's Dec. 19 release deadline, @regret.bsky.social lays out who's released what, and what's coming next: www.wired.com/story/a-comp...

ICE now admits that hundreds of children were held past the legal 20-day custody limit set to protect their safety. Five were kept for 168 days. Some faced unsafe conditions and went days without medical care. This crosses a moral line.

Chic hits #1 today in 1978 with “Le Freak”, a song originally titled “F**k Off!” — and written after the band was turned away by the bouncers at Studio 54. “We go back to my apartment really pissed off,” said Nile Rodgers, “and Bernard starts singing, ‘Ahhh, f**k off!’ .. and that became the hook.”

Somehow, this name for this thing is not "My Precious"

Four sources close to the situation claim OpenAI has become hesitant to publish research on the negative impact of AI. The company says it has only expanded the economic research team’s scope. www.wired.com/story/openai...

It’s pretty cool watching free buses take off. A 5.4% increase! Big win for riders 🙌 truthout.org/articles/fre...

New from 404 Media: the creator of ICEBlock just sued the U.S. government over it pressuring Apple to remove the app earlier this year. Says it violated his First Amendment rights. www.404media.co/iceblock-cre...

Trump hung up on a ProPublica reporter after being asked whether his Florida mortgages were similar to those of others he had accused of fraud. 🤔

This is so good: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/o...

The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service

“A city of nearly 8.5M people, New York has more billionaires than anywhere else in the world: 123, according to Forbes, up from 78 a decade ago. In 2022, roughly 33,600 of its residents reported incomes greater than $1M; several thousand made more than $10 million.” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/n...

Paging @gelliottmorris.com : given today’s ruling that the Texas GOP can redraw the map any way they want, I’m wondering if they should? With the nearly 13-point Dem gain in TN#7, how many of these new districts could be expected to have a GOP margin of at least +15?

This is cool, but it helps tremendously that NYC already has by far the country's best mass transit system

They need to release this video to the public

There’s a theme from Phillip Pullman’s “His Dark Materials” books that I love, which is that it’s only the evil people who have no doubts about what they are doing