"Within days, Claudius had given away nearly all its inventory for free—including a PlayStation 5 it had been talked into buying for 'marketing purposes.' It ordered a live fish. It offered to buy stun guns, pepper spray, cigarettes and underwear." www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anth...

Not my generation's version of a whippet

My answer to the @MuckRack Daily trivia question: Tom Waits, who also wrote the song, "Way Down in the Hole"

Great full-time editing opportunity working across a swath of issues with an impactful nonprofit news site

Opportunity at a cool research museum #scisky! 🌎🦕🦎🪼

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People often think the Middle Ages were dark and miserable, but back then Christmas was known for feasting and drunkenness, and lasted nearly six weeks. On December 25, the party was just getting started theconversation.com/medieval-pea...

Maybe the real treasure from two terms of Trump will be the civics lessons we learned along the way. (Seriously.) Americans Are Turning Hard Against Trumpism open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

I learned a lot editing this article about getting meaningful rest, during the holidays and beyond. Key idea: Hobbies relieve stress, make us happier, engage different parts of our brains, and affirm that we are more than the tasks we complete #psysky theconversation.com/rest-is-esse...

Mike Johnson's handling of the ACA subsidies is such a glaring contrast with Nancy Pelosi. One of her central leadership policies was to give her caucus members votes that they could take back to their constituents. GOP moderates could go home for the holidays empty-handed.

Looking for reax from @hickenlooper.senate.gov , @colorado.gov , @bennet.senate.gov

Who needs to know more about how hurricanes, wildfires or tornadoes form and grow? Not the US, apparently. Congress should reject this move ASAP 🌎

Never expected to see the GAO use Whack-a Mole to describe a public policy challenge, but it's not a bad metaphor for curbing malicious uses of generative AI. www.gao.gov/products/gao...

Public lands are big economic drivers in rural communities, and support for many conservation programs is bipartisan. An in-depth look at how Trump funding cuts are landing in Montana 🌏https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/12/15/doge-cuts-donald-trump-montana-00681695

Ugh, love this Elvis Costello song but now it makes me think of Nuzzi/Lizza Don't tell me you don't know what love is When you're old enough to know better When you find strange hands in your sweater When your dreamboat turns out to be a footnote I'm a man with a mission in two or three editions

Dropping like a stone, and a growing weight around Republican politicians' necks.

It's the affordability, stupid www.politico.com/news/2025/12...

So cool to see 826 Boston (I volunteer for them) on this list! They offer writing and tutoring to Boston Public School students, and refused a federal grant bc they would have had to drop their DEI policies. Instead, they raised the $ from the community and kept on going 🤜 ✏️ 📚

41 minutes of watching two shipwrecked men trying to flip a boat and signaling for surrender/help before firing on them again reminds me of the 9.5 minutes Derek Chauvin knelt on George Floyd’s neck, in that it’s an agonizingly long time to be killing helpless people who clearly posed no threat.

"I suspect the question the administration cares about is not 'is this legal,' 'is this a war crime,' 'is this murder' or even 'is this good for America,' but rather, 'isn’t this violence delightful?'"

If after we blow your boat up you still float, you are a witch, so we can kill you. If you drown you are not a witch.

Solomon has demonstrated that at 15, he can still jump up onto our kitchen counters, at least when he smells turkey. He got some in his bowl but believes that he deserves seconds #catsky

"We blow up ‘alleged’ drug boats in the Caribbean but pardon actually convicted drug traffickers in the U.S. Someone help me make sense of this.” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/w...

The wheels are coming off

the lesson is ALWAYS play the long game :)

During the Cold War, crusades against domestic enemies focused on alleged communists. Today, any kind of dissent is a target. By @gregorydaddis.bsky.social for @us.theconversation.com theconversation.com/pentagon-inv...

Trump's DOJ is suing @boston.gov over the Trust Act - a local law that limits local law enforcement's participation in federal immigration policy, builds trust, and promotes public safety. I'm filing a brief with the courts today to stand with Boston, the safest major city in America.

In this tough and moving essay, Caroline Kennedy's 35-year-old daughter Tatiana Schlossberg reveals that she is terminally ill with leukemia. She has some choice words about how her cousin Bobby has made the limited time she has left worse. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Student journalists @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social dissect Larry Summers' text exchanges with Jeffrey Epstein, which included code-naming an Asian woman 'peril' and debating the odds that Summers (who was married) would 'get horizontal' with her.

NEWS: The UK is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal, sources familiar with the matter told CNN. edition.cnn.com/2025/11/11/p...

With so much national political noise, it's easy to overlook successes close to home. My first article for @earthislandjournal.bsky.social Journal looks at the movement to build trails for people of all abilities, including those on wheels @appmtnclub.bsky.social www.earthisland.org/journal/inde...

Ok ICE/CBP, what are you doing about this urban lawlessness? Neighborhoods are under threat every day that these criminal actors terrorize citizens.

Next up: Chicago

The same guy who "doesn’t want to hear about affordability" posted about his new marble bathroom 7 times last week.

"I am a gray rock. I am a floating cloud. I am a happy little tree. The other week, I spent a whole day in a sensory-deprivation chamber. It was awesome! By the time I emerged, I felt like I almost had a great idea for a health-care plan. Almost."

"If you ask me, Have you seen this news story? Have you seen that news story?, the answer is no. I have not seen it. And that’s just what I need to do right now, and it’s okay. I am also shutting down the House to lower the stress in my personal life." www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

Hey @washingtonpost.com , instead of hauling out the tired Dems in Disarray trope, this headline could just as well read "After strong election, Dems now are converging on a unifying message of affordability" After strong election, Democrats now face battle over who defines party

Don’t take it from me, listen to Snopes! Speaker Johnson signed a bill to cut $186 billion from SNAP. And again, it’s HIS party that won’t help millions of Americans put food on the table this month.

Pour one out for troops who have to sit straightfaced through speeches like this.

This morning, my spouse spotted 7 National Guard members picking up trash in DC's Malcolm X Park. This "deployment" costs taxpayers $1.1 million / day. Why is there money for this but not for food, housing, or care?

Predator practice for #caturday

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Ripping out the East Wing is part of a much larger story about authoritarianism and design. Learned a lot editing this insightful piece #polisky #history theconversation.com/demolishing-...

An archaeologist and historic preservation expert explains how Trump is "mobilizing heritage and architecture as tools of ideology and control," in the manner of authoritarians through history. Learned much from editing this piece for @us.theconversation.com theconversation.com/demolishing-...

My answer to the @MuckRack Daily trivia question: Potatoes

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings