Anyone watching the Winter Classic? The lighting and audio both seem to be off.

This is a really good thread:

This is a good reminder that we don’t need to be outraged about everything. This is basically an updated version of looking for potential names in a name book. They asked for name ideas and chose what they liked.

HELL YES

the water thing about genAI is bullshit but the thing where it makes on-demand nudes and CSAM isn't and the thing where it talks you into killing yourself isn't and those seem pretty bad

As I said... the focus was on what we do TOGETHER and importantly an invocation that people in New York not simply go home and expect government to deliver like Door Dash.

I promise that paying for the overnight garage charges and the rideshare car home is worth it. Be safe and be well out there, y'all.

This is important.

Happy “see you next year!” day to all dads (gender and parenting status inclusive) who celebrate

This is also my question. Why hasn’t Matt Gaetz been charged with this crime?

that’s one long mermaid

He was supposed to serve 10 years and pay $36 million in restitution for defrauding investors. Never served a day. Not Somali.

Pretty sure this is the best reporting I've seen explaining this youtube.com/shorts/f_l9X...

Dems need to get on this right away. These places have been subject to regular inspection. Tell Walz to stop apologizing. Don’t let this narrative spin out of control. www.cbsnews.com/news/minneso...

All based on a “gotcha” video claiming that 3 daycares had no kids. One hadn’t opened yet for the day; one is actually closed. Dude arrived with no I.D. No call ahead. They DIDN’T LET HIM IN! The fraud they’re referencing was investigated & prosecuted by the Biden DOJ. The ringleader was white.

Pardoned by Trump after convicted of 12 counts of bank fraud and tax evasion. Don’t have to pay back $17.8 million in restitution or serve 12 year sentence. Not Somalis.

I'm back at Slate next week after mat leave, and will be looking at pitches again! Particularly interested in health and science opinion and analysis, and/or with a first person angle, as well as features (2,500+ words, deeply reported) that turn a big idea on its head. [email protected]

car dealership should go straight to jail

The neighbor whose front door I have to walk past to get to my door just installed a Ring doorbell camera. Thrilled that I get to be filmed walking to and from my door every single time.

@coreyryung.bsky.social The Wizards won!?!

where’s the profile of the hipster coffee shop stuck in a gerrymandered republican district controlled by country diners

What John says!

Go Dukes! (Please note the very important “s”.)

This is completely true.

Watched Desk Set tonight. It’s so great. And it counts as a Christmas movie!

I found it. The Bari Weiss/CBS News town hall promo for feminism does indeed use a 1964 photo of Beatles fans.

"We here at Bank of America remember a time when a woman couldn't get a credit card without her husband's approval. Wouldn't that be fun again?"

His mama called him the Kennedy Center, I’ma call him the Kennedy Center.

The news of HHS potentially pulling funding for any hospital that provides gender affirming care for youth should terrify everyone. This means the govt can decide what care any of us can receive and hold funding hostage for any hospital that doesn’t bend to its will.

This should be illegal. I don’t know if there’s a way to do that, but it’s grotesque.

No. No. No! This is critical research. It's not even centered on climate. It's solar physics! It's geomagnetic storms! It's space weather! It's sunspots! It's a research center needed for satellites and spaceflight!

Naturalized citizens are citizens! Stripping their citizenship is an attack on all citizenship and has fuckall to do with immigration! You useless lumps. This is like saying the government breaking in and stealing stuff from your house is part of a plan to boost consumer spending.

Key misunderstanding I want to get ahead of: NCAR isn't really a government agency like NIH or NSF. It's one of the largest NSF grants in history, and is given to a non-profit org called UCAR, whose job is to make NCAR exist (www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/...). That means the buck stops with NSF right now

He's also responsible for raising all the money that paid for bringing Hollingsworth v. Perry & even more importantly Bostic v. Schaefer, which created the circuit split that forced SCOTUS to take on Obergefell v. Hodges. The role he played in American marriage equality cannot be overstated.

This is a good and well-written read. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/int...

A Friday night TCM pairing of Waiting for Guffman and Best in Show. I’m so happy and also feel old.

Goddam why does 1918 go so hard

BREAKING: The Trump administration took $2 BILLION+ from our military to use on political stunts. This is an insult to our troops. It won’t make our military stronger or Americans safer. Pete Hegseth and Kristi Noem owe taxpayers answers.

Democrats would be crazy not to make this comment super-famous tomorrow when the Senate debates health care. Republicans don’t want you to be cared for as a patient when you’re sick. They think of you as a “consumer”—and tough luck if you don’t have the money for the care you need.

ICE detain U.S. citizen for looking Somali—use illegal chokehold to tackle him to ground. Man repeatedly begs agents to look at his digital passport ID—they refuse. Drove him 7 miles away before releasing him alone into Minnesota snow storm—told him to "walk home" in freezing weather advisory.

One way to think of the Trump Admin is as having SHIFTED the $$ we used to spend on curing cancer (and providing care to Veterans and protecting nature and etc) to snatching brown people off the streets.

Remember, as Sean Duffy keeps telling us his ideas for air travel -- dress up nice for your flight! do a little workout before you get on too! -- this is an actual Good Thing We Wanted that Democrats secured for us before these assholes took it away

i am never again going to let a conservative get away with complaining about the liberal nanny state because these assholes actually *are* the nagging, inappropriately intrusive boogeymen conservatives have been bleating about for my entire adult life, mind your fucking business

"I'll burn down your house" - legally actionable, boring, common "I told the trees about you" - legally acceptable, foreboding, unsettling, the plants know your name and hate you

The 14th Amendment is as clearly and unambiguously written as any law on the books. Politically it was intended to suppress former Confederates and prevent the conditions that led to the Civil War. To attack it is to give comfort to their heirs and cut into the seams of our society.

Donald Trump said he’ll “be involved in” deciding if Netflix can buy Warner Bros. Is that an open invite for CEOs to curry favor with Trump in exchange for merger approvals? It should be an independent decision by the Department of Justice based on the law and facts.

Well said, Laura’s dad!