Literally one of the reasons I’m skeptical of gAI is because I’m a historian and technology is one of the things I study, but also who looks at the recent history of Silicon Valley and trusts a single word they tell us

I don't think people realize how hard the US food & farm sectors are declining to do the work of feeding humans. Feeding livestock is just way easier. So that's what they're doing.

Nearly of the US's garlic comes from China. Another quarter of it from Spain. At least it did before the trade war. It's possible some of the garlic being sold rn is the tail end of garlic that was shipped in before the tariffs started. wits.worldbank.org/trade/comtra...

Oh my gosh this is so good. 👏🏻 “but their project is, at heart, an exercise in the postmodern concept of hauntology — the nostalgia for lost futures.”

update: one of our readers is buying her kids a nice new record player! awwww yay 💕

The GOP "healthcare plan," if they ever come out with one, is going to be "Peloton is 80% off and only the rich get chemo." The point of RFKism is that healthcare is a consumer choice, and the right choice is Instagram woo. If you didn't go to the Equinox juice bar the ensuing cancer is your fault.

Goodness me, it’s like someone rewrote The Twelve Days of Christmas with sex pests www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

if you don't play or follow golf (or just don't get why so many people love it) this probably isn't on your radar but it should be understood as both a naked land grab and an attack on a part of DC's black history

“.. More than 42 million Americans hold student loans.” @cnbc.com www.cnbc.com/2025/12/23/s...

You could make a compelling argument that one reason there has been persistent resistance to Trump 2.0, particularly in light of his dropping numbers with white ppl, is the Eras Tour. It has been a co-existent cultural phenomenon that clearly offers a contrasting vision of what we could be.

Instead of a thousand variant records, I want Taylor to release all of the Studio Sessions in a nice physical set.

Worth noting that the student admits that she just threw the thing together in 30 minutes without reading the paper she was supposed to be responding to.

Merry Christmas Adam!

NPR Over 1.6 million immigrants have lost their legal status in the first 11 months of President Trump’s presidency. Number includes people accepted to come to the country on a wide variety of immigration parole, visa, asylum, and temporary protected status programs.

The stadium grift is amazing. Just a bunch of humble, downtrodden billionnaires who are always suddenly short of cash to build more luxury boxes for them and their friends. But at least everyday working people get more heavily taxed.

Historian here, glad to be quoted on Trump’s criminal, illegal and unconstitutional actions. To be read alongside @jamellebouie.net ‘s brilliant the White House is a Lost Cause published last Sunday. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Republicans all own this, it’s their world now. This is the only strategy for 3 more years

for folks who don't know: teaching at state schools while you're finishing your PhD is most grad students' sole source of income this isn't just getting fired from a job for doing that job to the standards set by your employer it's potentially a career-killer

these are the kind of numbers that, *at the end of a president's term*, herald a total wipeout for his party in the next election. we are in december of year one.

Welp, aside from being an atrocious injustice this makes a solid advertisement for the point that TAs on every campus to unionize.

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

There will be so many deaths and assaults found from these people

i'm really tired of everyone letting the stupidest guy in the world just cook

Closes by discussing the Trump admin's current deals to do third-country deportations to other countries with well documented histories of torturing prisoners. Again, new

HRW student interns talking about how they confirmed. Including an influencer video with the warden talking about the torture. Now interviewing an expert explaining why all of these details mean that the detainees stories are believable and should be trusted. Again, VERY new

Spent 6 months in detention waiting on a decision on his asylum application until he was deported to CECOT The detail that they sent out an asylum seeker who presented himself to immigration correctly also seems new. Again, did we know this? Seems like a weird thing for a terrorist to do

And they said bari Weiss couldn’t push cbsnews into new formats and find new audiences

I had a really fascinating conversation at Mass yesterday with someone who was in town visiting family for the holidays. she’s a DOJ attorney in another large city on the civil side and she told me the criminal side is just emptied out. so many people quitting rather than take part in shit like this

It used to be that the United States would use Voice of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty to transmit truth across the borders of repressive regimes. Now the work of American reporters, having been censored, is being smuggled across the border to reach Americans.

The Cavalier Daily strikes again. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 "Scott Beardsley’s appointment [as UVA president] epitomizes a semester defined by absence, secrecy and institutional disregard." www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...

American food safety could be headed for a breakdown. Story by @sarah-todd.bsky.social www.statnews.com/2025/12/22/a...

The Olivia Nuzzi story and the Bari Weiss at CBS story are the same story, which is that the upper echelons of legacy media are absolutely rife with people who worship power and don't feel burdened by any sense of responsibility to their profession or the public.

this just has me thinking about how so much of this government and the movement around it is purely a matter of aesthetics. is there a strategic reason for produce a new warship? maybe. but my hunch is that this is happening because the president thinks it will look cool.

This morning, Instacart announced it will end its use of AI-powered pricing experiments following our report with @moreperfectunion.bsky.social & @consumerreports.org.

I swear, next year will really be the year I finish my Christmas shopping by September 😭

She launched her career trying to get professors fired in the name of academic freedom. Her website publishes a firehose of conservative propaganda in the name of open debate. She is now censoring factual information under the guise of journalistic accuracy.

Curious if the White House's Antisemitism task force would be interested in looking into how a guy whose book was blurbed by JD Vance and the President's son, who co-hosted Charlie Kirk's podcast, and who has worked closely with the Trump administration for years ended up posing for this picture.

Another Elon shell game. Desperate to get these anchors off of Tesla's books but with no one willing to buy them, he's selling them to himself. And even after selling himself $100m worth of trash, Tesla's Q4 numbers will still be a bloodbath #TeslaTakedown

The MetroCard will take its last ride in this heavily guarded room in Queens. Take a tour with me, the transit nerd in the chocolate factory www.nytimes.com/card/2025/12...

really cannot be emphasized enough that bari weiss has literally never done journalism. i don’t mean that in the pejorative sense. i mean that in the “has never performed the job she was hired to do” sense

If this — public discourse of measured critique triumphs over fascism — were the case, Drumpf would not have been elected.

Bari Weiss's ALL THE PRESIDENTS MEN is three minutes long.

This is amazing. So cool. (Also, protip, if you ever need a deep-dive into a community's history the local Catholic parish will have detailed birth, marriage, death records, and usually a ton of other details—if you can get access.)

In my senior year of hs an assignment was to imagine a use for the internet and create it - my idea was grocery shopping, and I remember making a basic menu with pixelated items where you would click for milk etc. And now to actually do my holiday grocery shopping in an app - it feels like magic. ✨

The world should be alarmed. A lunatic is president of the United States and no one is challenging his impulses to make himself an emperor.

This is a big part of why i continue to believe that not only is regime consolidation off the table but it was never particularly on the table in any real way in the first place. Theyre a bunch of fucking idiots who have all cooked their brains online & think that being an overt bully is how you win

Our job is for each of us to find our lane and fight like hell to help them lose as quickly as possible in order to save as many lives as possible.

Because Bari Weiss is an opportunistic political maneuverer, it probably doesn't get said clearly enough that she is also an astounding clod, in wildly over her head. The fact that she seems to have spiked this story without realizing this would happen tells you all you need to know about her.

just thinking about this again for no reason

The story is insane. The acting head of cyber security, a Noem crony, repeatedly demanded to see highly classified information he didn’t need access to, and when staff set up a lie detector test as a condition to grant him access, he failed it. So DHS suspended the staffers.