Just finished my umpteenth rewatch of the season 13 holiday episode of Bob’s Burgers, which is one of the best ever episodes and features one of the best voice cameos ever from one of the best poets ever - Saeed Jones! - @theferocity.bsky.social

I’d rather compete in a staring contest against Erika Kirk than watch Chappelle’s new special.

How Israel's hilltop settlers coordinate attacks to expel Palestinians reut.rs/4jguWcD

Let’s take care of each other today.

Abolish ICE.

It was an unforgivable dereliction of duty that the majority of elected congressional Republican office holders were not in prison for open insurrection by March 2021.

My brain has been thinking about this pile of suck ever since I started this revision pass and I finished the scene before the pile of suck and went to do the dishes and realized, ah, I have been setting myself up to make this not suck this entire edit, and HERE IS WHAT I NEED TO DO.

Just a thing about this: a common statement in writing is that you can fix crap, but you can't fix a blank page. I have heard AI apologists claim that this is why it's fine to generate a first draft. Now, to be clear, fuck this. But also: an AI draft is a fucking blank page.

The act of writing the crap is IMPORTANT. I struggled with it because I knew something needed to be there. Something important. Something that would establish (A, B, C, and D). I did not have the right form. I did not have the right set up. I did not have the right tension in place before hand.

"The messages show how [ICE's social media team] has worked closely w/the White House, which has urged them to produce videos...of immigrant arrests and confrontations to portray its push for mass deportation as critical to protecting the American way of life" www.washingtonpost.com/technology/i...

The issue with Trump is not "mental illness." It's white supremacy.

Yes, thank you for fleshing out the timeline. He sucked up to Trump for years. Why the fuck do we trust the people who only broke with Trump because he was "mentally ill" (their words) and not because he was an open racist before that?

Here is a link that still works! Bari Weiss just failing upwards in the most ridiculous manner possible archive.org/details/insi...

And now CBS doesn’t get to take credit for the story, has incalculably damaged their journalistic credibility and made themselves the news. Great work!

Curious about what in the self-loathing is going on with Usha Vance to be married to a man who so openly seems to resent that she isn’t white. She’s where she wants to be but I sure want to know what pathology allows that.

What's the probability of no one grabbing their own name when picking secret Santas? (Spoiler alert: e appears here!)

NYT shows how Bari Weiss really screwed this up. She didn't attend any of the 5 screenings of the story, which began on Dec. 12. She only first weighed in on Thursday, and the show incorporated her suggestions. She then waited until weekend to ask for more edits. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/b...

I don’t think if you’ve studied Black history this claim holds weight. Look at the picnics as Black people were lynched. Look at the sadism of Jim Crow. Look at the white backlash to saying Black Lives Matter and cops should not kill us.

Bari Weiss lied in her memo. She said segment didn't report administration's legal justification (it does in the very first sentence) and didn't say how many detainees had been charged with crimes as opposed to just those who were convicted (it does). www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...

!! Here’s a link to full video of the 60 Minutes segment that Bari Weiss killed last minute, via @jasonparis.bsky.social: is.gd/paU8Ko (It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)

i always look back on this email as predictive of where she was heading

I highly recommend watching this segment, not just because the CBS News execs and the White House didn’t want you to, but because these men were tortured and they deserved to have their voices heard.

Bari Weiss is killing stories the right way. by Ezra Klein

support independent media. idk what else to say right now.

Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

we’ve got to Cask of Amontillado these people Hillary come check out my wine cellar, I have new polling data down there which says you should totally run again in 2028. bring your husband and James Carville

wow, seeing Jake Paul get beaten half to death, true terror in his eyes, really improved my whole outlook on life

Yes, but it’s not a “nuclear option.” It’s the most basic, obvious, conventional option available if you want to actually do something effective. The fact that they’re not immediately promising it en masse tells us something, and that something is not good.

i really think there is legit political space for running on "we are going to dismantle ICE"

I feel like this one kinda goes way over the head of someone who thinks a machine spits out a summary, but if you read a text for a purpose, you have to read it yourself to decide what's important according to your purpose. There's not one cliffs notes interpretation. There's your interpretation.

Think the marriage of convenience between the Israeli right and the historically antisemitic global far-right has been bad for Diaspora Jews? Wait until you see the divorce.

It's worth noting the green card process is now more expensive, based on conversations I've had with immigration lawyers recently.

The issue is not that we don't talk to each other. It's that some people think that "talking" means getting to debate your existence, and that's abusive and controlling.

I'm going to surface this thing I wrote earlier today complaining about the grindy part of fiction writing (trying to line up everything so that it's consistent emotionally, physically, intellectually, etc) just because I see people worrying that real human authors will be forced to turn to AI.

Absolutely right. AI might be able to summarize (poorly) what we currently know, but a major goal of historical research is to find the hidden surprises out there. Let me illustrate …

The standard story was that 1950s religious revivals were about contrasting America with the godless commies of the USSR, but I found material that hinted at an older well funded campaign that reframed the revival as a corporate pushback against the New Deal. So I followed that unexpected thread!

i like that baba yaga probably means “granny witch” (etymologists are mixed on what “yaga” derives from, it’s definitely something not complimentary though) and strega nona means “witch granny”

Lovely www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

All of this thread. I understand the self interest that AI salesmen have to push their product, but the grasping way they’re doing it — the internet version of a traveling salesmen putting his foot in the door so you can’t close it — is only going to drive more people away.

i probably shouldn't print this out and hang it on my door, yet...

Here, I reflect on what it means to carry. almost all my entire life, a passport that invites scrutiny; that requires advanced visas for most destinations; and that turns routine immigration appointments into nerve-wrecking ordeals. And what it means to suddenly find myself on the other side.

2025 feels like both the longest & shortest year, for reasons personal, professional & related to the general state-of-world-ness. Thin Ink will be taking a 2-week break so this is 2025's final issue. And as in previous years, it takes on a more personal hue. news.thin-ink.net/p/borders-be...

Stephen Miller is employing state terror in service of the open goal of shifting the ethnic mix of the country. In numerous ways he's doing this at the expense of public safety. We spent weeks reporting on Miller's real aims. Here's the result. We hope you'll read: newrepublic.com/article/2041...

Every single democratic senator voted to confirm Marco Rubio as Secretary of State. Every single one. Not one “no” vote.

The Epstein file is the only thing Trump has ever taken his name off of

Congratulations to everyone who wrote an op-ed about how he just wants americans to eat better

Ma’am, women have been poisoning their husbands for centuries. Millennia. Until we have thoroughly deconstructed the cisheteropatriarchy, your job is to keep your mouth shut while your elders do the work of their ancestors.

Sorry but I am Team Aunt

The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality. And trans lives are grounded in reality. We see y'all. No matter what. www.popsci.com/science/tran...