“Part-owner Umi Hassan said she lived here right after 9/11 and didn’t feel as marginalized and fearful as she does today. She’s unable to sleep at night and carries her passport everywhere. Tears running down her face, she asked, “What else can I do to be an American?””

An absolute must to read and ponder. Right through to the end. By Spencer Ackerman. "Weiss simply has no idea what it took to report this story, and even less about the value of what her reporter delivered. Ellison would not have installed someone who did." www.forever-wars.com/watching-bar...

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Something that many (at least online) seem to forget it how high this man was flying in January and where he is now. Yes he is richer and still terrible but the Tesla protests pierced the sense that he was beyond reach. And that matters a lot. Thanks to everyone who joined those ongoing protests.

Nick Shirley at the US Capitol on January 6th, 2021.

He has always been the author of his own legend, and too much of the media for decades have helped him launder those fictions.

When Nick Shirley arrived to "test" if he could enroll his son "Joey" in Minneapolis day cares, his viral video omitted that he showed up with an entourage of masked men acting like security, multiple vehicles including vans, cameras, and men who wouldn't identify themselves. One day care owner /

2020 and 2025, two years where my personal life had some great things happen and the state of the world was terrible. Here's to hoping the world catches up ✨

To be clear, we do need to return to a method of politics where civil debate is the solution. I'm not advocating for a permanent state of politics-as-a-blood-sport. But as long as one side feels some attachment to the truth and the other side just wants to own the libs, civil debate is pointless.

It's also useless to call for civil debate as "politics in the right way" because the framework wherein civil debaters were punished for lying or making bad-faith arguments no longer exists. There is no point in asymmetrical civil debate where one side feels bound by truth and the other does not.

"Wartime recruitment" of gun nuts for a non-DoD agency during peacetime.

Isn’t the product supposed to be good for a while before the enshittification phase begins?

The only positive thing you should be feeling about MTG abandoning Trump is that hopefully it’s a bellwether for rats to start fleeing the sinking ship. That doesn’t mean you invite the rat onto YOUR ship.

I saw an under-35-year-old use "bork" as a verb today. Surprised me, honestly

Nick Shirley (producer of the video sparking the Minnesota daycare fraud GOP media bonanza) has had previous rounds of attention from right wing media and elites for his production of misleading anti-immigrant propaganda. Here's a story from ~2 years ago (when we were still anonymizing his name):

THIS THIS THIS. ALL OF THIS THIS is why faculty resist technological strategies for teaching. There is no engaging with Edtech without this context

Why do butter cows have hooves? They lactose.

An essential development over the past decade-plus is that the ignorant went from feeling chastened when their ignorance was revealed to banding together and deciding that, actually, they were right. They might disagree at times, but they agreed that ignorance itself was an indicator of trust.

Kevin’s chart really says it all. this is what it looks like when a vulnerable user gets sucked in by an engagement optimized chatbot

NEW: A steep drop in homicides in the 12 South and West side neighborhoods that had ShotSpotter sensors lasted a full year after Mayor Brandon Johnson scrapped the city’s controversial gunshot detection system, an updated analysis of Chicago crime data shows. @wttw.bsky.social

Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up. I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.

Another example of how the U.S. political right appropriates digital tools, platforms, and data to create, (re)frame, and remix data visualizations to spread anti-immigrant propaganda. If you're interested in learning more, here's a paper from my research team: dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Buttons are back. Knobs are back. Dumb devices are back. Own-it-forever software is back. Print is back. Personal websites and chronological feeds are back. Touching grass is back. People keep saying 2015, but it’s not far enough. The entire 2010s were a mistake. We must retvrn to… 2009.

4 games that defined my 2025

"Academics literally cannot make genAI go away" we also can't make underage drinking go away and we're not advocating for installing bar carts in every classroom.

i don’t see how any of the benefits of chatgpt and other consumer-facing LLMs can possibly outweigh their incredible ability to induce suicides

Po-ta-toes. Boil em, mash em, stick em in a fuckin stew

This graph is killing me.

Still can't believe netflix canceled The Residence. Absolutely trash decision.

Thinking about how news orgs often pre-write obituaries for famous people who are getting old so they have something to publish the moment they die, and how some institutions are gerontocracies, so it follows that in certain institutions, someone writes your obit the moment ascend to the top

LDS apostle Jeffrey Holland, whose eloquence was exceeded only by his benevolence, dies at 85

ICYMI, the stunt Bari Weiss pulled this week really touched a nerve for me. www.bleedingheartland.com/2025/12/25/o...

I started Kumail Nanjiani's special and about halfway through opened Bluesky only to see an ad for said special, which was the encouragement I needed to finish it uninterrupted

RIP Bagel

regular US policing.

HHS is trying to force Seattle Children's into doing a Sophie's choice of abandoning trans youth or see kids with cancer or other serious illness have their coverage and care disrupted. That's what this is about. Hopefully, the courts put a quick stop to this like the subpoenas.

DOGE strikes again

This piece is a great illustration of how the long-term effect of Trump’s destruction of US institutions won’t be felt in a dramatic market collapse, but rather in permanently worse economic conditions, and lower prosperity. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... So long, American exceptionalism

the graduation of a cohort of gaza’s new medical professionals in front of the ruins of al shifa hospital. No words, really.

In case you need a positive reminder: How effective is protesting? According to historians and political scientists: very www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

We have entered the special 6-day period of the year where I can play Auld Lang Syne (my favorite holiday song) and my partner who hates it can't say shit 😌

ICE detain father shopping on Christmas Eve—then steal his family's groceries. Then 3 agents divvy up his paid for food—taking what they want for themselves. "Can I just get the wife's number to call and let her know?" woman asks. "No, guess he should've complied," agent says. Yakima, Washington

Giving what we can has implemented a fun game where you spin a globe to see how your starting point in life would compare if you were reborn today, randomly somewhere on earth. www.givingwhatwecan.org/birth-lottery

The sleeper hit Christmas gift in our household was definitely walkie-talkies. Something about the ability to secretly talk to your sibling with retro, tactile tech that delighted the kids

Merry Christmas y'all

the least shocking thing in the epstein files that wont get enough attention. police regularly arrest and charge victims to coerce them into participating, often jailing them in conditions that are worse.

It was very nice to have Christmas Eve day off work. Made some cookies, saw some lights, read some books with the kids. A huge meal with ham, potatoes, green beans, and dinner rolls. A perfect day.

Did you know the Klan was founded on Christmas Eve? Yep, 160 years ago today in Pulaski Tennessee

I’ve been worried about this. People who signed up for a US ‘self-deportation’ scheme say their payoffs were delayed, misdirected or never arrived – leaving them empty-handed in their home countries.