Keith Haring, The Nativity, subway drawing, c. 1983

ICE is breaking up families on Christmas. So here are a few of their NY state license plates: GSS2913 JCF8459 JGA1701 KDF4175 KHB9009 KRB7044 KTS7406 KTY4420 KVC9143 KVF9689 KWC9119 KWC9143 KWL5836 KWX9632 KXX2516 KZF3496 LBJ8897 LBX2697 LDY3457 LEN4816 LJB8929 LJN1327 LJN1370 LXT1388 More soon!

Snuggling with my fur baby this Christmas morning. Merry Christmas to all who celebrate!!! 🎄🎅

Happy holidays to everyone who's in solitude today. You get to decide what this post-solstice 24 hours is like! You could mourn or reflect, give gratitude or binge-watch, join your chosen family or cozy up with your animals. You may not be surrounded by people, but a lot of us are in the same place.

There was a recent post that hit Hacker News about a server getting hacked and running Monero. blog.jakesaunders.dev/my-server-st... I wanted to call out a few points...

okay!!!

What we’re being told is that a guy who is an adjudicated rapist, who was credibly accused of sexual assault by dozens of women, who paid hush money to a porn star, who cheated on all his wives, who is mentioned hundreds of times in the Epstein files, couldn’t possibly be a sexual predator.

Weeks after President Donald Trump fired the board of supervisors for the Kennedy Center and installed himself as the chair, dozens of performances at D.C.'s arts center have been canceled. Bravo to these artists for standing for freedom! www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/k...

Sounds legit

Stephen Miller finds it impossible for anyone else to consider immigrants as human beings so he's happy to go on air and say "would those journalists host the people we deported for a night to keep them out of torture prison?" as though getting people out wasn't exactly the point of the reporting.

Nina Jankowicz: “They’re not doing this because they have any evidence of censorship — they lost a Supreme Court case that made those claims… They’re doing this because the group of researchers and advocates have stood up to liars like Donald Trump and the platforms that enable them.”

“Imran Ahmed, chief executive of Centre for Countering Digital Hate; Josephine Ballon and Anna-Lena von Hodenberg, leaders of HateAid, a German organization; former EU Commissioner Thierry Breton, who was responsible for digital affairs; and Clare Melford, who runs the Global Disinformation Index.”

"She needs to take her job more seriously," Scott Pelley said about Bari Weiss in a 60 Minutes meeting yesterday, adding: "It's not a part-time job." www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

lol yeah that’s fuckin airtight wrap it up everybody no one’s ever been stupid and evil at the same time

San Francisco has fewer murders now than it has since Philip Marlowe was trying to find the Maltese Falcon. And its population is higher

Here’s one thing to point out whenever the trump wh and gop do this: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

SANTA DENIER: Every time I’ve seen a reindeer, they’re just standing there, chewing grass. CHILD: By your own admission, you’ve never seen a reindeer even attempt to fly. But you think you can confidently tell me that you KNOW reindeer cannot fly?

The US State Department is now going to be deporting people and/or revoking visas over Benz, Taibbi, and Shellenberger’s “censorship industrial complex” hoax. Let that sink in. This is what the Twitter Files pretext was actually about. Water boys for authoritarians. www.state.gov/releases/off...

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u... Despite not cutting government spending — which actually went up — “the DOGE effort led to some actual cuts that closed offices, canceled programs and deprived people of food, medicine and other aid.”

Biden tried to forgive student loans. Trump is going to seize their pay. Any questions? These 2 CNBC headlines really say it all about who Trump cares about👇🏽😕

This victim told a driver that she couldn't report Trump raping her because "They will kill me." In 2021, another victim said that Epstein told her girls who don't behave are fed to alligators and took her where they die. He threatened to kill her and her son.

They’re so close to getting it.

The Cracker Barrel thing was THIS YEAR. We have three more years of this shit. Anybody who makes it to 2028 without looking like Nosferatu will be required by the state to start a skincare brand.

NEW: U.S. insurance giant Aflac says its June data breach affected 22.6 million people. The hackers, the company says, stole data such as Social Security numbers, government IDs, and health information. techcrunch.com/2025/12/23/u...

Scoop: The lone employee behind CISA's Pre-Ransomware Notification Initiative resigned on Friday rather than take a forced reassignment to FEMA. CISA says PRNI will continue, but sources said David Stern's loss will be a major setback for it. My story: www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/cisa-ra...

“BBC Verify has found multiple instances from Florida to Oregon of CrimeRadar sending misleading and inaccurate alerts about serious crime to local residents” 🤦🤦🤦

NEW, by me: Uzbekistan publicly exposed its nationwide license plate surveillance system, no password needed. The system reveals a hundred locations where banks of cameras have been placed, including cities and rural areas; and contains raw video footage of millions of vehicles and their occupants.

Now is a good time to say I always thought Steven Pinker was superficial and facile and didn’t understand how he landed in the pantheon of business gurus.

hell yeah man, "you're gonna lose your comfy office jobs and go back to working in the mines and you'll like it" is a great midterm message

So so true

News: Restrictions on the release on the release of Volume II of Jack Smith's report concerning Trump's Espionage Act prosecution will EXPIRE on Feb. 24, 2026. BUT Judge Cannon will let Trump DOJ try to delay it further and DENIES a First Amendment group's bid to intervene. Doc buff.ly/fuP30K4

the most notable thing JD Vance has done in the last five years is tell vicious racist lies about immigrants. If you think he hasn't taken a side on bigotry, you are an idiot. He's for it. He's very strongly for it.

Snoopy is everywhere right now — from jewelry to pimple patches. Why?

Bari Weiss praised El Salvador's dictator before spiking '60 Minutes' story on his torture prison. new w/ @premthakker.bsky.social @swin24.bsky.social @zeteo.com zeteo.com/p/bari-weiss...

Just want to add: Being convicted of a crime in the U.S. wouldn’t justify sending someone to a foreign gulag to be tortured, and arguably violates separation of powers since the “sentence” they are legally bound to serve is one issued by a judge, not Stephen Miller (i.e. the factoid is irrelevant)

How can a major and storied corporation give such an unqualified person the power to destroy everything in just a few short weeks? Case study for Harvard Business School.

If you happen to be looking for bad redactions in a large set of data files today for some reason, there's an open source tool for that.

In this AI video, which uses a distinctive font, Trump drives Santa’s sleigh over the ocean where the reindeer emit turds that turn into bombs that blow up boats.

Am I reading this right, a DDoS attack did this? In 2025? To a national postal service? Bloody hell. www.euronews.com/2025/12/22/c...

A measure of how wildly the crypto scam plague grew in 2025: The top two Chinese-language markets for crypto scam money launderers are now doing $2 billion *a month* in transactions. These are the biggest online black markets ever, operating in plain sight on Telegram. www.wired.com/story/expire...

Found the actual men in women's bathrooms assaulting women.

Somewhere out there right now is a programmer vibe-coding an FDA-regulated medical device, and somewhere else is the unemployed person whose job was to inspect that code and hold it to standards and who was fired by a 19 year old.

TikTok Deal Leaves National Security Risk, Garnaut’s Tobin Says www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/...

cyberscoop.com/nist-mitre-a... NIST, MITRE announce $20 million research effort on AI cybersecurity

apnews.com/article/flor... So much for MAGA’s sense of Christianity

The US FCC bans imports, marketing, and sales of new foreign-made drones and components, including from China's DJI and Autel, citing national security concerns (Heather Somerville/Wall Street Journal) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

Amazon blocks 1,800 job applications from suspected North Korean agents www.bbc.com/news/article...

Amazon blocks 1,800 job applications from suspected North Korean agents www.bbc.com/news/article...

HK shares of Chinese short-video app Kuaishou fell as much as 6% to ~$8, lowest since November 21, after the company was hit by a cyberattack on December 22 (Reuters) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink