“Can I begin by saying I hope all colleagues had a happy Christmas. It probably feels quite along time ago now, but not for Reform of course because today is the day that they celebrate Christmas in Russia” Keir Starmer #PMQs

if you tried to do this in the us, you'd have a billion dollar conservative moms group lobbying against it 12 hours later and credulous news articles taking their claims seriously in 24 bsky.app/profile/davi...

John Bew on the 'age of invasion'. "the acid test for seriousness [in Europe] cannot be the extent to which our leaders are expected to express unyielding fidelity to the old religion, for a world which we are right to mourn, but is not coming back" www.newstatesman.com/internationa...

screw him and every other traitor on this day of infamy

Aldrich Ames, CIA officer convicted of spying for Russia, dies at age 84 www.cbsnews.com/news/aldrich...

Nice Sunday night read pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/p...

As always tell me what comes next

Not just that. Due dates on documents like for Medicare, SNAP, etc. are decided based on when they're mailed out and uses the postmark date so see if they're met. This WILL cause people to lose benefits. Let me explain how it works.

"Maddeningly, voters want contradictory things: low prices when they shop, high wages for themselves; not many immigrants but lots of cheap labour; rising house prices when they own and lower ones when their children want to buy" www.economist.com/leaders/2025... From The Economist

🚨 Breaking: NYC no more affordable than it was 53 minutes ago. An exclusive on how it all went wrong for Mamdani.

Very British graffiti.

This is a great story, and yet another reminder that -- for something that felt like a fun goofy feature when it launched -- as we lose more and more actors, the AV Club's "Random Roles" has turned out to be an amazing oral history project.

Outstanding explanation of the consequences of putting cowards and/ or idiots in positions overseeing investigative reporting

ILLINOIS WALKS OFF TENNESSEE AND WINS THE MUSIC CITY BOWL

RIP Isiah Whitlock Jr. We loved all the characters you played, especially as Clay Davis. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UXJ...

Which orange is which? Take a guess, then check out the answers below.

You dont say.

I was at a practice range next to Steve Guttenberg in 1997 or so

This is how lunatics wind up bringing firearms into pizza joints and ruining evetyones’ lives

Still blows my mind the guy’s debut is this much of a beast and that’s it (though I suspect he hated the industry for editing compromises and made enough to walk away) I always assumed it was John Hughes

I have always been fascinated by those people who made indelible and hugely visible debuts and then... vanished, more or less. Imagine their disorientation. Ex this is the guy who wrote and directed "Risky Business." No produced theatrical films since 1999. www.imdb.com/name/nm00018...

Feel like there are some polling issues here potentially but I think being hooked up to status comparison machines their whole lives has been bad.

The name “Fraud Guaranty” was already taken.

It’s not just the US and the UK: the EU’s beer consumption is now below 2019 levels — and falling. Meanwhile, new regulations on labeling and packaging are likely to hit small breweries the hardest. What’s at risk? Part of European culture. vinepair.com/articles/eu-...

Good god man

Six weeks till the Super Bowl, it's time to commence your Bad Bunny education if you haven't gotten started yet

Impressive work by a water leak to uplift pavement for 40 feet

The guy who put a 19 year old named Big Balls in charge of gutting key government services: “experience matters when lives are at stake”

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

joining the "cybertruck owners only" group on fb is one of the best decisions i've ever made. every so often when i'm scrolling through fb getting pissed off, i get to see a little treat like this

A great example of how the @nytimes.com centers white Americans and Trump supporters in its anecdotal political coverage. You never see stories like this about Black Democrats whose cities are cracked in Republican gerrymandering to give them Republican elected officials.

This thread is a gift. Wanted to like Babel but this nicely explains how I felt the book let me down

And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, now has a machine gun. Ho. Ho. Ho.

Did 2025 mark the end of British parliamentary democracy as we know it? | Andy Beckett

I wrote a little thing about "Fairytale of New York" and about hope for a better year, but mostly I wanted to share the rendition of the song played at Shane MacGowan's funeral in 2023 because it's so beautiful. Happy Christmas, I love ya baby. dansinker.com/posts/2025-1...

An ode to James Ranson, who, in just seven episodes, churned out one of the most relatable on-screen depictions of life as a junior enlisted Marine www.militarytimes.com/off-duty/mil...

Wordle 1,648 2/6 🟩🟩⬜⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 😑 all down hill today from this.

"'All of us were more confident about large language models a year ago'... strategic shift away from generative AI toward more predictable "deterministic" automation... after Salesforce reportedly reduced its support staff from 9,000 to 5,000 employees...” timesofindia.indiatimes.com/technology/t...

Ah a cold rain morning commute. My face!

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

'Met hulp van loyale uitvoerders en bondgenoten wereldwijd wist Rusland zichzelf de afgelopen drieënhalf jaar overeind te houden. De „Europese oorlogshitsers” zouden het volgens Poetin zwaarder hebben dan de Russen.' www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/... (€)

the Lions remain absolute kings of “wait a game can end like that???”

Current issue of @theonion.com nails it again.

All of these links went to promotion of this story earlier today. All these links are dead now — that's how thoroughly they've scrubbed this.

Best portrayal of a smart junior enlisted. Call 988

🏈#Bears and idea they'll 'Take the North' have been punchlines. Now, they're closing in on it. 🏈19 of Green Bay's 70 plays were run inside CHI 20-yard line. Red zone defense won the game. 🏈And MUCH more after a most improbable win over the #Packers. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/21/c...

Congress is wrapping up the year without a lot of legislative accomplishments under its belt and a growing list of lawmakers who are retiring. Former members say the challenges on Capitol Hill have been brewing for a long time. n.pr/3L60qp3