G*d I love us.

What an interesting coincidence.

When I got cast in Billions one of the coolest parts about it is that I got have a four hour lunch with Andrew Ross Sorkin and talk about financial journalism and one of the big things we talked about is how reporting on markets changes the market and how you thread that needle

We got Weird Al out here singing Killing In The Name, the time for moderation is over

the birthright clause was not just written to wipe dred scott off of the books, it was written to repudiate the *idea* behind dred scott, you might say the larger *ideological project* of dred scott. and the whole of section 1 of the 14th amendment is a constitutional statement of political equality

i think to understand the meaning of the birthright citizenship clause to the framers of the 14th amendment, you have to understand significance of dred scott to the civil war republican party. dred scott wasn't just a bad ruling, it was understood as a rejection of the declaration itself.

41 minutes of watching two shipwrecked men trying to flip a boat and signaling for surrender/help before firing on them again reminds me of the 9.5 minutes Derek Chauvin knelt on George Floyd’s neck, in that it’s an agonizingly long time to be killing helpless people who clearly posed no threat.

it might seem surprising that the people who said “look, let trans people live their lives, but i have Reasonable Concerns about sports and toilets” aren’t up in arms about this, but what you have to remember is that those people who said that are liars who were lying

This is, straightforwardly, the threat of disparate treatment to stifle dissent. The DOJ's Deputy Attorney General is telling lawyers critical of administration policies that their clients will be singled out for harsher treatment. Rule by law, not rule of law. www.politico.com/news/2025/12...

This is great. Very few people want to go to jail, get disbarred or die for this regime. Make them fight you. They will cave. www.ms.now/news/minneap...

Lord in Your mercy.

so I have a friend who had Amy Coney Barrett as a prof and she's apparently quite smart and a good but challenging professor. compare to, say, Brett Kavanaugh, a stone-cold idiot with an out-of-control spending problem which he solved by becoming one of the world's premier bribe opportunities

Another one for the ‘actual, literal, Biblical Antichrist’ file

This is the right way to look at it

Cowboy Bebop - Opening | Tank! People came running from other rooms to watch--then STAYED. "Is the show any good?" "Yup." Fantastic ambassador for anime.

Stop saying “DEI” or “equity-related.” Stop using the words they choose to mask their vile racist ideology with the language of those they hate. Say they want to remove any books that speak to the lives of anyone who isn’t white, straight, Christian, or male. Name the hate. Make them own it.

i fucking love my country of MPLS

Idiocy. Bigotry. Cruelty.

people keep asking why bradley is covering for hegseth or the admin, and that’s the thing, from what we know, he isn’t. he ordered the execution of two men hanging onto a capsized boat with no capacity to call for help, because he could and because he knows this admin will not hold him to his oaths

I was talking to a friend today, and her son is a class at school that is I guess supposed to promote financial responsibility and planning—learning about things like investing in the stock market and the like—and the teacher is hyping PolyMarket. Chat, we're cooked if we don't ban this stuff.

Oh no, we can't loose the strict adherence to traditional ideas of gender and sexuality that the Looney Tunes cartoons were so famous for.

I canvassed for the DNC for the 2004 election and there were so many times a man would tell me "we're Republicans" and his wife would secretly chase me down, say she's a Democrat and give me a cash donation. Liberal women are no longer putting up with that arrangement and it's scaring men.

It’s clear from the video this woman had just come to the park to play with her child. She said as much and was upset that there were masked men with guns in the park. Border Patrol chief Greg Bovino calls the woman an “activist” and Andy Ngo says the woman was using her child as a “human shield.”

At MPR now: Across the Twin Cities, ICE agents and activists are playing a high stakes cat-and-mouse game. The goal is to make ICE agents' jobs as difficult as possible, and protect their immigrant neighbors. share.google/4LfU58LW6iUR...

The dude fired Breznican, the studio tentpole exclusive king, and Lawson, one of the greatest critical talents of this generation, as his first moves. And IDK if you flipped through his first issue as EIC, but the ad sales… woof. Barely any new buys apart from cat food. He was hired to kill VF.

IMO not enough scrutiny directed at VF's Mark Guiducci, who hired Nuzzi. The RFK affair was disqualifying on its own ofc, but the fact that it happened (it's RFK Jr!) was an obvious sign more ethical lapses + embarrassing stuff was floating around. Reflects poorly on an EIC to not anticipate as much

NEW info on shipwreck attack. It gets worse. The 2 survivors climbed atop wreckage and waved to overhead. "Some of the people viewing the video thought ... could have been an attempt to surrender" Others "said the most logical explanation was ... signaling for a rescue." 1/

is there another way to make a social norm omelette?

Every time I have ever listened to Call me Maybe I like it even more

Sabrina Carpenter is now our President. Sorry, don't make the rules

Joint Statement of the Acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery by Netflix.

In Chicago, a Nativity scene features a zip-tied baby Jesus and Roman centurions in "ICE" vests. Near Boston, Mary, Joseph, and Jesus are absent from a Nativity scene, replaced with a sign reading "ICE was here." It's all part of growing religious blowback to ICE. religionnews.com/2025/12/05/i...

hot diggity dog

Discworld QOTD, from Eric "Hell, it has been suggested, is other people. This has always come as a bit of a surprise to many demons, who had always thought that hell was sticking sharp things into people and pushing them into lakes of blood and so on."

This is one of the most brutal massacres in modern history. "As many as 150,000 residents of El Fasher remain unaccounted for since the city fell to the RSF. They are not thought to have left the city."

Our Dumb Century was dreadfully significant in the development of my sense of humor, there are too many great gags to name but starting off the most significant event of the 20th century with a typesetting joke is peak

looking forward to either a 6-3 decision that trump as God Emperor of the United States can change the constitution by fiat or a 5-4 decision that 14th amendment means what it says with a dissent from thomas that actually the constitution recognizes donald j. trump as sovereign

The FIFA Peace Prize sounds like a throwaway 30 Rock joke about an event Jack Donaghy was attending or Jenna Maroney was performing at.

berserk ass looking statue

Isn’t this just the poster for Spielberg’s War of the Worlds?

Bill Cassidy gets a Nuremberg trial so he can explain why he aided and abetted tens of thousands of deaths even though he knew better.

Since becoming a parent I have not, in fact, understood the parents who say “if you were a parent you’d understand” about vaccine hesitancy. Being in charge of this fragile little miracle has me saying things like “give her all the vaccines. Turn this baby into a pincushion” to doctors

That’ll do it

Straight out of the Nazi playbook.

Oh so now it's bad to say that troops should give civilians "no quarter" eh Tom

ME: they shouldn't be able to say 'your order has shipped' when they've just created a label. That's not shipped. ISAAC CHOTINER: so, you've never claimed to have a task underway when you've merely opened the file? ME: that's not- CHOTINER: in this Teams message to your boss, you said-

Ten years ago yesterday, I published my first piece about autism. It sent me on the trajectory to write about autism as my second job, write my first book and now my second book. I still have the emails people sent to me. From the bottom of my heart, thank you. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

"Listen I was paid in the past, Sean, for my opinions. That’s clear. And one day I will be back in that space, but that’s not what I’m paid for now." These are not serious people. www.mediaite.com/media/tv/fbi...