The Atlantic suggesting, without evidence, that Canada's Global TV broadcasting the '60 Minutes' segment on CECOT that CBS distributed to it may have been an act of "treachery." 🔗: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

This is frankly obscene. A form of victim blaming. You cannot ethically put a lying machine into a classroom, tell students who have not LEARNED the actual MATERIAL being discussed to interact with it, and then demand that these students determine what is a lie and what is true. Shameful.

Thanks for sharing this document, @rweingarten.bsky.social. I read it, and I believe it's inexcusably inadequate and will not prepare teachers or schools to confront the very real dangers of the "A.i." products pushed by your partners, including OpenAI. A few thoughts for your consideration...

It's Trump policy that U.S. tech must be globally dominant. It's also US policy that its tech corps must be free from: Regulation. Taxation. Fact checking and monitoring for hate lies, disinformation. All are now being treated as attacks on the U.S. itself. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

This Admin has been a Big Tech coup from Day 1. Now 5 Europeans who have regulated or monitored big tech for hate and disinformation are barred from the US. Chilling stuff. According to Rubio, the infraction is: "targeting American speakers and American companies.” ‪

Merry Christmas to all my followers!🌲❤️ Thank you so much for all your support.. it's been a challenging year with stress related stomach issues, catching Lyme Disease and badly burning my hand, but the constant escape for me is the birds... I love sharing them with you!🐦🥰

thinking of the fugitive slave act and people who profited from it

Here's my favorite flying deer photo. This is a mule deer fawn from a couple of summers ago. It was grazing with its mom. Mom moved on, and this cute fawn hurried to keep up. laurel-gale.pixels.com/featured/jum... #wildlife #nature 📷

Trump is continuing his assault on American diplomacy. He is purging talent and expertise to make it easier to ram through his failed and destructive foreign policy agenda. Leaving 29 Ambassadorships empty for the sake of gutting expertise is peak self-sabotage.

My house. Right now.

three years since we found a little kitten in the yard on Xmas Eve

One thing that really stands out about this week's California storms is the highly unusual risk of severe thunderstorms, both overnight Tue Wed and then again late Wed into Thu. Multiple low-topped supercells may generate very strong wind gusts and even a few tornadoes. #CAwx

one lesser awful thing about the Epstein files is that genuine crimes against a huge number of children are being morphed into fuel for the influencer industrial complex who don't care about truth or accuracy and just want grist for the content mills

Gift shopping for loved ones can be demoralizing because it's oh, you love them? Name literally anything they would like.

In 2023 I became obsessed with videos of dads in cargo shortswaiting in parking lots during Taylor Swift's Eras Tour. So when she came to town, I grabbed a camera and headed down to talk to them. I thought it'd be funny. It turned out to be something else entirely.

Putin needs no disinformation campaign of his own. He has the Trump gang.

ah i see where the confusion's coming rom here. none of this has ever been about saving money. it's about racism. hope that helps

It’ll never beat Yuja Wang playing Flight of the Bumblebee. youtu.be/8alxBofd_eQ?...

College journalism strikes again www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

"Her family has now been told she has been deported, despite US District Judge Brendan Hurson ruling Thursday that she could not be deported pending a hearing...attorneys said Monday that they have...confirm[ed] with the hospital she was born in Maryland." https://bit.ly/3MMdJvz

🎵 Sings a song, sounds like she's singin' 🎵 #birds 🪶

To show America's commitment to free speech, I, Marco Rubio, am punishing people for their free speech. The US government is a bunch of performative 🤡s

Mr Slips got his own tree this year:

“Yo what?” LimeWire re-emerges in online rush to share pulled “60 Minutes” segment arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

One more layer to that: Trump considers himself to be the country. So he just wants it for himself.

but seriously if you want to know how the Trump Kennedy Center Honors went here’s my report from the night-of

“Global TV may have been merely careless in letting the segment out, but since they are Canadian, I would not rule out treachery, and an effort to make Americans and their media look silly, no matter their political views.” Buddy, Canadians don’t need treachery to make Americans look silly.

I don’t wish cancer on anyone, but let’s not start with the Ben Sasse hagiographies. He was terrible senator and an even worse university president, ripping off the taxpayers for millions of dollars while hiding behind piety.

ah yes a true holiday classic

Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter

I don’t read the split as moral or principled. I read it as simply disagreeing assessments about whether Trump will retain power indefinitely or not. Which is still good news.

A friend had a death in his family & our other friends wanted to do something for him but weren't sure what. My advice was to not say "let us know if we can do anything" having been in a similar situation. The person is overwhelmed. Don't put the burden on them. Instead tell them what you can do 1/

It's a failure of the academic imagination to think cutting core mission is the best route to right-sizing. Keep your teachers and researchers and lower class sizes (post pandemic students need more attention). Get ur savings by cutting admin fat and all the contracts with groups like Huron.

It's time to leave your lucrative office job and go work at a factory, where the robots have taken all of the jobs

You ever have those mornings where you just look in the mirror for a minute and wonder how exactly you ended up who you are www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Philip is right, and it's the fact that there's no widespread outrage or objection to this — among elites and among the electorate — that makes me think that America is a lost cause.

1. Keep your eye on the ball, people That Epstein-Larry Nassar letter has fake written all over it -- N. Virginia postmark, after JE's death, in a handwriting that appears not his own It's hard not to think DOJ WANTED this out there to then be debunked and thus discredit every mention of Trump...

2025: Web pages vanished. Links broke. Public data disappeared. But the Internet Archive kept the receipts. From investigative reports to video features, these stories show why preserving the web became one of the year’s defining information battles. ➡️ blog.archive.org/2025/12/22/t... 🧵

Said it before, I'll say it again: A LOT of political journalism is really just bad travel writing

This is as easy a test of your belief in the American system as is conceivable: Should this be an acceptable argument from a president?

again, it came into DOJ possession because it was validly returned to the jail where Epstein killed himself. that doesn't mean Epstein wrote it. these kind of post-event pranks happen all the time; this was just last week!

this is my take, the fact it's postmarked three days after Epstein died and anybody can get mail returned to a sender that isn't them, and it reads too clumsily on the nose

Worth noting that the student admits that she just threw the thing together in 30 minutes without reading the paper she was supposed to be responding to.

Immigration officials have separated dozens of kids from their families in Oregon alone. *At three kids have been sent to foster care after their parents were grabbed.* www.oregonlive.com/news/2025/12...

ABA is NOT the 'gold standard of autism care.' The lack of autistic staffers is showing here and with so many devastating Medicaid cuts to programs that serve children, focusing on a controversial one targeting autistics in this political climate is a loaded choice.

I'm not sure it's safe to assume he wrote it. He was at MCC; the postmark is from Virginia. The return address for MCC is wrong and doesn't include his register number, as is required. And it's not clear to me that an inmate could get or send a card like that.

How I transformed from dog guy into cat daddy for Christmas www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/outl...

Portrait of a Raven (2025) #ArtAdventCalendar #Photography

Bari’s complaint was “there’s nothing new here” and while that’s untrue it’s also irrelevant “we intentionally sent people to be tortured in a hellhole and bragged about it and The Hague is too good for everyone involved” is a story that simply cannot be told enough