The thing is they never do because they actually like living in these places.

If I'm being honest, I'll be at the cottage for the rest of the year #heatedrivalry

My latest on JD Vance, who's ambition won't stop him from throwing anyone under the bus newrepublic.com/article/2046...

I got a love letter from a reader: "OMG you are one fucking ugly ass biased bitch."

Some days, I just feel overwhelmed by how everything everywhere is being wrecked. I know there are tons of decent, normal people fighting against this general trend, so we do have hope. But I still feel like every institution in America is rotting away. Or rather, being rotted: this is intentional.

Extremely funny to call the pope “holier-than-thou”

I’m literally never gonna be normal again xoxo

here we go (police incident report follows)

This quote is from a piece that’s 8 years old now.

This was exactly Adolf Eichmann's job.

it requires an absolutely staggering lack of self awareness for chatterton to complain that he has lost elite opportunities because he has anti-woke views.

It's a weird world when dutifully regurgitating a bunch of carefully curated information that the world's richest man gave you is "fearless journalism," but reporting on how the government is kidnapping innocent people and sending them overseas to be tortured is "not moving the ball forward."

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

In case people tell you that public criticism of the court doesn’t matter, here’s Brett Kavanaugh trying to walk back what he said in the ICE roving patrol case - when he blessed racial profiling & called the stops prompt. He was lambasted; @akalhan.bsky.social coined the term “Kavanaugh stops”

Not now, haunted Victorian shoes

The people who profited most from the cancel culture/free speech panic were less interested in actual freedom of speech than establishing their own control over public discourse. You don't even have to take my word for it. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

Really enjoyed chatting with @perrybaconjr.bsky.social yesterday!!!

"The idea that Dems need to go through their platform with a scalpel and excise the things that might be bothering working class voters is really silly. That's not how voters make decisions. Democrats have to decide what to be loud about and how to be loud about it," says @monicapotts.bsky.social.

"Part of what they need to be loud about is changing the economic story of America. It would be undermining that idea that private wealth generates wealth for all of us, that the government has no role in ensuring your economic security," says @monicapotts.bsky.social.

Describing the working class as anyone without a BA (about 60 percent of U.S. adults) isn't great analysis. What might be a better metric? Those with household income $30,000-$70,000, says @monicapotts.bsky.social. Our conversation on Dems and the "working class." newrepublic.com/article/2047...

Whether it's a low-level Biden staffer asking Facebook to correct some COVID misinformation or Donald Trump's right-hand man telling CBS to kill segment about ICE sending people to torture prisons, both sides have sought to limit free expression.

iCloud, Mega, and as a torrent. Archivists have uploaded the 60 Minutes episode Bari Weiss spiked.

All I want for Christmas is accountability.

Don't worry y'all, Bari Weiss is going to push the conversation forward with hard-hitting questions we've never seen debated before like, "Is There a God?" And "Is Feminism Bad?" Entirely new, never heard these debates in my life.

Yes, it’s entirely true that many of the migrants who came under the Biden admin did not have housing arranged for them when they arrived and so ended up in homeless shelters at first, at times for months, while they got on their feet. This is 100% true, not an anti-immigrant gotcha, just the facts.

What a Real DNC “Autopsy” of the 2024 Election Would Say trib.al/5YMOF9E TNR's @monicapotts.bsky.social on Right Now With @perrybaconjr.bsky.social

This is what is filling the vacuum in hostile states - because they are the ones with the funding. As we prepare for 2026, won’t you consider a donation to make sure ACTUAL comprehensive sexual and maternal health remains an option? wawchealth.com/donate/

Matt Yglesias consistently treats net zero as if it’s some arbitrary goal that activists want, not a goal that scientists say is necessary to preserve a livable planet for all. He so badly wants a solution that sounds "reasonable" that he's willing to ignore and dismiss scientific reality.

The right, along the Roberts Court, is trying to nullify the Reconstruction amendments guaranteeing equality under the law, in order to restore the Antebellum Constitution, which envisions “liberty” as an eternal aristocracy of race and class (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

AI advocates: you really need to learn to stop coming off to subject matter experts in other fields as if you’re Kool-Aid manning into the room and going “you’re dumb not to use these tools for your trivially easy jobs” you may think this is an unfair read on your intentions, but life is unfair.

You absolutely will not convince a bunch of historians and sociologists and whoever else is in this thread that you know more than we do about this and we should use it. I wish you AI enthusiasts would stop wading into our conversations. You have nothing helpful to contribute and are snarky.

We desperately need permitting reform, even if it means easier permits for drilling as well as renewables, but I don’t see how Dems can go along with it if it lets Trump keep blocking renewables.

So they’re really gonna go with “The Donald J. Trump and The John F. Kennedy Center” huh Like they literally just pasted his name at the top regardless of whether it made plain sense in English

this, from Bari Weiss's 9pm editorial call, is just complete and utter horseshit. she can't even do damage control right

NEW: For almost a decade, North Carolina’s majority-Republican legislature tried six times to strip Democratic governors of control over the board overseeing the swing state’s elections. This year, it finally succeeded.

It's hard to tell if this is because she likes what the administration is doing, is an idiot, or both.

This is NYT headline morning after JD’s grotesque hot blast of white supremacist nativism at Turning Point’s hate-fest?!

And here’s a free link to the NYT piece on the 60 Minutes disaster. Bari Weiss thinks CBS reporters can’t get Stephen Miller to talk to them because they don’t have his phone number. And she doesn’t know how to use a dictionary. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...

“Americans are increasingly hungry for Italian piazzas, Spanish plazas, French places, & similar squares around the globe. But the joy of experiencing life in these public squares leaves some travelers disappointed when they return to the States.” Don’t let ANYONE tell you it HAS to be that way.

60 Minutes is one of only two documentary-style public affairs programs left on the air. The other is Frontline on PBS, which saw its funding gashed by the Trump admin and Congress. They have a matching donation rn. www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontli...

I worked at a newspaper in Stamford, CT and Vince McMahon came in to yell at my bosses about a story I'd done. Part of the job.

Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

Note: It lacked a Trump administration interview, as Scott's piece points out in the lede, because the administration declined to give one.

Straight from evangelical culture. Death is just a new beginning. No reason to mourn.

Whoaaaaaaa

I got my covid and flu vaccines Friday (a little later than I wanted to for various reasons) and, as usual, they knocked me out for about 24 hours. And now I'm the most rested I've ever been.

This is my favorite version of the AI push — we don’t have any real ideas for how you should use it, but it’s not going anywhere, so you had better figure out a use for it and then start using it quick! Uh, no. I don’t think I will.

A Trump-appointed judge was so upset with the living conditions in which ICE detained an immigrant in Long Island, New York, that he threatened to hold the government in contempt. “I have never encountered anything like this." trib.al/0xSiFOr

Oh, really. You're writing a book, you say? Me, too! You're doing research, you say. Me, too! You know what I rely on to find primary sources and "piece them together"? My own brain. You know who "looks things up for me"? Me, that's who. You know who writes it, from beginning to end? Me.

This Yglesias piece in the NYT is horrifically bad. Almost every "fact" it cites is provably false. At best it is cocktail party banter from a pundit who knows nothing of energy. At worst, it was cut/paste from oil industry talking points. So, a rebuttal: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/o...