Politicians have no business being in your doctor's office. That's why we’re leading a new lawsuit – filed today – to make sure healthcare decisions stay with families and their healthcare providers, and not the government. #orpol

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...

OK, I totally dropped the ball on Noirvember. Noirs are all feature films and that's too much for me (especially since I often need to rewatch the movies I'm teaching on top of that). But I'm determined to have an Alanis Obomsawin December. I'm ready to immerse myself in the work of a master.

Collateral knowledge is one of the best parts of research! So many of my best conversations are born out of collateral knowledge I picked up from a brief hyperfixation, and it forms a bridge to such a wide group of people and ideas to have those sorts of connections!

These declines are MASSIVE. And the comparative silence in media coverage is absolutely DAMNING. “Why are ppl always so afraid of crime?” THIS is why. When crime goes up, media trips over itself to report it. Falls to pre-war (!!) levels? Just CRICKETS.

"The math is brutal and the juxtaposition stark: millions for OpenAI while pink slips go out to longtime lecturers. The CSU isn’t investing in education—it’s outsourcing it, paying premium prices for a chatbot many students were already using for free."

Greenland is an autonomous territory within the Kingdom of Denmark – a sovereign nation. Venezuela is a sovereign nation. Panama is a sovereign nation. Canada is a sovereign nation. Mexico is a sovereign nation. Ukraine is a sovereign nation.

The five stages of grief but it’s just me realizing I have to leave my house

"Coded" is the new "it's giving."

ICE whistles work.

love that software developers are advertising AI functionality in every single app now and it's up to you to try to figure out if they mean "this has spellcheck" or "everything you create in this app will sync in real-time to sam altman's personal laptop" or something in between

BREAKING: WATCH the full 60 Minutes CECOT segment here. This was sent to me anonymously. It appears to be the segment CBS' Bari Weiss killed. www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...

'Centred on sweeping orchestral arrangements and Rosalía’s jaw-dropping, sometimes operatic vocal chops, these songs touch on the intense give-and-take of romantic relationships, heartbreak and present-day femininity' Rosalía - LUX is a Quietus Album of the Month for Nov/Dec 2025 buff.ly/anIfoc6

For years now, moderates have decried the division of identity politics of Democrats, ignoring of course that the Republican Party was defined by identity politics itself — the identity of whiteness. Now that it’s explicit the inability to call it out and to cover it aptly is starkly disappointing.

One could probably do a supercut of 60 Minutes hosts saying "We invited so-and-so to come on the program to comment. They declined" that would run to several hours.

Final night 🥰

And a happy solstice to all. 8,500 at Stonehenge to see the light return.

We experience life (in part) in how we label it. "We're cooked" implies there's no reason to fight anymore. "We're successfully resisting" implies we will come out of this even if it takes a while and even if it's scary and difficult. POV makes a huge difference in how we *choose* to react.

In fact the Act prohibits them from redacting anything on the basis that it may cause reputational harm or embarrassment to a government official.

People often ask why Democrats don’t have something like TurningPoint USA — so before the year ends, let me introduce you to Voters of Tomorrow. We’re on campuses across the country, organizing over 10,000 Gen Z members to engage our generation. 🧵THREAD

Have you seen "prompt engineers" or "AI artists" jealously guard or hide their prompts or accuse others of stealing their 'work' (prompts)? Incredible shit

Words to live by. A 🧵.

So one of the things that I think is lost on AI proponents is what I call the card catalog effect, a thing I shouldn’t call it because a lot of people probably have no experience with a card catalog.

Can somebody put the green lines on this

Funny .

Epstein redactions aren't believable, and they are valuable to fascists specifically because they aren't believable. Fascists prefer lies to truth. Believing in a lie is preferable to believing a truth, if what you want is to dominate. Believing lies dominates truth. So they believe lies.

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One day something will happen — a wedding, a graduation, a job promotion, Jake Paul getting knocked out, Andrew Tate getting knocked out the next day — and you’ll want the right outfit to celebrate. Buy that special outfit now, so you’re ready when that next unexpected moment arrives.

I’d been asked about a GoFundMe by several of you fine folks ever since I had my seizure due to the stress of dealing with extreme emotional & financial abuse I’d been experiencing so my friend Jamie put one together with further details. The outpouring of support has been so very appreciated🙏🩵

“You say you won’t use AI but you’ll change your mind.” You completely underestimate my obstinance. Someone said the same thing to me about Photoshop 20 years ago and I’ve never touched it, and that!’s just contrarianism and not ethical opposition. I’ll use AI while I ice skate in hell.

Thread. Omg what a mess.

I'm an "A.i." abolitionist. Here's why. gregpak.net/2025/12/19/i...

Because it’s not just Bari Weiss’ CBS asking this question—in the last few months, I’ve been approached by half a dozen different shows looking to ‘debate’ the same topic. I even got a request from NPR-distributed “Open to Debate” to see if I’d weigh in on “Has Feminism Hurt Women?” NPR!

This whole dang thread, but also this key part of it:

Bobby will be relaxing in his outpatient room at Reagan Medical Center at UCLA, waiting for clearance to leave for home no later than Tuesday P.M. We still have a room bill for which to pay, airfare and in-home health care upon return! Let's raise $2000 more -- chip in $15, $27, $50, $100 or more:

In case it doesn't go without saying: I have not used gen AI to create text in any of my books. I have not used Grammarly etc to "clean up" the text. I have not used it to research any of my books, except where it might be built into search engines under the hood (I do not use labelled AI results).

The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality. And trans lives are grounded in reality. We see y'all. No matter what. www.popsci.com/science/tran...

I was just thinking this very thought about the indoor smoking bans, in the context of recent discourse here about cigarettes on planes. I was in California for the ban in bars, and within days, people who had been against it realized how cool it was to go home without smelling like an ashtray.

Everything is about sex, except sex, which is about power.

Okay this is blowing up. So I write (positively!) about mostly urbanism every day, from a layman's/center-right position, and assorted other topics (suburbia, old buildings, cultural history ,retail history, food/restaurants, video games). Check out my newsletter! www.thedeletedscenes.com

If anyone needs a good latke recipe my lifelong go to is Jewish Homemaker’s Guide

Let's go!!!

Why is Christmas 12 days? youtube.com/shorts/-x4JW...

I asked readers to write in with an example of One Good Thing that happened this year. Could be personal, could be a movie or book, could be something political. I got a bunch of great responses to share. www.welcometohellworld.com/one-good-thi...

The White House has been caught. The administration inserted a photo of Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross into the Epstein files and falsely implied it showed them with victims. In reality, it’s a publicly available fundraiser photo featuring Jackson and Ross’s own children.

DOJ broke the law today by refusing to produce all the Epstein files. It also broke the law by redacting information other than to protect victims. Yet, the corporate media is acting that DOJ did us a huge favor. Now, more than ever, help build independent, pro-democracy media. hubs.ly/Q03CbHTt0

Yes I WILL continue to heart every menorah that shows up on my timeline

Tonight on @SiriusXM #127 I’m joined by @gregproops.bsky.social and @frankconniff.bsky.social - and some highlights from our Town Hall with Rob Reiner, taped before a live audience. And we’re taking your calls at 866.997.GRIT.

In light of the bad faith redactions by the DOJ, I think it's fair to make equally bad faith assumptions about which politicians *specifically* they are protecting

Do not cite an academic paper unless you’ve read it