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

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.

Update on this thread with a new action by Trump that was on Harold Hamm wish list: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/c... Trump Halts Five Wind Farms Interior Depart said the projects posed "national security" risks, without providing details. The decision imperils billions of dollars of investments

The American College Theatre Festival has suspended its affiliation with the Kennedy Center after nearly six decades of partnership. www.broadwayworld.com/article/Amer...

Weiss touted El Salvador’s brutal leader while her blog published jokes about Trump sending immigrants to the CECOT prison. She has also joked about torture of prisoners.

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

8 years ago the GOP insisted the president didn’t say what we all heard him say: that the Nazis who attacked & murdered people in Charlottesville were “very fine people.” Now the VP - and the entire GOP - use word-for-word the same rhetoric of those very Nazis on a daily basis

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.

This was a coupon ad in the mail but we’re just kind of keeping it around now for this incredibly smiley man. It’s like someone brought a Christmas sweater to life and every time we see it it cheers us up.

The women in this 1964 photo of Beatles fans (yes, that's what they used) could not get a credit card at Bank of America without their husband or father cosigning. So, no. The answer, CBS and Bank of America, is no.

“The inflation data is missing numbers on the key areas that are costing you more — no data from October & November on food, shelter, and health care.” @jessicatarlov.bsky.social making the point that the Trump numbers should be “taken with a grain of salt”

This was found in the batch of Epstein files the DOJ released today.

One of the ways you can tell America is stronger than ever is that it’s almost Christmas and all anyone is talking about is a heavily redacted set of documents about sex monsters

It is utterly catastrophic that RFK Jr. plans to end CDC recommendations for most childhood vaccines. It’s a betrayal of science, ethics, compassion, and the people of the United States. And it was also a specific goal of Project 2025 (page 254).

Nenko Gantchev should still be alive—home with his family. After 30 years contributing to Chicagoland as a small business owner and taxpayer, ICE detained him, ignored his medical needs, and he died in custody. This system is cruel, reckless, and must be held accountable.

A lot of others willing to give up their jobs to let people know RFK, Jr. is on the cusp of doing very bad things:

“.. It was one thing when Mr. Trump called a reporter ‘piggy.’ Or casually threatened to put a half-dozen members of Congress to death .. Or labeled all Somali immigrants ‘garbage.’ “.. many in Washington .. wondering if the leader of the free world has lost it.” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...

Our new golden age of free speech, where opposition to immigration enforcement can trigger a federal investigation

YOU DUMB FUCKS. THIS IS ME. I have a scooter. I can walk. I can't, however, walk through 80 miles of airport. I can walk onto an airplane or through hallways. I can't walk the .5 mile to the convention center. People, get smarter, it's embarrassing at this point.

Press conference on Brown University shooting: —Suspect is Claudio Nevis Valenti, 48-year-old man, Brown Univ student, Portuguese national. Last known address in Miami. Took his own life tonight.

Not to go down this week's particular rabbit hole very deeply, but as a guy who was *in fact hiring Hollywood writers* between 2011 and 2018, four staffs in total, it seems a lot of smart commenters are missing I did not diversify my rooms to be woke, I diversified my rooms to have better rooms.

Bluesky tonight is neatly divided between trans people and family members appropriately angry and freaking out and everyone else who has barely noticed.

it is terrifying and awful that this passed the House with any Dem support at all (and once again, the continued leadership support for Cuellar is unconscionable) call your senators and make absolutely sure this dies in the Senate, lives are on the line trans people deserve so much better

shot/chaser in just 2 sentences

Biden was the kind of old where you take away the car keys. Trump is the kind of old where you don't let him near the grandchildren

The Vanity Fair photographer from the Susie Wiles story. Holy. Shit. www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...

The U.S. is giving dying mall vibes. I can't explain it, but you know I'm right.

Hey, what's your favorite thing about AI? Is it the theft from authors? The way it's revolutionized the production of child sexual abuse material? Or maybe how the data centers that are required to run it are poisoning Black communities and draining our fresh water?

Starting today, we’re putting these billboards up near U.S. Southern Command and U.S. Special Operations Command — the outposts overseeing Trump’s controversial boat strikes that have killed nearly 100 people.

A quite startling overperformance for Democrats in tonight's special election for a state Senate seat in Kentucky: Democrat Gary Clemons won 72% to 25%. He was defending a Dem-held seat where Kamala Harris beat Trump by 5% last year.

Everyone wants to make “sense” of things, but we are all currently hostage to an irrationalist epistemic environment. You might as well just read the entrails of a slaughtered goat to divine where events are headed.

I must've watched this movie 100 times before one day, I left the DVD on after watching, and the title was up for a while, when I finally looked closely, and for the first time noticed... the umlauts were over consonants. I fell over in an empty room, laughing that they'd got me one more time.

Tech oligarchs derive their power from a passive market and we can put our disdain for dangerous, unaccountable wealth into action. We have power to upend everything by looking at their free tech offerings and declaring independence. "I refuse." Get off Meta products. Get off X. Say no to AI.

During the holiday season, as families and friends come together to honor tradition and find comfort in fellowship, the increased cost of day-to-day living — groceries, utilities and health care — is front and center on everyone’s minds.   Read my op-ed here.

at some point these podcasters are going to stop live tweeting open cases. just kidding no they wont. podcaster occupied government

The funniest thing about the 30 posts the CBS News Twitter account made is that most of them have like... a couple hundred likes total.

Two babies were born in New York within a year of each other, soon after WWII. One, Rob Reiner, lived a life of humanity and achievement. He brought us delight and joy. His memory will be a blessing. The other, Donald Trump, will be remembered as an embarrassment to our nation.

John Oliver really was not kidding about the overwhelming rebellious power of just saying “Fuck you, make me.”

🧵 A brilliant essay by Michael Hirschorn @hirschorn.bsky.social

Because he is, in effect, a nullity, because there's nothing to him, because he is transparent, it follows that anyone who sees content, sees depth, is capable of being surprised, is *projecting*. This is why Trump is useful & somewhat fascinating: he is a blank canvas upon which people project.

Private equity must be stopped. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/u...

I am often asked what laws I would recommend blue states adopt. While there is no one-size-fits-all approach, there are seven changes every state could adopt right now, for virtually no cost or administrative burden. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/seve...

Trump keeps making batshit crazy comments, and the media keep deciding it’s the new normal — not news.

these mfers love talking about God while radiating evil like an unshielded reactor core

"So now, Americans want to know who did what to whom and when – poring over the photographs like the Zapruder film of a new generation. But I know that the victims have already told you the truth. The only conspiracy in America that remains is silence." @lyz.bsky.social bringing the truth home.

Every time I see this dude tweet I am reminded of bsky.app/profile/numb...

This is what he is like with *the press* - people who have some power over him. I just want you to imagine what it is like to be a public employee, with an ounce of integrity, who has to try to present any data that contradicts Trump's statements. And what sort of bubble Trump is in as a result.

Q: At the end of this year, those extended Obamacare subsidies expire. What's your message to those 24m Americans who will see their premiums go up? TRUMP: Don't make it sound so bad. Obviously you're a sycophant for Democrats. You're obviously a provider of bad news for Republicans.

Chavarria, a U.S. citizen, was held at the airport "for more than four hours and released only after he finally agreed to let the agents search his smartphone, tablet, and laptop computer. The agents...informed him that he had no Fourth Amendment right to resist." @pacificlegal.bsky.social is suing.