Scientists in Canada discovered a polar bear mother took in another cub as her own. Experts say cases of cub adoption among polar bears are “relatively infrequent.” Read more: https://wapo.st/49hDaxz

Trump didn’t exactly refute the “personality of an alcoholic” allegations tonight

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

If Ronald Reagan wanted to turn the United States into "a nation composed of good and decent people,” he would have had to self-deport.

🚨 THE BATTLE BEGINS 🚨 Your favorite year-end contest is back. It’s time to choose who will be this year’s Worst Person In Tech for 2025! Each day of this week new matchups will drop until we choose the winner on Friday. 🗳️ Cast your ballot: twsu.forms.app/worst-person...

I’m calling a press conference to announce we have no official update. Now we will endure a litany of politicians who will praise our partnership with a long list of other politicians

NEW: Brown econ prof Rachel Friedberg says the shooting happened in a finals review session: "The room has stadium seating with doors that enter at the top. [The TA] said that the shooter came in the doors, yelled something ... and started shooting." www.oceanstatemedia.org/news-and-cul...

At this hearing, @padilla.senate.gov asked me whether mass deportation is making us more safe. Here was my response.

The birds lingered for days at a Catholic school near Cincinnati as agencies haggled over who was responsible for removing them. Officials said the public health risk was low. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/u...

📰 NEWS: Attorneys challenging the military’s ban on enlistment of people living with HIV presented oral arguments in Wilkins v. Hegseth today before a three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. Learn more: tinyurl.com/2upnnca7 

NEW: Trump’s Own Mortgages Match His Description of Mortgage Fraud, Records Reveal www.propublica.org/article/trum... w/ @robert-faturechi.bsky.social @amierjeski.bsky.social

The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow

A raccoon sneaked into a Virginia liquor store, broke some bottles, sampled the merchandise, and passed out in the bathroom. He was taken into custody, sobered up, and released on his own recognizance. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

This is so hilarious.

My great-uncle was born in the Russian Empire and wrote God Bless America

Detention and deportation are now the punishment for fighting the brother of Trump’s press Secretary for joint custody of your kids. I hope Vance’s wife is paying attention.

Trump administration announces plan to charge foreign visitors substantial more than residents to visit America's national parks. Non-residents face a $100 upcharge at the most popular sites. Interior says it's implementing exec order to increase revenue. www.washingtonpost.com/travel/2025/...

A federal judge also dismissed the criminal charges against New York Attorney General Letitia James.

A federal judge has dismissed the charges against former FBI director James Comey, ruling that the former Trump attorney who brought the charges was not legally serving as the U.S. attorney.

Nhi Linh, a 12-year old Asian elephant at the National Zoo, is pregnant. Asian elephant pregnancies typically last 18 to 22 months, and this first-time mom’s birth window is between mid-January and early March. For this endangered species, every calf born is a win for conservation!

So when the Epstein email said Trump was blowing Bubba, who would gave guessed that Bubba was Mamdani?

Management complains about the “aggressive, disruptive, and threatening behavior” of the union members and then you see the video where someone calmly asks “Will you please speak to us?” Conde Nast’s management looks like grossly incompetent 3-year olds. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Reuters reports that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is seeking to move all remaining enforcement cases and litigation to the Department of Justice. The Trump administration claims the agency is running out of funding and will shut down soon. www.reuters.com/world/us-con...

It appears the EWA provider Activehours dba Earnin has suffered a data breach. They filed a report with the Attorney General of Texas (and probably other states) disclosing the breach. There are three class action lawsuits filed already. Will post more details when they are available.

Oh my. James Talarico is incredibly skilled in dismantling Christian Nationalists. Get this man in the Senate.

Does he even own a suit?

Nov. 18, 1775: The Pennsylvania Assembly votes to issue £80,000 in bills of credit to support the war effort. A provincial tax levied on property, just like the one now in place, will pay for the debt.

FWIW, I've reached out to the Alliance Defending Freedom and the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty — groups that have long touted their support for religious freedom — about things such as the treatment of clergy, alleged inability of ICE detainees to access religious rites, etc. No response yet.

SNL tonight had a lot of hair-oriented comedy, but overall was very good. Bobs vs Bangs was fantastic.

Going back to Summers' talk about how women don't want to work hard and don't have high end aptitude, we could ask: What fraction of young men must deal with a creep with substantial power over their career hitting on them using tips from an infamous pedophile? 🤔 www.thecrimson.com/article/2005...

I wanted to share probably the most important sermon I’ve given and it’s while I’m being arrested. It’s torture pure and simple what happens at #Broadview. I’m ok, though I was thrown to the ground and choked with my pectoral cross. A review of the video shows I was peaceful - did I deserve this?

Trump and Epstein Birds of a feather anntelnaes.substack.com/p/trump-and-...

The app Text with Jesus lets you talk with a higher power, but that higher power is a server farm in Nevada.

But the Chinese aircraft carrier uses electromagnetic catapults to launch planes. That’s no good. Everyone knows STEAM IS BETTER. You see that cloud of steam go whoosh. Steam doesn’t need magnets. Magnets are bad. Nobody knows how they work.

I don’t understand the Patton Oswalt thing. Was he supposed to say “head first”?

Today, SCOTUS scheduled oral arguments for Jan. 13, 2026 in Lambda Legal and @aclu.org's case, B.P.J v. West Virginia, challenging a law that bars trans girls from participating on girl’s athletic teams.    Learn more: tinyurl.com/dhn2em66  @acluwv.bsky.social

Now we know where Melania went.

Happy Veterans Day.

I need a ruling from @darthbluesky.bsky.social

Nov. 10, 1775: Privateer William Coit and his ship, the Harrison, return to Plymouth, Mass., after seizing two British ships. A "humorous genius," Coit "made the prisoners land upon the same rock our ancestors first trode when they landed in America." 1/2

Lambda Legal @lambdalegal.org, advocates for LGBTQ+ people, praised the high court for rejecting the case. CEO Kevin Jennings said the decision not to hear the “frivolous case” was a victory “for everyone who believes in our constitution and the rule of law.” Gift link to WaPo wapo.st/3Lxldlp

Supreme Court declines to take case challenging marriage equality rights. Gift link to NYT story. Note the threats from losing counsel: “It is not a matter of if, but when the Supreme Court will overturn Obergefell.” We must stay vigilant. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...

In a victory for the LGBTQ+ community––and everyone who believes in our Constitution and the rule of law––the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed that marriage equality is the law of the land.   Moments like this demand action from all of us. Help us protect equality today: lambdalegal.org/protectmarri...

40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion

NYT quotes the Tampa police chief saying a “careless, reckless driver takes everybody’s lives there in his hands” but don’t point out the careless drivers in this case were Tampa police who engaged in a needless high speed chase in a dense urban area killing 4 people and injuring 9.

Anyone else get something like this in their DMs? I’ve not seen anything like this on Bsky before. Maybe I’m just lucky. Yes, I did report it. @joshuajfriedman.com