Oligarch backing AI which plagiarizes science, art, and is an excuse to layoff workers doesn't understand why so many people are angry at him and his class

“Like prime, but with human beings”

*taps sign* bsky.app/profile/dari...

Time for the classics

Indonesian food is phenomenal and its a travesty you basically can only get it in Indonesia or the Netherlands

The LoTR scene with Christopher Lee and Ian McKellen is such a masterclass

Its remarkable how little people like Kavanaugh understand members of their own coalition. What did he think Miller and Noem would do when he gave them more power?

It is remarkable how many times one can lose scissors or tape while wrapping presents and not moving.

Jail every responsible officer over the holidays for contempt and then until the agency returns her to the US. This cannot stand.

TFW you post final grades www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDIT...

I think someone showing him his low poll numbers has really hurt him.

Lost my uncle to pancreatic cancer around the same age. Cancer is a thief and I hate seeing our current government undermine research in beating this.

Amazing how you can make it look like the economy is growing simply by reducing imports

“Deportations & Latino Segregation”: @fertmortmig.bsky.social @jakerugh.bsky.social & Hao Liang examine how 287(g) enforcement slowed drops in local segregation by 1/3rd, esp. in New South states, entrenching “patterns of residential stratification & inequality.” read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...

Just like any country that has "Democratic" in their name

NPR would not have covered Ferdinand Marcos' or Suharto's corruption this way.

Via @ulaakuzi.bsky.social: Eritrean imam dies in ICE custody as detainee deaths hit 20-year high —> religionnews.com/2025/12/21/e...

Reactionary Conservatives are so mad about losing status that they're turning the Unites States into Hungary

So Bari Weiss’s first real editorial intervention at CBS is to repress coverage of American concentration camps.

Even my local Fox station is covering this story.

BYU fans watching the NCAA playoffs today

I can't tell the Oklahoma and Alabama coaches apart

🚨 "The Justice Department redacted the names and identifiers of victims. Fox News Digital has learned that the same redaction standards were applied to politically exposed individuals and government officials. " h/t @kleinmatic.bsky.social

Any social scientists on here use the survey firm Centiment to conduct surveys in other countries?

Only public figure I've seen they didn't blur out so far is Bill Clinton, which we probably should've expected. Anyway a couple interesting ones. These photos are directly next to redacted child pornography in the files.

Clearly these people expect to be in the minority and don't want to be around for it.

Obviously an incumbent dropping out of a Trump +20 seat is a good sign for the GOP

Donald Trump had a team ready to deface the Kennedy Center the day after he "announced" a name change. Dems had weeks to plan for the obvious outcome that Trump would ignore this law.

Ok, I'm convinced we're in a simulation. This cannot be real.

Convenient that the Speaker put the House into recess so they can't hold Trump accountable on this.

In ways both big (blowing off the law to release ALL Epstein files today) and small (putting Trump's name on the Kennedy Center), today has a total "who's gonna stop me" vibe from the regime Maybe stop him?

The Robber President.

HOLY HELL, the Trump name is already going up on the Kennedy Center, right now. When I drove past it yesterday to grab a picture, I saw a Getty photographer taking some shots. That photographer—Heather Diehl—is back this morning, and she has been filing images of the Trump name going up.

The discourse on here about consumer sentiment is a good example of why you should use a comparative approach for inference. Solely looking at the US, it seems odd, but change your counterfactual/reference comparisons to other countries and it make more sense.

Do we have data on % of income dedicated to housing though? I have a secure job, but so much of my income goes to housing and there is no chance of us moving if we want. There is work by political scientists showing people vote for anti-system parties when they feel stuck. This tracks with that.

BYU's PR team seeing the Y in this photo:

Dear YouTube, I do not need an AI summary of comments: "Month X and Year Y anyone else!?" "Story of recently passed father/mother and how they loved this song"

It gets even more pathetic— x.com/RepBeatty/st...

I’m struck again by how you tell this is a cast of gigantic losers by how they keep telling you how respected and successful they are

You guys. No. It's named by statute. Do better.

Donald Trump thinks he owns what is ours.

Sure seems like that if any elite tells you the Epstein Files are not a big deal they're really telling on themselves.

In his column talking about how irrelevant the Epstein files are, this guy should probably have mentioned that he had socialized at least once with Epstein and might end up in the Epstein files.

I have been loathe to suggest any impacts of political pressure on federal statistical agencies, but this is worrying to me.

Until the Democratic Party can come to terms with the fact that it is just a giant fundraising machine that allows vendors to siphon off money which weakens the party's local presence it will continue in this cycle of whiplashed wins and losses.

A big reason this is bad is it could let the Future Forward Super PAC escape any accountability for the 2024 loss. It had hundreds of millions of dollars in donor money, and the DNC report was reportedly going to fault them. Now this will remain undisclosed: newrepublic.com/article/2045...

A literal cult of personality