Very excited to attend the Cambridge Disinformation Summit next spring! It's a great hub for people in this space to come together and share ideas.

There's also this assumption that once POC have attained some elite credential, then a world of resources and privileges suddenly becomes easily accessible. But that's far from true. Racial discrimination persists! academic.oup.com/sf/article-a...

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 remains wild to me that during the first trump administration there was a long debate over terminology after AOC (correctly) called border internment "concentration camps" and now having concentration camps is a core domestic policy. The purpose of that stupid debate was to normalize the idea.

Quick explainer I did last night for the other apps. Please watch and share- the Trump administration is trying to bury this arbitrary and cruel restriction of our colleagues’ rights during the holidays. Don’t let them.

The response to this feels somewhat akin to the response to Hillbilly Elegy— that certain liberals must read it and praise it so that they can properly and publicly perform humility to atone for their eliteness. This is despite both of these books being written by Ivy Leaguers.

This is genuinely horrifying. Fact-free far-right agitprop given accolades by credible media across the political spectrum.

When I was on my last jury both the judge and prosecutor told us “if somebody walks in soaking wet with a wet umbrella, you are allowed to infer it’s raining” over and over again. Good enough to send an average guy down for murder, not good enough for the President.

Thanks to @technologyreview.com and Finian Hazen (who was a student in my special seminar @buffett.northwestern.edu) for this profile of our work @citizenlab.ca

I don’t wanna sound partisan but I think it’s bad when the president keeps raging publicly about free speech and late night comedy he doesn’t like and threatening state censorship all the time, and also using language that is easily construed as calling for someone’s death

white Christian nationalism on parade

There's a lot of money in being a dim bully who was oppressed by nothing but their own mediocrity.

Great to see the Commerce Secretary endorsing mandatory income equality.

Nina Jankowicz: “They’re not doing this because they have any evidence of censorship — they lost a Supreme Court case that made those claims… They’re doing this because the group of researchers and advocates have stood up to liars like Donald Trump and the platforms that enable them.”

It is especially revealing of Miller's obliviousness that he is making a "of course you'd refuse to house the stranger" claim *the week of Christmas*, which for everything else about it is fundamentally a story of hospitality denied then recieved. All nativism and no nativity for thise ghoul.

recalibrate your bullshit meter if this doesn't set it off at least 3 times

this is insane to me. the doj had forever to look into this. now they're like liveblogging on x like they have no more information than a random person on social media

Latest: I asked DHS' public affairs office if it considers recording or following federal law enforcement to be obstruction of justice. DHS response: "That sure sounds like obstruction of justice." reason.com/2025/12/22/d...

I forgot where I first heard or saw it but someone pointed out: look at the way this coverup is being conducted compared to how a different Trump attorney general completely ratfucked the mueller report Next time, hire the Iran Contra coverup man

⬇️ I am a massive remixer; the advice I would give is know and honor your inspirations, and talk about them.

Kill your darlings. Fuck you, man, that's the whole deal. I don't have any interest in writing like that other guy.

Show don't tell. A skill issue being pushed as a solution

I say that as someone who has started newsrooms from scratch sometimes with two people - if you’re doing your job correctly you will need a lawyer because the first thing rich people do when you write something they don’t like is threaten you legally. It’s cheap for them and expensive for you

This is the weirdest lowest effort tagline I’ve ever seen in my entire life on a movie poster. Whatever happened to the gutter poetry of ‘No one can hear you scream in space’ or even ‘The luck of the Irish… has just run out’

People who think evil, corrupt, and incompetent don’t go together have it backwards. Instead of looking to Hollywood to explain real world evil, look to Hannah Arendt. Uncorrupt people of integrity won’t do evil. And evil leaders work to elevate incompetents because that helps ensure their loyalty.

"It is logically impossible to simultaneously be evil, corrupt, and incompetent" is an absolutely amazing take to have in the year of 2025

Stephen Miller Demands CBS Employees Behind Revolt Be Fired www.mediaite.com/media/tv/fir...

This is the real cancel culture. Using the full force of the government to punish perceived enemies, aid their billionaire tech cronies, and protect pedophiles, neo-Nazis, and other extremist, antisemitic hate groups. THIS is the threat to our rights and freedoms. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/t...

I've suggested before that what ICE has done has gone farther than anything Kavanaugh's concurrence had actually authorized. Seems he agrees.

This story is incredible

one lesser awful thing about the Epstein files is that genuine crimes against a huge number of children are being morphed into fuel for the influencer industrial complex who don't care about truth or accuracy and just want grist for the content mills

...it's indistinguishable from endless Daily Stormer-level garbage they've already posted, as @annamerlan.bsky.social at @clarajeffery.bsky.social's Mother Jones documents in this important, scrupulously researched piece.

The saddest story ever told: Trying to be clever on LinkedIn

Because Vance is a public figure he is apparently more immune than I am from making insane, factually incorrect initially harmful statements. The president can sue you but according to the Supreme Court you cannot sue him

It is crazy that the president can sue anyone while he is president by the way. There is always incentive to settle if he is office and it always effectively a bribe. Congress needs to eliminate that possibility

A Character AI chatbot with an 11yr old girl (last year before they restricted genAI chat feature to under 18s)

Just want to point out that this man was leading the whole Turning Point USA crowd in prayer last week. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crim...

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law enforcement across the country does it all the time, always under the banner of "helping." it does not help that many law enforcement agencies rely on the ideas that girls have a form of stockholm syndrome and thus NEED to be arrested to be saved.

the least shocking thing in the epstein files that wont get enough attention. police regularly arrest and charge victims to coerce them into participating, often jailing them in conditions that are worse.

BREAKING: #SCOTUS rejects Trump over deployment of National Guard to aid immigration enforcement in Illinois, says law limits use to when regular military is insufficient. 3 justices dissent: Alito, Thomas, Gorsuch. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26... Earlier: www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

AI is a cancer.

So I hate to be That Guy, but we're entering into uncertain territory here with the Epstein Files, and it's more important than ever that we make sure we know all the facts before we blow things up. I'm talking now about the "tips" that DOJ is now releasing. They sound super salacious and evil.

- Does the music have to be Christmas music? - Will viewers know what a fireplace is? - Make the fire more appealing to single men.

Something very funny about de santis praising Coolidge for “immigration.” Coolidge’s immigration policy was that people named de santis shouldn’t be allowed to come here bsky.app/profile/anth...

look at how little effort it takes for someone on the conservative grievance circuit to destroy a life millions of college kids have half assed an assignment at the last minute, you eat the F and move on but the effort to push trans people out of public life will use whatever it can get

AI platforms where users can create intimate, evolving and individualized relationships with digital companions have introduced a daunting new layer of complexity for families seeking to protect their children from harm online.

While everyone got caught up in the infighting and trying to read the tea leaves, here’s an (unsurprising) data point out of TPUSA’s AmFest that imo ought to be a little more newsworthy: “total immigration moratorium” is just a mainstream GOP policy goal now