Bye mom!

longing for the more innocent days of 2024, when this miscreant wasn’t around to steal my glasses….

in most ways 2025 was a wretched year publicly and personally but I can’t really be down when we got a beautiful new baby out of it

people are getting mad at this for Abundance reasons but I’m surprised nobody got mad that I called La Guardia a socialist (which is only sort of equivocally true)

i am losing my mind over this listing that staged a condemned philly trap house with AI

The nuance here is that the IRT Company went bankrupt, and its subway lines survived because the city took them over under the leadership of the socialist Fiorello LaGuardia.

Men doing this whole “I will vanquish continents for my children” LARP is so goofy in the context of household surveys. It’s nice you’ll kill millions for your daughter, maybe we can start at doing a load of laundry for your wife who does the vast majority of household labor?

I agree with this. Most people who heard “mass deportation” implicitly added “of criminals and recent migrants” to the phrase, something which the Trump campaign itself supported through surrogates like Tom Homan who even during the transition was talking about how the focus would be on “criminals.”

"2500 Americans are killed daily by cardiovascular disease. By properly classifying the precursors as WMDs, we can fight a Clausewitzian Active Defensec against the transnational organizations destroying American lives..."

The Bulwark endorsement of JD Vance is gonna do numbers on here

this works well for “anti-Trump conservatives” because almost all of them have nice things to say about Zentrum

leading the revolution from a cave in Yan’an

conservatives remembering their weird fake obama controversies

If the practical consequences on drug shipments are nil and it was "symbolic", but in theory it was also supposed to be covert with neither the Venezuelans nor US public knowing it happened, symbolic to whom? JSOC and CIA just doing performative acts of war for political appointees and electeds?

this guy is their nominee for ambassador to Malaysia

Sadly, in today’s media environment, it’s easier to shriek about a “Massacre of the Holy Innocents” than to articulate the deeply-felt security concerns of an important ally of the Imperium, and the world’s only Jewish King.

I had missed this latest delirium by Adrian Vermeule on birthright citizenship 'Common law?! NAH, it's the Roman law of adoption that should govern the interpretation of the 14th Amendment of the US Constitution!' thenewdigest.substack.com/p/immigratio...

here's a basic thought exercise: when most Americans hear "Christianity," who or what do they picture, or feel, or associate with the term right now

It's kind of fascinating to see a Jewish American saying that watching Christmas movies makes him think about how the society needs to be more insular and homogeneous. Nothing about it makes sense.

"tell me we didn't just fire a dozen $500,000 missiles at a $200 camel" "sir, no evidence of any camel present, sir!"

my son got two different toy fire trucks for christmas. two. and despite being considerably more familiar with their purpose and operation, i didn’t receive a single fucking fire truck

Apart from the unusual directness about Gaza, this was a remarkable Christmas homily. “We do not serve a domineering Word.”

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Morning Collect … hoc in nostro respléndeat ópere, quod per fidem fulget in mente. Per Dóminum. .. que resplandezca en nuestras obras la fe que haces brillar en nuestra mente. .. May the faith you make shine in our minds radiate in our actions.

[Ghost of Jeffrey Epstein]: ..... and let me tell you, Donny, the trim in hell is very old and very wizened. Anyway, here's another wonderful secret: tonight you'll be visited by three ghosts. [Trump in a golden nightcap]: Who let this low-energy loser in here. Very nasty.

In medio duorum animalium innotesceris; dum appropinquaverint anni, cognosceris; dum advenerit tempus, ostenderis.

Healthcare? Humbug! A poor excuse for picking a man’s pocket every fifteenth of April!

Crafty Christmas—embroidered this in J’s handwriting for my MIL ❤️

I can’t believe they made One Battle After Another real

With the two-year old: “What do you want to pray for?” “I can’t pray because God is not here.” “Well, God is everywhere, sweet girl.” “No, God is at church.” “He’s here, too. Jesus said that whenever there are two or three people, he is with them.” “Dada, no. Jesus can’t talk, because he’s a baby.”

we can never forgive Zazu for slow-walking the prosecution against Scar

Augustine Sermo185 Celebrémus festum diem, quo magnus et ætérnus dies ex magno et ætérno die venit in hunc nostrum tam brevem temporálem diem. Celebremos el día festivo en el que el inmenso y eterno día que viene del inmenso y eterno día, llegó a nuestro tan breve día de tiempo.

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...

The author of the piece teaches at Yale and is a member of Council of Foreign Relations, if you ever want to be disabused of your own imposter syndrome. Also look up his Gaza coverage to rule him out of as an unserious mind.

Lmao. Real eyes see BS

Another new a16z idea: giving letters of medical necessity to anybody so they can commit tax fraud Between funding social media bot farms, crypto, and prediction markets, this company represents the new era where tech is mostly just for fraud

the real problem here is that “creating a class of elites” and public-spiritedness are basically opposed

what I want to know is whether Bari Weiss was acting on orders of Ellison or of the White House directly

Great example of why mainstream news journalism’s practice of both-sidesism is so corrosive. There is an abdication of analysis here in the proposed framing. One sees the same thing in the New York Times and other papers, but in the hamfisted hands of Weiss it is more manifestly unserious.

also lol at the idea of following graphic testimony about being tortured in a foreign gulag with an argument that doing that might be legal

Wow he actually followed through

I can't wait to recreate the meme in reverse. every naval engagement from 2043 onwards gonna be like The USS Sword Of The God-Emperor vs. fifteen identical copies of the PLAN '我们昨天建造了它' supplied by a ship that does nothing but make hot pot for the other ships

He's a YIMBY abundance guy

Guy who thinks it’s a shame that 60 Minutes won’t report on Trump, but understands something had to be done about their antisemitic coverage of Gaza.

It’s extremely cool that in the year 2025/1404 they’re putting up new statues of the Emperor Valerian genuflecting before Shapur

cracking up too hard to tell the two-year-old the character isn’t named “Japaneser Scrooge”

Uh can I speak to a manager? I got owned on BlueSky again.