this article goes to some hilarious lengths to normalize the fact that Paramount's new executives are assholes

An organization of historic levels of corruption — see: www.libraryjournal.com/review/red-c... — propping up an administration engaged in historic levels of corruption with a cartoonishly corrupt "prize." It was inevitable!

To be crystal clear about this: The plaintiffs challenged the Texas law six days *before* it was signed by the Governor and became law. That was *too late*.

AI dialogues shifted political support by 2 to 3 points in trials, eclipsing standard ads. Roughly one-third of this effect persisted for a month. However, models optimized for persuasion proved more factually error-prone. #MLSky

In Chicago, a Nativity scene features a zip-tied baby Jesus and Roman centurions in "ICE" vests. Near Boston, Mary, Joseph, and Jesus are absent from a Nativity scene, replaced with a sign reading "ICE was here." It's all part of growing religious blowback to ICE. religionnews.com/2025/12/05/i...

The effects of the ACIP poisoned recommendations may not be seen clearly at scale for years. But every child that unnecessarily develops HepB-associated chronic liver disease and cancer is the fault of those on that committee, the HHS Secretary, and those that capitulated to put him in power.

all of the magazines in my dermatologist's office are hunting magazines

Taxpayers are paying for FBI Agents to escort Kash Patel's girlfriend's drunk friends home after nights of partying, and pulling elite tactical agents away from SWAT missions to chauffeur his girlfriend around. ...something, something, waste and fraud... www.ms.now/news/kash-pa...

Trump thug leaders say their masked, operatives use the well known criminal tactic of swapping out vehicle license plates - typically used when crooks are fleeing the scene of a crime - to "protect" their "safety."

See the stats below. Brown may be one of the more extreme cases, but the general pattern is weighted towards men.

SCOOP: The Jan. 6 pipe bomb suspect told the FBI he believed in 2020 election conspiracy theories. www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

#BREAKING: Over dissents from the three democratic appointees, #SCOTUS puts Texas's new House maps back into effect for (and, presumably, through) the 2026 midterms. The three Democratic appointees, in an opinion by Justice Kagan, dissent. I'll post the ruling shortly.

The graph below shows the effect. Treatment with the question about the CZ pardon (full text in previous post) reduced perception that Democrats are more corrupt by 6.6 pp. The point is, these are malleable perceptions, and as the breakout by party id shows, even malleable among partisans

This is a million times worse than anything Hunter Biden was accused of doing in even the most fevered right-wing conspiracy dream

There's been weirdly little coverage of this point. Trump/ McMahon are demanding an end to gender-based affirmative action in admissions and they clearly still believe we're in the world where aa benefits young *women* applicants, but that world is long gone. www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...

Fixed it.

Polly-Jean is a puppy whose purpose in life is to annoy other dogs. When you love what you do, you never work a day in your life. #dogsky #dogsofbluesky

i'd go even further and say there is a reason even nixon kept this kind of stuff to himself. you would have to go back quite a bit to find a point at which is acceptable for a president to say anything like this *in public*, to say nothing of in the oval office.

Okay, now I am ready for some nerd to explain the listening age thing bc my Spotify wrapped is comical

We lost an ocean champion yesterday. Jean Beasley, 90, started North Carolina's first sea turtle hospital and saved over 1,500 turtles. She was a school teacher with no other training. By the time she died, she had co-authored a half dozen veterinary science papers on sea turtle rehabilitation.

It's fucking crazy to me that Keith Olbermann is out here posting about Olivia Nuzzi like "haha funny thing, I used to date her, it's crazy" as if this current shitshow has nothing to do with him. Here's Nuzzi in 2013 glazing Olbermann in writing while dating him www.huffpost.com/entry/msnbc-...

“The security researcher also pointed out that given Kohler can access customers’ data on its servers, it’s possible Kohler is using customers’ bowl pictures to train AI.” 🤨

If Sherrod brown lost by 3.6% in a R+1.5 year, he will have a good shot of winning in a much more D environment like 2026 is shaping up to be. And Iowa is 1) unpopular incumbent retiring 2) Turek and Wahls both seem like strong candidates 3) getting crushed by tariffs

Minnesota businessman Mike Lindell filed paperwork Wednesday to run for governor next year as a Republican but said in an interview that he wasn’t making a formal declaration to enter the race just yet.

I know people have their things, but "my little baby bird"? Nah, man. No.

My friend had these in Barcelona (chair rental) and my very cheap friend threw these dill pickle dust fries away.

I wrote about Nazism in a small Michigan town, and in a large North American country; about the uses of and limits of shame; and on the importance of holding shared standards. www.the-reframe.com/the-death-of...

A newly filed indictment claims a wannabe influencer used ChatGPT as his "therapist" and "best friend" in his pursuit of the "wife type," while harassing women so aggressively they had to miss work and relocate from their homes.

If new proposals detailed in an FDA memo are put into place, experts told me it would mean the end of annual flu shots. And end of most vaccines for pregnant people. And maybe the end of updates to pneumonia vaccines. And more. www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...

I've been saying for the better part of a year that Trump is on a mission to decriminalize corruption. To make it the legal equivalent of jaywalking. I feel that more strongly now than I ever had.

scholars, researchers, activists, even past-their-prime stalwarts like James Carville: ”Dems have a prime opportunity to run on an anti-corruption agenda" a congressional Dem leader:

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Sure, Galloway is better than Peterson But he still believes the natural order of things requires men to be supreme. Men must protect, provide and procreate. It's dressed in progressive language, but it's fundamentally a patriarchal box to trap men in www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Just weeks after the statewide New York Young Republicans group was disbanded over Hitler-loving texts and chats, the New York City Young Republicans are hosting...a far-right German politician from the AfD. They just can't help themselves. www.politico.com/newsletters/...

All of the people who are asking "why don't Dems run on fighting corruption?" get a clear response from Jeffries: "I am not your guy."

Agents in Key Largo, Florida ripped this woman wearing medical scrubs out of her car as she screamed she is a US citizen. Agents cuffed her and put her in one of their cars. She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:

Congressman Henry Cuellar was indicted for money laundering, bribery, and conspiracy, allegedly taking about $600,000, mostly from Azerbaijan, to influence U.S. policy. President Donald Trump pardoned Cuellar, because Trump supports money laundering, bribery, and conspiracy.

I'm genuinely curious, what is the going rate for a fixer to arrange a Trump pardon?

you, with certainty: the perfect show does not exist me, smiling serenely:

Love to share the road with cars programmed to blast past speed limits

"All these arguments about child-rearing, women, and relationships aren’t really about families or children at all. They’re about controlling women. And choosing not to bear children—or being unable to—makes women less vulnerable to those who would like to have power over them."

“but the article didn’t include his associations with far-right extremist groups, the $100 million libel lawsuit he once filed after being called a Nazi and a pedophile, or the alleged ‘assassination plot’ that killed his accuser-slash-legal-opponent.” thebarbedwire.com/2025/12/02/j...

One nice thing about bad writing is that it inspires good writing

oh you have a nice house? let’s see the churro drawer

Article title: The NYT wrote more about Harvard last year than all community colleges combined I posted three main figure from the article below www.vox.com/2014/7/23/59...

Lawyers who secured Bovino testimony, body-cam video move to end case that challenged Midway Blitz From @chicago.suntimes.com: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Statehood for D.C. is an ethical obligation at this point, required to protect the rights of our residents to govern ourselves against such out-of-state troops being sent to patrol our city.

This just makes me happy. www.zmescience.com/ecology/wisd...

Nestled within this bizarre story is the important news that the Wisconsin Supreme Court has taken the first steps toward striking down its state’s GOP congressional gerrymander, a move that could net Democrats 2-3 more seats in the House of Representatives. slate.com/news-and-pol...