Boxing Day!

I get ideas, I get a notion I want a nice little boat made out of ocean —Television, “See No Evil”

In addition to how deeply wrong I believe this to be, it makes clear how complex our fight for the future will be. We all need to REALLY understand why this is wrong and dangerous. And this is not only about people with dementia.

DON’T. PRINT. LIES. IN. THE. NEWSPAPERS. Every damn day. It’s exhausting.

This guy: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_W...

No, that’s not even remotely close to what that means.

And for those not possessed by the spirit, or who celebrate in different ways...

you will be visited by three spirits

Tesla doesn't recongise Trade Unions. Apple doesn't recognise unions. Amazon is anti-union. McDonald's is anti-union. Starbucks is anti-union. Google is anti-union. Walmart is anti-union. The big corporations are not on your side.

"Everything you learned in school about the world is intellectually incorrect...except a Palantir degree. If you work for Palantir, everyone knows you're good." Alex Karp, CEO Palantir, Feb. 19 2025. He created Palantir in 2003 with Peter Thiel. Yep, fuck off.👊 bsky.app/profile/rodm...

It’s not “losing money” any more than air traffic controllers or public highways or street lights or fire departments are “losing money.” It is a government service. It’s not SUPPOSED to make money. It’s supposed to reliably deliver to anywhere in the US, even the unprofitable places.

WHO GIVES A DAMN? It’s a public service, right there in the name. It exists as a public good for all the people in this country. It’s not supposed to turn a profit, you dolts. Go audit the Pentagon and see what kind of return on investment we’re getting there.

It's funny how us parochial Americans generally seem to perceive that the EV revolution is stalling or reversing when in fact it's accelerating rapidly worldwide. 25% of cars sold globally in 2025 were EVs! It's mostly just the US that's being left behind

WAR IS OVER! if you want it

It was an unforgivable dereliction of duty that the majority of elected congressional Republican office holders were not in prison for open insurrection by March 2021.

Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing a text, writing an email, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing since the dawn of time.

Should go without saying: get Peter Thiel and his surveillance teams the fuck out of higher ed. www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...

The people who profited most from the cancel culture/free speech panic were less interested in actual freedom of speech than establishing their own control over public discourse. You don't even have to take my word for it. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

Those of a certain age may recall what happened to Dan Rather when he reported on GWB’s military service…

I don't think free speech on campus ought to mean that a young coddled bigot gets to use their ignorance to casually destroy the career of a knowledgeable trans person on a random Wednesday

the most notable thing JD Vance has done in the last five years is tell vicious racist lies about immigrants. If you think he hasn't taken a side on bigotry, you are an idiot. He's for it. He's very strongly for it.

love that software developers are advertising AI functionality in every single app now and it's up to you to try to figure out if they mean "this has spellcheck" or "everything you create in this app will sync in real-time to sam altman's personal laptop" or something in between

This is true.

"Warner Bros. Discovery owns CNN, whose coverage Trump views as hostile to his administration. So he is abusing the government’s merger-approval power in order to insist that the next owner of the venerable outlet mold its journalism to his liking." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

Look, the Beatles were HUGE for me as a kid, and I still love them as much as, if not more than, the next #BeatlesGuy. But I’m BEGGING someone to put this kind of energy into the KINKS, for the love of god

It was hard to convince Americans torture is wrong as a moral principle during Bush's term, and that was with the debate about whether torture makes us safer. I'm afraid for a portion of Trump's base, that calculation matters less. Idea of torturing undocumented immigrants may even bring pleasure.

I’m not sure they care. Popularity only matters if you believe in representative democracy. Something they left by the side of the road a long time ago.

If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove that you are a citizen. And just like that you’ve disappeared.

BREAKING: Judge James Boasberg rules for those deported under the Alien Enemies Act on March 15 — certifying a class, finding the U.S. maintained constructive custody over them at CECOT, finding they were not given due process, and ordering return or that such process be given by Jan. 5, 2026.

Two problems with this frantic "The story wasn't ready" statement are 1) When a story isn't ready, you know it days, sometimes weeks in advance, not hours and 2) Bari Weiss' idea of how "to do more" has already been made public, and it was to call Stephen Miller. In short, she's lying.

Amen. Which should not be construed as a wholesale endorsement of Our Streaming Future.

CBS didn't run the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT, but over here at @propublica.org we've been working on the story since March, including finding out who each and every man sent to that maximum security prison was. You can see our reporting here: www.propublica.org/series/depor...

I like how he’s sending the governor of the US’s steamiest, lushest state to a barren ice rock. Have fun dipshit!

Something which isn't always acknowledged is that "contrarian thinkers" are just regurgitating conventional wisdom with a little extra racism, and these forbidden views are generally expressed by the most platformed mainstream figures, like Pinker.

The maga divide summarized: does the gutter racism that is the mortar of our coalition apply to Jews or not? And if it doesn’t do we mean that or are we just pretending for the moment?

Literally having trouble thinking of an institutional sector — journalism, education, government, health care — that ISNT being run by people who actively hate the work it does

Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

I'll have the ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn omelette, please.

the way people talk about AI is like it's a stalker you ought to be nicer to

Dec 21st - Screenwriter Joe Gillis, who forgotten silent film star Norma Desmond hires as a script doctor, was born. 📽️📅 Sunset Boulevard (1950)

How much worse can it get? Way mo’!

🚨 The DOJ appears to have redacted Donald Trump’s name from the allegations made in this exhibit in the Epstein files. Trump’s name was in the original release. Now, it’s blacked out. See for yourself.

All it needs is Gavin & Kimberly sprawled on the rug.

And may every day be another wonderful secret.

ChatGPT says that I wrote the novel The Darker Side. If anyone has copies, I'd love to read it.

I cannot state any more baldly or clearly than I already have about what an immense menace RFK Jr. is. The number of preventable illnesses and deaths - of *babies* - will be horrific. This anti-vax crap is grotesque anti-science, and always has been.