The someone she’s quoting is an old school MRA from the Roosh V forums who wrote a book called “Do the Philippines: How to Make Love with Filipino Girls in the Philippines.”

uh holy SHIT?

“.. Since his return to office, President Trump and his family have engaged in a moneymaking campaign like none in modern American history.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

One thing I wrote about here is how technology has made buses *way* more convenient while techno-futurists were obsessed with flying taxis and self-driving cars.

Here is the editor of Tablet agreeably reposting someone calling nonwhite NYC immigrants "worthless biotrash." It's astonishing how quickly this stuff has escaped containment

This WSJ article adds some fascinating context to the NYT article that has the mother of a 14 year old model brought to Mar-a-Lago for a party having Maples come up to her and saying keep those girls away from these men and my husband. Maples denies she said it.

Looking back on the books I read for pleasure this year and realizing there were a lot of 'classics'. Nevertheless, my three most enjoyable/impactful reads were: - @chrislhayes.bsky.social, The Sirens' Call - Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend

I feel like "attention hacking" is most of politics now. The Minnesota aid fraud story is becoming a perfect example. Recap: In 2022, the Biden DOJ filed the first charges against dozens of fraudsters, many of them Somali-American, who'd fleeced a state food aid program. (1/x)

A day after part of a missile fired by the United States hit their village, landing just meters from its only medical facility, the villagers of Jabo in northwest Nigeria are in a state of shock and confusion.

I've been thinking about this sign for 6 months. a phrase I'll treasure forever. a metaphor with boundless potential

DOGE was A LOT less likely to cancel contracts from companies that donated money to Republicans than companies that donated to Democrats.

The five best books I read this year, all with deep meanings and things that stuck with me long after I closed the cover.

I count 10 cities in 2025 that are on track to have the fewest murders since at least 1970. Newark is on pace to have the fewest murders since 1956 (though only have data through Oct this year) and San Francisco is on pace to have the fewest murders since 1942.

These declines are MASSIVE. And the comparative silence in media coverage is absolutely DAMNING. “Why are ppl always so afraid of crime?” THIS is why. When crime goes up, media trips over itself to report it. Falls to pre-war (!!) levels? Just CRICKETS.

“Why didn’t the media report” usually turns out to be “why didn’t I read/watch.” People have lives and the algorithms blind us, but still, have less certainty in that critique!

Do me a favor and watch this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWC8...

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...

Any journalist who has not at least once committed reckless disregard of leadership is not to be trusted.

I love this team too much. www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8yyJa72/

On DOGE’s watch, federal spending did not go down at all. It went up. But is still led to cuts that closed offices, canceled programs and deprived people of food, medicine and other aid. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u...

The Trump admin has started to realize batteries are an important general purpose technology. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/c...

Ok. Now had a chance to check and, well, at least some docs do appear to be straight up classic redaction fail. And there are some *interesting* bits here. www.justice.gov/multimedia/C...

"China Imports No U.S. Soybeans for Third Month; Argentine Arrivals Up 634%" 🤔 share.google/yxJk9FytGMTY...

Just finished @chrislhayes.bsky.social *The Sirens’ Call* (very good!) and want to think about attention and religion. I tried (unsuccessfully) to write a review essay a couple years ago on Kindig’s *Fascination* and Smith’s *Thoreau’s Axe*. What else should I read on attention and (dis)enchantment?

The answer to “Is it good if prices go up or down” is often: are you a buyer or a seller?

Yes exactly. That’s the thing that’s always differentiated us, we’re the only “Christian nation.” Yup.

Worth noting, I guess, that inside of a year we've gone from administration officials taking selfies of themselves at CECOT and bragging about how it's hell on earth to now getting their horrible little media worms to kill stories about it

SCOOP-2: Isabela Herrera donated $2.5m to MAGA Inc. on 12/31/2024. At the time, her father, a Venezuelan-Italian banker, was being prosecuted for bribing Puerto Rico's governor. In July, Trump's DOJ authorized a misdemeanor plea deal, overruling career prosecutors who had pushed a harsher sentence

Overall, this big @nytimes.com investigation identified $500m+ that was donated to Trump-backed groups AFTER the election from 346 donors. It found that more than half of the donors have benefited in some way from actions by Trump or his administration. (gift link)

Clueless US media understand Trump's shut down of Atlantic coast wind farms as just some vague national security thing about radar or as Trump's weird ideas about alternative energy. But in Denmark, this is immediately understood for what it is: a shakedown against two large Danish companies,

Asking this seriously: has Bari Weiss ever in her career reported out an investigative story?

Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.

I wrote about the conservative quest to restore the "true" Constitution, the Antebellum Constitution, shorn of the egalitarian nonsense in the Reconstruction Amendments, a document that replaces equality with a society of dominators and the dominated. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

CBS News EIC Bari Weiss had concerns about the CECOT piece, I’m told. The network decided to hold the segment pending, among other things, comment or an interview with White House officials next year…

The good dude @lukeoneil47.bsky.social let me write about the 20 best books that I read in 2025. If you're wondering "what should I read?" here's your list www.welcometohellworld.com/20-books-you...

Caleb Williams with the game on the line.

This pass got caught in the end zone

I mean that was two *all time* throws by Caleb in the highest stakes moments of his career so far. Incredible.

Best revenge.

Greatest Bears regular season win of my life, I’m pretty sure! HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO GO TO SLEEP!?!?!

Incredible interview from DJ Moore 🫡

CALEB WILLIAMS LEGEND

OH MY GODDDDDDDDD!!!!

LaFleur completed outcoached Johnson tonight. Bears absolutely deserve to lose and until they beat Green Bay none of this means anything.

In the wake of the tragedy at Brown, online conspiracists rushed to pin the horrific mass murder on an innocent Palestinian student. One of them was Shaun Maguire, a partner at leading VC firm Sequoia Capital. www.fastcompany.com/91463942/seq...

Those who speculated wildly about the Brown shooter without knowing any facts got things wrong—and it is important that they lose their credibility because of it, Graeme Wood argues.