Feel free to fleece the marks

'predators, scammers' otherwise known as MAGA allies

if you pivot to video, you pivot without me...

I am sure the 60 Minutes report on CECOT was very well done, but what makes the decision to kill it even more damning is that CBS was hardly out on a limb on this story. It has been extremely well documented and reported by many journalists.

Things are Terrible, but this isn't. Be weird.

they know they cannot possibly formally amend the constitution to get rid of those provisions, so instead just want to waive a magic racist (sexist, classist) wand over them to make them have no meaning

When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.

Once the AI boosters vs Historians argument started getting into the reality of paper archival research, I haven't seen much more from the AI guys...

Donovan Metayer, a survivor of the 2018 Parkland school shooting in Florida, died by suicide at age 26 on Dec. 15. Even after a mental health hold, he was allowed to purchase the gun with which he ended his life.

next Bari will spend six weeks as deputy director of the FBI

The willingness of so many to discuss Trump's diplomacy as if it is a strategic successor to the linear tradition of Roosevelt, Eisenhower and Reagan rather than the violently incompetent chaos bomb it is in reality will forever baffle me

The white supremacy isn’t a dog whistle. It’s a bullhorn.

it makes sense if you think to yourself "Trump is the real victim here"

White men are 30% of the US and if they look around the room and see it’s less than 90% white men they think it’s affirmative action.

I feel once again compelled to emphasis the digitizing in the literal scanning sense is fairly unimportant if it is not accompanied with metadata providing context for discovery. Both humans and AI will make things up when they don't know what they are looking at.

Ukrainians have to decide what's best for Ukrainians. But for us, the least bad option is the same it's always been: Cripple the Russian economy and empower Ukraine's military to inflict more and more pain on Moscow

EWTD, to paraphrase Rick Wilson

anyway we know JD Vance is dreaming of a White Christmas

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

it’s legal for yahoos to say all the slurs they want here in these Yoo-Nited States it’s also legal for us to point at those people and avoid them like we would a pile of dogshit* on the sidewalk they hate that second part *the dogshit at least provides nourishment for flies

anyway Burgum canceling wind projects, the BS about Greenland, the excuse over tariffs, demonstrates how a determined president can drive a fucking semi truck through the 'national security' provisions of so many laws

The government in Copenhagen has insisted on respect for its country's territorial integrity on Monday, after the US president appointed the Louisiana governor as an envoy to bring Greenland under US control. ➡️ https://l.euronews.com/HER9

In the original miniseries V, about a Nazi-like interplanetary alien invasion, the human characters that align themselves with the Nazi aliens almost all end badly, with at least one rewarded for their complicity with the promise to be consumed as food. Anyways, about Bari Weiss….

In 2025 MAGA taught us that the opposite of DEI isn’t merit, it’s mediocre people running institutions into the ground.

Next the Trump administration announces the national Burn Charcoal in the House Initiative to meet our heating needs it'll be lit

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Because of the woke left, people have been afraid to say anything other than "Happy Holidays" during this time of year. But now, thanks to the efforts of Trump, Vance, and the GOP, folks are once again comfortable with the more traditional, "Sieg Heil."

All of the people in this photo descend from America's 2nd Vice President and 3rd President, Thomas Jefferson. Would JD consider these people white? If not, why not? They're all "heritage Americans" in that they descend from a founder, yes?

Occam's razor. DOJ hasn't released key documents, including the original 60-count draft indictment of Epstein and the victim statements. Why? DOJ really doesn't want us to read them. Why does DOJ care so much about these? Because they directly or indirectly implicate Trump.

the best two minutes you'll spend all day 🐾

Well I guess the Bengals finally found a lead big enough not to blow...

This spring, @repdangoldman.bsky.social went to work and “saw a dozen masked ICE agents in the lobby” of his office building.  He has since turned that office into the headquarters for a legal operation that has secured the release of nine ICE detainees. talkingpointsmemo.com/feature/how-...

And i’ve said before, guilt is useless and can easily curdle into resentment. A sense of moral obligation and solidarity on the other hand, can be productive.

Timothy McVeigh would be loving this.

RIP CBS News

Hope you like biryani! Goodbye! Watch #NightThoughts on Hulu.

🧑‍🌾 SPOTTED in Jackson County, Wisconsin…

"The Constitution of the Roberts Court is not color-blind. It is a Constitution that permits discrimination on the basis of race, but forbids alleviating discrimination on the basis of race."

honestly, “it’s because they’re still mad about the New Deal” is a pretty good guiding hypothesis for a lot of stuff

minus 74 percent, is that good?

Mr. Beast, all my friends and I were saying how good at boxing you’d be

“The last-minute christmas rush at the bookshop.” - my latest cartoon for @theguardian.com books

caught in the obvious lie...

Absolutely right. AI might be able to summarize (poorly) what we currently know, but a major goal of historical research is to find the hidden surprises out there. Let me illustrate …

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...