Daily David It's the most wonderful time of the year.

An Ode to Christmas Eve Often what precedes is better than what follows, even when, like Christmas Day, what follows is grand.

Americans having to bootleg broadcast news about our government’s offshored concentration camp is a level of fascism that immediately precedes democratic societies dropping leaflets on us from weather balloons.

Devoting $1.8 BILLION of public money to an NFL stadium (60% of $3 billion) is indefensible public policy.

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Because Bari Weiss is an opportunistic political maneuverer, it probably doesn't get said clearly enough that she is also an astounding clod, in wildly over her head. The fact that she seems to have spiked this story without realizing this would happen tells you all you need to know about her.

SMC — so many canaries This is really, really bad.

"I want people to know what happened to him, a man who lived 30 years here, hardworking, paid taxes, and they treated him like an animal," said Gantchev's wife, who ...fears retaliation from federal officials. "They are so rude to him... They treated him like he was a murderer."

When I call AI "cancer" I do so because it spreads and kills in the exact same way as its biological counterpart.

Morons.

This is the worst case scenario that everybody was worried about

one time michelle obama tried to get kids to exercise a little and the entire republican party ate its own face

One argument I used to make to my students about why it was important to learn history (and historical thinking) is that someone was always going to be trying to tell you things were natural or had always been this way and that you needed to be able to see that as an exercise of power.

Forget about the nonsense stories like the Kennedy Center being renamed or whatever Bari Weiss is doing At least 3,800 immigrant children were detained in 2025. Now, kids are not supposed to be kept more than 20 days At least 1,300 of them have been held longer than 20 days-some for over 4 months

Just to recap: The TikTok ban? Bad. The SCOTUS ruling upholding the TikTok ban? Also bad. Trump choosing not to enforce the ban? More bad. The Trump-backed mostly-US consortium taking over US Tiktok? You guessed it...bad.

The most corrupt president in modern U.S. history should be behind bars. 🚨 Newly obtained recording from late 2020: Trump is heard pressuring the Speaker of the Georgia House of Representatives to convene a special legislative session to overturn his election loss.

Agree 1000% cc: @anildash.com @lauraolin.bsky.social

Yeeesh

Daily David Quam parva sapientia mundus regitur!

Do you remember when the broadcast networks declined to air primetime speeches by Obama and Biden they deemed too overtly political? Because I do apnews.com/20ccd7a90e43... www.washingtonpost.com/media/2022/0...

The holiday season is a great time to disconnect from screens and connect with loved ones.

This is your annual reminder that the album Sugar & Booze by #SNL alum @anagasteyer.bsky.social is chock full of fantastic holiday music and you can stream it on Alexa.

The media needs to stop writing headlines like “The CDC changes course on vaccines and autism” and “The CDC defends measles response”. NONE of this is coming from legitimate scientists at the CDC. ALL of it is coming from RFK Jr. Every such headline is causing further harm to public health.

7 Dems joined House Republicans in voting for a bill that would enable ICE agents to strip search 12-year-olds. Henry Cuellar (TX-28) Don Davis (NC-01) Laura Gillen (NY-04) Jared Golden (ME-02) Vicente Gonzalez (TX-34) Adam Gray (CA-13) Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (WA-03)

Reminder that if anyone is setting you up online to do some crime, THAT PERSON IS A COP. ALWAYS. WITHOUT FAIL.

Two babies were born in New York within a year of each other, soon after WWII. One, Rob Reiner, lived a life of humanity and achievement. He brought us delight and joy. His memory will be a blessing. The other, Donald Trump, will be remembered as an embarrassment to our nation.

the cherry on the perfect legacy sundae

If you're wondering what happened to Nate Silver, he was into the COVID lab leak theory and got negative feedback online, including from epidemiologists and virologists and (GASP!) posters, which added to his belief that The Woke are victimizing Nate Silver. It spiraled from there. I'm not kidding.

The thing about the lab leak theory is that it was obvious to me that it was being spread by Trump folks as a way to blame *someone else* for their disastrous response to the pandemic. That should've been enough for anyone to demand concrete, positive evidence in order to believe it.

“As a homeland-security expert, I often get unexpected calls telling me of some horrible mayhem,” but the shooting at Brown University last night felt different, Juliette Kayyem writes.

so far tonight msnbc has interviewed two students from brown university that are also survivors of separate high school shootings. insanity.

Should be wild that the vast majority of Americans don't give a shit about your kids being murdered regularly by guns. Polls may say they do, but the way Americans vote say otherwise. They vote for Republicans that don't give a shit, or Dems that refuse to put any effort into ending gun violence.

Tyson is shutting down its Lexington, Nebraska plant in January 2026. That’s 3,200 workers gone in one shot, the largest plant shutdown in company history. Blame Trump’s tariff chaos and the lowest cattle inventories in decades. Tariffs jack up costs. Supply shrinks. Plants close. Towns hollow out.

Wow.

WITAF? It’s literally the first amendment. That’s not just its title or what we call it. It’s the first one for a reason. The first one!

I do not follow basketball at all and I'm still sharing this because it's that good

Mother of Karoline Leavitt’s Nephew speaks out after ICE arrest: I think what I would have to say to Karoline is just because you went to a catholic school doesn't make you a good catholic.

A deed to a platinum mine? In this economy?

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The fact that Trump’s minders didn’t stop him from announcing his ridiculous, fake “pardon” on Truth Social should worry us all. A person with a loose grasp on reality and a lack of impulse control has the nuclear codes.

Okay, I already love this guy.

How is this real life?

PSA: if anyone in your life is trying to dissuade you from getting the shingles shot, you should probably assume that person hates you, and wants you to suffer. There is literally no other explanation. Shingles hurts worse than childbirth. Worse than knee surgery. Worst pain of my life.

I think they’re turning the ball over so much to make it fun for the kids watching the Monsters, Inc version on ESPN2.

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52 years old. No idea what a Hoosier is.

I can't afford eggs, my kid has the whooping cough, and the data center down the road has caused my electricity bill to triple. But at least the mascot for my town's high-school football team is still a drunk guy dressed up as an American Indian.

I've been saying this for a year now: the Democrats have missed a gigantic political opportunity--and, at this point, have failed in an ethical obligation--to create a shadow-government health department that dispenses medically accurate information, guidance, and advice.

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in his 3 NFL seasons, Brandon Aubrey has as many career 60-yard field goals (6-for-9, 66.7%) as every NFL kicker from 1960 to 2008 (6-for-82, 7.3%)