New College is a DeSantis pet project, a Potemkin Campus that must be made real at any cost. While the NY Times notes it is the most expensive in the state, it does not tell readers what an extraordinary outlier it is. Freedom isn’t free, and a right-wing campus makeover is very expensive it seems.

So nobody is on the air at WSQK. It stopped transmitting and nobody noticed

I definitely remember 2022 and 2023 as being “years that were not total dumpster fires.” The Barbenheimer years 😅 So only 2/3 totally shitty

I don’t want 2025 end-of-year round-ups. Let it go. Let it flee into the dark woods, never to be seen again

Trump administration: gonna be a Christian nation from now on Christians: yay! TA: so you have to be Christian the way WE say it's ok Christians: oh shit

The economy is a paranormal entity that our greatest dimensional scholars (macroeconomists) understand only superficially. They have induced a variety of changes in it by manipulating arcane forces like "money supply" with some success. But it remains protean and unpredictable.

“Went viral” is an old stock phrase in journalism that really does not capture the dynamic of how X dot Com has been tuned to give people like the one specific legislator here the power to intentionally cause this kind of outcome

watching people disembark from the plane you're about to board not wholly unlike sitting on a warm toilet seat, in that intellectually you know you weren't the first there but it still somehow feels wrong to be reminded of it

It is Going to Happen in 2026

Yorkshire puddings puff up nicely in the oven 😊

Good fruit tray

Crazy new puzzle app involving word associations, secret messages, and being horny for death. Calling it a “poem”.

fine FINE

Kavanaugh tries to put the "Kavanaugh Stops" genie back in the bottle

Christmas fucking miracle right here

this is amazing

Since it’s official. Thanks 🙏 @newyorker.com. This feels pretty surreal.

“there are only 7 full-time book critics left in the US: three at NYT ( Jacobs, Garner, Szalai), 2 at WaPo(Rothfeld, Charles), 1 each at WSJ (Sacks), NY mag (Chu), Slate (Miller) more people have walked on the moon than write book reviews for a living” worldliteraturetoday.org/2025/septemb...

Ever notice how every single orange cat has impeccable comic timing

'Seven Brussels Sprouts.' (1955) Delicately painted with meticulous detail, Eliot Hodgkin captures the crisp waxy green beauty of a vegetable that in the year this work was painted was very often boiled to oblivion.

i can't figure out if the cabal of rich tech bro incels who put the stupid liars in charge are mad at them for being so bad at everything, if they're in total denial, or if they're just fully mentally checked out

In This House We Believe Lydia Tár is real and lives in our neighborhood where she is banned from several local coffee shops

Teens everywhere enjoying the forbidden 60 Minutes video, they call it Rooney Maxxing, going Leslie Stahl mode, they go to parties dressed as Scott Pelley

also, reason's using the word, CHECK IT OUT, GANG, IT'S SCHISM TIME! SCHISM SCHISM SCHISM SCHISM SCHISM

“Herr Himmler, our viewers need to know if you have any regrets?”

This

I did well on this so I DID “Admire Puzzle”

The more languages AI devours, the more religious it will get

Trump found a cheat code in 2015: If you say you're a Christian, you don't have to act like a Christian as long as you keep the Christian base happy. Others on the right mirror that: Say you're a Christian and then support right-wing Christian positions and you can get away with a lot. 2/

Realized 8yo had not picked up on the story of Jesus’s birthday despite knowing many Christmas carols, so I explained the whole story as well as I could, after which he sighed and said “so basically it’s the same as Percy Jackson.”

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

I’m still furious about Claudine Gay 😡

I’m really gonna miss Bowen Yang being on my TV every week

The actual king of America

The winter solstice: when every sesame seed casts a long dramatic shadow at 4 pm

After New York public schools began locking up students' smartphones, kids rediscovered hobbies and human interaction

The actor Michael Sheen used all his money to start a fake debt collecting business, buy 900 people in Wales's debt, and excused it. If Musk bought ALL $194 billion in medical debt in the U.S. and excused it in the same way, he'd still be the world's riches man by hundreds of billions of dollars.

The good news : The days are getting longer again from now. #wintersolstice

Happy birthday Jane Fonda 🎂 📷 Sam Lévin, 1970 "What in the world is the matter with Jane Fonda? She’s a great actress. She looks pretty. But boy, she’s … often on the wrong track." - Richard M. Nixon, on tape, September 19, 1971

I have my students write three-sentence summaries of articles and then read them aloud in class, to see how different summaries are depending on the things that most interest you. We map overlaps and differences to help them understand why trusting a supposed summary machine short-circuits thinking.

New pictures near the exit of immigration/customs at O’Hare make very f——g clear that you are passing from federal jurisdiction and into the city of Chicago

Rick Steves is a real one!

I wrote this essay because I wanted as many people as possible to understand that what Paine did in Common Sense was recognize the urgency of his historical moment, and that he matched that moment with words. That is why it resonates now. What words will we find for our moment?

Main takeaway from rewatching A CHRISTMAS STORY is that those kids were assigned to read the entirety of SILAS MARNER in the fourth grade! cc: @annieabrams.bsky.social

It would perhaps surprise no one that I was raised with public radio as the background noise to my daily existence, so it was a singular delight getting to go on NPR to talk about Charles Dickens’ Christmas Carol omny.fm/shows/in-the...

We bought me a heated bed for the cat and it makes us both very happy #caturday