READ THIS: Still probably the best #ChristmasEve tradition I’ve heard. Iceland definitely does Christmas well — my Reykjavik clients had funny comments about this! Are you planning to curl up with a great new book on cities this #Christmas? Share your pick with us using hashtag #UrbanismBookClub!

ICE is planning 7 massive human warehouses holding 5,000 to 10,000 people … with a smaller facility holding up to 1,500 people in Woodbury. wapo.st/4axtwZ4

This is amazing work! Inside the Deportation Machine www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

To the girl at Moscow on the Hill whose date demanded she tell him something interesting about Russian history, then took over the conversation and segued into “you gotta hand it to Hitler” … babe, run.

AI slop has made it to the deep sea. That’s not a blobfish: Deep Sea Social Media is Flooded by AI Slop www.southernfriedscience.com/thats-not-a-...

Sad to learn the fish the AI ordered for the @wsj.com was just a betta. I was picturing:

Does anyone have newer projections for when Glacier National Park might have no glaciers left? I found a 2003 paper, but I'm struggling to find anything newer.

The Trump administration announced plans to close NCAR, citing its role in climate change research. But three officials told CNN they believe this is really part of the White House's plan to punish CO governor and free Tina Peters. WH did not deny the connection. www.cnn.com/2025/12/17/c...

Toilet paper is the new eggs

Less than 48 hours after the deadly attack at Sydney's Bondi Beach that left more than a dozen dead, Australian authorities announced proposals for sweeping new gun laws. n.pr/48UTa7g

Today I saw a large pack of Charmin toilet paper for sale for … brace yourself … $44. I obviously bought a cheaper brand but genuinely, wtf. This was at Cub, too. Not like Midwest Erehwon.

"Alex Kleytman, an 87-year-old Ukrainian Holocaust survivor, was celebrating Hanukkah with his wife of 57 years, Larisa Kleytman, also a Holocaust survivor, when the attack began. He was killed while shielding Larisa from the bullets with his own body." www.timesofisrael.com/chabad-rabbi...

Ten year old’s take on Stranger Things: “It’s a good series,” she pauses. “Although there is some romance.”

Can't say I ever expected to see a "That Font was No Angel" headline. But here we are.

Okay, convince me: Do fancy trailers and underwater cameras make ice fishing better ... or do they ruin it?

My children have apparently re-invented the "...as your lawyer" bit from Fear and Loathing with no knowledge of the original and now my 10-year-old is drafting a sternly worded letter to her older sister's best friend over a lost $5 bet.

After raccoons, skunks are the Varmint I Would Most Like To Adopt As a Pet when I become an eccentric old lady.

Good news, everyone! Today is my first day as a climate and weather editor for CNN (For realsies, instead of a temp position. I'm bona-fide now) and I got to publish my first CNN byline on the same day. www.cnn.com/2025/12/08/c...

Right? Like, yeah man, my Grammy had TBS, too.

Panic! At The Discourse

Since I'm home sick and X-Twitter may soon expect me to pay for access, I am going to recreate this here: 🎢 ⚛️ Pedro Pascal as classic physics textbooks: a thread

One of the jobs different from my own that I think I would have loved doing is … and I swear I am not making this up … space lawyer. Every few years I get to write something on space law and find myself instantly delighted by it.

It’s the 8th anniversary of the best preschool drawing my oldest child ever did. Merry Christmas, you old Paint Water.

This is the fastest I have ever lost Whamaggeddon. Thanks, CUB.

Without Roadrunner and Coyote, kids will never learn the seductive dangers of trompe l'oeil

There was literally a story in Newsweek before they even announced what the “secret project that would revolutionize transportation” actually was that had a not insignificant number of adults guessing it was a transporter. I cannot stress enough how much this was the Fyre Fest of its time.

Hey all, The Onion is accepting applicants for our writing, video and graphics fellowships. Fellowships last six months, pay well, and provide full benefits. You can apply at theonion.com/fellowship.

Just a normal afternoon, explaining media conglomerates to my 10-year-old.

I can't believe we are never going to get an explanation for what happened last night at Cities97.

This is something I've been interested in for a while and I'm really glad to see the Reformer covering it!

Well thank god I can go back to forgetting Cities97 exists.

AND NOW OUR WATCH HAS ENDED

I wish I still had an alarm clock so I could set it to Cities 97.1

My girlfriend feels like this has numbers station vibes and wants closure before she can sleep

Wow Lunds must have a Sh**ton of food left from the holiday weekend, there is a HUGE sale right now and prices are the lowest I've seen in ages! 25% or more on a lot of popular items. Eggs lowest I've seen in a year, Their branded soups 25% off. Soups, broths 40%+ off! BOGO pork tenderloin.

City of Mpls press conference youtube live link: www.youtube.com/live/jFdRnc8...

The interesting thing about this quiz is that getting the right answers is less about spotting "tell tale" signs of AI video and more about just, like, stopping and thinking through whether the scenario and camera angle make any damn sense. I got them all correct. www.npr.org/2025/11/30/n...

Some context for the rumors spreading around town right now.

Thought this was just a normal dig at the Boomers. Took me a second to process it was the Bard.

This is a particularly interesting story to read in context with this episode of @kcrw.com’s Question Everything podcast. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/q...

Hey winter cyclists: the smartest thing I've done after threatening to do it for too many years was actually write down what to wear based on temperature. This helped immensely last year, and winter is coming 🥶

I run a livestream hangout show where #readers meet twice a month with nonfiction #authors (@astrokatie.com @maryroach.bsky.social @edyong209.bsky.social to name a few). Imagine muppet show run by Morticia Addams as a librarian. Music, comedy, cocktails! It’s subscribe season—consider supporting! 📚

I’m imagining something like the traditional governance of Andorra where we have to give $460 to the governor and, to the mayor of St. Paul, $12 plus six hams, six cheeses, and six live chickens.

Obviously the answer is ham. WTF is wrong with people who eat ham at Thanksgiving? Who hurt you?

Rosebud, Charlie Brown.

This is driving me nuts, as well. Kinda just starting to feel like AI is a branding/marketing term.

“A climate decision that cannot even say ‘fossil fuels’ is not neutrality, it is complicity. And what is happening here transcends incompetence.” Juan Carlos Monterrey Gómez, Panama’s special representative for climate change. www.cnn.com/2025/11/22/c...

COP30 BREAKING NEWS: The likely final text of the "global mutirão" has been published, ahead of the closing plenary Here's the snap analysis from the CB team…see last line unfccc.int/sites/def...