Bulldoze the ballroom.

Christopher Caldwell is a regular contributor to the @nytimes.com by the way, if you want to get a sense of what opinions the intelligentsia think are respectable and intriguing and which they think are beyond the pale.

THIS THIS THIS. ALL OF THIS THIS is why faculty resist technological strategies for teaching. There is no engaging with Edtech without this context

Mamdani has AOC-level powers to make bigoted middle aged white dudes lose their damned minds.

This charming crab is waving goodbye to 2025. One of many marine images around a lost figure of Neptune (a wheel from his chariot survived) under what is now Gloucester House in Dyer Street, Cirencester. This image was the most popular of my #MosaicMonday offerings this year! #AncientBlueSky 🏺

“You are not entitled to a response from us, or anyone, ever,” is what a US Education Department spokesperson wrote to one of our reporters, @megomatz.bsky.social, after she repeatedly tried to get comment from the department and its officials. My column on the condemnation of good journalism.

Julie K. Brown is a reporter for the Miami Herald who did groundbreaking work on Epstein beginning in 2018, including groundbreaking work on the disgusting coverup by Alex Acosta. Her travel itinerary was released with some of the Epstein files. It appears the DOJ was monitoring her in 2019.

AI sloppers (is that a term?) crying that their prompts are being stolen is more beautiful than anything AI could produce

Filming them committing terrorism is now itself an act of terrorism?

TW for torture, rape, antisemitism. Also note that the US happily allied with Franco despite their awareness that he had written antisemitic screeds.

Excellent piece about "Night Stories" - the show I'm working on right now. www.theaterscene.net/plays/offbwa...

“Eating Dates In Babylonia” would be the name of my memoir

Tis the season of giving, and I'm sure Ripa, Royal sandal maker to Ramesses XI, would have agreed! Here he's offering one of his sandals on a small table to the gods Osiris and Anubis, ~1080BC #FindsFriday 📍In the Fitzwilliam museum, Cambridge 📸 Mine #archaeology #ancientegypt #photooftheday 🏺

That time of year again!

In case you need a positive reminder: How effective is protesting? According to historians and political scientists: very www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

You've just opened up a Star Trek themed restaurant. What are you calling it? Schmalz with Bashir

Did you know? The root of 'fascinate' is linked to ancient beliefs in the evil eye, suggesting that fascination has a sinister power over the observer.

NYT provides no evidence here, probably because the claim is flatly untrue. See eg recent Pew data, or many posts on the subject from @gelliottmorris.com this year www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u...

There were most certainly choirs and choir boys in frum, yiddish speaking Eastern Europe. I'm reading a Yiddish memoir written by a former yiddish choir boy (meshoyrer) right now

This is ultimately why those American Jews who thought we could remain in good stead with the Christian nationalists, as a specially protected minority who would receive special privileges by allowing ourselves to be used as pretexts to crack down on higher education, were so tragically mistaken.

After buying it for $18.8 billion, Walgreens' new private equity owner has eliminated paid holidays for all hourly workers on Christmas and New Year's. Last year, Walgreens had a CEO-to-Worker pay gap of 410 to 1. Corporate greed that would make even Scrooge blush.

These people need to find god or at least locate their fucking soul

Bari Weiss’ two accomplishments so far are hosting an interview that she desperately wanted people to watch (but they didn’t) and trying to spike a news story that she desperately wanted nobody to watch (but they did)

Had to grab dinner tonight in between Yiddish New York and my shift at the Yiddish theater mines-- the Chinese place i planned to hit on my way was closed (!!!!) and had to get Thai instead. Amerike gonif!

Obviously I am not by any means one of the people at the greatest risk right now, but something about armed people in uniforms wearing Santa hats activates a very particular Jewish ancestral trauma.

DHS's handling of the incident raises questions about the department's oversight mechanisms to investigate employee misconduct. n.pr/4jlKsEc

It’s interesting that the administration wants you to know that Bari Weiss is in league with them.

One more session coming up today!

Happy to see that the @forward.com has an article out today about the digitial klezmer manuscript project I worked on as a volunteer in 2020-21.😁many fond memories of poking around looking at high-resolution chickenscratch scores of klezmer magnum opuses dating to the 1890s in some cases

I love how Pam Bondi and the MAGA DOJ openly, shamelessly, and maliciously go after Trump's enemies, but Merrick Garland sat paralyzed for four years, terrified that prosecuting Trump for literally treasonable offenses would violate norms, precedent, and decorum. He must be so proud.

I wrote about Yule Logs for @thespectator1828.bsky.social: “While the Yule Log may have pagan origins, it is perhaps better understood as the wooden equivalent of a goose or turkey – a special treat for the Christmas season, relieving the misery of midwinter.” spectator.com/article/the-... 🪵

Prison guards: - Watched a woman experiencing psychosis gouge out her own eyeballs. - Ignored a man’s beeping insulin pump for more than 24 hours before he died. - Left a man sitting in his own feces not eating for weeks, he lost 60 lbs before he died. All in San Diego County, last ~5 years.

Last Christmas I gave you my heart The very next day Kali ma shakti de

Honestly- the only kind of Christmas movie i can actually get behind

News In Photo:

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.

What you missed if you weren't at my Yiddish New York session this afternoon. I must say, we had a lot of fun!

The person who wrote a book entitled “How to Fight Anti-Semitism” is covering up for the creation of American concentration camps in El Salvador.

Welcome to A New Era, Samuel Levine!

What you missed if you weren't at my Yiddish New York session this afternoon. I must say, we had a lot of fun!

I am still shocked by the degree that casual racism has been completely normalized in the US. I shouldn't be after the last 10 years, yet I am.

😂😂 פֿון דײַנע ליפּן אין גאָטס אויער

On today’s #GreatestGen, Archer reveals that his favorite Vulcan philosopher is actually from Tallahassee. Listen to the full episode at: gagh.biz/greatestgen #greatesttrek #startrek #startrekenterprise @MaxFunHQ

CBS paid the president of the United States millions in bribe money and now they censor news reports so it does not annoy him. I don’t know how much plainer we can put this.

"basically, everyone in corporate America is openly saying they can use a fat envelope to overcome that pesky rule of law thing, and Ballard seems like the post office for these fat envelopes" www.thebignewsletter.com/p/monopoly-r...

In an internal email, 60 Minutes correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi said new editor in chief Bari Weiss had “spiked” the story and said the government was using silence to “VETO” stories.

Tkufes teves - winter solstice. Traditional Jewish belief held that at each equinox & solstice there was an angelic changing of the guard. In those moments of change lurked danger- especially to uncovered household water! To be safe, put a piece of iron or some salt in the water. Or get fresh water!