Arts and crafts table for the daughter built. Gifts arranged under the tree. Time to lock and load for Christmas magic when she wakes up in a few hours. Merry Christmas to all who celebrate!

It's genuinely refreshing to see a judge not pretend that this administration is normal or treat it in good faith.

My spicy take of the evening is saying you can't complain about beach erosion when you have a giant retirement mansion sitting on the dune where it used to be illegal to build because dune collapse. Very old NC beef.

“Like prime, but with human beings”

It’s honestly worse if this is what she truly believes because the idea that a false sense of balance is inherently more trustworthy is just so braindead.

welcome to the Second Annual Bluesky Christmas Eve Snowball Fight! please drop a take in the replies and I or someone else will be along to belligerently interpret whatever you said in the worst possible light

Targeting a religious gathering because you believe that all Jewish people are responsible for the actions of the state of Israel is center-mass antisemitism.

When you’ve gone to this place, it’s time to just admit your only interest in antisemitism is claiming it doesn’t exist

American tech companies are not truly concerned about censorship, as they happily operate in countries with strict regulations. You never hear the Trump administration complain about Saudi Arabia, Russia, or China. This is about bullying Europe, nothing more

Oh GB News. Have a day off and enjoy a mince pie. How dare I talk positively about migration & refugee rights at this time of year that should be about *checks notes* good tidings and warm wishes. Tune in at 3pm to watch and judge for yourself. Merry Christmas everyone!

Also true re: a lot of the dooming on here about an eternal MAGA regime.

getting tired of the historical accuracy debate about Nolan’s Odyssey. someone should just take it way out of time and place altogether, like maybe a magical realist Depression-era Mississippi. perhaps with some music for good measure.

Heritage Foundation implosion has been a wakeup call for some conservatives about dangerous trends on Trump-era right. I hope they will see that nationalism is inherently prone to bigotry, and reject it in favor of universal principles of the Founding: reason.com/volokh/2025/...

Worth repeating this with every new Epstein document drop. The party of Denny Hastert is the party of Jim Jordan is the party of Matt Gaetz is the party of Donald Trump. Looking the other way and protecting child predators from the law is their brand.

Having a son murdered does not justify torturing a Venezeulan makeup artist who had nothing to do with said murder. I mean, fucking honestly.

Wow. Genuinely shocked, and a hugely consequential decision. Importantly, this is a case where @martylederman.bsky.social's amicus brief appears to have made a MAJOR impact. Before he wrote it, courts were sidestepping the "regular forces" issue entirely. And that's what the Trump admin lost on.

I know he just signed with CAA so we should enjoy these "no media training" responses while we can.

“What we saw inside was horrible.” Rep. McIver speaks with MS NOW Nnamdi Egwuonwu about conditions inside Newark, NJ ICE facility.

It's actually worse. The Supreme Court has held 9-0 -- Clarence Thomas and other executive power fanatics included -- that detainees rendered to another country via the Alien Enemies Act are entitled to a pre-deportation hearing. There is no legal debate whatsoever.

Worth noting that the student admits that she just threw the thing together in 30 minutes without reading the paper she was supposed to be responding to.

Ronald Reagan: “We lead the world because, unique among nations, we draw our people, our strength, from every country and every corner of the world, and we continuously renew and enrich our nation.” Jay Nordlinger: “This ‘Heritage American’ business is a scam.” open.substack.com/pub/thenextm...

'Tis the season for some festive science songs. If you've ever wanted to hear someone sing about a dimunitive tyranosaur then now is your chance

even if I’m putting on my very most cynical hat, it’s a very good thing that the establishment lane understands that they’re getting graded on this

Health care premiums haven't even spiked yet.

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

Bari’s complaint was “there’s nothing new here” and while that’s untrue it’s also irrelevant “we intentionally sent people to be tortured in a hellhole and bragged about it and The Hague is too good for everyone involved” is a story that simply cannot be told enough

Well done UC Berkeley. Well done Human Rights Watch. Well done CECOT survivors. Well done 60 Minutes.

What is described here is systemic, incessant torture. CECOT is a torture prison that Trump has publicly praised. Weiss didn't want us to see it.

The whole article is excellent and you should read it all, but I wanted to highlight this paragraph (also shown below) because a lot of white ppl don't understand that even _our_ rights and freedoms are bound up w/others'. (Yes, we _should_ stand up for the rights of nonwhite ppl just because it's…

That’s really antisemitic, actually.

There is a ton of evil, hardcore satanic level evil, in this country/world, so I shouldn’t be surprised but holy shit how do certain people live with themselves I don’t think I’m particularly exception on anything, including morality, I think I’m like most people just doing the best we can, and…

CBS didn't run the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT, but over here at @propublica.org we've been working on the story since March, including finding out who each and every man sent to that maximum security prison was. You can see our reporting here: www.propublica.org/series/depor...

CBS News may not want you to see its CECOT reporting, but I'm happy to share this powerful video that our team produced this year.

So stoked for this.

When you never miss a chance to show your contempt for South Asians, you think that a community where some still struggle with colorism gives you license to come at us all. The idea that Zohran grew up surrounded by whiteness in Kampala, Cape Town & Morningside Heights is… well.

Betty Reid Soskin, who served as the nation’s oldest park ranger and related firsthand accounts of segregation as a Black woman on the World War II home front, has died. She was 104.

Haaahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahha As nearly every person has been saying on this website in the last 24 hours. This woman is infinitely in over her head. It’s YOUR listing schedule. YOU Put it out. If it wasn’t ready YOUR staff should have figured that out and brought it to

It’s the most debate-brained “gotta hear both sides” nonsense. But I’m sure it’s not a standard that The Free Press applies consistently.

I mean there’s nothing in this statute saying a volunteer appointive federal office is any different from a paid one.

That latter one is just really stupid because her own damn outlet uses "migrants" constantly.

I mean it's not like an interview with Miller was going to make the administration look better.

This is the now deleted teaser for the 60 Minutes report that was supposed to air tonight on the CECOT torture prison in El Salvador that Donald Trump sent hundreds of migrants to. CBS is officially a mouthpiece for the Trump administration thanks to Bari Weiss

I continue to feel that the oppression of gay men goes underrated and often neglected in its range, including in the same ways that women are oppressed and that romance as a genre reflects

Thats a big problem. We kind of need to know if they were bad so we do not collectively waste a ton of resources on them again.

Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.

The White House already declined to comment! They likely *know* they should decline to comment because there are ongoing lawsuits regarding this.

Why on earth would you give up being a governor with immense power in your deep red state to be a special envoy?

This is atrocious. These law-abiding H-1B holders were following the rules to renew their visas. They’re now trapped abroad, separated from their families, and unsure if they’ll be able to work. The U.S. is their home. Cruelty for the sake of it. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...