The Trumpers responded as usual: “60 Minutes should spend their time and energy amplifying the stories of Angel Parents, whose innocent American children have tragically been murdered by vicious illegal aliens that President Trump are removing from the country.” www.thewrap.com/media-platfo...

DOJ briefly uploaded this letter from Jeff Epstein to serial child molester Larry Nassar: "Our president shares our love of young, nubile girls. When a young beauty walked by he loved to 'grab snatch,' whereas we ended up snatching grub in the mess halls of the system."

when the second tape came out, right-wing Fox types spoke derisively of DNC operatives spending hundreds of hours poring over old CSPAN tapes and, nope, it was just a guy with a blog and one of his readers, who happened to have saved the tape because he couldn't believe what he heard

Is this the right time to point out that in the world that copyright maximalists want, we would not be able to view the cecot documentary?

this version's gone, i assume it will get spiked from anywhere with fast moderation. 404's article has a good chunk of options for where you can download it www.404media.co/archivists-p...

You might question her methods, but credit to Bari Weiss: her leadership has pushed 60 Minutes into new formats and attracted a bunch of new viewership outside the normal broadcast audience.

Left NIMBYs, is this your king?

This has been made available, so for purposes of commenting on Bari Weiss's decision to spike the story, here's a live-post of that segment. It begins with a "you may recall" summary of the deportation to el Salvador. Describes the admin's claim that it could deport the men without due process

Smith: Would you answ- President: presses a comically sized green button, Smith is doused in Nickelodeon Slime™

From 2022: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

We've heard from these Venezuelan CECOT survivors multiple times, in human rights reports and written testimony. The NYTimes version of it got a WH quote. This is the useless kind of thing Bari needed? www.propublica.org/article/vene... www.hrw.org/report/2025/... www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...

The UK is now facing an emigration crisis and a shrinking population. It must, must, must reverse engines on immigration immediately - throw the doors open and wave people in. Otherwise we are inviting disaster.

The funny thing about CBS is that Trump still hates them and is mad at their parent company. Plus Republicans don't like or trust Bari Weiss So they have to keep getting more obviously propagandist for him in order to placate him

....is this actually a profound statement about not taking statistics too literally?

so we're just getting straight-up censorship now.

Disc Horse is a bot account that posts random shit in the style of deliberately inflammatory posts. Like this bsky.app/profile/hors...

Couple days ago I introduced an obvious 4chan troll to the horse. An hour later they finally realized they were arguing with a labeled bot and blocked it, then me. Was glorious. Each person from their pod who blocked me had 5-15 alts. So many listifications DMs. So much Schadenfruede.

5% of the population generates 50% of healthcare spending. The GOP solution to cutting healthcare spending in half is to simply let that 5% die. The only flaw in their reasoning (aside from a total lack of ethics and morality) is that sooner or later nearly everyone ends up being part of that 5%.

They held a four day trial to try to convict this guy. The jury took three hours to deliberate before they returned a not guilty.

The Abundance movement often points to environmental groups as the obstacles to building. But who actually files the lawsuits blocking projects? It’s not environmental groups. It’s been lawyered-up HOAs protecting property values all along. Regulation by litigation is the problem.

This Yglesias piece in the NYT is horrifically bad. Almost every "fact" it cites is provably false. At best it is cocktail party banter from a pundit who knows nothing of energy. At worst, it was cut/paste from oil industry talking points. So, a rebuttal: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/o...

to the contrary, this is an amazing opportunity for cartels to launder drug money into legally owned American assets

For Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, repeating every UAE talking point is the ultimate expression of British identity

This article really validates how I've felt over the last decade

Wrote a short piece over on my Substack on how Cuba fits into the Trump administration's new blockade policy against Venezuelan oil tankers. pertierra.substack.com/p/two-birds-...

Saudi vs Emirates proxy war in Yemen. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

They didn’t catch the Charlie Kirk shooter - he had to turn himself in. They didn’t catch this guy - he managed to kill again and then kill himself. Absolute failures!

Until I get evidence to the contrary, I'm blaming Professor Nuno Loureiro's murder on the FBI incompetently failing to prevent an interstate killing spree

Holy hell

For example, here is average earnings vs. CPI since 2000.

This is what they're doing lmao thank u donnie trump for taking money the troopies were supposed to get tax free and making it subject to taxes

Hell World. Hell World. Hell World.

Sysiphos geht es gut, er arbeitet jetzt in der Zoohandlung

Trump crash plane www.cnn.com/2025/12/16/a...

Here's the Washington Post story that, so far as I saw, broke the news — and linked to the filing with a CourtListener link: www.washingtonpost.com/transportati...

"Haphazardism" - pretty good about Trump's flailing www.vox.com/politics/472...

Thank you for flooding the phone lines. Though we barely missed peeling off enough Republicans to check the regime’s lawless violence, it’s clear that the American people do not want war with Venezuela. Henry Cuellar was the only Democrat to vote with Trump — 14 days after he was pardoned by Trump.

Union local prez beats Online Misogynist, in the suburbs of Louisville KY, Overperforms Harris 2024 by 40 points. Low turnout tho

i would go further and say this is great, republican unwillingness to ever publicly criticize the party or each other has always been an advantage for them

If the question is what a better system might look like within the confines of the problems the field has, the answer is it would look like STEM hiring, except with adjunct teaching jobs replacing post-docs: you'd never hire someone tenure-line who hasn't had the PhD and been in the field for years.

so a thing just occurred to me. a downside of declaring a blockade against venezuela is it makes it easier for other large powers in different parts of the world, say asia, to blockade, say for instance democratic islands, and cloak it as lawful

This is what passes for progressivism and climate policy in California. Jane Kim’s answer for elevated fire risk and actuarial risk? Put it on the public dime. Urban renters should bail out well to do exurban property owners and landlords in fire zones. FAIR plan is already a ticking time bomb!

White Nationalism logic: A White South African is welcomed as a refugee, but a Black child is unable to assimilate.

It's so cool how every Republican President since Herbert Hoover presided over the beginning of a recession but idiot swing voters refuse to learn this.

Regardless of the friction that must, in the actual conduct of Internet Beefs, prevent us from bringing all of our force to bear in a single moment, such that war resembles nothing more than the trial of strength, the duel, one must commit to the bit.

In general people really seem to like lying about medically assisted dying and I genuinely do not know why. Like yeah man what technically constitutes a terminal disease is a fuzzy boundary, but eg the Illinois laws do not say "terminal disease" they have a clean definition (6mo to live or less)

The reason you defend civil liberties is not because it is popular (it is never popular) but because if the government can deport you to a foreign gulag without trial then it doesn't matter how popular the rest of your policy platform is.

"Science advances, funeral by funeral"

The PLA is preparing for this vision of future combat. Why aren't we? By the Editorial Board