Interesting report from @carnegieendowment.org by @noupside.bsky.social & @rachelkleinfeld.bsky.social on how social media influencers/creators are upending how the public gets their news & what this means for nonpartisan institutions. carnegieendowment.org/research/202...

Yeah this looks very different to me. One is print, the other is cursive. One is hastily written, the other with care. Also, we know from reading his emails that Epstein had dyslexia or some kinda of writing disability. One reflects that, the other doesnt

The FBI sent it to handwriting analysis. Outcome of that is unclear, as in, I haven’t found it in the files yet if it is indeed there.

For comparison, the note found in Epstein’s cell.

Welcome to the samizdat era, America.

Ok. Now had a chance to check and, well, at least some docs do appear to be straight up classic redaction fail. And there are some *interesting* bits here. www.justice.gov/multimedia/C...

If you happen to be looking for bad redactions in a large set of data files today for some reason, there's an open source tool for that.

NEW AT DEMOGRAPHY: We use difference-in-difference approach using applicant vs. implemented counties w/ 287(g) ICE agreements 2000-2020 to identify a plausibly causal effect immigration enforcement leading to sizeable increase in Latino-White segregation. OPEN ACCESS PDF doi.org/10.1215/0070...

The Associated Press has an excellent story about how FCC boss Brendan Carr bullied a Bay Area AM radio station for the crime of reporting on local ICE activity. facing existential collapse it immediately demoted journalists end replaced political coverage with safe public interest cack:

It's beginning to look a lot like the time of year for me to remind @amosposner.bsky.social that Scott Weiland once recorded a Christmas album.

Cover by Harvey Eisenberg.

Opinion: I asked Chat GPT to recommend another newspaper.

this story has been designed in a lab to confuse foreigners

Indeed

So, reasons I should have been skeptical about the Tate post despite "media" coverage: -No date/time on the image -The odds here would suggest Tate was an 8 to 1 favorite, and the math works out to 78m profit rather than 10m -I don't know the boxing media well enough to assess trust

Thought this said "Absinthe and Black Flag"

NEW: Bari Weiss addresses her decision to hold last night's CECOT story on the CBS News morning editorial call: "Our viewers come first, not a listing schedule or anything else..."

The worry about Bari Weiss was that she was a deliberately partisan choice for news director and that she had never worked as a reporter - and therefore didn’t know how things worked. Sort of shot the moon here.

14 two-year postdocs for academics of any nationality who cannot continue their research due to US politics. Do share if you know of such.

The Ghost Story, Alfred Bestall, 1930 #Christmasghoststories

Here’s a gift link to this stunner Washpost story, quoting the 60 Minutes correspondent on the CECOT story, who accuses Bari Weiss of spiking the piece all because the Trump Administration wouldn’t comment. “Government silence is a statement, not a VETO.” wapo.st/3YL4T3D

6 career CISA staffers were put on leave after the acting director failed a polygraph. None of them was the acting CISA director who failed the polygraph.

My darkest fear is that CBS is going to say they had to bump CECOT to add something about Rob Reiner and chose to bump the political story rather than the travel story on Mt Everest because they didn’t want to have two stories perceived as anti-Trump.

If we don’t approach the fan as someone responsible for his own actions, we’re going to 12th-man-ify saying the worst things you can imagine to get stars ejected.

Why is James Cook trending did the hawaiians get his ass again

“A Home Depot in Los Angeles installed three high-pitch noise-emitting machines outside to deter day laborers from seeking work there, causing them to suffer headaches and nausea, advocates alleged at a press conference on Wednesday.”

Happy Hannukah from someone who just made a wiener menorah challah

Everyone take a moment to laugh at the Chiefs.

Erika Kirk just brought out Nicki Minaj at a Turning Point USA event:

Jake Paul is the Bart Gunn of Kimbo Slices.

Hey, Bluesky: When you think of the ”hang in there, baby” cat poster, which one do you think of? There are more versions then you’d think. What is the platonic ideal of a baby hanging in there?

time to start talking about the best Christmas movies

DOJ's Epstein excuses on Xitter and the responding community notes are turning into Matryoshka dolls.

Tis the season.

Posting this unusual Chagall etching for the subject matter and title: Chichikov Slept in the Office.

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You there boy! What horrible content creator got decimated in the ring today!?!

How did Andrew Tate and Jake Paul not find a way to be on the same card?

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.

Ok. So...uh...internet timing is important. But Bolder isn't even the only NIST campus with NTP servers in Colorado, and NIST aren't the only people running time servers.

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...

Hey, @eyepatchwolf.bsky.social. Did I know your book came with stickers? Because I'm opening it now and there are free stickers. Please advise.

A Lord of the Rings cover band called Led Zeppelin.

I know nobody trains you how to do a cover up and I don’t want to make it sound like it’s easy, but if you are going to cover something up I at least expect you to do your best.

BREAKING: At least 16 files from the Epstein release disappeared from DOJ's webpage, including a photo of Trump, with no explanation.