I'm watching AI slop avalanche into the mainstream and many older folks not understanding that it's fake and I genuinely feel like we're all helpless on this. This going to be an era of relentless disinformation, and there's not much that can be done to prevent it. Sigh.

Every Democrat running for office needs to promise investigations and full prosecutions from top to bottom, remove its funding bloat then break up the agency and distribute its core remaining useful functions across other agencies.

I've eaten nothing but gas station food and chocolate waffles in the last 24 hours, ama

It was a blessed Christmas Eve service tonight. My liturgist whispered "Do you have a kids' sermon? Can I do it?" before I even realized our regular volunteer wasn't there.

Trump has revoked legal status for at least 1.6 million immigrants over the past year by cancelling programs like TPS and student visas. Remember: these are people who entered the country legally. Trump never cared about “legal immigration" — just inflicting cruelty.

Our HVAC company not only texts us when the technician is on the way, but sends his name and a headshot? Like, a pretty high-quality headshot?

!! Here’s a link to full video of the 60 Minutes segment that Bari Weiss killed last minute, via @jasonparis.bsky.social: is.gd/paU8Ko (It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)

If your house of worship is silent about the cruelty and the attacks on your neighbors by ICE, you’re at the wrong church, mosque, synagogue, temple, or gurdwara. Powerful ad by Interfaith Alliance — a plea for humanity.

BTW you can let a Paramount+ agent that you'll cancel your sub unless they air an unedited CECOT segement on 60 Minutes here help.paramountplus.com/s/contact-us

Amazing

NPR identified more than a dozen Epstein files released by the DOJ on Friday that are no longer available Saturday afternoon, including one that shows President Trump's photo.

No one who has ever witnessed a single faculty meeting could ever again claim that college professors are part of some sort of coordinated conspiracy to accomplish anything, let alone turn the entire US into a Marxist utopia/dystopia with an assist from their great pals in corporate boardrooms.

There was the best little dinghy at the Fairfax boat parade two weeks ago

I ordered hot green tea from a server who assured me that the green tea could be heated. It's definitely Arizona. This is a new flavor experience hot.

For the elder who answered "heck yes" to the installation question about serving with energy, intelligence, imagination, and love, we give thanks.

I had to watch Alabama's ban on gender affirming care for minors go into effect. It impacted multiple people in my life. It is cruel beyond words. Pick up the phone. Call all of your reps. Don't tell me it won't matter--I call Tommy Tuberville. EVERY FUCKIN' TIME. I won't gift them silence on this.

"Mothers had to choose which of their kids to feed...Pregnant women with life-threatening anemia were so desperate for calories that they ate mud. Out of options and mortally afraid, refugees began fleeing...They said they’d rather risk being shot or dying on the perilous route than slowly starving"

I'm not sure if people realize the murder strikes are taking place across a large region. It's quite staggering. www.newsweek.com/map-us-strik...

boy i cannot imagine anything more fucking embarrassing, as a white man, than writing a piece about how the reason my career sucks is the game isnt rigged for me enough

We just murdered eight more people in boats.

V’ahavta by Aurora Levins Morales www.auroralevinsmorales.com/blog/vahavta

ICYMI, story by Sarah Watson in the Quad City Times: "Mariannette Miller-Meeks changes voting address back to Ottumwa home" qctimes.com/news/state-r...

Just a reminder that ICE didn't exist until 2002. It's not some longstanding institution that must be maintained. It was created as a knee-jerk reaction to 9/11, and it could be gotten rid of as easily as it was created.

A for-profit education firm called Stride is opening a school inside a for-profit immigration prison run by CoreCivic. Stride has been accused of defrauding investors and providing substandard education to children. @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social spotted the job listings: prospect.org/2025/12/10/f...

That Grease Santa ad needs to be banned

My kid's one line in her Jr Musical Theatre sketch is "I think so!", which has lead to a real who's on first situation in our house.

Major props to Sesame Workshop for being the only mailing that has ever gotten me to donate - my kid saw Elmo on the envelope and asked about it. Once you say you can pay money to make more Sesame Street, you gotta pay money!

41 minutes is a long time to sit in your air conditioned office watching men struggle to survive as you decide to kill them.

(Leading him to the Sphinx) Yeah, it’s like a trivia night

Trump dozes while Marco Rubio speaks to him directly next to him. Just insane optics.

Do audiobooks count as reading? No. Nothing counts as reading. You're not in school anymore, that's not how this works.

“The National AIDS Memorial, through a partnership with the AIDS Quilt Touch team, presents all 50,000 panels of the AIDS Memorial Quilt in an interactive experience so people around the world can experience the beauty of the Quilt and witness the love and stories stitched into each panel.”

Seriously folks, pause before forwarding — Can you spot AI videos from real ones? Take our quiz https://www.npr.org/2025/11/30/nx-s1-5610951/fake-ai-videos-slop-quiz

Here’s this year’s Books We Love—but thanks to lots of work by lots of people, you can also look over all the Books We Love years back to 2013. It’s a remarkable project, and I can say that because I have nothing to do with it. (/fin)

Kids at paternal grandparents' house: unlimited classic Disney Kids with my dad: whatever cartoons Facebook Reels delivers They're living their best life, clearly.

some captchas are particularly humiliating is the fact that I’m searching for “elphaba sex cardigan” not proof enough that I’m not a robot for you, google do I also have to click on two pictures of a bus

You’ve heard of elf on a shelf. You’ve probably heard of some other stuff too. I get it. You’re a man of the world.

Built snow creatures on the patio table and darned if I didn't feel a sense of childlike wonder. Millennials, try building snowmen on a raised surface to save your back! It's great!

Does anyone want a survivorship bias shortbread

Hey @erinbiba.bsky.social I hope this finds you

It’s useful to think about things like this in numbers of tenure track professors. $53M is 575 assistant professors. Or more than thirty percent of the total number of full-time faculty at LSU.

Looking for past Garfield Macy's balloons. Found a new reaction image

Putin's plan to end the war in Ukraine. Cartoon by Michael de Adder

In a way, aren’t we all traveling to turkey today?

Mulligan has been drinking out of the people water all afternoon and we just found out

Okay, the crowd going nuts like someone just scored a touchdown at the Super Bowl all *through* the KDH performance is a hell of a thing to see hear/see:

Personally, I think it's a bad thing when people in the government post AI images without disclosing that they're AI. Image on the left is something RFK Jr. posted today. Image on the right is a photo from 2024.

Normally I try not to repost excessively to keep everyone's feed tidy, but Thanksgiving is a time for mindless entertainment on the couch and I'm sharing EVERYTHING. Consider yourselves warned. (Also Happy Thanksgiving.)

Grandma Thankfully Dies Before Sister’s Girlfriend Arrives https://theonion.com/grandma-thankfully-dies-before-sisters-girlfriend-arrives/