The Vanity Fair photographer from the Susie Wiles story. Holy. Shit. www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...

I was told that people voted for the guy who oversaw the first 4-year job loss since Herbert Hoover because he was good for the economy.

Not good.

historically, people have answered this with "national economy bad, but i'm doing alright" or such. the fact they're now saying "ii'm going bad" is, uh, not great

FDA approves 2 new oral gonorrhea antibiotics Zoliflodacin and gepotidacin are the first new antibiotics approved for treating gonorrhea in decades. www.cidrap.umn.edu/a...

Some thoughts on Mozilla's trajectory and Waterfox's stance on AI in the browser 👇 www.waterfox.com/blog/no-ai-h...

For more gift suggestions, my friend Peter and I did a pod on how to find a gift for someone, which is more of a guide on thoughtful gift giving, rather than a list of products. You may find it useful. pod.link/blamo/episod...

so if you personally pay donald trump you get a fast track to a green card

I’m not making free content for a website owned by a guy who thinks my family existing is a form of genocide against white people, which is why I’m not going back to that place.

With Tern’s electric cargo bikes racking up over a million miles delivering around New York City, here’s why the brand’s GSD – the OG longtail – remains the benchmark for anyone thinking about ditching a car

Happy Hanukkah, the holiday where we celebrate the defeat of a large cosmpolitan empire by a small determined group of militant religious fanatics

The difference is not cultural or moral or social. It’s that Australia is a democracy, with electoral, legislative, & judicial <institutions> that translate the preferences of majorities into policy. We, too, could have those, but we have to stop ignoring the problem: bsky.app/profile/mcop...

Last week, the New School issued voluntary separation & early retirement offers to 40% of the full-time faculty & the majority of non-union staff. These cuts to the bone are an ideological attempt to decimate historic spaces of critical inquiry & social justice. Share our statement tr.ee/qQBIDCpIuj

Current tally in the lawless killing spree at sea.

“But removing Trump will not remove -the infrastructure of an entire party that embraced him; -the dark money money that funded him, -the online radicalization that drummed his army; -nor the racism he amplified and reanimated"

Neighbors handing out whistles and zines to protect neighbors against ICE as part of @handsoffnyc.bsky.social's Weekend of Community Action! They're at 5th Ave. & 13th St. in Brooklyn until 3:30 pm! For more events around the city this weekend, visit handsoffnyc.com !

The NYPD has ramped up its enforcement against cyclists for squeezing pedestrians, but in a very suspect manner.

Ahmed al Ahmed, 43, has been identified as the man who disarmed one of the Sydney attackers. Ahmed was shot by the second shooter, who was firing from a bridge. He suffered 2 gunshot wounds and is undergoing surgery.

Fact-check: true

Loomer got the NSA deputy director nom pulled

WATCH: Bystander disarms active shooter at Bondi Beach in Sydney

Bovino, the man overseeing mass deportations, publicly declared that we must all have our papers on us, at all times, or we could be stopped, harassed, kidnapped, and detained, as they did with the man in this case, who is a US citizen.

Tyson is shutting down its Lexington, Nebraska plant in January 2026. That’s 3,200 workers gone in one shot, the largest plant shutdown in company history. Blame Trump’s tariff chaos and the lowest cattle inventories in decades. Tariffs jack up costs. Supply shrinks. Plants close. Towns hollow out.

Michael C. Rockefeller got shipwrecked in 1963, washed up on an island, and was promptly eaten by cannibals.

“No, WE didn’t forget the mother in this situation. YOU did. You voted for this… it was ok until it happened to YOU.” #ForcedBirthNation

Bush v. Gore was an unambitious declaration of war by Republicans against democracy and the rule of law. Republicans made clear they didn't view those principles merely as malleable concepts they could cynically bend; no, they see those principles as fundamentally incompatible with conservatism.

I was in Myanmar in 2015, just as identity cards were taken from Rohingya to keep them from voting. It was part of a decades-long process of redefining citizenship that ate away at their rights more every year. When governments start doing this, they can move the goalposts anytime they want to.

NEW: Behind Italy’s beauty (and parmesan) is a radical tradition of cooperatives. In some areas, they make up nearly a fifth of the GDP. We went to Emilia-Romagna, one of the richest regions in the country, to investigate how Italy’s workers built a more democratic economy.

"House Democrats on Thursday voted to return Rep. Henry Cuellar to his leadership role on the House Appropriations Committee following his presidential pardon on federal corruption charges." JICYMI - Shameful, repulsive move by House Democrats and their leaders. Disgraceful.

I don't care what anybody says. I think Mickey Rourke looks good in a hat and suit.

This doc explains Trump’s dementia and how he could possibly pass in 3-5 months.

This. This was the formative event of my generation & our entire politics in 🇺🇸. The structural break after which we were no longer a full democracy, when 5 Wizards In Robes decided they were a super-legislature & counting all the actual votes didn’t matter. The rest has been 25 years of commentary.

MAGAZINER: How many veterans have you deported? NOEM: We haven't deported veterans MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea

Trump's AI executive order is out, purporting to preempt state law. Legally, only Congress can do that, or at least that's the law until Calvinball federal judges and justices say Trump is the Most Special Boy who can. 🤷‍♂️ www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

These ridiculous mega-projects like "datacenters in space" (doomed by thermodynamics) make a LOT more sense when you realize they're massive Ponzi schemes designed to transfer wealth from pension funds to VC's through "fee stacking." It's the old Assets Under Management con. It should be illegal.

Trump's F.D.A. just withdrew a rule to require testing cosmetics made with talc for asbestos, a known carcinogen. That people will be putting on their bodies. Where are the MAHA moms now?

WATCH: New reporting from the New York Times reveals Andrew Tate’s release from Romania—where he faced rape and human trafficking charges—may have involved powerful allies, including Barron Trump. Pulitzer-prize winning investigative reporter Megan Twohey joins to discuss.

Europe needs an ally against Russia and Trump: China cepr.net/publications...

Perfect encapsulation of the entire diseased industry. Save the real news for the self-serving, brand-building book deal, which gets released months or years after it might have affected world events only to be read by dozens of fellow Beltway gossip addicts. The cosmic body horror version of that.

In a parting blow to NYC's police oversight agency, Eric Adams has appointed, as the agency's interim head, the guy who has spent the last year undercutting its mission. hellgatenyc.com/pat-smith-ch...

For people who missed it, this is Olivia Nuzzi writing fawningly about Trump on Sept. 9, 2024, two months after she trashed Joe Biden and while she was sexting with RFK Jr.

Yeah we have more Revolutionary War history than Boston or Philadelphia. No, we don't make it our whole personality nygroove.nyc/nyc-revoluti...

Ukraine developed a ballistic blanket to protect against shell, mine, and grenade fragments “This is first Ukrainian technological solution for individual and group protection that meets modern combat requirements,” Ukrainian Defense Ministry noted euromaidanpress.com/2025/12/11/u...

I think we have to pivot back to a statement/observation that was made earlier.... If Trump is a Russian Operative, what if anything, would he be doing differently?

The US is down at least $30 billion in tourism for 2025. International boycotts and a loss in appeal to visit due to Donald Trump has resulted in millions of trips canceled.

The EPA has removed references about humans causing climate change from its website. No US government website can be trusted for science information.

I've always thought that the whole "natural immunity is the best way to protect people" thing was a bit like saying "getting pregnant is the best form of birth control." Anyway, cool to see it's better for the immune system to see vaccine before virus from an effectiveness standpoint too.

Hillary Clinton blames TikTok and “totally made up” videos for young people’s views on Israel and Palestine. She says social media influenced “not just the usual suspects” but also “young Jewish Americans who don’t know the history and don’t understand.”