Ten quick #PostcardsToVoters are on their way to Georgia and Virginia to encourage voters to participate in the January 6 special election. #FlipHD23 Charlie4VA.com Sanders4GA.com

I've been writing #PostcardsToVoters for Scott Sanders who is running in a January 6th Georgia House special election.

So much of this feels like when my parents first got email in the mid 2000s and could not comprehend why it would be used for malicious purposes.

Further developments: King Herod has announced his intention to eliminate all male children under the age of two from the area. "You can't be too careful with these undesirable elements," a spokesperson said. Local mother Rachel, when reached for comment, was crying too hard to speak.

Law enforcement has more tools than ever to track your movements and access your communications. Here’s how to protect your privacy if you plan to protest.

A nice thread in which an actual expert patiently explains why the Secretary of Health and Human Service is not simply a liar, but an especially stupid one.

Remember: When Tylenol was poisoned *by an outsider* and killed people, the company recalled all their products & redesigned them. When Intel’s Pentium had a bug so obscure it affected 1 in _9 billion_ long division calculations, they recalled their chips. ChatGPT was made deadly *by its team*.

If it's a horrible hot take about higher education in the NYT, you can pretty much assume it's Anemona Hartocollis. Great thread by Don on the person who gives us awful take after awful take.

Starting your "research" with ChatGPT is like filling the foundations of your house with cotton candy or building your menu around radium.

We had congressional hearings when parents just suspected heavy metal was leading some kids to suicide.

Seeing lots of people post clips from Sinatra in "The House I Live In" as a response to Stephen Miller being a racist about Sinatra. Just a random reminder that "The House I Live In" is in the public domain. Every once in a while it's good to remember the public domain is good...

I just taught my lecture course on mid-20th c US history, which starts with Harding and concludes with Nixon. For the first time, I had to pause and stress that those scandals were actually shocking at the time and, what’s more, that Americans actually demanded people be held accountable.

Hey journalists can we make 2026 the year of Not Taking Billionaire Claims As Scientific Predictions The Market, Nay, Western Civilization Itself, Can Rely On Sure In The Knowledge Such Titans Would Never Lead Us Astray

"Academics literally cannot make genAI go away" we also can't make underage drinking go away and we're not advocating for installing bar carts in every classroom.

we’ve been over this we just did this in Massachusetts they’re not gonna leave, they’ll whine and bitch and moan and eventually this will raise more money than expected because nowhere they go is actually like the place they’re leaving

more confirmation that lurking clearly behind this idea of the “heritage american” is a straightforward contempt for the actual history and tradition of this country, such that vermeule has to hallucinate a framework to justify his desire to jettison the clear meaning of the 14th amendment

Speaking as a former Californian with continuing deep ties to the state: Go ahead and be Florida's problem, you greedy fascist fuckwaddles

This is #Quirk the duck. If you ever feel sad and don't want to feel sad, look at #Quirk.

Overheard in the neighborhood ages ago: "That guy puts the hyphen in anal-retentive."

"It was good that you didn't get to play with it." Watch all ANTIQUES ROADSHOW Season 29 Best Moments now: to.pbs.org/4j3xXNb

"ICE officials are also investigating the couple for other crimes. They were found with a substantial amount of gold, frankincense, and myrrh. 'What are those luxury goods doing in their possession?' asked the ICE spokesman, taking a moment to adjust his mask."

I wish it was possible to explain to people that there are actual human beings being “larger accounts” or however we want to frame it, and those people are just as real as they are. They’re not characters, they’re not created for you to consume. They’re *people*.

May I present the Chortlemuffin Effect bsky.app/profile/sonj...

There needs to be a version of this for (alleged) Indigenous wisdom. Also Buddhism. Also just about any other culture that affluent white Americans have appropriated and molded to say whatever they want someone to have said.

Insightful 🧵 from @kevinmkruse.bsky.social :

"an internet witch hunt" Every single named person in this article who spread ugly lies about the Brown shooting, even putting an innocent student in danger, is a Republican. One is even a top DOJ official. This NYT headline makes it seem like it was an everybody problem. It was not.

In retrospect the Bush-era War On Christmas stuff seems more ominous than it did at the time. It was just cable news guys crying about dumb/fake shit, then and now; I mean the campaign to turn Christmas, which most everyone likes and feels warmly about, into just another thing to get mad about.

In NYC there are plenty of people who don't celebrate, and people who do, who dont have anywhere to go. So as is our tradition, Anyone Comics in BK and Everyone Comics at Queensboro Plaza will be there to entertain from 12-5pm and handing out free books for those who feel left out!

The cognitive & emotional toll from staying in contact with abusive family can be both significant and difficult to recognize. There's a kind of social contract that abusive parents have violated. You owe them nothing. Nothing. Christmas–or any other holiday–doesn't change that.

still my favorite christmas post

Reminder to American #antiquesroadshow friends! The first episode of Season 30 airs Monday, January 5, 2026. Mark your calendars and be here on BlueSky at 8 pm for the live watch party!

Are these antique jeans the strangest thing to be found in a ceiling? Watch all ANTIQUES ROADSHOW Season 29 Best Moments now: to.pbs.org/493OSuy!

which mar-a-lago bathroom were they in

every time I can recall from history that a group has centered a culture of martial virtue to the point of conflict, the "soft intellectuals" the warriors distinguish themselves from have learned war real quick, dominate because they pay attention to details, and then go back to art and nerdy stuff

Treat yourself today to this video www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydvU...

“Pray tell, the Baron, what sort of gentleman is he?” “Well…”

The government has broad authority to control admission but courts have held *repeatedly*, over more than half a century, that the First Amendment bars the government from denying visas to foreign citizens simply because it dislikes what they have to say. 1/ www.nytimes.com/2025/12/24/b...

BREAKING: We’re honored to represent the American Academy of Pediatrics after nearly $12 million of their federal public-health funding was cut in an attempt to retaliate against them for speaking out against the admin’s health policies. We will stop this blatant abuse of power in court.

T'IS THE SEASON - PLEASE DON'T BE THE REASON ... that an un-vaxed infant, elderly grandparent, or any other vulnerable person isn't here next year. 💉.. 😷 INDOOR PUBLIC SPACES .. STAY HOME IF YOU'RE SICK.

This is 100% accurate, I know there is a small raft of dudes out there who like to try to slam how I do the man thing, and my reaction is and has always been, lol, no, my dudes, I don't take man lessons from boring status anxious try hard bigots

We were so honored to see a couple of folks shouting us out on this thread, which is full of great suggestions for folks looking for more baseball content made by women. www.reddit.com/r/baseball/s...

Because we desperately need books of this sort, and I want to see how Celeste Pewter would approach the topic. Also, I would preorder it.

All - genuinely. If this is something you want to see, can you quote tweet this and explain why? Since I've been fighting to write this book for years, and I keep getting told there's no market interest. I get it; it's not a sexy book. But it's an important book, imho. LMK what you think?

Bari Weiss’ two accomplishments so far are hosting an interview that she desperately wanted people to watch (but they didn’t) and trying to spike a news story that she desperately wanted nobody to watch (but they did)

I just got a DM from someone that pirated my game. They said (paraphrasing) that with hindsight the game was absolutely worth the price, and were asking my preferred avenue for them to buy it (Steam vs Itch). I've gotten a lot of great DMs from players, but this one is probably my favorite.

WHO GIVES A DAMN? It’s a public service, right there in the name. It exists as a public good for all the people in this country. It’s not supposed to turn a profit, you dolts. Go audit the Pentagon and see what kind of return on investment we’re getting there.

at a restaurant here in PR and there are two different sections on the otherwise all-Spanish menu: "Bebidas" (e.g. juice and sodas) and "Drinks" (i.e. cocktails). and all i can think of is the cow vs. beef thing

Kerbal Space Program is an educational game for learning why launching your enemies into the sun is actually extremely difficult

IN FACT we have been known to send out obscure holiday cards from time to time, here is the one we made for Pi Day on 3/14/15, and we did make a mailable version, and I posted it on my site at 9:26 am

One of my favorite things is that my mother-in-law referred to the movie “Everything Everywhere All at Once” as “Everyone Everything Here We Go”. One of my other favorite things is she thought that was as funny as we did. (Yes, yes, I love my mother-in-law, I admit it.)