Spoiler: They used the money just as wisely as anyone else would, and it's so frustrating that this still isn't a common sense assumption to make.

He didn’t just blurt it out; he said it while clearly thinking it was already in the media zeteo.com/p/did-trump-...

To be sure, Joe Biden had some embarrassing gaffes, and his Atlanta debate performance made clear he wasn't up for a second term But never once did Biden blurt out the details of a CIA covert op by going on a B-list radio show Can you imagine the uproar if he had?

We're nearly a month into criminal case of the Capitol Hill pipe bombs.. and the Justice Dept has avoided using the following terms in filings or arguments: "Capitol siege" "Jan 6 riot" "Effort to overturn the 2020 election" "Bombs distracted police as rioters approached"

The midnight swearing is for the same reason as UK does the "King is dead / Long live the King" routine --to show continuity. Unlike the federal government, the City government turnover is exactly at New Year. It's why a couple of mayors have been sworn at the ball drop.

That is bad ass, I’ve only gone through there on a subway car and it is so unbelievably gorgeous

damn so Zohran even shares my obscure infrastructure obsessions like city hall station. incredible

EXCLUSIVE: @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social will be sworn in as mayor on midnight on January 1 inside the old abandoned City Hall subway station, saying that he sees the venue as a symbol for the aims of his upcoming administration.

I am writing about how useless Big Law has become in the fight for democracy and I came across this from 2021. It was bullshit then -- the SWAT teams never existed. But it's notable that firms like Paul Weiss felt the need to act like they cared. Now, they don't even need to pretend.

The Social Security Administration ends the year in turmoil. A diminished workforce has struggled to respond to up to 6 million pending cases in its processing centers and 12 million transactions in its field offices — record backlogs that have delayed basic services to millions of customers.

To help fund Medicare for All, progressives have proposed imposing a wealth tax on the ultra rich - which could cost Bezos billions. And Amazon owns a big primary care chain that's warned Medicare for All could have “an extensive impact” on its business zeteo.com/p/washington...

With millions of Americans about to pay higher premiums or lose their health insurance, the Washington Post editorial board published a flagrantly misleading op-ed opposing Medicare for All. Not mentioned: Jeff Bezos's stake in the healthcare discussion zeteo.com/p/washington...

Naz new lows almost 300 now. In the last 10 days Naz has had more highs than lows only once.

In this year’s #PlanetaryHealthCheck (www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/late...), the #OceanAcidification boundary has been assessed as breached for the first time. What does this mean? Nice explanatory piece in “Dialogue Earth”, with input from PIK researcher Levke Caesar. dialogue.earth/en/ocean/exp...

Zohran Derangement Syndrome (racism)

“Unlike me, Zohran does not have the solidly American look of a sour middle aged man who doesn’t like anything that has happened since he was 50.”

How dare the guy who wants to be mayor of New York City not take sides and piss off either the Mets or the Yankees fans? Also, how was I supposed to be swinging my arm? Although I suppose we know how this guy wants Americans to swing their arms - we saw Elon Musk do it on Inauguration Day, twice.

Caldwell is almost certainly referring to a 2010 interview in which Obama wasn't able to name a favorite Sox player from when he was growing up. But he pointed out that he didn't become a fan until he was an adult. chicago.suntimes.com/news/2010/4/...

Not that the truth matters, but Obama has an almost encyclopedic knowledge of the White Sox.

"Just say A-Rab, Chris, this is taking forever."

Unlike a regular American, he doesn’t have the mannerisms of the Queen of England, and is more reminiscent of Barack Obama.

You're telling me that something in the Claremont Review of Books was WRONG??

For a guy who “fends off baseball questions” he’s pretty bad at it

This is how Christopher Caldwell begins his essay on Zohran Mamdani for the Claremont Review of Books. Why are these people such freaks?

“as measles, whooping cough and influenza continued to spread and surge across the country, HHS came perilously close to scrapping the nation’s longstanding list of recommended childhood vaccines.” RFK is evil and dangerous even by this administration’s standards. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/30/o...

They like conservatives who are destroying higher education and want to help them do it. Remember the Times repeated (4x!) false "reporting" that Harvard was about to cave to Trump's lawsuit?

New School was one of the few higher ed options for people with widely varied learning styles. It was meeting an actual need in the university sector (and for kids who struggled, despite smarts, in standard format schooling). Now? A safe space for ultra-cons to park their kids, unchallenged by ideas

The utter perversion of the #BrokenTimes' both-sidesing compulsion: Here it equates the right-wing ruin of New College with (checks notes) liberal (in any sense of the word) education, which it dismisses as just another "ideological bubble." Just fuck off.

Let me take the opportunity to recommend a great TV one that has a discussion about air duct size. (Hi @okbjgm.bsky.social!) www.imdb.com/title/tt1262...

This is the world Justice Kavanaugh sanctioned in his foolish & unnecessary concurring opinion to the Court’s order in Noem v Vasquez Perdomo. His hopes of cleaning up that blunder with a plaintive footnote in last week’s concurring opinion in Trump v. Illinois, demonstrates his staggering naïveté.

"'I have my ID!' Mubashir shouted repeatedly, as heard on the video. The agents do not respond." www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...

If you aren’t backing up your toilet regularly, you have nobody to blame if it crashes

I like JKR in the same way that I like backed-up toilets.

this is gonna be a contracts case for the textbooks

Thanks, but looking at this I don't think this is the contract covering 1-off shows like the one Redd was going to do - this is for the Orchestra members, he'll have had a distinct contract for his show, most likely

Fyi, nothing in that contract seems to say it's confidential but also nothing in that seems to apply to a chuck redd show (other than to the supporting musicians who would be playing)

Hi there, I do (I downloaded it from the AFM Local members’ area this last summer when I was in CBA negotiations at another theatre) but I’m afraid I’m not allowed to share it. I’m happy to paraphrase (or even quote small sections) it if you have anything specific.

- DC’s a union town and KC is a union shop. Chuck was performing under the CBA. - The CBA mandates arbitration, if this ever goes anywhere. Any lawsuit will be yeeted back to arbitration. - If it does go anywhere, KC counsel will be facing off against AFM counsel, not paid for by Chuck Redd.

To recap: *The Trump administration illegally renamed the Kennedy Center. They broke the law. *Now they are suing a guy who refused to perform because of the name change for $1 million.

Humans matter. I want art to be made by humans and enjoyed by humans. And I want that to be true across the chain of creation. From idea to implementation to publication to presentation and distribution. Fuck AI.

Hitler stan Stephen Miller has put the U.S. on an Economic suicide mission: “Immigrants are far more likely than U.S. citizens to start businesses; nearly half of this year’s Fortune 500 companies were founded by immigrants or the children of immigrants.” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/28/b...

It’s an interesting portrait of a whole other world. Gambling with gobsmacking sums of money. I especially like this statement, suggesting that a poker game for $26k would just be like meaningless couch change.

And thanks to him, SCOTUSBlog, which was an invaluable resource, is now owned by Dispatch Media, a right wing media company. Sarah Isgur (who defended the Trump administration’s family separation immigration policy) is now a contributing editor.

Odd that the NYT and Toobin feel the need to do some character laundering here.

TL;dr (10k words) Tom Goldstein became enthralled with life as a degenerate gambler & sugar daddy. He has no defense to the mortgage fraud charges, but refuses to accept a plea deal that includes prison time. I just saved you 20 minutes that I’ll never get back. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/28/m...

Always good to keep in mind that Guardian has a partnership with OpenAI.

Impeachment is far from the only thing that should happen in the next (or this) Congress, but none of the arguments for why it'd be an unpopular thing to do or politically backfire somehow have any real factual basis or persuasive theory behind them. The whole backlash idea is just flat-out untrue.

english degree: good luck getting a job, buddy! AI can replace you coding degree: good luck getting a job, buddy! AI can replace you film degree: your deep knowledge of behind the scenes stories from Who Framed Roger Rabbit will delight and entertain coworkers in any field for decades to come

This isn't a popular idea. This is an *elite* belief. There's no mass of voters who recoil from impeachment like this. Majorities wanted him convicted the last two times, and the same would easily poll >50% today. The handwringing about the sacred presidency is DC-driven, it's not voter-driven.