The curious phrasing here (“signed to support”) makes it technically true, but here’s another truth about these two orders so outside the normal discourse: stopping false equivalence between anti-Zionism↔️antisemitism and empowering BDS are both good for supporting a *democratic & equal* Israel

I love when ads for movies flash something like “GREATEST FILM OF THE YEAR” and then in tiny transparent text at the bottom of the frame “~ @moviefart28xx on X”

Mayor Mamdani has nullified every executive order issued by Eric Adams after he struck his corrupt bargain with Trump to secure dismissal of the indictment against him.

turns out: the haters became the waiters and then the maître d’s and now we all collectively own the table of success

Petty and pathetic. We will overturn these vetoes. Good riddance.

If you're a Democrat, you're a sucker if you imagine this agency has anything to do with immigration. It is--and aspires to be!--a fascist paramilitary goon squad. You should start saying so and lay the groundwork for starving it of funding when you take power

the two genders

sure Eric Adams will have a scandal plagued legacy of outright criminal conspiracy, but the most embarrassing remnant of his administration will surely be the “security features” he slapped on subway turnstiles that have surely stopped not even 1 (one) fare evasion

the use of “manipulative” in criticism of movies/TV/books feels like a truly bizarre outgrowth of therapy speak — yes, one major objective of art is to move you!!!!!

Be like Dancer Doug — cooler and braver than all of America’s corporate leaders www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/a...

With the coming price hike, the cost of a Citi Bike Membership will have increased 33% since 2020 ($179/yr)— not including higher rates for e-bikes. City bike infrastructure should be cheaper than public transit — not a profit machine for a corporation — and really hope the new admin takes this on.

the most amazing winning is to have a team that is unclassifiable according to objective metrics but persistently magics out of defeat

the bravest platform will allow us to react to reacts, to construct holy towers of emoji upon emoji reaching to the heavens of Engagement and Content

If anything the crime has been underplayed. They knew these men were mostly innocent. They knew they’d be tortured. They sent them to CECOT not out of recklessness but because they thought it would enjoyable for their supporters to see innocent Latinos tortured. An intentional crime of violence.

Polo Ralph Lauren implies the existence of Marco Ralph Lauren

Marty Supreme? …more like Marty Supreme movie

In American English, people use the phrase “when the pandemic ~hit~” to refer to the start of COVID— what are the formulations of this in other languages & how do they translate?

have AI freaks ever played a puzzle of any kind? have they considered life might be like that??

everyone trying to be an ombudsman, too few just being an Om buds man 🌳🧘‍♂️🌳

why write something in a regular amount of time when you can write something in 6.7x amount of time while also vandalizing your brain

call me naive but I refuse to believe (or ignore all of the available evidence this year) that the American public generally wants a practice of kidnapping & torture, that this is a losing issue for a party trying to reclaim power from the people doing it

End-of-year PSA to any @foodcoop.bsky.social members, my Nearly Useless Cheese Ratings has now passed 75 nearly useless cheese ratings! Good luck! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Year 1 data on congestion pricing in Manhattan… * Vehicle traffic: -11% * Foot traffic: +3.4% * Storefront vacancy: -0.9% * Pollution: -22% * Revenue for mass transit: $548M So YES this has been a huge success.

Your Cinema Sicko Score (CSS) is how many letters you have to select before your movie appears in the VOD search.

I just uploaded @jasonparis.bsky.social 's recording of the segment CBS News pulled from "60 Minutes" to YouTube:

bari weiss saw this and decided that she had to hide it from the american public

If one *were* to pursue these suggestions and actually run the story it would be a story about government officials defending hypothetical collateral damage of “controversial” conduct in the pursuit of criminals, which, yeah, is completely not the story.

TIL horror cinema auteur Zach Cregger is the same as “gallon of PCP” sketch creator Zach Cregger, which makes him among our most influential millennial male mystics.

The NYC left is beginning an attempt to push Mamdani to drop Tisch as police commissioner — a really unfortunate strategic blunder. Not only because it won’t work and will thus prove those groups’ weakness, but because if it did work it’d really hurt the candidate.

They get richer while you get poorer, many should be saying all of the time.

Most powerful fruit names of 2025 and all other years: (3) passion fruit [passion!!!] (2) nectarine [‘nectar’ and fancy] (1) orange [made a whole color]

May the Hanukkah candles in the homes of Bari Weiss and Stephen Miller leave terrible residue in the materials of their prized possessions, little bits and smears of colored wax that will never fully come out!!

Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

Every single vote that Democrats give to the ruling regime legitimizes this barbaric, Nazi campaign. www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/19/f...

Hamlet Hammet Hamnet Hamoet Hampet

DNC's unreleased report says Dems need to take on immigration more directly, a DNC official tells me. But it's unclear what this means in practice. By failing to release the report, the DNC is effectively evading the public debate over how to address the issue at a time when Trump is tanking on it:

Trump has called for at least three of these senators to be thrown in prison. And they’re still voting for his agenda.

Smart but grim stuff from @jessespafford.bsky.social on “right-wing epistemic isolationism” open.substack.com/pub/jessespa...

were we gonna find out Kamala wasn’t brat www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...

Hahahahhahaha bsky.app/profile/maxt...

Things have been crazy, but I didn’t think we’d get to the Hunger Games this quickly!

Out of the Loop (2029), dir. Jesse Armstrong

Out of the Loop (2029), dir. Jesse Armstrong

While individual voters may not be informed, the collection of all voters in aggregate absolutely sense if the current thing feels good or feels bad and, well, I think it’s pretty clear this administration has no idea how to make things stop feeling bad.

I’ve been blogging this

Seems like Trump and his groupies think starting a regime change war of conquest out of nowhere is a political masterstroke that will get them back on the front foot, but I don’t think that’s how it will play out.

It's very cool that the Supreme Court invented a political system that gives these lunatics unlimited influence.

Yes this stuff is hard generally, but difficult not to imagine that we are also also dealing with a pronounced decrease in FBI competence specifically.