I again urge you to ask which is more likely: that millions of members of the public have gone insane, or that a comparatively tiny number of people at the heart of media and politics - who all know each other and often work together - have driven *themselves and each other* crazy.

This has nothing to do with faith or observance btw. It’s just about establishing an official hierarchy of citizenship where they are on top. bsky.app/profile/mark...

Merry Christmas! Michelle and I hope you have a wonderful holiday filled with light and joy.

* short-lived * artificial * sees his brief life as a reason to live life to the fullest * does so by getting in fights with the police Roy Batty is Frosty the Snowman

This year’s Presidential Christmas card.

this is just to say I have loosed  the blood-dimmed tide that you were probably saving for the ceremony of innocence forgive me the best lack all conviction while the worst are so passionate and so intense

!! 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)

This has been made available, so for purposes of commenting on Bari Weiss's decision to spike the story, here's a live-post of that segment. It begins with a "you may recall" summary of the deportation to el Salvador. Describes the admin's claim that it could deport the men without due process

Carmel corn and Genny Cream Ale don't mix well.

From 2022: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Rarely has a journalist been brave enough to stand up and say,”Hey, so, is this torture prison story kind enough to my wannabe dictator?”

Bari Weiss going from purported brave defender of free speech and open debate to chief censor of reporting about a federal concentration camp is so grimly hilarious

A colloquial German word about someone viewed as low on intellect, especially popular in the 1990s, was Teletubbyzurückwinker. It means “one who waves back at the Teletubbies.”

Imagine being the 4th wealthiest person on the planet and you're still not the world's richest Larry.

I don’t give a single tin shit about JFK but scrubbing Trump’s name from literally everything he poisons it with has to be one of the biggest priorities for any new administration. I’m not kidding; this is legitimately extremely important

These are the people who are willing to go on the record. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...

This is an irredeemably bad person and if you support him, sanewash him, run a secret ratfucking operation with him while being a high profile political reporter etc. so are you

having trouble writing your wedding vows? why not take a note from my husband, who promised to love me "for the rest of one of our lives"

Okay this is wild and I had no idea? @robinwigglesworth.ft.com explain yourself, why didn’t you ever tell me about this.

This is a transitional blog but the key revelation is that Nuzzi and her PR/crisis management team abused the process for getting restraining orders in DC to successfully kill an WSJ piece that would have been politically devastating to RFK Jr. www.telos.news/p/part-6-bob...

dystopian fiction really underestimated the sheer number of dipshits

this is not behavior becoming of a FIFA Peace Prize recipient.

my favorite thing about the benoit blanc movies is that they aren't really about benoit blanc. he is not grappling with demons from his past. we are not getting flashbacks to the husband whose murder he never solved. he just shows up and does his job like mary poppins for homicides

Christmas night: "But Santa, you've hardly touched your Zardoz cookies."

The kind .. you find … in a second hand store

If Trump invades Venezuela to distract the country from the release of the Epstein files, Congressional Democrats will have blood on their hands.

Learned today that “Galápagos” comes from a Spanish word for tortoise, meaning that “Galápagos Tortoise” is, in fact, a tortology

The American people are sick of two Americas where rich folks get off on crimes and get tax cuts while the rest of us suffer. When the powerful and wealthy aren't held to account for heinous crimes like those in the Epstein files, it's the everyday people who hurt the most.

We made a comic about parenting.

Is it possible his hand has already fallen off and that’s just a rubber hand from like a Halloween store?

This is your annual reminder that the Time Person of the Year award is NOT meant as an endorsement, for example they gave the award to Adolf Hitler in 1938, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1942, and 1943 (when the magazine was renamed Hitler Monthly)

People need to acknowledge that all of the loud voices on the "Dems have to move to the center" team are paid by a Super PAC with the express purpose of electing more moderate Dems. They are not putting impartial empirical research out there. it's just Super PAC fundraising masquerading as "data"

cannot believe the title of this wikipedia article is actually wenis

Trump is going to deliver remarks today at a Pennsylvania casino, a place where you are on your own and the odds are stacked against you. Exactly how all the people losing healthcare in our state will soon feel thanks to his ridiculous legislation.

Why do I have to turn off copilot every month? Is it because Microsoft knows I pirated Flight Simulator?

After a backroom meeting with Donald Trump and a donation to the Trump ballroom, NVIDIA got a deal to sell the most advanced AI chip it has ever sold to China. The NVIDIA CEO should testify under oath in Congress.

Donald Trump said he’ll “be involved in” deciding if Netflix can buy Warner Bros. Is that an open invite for CEOs to curry favor with Trump in exchange for merger approvals? It should be an independent decision by the Department of Justice based on the law and facts.

A friend of mine was removed from the Christmas tree lighting at the Nebraska State Capitol last night after a woman she was with asked Gov. Jim Pillen if deporting people fit into his message of opening one's heart. (Not sure who took the video)

“The Daily Nebraskan found in the leaked spreadsheet that every program eliminated appeared to be profitable…every program that the chancellor proposed eliminating generated more money from tuition dollars than the department costs to run”

There should be a rule that if you are a Known Sports Poster you can say things like “holy fucking shit” with zero context but if you are primarily a Known Politics Poster that gets you like a two day ban

I feel like one of you should have mentioned college basketball started. This is where I get my sports news.

Remember: RFK Jr. fired his last CDC director because she refused to ram through his anti-vax agenda. Yesterday, RFK Jr.’s handpicked vaccine skeptics threw out DECADES of settled science — and Donald Trump gave a thumbs-up. This will hurt American kids and families.

Biden never slept through meetings but Jake Tapper wrote a whole book about how he was too old.

More than 110 people have signed in to speak at today's University of Nebraska Board of Regents' meeting. Most of them are faculty, including those from four academic programs that have been proposed for cuts. It's going to be a long day.

Carrick. Brownsville at Wynoka Street. Caller said a transformer just exploded, the lights went dark, and his pants went brown.

They said that in Texas, tho.

Murderer taunts police, claims more victims, vows to kill again.

If you're on the microphone when the president starts dozing off, you need to tell him, softly but firmly: "go to the light"

I'm surprised that so many people don't know this.