ARCADIA the new album from Alison Krauss & Union Station is available now twitter.com/AlisonKrauss...

To paraphrase Tom Waits: Musk's away Musk's away Musk's away On business Business

The Art of the Deal? More like The Art of the Steal.

"But men who have the souls of serfs are never satisfied until they have a means of expressing their serfdom." thedispatch.com/newsletter/w...

Maybe Elon Musk might want to take time from his busy schedule, destroying the federal government, to unfuck xTwitter. Just a thought.

xTwitter has gone out of skew, apparently, on the treadle. www.digitaltrends.com/computing/x-...

Today in Banana Republicanism: www.nbcnews.com/politics/don... All bets are off now.

Twitter and Bluesky are both having issues? How odd.

Donald Trump has achieved something remarkable: He has united Canada, from the Pacific to the Atlantic, in patriotic solidarity.

“Dry January” Never stood a chance

"Reducing the election to a false choice between expensive eggs and the Constitution is a form of cope that lets believers in American exceptionalism avoid confronting the fact that their country turned out not to be as exceptional as they thought." thedispatch.com/newsletter/b...

I've never met a stoner as addled as Former and Future Dear Leader.

The Cruelty Is the Point open.substack.com/pub/yaschamo...

Well worth your time: Once They Were My Captors. Now They Rule Syria www.persuasion.community/p/now-theyre...

Snowden didn’t just whistle-blow. That might well be forgivable, or even commendable. He took a giant stash of completely unrelated intel with him and shared it with our enemies. He likely got good people killed.

Ramesh Ponnuru over at xTwitter: "Reporters at putatively neutral outlets should avoid obvious propaganda terms." (The quote was in re the uncritical use of the term "gender-affirming care" by Axios.) Clear, concise, zero artifice.

Trump's immigration crackdown could reduce caregiving workforce. This not just about deporting people here illegally, but taking away legal status/work authorization for other immigration currently allowed to be here (e.g., those on TPS, DACA) www.axios.com/2024/12/04/t...

Not a lot of detail, in what would seem to be a rather important story.

South Korean president declares emergency martial law

Which raises the very Roman question, why do we even need Senators?

Squirrel voyeur. 🐿️

Oh nothing, just a person deeply integrated into the incoming administration’s center of power calling for the execution of one of his critics.

So Mexico agrees to do the thing it's already been doing, and Trump claims victory. Sounds about right

1. Looking more and more like we’re going to enter the Trump administration with a 217-215 House of Representatives. This is due to Trump poaching a few members for his administration. But a two-seat margin puts the GOP in a very rough position.

Just discovered deck.blue, which gives you a TweetDeck-style page for Bluesky. Highly recommend. (Primarily so you don't have to wait to see my awesome posts.)

Word of the day is ‘sequaciousness’ (16th century): the slavish and reckless following of another person in matters of thought or opinion.

Adoration of the Magi, 2024

I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget

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A 17-year-old who is not allowed to speak in public in her own country has won a prestigious international award for advocating for the rights of Afghan girls

Penske Entertainment buys Grand Prix of Long Beach

"Shouldn’t Gaetz be Solicitor General?" --Church Curmudgeon on xTwitter

My memoir of my daughter, no paywall to read www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

I am here. Where are you?