These two men deserve praise for their service.

This Yglesias piece in the NYT is horrifically bad. Almost every "fact" it cites is provably false. At best it is cocktail party banter from a pundit who knows nothing of energy. At worst, it was cut/paste from oil industry talking points. So, a rebuttal: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/o...

Picard morality tip: If one side of a conflict preaches purity of bloodline above communal benefit for all, join the other side.

How can we debate policy meaningfully with people who don’t understand reciprocals?

The real war on Christmas is journals sending review invites with 14 day turnaround in mid-December.

Awful day here in my adopted country. Guns are terrible. No one should have one. Australia has very good gun controls. I hope we learn like we did after Port Arthur and make firearms even harder to access.

Nevada and Florida both went Trump in 2024 and they really deserve this.

Stephen Miller is to blame for the evil ICE is doing. Trump is to blame for listening to Miller. The Republican party is to blame for supporting Trump. MAGA voters are to blame for re-electing Trump. There's enough blame for all of them to share.

Oprah Pursues Dr. Phil On Ship Through Arctic https://theonion.com/oprah-pursues-dr-phil-on-ship-through-arctic/

When you grow up in America, you’re told to stand up for what you believe in. Unfortunately, you’re told this regardless of whether your opinions are antediluvian quackery that will cause untold physical and mental suffering.

Uh how can Alina Habba step down from a role she wasn’t in legally? Isn’t that just being fired?

Introduce yourself with five concerts you’ve seen multiple times Oasis Green Day Pixies Spoon [no fifth, but I saw Jet twice when they opened for Oasis in 2005]

I am Jack's blinding white hot fury.

Thrilled to report that we, the Hazelwood Health Study, won Monash University's Vice Chancellor's Excellence Award for Research Team of the Year (STEM). This award is also bittersweet as after 10 years of documenting the health effects of mine fire smoke, Hazelwood closed this past June.

Larry Summers Announces He Will Step Down From Chair With Belt Around Neck

This is so obviously stupid, I initially read this as a sensible member of the Fed warning about the consequences of cutting immigration and mass deportations. But he’s actually invoking deflation as if it’s a good thing!

*maximum alpha at 1.25x speed* continuously lives on in my head, unfortunately.

It’s amazing that the last time I heard of this guy was about 30 years ago, and same as now it was because he was being racist about New York. Also, don’t trust anyone who would choose hot dogs over goat.

New eatery near me and, uh, does “fanny” mean the same thing in Australia as it does in England?

*NEW STUDY ALERT* We found no real evidence of increased mortality among people with cancer due to smoke exposure from the Hazelwood coal mine fire. Of course, this doesn't totally rule out an effect (on a larger scale, it may be detectable), but if there is one, it's probably small.

Do I smell burnt toast? Could I draw a clock if ask? Is the lampshade looking slightly off? Because I really need to make sure I'm not having some sort of cerebrovascular event when I read this.

Whoop whoop! My team from the (sadly, now defunct) Hazelwood Health Study won the Dean's Award for Team of the Year! More here: www.monash.edu/medicine/new...

*screaming impotently into the void*

Worst moment for any indigenous tribe or any youth hostel.

The boy and I were surprised by a sting ray while swimming in the Jervis Bay Territory.

In 2016, JD Vance mused that Trump might be "America's Hitler"

Americans will do anything to avoid cooking vegetarian.

Reliving a key moment in Australian history (I’d only consumed non-alcoholic beers)

Ingraham: A Democrat congressional candidate was thrown to the ground by an ICE agent. Good work

Dark times getting darker.

Im beginning to think Vance meant it as a compliment when he called Trump “Hitler”.

I’m at an Indian place and ordered the chili chicken. The woman behind the counter warned me, with my very Irish skin, that it was very spicy. I just smiled and nodded. On a scale of 1 to “will require bowel surgery”, how fucked am I?

Very, very bad stuff coming from leading right-wingers

I hope Dershowitz is never served another pierogi for the rest of his life.

I hope everyone will forgive the bluntness of my language, but it seems like bluntness is warranted: it now seems pretty clear that the president raped children or at least knew about and actively facilitated the rape of children. I think it is time we stopped using coded language to say that.

Exclusive: Jeffrey Epstein’s estate has given Congress a copy of the 2003 birthday book, including the letter with Trump’s signature that he has said doesn’t exist.

lol, I also bought a home at rock bottom interest rates during the pandemic. Fortunately (I guess?), I live in Australia where most mortgages are variable and fixed-rates last at most 5 years, so no one really gets stuck in the golden handcuffs for long.

Wikipedia editors right now

My home state. The fucking Gestapo have come to Connecticut.

I no longer live in the U.S. so take my position with a grain of salt. I’ve been arguing for blue state secession since before Trump won in 2024. The biggest pushback I get is “do you want Civil War? Because that will cause Civil War.” My counterpoint has been, “we may get Civil War regardless.”

I feel this in my tinfoil-covered bones

So Trump probably knew what Epstein was up to before their friendship disintegrated. He was only mad that Epstein and Maxwell were procuring victims from his property. And there was more than one girl recruited from MaL?! AFAIK, only Giuffre was known about.

All right, so really esoteric. Summer VIIIs 2011, an Oxford bumps race with four days of rowing where the object is to touch the boat ahead of you or get their cox to concede. I was in the 2 seat of Green Templeton College’s 1st boat. We bumped the three previous days and were on course for “blades”

This is either of my children whenever something doesn’t go exactly to their liking.

Party of Christian theocrats who justified their anti-trans bigotry under the guise of protecting women and children, is shutting down Congress to stop further investigation into the world’s most notorious child sex trafficker.

Cool. Totally cool. And completely unrelatedly, I'm reminded of the scene in Inglourious Basterds where Brad Pitt carves a swastika into the Nazi's forehead so he'll never be able to hide what he did. Again, completely unrelated to the concentration camp manager job advertisement.