Can we please do a LOT LOT more of this? We need to catalog all grift, fraud, corruption, and deceit. We must keep a record.

This quote is from a piece that’s 8 years old now.

Subscribe to Ana Marie Cox's YouTube channel for incredibly insightful analysis and witty brilliance. I have always enjoyed seeing Ana on the news over the years, and I am thrilled she has chosen to produce video essays.

Gross.

Altman is bullshitting at Musk's level now.

Read this. Read it again. Share it. Read it again. Share it again tomorrow. Someone might need to read this, and you should share it. Read this again.

my mom got me lox to make a bagel with never kill yourself

For those looking for a good listen to a Christmas radio program, check out "The Shepherd" by Frederick Forsyth, read by Alan Maitland. I heard this a few years back on my local NPR station and sat in the car until it was finished. www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEVu...

I adore Karen Allen, especially in "Scrooged."

"Like Amazon Prime, but with human beings."

in case this wasn't obvious: the main takeaway of the entire epstein saga is that everyone in the ruling class who's been telling us that economic democracy "doesn't work" is a pedophile

Bari Weiss’ two accomplishments so far are hosting an interview that she desperately wanted people to watch (but they didn’t) and trying to spike a news story that she desperately wanted nobody to watch (but they did)

THIS ISN’T CALL OF DUTY WE PROCURE MILITARY PLATFORMS BASED ON THEIR UTILITY IT DOESN’T FUCKING MATTER WHAT THEY LOOK LIKE

This all sucks, but that last line is just evil. More corpo evil.

The thesis of the book is that early COVID lockdowns weren't worth it and mid-COVID mitigation measures like masks, contact tracing and business closures don't work. This is laughably false and the authors have endorsed the people now running Trump's HHS.

Just my Christmas greetings to all the billionaires: Go fuck yourselves.

AI drift is a real thing. You can get these damn "purposed" chatbots to talk about anything. Then the hallucinations start. We were sold a bunk bill of goods.

Bari Weiss just sent this Christmas Eve email to the CBS News staff about "building trust," which includes her tripling down on spiking the CECOT piece "to make sure it's comprehensive and fair." One CBS staffer tells me: "She really has no idea how insulting she comes across."

What about the MONEY???? Where are the FINANCIAL TRANSACTIONS????

That a WaPo investigation cites Amazon Prime as a metaphor for abuse is a tiny hopeful sign for me. Maybe the shackles on expression under Bezos are not quite as tight as we fear.

If you’re wondering why your friends in academia are a little on edge right now, it’s because an eighteen-year-old who hasn’t done the reading, doesn’t look at the assignment, and has does no critical thinking skills more complex than “because I think it’s in the Bible” can literally end your career

It is 2010 and Thomas Chatterton Williams is releasing an awful anti-woke memoir. It is 2019 and Thomas Chatterton Williams is releasing an awful anti-woke memoir. It is 2025 and Thomas Chatterton Williams is releasing an awful anti-woke memoir. It is 2032 and

Wow. Merry Christmas.

It’s not “losing money” any more than air traffic controllers or public highways or street lights or fire departments are “losing money.” It is a government service. It’s not SUPPOSED to make money. It’s supposed to reliably deliver to anywhere in the US, even the unprofitable places.

The Atlantic suggesting, without evidence, that Canada's Global TV broadcasting the '60 Minutes' segment on CECOT that CBS distributed to it may have been an act of "treachery." 🔗: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

Normal, level-headed, even application of the law attitude from our Justice Department on Christmas Eve. Wow. We are a joke now.

this image is maybe the single greatest joke in TRADING PLACES. and also a pretty apt description of the trump/vance/national conservative vision of america

I'll never forgive William Sadler for killing Colm Meaney in "Die Hard 2."

I wanted to like "Mid-Century Modern," but just couldn't. The twink was too stupid, the laugh-track fell flat, and the writing was a little dirty, sure, but no substance. Where's the pith? I like gay raunch, sure, but where was the zingy spice? The bite? Referencing gay sex isn't a punch line.

It’s interesting that the administration wants you to know that Bari Weiss is in league with them.

You know damn well they will hang this plaque up the DAY AFTER. All those chickenshits will be there at the unveiling, with a screwdriver in hand. THE DAY AFTER. You watch.

Yea, no. You really don't. You really, really don't. Totally agree, Scott.

"It is logically impossible to simultaneously be evil, corrupt, and incompetent" is an absolutely amazing take to have in the year of 2025

It looks like Kavanaugh wasn't happy with them being called Kavanaugh Stops.

Journalists posting screenshots of the Epstein docs should not crop out the control number in the bottom right corner. These docs are not an "exclusive," you don't have to make it harder for people to find and validate the original information.

The everlovingfuck am I gonna do with $3200/yr in FSA? Wipe it all out in one go as a down-payment on a Peloton? Getfucked.

But her emails!! But Hunter Biden and Burisma!! #liars

What are we even doing right now? Isn't there enough evidence yet?

This year’s Presidential Christmas card.

“Only evil people would hide this and protect those who participated.”

Thank you, Google News

I guarantee you someone saw they couldn't get rid of the "now playing" panel and fucking lost it. I can't prove it; I just know it's true. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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I’ve made a copy of the 60 Minutes INSIDE CECOT segment. If Substack takes it down, I’ll put it up on my website. I know there are cleaner copies out there, but I kinda like the punk rock bootlegged version. The link is in my pinned post if you haven’t seen it yet.

Of course, Weiss didn't call or speak with Alfonsi. Weiss is a chickenshit. She has no conviction, ethics, or discernible course or drive. That's why she uses the phrase "north star" so much. It lends the tiniest shred of cover to her complete lack of substance.

If, in the end, their collective incompetence was what saved the republic, I just don't even know how I should feel about that. It sure puts the idea of "American exceptionalism" to shame.

Bari Weiss is so incompetent at leading CBS News that her efforts at fully suppressing the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT was foiled because she wasn't aware (or forgot) that the broadcast package including that segment was distributed via a streaming app for broadcast in Canada.

Yes, I do enjoy how most of us are right back on track after a few hours of revelations and scandals. Back to, as Bari would say, "The Things that Matter."

Holiday Hot Take Number 22: Every time I think about Scrooged (1988) I think it's better and smarter than before. It's a perfect Christmas film for the late 80s in every way. The social, political, and economic commentaries are exceptional. Just phenomenally thoughtful in adapting the Dickens.