What Trump didn't proclaim yesterday was that "his" battleships will be built by South Korea's largest military contractor Hanwha. "Buy America" my ass. english.hani.co.kr/arti/english...

Americans having to bootleg broadcast news about our government’s offshored concentration camp is a level of fascism that immediately precedes democratic societies dropping leaflets on us from weather balloons.

The VP of the US can give a speech saying no one has to be ashamed to be white anymore — the type of mainstream political speech we haven’t seen since before the civil rights acts, and the rhetoric is treated as merely divisive with few pointing out the obvious truth that white men remain in power.

The Olivia Nuzzi story and the Bari Weiss at CBS story are the same story, which is that the upper echelons of legacy media are absolutely rife with people who worship power and don't feel burdened by any sense of responsibility to their profession or the public.

Speaking as someone who stopped breathing last night because the power went out, we are NOT equipped for the disablity impacts of our failing power infrastructure. Great read from @juliametraux.bsky.social

All of these links went to promotion of this story earlier today. All these links are dead now — that's how thoroughly they've scrubbed this.

Gift rhymes with GRIFT. Ask an Army brat lyricist

"We envision a resistance that is...a repudiation of the efficiencies that automated algorithmic education falsely promises: a resistance comprising the collective force of small acts of friction." "How to Resist AI in Education" by me & @cnygren.bsky.social www.publicbooks.org/four-frictio...

“The last-minute christmas rush at the bookshop.” - my latest cartoon for @theguardian.com books

Alternately, you could be a bimbofied Riley Gaines railing against trans people injecting unnatural substances into their bodies

Got a tip that the CDC has quietly resumed posting data about the spread of #COVID #flu and #RSV! Nationwide 7-day average hospitalizations for #COVID19 are down to 0.8 per lakh, and #RSVirus is up to 0.8 per lakh, but it's #influenza putting people in the hospital! contagion.grieve-smith.com

Ben Shapiro and Tucker Carlson are not having a bit of a tiff. The party is fracturing. This is not a drill Doesn't mean we're out of the woods or that what comes next won't be worse. But this is end-of-an-era shit

Kathy Hochul is to the right of Mitt Romney

"Our new study finds that hate crimes motivated by sexual orientation or gender identity account for 23% of all reported hate crimes in California since 2001... Reported incidents more than tripled over this period, from 25 in 2013 to 84 in 2024...": williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/publications...

Funny animal videos no longer being trustworthy just fucking sucks all around. I love the wonder of animal behavior and what it says about the experience of being alive. It's because it happened in reality that it's so fun. It's not fun if it was just made up. There's no wonder there.

idk as a VERY long time Fukuyama hater this turn from him does not surprise me one bit. he was always a dumb guy’s idea of a smart guy

For your weekend listening pleasure, it's me and @johncassidysays.bsky.social talking about his belter of a book Capitalism and its Critics: player.captivate.fm/episode/b858... Do it. And then get the book.

Yes, these are real ICE agents in the TPUSA merch room. Everyone is getting selfies taken with them. This seems fine

I've been waiting to find out exactly how Trump was going to personally profit from the AI greed frenzy he has unleashed because there was no way he was *not* going to get a piece. Now we know: a $6-billion merger of his failing media corp with an AI energy corp www.aljazeera.com/economy/2025...

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Yesterday I was a bit snide about it, but watching people who are in the mainstream affirming this belief that there was “a culture” of white male disadvantage while this administration attacks civil rights law and deploys white nationalism, raises the stakes and signals the danger we are in.

President Donald Trump threatened NBC's broadcast license days after the network aired an interview with Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA) ."Raphael

Today, on the International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers, we remember the lives lost due to violence. Today is a call to action to continue fighting against the stigma, discrimination, and legislation that fuel this cruel violence. ☂️

Here are some possible answers for why a woman would dedicate themselves to anti-feminsim, there are probably more: 1) Never questioning what one was taught growing up 2) it's lucrative as hell 3) sexual fetishism as praxis 4) being "one of the good ones" can feel amazing

Oh, these poor millennial white men who just knew their ascendancy was secure as opposed to 30 percent of Black teens with no jobs and the spiking Black unemployment rate. Thank God things have returned to normal, amirite? www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

This is incredibly important. If you read one thing this week: marcusolang.substack.com/p/im-kenyan-...

Grading and googling hallucinated citations, as one does nowadays, and now that LLMs have been around for a while, I've discovered new horrors: hallucinated journals are now appearing in Google Scholar with dozens of citations bc so many people are citing these fake things

New book review essay! 📝 How do we know when a dialect feature is “stabilised”? 🤔 Claire Cowie examines evidence for this through Sharma’s From Deficit to Dialect and Leuckert et al.’s Indian Englishes in the Twenty-First Century. Read it here 👉

if you want to read my piece on Miller Syndrome, it's here archive.is/7B2YN

Somebody finally said it! And it's true about all our cuisines. Jewish food is a mixture of Canaanite, German, Slavic and Turkish food. Scottish food is basic Northern European shepherd fare. Everybody borrows from everybody else. Most things change over time. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Do you have “extreme views in favor of mass migration”? “Anti-Americanism,” “anti-capitalism” or “anti-Christianity”? “Hostility towards traditional views on family, religion and morality”? Congratulations, you may be headed for the FBI's brand new enemies list. fair.org/home/fbi-is-...

Incredible, not in a good way, how many academics, journalists, and policy folks continue to actively attend the Nazi Bar on a daily basis.

Real-life lesson in mean vs median

"Without Gutiérrez’s ID, the agents resorted to another approach. They took a photo of his face... “Oh yeah, he’s right. He’s saying the right thing. He does got papers,” Gutiérrez recalled the agents saying." He was just walking home. They are doing this everywhere, no matter who you are. #Pinks

Imagine a fun, CGI boot stamping a cute, CGI human face, forever

Trump attacks quickly turn to threats: www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

To NYT chief Joe Kahn, raising the fact that he was mentored in journalism by his father, who served on the board of a group that compares the NYT to Hamas, is just a way of saying "his father was Jewish." fair.org/home/nyt-edi...

Iceland, Ireland, the Netherlands, Spain & Slovenia are doing the right thing & all European countries should #BoycottEurovision because it's become nothing but a propaganda vehicle for #ApartheidIsrael in the midst of its ongoing #GazaGenocide; they should all be supporting #BDS to #FreePalestine 🍉

John Rykener (a.k.a. 'Eleanor') was a transgendered sex worker who was prosecuted for homosexuality #OnThisDay in 1384 — a rare instance of the documentation of LGBTQ life in medieval England — a hidden #history we need to know more about~! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John/El...

New bus boarding island at 41st Street and Queens Boulevard! The presentation for the Queens Boulevard bike lane in Sunnyside said there were plans for two #bus boarding islands; if anyone has seen the other one, please put it in the replies! #QueensNY #BusBulb #BusNYC

How are the MAGA loons going to react to this? Rethink or dig in?

“I brought this horrid creature into the world, and now I must take him out!” Winfrey said

Rubio's change of the official State Department typeface from (silly) Calibri to (tired) Times may be ridiculous, but also a sign how much these people hate the disabled. Sans serif is easier on the visually impaired, so making accommodation is woke. Eugenicists, all of them.

@cbsnews.com is advertising an Erika Kirk town hall moderated by Bari Weiss under the tagline: “Can she unite America?” I want us to think about all the whys here and their implications.

New post: When I express concern about #COVID19, I have some friends who say, "Well, isn't it just like the #flu now?" Some #COVID cautious people say "No, it's much worse!" Well, it is kind of like the flu, and #RSV - but we should care about the flu and RSV too! grieve-smith.com/ftn/2025/12/...

New post: When I express concern about #COVID19, I have some friends who say, "Well, isn't it just like the #flu now?" Some #COVID cautious people say "No, it's much worse!" Well, it is kind of like the flu, and #RSV - but we should care about the flu and RSV too! grieve-smith.com/ftn/2025/12/...

#PearlHarborDay always brings back unpleasant memories of bullying, harassment & racial slurs — ironic, given that I was a Korean adoptee born many years after the attack on Pearl Harbor & given that the country of my birth was itself invaded & occupied by Japan... www.history.com/this-day-in-...