“He raped me.” “Donald J Trump had raped her along with Jeffrey Epstein.” “She was found with her head ‘blown off’… there was no way it was a suicide.” Now we’re starting to see why Trump was hiding the Epstein files, and it probably gets much worse.

A disturbing update to this story: Despite the fact that he was about to be released from a US prison after completing a sentence here, when Kelvin Membreño was deported to El Salvador he was sent to CECOT prison and remains there. The family has not heard from him since.

Year 1 data on congestion pricing in Manhattan… * Vehicle traffic: -11% * Foot traffic: +3.4% * Storefront vacancy: -0.9% * Pollution: -22% * Revenue for mass transit: $548M So YES this has been a huge success.

Wow so it turns out two of California’s most famous unsolved murders were committed by the same person decades apart, something that was ‘proved’ by a clout-chasing nobody who used AI to figure it out Nice try losers

Heritage Foundation Smashing Up Over Difficult 'To Be Or Not To Be Nazis' Question www.wonkette.com/p/heritage-f... By Gary Legum @glegum.bsky.social

Bari Weiss shouldn't be operating anything more complex than an ice cream machine, let alone a news organization.

I am brimming with holiday spirit

Kilmar Abrego Garcia — who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador in March — will remain free on supervised release until at least the end of the year, after a Maryland judge extended her order barring the government from detaining and deporting him again

Of fucking course.

$10k in security guards can’t protect you from your own embarrassment

Shout out to the people who did this and fuck you to everyone who made me feel like shit for saying they should just leak it.

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 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.

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

A graduate teaching assistant who gave a University of Oklahoma student a failing grade on a psychology essay will no longer be teaching at the university

I kept seeing people use the word samizdat to refer to the Canadian sourcing of the 60 Minutes report on CECOT pulled by Bari Weiss. Here's the definition from Merriam-Webster:

Honestly it's going to be pretty fun watching her try to run a national news organization that is 100 percent united in hating her guts

preorder if u've ever wanted to get really bloody revenge on your relatives :^)

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Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

What’s happening at CBS News is a five alarm fire and portent of what’s to come, a nuclear assault on the very heart and soul of America. This is not hyperbole.

NEW: For almost a decade, North Carolina’s majority-Republican legislature tried six times to strip Democratic governors of control over the board overseeing the swing state’s elections. This year, it finally succeeded.

so cool! now when I commit high crimes in flagrant violation of international law, all I have to do is refuse to talk about them on camera, and then, since they couldn't get "both sides," I can avoid an embarrassing news report on them! amazing system. A+

Uh huh…

Reminder that ebooks are a great gift, easy to buy, instantly available to the receiver no matter the distance, and if you have someone on your list who would like a little escapism courtesy of fog-bound Holmesian mysteries set on Jupiter with slow-burn f/f romance & petty academia, here you go!

So the “figure out how to use it lest you be left behind” replies about ‘AI’ that have been popping up here strike me as inauthentic but also kind of funny because they grant the point that rather than an automation panacea these technologies are quite difficult to figure out how to use effectively

I wonder why Marc Andreesen was in Antarctica?

to add to the Jake Paul schadenfreude, Andrew Tate also lost a fight to some reality TV influencer. most analysis of the fight I've read described his opponent as deeply untalented but Andrew lost anyway. Tate's endurance was awful and he was gassed after the first round.

a lord of the rings cover band called My Life With The Mithrill Kill Kult

I don’t know how anyone can still talk about “the AI revolution” with a straight face. Reuters story about a railroad company that has sunk $300,000 into “developing AI products” and appears to have made…a chatbot that doesn’t work? archive.is/2025.12.17-0...

This. The nazis in charge obsess over aesthetic and when you take that away from them it is absolutely a means of protest.

When you haven't pissed off your photographer, Vanity Fair does this.

Very excited for you all to read my short story “Dos Caras” in this one and always happy to be in a collection with folks like @nkolakowski.bsky.social & @bamawriter.bsky.social

A Lord of the Rings Cover Band called Queens of The Third Age

All these responses feel like the writer asked ChatGPT to answer questions as a conservative Zoomer.

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“There are levels of drama that should never be explored” is an intense thing to say to someone

"we only use AI for coming up with ideas" no you don't. you use AI to come up with the a bland version of other people's ideas. there is currently NOBODY more replaceable than you

This week, we learned 21 states are eager to dismantle your First Amendment Rights. It should be bigger news. Here's the story, and here's what you can be doing about it. These are YOUR RIGHTS that the states want to steal from you. buttondown.com/wellsourced/...

Ouch. Difficult to say "Our previous CEO was protecting a sexual predator" more explicitly than this. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

For anyone who may be hastily returning certain books they bought as Christmas presents, here's a thread of excellent children's books I highly recommend you buy instead: Loki A Bad God's Guide To Being Good by Louie Stowell Funny, chaotic and a little bit naughty okay, a lot naughty

A tow truck driver who towed an ICE SUV that was blocking a driveway while the agents kidnapped Angelanos back in September was just found NOT GUILTY on the only charge against him (theft of government property). THAT'S ANOTHER WIN FOR "FUCK YOU; MAKE ME"

Pluribus is a brilliant show, but also hysterical in that it posits what would happen if the world found a way to be at peace but had the nerve not to center one white lady the way she demanded to be centered in the process.

As a huge fan of ███████ I feel gutted right now. Just an absolute betrayal of everything I thought ███████ stood for.

we don't have a government for people, we have a government for the sex trafficking operations of children. this is just an actual fact apparently.

Elise Stefanik announces she is dropping out of the race for New York governor and won’t run for reelection to the House