We're hosting my in-laws (who are great) for Christmas, which means that we have to entertain three cousins ages 2, 4, and 5.5 years old, and much as I love my neice, nephew, and son, I am VERY glad that @stefanhodgeskluck.com & I only have one child and I have no idea how people manage with more.

Jadzia has been feisty all day. She's apparently grumpy that people are in her space, but she also refuses to go to another part of the house like her sister (who, I suspect, has spent most of the day upstairs under our bed).

Portrait of a lady

Fine, whatever, this random cat is your new god of the winter solstice

WHO GIVES A DAMN? It’s a public service, right there in the name. It exists as a public good for all the people in this country. It’s not supposed to turn a profit, you dolts. Go audit the Pentagon and see what kind of return on investment we’re getting there.

“Like prime, but with human beings”

concentration camps.

I will never ever ever understand how the Biden administration had all this nuclear-level dirt on Trump and didn't pull the ripcord. You can try to explain it but it will never make sense.

Nothing like asking career AUSAs who have been under assault for the last year, watched their colleagues get fired for no reason, and their offices taken over by incompetent boobs to volunteer their time to perpetuate a cover up of their boss's involvement w/a sex predator 🙃

The Supreme Court rejected the federal government’s request to deploy the National Guard in Illinois. It’s time to let our troops go home to celebrate the holidays with their families — and stay home.

The GOP "healthcare plan," if they ever come out with one, is going to be "Peloton is 80% off and only the rich get chemo." The point of RFKism is that healthcare is a consumer choice, and the right choice is Instagram woo. If you didn't go to the Equinox juice bar the ensuing cancer is your fault.

The fascists who worship a rapist as their Golden Idol are also rapists. I wish, desperately, that I was surprised.

"Last week 4 people in ICE detention centers died last week and 1 this week. The Trump administration is using public money to fund privatized detention prison centers." MSNOW Democratic members of Congress MUST show up at ICE detention facilities announced to see what the conditions actually are.

Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing a text, writing an email, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing since the dawn of time.

Jadzia getting into the Christmas spirit

"Metropolis does not use license plate recognition,” Morrissey said. “Instead, our computer vision platform is trained on a comprehensive and proprietary data set to recognize vehicles with a ‘vehicle fingerprint’ based on its unique characteristics..."

there is nothing more reassuring than finding out someone is a cat person

Gotta say, as a survivor, I’m not super loving this thing where the Department of Justice is running a cover-up of evidence the President sexually abused minors.

I mean yeah it’s an authoritarian takeover but can we take some comfort in the fact that the people doing it are INSANELY stupid?

Meowy, meow, meowy!

Trump traveled on Epstein's jet multiple times, including with underage girls. Expect this too to be retroactively censored in violation of the law. At least they are ham handed in their lawbreaking

YOU GUYS LOOKIT LOOKIT (look who ISN'T a fan of early 16thc dragons??)

Not now, haunted Victorian shoes

𝙒𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙙𝙧𝙖𝙬𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙝𝙤𝙡𝙞𝙙𝙖𝙮 𝙨𝙚𝙖𝙨𝙤𝙣, 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙛𝙛 𝙤𝙛 𝙍𝘽𝙎 𝙬𝙞𝙨𝙝𝙚𝙨 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙙𝙖𝙮𝙨 𝙛𝙞𝙡𝙡𝙚𝙙 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙖𝙙𝙫𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙚 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙬𝙤𝙣𝙙𝙚𝙧! We will be closed from 24 December through 1 January for UVA's winter holiday.

This is useful (though I'd argue against the final point and say no, you shouldn't use AI even for brainstorming, because using it for even banal purposes amplifies environmental harms). cardcatalogforlife.substack.com/p/how-to-spo...

He’s gilded the entire White House, slapped his name on both the Kennedy Center and Institute for Peace, installed a new Trump Gold Card, and now proposing a new “Trump class” of naval vessels. I know we keep saying this is insane but this is seriously fucking insane.

The worst part of Home Alone 2 is the child rapist in the lobby of the Plaza Hotel.

I don’t mean to sound extreme, but I don’t think we should have torture camps for people with criminal records either.

bari weiss saw this and decided that she had to hide it from the american public

Even BILL CLINTON is saying he doesn’t care if the full release of the files implicates Bill Clinton. Amazing.

Interesting evening clouds

This summer I got to take a look through @rarebookschool.bsky.social's copy of Olaus Magnus's 16th-c "Historia de gentibus septentrionalibus." So when I got asked to design RBS's holiday card, I knew exactly what image I wanted to use for it.

My friend just rescued a cat who had been in a hoarder’s house and then in a shelter’s cage for five months. Came home today. I haven’t wanted to hug something more in my entire life than I want to hug Bob.

"Get the principals on camera" is such a telling phrase here, because it tells us that for Weiss there's no world in which the victims of these horrific actions can actually be seen as the subjects of the story: They're background noise, and the people who matter are the ones sending them.

This administration proves that diversity, equity, accessibility, & inclusion will always be vital. Their colossal, humiliating failures that accumulate daily show that not only are the majority of these folks simply unqualified, it shows how white supremacy is directly harmful to the country.

Elise Stefanik has learned that when you surrender your values to the patriarchy in exchange for some power, you will be abandoned by the patriarchy at the first opportunity and will end up with no power.

Never stop talking about how the supposed president is a child RAPIST!!

CBS paid the president of the United States millions in bribe money and now they censor news reports so it does not annoy him. I don’t know how much plainer we can put this.

i really think there is legit political space for running on "we are going to dismantle ICE"

Like the suburban developments named after whatever natural feature was destroyed to build them

A few reminders about the SCOTUS immunity decision for Presidents: It does not provide immunity for prior crimes. It does not provide immunity to the President's cabinet. Similar to Roe v. Wade, it can be overturned in the future.

So Bari Weiss’s first real editorial intervention at CBS is to repress coverage of American concentration camps.

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

I do think this is true. I'm often guilty myself of underplaying what the work I do looks like or how much time and effort it takes. Research isn't 'just reading' or a question of sucking up summaries others have created. It's knowledge creation. So let me go through the process with an example 1/