US War Powers at the moment: Wheel of Airstrikes. Who will the US bomb next? Tune in to find out!

You will be visited by three spirits

Extremely funny to call the pope “holier-than-thou”

First Christmas in Gaza in two years: A story of hope and survival https://aje.io/2itg3n

"Meanwhile, in the world’s largest entertainment industry, video game companies issue private instruments that 19th-century canal, railroad, and mining companies would envy."

especially funny in the year 2025. now more than ever we are forced to accept the possibility of prominent people being bad (morality) and bad (competence) simultaneously

You do not, under any circumstances, gotta hand it to the Supreme Court

This but it’s centrist media

Capital: critique political economy and giant sandstorms Checks out

"This story doesn't need a sandworm" This is almost always wrong. Arguably, EVERY story benefits from adding a huge subterranean worm with quasi-mystical or semi-supernatural powers, or equivalent (similar to Moby Dick). Obviously the bigger the worm, the more literary quality it adds.

On left: Bari Weiss: 60 Minutes segment failed to show Government view that CECOT detainees are due judicial review On right: Judge Boasberg Dec 22: "The Government itself has not even contested that the detainees who now make up the CECOT class received inadequate process prior to their removal"

I just penned this piece with Tom Joscelyn Fact Checking Bari Weiss: The Stated Reasons for Spiking 60 Minutes “Inside CECOT” "If 60 Minutes had 'explained this' as Weiss described they should, the segment would have included false or highly misleading information."

WATCH: Here's the segment CBS News pulled from "60 Minutes" last night

It’s payout time

it really is something that no one affiliated or allied with trump seems to have any sense of how to use power with subtlety and finesse.

So excited about this, not least because comrades @ntinatzouvala.bsky.social and @marinavelickovic.bsky.social and @jasminekgani.bsky.social will be speaking! www.hbku.edu.qa/en/academic-...

If you happen to be in Doha on the 8th of January, this is promising to be a terrific conversation with some of the most thoughtful and principled colleagues out there: www.hbku.edu.qa/en/academic-...

Almost a year into this presidency, Trump voters have gotten nothing except the Big Beautiful Bill, which was usual Republican politics of giving tax cuts to the rich and slashing social spending for the poor. Housing remains unaffordable, cost of living is rising, and manufacturing jobs fell.

"Two Palestinian men have told the BBC they personally experienced the kind of beatings and sexual abuse highlighted in recent reports into the treatment of prisoners in Israeli detention." www.bbc.com/news/article...

Excuse me, the God’s internet is telling me this man is 28 years old. ARE YOU KIDDING ME THIS IS INSANE

There is no credible evidence that the perpetrators of the Bondi terrorist attack had anything to do with recent protests www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

“The premier and his government are using a moment of anger and grief to rush through new laws that attack our democratic rights. This is a despicable display of political opportunism that undermines our democracy” www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec...

I'm going with Thiel because he's smarter and has whatever addictions he's got under control

In the last episode of a challenging year, @mbkplus.bsky.social and I go against type and offer some optimism for higher education in 2026. Faculty are more united, our students are more idealistic, and the only indoctrination we see is of Gristedes's owner and his fellow billionaires. Enjoy!

They're not waiting on the Supreme Court to tell them they can ignore the clear, plain text of the 14th Amendment that everyone born in the US is a birthright citizenship. They are trying to erase the citizenship of anyone with skin darker than Stephen Miller's through administrative action alone.

Death recorded

Wow, a nuclear-armed state in the Middle East? Sounds bad! www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Since Venezuela's oil industry was nationalised in 1976 presumably Stephen Miller will order airstrikes on President Carlos Andres Perez's grave

As I understand today's discussion, we can stop an ISIS cell by policing the speaker list at writer's festivals and the BA syllabus at Unis. And by "stopping demonstrations." This is madness.

‘Applied to just a couple TT jobs’. I am going to stop you right there…

"Three awards of $7,000 each will be given to early-career scholars for papers that address the meaningful decommodification of access to basic needs in America." mailchi.mp/law/freedom-...

This is amazing because it encapsulates two core characteristics of Trumpism: 1) the deep conviction that children are parental property; 2) a profound unwillingness to adjust one’s behaviour in order to live with others

You know that your kids are mad at you for no reason whatsoever when you go to the WSJ to bitch about it

YLS has a lot to answer for

I wrote about Yglesias “defending liberalism” by joining a right wing moral panic over critical race theory. His vision of liberalism has room for bigots, but no room for scholars concerned about structural racism.

If you feel comfortable, please include yourself in the photo – a candle selfie! Join us in bringing light into this world which has been made darker this weekend. Take a photo, upload it at this link and share it on social media with the hashtag #bondi www.getup.org.au/campaigns/co...

Matilda

Sure the peace deals are failing but that just means another opportunity to announce a peace deal - Trump has stopped 3,785 wars so far www.politico.com/newsletters/...

Now is a time for care and compassion, not racism and retribution #bondibeach

Extraordinary courage from Ahmed al Ahmed, a Muslim, 43-year-old father of two, who bravely risked his life to save his neighbors celebrating Hanukkah. Praying for his full & speedy recovery. And so deeply inspired by his example.

ah yes, all workers should have the right to hurl racial slurs at black customers

We are horrified and shaken in the wake of the mass shooting at a Chanukah event in Bondi this evening, which has left at least ten people dead and injured many more. This is the first night of Chanukah when we gather with loved ones and friends to light the Chanukiah. 1/4

Wow. Amid horrific news of a shooting at Bondi Beach, this looks like a truly astonishing act of courage.

BREAKING: 9 killed in shooting at Sydney's Bondi Beach and police fatally shot one of 2 gunmen, Australian Broadcasting Corp says.

“[Foucault] struck me as completely amoral, I’d never met anyone who was so totally amoral [...] I mean, I liked him personally, it’s just that I couldn't make sense of him. It’s as if he was from a different species, or something.” – Prof. Noam Chomsky