despite everything, the US has naturalized more immigrants this year than Japan has. i don't mean "has admitted this year." i mean "has ever admitted in its entire history as a country."

If you're looking for a charity to donate to, the Carter Foundation's health program is one of my favorites because it's preventing human suffering, it's seeking to make that progress irrevocable... and it's funny to say you're teaming up with Jimmy Carter to drive a species to extinction.

the ceo of the corporation for public broadcasting comes off in this story as a paradigmatic example of elite cowardice and capitulation under trump 2.0

There was a liberal court for a few years in the mid 20th century and the right wing response was to delegitimize for DECADES right up to the point they had a supermajority, at which point it became Wrong to do so. These people think you are stupid bsky.app/profile/chri...

In my one visit, it did strike me as odd that the central axis of tourism there was a hazardous multi-lane traffic jam. On the other hand, given it's location in the hot desert, I doubt it'll ever be a great walking town. Maybe shade and a rail line would help?

Foreign Policy Analysis is low key the darkly funniest field ever now. Are we at war? Does the president himself know? Who are we at war with? Why? Something to do with drugs and/or oil? We’re either invading Venezuela, Nigeria, neither, or both.

The largest generation in U.S. history is in their 70s now. And Stephen Miller’s podcaster wife thinks it’s suspicious that there’s a huge surge in home health aides.

Saw Bluesky described as where elder millennials go to retire from the internet, and immediately felt the peace that passes all understanding wash over me. None of have to struggle any longer. We completed our time.

What if we kept pointing out that this weird and frightened guy doesn't know what he's talking about

it is extremely funny that RFK both does not believe in the germ theory of disease and is a lab leak truther

it is very much easier to imagine the end of the world than to imagine that at some point linear algebra will not function.

I’ve seen no serious engagement from senior Dems about what, exactly, they plan to do in terms of reasserting congressional power, as in identifying the available tools and thinking seriously about ways to use them to dig us out of the current state of total constitutional collapse.

Amazingly, reaction times using screens while driving are worse than being drunk or high—no wonder 90 percent of drivers hate using touchscreens in cars. Finally the auto industry is coming to its senses.

This: In the same week that Vance expressed concern that France and the United Kingdom had nuclear weapons, he said Denmark was not a very good ally to the US. It is shameful. bsky.app/profile/thom...

>the gyre? narrowing >falcon? hears the falconer >things? sticking together >center? holding >mere anarchy? never heard of it >blood-dimmed tide? locked up tight >ceremony of innocence proceeding as normal >the best have so much conviction >the worst? listless and apathetic we're all gonna make it

more confirmation that lurking clearly behind this idea of the “heritage american” is a straightforward contempt for the actual history and tradition of this country, such that vermeule has to hallucinate a framework to justify his desire to jettison the clear meaning of the 14th amendment

If there's any consolation it's that these people are absolutely not having a merry christmas. They're the same aggro weirdos who say "merry CHRISTMAS" when you say happy holidays on the street, just controlling the govt. They're still marinating in hate for the rest of us, they can't enjoy shit

this is the simple answer to people who keep saying NATO expansion matters. Sure, it matters because it presented an obstacle to Russian imperial ambitions. Putin didn't invade because he hated NATO expansion, he hated NATO expansion because he wanted to invade

ICE detain father shopping on Christmas Eve—then steal his family's groceries. Then 3 agents divvy up his paid for food—taking what they want for themselves. "Can I just get the wife's number to call and let her know?" woman asks. "No, guess he should've complied," agent says. Yakima, Washington

271,000 people have lost their jobs and federal spending has ctually increased. So people get less services, while we added debt paying for private jets for Kristi Noem, bulletproof cars for Kash Patel. This is what the rust belt voters demanded.

This is a big way a lot of the online left shoots itself in the foot. Obamacare genuinely moved the ball on universal coverage quite far & made it so the lift for full universality is much lighter.

Asking people to spend the holiest of days covering for pedophiles. Amazing.

Filoni follow in your mentor's clunky footsteps and canonically call these guys in Mandalorian & Grogu "ice troopers"

The science breakthrough of 2025 is Solar Energy, not because it is new but because of how successful its deployment has been. This year renewable energy surpassed coal as a source of electricity worldwide. Hopeful sign for what’s to come. www.science.org/content/arti...

Hard to envision charity as distinct from politics, though. Even now, I wonder if a dollar to a campaign is more impactful than the same dollar to charity. Politics: high risk/high impact. Charity: low risk/impact potentially largely wiped out by bad political winds I hate it's all gambling.

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

like you cannot say this is for *sure* the reason but

I don't think US naval policy should be determined by "what excites boys".

Ötzi and a 45,000-year-old Siberian were both infected with a cancer-causing strain of HPV. This is fascinating, and a reminder that we have a vaccine that *prevents cancer* and everyone eligible should get it.

Also the entire scheme has been predicated on helping Bukele cover up his own collaboration with the actual MS-13 gang, more or less cementing him as a key cog in the Central American narco pipeline (along with the ex-Honduran President that Trump pardoned after being caught with 500 tons of coke.)

AI companies aren’t buying up RAM for their current servers. AI companies are 1) securing long term manufacturing commitments on all memory capacity (RAM *and* NAND), and 2) buying up existing stock on shelves - for servers they haven’t even built yet in data centers they haven’t broken ground on.

"I assume it's a shantytown" might be the line that epitomizes her entire deal.

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

And she assumed it would be easy because it was a topic she had an opinion on and so did not need to do any research. This is the epistemic world view of the ignorant, and, apparently OU leadership.

Something very funny about de santis praising Coolidge for “immigration.” Coolidge’s immigration policy was that people named de santis shouldn’t be allowed to come here bsky.app/profile/anth...

lol at Bari not knowing about the distribution process for foreign markets and not asking and no one volunteering the information.

The vandalism continues www.cnn.com/2025/12/21/p...

If you are confused about why saying "not all Somalis are criminals" is racist, try rephrasing it as "Tom Emmer doesn't get a DWI conviction every time he gets behind the wheel."

really cannot be emphasized enough that bari weiss has literally never done journalism. i don’t mean that in the pejorative sense. i mean that in the “has never performed the job she was hired to do” sense

tonight the government killed a story on cbs about the slave labor camp in a foreign country theyre illegally sending people to

Christian Clothing CEO: You finish that sweatshirt about saving as many souls as possible? Christian Clothing Designer: Sure did, boss. Real fuckin’ ominous and with an implied threat of mass murder, just like you asked. Christian Clothing CEO: What.

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Representative Jim Himes, the senior Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee: “Pete Hegseth happily releases a video after each strike... He recognizes when the American people see this video, they will be repulsed. It is basically the summary execution of two people clinging to wreckage.”

The more tired I am, the more elaborate my vocabulary, especially in writing. I never deliberately "dumb things down", but writing to be understood requires effort.

rfk will not rest until your kid is dead wapo.st/4s2l2zn

It's because WW2 vets went from our generational grandparents with living memory of the struggle against fascism to now just...history.

This was a part of the NDAA btw