Ok so I have read about Hollywood gift bags/goodie bags but had never seen one. This had a lot of "wellness" things--bone broth, stuff you put in water to feel better, things to put on your face to look better ..not gonna lie, I don't really know how to use these items. #fishoitofwater #goldenglobes

Marcella Hazan’s bolognese has been called “the gold standard” and has more than 25,000 5-star reviews. Try it and see for yourself.

I read this paragraph four times. Not because it's murky, but to let the message sink in. www.cjr.org/tow_center/b... If an information company is clear and determined in supporting (not "saving') democracy, then it can be a home for good journalism. If not then the press must disengage. Now.

Minneapolis public schools canceled classes officials after Roosevelt High School said armed Border Patrol officers came on school property during dismissal Wednesday and began tackling people, handcuffed two staff members and released chemical weapons on bystanders www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

Is 2026 never going to end?

Striking reporting on Canadian defence planning. 'The Dep't of National Defence began discussing the creation of a civil-defence capability around the time Mr Trump suggested he would use “economic force” to persuade Canadians to join the United States' www.economist.com/the-americas...

"the killing fits a pattern of tragic and seemingly inevitable violence arising from tensions between protesters & immigration officers amid assertions by... figures such as Stephen Miller that ICE agents have “immunity” while conducting their duties." www.economist.com/united-state...

Wednesday’s shooting happened a day after the Department of Homeland Security announced that “the largest DHS operation ever is happening right now in Minnesota.” (via @mprnews.org)

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I know nothing about municipal services in Berlin. But something like that would be rare, indeed almost unthinkable in Ukrainian cities whose old, underfunded infrastructure is being bombed, shelled, targeted by drones and hit by missiles on a daily basis. State capacity has many faces, here's one

More astonishing public comments from Danish PM on Greenland: “I believe one should take the American president seriously when he says that he wants Greenland. But I will also make it clear that if the US chooses to attack another NATO country militarily, then everything stops, including NATO..."

I bought one of these before I left NYC but am willing to sell it for $10,000

One of the most lopsided results you'll ever see in a poll, from our weekend Washington Post poll www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...

Donald Trump’s great Venezuelan oil gamble economist.com/finance-and-... from The Economist

THREAD: I'll fact-check all the viral misinformation about the US military operation in Venezuela in this thread This image, purporting to show the US military arresting Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, is AI-generated. According to Google's SynthID detector, it was created using Google AI.

"his [Trump's] plan appears to be for Venezuela to remain under the day-to-day rule of a senior chavista, with its democratically elected leaders excluded and its wealth controlled by American corporations." www.economist.com/the-americas...

President Trump said on Saturday that Delcy Rodríguez was sworn in as Venezuela’s interim president and would act as a partner in letting the U.S. run the country. Less than two hours later, Rodríguez made clear she viewed the U.S. as an illegal invader that must be rejected.

Among many other losses to the fabric of society caused by the death of local media, I especially mourn the absence of the crank columnist, a person employed to just go off at 800 words a week asking g why some double of modern life is the way it is. Why ARE car lights like that now? In this piec-

“You are not entitled to a response from us, or anyone, ever." - Dept. of Education to ProPublica's @megomatz.bsky.social "Our journalists reach out to people they’re writing about to ensure fairness. But ... their efforts to do so are more likely to be vilified than appreciated."

will also add - yes, this is my personal crusade - that turning podcasts into videos implicitly asks women to once again make more effort than men, as the bar for "camera-ready" for one gender is obviously higher than for the other

Here’s a gift link to this stunner Washpost story, quoting the 60 Minutes correspondent on the CECOT story, who accuses Bari Weiss of spiking the piece all because the Trump Administration wouldn’t comment. “Government silence is a statement, not a VETO.” wapo.st/3YL4T3D

"let's do the fucking news" www.thewrap.com/media-platfo...

NEW: Russian President Vladimir Putin used his annual Direct Line televised press conference on December 19 to reaffirm his commitment to achieving his full war aims in Ukraine. Read the full December 19, 2025 Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment: isw.pub/UkrWar121925

Portugal and Ukraine have agreed to jointly produce maritime drones, PM Luís Montenegro announced. Portugal is ready to scale up production using Ukraine’s battlefield experience and will also share its own scientific developments to support the project.

U.S. lawmakers moved to revive privateering, a practice banished since the age of sail, which will allow government-backed ships to target enemies.

An investment firm founded by Jared Kushner wanted to build a $500 million luxury hotel project on the site of a bombed-out Yugoslav military headquarters in Belgrade. Plans to raze the ruins, however, came to a screeching halt earlier this week.

Unbelievable. This would be a terrible blow to American science, writ large. It would decimate not only climate research, but also the kind of weather, wildfire, and disaster research that has underpinned half a century of progress in prediction, early warning, and increased resilience.

Just 36% of Americans approve of President Trump's handling of the economy, according to the latest NPR/PBS News/Marist poll. It's his worst mark in the six years that Marist has been asking the question.

When you get interviewed multiple times over the course of a year and the interviews are recorded and you sit for formal photographs with a well known national magazine you definitely know it’s on the record.

Et oui. “the assumption that large-scale acquisition of AI-enabled drones will strengthen US defenses against China is misguided. Lessons from the war in Ukraine—an attritional, inconclusive struggle between two land-centric armed forces—often do not apply directly to other kinds of conflicts.”

Heartbroken for the families and friends of Ella Cook, a Brown sophomore from Mountain Brook, Ala., and MukhammadAziz Umurzokov, an 18-year-old from Virginia whose family immigrated from Uzbekistan. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/12...

Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov, a freshman at Brown, had a condition as a child that required brain surgery. The experience created an unshakable ambition to become a brain surgeon, his sister said. He died after being shot on campus on Saturday.

NEW: One of the most significant accomplishments of the Trump Admin: Decimating the US's humanitarian aid. We went to S. Sudan to see the effects. Rubio says no one has died from the cuts. Spoiler: That's not true. @annamaria.bsky.social & Brett Murphy: www.propublica.org/article/usai...

utterly incapable of grace

Two peace agreements that President Trump took credit for brokering are under severe strain. Violent clashes have intensified on the Thailand-Cambodia border and between Democratic Republic of Congo and the Rwanda-backed M23 militia.

A new analysis shows how much European countries have to go to offset the drop in US military aid to Ukraine www.kielinstitut.de/publications...

nothing quite like the warmth of two AIs bantering about Epstein on a synthetic podcast

This is INSANE www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/t... and these are our closest allies!

A huge night for Democrats: —They flip Miami's mayorship. —They flip a state House district in Georgia that had voted Trump by 13%. —They keep Albuquerque's mayorship, while the liberal faction flips city council. —And they get big overperformances (+18 & +22) in 2 Florida specials.

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"there's a new serif in town"

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Twitter in the past 48 hours has been like watching a remedial version of SPECTRE convene a meeting in real time.

This seems incredible to read, as it could come straight out of an Orbán 2015-16 speech, but this has actually been a dominant position within the broader U.S. Right for decades. 🧵

The State Department is instructing its staff to reject visa applications from people who worked on fact-checking, content moderation or other activities the Trump administration considers "censorship" of Americans' speech. www.npr.org/2025/12/04/n...

Holy shit. Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

A bit too on the nose for thanksgiving

It’s here: Our list of 100 Notable Books of 2025. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/b...

🇵🇱🇺🇸 Polish media illustration: White House briefing: “Ushakov and Witkoff will take part in the U.S.–Russia negotiations.” Question from the press: “And who will represent the American side?”

"Agents are arresting foreign-born spouses when they report for the final step to obtain permanent residency, and charging them with visa violations that could result in deportation." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...