They should raise taxes on billionaires the way Charlie Sheen’s drug dealer cut his crack weaker and weaker each time, it’ll take them so long to notice and eventually they’ll be weaned off having billions of dollars

1. End Citizens United 2. Tax the rich 3. Prosecute wage theft 4. Pass Medicare for All 5. Vote out bought, corrupt politicians

Not to be controversial but I think we should use tools and resources to make people's lives less miserable instead of more

If Chicago Pope allowed women to become priests I would almost consider returning to the Church. (I am an atheist among several other excommunicatable offenses but still).

This atheist is gonna come right out and say Bob here is The Best To Ever Do It

"Fuck it, toss me."

While this quote is about Trump and international law, it could equally well apply to the prevailing attitude about AI tools and autonomous computation.

Husband and I decided to do the Same Raimi Spidermans for our holiday break watch—I had never seen 3 and oh boy, is it unhinged.

Every Democrat running for office needs to promise investigations and full prosecutions from top to bottom, remove its funding bloat then break up the agency and distribute its core remaining useful functions across other agencies.

sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without a passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers

Just as Clueless is the best adaptation of a Jane Austen novel, Muppet Christmas Carol is the best adaptation of anything by Charles Dickens.

Penzeys goes so hard and I love them for that.

Sending love to everyone incarcerated by the State today, whether that be our our shamefully large domestic prison population or the over 65,000 souls spending Christmas in immigration detention.

you there boy, what bullshit is this

TIL that buttermilk makes absolutely elite level french toast 🤌

Have y'all seen Brett Goldstein do his Muppet Christmas Carol medley? There are costume changes!

We've watched this twice this month. It's delightful and absolutely star studded. I also very much recommend Pee-Wee as Himself (a two part HBO doc from this year).

If you’re wondering why your friends in academia are a little on edge right now, it’s because an eighteen-year-old who hasn’t done the reading, doesn’t look at the assignment, and has does no critical thinking skills more complex than “because I think it’s in the Bible” can literally end your career

concentration camps.

Now if we could just get people to view US prisons through the same lens they view CECOT.

For your consideration: Bella's cartoon snores

Oh man, now I know what we're watching tonight.

Pups got a new toy this week.

In so many ways, our society does not protect children.

its not just that reactionaries dont read the western canon they valorize, its also that they *cant* read it, not in the sense that theyre illiterate, though they are, but in the sense that substantive engagement with the texts would demystify and refute their cloying, sophomoric disinterpretations

Running out of work to do three hours before the end of the day, the day before a holiday, but not being able to leave work is a special kind of capitalist hell.

Internet sleuths, go to work:

When Vance says white people don’t have to apologize for being white anymore, he knows no one has ever had to do that. What white people have been asked to do is apologize for being racist. And now Vance is telling them they don’t have to apologize for that either. open.substack.com/pub/rabbisan...

More like Golden Fleece, amirite?

With respect to the folks who worked on the CBS piece, I’d like to share some links to the many outlets who actually published and broadcast this story before CBS did. Please add yours www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontli...

Did not expect 60 Minutes segments as samizdat

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

iCloud, Mega, and as a torrent. Archivists have uploaded the 60 Minutes episode Bari Weiss spiked.

Thank you to anyone involved in getting the 60 Minutes CECOT reporting online. Let's all keep that gratitude in mind if they get sued and need legal support.

!! Here’s a link to full video of the 60 Minutes segment that Bari Weiss killed last minute, via @jasonparis.bsky.social: is.gd/paU8Ko (It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)

It's been really cold and I hadn't seen the whole feral colony at once in a few weeks but finally spotted the whole crew (the 5 kittens from under my shed and their two moms — at least they seem to be co-parenting 😂)

When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.

the vice president is a klansman

people who are new to academia tend to find its obsession with sources and citations a brake on their "i'm just trying to be CREATIVE, man" mindset. but it turns out the relentless obsession with accuracy, citation, and *provenance* is a load-bearing pillar of the whole enterprise

Happy Winter Solstice, Northern Hemisphere. The light returns. We can do this.

Santa Bloc! Santa Bloc! Santa Bloc!

This Yglesias piece in the NYT is horrifically bad. Almost every "fact" it cites is provably false. At best it is cocktail party banter from a pundit who knows nothing of energy. At worst, it was cut/paste from oil industry talking points. So, a rebuttal: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/o...

THREAD. My parents' cat Bridget vanished. As the weeks dragged on they became ever more worried, so to distract himself my dad began to paint Bridget's adventures, imagining her travelling through time and popping up at some of art & music's most important moments. I've collected his work here...

Maria has been accused over the years of fabricating her story that she had gone to the FBI. After finding the document in the trove, I called her. She broke down in tears. “I’ve waited 30 years. I can’t believe it. They can’t call me a liar anymore.” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/u...

This studio awards-season email is really matching the current mood in a way I’m not sure they intended.

I'm so grateful my brother (a material sciences professor) was real with me when I told him I was thinking about getting a comp lit PhD. Basically "do what you want, but even my friends from ivies are struggling hard on the job market." This was in 2013. Things have only gotten worse.

eighteenth-century burn!

Listen to Mitt Romney *faints*

My personal (vibes based and not to be taken seriously) theory is the report found that tacking center was detrimental and the DNC was like "naw, we're not listening to that."