TNG set the standard for the perfect finale. Everyone since then is trying to replicate it.

“President Donald Trump on Tuesday mourned LaMalfa in remarks before the House GOP conference. ‘He was a fantastic person,‘ Trump said. ‘He voted with me 100% of the time.’” www.cnbc.com/2026/01/06/d...

Nonsensical headline. Miller never says anything about the "right" to take Greenland—he says the U.S. is strong enough to do it. Rights don't mean anything to him, and the NYT shouldn't be inventing an argument for him. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/05/u...

Dave Cole will continue as the Chief Innovation Officer of the State of New Jersey under the Sherrill administration. Good news for the brand new New Jersey Innovation Authority and for New Jersey residents in general. www.nj.gov/govelect/new...

People hate change even when they love it. gothamist.com/news/a-year-...

Pat Kiernan apparently has jury duty this morning, which is kind of funny.

Marco Rubio, Military Governor of Venezuela

So fmr Honduran President Hernandez voluntarily surrendered, and was duly extradited, tried and convicted for drug trafficking, and Trump pardoned him 6w ago. And this morning, Trump illegally attacks Venezuela and abducts its president and his wife purportedly to try them for drug trafficking.

0️⃣0️⃣0️⃣0️⃣ days without invading another country.

Old enough to remember when he was mad he didn’t win the Nobel Peace Prize.

Just your periodic reminder that Sandy Koufax is still alive and he retired at 30.

I wrote a thing about the end of 2025, the grand 80-year cycle following World War II, and what comes next. Yes, get alarmed, but also hopeful! open.substack.com/pub/ejkalafa...

If there's one thing that's maddening about the social media era, it's the YouTube-ification of our news and politics, like these 21-year old "citizen journalists" calling everything the "worst fraud in history" to get views and a disproportionate response. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/b...

Incoming @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social has the opportunity to partner with Hochul to build big things for transit that have been blocked by NIMBYs: finish the N train to LGA, fund QueensLink, connect the subway to JFK at Jamaica.

Trump should also pardon Kim Jung Un, Darth Vader, and the late great Hannibal Lecter.

Remarkable. US attorney general Pam Bondi tweets out a chart showing deaths from drug overdoses plummeting and giving the president credit. “Elections have consequences,” she says. One problem. The data ends in Oct 2024. www.researchgate.net/publication/...

60% of Americans thought things were going well in the U.S. in 1998, versus 24% today. I wonder what this chart looks like if you map it against the party in the White House… 🤔

gentle reminder this christmas eve that we can ill afford another klendathu

The best Bond cold open.

Is this historically normal? What I mean is, when Boomers were in their 30s accumulating wealth in the 1980s, were senior citizens socking it away as well, or is this a new factor? www.nytimes.com/2025/12/20/u...

Whew.

Obviously going to be reversed by the next administration as obvious, blatant, illegal self-aggrandizement. Moreso than renaming Department of War. Now the next President can do a broad campaign of de-Trumpification instead of just having to pettily fix the name of DoD.

Good interview with the new administrator. www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfeI...

Don’t threaten me with a good time. (Also, bring back through-running LIRR trains to the Meadowlands. Permanently.)

It's fine we're in an AI bubble… unless something pricks the bubble. Top contenders: 1) Sudden leap in AI software efficiency 2) AI spending slowdown 3) Invasion of Taiwan 4) Major China slowdown. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/b...

Tough to get an indictment for a crime that doesn't exist. www.cnn.com/2025/12/11/p...

I think she’s right on all three counts, but not in a good way.

Veto it, or we’ll look like an actual third world country compared to everyone else.

Kathryn Garcia is Iron Man, she can do anything. She should make big swings, like convince the governors to unify rail lines for through-running and connect the JFK AirTrain to the subway at Jamaica. subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2025...

It's going to be a confusing post-Trump time trying to understand the bizzaro universe in his mind where going to jail for any crime means that you must have been persecuted by Biden. He's naturally soft on crime because of this mentality. www.cbsnews.com/news/henry-c...

This is pretty nuts: I’m getting a 1.5 gigabit speeds at home wirelessly through T-Mobile mmWave.

Soft on crime.

There's also the voice actor guessing game. "Whoa, Benedict Arnold is Michael Keaton! Benjamin Franklin is Inigo Montoya!"

For everyone sneaking off to watch Stranger Things today, here’s a helpful recap of the villains in prior seasons: 1. Demagorgon 2. Mindflayer 3. Billy and meat spider 4. Vecna and Kate Bush

Do people in other countries wonder why the date of Black Friday seems random every year, the way we all have no idea how Easter is calculated?

1. Empire 2. Star Wars 3. Andor That’s it. That’s the list.

I still don’t really understand why Jack sold. Twitter was our monoculture, a truly global brand. He gave away his great contribution to global culture to be dismantled.

Ray Dalio said today that the bubble gauge has reached 80%. But bubbles don’t pop until they’re pricked. It looks like the dot-com bubble sat at 80% for years. I don’t know that we’re necessarily about to pop… but the longer we sit here without popping, the higher the probability gets each month.

Smile 2 (2024, Paramount Pictures)

His utter domination of the GOP is even more amazing when you consider he’s spending it entirely on a personal pet issue that literally no one else in his party cares about.

“The war will end on Day One!”

This is supposed to sound threatening? They're going to try to bring down the nonvoting delegate from the U.S. Virgin Islands? www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

I remain struck that, when Trump started the fight in the first place, he didn’t even come up with a story that it was fair or right. He just publicly, nakedly told Texas to game the system.

Schumer will dare a Republican Senator to object. Who will do it?

CloudFlare is clearly having some kind of meltdown.

I think he’s feeling jilted that most independents have moved on to Mamdani Derangement Syndrome.

This capitalization is a crime against the English language.

A veto hangs around his neck forever as a sign of coverup. It’d become a JFK assassination-style conspiracy theory for decades. Trump’s in a real pickle if this reaches his desk. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

No other subway systems on Earth do this. This is like making ATMs illegal to protect the jobs of bank tellers. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/n...