It's gone. This story is being memory holed as we speak.

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

say what you will about Andrew Tate, but his decision to not have a chin likely saved his life in that fight. Just one of those uppercuts would've killed Bruce Campbell.

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new policy proposal: registered organ donors each get one free kill

minaj is on the verge of having her $20M home forcibly sold by the court to cover a $500K debt, in case you wonder what’s going on here

As the year wraps up, & the breakout of conflict in the Horn of Africa looks increasingly inevitable in 2026, this indepth probe by @clairelwilmot.bsky.social into illegal gold mining from Tigray to the UAE mostly by the way of Eritrea...is a good 101er for how factions are likely to arm themselves.

Advice to all writers from my most fucked up character.

simply having a wonderful Christmas time

next time you get imposter syndrome remember that NYT columnist @kevinroose.com exists. you can't be more of a fraud than that fucker.

the first play of this Packers / Bears game started with attempted murder. pretty psyched to see where it goes from here!

🚨 Andrew Tate has been BATTERED and comprehensively beaten by a novice boxer, Chase DeMoor

to add to the Jake Paul schadenfreude, Andrew Tate also lost a fight to some reality TV influencer. most analysis of the fight I've read described his opponent as deeply untalented but Andrew lost anyway. Tate's endurance was awful and he was gassed after the first round.

At least 16 files from Epstein release disappeared from DOJ webpage, including photo of Donald Trump, with no explanation. - AP

Justice Department files related to Jeffrey Epstein, included a 1996 complaint to the FBI about the disgraced financier allegedly possessing and distributing “child pornography” about a decade before a federal investigation was launched.

CATO INSTITUTE: Despite DOGE slashing jobs, government spending in every month of 2025 “was greater than in every other year .. An observer who did not know when DOGE started could not identify it” on a chart. 🤡 www.cato.org/blog/doge-pr...

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Officials in Tennessee aren't just banning books, they're now demanding information on who checked out contested (largely LGBTQ+) books, including names, addresses, and "household composition." A librarian who was given the directive has come forward asking for whistleblower protections.

Many racists meltdown incoming from the culture war tourists following that DLC reveal for Space Marine 2.

i wish it were more satisfying to watch Ben Shapiro get eaten alive by the monsters he made his bed with, but unfortunately we have to live with the fuckers too.

wow, seeing Jake Paul get beaten half to death, true terror in his eyes, really improved my whole outlook on life

if you just live your life by taking the opposite stance of conor friedersdorf on nearly every issue you'll do pretty well

pitching a spinoff of 'Dancing With The Stars', where the famous people are all long dead historical figures we dig up and pair with living contestants. I'm calling it, 'Necrodancer'.

get ready to learn about some of the coolest motherfuckers who ever lived: Olaudah Equiano, Granville Sharp and Thomas Clarkson

vegas is a terrible place that i love for the same reason i watch unedited footage of industrial accidents for fun. the first time I stayed in a casino solo i watched someone have a heart attack at a blackjack table. no one stopped gambling while he was carried off. i visit every year

man if only we could get back to the Good FBI as it existed before Trump.

this is actually kind of a shit argument because many of the most lethal types of firearms are heavily restricted or outright illegal to own while every year we make deadlier cars and sell them to whoever

I'm at the Pizza Hutt. I'm at the The Donald Trump And The John F. Kennedy Memorial Center For The Performing Arts. I'm at the combination Pizza Hutt and the The Donald Trump And The John F. Kennedy Memorial Center For The Performing Arts.

THREAD. Has anyone ever told you that we can't reduce the size and power of the police, prosecutor, surveillance tech, and prison bureaucracies because it's not popular? In my latest newsletter, I debunk that myth. equalityalec.substack.com/p/convention...

Things are going great over at X, The Everything App

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this guy has helped create a bunch of movies i love so I don't begrudge him for shit like The Minecraft Movie. but i genuinely don't understand how you can love Calvin and Hobbes or respect Bill Watterson as an artist and want to do this

this shouldn't be surprising to anyone: specialization is for insects fairly certain i qualify as a high performance adult by these standards and i wasn't good at anything as a kid besides reading a shitload of random books www.wsj.com/science/elit...

the change of marijuana to a Schedule 3 drug should allow online companies to write you a prescription for actual legal weed. If so we might be able to return to the glory days of California in 2013, where you could smoke constantly in public and justify it by saying "i have a prescription"

These are the people who are willing to go on the record. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...

An infant froze to death in Gaza last night, starved and cold.

Snapshot of US Navy air activity in the Caribbean now has the usual suspects (F/A-18Es, EA-18s, and E-2D) operating closer to the Venezuelan coast than usual. The F/A-18Es are as close as approx. 50km from the coast of Venezuela, whereas usually they fly north of Los Roques, 200km+ away.

periodically I'll see a backlash that goes a little too far or seems kinda unfair. i never say anything because i think we need to be kinda unhinged and zealous in our response to this shit. I'd take an honest-to-God crusade against this stuff over letting it proliferate.

i spent a lot of time talking to people who disagree with me. after having a certain number of guns and knives pulled on me and having a couple bones broken I decided conservatives aren't worth the trouble.

matt & co’s theory of how public opinion on immigration would respond to new information was simply empirically wrong. at this point the only reasonable conclusion is they refuse to update their priors w/ new data because the data is inconvenient for them www.gelliottmorris.com/p/the-cost-o...

we need a name for all the prominent 'thought leaders' who have been exposed as pedophiles and I'd like to suggest "dipshit gotterdammerung"

Bellingcat's work is mentioned in the second case, where the Court of Justice overrides an earlier General Court decision to not allow our research into the border pushbacks to be used.

as president i will also establish a "warrior dividend" for our soldiers, but this will be a bounty we pay them for every country they don't invade. I know what you're saying: couldn't this lead to us invading countries in order to reduce the military budget? and the answer is i didn't consider that

jfc

someone really should've caught this

excited to read a longform article about the collapse of this project (est: 1-3 deaths) in eighteen months or so.

My take on Trump's address tonight is that he's always won in the past by staying on the attack and refusing to apologise. He didn't defend himself: he proclaimed reality, ignored all arguments to the contrary, and went back to throwing punches. This felt defensive, weak. And maybe a little scared.

lmao suck shit

The truly wild thing is this isn’t even true, a shit-ton of their oil reserves on paper are heavy tar sands and every US oil company will take one look at that at $80/bbl and walk away because it isn’t close to economically viable.