May your Christmas be a clean one.

"intergrity of the news" is doing a lottalotta work here.

I enjoy living somewhere people wear Christmas sweaters unironically.

These declines are MASSIVE. And the comparative silence in media coverage is absolutely DAMNING. “Why are ppl always so afraid of crime?” THIS is why. When crime goes up, media trips over itself to report it. Falls to pre-war (!!) levels? Just CRICKETS.

Big Tech is offering you a Faustian bargain. It promises to remove all the friction from life, to keep you from having to think or study, and the result is your brain will become pudding, you’ll become incapable of creativity or communication. They want to make you a non-person.

Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing a text, writing an email, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing since the dawn of time.

Wow. Genuinely shocked, and a hugely consequential decision. Importantly, this is a case where @martylederman.bsky.social's amicus brief appears to have made a MAJOR impact. Before he wrote it, courts were sidestepping the "regular forces" issue entirely. And that's what the Trump admin lost on.

She got nothing right. Is there some rule at The Atlantic that they are on a schedule of running "At least they spelled our name right before calling us assholes" pieces on the regular? She skipped EVERY screening, came in late with changes that were still made, came back with more, then spiked it.

It is impressive how the Atlantic seems to hire so many people who would buy the Brooklyn Bridge from you repeatedly if you told them it was on sale at a discount this week.

This is shocking but also a completely unsurprising result of google’s push behind LLM summaries.

Duh.

what the fuck are you talking about

If Oklahoma didn't submit the essay in question to a board for review before firing the T.A., a pro bono lawyer should take up that case and help sue the everlasting shit out of that university. Easy enough to have four psych department profs evaluate it. If even one comes back with, "TF?" then ...

Flight records show "Donald Trump traveled on Epstein's private jet many more times than previously has been reported," according to a DOJ email from 2020.

Winter here is ... different than it was in Cnicago.

You knew this would happen, and glad it did.

Tariffs have killed them

this just has me thinking about how so much of this government and the movement around it is purely a matter of aesthetics. is there a strategic reason for produce a new warship? maybe. but my hunch is that this is happening because the president thinks it will look cool.

this is not leadership. it’s throwing your own reporters & journalists at @60minutes.bsky.social under the bus in order to act as a professional censor for the regime & for the powerful. it’s journalistic malpractice. #cbs #bariweiss

You do everything in your power to get every relevant voice in a story. But as one of my former colleagues told a local official who thought his silence would kill a piece: “I’d like to have you. But the story is being written with or without you.”

I mean I think the people who underestimated the fascists are the stupids in this equation. The fascists had a 60 year plan, they documented the last year of it very publicly, and they are successfully implementing all of it.

FINALLY found a sofa that works. Only took three years.

The only difference between ten years ago and now is that Americans have elected people who act and think like them. People are acting like America has only recently become stupid, ignorant, mean and racist. Nah. It just now has license to be how it it.

got my adhd upgraded to ad4k

like, this isn’t a person who you can tell “ummmm as the proprietor of a right wing opinion substack i think i know when a TV news story months in the making about foreign prisons is ready”

this is how you know bari is incapable of operating at this level. pulling rank on some desperate lackey at the free press does not equip one with the requisite skills to try and fuck over a veteran correspondent who’s been on her network’s flagship program for more than a decade.

“We have been promoting this story on social media for days…. When it fails to air without a credible explanation, the public will correctly identify this as corporate censorship.”

Bari Weiss wouldn't know a story was ready to publish even if it had a little button that popped up like one of those Butterball turkeys. She is a stooge, placed there to ensure that nothing too damaging gets out. Her former job is somehow viewed as an imprimatur rather than a vetting failure.

Skilled-worker visa holders who traveled back to India this month to renew their US work permits are now stranded far from home after their appointments were abruptly canceled by U.S. consular offices and rescheduled for months later.

The far-right Chega party in Portugal, and its mouthy frontman Andre Ventura, is taking a different, significantly more racist tack to addressing the Roma in this country. It's ugly and he responds to critics by doubling down.

The Nazi Knockout Advent Calendar really delivered 🎄

A more magnificent tribute to American Bad Taste has never been seen.

Timothy Loehmann, the ex-police officer who shot and killed 12-year-old Tamir Rice, has been fired from his position as an armed ranger in West Virginia

For the record, the law states that "No record shall be withheld, delayed, or redacted on the basis of embarrassment, reputational harm, or political sensitivity, including to any government official, public figure, or foreign dignitary." www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...

this is the greatest feeling, when the cord box proves its utility to a family member

I think that now, everyone will simply assume that every redaction is about Trump, and imaginations will fill in things significantly worse than what is likely in those recacted portions. Because as much as he wants to say he isn't in the files, all the redactions assert otherwise.

“.. After the release of thousands of Epstein files on Friday, The New York Times contacted Ms. Farmer .. She broke down in tears. “I’ve waited 30 years,” she said. “I can’t believe it. They can’t call me a liar anymore.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/u...

And we see these same types rucking up in Portugal, moving here but not acquiring the language and wondering why the locals are choosing not to speak English to them.

I cannot emphasize how serious an assault on democracy this is. Any effort by the Trump administration to engage in false claims of fraud or mass voter suppression relies on this as a building block. As importantly, there is no legitimate reason DOJ would want this information.

85% of CEOs are white men. All but one US President has been a white man. 65% of all elected offices are held by white men. Roughly 30% of the population is white men. WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS TOPIC EVEN???

Because the Republicans have abdicated legislative responsibility in both chambers, this is what happens.

so much talk about whether the odyssey film is "historically accurate" and i'm just like, you know it's fiction right. it's made up. it never actually happened.

FOUR new deaths in ICE detention. That puts the total this year at 30 people dead; the highest in ICE's history and worse than even during the COVID years. It's clear that the system is breaking down. Many of these are preventable deaths.

And aren't interested in talking to each other because there has never been a more correct political schism. Those on the other side are wrong, and evil. And that isn't hyperbole. Why discourse with them? They're gone.

By 2011 Epstein had already: -registered as a sex offender -plead guilty to solicitation of prostitution with a minor under the age of 18 -settled multiple civil lawsuits brought against him by victims www.npr.org/2025/07/25/n...

Member of the Epstein class says what

Here’s a gift link to the New York Times story about sex-predator pals Trump and Epstein.

I don't need the Dems to release a report on why they lost in 2024. It's already clear: dumbfucks decided to dumbfuck it up even as they knew dictator wannabe dumbfuck awaited. Racism, misoogyny, selfishness, ignorance, "I want a pony!" So, yeah. Duh. And the same awaits in 2028. Womp, womp.

Anderson defended himself to WP “I didn’t put the injection sites on her. People seem to be shocked I didn’t use Photoshop to retouch out blemishes and her injection marks. I find it shocking that someone would expect me to retouch out those things,” he said. www.thedailybeast.com/vanity-fair-...

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