as a texan i'll spare people zohran takes but one thing i think we're going to see even more of now that he's mayor is mainstream media shift the goal posts of what having a mandate is. trump had a mandate when he narrowly won but zohran has to reach out to all these factions no matter what

Mamdani: For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty

In this in-depth interview Billie Jean Sweeney — a former editor at The New York Times — details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, why this was directed from the very top, how some staff pushed back and the immense damage done by the NYT legitimizing bigotry.

Drunk at 2AM on new years morning, crying while thinking about how the 18 year old computer in our living room is a member of the family.

When you get the reputation of being the guy with the encouraging words on New Year's Eve, it can start to come through as a little pressure -- what if the situation on the ground is worse than usual? what if people are more scared than they usually are, and with cause? what use are good vibes then?

Statement Re: OU Discrimination Investigation Today, my client, Mel Curth, submitted her appeal of the University's Institutional Equity Office finding that she engaged in arbitrary and capricious grading of a student's assignment in violation of that student's religious liberty.

Sorry I can't overcome my anti-Marjorie Taylor Greene bigotry. I'm learning and growing, and trying to be a better ally 😔

And actually--Comet Pizza was a page out of a playbook that started with daycare decades before. In 1983, a California mom accused her son's childcare provider of subjecting children to Satanic rituals--like flushing them down toilets into secret basements where they were then filmed for porn. 1/🧵

"Yes, he's a rapist pedophile. But he's OUR rapist pedophile."

Don't you dare purity test my quirky friend Marge just because she believes your entire existence spits in the face of God and has spent the last few years trying to drive you from public life 😠 Not everyone is going to agree with you 100%!

This is why I don’t trust the "Never Trump" Bulwark guys. They’re perfectly comfortable with real people being harmed, so long as the harm comes via a process they can label “liberal democracy.”

In 1992 we had Johnny Cash, Bob Hope, and Charles Grodin...

She agrees with everything about Trump, except his being a pedophile. Still, the NYT presents her sympathetically, as someone who grew into Christian empathy after fascist violence was directed at her, despite her continuing role in directing that same violence toward Jews and trans people.

My kid wanted to get into football this year, so the first 2 weeks looked like I'd be introducing them to life as a Bears fan (dignity in the face of disappointment). I never dreamed they would have the year that they have. It's been a blast. Go Bears!

"And Abigail Shrier, who is NOT transphobic."

HRT improves the sex life of cis people (complimentary), but improves the sex life of trans people (derogatory).

Well this is kind of neat. Our album made destroy//exist’s top 40 albums of the year. Nice to see they recommend listening to it all in one go, since that’s how we intended it to work.

“ The daughter of a well known conservative operative , whose paper did not answer the topic at hand and had a carefully planned media campaign , had a trans instructor fired for grading a paper according to the agreed upon rubric”

Of particular importance to this website

john waters' 1995 christmas card with steve buscemi as him

This should be a clear signal that hospitals and other institutions should not capitulate to the administration’s lawless anti-trans demands. Foremost, they have obligation to their patients.

Agonizing over whether I should pick up Nier:Automata or FF7 Remake while they're on sale.

Everyone knows Tiny Tim died in the Ghost of Christmas Future's vision. What this book presupposes is...maybe he didn't

if you're wondering why your trans friends everywhere are a little on edge right now, it's because a story about a radical conservative christian student abusing rules and processes to deliberately target a trans instructor consistently gets reframed to omit the entirety of the anti-trans bigotry

Here's a song I wrote about how my mom stopped inviting me and my kid to Christmas, though I don't think it's the type of situation Sarah Ditum had in mind when she wrote this article that's been written a thousand times.

"Cheddar Gorge" is also what I do in front of the fridge at 2AM.

Got an early Christmas present 😥

I avoid AI in games by being 10+ years out from playing anything that came out in the 2020s.

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

You can very clearly see why someone whose job it is to protect war criminals would need this pulled from the airwaves: It’s visible proof the Trump administration is operating concentration camps.

I just uploaded @jasonparis.bsky.social 's recording of the segment CBS News pulled from "60 Minutes" to YouTube:

Weird how The Free Press was able to publish all of these without comment from the Washigton University Transgender Center at St. Louis Children's Hospital.

Take a few minutes to listen all the way through. Delightful pastiche, wry commentary, great playing. It will brighten your morning! youtu.be/yZi4Z1e5KO8

There's no situation where someone says "we're moving back to Ohio," and my immediate reaction isn't "omg girl, I am SO sorry."

The CBS reporter who led the story calls pulling it a "political" decision. "The decision was made after Bari Weiss, the new editor in chief of CBS News, requested numerous changes to the segment." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...

Aaron Rodgers look like he should be at home replying to AOC tweets with Willy Wonka memes

The last play of this Lions Steelers game was BONKERS

Why CBS News Hired Cancel Culture's Biggest Grifter (ft. Michael Hobbes) youtu.be/qNlW_kjBnTY

Everybody's 12 Theory and implied homophobia aside, it's funny to me that, for the people using "theater kid" as a pejorative, this is their guy.

Did not think the Bears were one of those Disney movie miracle season-ass teams, but maybe?

lol

Da motherfucking Bears!