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.

SCANDAL: SO CALLED SOCIALISTS PAY A FAIR AMOUNT OF MONEY FOR WELL MADE CLOTHES INSTEAD OF CHEAP GOODS PRODUCED UNDER TERRIBLE CONDITIONS

Hands down the best part of 2025

The lemon pig is dead. Long live the lemon pig!!

Amazing theneedling.com/2025/11/27/p...

I take no leave of you, 2025. I send no compliments to your mother. You deserve no such attention. I am most seriously displeased.

Watching the NYE show and the nation’s uncles of a certain age are having a great night

This should not be shrugged aside. They have stopped with the fake 22 million illegal immigrants things and are flat out saying we want to deport 10's of millions of citizens and legal residents from "third world countries" Basically they are advocating removing 1/3 of the population on a gov site.

The only positive thing you should be feeling about MTG abandoning Trump is that hopefully it’s a bellwether for rats to start fleeing the sinking ship. That doesn’t mean you invite the rat onto YOUR ship.

I remember thinking “why would they open Jurassic Park again? All those people died!” Or “why would they have another summer camp at Crystal Lake after Jason killed all those people for seven consecutive movies?” but it’s gotten to the point with things where it’s like yeah they’d do that for money

God I love this

someone should invent a chore that is done permanently once you do the chore

I dunno, how long did Congress spend on Benghazi? I’d say at least twice that long

I’m a historian who unbeknownst to me has been sent back in time so much that my brain is basically dissolving. Alternatively, I am the magnificent woman knight he’s obsessed with, in kind of a genderqueer way (The Everlasting, Alix Harrow)

My favorite thing about Frog and Toad is that it is the story of two men deeply and obviously in love with one another, drawn as a tribute to his lifelong partner by a gay man long before their relationship was socially sanctioned.

I asked him if he thought birthright citizenship should be repealed and he said “Ye dog! Hoist your rifle and send the bastard pudding eaters a-sea to King George in a pine box!”

The ghost of my literal great-x6 uncle John Chapman, aka Johnny Appleseed, told me about this and concurs

We throw a lot of small to medium size parties. Some have a theme (like the Pickle Ball, which is of course formal and all about eating pickle-related food, or the Souper Bowl, which of course generally takes place on Super Bowl Sunday and is a soup making contest)

My one resolution for 2026 is to refer to all my meals as either “wet food” or “dry food”

joining the "cybertruck owners only" group on fb is one of the best decisions i've ever made. every so often when i'm scrolling through fb getting pissed off, i get to see a little treat like this

12YO girl signed up to do “stand up comedy” at the talent show. 13YO boy decided to heckle her. Teacher started to tell the boy to leave her alone, but the 12YO comedian said “no, no, let him go, this is the closest he’s ever going to get to having a conversation with a girl.”

I've been thinking about this sign for 6 months. a phrase I'll treasure forever. a metaphor with boundless potential

Did you know Tim Allen’s portrayal of Santa Claus is considered the closest match to the iconic Coca-Cola ads, Google “tim allen coke” to learn more

⭐ Witch or Wizard 🌙

Tiny Tim, who DID NOT die, awoke one morning from uneasy dreams to find himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.

Crows collect baubles & shiny things as signs of gratitude. "I see the beauty of the world. I arrange it just so." Been a year of wonders & heroes; people have held space for me, lifted me, laughed with me, & shone the kinds of love that only come from beautiful souls. Moments carefully placed.

i had to drop what i was doing to make this

Yep, Muppet Christmas Carol still slaps

This was exactly Adolf Eichmann's job.

And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, eventually became a Queen! Not dark but beautiful and terrible as the Dawn! Treacherous as the Seas! Stronger than the foundations of the Earth!

*Found* ?????????

one thing that is important to know is that BIRTH OF A NATION is so racist that people at the *time*, in 1915, were like, “holy shit this is racist”

i think this is exactly right. she was hired to be a regime censor but that requires a bit of real skill and finesse to pull of successfully and she has neither.

The US government has deported a US citizen with a Maryland birth certificate they claim is fake. This goes way beyond even denaturalizing an immigrant citizen. This person was born here.

It’s truly astonishing how many people who are attempting to sell a piece of furniture online do not provide the dimensions. Like…it’s most of them. How does this not occur to you as information a potential buyer will need

Worth noting that the student admits that she just threw the thing together in 30 minutes without reading the paper she was supposed to be responding to.

Something very funny about de santis praising Coolidge for “immigration.” Coolidge’s immigration policy was that people named de santis shouldn’t be allowed to come here bsky.app/profile/anth...

Predictably, most of the comments blame conservatives for these types of policies. But I’m here to remind everyone that both Ds and Rs pass and praise policies that make child removals and adoptions easier, and haven’t done anything to support the material needs of at-risk families

Also please, PLEASE stop voting solely based on who you think will do better in the general election. You are not a pundit, you are a voter who is supposed to be choosing who you think is best for the job. If we all just did that we’d be better off

there is one and only one political strategy, and that is: “hang trump like an anchor around the neck of every single elected republican and the party itself.” no ‘friends across the aisle.’ no ‘the fever will break.’ anyone not on board with that has to go. no exceptions

if you walk into a voting booth in a dem primary and vote for someone who talks about bipartisanship you are part of the problem in this country sorry

via The New Yorker, Ellis Rosen cartoon

When they ask me what radicalized me

That paper was objectively a 0% level effort regardless of the topic. Disgusting result. It didn't even really catch on in the media like they'd hoped, but the TA is still gone.

it’s the ultimate troll to give someone four days worth of birds, then gold rings before giving them another two days worth of birds

call us old fashioned but, if you've built a machine that makes child porn, we really don't care if can do anything else. unplug the machine.

Alan Rickman was also a famously lovely, kind, patient, and softspoken man. No one has ever had a bad word to say about him to my knowledge. All praise for his class and professionalism. So imagine how bad Tim Allen has to be to get that reaction from Rickman, of all people

She's a gay, Jewish, well-educated urbanite, which presents the classic problem of being socially and culturally liberal, but politically reactionary. If she was more open about her affinities, she'd lose access to the social circles she actually wants to move in.

I’m sorry but ‘heritage American’ makes you sound like a tomato