'those movies where people watch a video because it's supposed to make you die in a week are unrealistic' I say as I watch another person take a Chotiner phone call

just thinking about how USAID was dismantled under the rationale of cost savings but there's an unlimited budget for war

From the folks (no really, the exact same people) who will use any excuse to sideline voices from the wrong side of their prep school fences in the name of “objective journalism”

I wonder how many of the wealthy westerners fleeing the gulf are leaving migrant worker maids, nannies, drivers and other staff behind.

No notes.

This man was murdered by the federal immigration authorities as surely as Renee Good and Alex Pretti were

Every now and then, I remember that JD Vance smashed the "like" button after reading this tweet, then went back and unliked it five years later when he ran for the Senate.

i've decided not to listen to the audio of a teacher reporting a kindergartender because frankly I don't want to become the person that that event would turn me into. but one thing I hope we are collectively coming to grips with is what it meant that we have lived among such people this whole time

If I were any of the victims that survived or the families of the ones that didn't? I would take Sam Altman & company to the fucking cleaners. I'm talking suing the company for so much money that his great-grandchildren would be paying my family line in installments.

One side of the coin is that a lawmaker is saying that educating himself made him change his mind on an issue. (Which, good!) The other side of the coin is that he's admitting that he authored, sponsored, filed a bill while having evidently spent no time doing reading or research about the topic.

I can’t think of a theater one, but I was so pissed off halfway through the Ballad of Buster Scruggs (I would have stopped watching if I’d been alone), because legit a woman had not yet spoken more than ten words in it.

This is a fucking five alarm fire.

So when thousands of women (and children) were being duplicated--including in non-consensual AI porn--it was no big deal. But it took "only a 15-sec clip" of these two famous white men to draw outrage and fear. Gotcha. Cool cool.

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

when they have me flying a bomber in Civil War Woke im painting this on the payload

If a scholarship fund gets started for this kid, please, please let me know.

This is something the Nazis used to do to Jewish children in the camps. It happened to a man I knew when he was a child in Auschwitz. The camp guards thought it was funny as hell.

Someone told me lately "Bluesky is just like Twitter." I argued that was untrue on the basis that last time I had a Twitter account most times I got a new follower their bio said "single & looking for fun" & here when I get a new follower it tends to say something like "professor of rare moths".

Schumer: ball’s in your court Republicans: stab the ball, tear it apart, set it on fire, rip up the court and sell the turf to Bahrain Schumer: hey you guys are out of balls Republicans: we’re gonna kill your families Schumer: ok we’ll pass funding for new balls but you’ve GOT to read the rules

LOL.... i wanted to hear JD getting booed at the Olympics and when i searched for it on YouTube i got this

Jeff Bezos’s wealth has increased an average of $70 million every day of 2026, meaning that he could have offset The Post’s losses with what he’s made since Monday.

"In my few days in Minnesota, I’ve been witness to countless scenes that remind me of moments I’ve seen during previous trips covering conflicts around the world," photojournalist @cengizyar.com writes. "The wars we’ve carried out as a nation abroad have come home." More: https://propub.li/4acxEeY

After one freezing night at home, six nights in a hotel. We FINALLY have power! Shout out to all the amazing people at La Quinta Inn Downtown Stadium in Nashville for being so wonderful during a stressful time. They gave us an early, early check-in and let us keep our room every time we extended. ♥️

Reminded of the time that a BBC World Service presenter asked their guest how long there had been a Latino presence in Los Angeles and I yelled at my car stereo, “The name of the city is **LOS ANGELES**!”

We are almost a week in, 60,000+ still don’t have power, and a cold weather advisory tonight through the weekend. There should be investigations into how poorly this storm was handled by NES, local, state, and federal government.

I know a lot is going on right now, but Nashville is literally freezing to death, and the national attention/assistance has been appalling. We’ve been without power since Saturday morning and received absolutely no information about when that might change.

she would have beat that man's ass

Terrible video, because I’m on the 7th floor of a nearby hotel, but there’s a crazy car fire in East Nashville right now along the highway.

I also want to note one thing, if pundits like this do not want to acknowledge and center that it is hate that drives the coalition behind Trump (hatred of Black people, people of color, immigrants, poor people, disabled people) then all they do is enable, excuse and justify that hate.

Unarmed woman executed by state may have been on committee to fight against unarmed women being executed by the state

Why are there so many Indiana fans at the game? Because midwesterner see an 8-hour drive and think “oh, we can make it a day trip.”

what this should make clear to everyone in this country is that it does not matter who you are, there's no "it could never happen to me" you can be a white woman who drives around with stuffed animals in her car, and they will still kill you in cold blood and call you a domestic terrorist

Three million people live in Caracas, five million in the metro area. It's one of the densest cities in South America. Remember this in the morning when they try to spin this as anything other than a cold-blooded attack on a major civilian center.

“I just don’t understand why I can’t sleep” she said while staring at the little glowing box of doom in her hand

At this point, if a Democratic presidential candidate wants my vote, their platform has to - at bare minimum - include some version of "I am going to put all these freaks in prison for their crimes." Full stop. No compromise. I am now a single issue voter for the dark woke prison camps.

If you’re wondering why your friends in academia are a little on edge right now, it’s because an eighteen-year-old who hasn’t done the reading, doesn’t look at the assignment, and has does no critical thinking skills more complex than “because I think it’s in the Bible” can literally end your career

As I say here, it is time. It's past fucking time, really. www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/the-...

Seriously, fuck off. I say that with all due gravity.

It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans. 🧵 1 of 9

I’m sorry, but it is disgraceful to be an academic who uses this technology to conduct research. It should be prohibited in all of our scholarly institutions, including universities and journals.

This studio awards-season email is really matching the current mood in a way I’m not sure they intended.

All of Bluesky this morning:

Hit him twice

the son he always wanted

The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.

God this is so utterly despicable. Trump is “he was no angel”- ing a journalist who was murdered and dismembered with a bone saw by agents of an authoritarian regime.

make sure you have friends that will look you dead in the eye and say, “this is trash,” when what you have created is trash. 😂

LMAO so the college president who received $2 million in total compensation from WVU last year thinks ‘Universities Have Become Isolated and Arrogant’ Oh really? Have we? LOL give me a break and get back on your yacht www.chronicle.com/article/univ...

They should study journalists’ brains like they do with football players after they die.