Super informative article on the state of Mexico under the Sheinbaum administration one year in. newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...

Jeffries once again protecting corruption in the House by undercutting a bipartisan bill that is moving towards getting majority of the House. Just terrible, terrible leader. prospect.org/2025/12/19/j...

Really sick victim-blaming. Sick, sick shit www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/u...

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!! Here’s a link to full video of the 60 Minutes segment that Bari Weiss killed last minute, via @jasonparis.bsky.social: is.gd/paU8Ko (It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)

A selection of #coffee cups from late 17th century #Persia (British Museum)

I’m about the age as the parents but can only see the young journo who wrote this as a generational narc

This is fermented skate, a traditional dish Icelanders eat on the Mass of Saint Þorlákur, December 23rd (although some families, like mine, cheat and eat it on the 22nd). If you could smell this photo your nose would be assaulted by pungent ammonia and your eyes would probably start watering.

Thoughtful response by @stevevladeck.bsky.social One observation, and potentially a basis of progressive consensus, is that the vision offered by me and @samuelmoyn.bsky.social and others is not one of a world in which there are “no checks” on presidential administrations. (1/6)

Might these two things be connected, perchance?

Happy Holidays to all the venal weirdos

An important read: Drop Site report on a possible civilian casualty strike / a strike that even if U.S. claims about the target are true raises all sorts of questions. Would be good to get some oversight activity re this strike / pressure for more detail. www.dropsitenews.com/p/somalia-un...

Feet - 1885 https://botfrens.com/collections/46/contents/13590

Former NYC councilmember @rorylancman.bsky.social moved to the suburbs & is now running for state senate. In between, he's spent his time waging war on my union for calling for a ceasefire in Gaza. If elected in this swing district, he'd have Dem leadership's ear & drag the caucus to the right.

Premium: How The AI Bubble bursts in 2026 - The largest funder of AI data centers is pulling out, OpenAI and Anthropic need more money than ever during a massive VC liquidity crisis - and NVIDIA's debt-powered customer base is quietly shrinking. www.wheresyoured.at/premium-how-...

Happy birthday Jane Fonda 🎂 📷 Sam Lévin, 1970 "What in the world is the matter with Jane Fonda? She’s a great actress. She looks pretty. But boy, she’s … often on the wrong track." - Richard M. Nixon, on tape, September 19, 1971

Today, Chastity Murphy offers an insider’s account of the failure to regulate stablecoins: a retrospective on what worked, what didn’t, and what’s at stake if we don’t reclaim public control over the future of money.

Other things found to cause radar interference include the judiciary, Black people, impossible burgers, NPR, immigrants, people who are rude to me in restaurants, being banned from seeing my grandchildren, Black people again, free and fair elections, and people who refuse to follow me on Twitter.

“Performative killing spree” is exactly the right term for the administration’s actions in the Caribbean. And much better to be a theater kid (GOP’s insult of choice these days) than a performative mass murderer.

Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

Bob Dylan writes about Willie Nelson in a new New Yorker profile (Bob also says before this, "It’s hard to talk about Willie without saying something stupid or irrelevant, he is so much of everything") www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

INSIDE EL CECOT (GIFT LINK) The Post's reporting on the Salvadoran prison where the Trump administration sent migrants deported from the United States, based on interviews with 16 former detainees wapo.st/3KUUv6n

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A very real problem that is not addressed in the slightest by the performative killing spree at sea. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Simon Kuper | Europe’s second-class citizens ft.trib.al/jE37pqb #FTEdit

Just saw a local theater production of Charlie Brown Christmas, a verbatim reenactment of the animated special, down to the actors imitating the jerky motions of the cartoon characters. These stylized movements made the show funny as hell and also gave it a surprising formal rigor

“A strict constitutionalist might indeed say that the constitution died in 1861...” Albert Jay Knock, Our Enemy, the State (1935). Disregarding the “Second Founding” as outside the bounds of the organic constitutional order has a long history.

The contrast with Brazil jumps at me once again. Brazil has managed to rebuild sanity into the policy process in a way that seems sustainable — even if the right comes back to power next year, it will likely be a sane version. But the way this has been done is by punishing the coup attempt.

“Competitive authoritarianism” is an accurate label for what the United States is fast becoming but it has twelve syllables

You is sharks, sartin; but if you gobern de shark in you, why den you be angel; for all angel is not’ing more dan de shark well goberned.

The fate of all political MacGuffins in the real world

Zohran is going to be remaking school streets all over the city like Paris famously did. Hype train boarding now.

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DeMoor, Madar, same diff. We are united in the Chase of Justice

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Every bit the equal of Feuilles mortes, and for my taste the definitive perf #nl open.spotify.com/track/2m7hny...

BREAKING: At least 16 files from the Epstein release disappeared from DOJ's webpage, including a photo of Trump, with no explanation.

Don’t know about the hed but I like Raja Shehadeh’s cold-eyed optimism www.nytimes.com/2025/12/20/m...

“I’ve known Diana for years—and I know that in Diana, working families in Queens will have a tireless and unwavering ally. She will fight to make Queens—and all of NYC—a place where working people can afford to live and raise their families with dignity.” —Mayor-elect @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social

Question: When the head of the DOJ’s Civil Rights division tweets out a false statement about an individual that results in them being barraged with death threats based on their religion and ethnicity, which governmental agency would look into whether that student’s Civil Rights had been infringed?

This Yglesias piece in the NYT is horrifically bad. Almost every "fact" it cites is provably false. At best it is cocktail party banter from a pundit who knows nothing of energy. At worst, it was cut/paste from oil industry talking points. So, a rebuttal: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/o...

One in four US soldiers in the Civil War was foreign born. But sure, Infantry Dort, sure.

It has basically become accepted that the Bondi terror attacks were perprated by leftist anti-genocide protestors who heard the phrase 'from the river to the sea' at the harbour bridge and were immediately activated into committing mass murder

Definitely b). From Bari to Brett we are in the age of ratings-proof news and entertainment

One of those details that makes the whole dystopia hang together 👍

Whipple: Wiles thought she was talking to someone who would give her a fair shake. And I did give her a fair shake. But the problem is, when you’re in that bubble, you wouldn’t recognize fair treatment when you see it—because crazy is crazy when you’re in that bubble.