This is one of the people Bari Weiss publishes and quotes regularly at The Free Press. Someone she presumably believes "loves America."

guys, "the judges at the ICC are being sanctioned by the USA and can't access their iphones or bank accounts" and "why aren't any countries banning twitter or prosecuting elon musk for owning a site that manufactures CSAM" stories are the same story

If you launch business licenses for your chatbot the same day most people hear about your chatbot generating CSAM, it makes me wonder what you think you're selling.

this shit is so cringe but it’s been hilarious to see that the only things Bari has done as CEO are 1. try (and fail) to kill 60 minutes CECOT piece 2. panned Erica Kirk interview 3. cringe flagposting the modern conservative movement is just affirmative action for unqualified morons like Bari

Can you imagine if your year was already on track to be worse than the one where you were called a pedophile at the Super Bowl

At least we don’t live in a world of staggering class disparity in which a tech magnate attempts to quash left-wing sentiment using sexualized artificial intelligence!

I wrote about Grok's CSAM problem and how journalists keep fumbling the story www.readtpa.com/p/grok-cant-...

This is almost certainly 100% true

if you teach your parrot to say "awrk! i deeply regret that incident! awkk! i commit to listening and learning from this experience! whee-hoo!" you can also teach it to say whatever slurs you want

JD Vance syas he's "a Grok guy." Hegseth's Pentagon is trying to integrate a product that referred to itself as "MechaHitler" everywhere it possibly can throughout the military. Musk wants Grok to perform brain surgeries and power "a robot army." What a fucking world

There have been no good reasons for staying on Twitter for years now, but at this point you will have to follow up any of your remaining excuses with “…and I don’t care about the child pornography.”

lol I just came across this post by Zoharn’s wife Rama Duwaji’s stylist and the boots were…. on loan open.substack.com/pub/brainmat...

This is not a hard message. Localize it. Embrace it. Win.

Today's newsletter: I read the Jack Smith transcript Republicans released on New Year's Eve so you don't have to. Here are 12 takeaways: www.readtpa.com/p/house-repu...

Obsessed with this juxtaposition

We don't know where Hank Williams died 73 yrs ago today bc he'd been dead in the back of a moving car for hours before anyone even noticed. He was a stone-cold genius *and* a gigantic asshole, an absolute titan of American music. He released this weeks before he died. Prophetic. He was 29 years old

Lucky af

Yes and-ing this to say, I absolutely love that his speeches do not sound like he studied Barack Obama recordings as if they were the zapruder or game film. He talks good but does it in his own way.

day one in mamdani’s new york

RESOLVED: We will do the work needed to get our state reps and Governor Hochul to tax the rich this year to fund childcare for everyone. New Yorkers, please sign this letter to your state reps and then share with others you know in NY. Our goal is 25K this month. 👉 act.ourtime.nyc/email-your-l...

AOC: New York City has chosen the ambitious pursuit of universal childcare, affordable rents and housing and clean and dignified public transit for all. We have chosen that over the distractions of bigotry and the barbarism of extreme income inequality

the correct way to end the year, especially this year, is the ritual burning of xmas trees in the street in south philly. every time one finished burning, the crowd gleefully chanted, “ONE MORE TREE! ONE MORE TREE!” until, as if summoned, someone else came , parting the crowd & dragging another tree

💯

I mean, the Post is gonna Post. It’s what they do. She looks fly as hell in ‘em. Good for her

This man's media team is a bunch of goddamned geniuses, someone scouted for locations and figured out they could set up this very shot. Look at it, it's incredible. Look up pics of Adams being sworn in at the ball drop, which look chaotic, cheap, and undignified in comparison.

Hey! Guess how many NEW YEAR’S DAY bowl games you can watch this year if you don’t have cable It’s ZERO. You dan watch zero college football bowl games on New Year’s Day this year. In AMERICA. This shit is gonna make me a single-issue voter Istfg

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO HORSES! IT IS HORSE BIRTHDAY! HORSE!!!!!

Can’t remember ever seeing the Rose Parade happen in a cold, pouring rain before

Solidarity. It is a value that sits apart from specific issues, encompassing an entire world view that can be translated into action in a straightforward way. Solidarity means, simply, that we are all in this together," writes @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-god-of...

It’s a new year which means it’s time for new ideas and new hopes and new dreams! And like many of you I’m dreaming of freedom for all humankind, the freedom that can only be achieved by letting go of land based hotels and putting them in space, which will happen in only 11 months!

We don't know where Hank Williams died 73 yrs ago today bc he'd been dead in the back of a moving car for hours before anyone even noticed. He was a stone-cold genius *and* a gigantic asshole, an absolute titan of American music. He released this weeks before he died. Prophetic. He was 29 years old

Up all night because a little stray cat followed us home and absolutely will not leave. Happy new year

"For all the hysteria, when I look at Mamdani, I didn’t see some radical departure from the past. I see him as the heir to an old and venerable Jewish tradition – that of Yiddish socialism – which helped build New York." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Got some swing *and* some stomp. Fun as hell and definitely not the worst way to kick off 2026. Goes well with coffee

🚨 Breaking: NYC no more affordable than it was 53 minutes ago. An exclusive on how it all went wrong for Mamdani.

Millions of peoples' health insurance skyrockets in a few hours. Let's check in on the president.

Really lovely 🧵👇

This is the nationstate equivalent to Truck Nutz

theyre storming kindergartens because there was literally no price to pay for calling in bomb threats to children’s hospitals in 2023…its only upside for them

IT IS NOT THEIRS TO THROW AWAY. THESE THINGS DO NOT BELONG TO THEM. THEY BELONG TO US

They're going to *throw out* one-of-a-kind NASA archives?! Not even a year since the Inauguration & we're already at the 2nd-time-as-farce version of the burning of the Library of Alexandria.

“Did you believe you had sufficient evidence to obtain and sustain a conviction against Donald Trump for interference with the lawful transfer of power?” JACK SMITH: “Yes.”

IT’S HAPPENING

The 8 billionaires are: Musk, Ellison, Bezos, Page, Brin, Zuckerberg, Huang, Ballmer. Each one saw their wealth explode as a direct result of the massive and unsustainable AI bubble. Let's resolve to remember that when their bubble bursts all over working people in 2026. Happy New Year!

Resisting him almost always works, trying to bargain with him never ever works

A general strike but it's families and teachers shutting America down to end this violent dystopian existence so our children can be safe at school. Plus universal health care and childcare for good measure.

Thanks a lot, large suburban grocery store, for playing “If We Were Vampires” and leaving me trying to hide the fact that I’m legit weeping in the pasta aisle. Happy fucking New Year to you, too

I didn't know what to expect as a first-time candidate when I announced for #CA14 two weeks ago. Nearly 100 people have given to my campaign in that time. Will you help us surpass it before tonight's midnight deadline?