Arrived 30 minutes late in Austria, but it wasn’t DB’s fault! The train from Munich was delayed getting in from Bologna. Has a little time to see the amazing model train store at the Hauptbahnhof.

I’ve been trying for days to get access to the Great Performances showing to the English National Ballet’s Nutcracker without success, but at least I can see Tony Hawk skating in the Golden State Ballet. www.instagram.com/p/DSiqEpYEtr...

The 2025 Headline of the Year Nominees 🧵

Parents everywhere are terrified that their teens’ sudden need to download the forbidden 60 minutes story is a gateway drug to wanting even more news

Betty Reid Soskin, retired Rosie the Riveter park ranger, has died 💔

Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.

So if the wheels of a 200000 Euro transport container break and a 20 million Euro satellite spills onto the tarmac, because the machine translation system did not catch that the author of the source text got "brake" and "break" mixed up, hey, at least you saved a few hundred bucks for a translator.

Best looking building in San Diego was built by the New Deal - FDR attended the grand opening:

19 December 1961: an East Berliner, Hannelore Froese, descends into a grave and emerges in West Berlin www.ndr.de/geschichte/c... via @ndr.de

RIP Peter Arnett apnews.com/article/pete...

A federal judge nominee admitted today that he said during a sermon that disabled people shouldn't get married. As I wrote for @motherjones.com, in fact, many can't out of risk of losing their benefits. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

A story I found about Haiti: In 1999, a group of Haitians were tired of political disorder and dreamed of a better life in the United States. So they built a small, 23-foot boat by hand using pine trees, scrap wood, and used nails. They called the boat "Believe in God."

My child just walked out the door in only a long-sleeve button down and a t-shirt and insisted "It's not cold". It is slightly over freezing today.

This is apropos of absolutely nothing but I have been thinking about best-of-quarter-century stuff and I still say that Free Solo, a documentary about climbing, is one of the five or at worst ten best horror movies of these 25 years.

Din Tai Fung has nothing to be worried about when it comes to our soup dumpling folding skills, but I must say they came out pretty well (still not attempting this for 11 people on New Year’s though).

Oh man

PSA: there’s been an exploit for Signal and WhatsApp released that can be used to silently track you. Temp fixes for both can be done in your settings: For WhatsApp: Settings>Privacy>Advanced>Block unknown messages. For Signal: Settings>Privacy>Phone number>Who can find me by number>Nobody

I do not want Gaston backstory, I do not need Gaston backstory, I reject Gaston backstory he is a fully formed oaf, consuming eggs by the dozen in one of the greatest villain songs ever written, and that is all we need of him

Yellow-Red-Blue, by Wassily Kandinsky, 1925 (detail, rotated), 📸 by @riogiancarlo.bsky.social

I’m just going to tell the story. Back in 2000 I was volunteering for the Gore campaign when he came along with Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Alfre Woodard and Dule Hill to a GOTV event here in MN. He ended up sitting down across from me stuffing his envelopes.

I got visited by three ghosts last night, who were all experts in English grammar.

Happy anniversary of Kid3 living large at the Weihnachtsmarkt.

Occasionally, we get good news on a Friday…

this is a general warrant and it's specifically the kind of warrant the framers passed the 4th amendment to outlaw

absolutely massive, historic W for the republic's defenders

Maybe this new blog can respond, in one of its first posts, to the argument that the term “interim docket” is a deliberately misleading attempt to minimize the (very permanent) doctrinal and real-world consequences of #SCOTUS’s rulings on emergency applications? www.stevevladeck.com/p/177-the-no...

WOW. So this is obviously a huge violation of this man's rights, and it illustrates a few things we're seeing broadly: - DHS officers are ignoring peoples' IDs and instead requiring screening through their own systems - Confirms @404media.co's reports of use of DHS's facial recognition app.

Tonight's recap: • Dems FLIP Georgia's #HD121, a conservative seat near Athens • Dems FLIP Miami mayor in runoff • Dems HOLD ABQ mayor in runoff • Dems OVERPERFORM in four different special elections • Dem ADVANCES to runoff in Trump+47 GA House district Our special election Big Board -->

Christmas tree is up! This year we added Kid3’s felted Santa and the White House Historical Association’s ornament celebrating the Carter presidency that my parents brought us.

BC wines have your epistemic attitudes covered

Post a banger that’s not in English m.youtube.com/watch?v=RtcP...

When I worked in immigration law this wasn’t as common as it is now, but it happened, and it made everyone in the room so desperately uncomfortable, the way you are when you are confronted with your own bald-faced lie that you have to keep up. This is from 2016.

2025 Christmas market price check: While Dampfnudel and Nutella crepes have undergone a slight price increase (EUR 2,50 and 4,50 respectively), toasted chestnuts are seeing some real inflationary pressure- EUR 8,50 for 200g. Glühwein is ranging from EUR 3 - 5 depending on the stand and type of wine.

I was just thinking of this quote by Kurt Vonnegut the other night - “You meet saints everywhere. They can be anywhere. They are people behaving decently in an indecent society.”

This remains one of the most disturbing stories of the year. A 1st trimester fetus incubated in a dead woman's body against the will of her family until a very early term birth when the corpse could no longer sustain life. www.cbsnews.com/atlanta/news...

TIL Maine didn't let Native Americans vote until 1954. This Silver Star recipient was told he couldn't vote after he showed up in uniform.

Really appreciate the clarity of the president saying black people are ruining the country and this entire room of groveling empty suits saying nothing bsky.app/profile/just...

DAILY MEMO: Border Patrol Is Back And Targeted Southeast Los Angeles, Ripping Parents From Their Children and More Want to help? Become a member! @eltragon.bsky.social

New jaguar says ¡Chinga tu barrera!

"The question was: could TV actually teach? I knew it could, because I knew 3 year olds who sang beer commercials.” — Joan Ganz Cooney #BOTD Happy 96th b'day to the co-founder of Children’s Television Workshop + co-creator of SESAME STREET and THE ELECTRIC COMPANY. #PBS #SesameStreet

Happy Birthday to German-lover Mark Twain 🙂 www.slowtravelberlin.com/berlin-the-c...

At least when the Kaiser did it he took out an ad in the newspaper next to the Cunard Line ad

I’m at the store early on a Saturday for once and am marveling at all the things that apparently sell out by the time I usually get here.

WHOA. Trump says he will pardon Juan Orlando Hernandez, who once said that he wanted to “shove the drugs right up the noses of the gringos.” He had people killed as part of his narco-trafficking ring, which he at times operated directly out of his presidential office.

People in the U.S. need to be paying attention to what’s happening in the U.K., because it’s going hand in hand with what is happening in the U.S., the agitators at work on both sides of the pond are working hand in hand with each other, and both have similar goals of ethnic cleansing.

Sean Duffys worst nightmare

Evening in the Altstadt.