I got my vaccine for shingles as soon as I could when I turned 50, because my mom had a bad bout of it a couple of decades prior and I didn't want to risk that. The amazing fringe benefit described here is even MORE of a reason to get it when the time's right.

The people who are trying to destroy universities when it comes to inclusion around race and gender are also opposed to inclusion around disability. This bullshit gives them cover. Once again, legacy media laundering far right complaints because it makes elites feel smug.

While "peace" negotiations continue, remember that Russia could simply stop the war at any time.

The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"

Most Gazans have been displaced over ten times, like Mohammed here, and are still struggling to survive.

This sounds a lot like Office of Faith-Based Initiatives under GW Bush. Big roll-out, lots of controversy, erroneous reports of its evaporation even as it settled in across gov't. Good reporting here.

The signs of imminent market collapse for US equities are all around us, including this. www.ft.com/content/9d90...

The long game of getting a craft book out of the wonderful @elizmccrack.bsky.social ends in a celebration.

David Dayen: Marco Rubio is selling a war of choice in Venezuela on falsehoods about narco-trafficking so he can get right-wing south Florida exiles who've been his political allies back into power. It's an incredibly parochial pretext for an imperial adventure. prospect.org/2025/12/01/m...

I’ve co-written a long story on the legendary female divorce lawyers of their generation, women who remade the law. The comments are… heated on.ft.com/3Mc7Lnp

I'm so tired of measles. I'm also tired of people using needle shots on stories like this. Show what measles looks like.

after watching sen. kelly’s press conference what i most admire is how much of it was just like, get a load of this guy, hegseth. you see this dumbass? one of the dumbest guys you’ll ever meet. prize dunce.

FYI as you head into the holiday season: Shopify is a Canadian company, but its CEO Tobi Lütke is Maple MAGA in both words & monetary support (under the guise of “free speech” & “open commerce”).

My uncle, Douglas Colesworthy, on the AIDS Memorial Quilt. He died in 1987. Silence = death.

So into hockey, he said, unconvinced by even himself but then trying again with more and more fervor.

Costco sues the Trump administration, seeking a refund of tariffs

this is not good

I do not want to add to the discourse. But I'm going to add to the discourse to say. You shouldn't be clandestinely recording your supposed friends and loved ones.

be the bitch doing something yourself that you want to see in the world

“How are sales?”

at a certain point, after years of this, it is a choice, not a mistake, if someone brings their First Amendment fantasies to a Christian nationalist fight

Look at this gorgeous list and these gorgeous books. You all know this started a year ago with a grumpy wine skeet and a half baked idea of mine!?? Look at what we made!!! My gratitude is so deep this morning. lithub.com/100-notable-...

“So the plan is to replace all their jobs with AI” Five minutes later: “what do you mean, broke people don’t spend as much?”

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one thing being lost in the U. of Oklahoma discussion: this has been a longterm project, going back decades (hey, even to the Scopes trial, and earlier) that gets at the fundamental tension in the existence of institutions of "higher learning" in fundamentalist Christian states like Oklahoma -

Sorry to be a broken record but it's nuts to me that the New York Times would write an entire article summarizing a court ruling and refuse to provide a link to said ruling. This is a disservice to readers. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/01/n... Here's the ruling: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

I wrote about Bari Weiss newrepublic.com/article/2037...

Emergency🚨 It's winter in Gaza, and today the storm will begin. Our tents will be flooded by the rain & blown away by the wind, even though we are homeless & without shelter. We desperately need your donations to buy a tent cover that costs $100. Donate⬇️ urls.fr/DzYN15 @alexanderchee.bsky.social ✅

“Labeled as ‘domestic terrorists’ by the administration, these targets include anti-ICE protesters and anyone who allegedly funds them — all of them part of a supposed left-wing conspiracy to violently oppose the president’s agenda.”

Remarkable story of a Georgia high school team who used CRISPR to make a rapid diagnostic test strip for Lyme disease, speeding dx from 2 weeks to days www.cbsnews.com/news/teens-m...

It’s so wild how the wealthy are destroying the Amazon that potentially has the cure for all the cancers in favor of an Amazon that’s creating new types of cancers

Is it true that the coding jobs have gone away? Thinking of the AI push as I was remembering how many of my students had pinned their economic hopes on coding, some of them studying coding to literally save their lives.

There have long been rumors that the Skull and Bones fraternity house in New Haven contains the skull of Apache leader Geronimo. A researcher unearthed a letter in 2006 that seemed to corroborate that claim. I found two more letters in Yale’s archives, along with more corroborating evidence.

In securing Gentile’s conviction last August, prosecutors had cited victim statements from more than 1,000 ‘hardworking, everyday people’—among them veterans, farmers, teachers and nurses—who’d lost money as a result of his crimes.”

Sooo here's a little public records request I just made to the University of Oklahoma.

Looking at past authoritarian and concentration-camp regimes around the world, it wasn't always possible to tell in the moment what crisis or challenge to despotism would gain traction and trigger vast consequences. We should celebrate Boasberg and the appeals court judges demanding accountability.

I’m really enjoying this show and not a small amount because it absolutely proves the point I have about sex scenes, which is that in some relationships, sex is the primary means of connection and communication, and those are valid and should be on film, too.

Or last dnd session was a Dating Game-style game show to determine a date for one of our party members to a masked ball that will take place next session (which may end in bloodshed, who knows), and it was a hoot.

A perfect holiday story: a civil servant who quit and went to war against the Trump policy of separating children from their families. Now Jonathan White is running for Congress. wapo.st/3KdDBQ1

As usual Kristi Noem when occupies the national stage, she pulls things from her ass that have no factual basis and tries to provoke outrage. In this case, note her failure to refute the obvious truth: the person who granted the DC perp asylum was named Kristi Noem.

"No ceiling" results in what we have: a couple dozen psychopaths control several trillion dollars and the power has made them go stark raving mad. They are obsessed with using their concentrated wealth to punish the population and remake the country into a failed state and international pariah.

I take Wikipedia for granted. Reading this Jimmy Wales interview reminded me in our Fantasyland age what a remarkable and important creation it is. True pillar of civilization. Runs on only $200 million a year. Requires our support. So I’m finally donating. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/m...

Even by the standards of anti-woke journalism this is lazy dreck. The first piece of "evidence" that older gamers are mad about wokeness is a random Reddit comment — that isn't a complaint about wokeness. www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/2025/11/2...

Today would have been the 51st birthday of Petra Mayer, who was in charge of NPR’s Book Concierge/ Books We Love for many years and wore her fingers to the bone getting it perfect every year. Here her colleagues remember her: www.npr.org/2021/11/16/1...

Imagine if they just subsidized newspapers and magazines the way they’re subsidizing this slop

this is quite the detail

Let me give some insight on this, as a producer in the dub industry who worked with major streamers, who's witnessed first-hand where this push for AI is coming from. tl;dr: Only CEOs want this. Tell them how much you hate it. Be loud, email, call, @, post. You will kill this. 🧵⬇️

There was an existing English dubbed version, with real actors. Very strange. Banana Fish is a favorite of mine, this is so painful but also literally needless.

An important part of arresting the consolidation of authoritarianism is convincing corporations and institutions that Trump will eventually be out of power and at that point they’ll face consequences for their actions and by that standard this is a good sign