Given Trumo's position, there's a very real possibility that both of these bills could override a veto. The AVC bill seems like the kind of thing that could really get a lot of Republicans pissed off, because it has backing from members of both far-right (Boebert) and moderate wings (Hurd).

Every time I see an article like this, I wonder if the authors have actually bothered to look at the substance of dating apps. A lot of straight, cis women I know are on the apps and the right-wing men on there are garbage pail kids.

The most significant GOP candidate in the VA Senate race drops out. I think this race is a dunker, since (a) it's going to be a big Democratic year, (b) Warner is good and effective, and (c) the VA GOP sucks. youtu.be/-6yqTq6PZjA?...

You’ll be unsurprised to learn that right-wing “citizen journalists” are now showing up at Somali-American-run daycare centers in other states, cameras rolling, demanding to see the children

i read this and i just see a lazy person with a skill issue

I gotta say I really don't mind the universe where right wing influencers encourage their most avid fans to commit tax fraud while simultaneously torpedoing any "no mens rea" defense

This is a perfect distillation of right-wing nonsense on antisemitism: Combat antisemitism by moving to a region dominated (demographically and politically) by the most antisemitic group, white Evangelicals.

The far right internationally has complained a lot about debanking and claiming these things are politicized, while simultaneously doing those exact tactics in the most craven and political ways available.

Pam Bondi's golden rule: names that shouldn't be redacted, like Donald Trump, always are. Names that should be redacted, like victims and their confidential info, never are.

I knew this was gonna happen, and absolutely the fuck not. she‘s an antisemitic fascist trying to rebrand herself. Bye.

More news (not good) from NIH The renewal request from National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Stroke Director Walter Koroshetz has been denied. I guess the NIH_leadership™ needed another position to fill with their time-tested recruitment process.

Barely a blip in the news. 🦗from the New York Times editorial and opinion pages. Compare with days of Hunter Biden Hysteria about unprecedented abuse of the pardon power.

A few photos from my Christmas in Oaxaca, which is one of the most beautiful cities I've been able to spend time in.

It's hard to explain to people who don't follow these issues how utterly batsh*t the current GOP views of foreign affairs are, but fortunately they give lots of examples of saying these things.

I presented a paper maybe 15 years ago now discussing the contrast between antisemitic academics (with Finkelstein as a central example) and those critical of Israel (Dan Boyarin, Judith Butler). During the Q&A, someone went off insisting Finkelstein wasn't antisemitic, he's been at this forever.

"tell me we didn't just fire a dozen $500,000 missiles at a $200 camel" "sir, no evidence of any camel present, sir!"

Sinatra hated racists and would have punched Miller in the mouth. Or as Phil Hartman's impression of Sinatra put it, "I got chunks of guys like you in my stool."

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Straight up evil. Years ago, I wrote a paper on the manipulation of memory as part of theories of extended mind... this is basically the exact sort of thing the paper was about.

That @nickkristof.bsky.social piece is especially notable (and welcome) in light of the findings reported in this @jewishcurrents.bsky.social article: jewishcurrents.org/the-genocide...

The core of many capital market projects that have failed over the last 30 years (dot com, mortgage bonds) is creating wealth without creating jobs or adding value. It always goes badly, because ultimately it's just about building up stacks of capital.

He hired a photographer. They put this together as a concept. Someone acquired a sleeveless suit jacket and shirt...

Tenet Media founder Lauren Chen, who secretly took money from two people with ties to Russian state media to involve conservative influencers in an unwitting propaganda scheme, is back in the US after being deported to Canada under President Biden. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The findings in our 2025 arrest report "should be viewed as part of a wider assault on independent journalism under the Trump administration," writes Jem Bartholomew. Read more in @columjournreview.bsky.social:

As a Jew, it’s fun watching the administration post Christian nationalist messages while also saying they are doing everything they can to curb antisemitism.

Pro tip: if you want AI discussions on this site to not suck, you have to apply to your conversations the norms of academic discourse and not a 4chan flame war.

This. As an undergrad, I worked as a research assistant on a grant on contemporary trends in psychiatric illness among drone pilots, and this was basically the whole lesson of the literature review I did.

Trump wants to cancel TV licenses because he doesn't like what late night TV hosts are saying about him. What happened to "stop cancel culture" and buck up "snowflakes?" And what happened to the First Amendment?

A small (personal) example of this book’s intellectual dishonesty: My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media. Huh? When did I say that?!

No one in this piece mentions the direct impact of Trump trade policy on meat packing... but there's a clear and direct line. youtu.be/qdqbv7sTBQE?...

This is completely deranged. This administration has used attacks on visas to retaliate, but this case is so extreme and absurd that it's hard to calculate how Europe will even respond. www.france24.com/en/live-news...

One of the things that is really critical in dealing with abusive litigation is transparency requirements in third-party litigation funding, which does seem to be how this got addressed. We need better legislation on that in the US.

Now that Stephen Miller is calling for CBS to fire journalists who are trying to tell the truth about Trump's mass deportations, it's a good time to check out our deep reported dive into Miller's real worldview and agenda:

Worth noting that the student admits that she just threw the thing together in 30 minutes without reading the paper she was supposed to be responding to.

The NY Times headline reads “Vance Refuses to Take Sides in G.O.P. Fight Over Bigotry." This is false. He took a side: that of neo-Nazis and other assorted bigots and nuts. I think he thinks it's strategic. An analysis. www.salon.com/2025/12/23/j...

This is literally Spanish Inquisition tactics.

oh cool it's the cybertruck of battleships

Weird how The Free Press was able to publish all of these without comment from the Washigton University Transgender Center at St. Louis Children's Hospital.

Glad to see this. For those who are unaware, the FCC currently only has three commissioners: Carr, Gomez, and Olivia Trusty. Gomez is the Dem, but Trusty isn't nearly as wild a partisan as Carr, so hopefully on issues like this, there actually is a majority on the FCC.

I'm an American. I've never been to Israel and have no interest in going. My paternal grandparents were Czech Jews who survived the Holocaust and came to the United States in the '50s. Israeli ministers have actively attacked and denigrated the Jewishness of many diaspora Jews.

The full Weiss memo is dogshit -who cares if administration figures “regret” sending people to CECOT -who cares about the criminal histories of the people we sent to CECOT, we sent them to a torture prison —who cares about the “debate” over the legality of sending people to a torture prison

The logic of this seems obvious, but it's worth stating out loud: Requiring the principals to go on the record/camera before reporting gives the principals the ability to kill the story just by saying nothing.

There is perhaps no greater example of "Leopards eating faces" than all of the right-wing Jews resigning from the Heritage Foundation because they've discovered that right-wing nationalist politics is not ultimately good for the Jews. www.nationalreview.com/news/exclusi...

Chalk up another win for the "everyone is 12" theory of this administration.

An honor to talk to Nia-Malika Henderson @opinion.bloomberg.com about my recent book www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Went and saw Fiddler on the Roof (a show I probably haven't seen live in 15 years or more) at Signature Theater in Shirlington last night. If you're in DMV/NoVA, strongly recommend. Understudy Tevye (Jeremy Radin) blew the doors off the place. www.sigtheatre.org?gclsrc=aw.ds...

Unintentionally accurate.

When I was in high school and doing standup and writing comedy, I loved Redd Foxx. I didn't realize that Morita had done standup until I came across a clip of him (these were early days of youtube). What a funny relationship. youtube.com/shorts/DUmA_...