Extremely obvious combing through this who is redacted and why. It's Epstein, Maxwell, a lot of Bill Clinton, maybe Michael Jackson (?) and basically nobody else. Everybody else's head is in a black rectangle. In practice, they didn't release shit.

simultaneously a good news story on McBride's deftness and a real shattering account of how many Democrats still need to get punted into a hole in the ocean www.advocate.com/politics/sar...

PTKU fans, I think we just found our offseason conditioning workout 🦈

The dumbest person in American letters www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Consolidating power for a man who is mostly interested in turning the White House into one of his tacky country clubs.

i’ll add that what substantively seems to annoy silver is the existence of people with principles

"I'll tell him where to put his toys!"

Been banging the drum on this one since he showed up trying to get his DOGE kids access to all those separate silos of data on American citizens and feeding it into AI! No one paid attention. This is it right here. It's always been about "making lists" for ICE and now they got the cash too.

NEW: Insight from the Bro-Tex Raid: What Activists Saw While Confronting ICE Last month, dozens of community members were alerted to a raid at a warehouse in St. Paul. unicornriot.ninja/2025/insight...

WOW. @haleaziz.bsky.social with a new scoop: ICE now gets a running list of every person who is going to be taking a domestic flight inside the United States from the TSA and runs it through their database looking for targets. This explains the Babson College student's arrest.

The same day Cramer is made president, the BOR unanimously approves the new center’s bylaws at a previously unscheduled meeting dailyiowan.com/2025/12/03/i...

A Tufted Titmouse a bit of snow on his/her beak looking oh-so-hopeful for a peanut (which was offered soon after this photo, there's no way I can say no to that sweet little face.)

NEW: Doxing-for-hire services are using forging emergency data requests from law enforcement to trick major tech companies like Apple and Amazon into handing over people's private information. @davidgilbert.bsky.social w/ the scoop: www.wired.com/story/doxers...

“And while lithium-powered gear has become nearly unavoidable, problems tied to cheaply manufactured consumer devices have become a significant contributor to a disturbing trend: deep, devastating burns caused not just by flames from a fire, but by electronics exploding on the body.”

One theme here is the speed of American institutional collapse. “It took Erdoğan 15 years to do what Trump did in 100 days. If [Americans] do not accept the fact that this is a long game, and it will be brutal, I think you won’t have the patience and stamina to bear it.”

I once cold-called a librarian in the US to see if she'd send me a couple of photos of a book WORLDCAT said they had, because I was having a fight with the author, and she had those images emailed over to me before I could even explain myself.

these are two slightly different things but the point is that academia runs on two things: helping others and holding grudges. often at the same time and for the same people. we cannot lose this

Had a student in my office today to talk about his paper having fake citations. He seemed shocked that the AI made things up.

Notre Dame has announced it will not participate in a bowl game this year, joining Iowa State and Kansas State in declining postseason invitations.

It’s been a busy day, but I want to draw your attention to this critically important paper by @jonshaffer.bsky.social and colleagues. In it, they show that since its strict abortion ban was enacted, Texas has seen a significant increase in EMTALA violations involving obstetric emergencies.

The head football coach makes over $9 million a year

I spent sixteen months reporting this story. It follows how surveillance tech is rewriting Gaza in real time — and what it’s doing to the people inside it. Reported in partnership with @justvision.org's Palestine Reporting Lab and published in @nymag.com

Exactly! Rep. Crockett is right about the potential for backfire.

Resharing to add that there’s now a GoFundMe to support Nathan and his family. www.gofundme.com/f/help-the-m...

Yes! She's totally right about the morality of the thing. She also points out something I am surprised more people have been talking about: when districts are aggressively partisan gerrymandered, a wave election can cause them to backfire.

monetizing a lack of belief in anything defector.com/toward-a-the...

I cackled! It is a very good ballot under this rule.

Meanwhile, Target has been exploring other high-tech efforts. It recently announced that it is launching a Target app in OpenAI’s ChatGPT, where consumers will be able to lean on the chatbot for personalized shopping recommendations.

The idea that a newspaper's role is supposed to be "challenging assumptions" is wild

For the next two weeks we will be fundraising for our winter ministry project … consider partnering with our local ministry in providing grocery gift cards for the community venmo.com/u/solomon-MI...

TN07 is a story about gerrymandering: the GOP cracked Nashville into 3 districts when it redrew the 2022 map, destroying the Dem seat there. Fast-forward: a section of Nashville, which just 5 years ago had a Dem representative, is now voting Dem by huge margins but it's been designed to not matter.

You may have heard that DOGE is dead. Well @makenakelly.bsky.social and @telliotter.bsky.social are here to show you that's just not true, with many of the same young engineers—including Big Balls—still working at the heart of the US government www.wired.com/story/what-i...

I see our family in this story, and no obvious or reasonable solutions.

If you haven’t yet heard this delightfully festive VENTURE BROS holiday chat I had with Doc Hammer, there’s no time like the present (and it helps support doing more fun things like this)…

FYI: Nathan Rabin needs your love and appreciation right now. He was in a very significant car crash earlier this week and is in the hospital recovering. (His family was also in the car, they’re fine, but he got the brunt of the injuries.) Now’s a good time to support him: www.nathanrabin.com

Louisiana resident here. Gobsmacked by this appointment. A true outrage.

Major police action involving St Paul Police Department & feds around Eastside Rose Ave / Payne / Phalen / Maryland reported in last 2 hours with a lot of gas canisters unleashed on community. Reports latest that police withdrew. Content advisory: Video shows gas canisters deployed & detainments

Formerly incarcerated writer Alex Tretbar first blew the whistle on the esteemed literary organization when he revealed in this op-ed co-written with journalist Natalye Childress that PEN failed to pay incarcerated writers awarded writing prizes:

"Guild member Stephen Rotstein, who worked as a high school sports reporter at the Post-Gazette, stands with his wife, Chelsea Snyder Rotstein... Snyder Rotstein, whose late father was in the plumber’s union, became emotional that he did not live to see her husband’s strike victory."

The conventional wisdom for decades has been that women were in fact more likely than men to support conservative parties after suffrage. @teele.bsky.social and Evelyne Brie have a paper challenging that conclusion: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Absolutely no comfort to anyone trapped there but this sounds like a great reason not to set up on substack in the first place for anyone else

"Articulate, informative, exceptional, iconoclastic, thoughtful and thought-provoking. An extraordinary and timely contribution to the on-going discussion about the ethics of eating...animals." -- Midwest Book Review, Oct. 2025

It’s blowing my mind that schools, universities, public services would run headlong into this. We spent 15 years documenting black boxes. This is a black box in a black hole!

We’d like to say another thank you to Bob Ross Inc. for donating an original Bob Ross painting to our auction for public media! Their incredible generosity has “Cabin at Sunset” currently going for over a million dollars, with bidding continuing until Monday at 11:59pm. Bob & Peapod would be proud!

As my friend just said, “Getting the university to understand the threats not from russian cyberterrorists but rather federal investigations using subpoenas has been my main frustration.” Because they’re putting spyware on all our computers at the moment. Which seems like fucking great timing.