It’s that time of year again. Apologies if this is a tardy — this year has been a little busy — but here are my 'TOP 50 SONGS OF 2025'; a mix of artists I’ve loved forever and completely new discoveries. Play it loud, listen in order, and ENJOY. linktr.ee/edgarwright

Honest to God attended a holiday party last night where someone blurted out "fuck Bari Weiss" People are alright sometimes

if you've been holding off on commemorative Caitlin Clark Crunch cereal, I'm telling you now is the time to BUY BUY BUY

New at The Watch: A comprehensive primer on the drug boat strikes open.substack.com/pub/radleyba...

yes!! I just made $10 on Kalshi! 🤑

Saw 3 cops and a fire truck and they either pulled over Santa, or Santa is leading their task force at 3am this morning 😮

Maria has been accused over the years of fabricating her story that she had gone to the FBI. After finding the document in the trove, I called her. She broke down in tears. “I’ve waited 30 years. I can’t believe it. They can’t call me a liar anymore.” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/u...

Genuinely unsure if this actually happened to me, or if i’m having a Simpsons-induced childhood memory

ooh

When I emailed Border Patrol about this raid, they just sent me a link to a presser about the handful of criminals they got in New Orleans.

you want to go home to clean up your newborn baby’s puke but the reporters keep asking about your baby brained puka

If this stands, it’s catastrophic in so many ways. therecord.media/google-searc...

so they’re scapegoating all immigrants because of the horrific acts by a Portuguese

I used to teach an undergrad historical methods class and their favorite day was always the one where we listen to @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social telling Naomi Wolf (live, on air on the BBC) that she misinterpreted her data and based her whole book around something that didn’t happen

greatest thursday night football game ever, this could not possibly have ended in a funnier way

Meeting is called to order. A number of people have signed up for public comment. The commission will hear discussion tonight, then give their recommendation to the Village Board, who have final say on the proposal.

There’s about 20 of us here now

plaintext version of american canto

Larry Eustachy physiognomy

You’re laughing. This woman admired Goop only to be dunked on by Gwyneth Paltrow and you’re laughing

just recently learned about Haibayo and stopped in for vietnamese coffee and it’s one of the coolest most beautiful cafe spaces i’ve seen in chicago. Coffee was great too

BRAND NEW! Rx Inspector: ProPublica’s New Tool Provides Drug Info the FDA Won’t We’ve launched a first-of-its-kind app to help you find out where your generic drugs come from and see the track records of the factories that made them.

Melissa Hortman Died in a Shocking Act of Political Violence. This Is the Story of Her Life The Minnesota Speaker’s closest friends and family open up for the first time. Read @stephenrodrick.bsky.social's exclusive: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Get his ass

A few photos from an immigration enforcement action as Border Patrol agents detained several people in a Home Depot parking lot Wednesday in Evanston and Niles.

the three genders:

At least one person has been detained here that we've seen. Large crowd shouting "shame!" at the feds.

can i see his proprietary Python format 🥺

Thus exact same problem of probability is what plagues police use of face recognition. They see a 52% likely match and think it’s good enough and likely their suspect.

I love this, especially after Barbie. Dear Simu, please keep doing hilarious gay shit

look at this fucking loser

wow it must suck growing up thinking you would be at least entitled to be the “no one ever got fired for buying IBM” of journalism, only then to face employers who were shamed into making a minimal effort into expanding their candidate pools

I think this will be the last year in which “that’s not me that’s AI” won’t be the default denial tactic when they’re caught on tape, so enjoy it while you can

I think the most illustrative example of why AI is so terrible are those fake animal videos. Sure, let's drain the fucking oceans to create videos of animals being funny, something you can easily experience by being near any given animal for 5 seconds

in the annals of newspaper internet struggles, this is somehow even more embarrassing than the Pivot-to-Video era

27-year-old former comsci student with a single github repo containing a single python script. If you aren't going to finish your degree, you can't expect to land a decent programming job when your only listed relevant experience is "earned a GPA of 4.0/4.0 before leaving the university"

The human cost of Trump's gutting of USAID: By the time Tor Top’s mother was sick with cholera, the nearby clinic had been shuttered for weeks. He bundled her into a canoe & paddled toward the nearest hospital, 8 hours away. Less than halfway into the journey, his mother died. New, @propublica.org

Christmas night: "But Santa, you've hardly touched your Zardoz cookies."

why does ben not point out that it would be impossible for a bald person such as joe to get ratatouilled? is he stupid?

Happy Shoe-Throwing Day to all who celebrate!

a lot of y’all don’t get it, today chicago residents can refrigerate multiple slurp juices on a single patio

King

i have never been so excited for a colts or a seahawks game

This man has the brain complexity of a child gerbil

Feeling normal about this

They're selling you the same pasta in different shapes and you're falling for it

discovered a yummy place near North/Clybourn where the clientele is 99% cab drivers and the goat biryani portions are huge