"Reform Judaism has accepted Jews by patrilineal descent since a Central Conference of American Rabbis resolution in 1983." reformjudaism.org/glossary/pat...

Well put. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Couldn’t Donald just deem the strait closed with his Jesus laser?

Congratulations to Péter Magyar on a decisive election victory in Hungary. The Hungarian people have chosen a new path. We are ready to work with you, and our European allies, to deepen our cooperation in trade, defence, and security.

One thing hasn't changed. Boomers or millennials, male bosses still want young female staff in their hotel rooms and women still don't have the power to say absolutely not. Women are still hunted like prey. Hey Swalwell.

Remarkable. Paper products for 50 million people up in smoke because:

This is a dreadful story about dishonesty. There are a lot of people who want very badly to be "writers." But they don't want to write. AI is their partner in fraud. Maybe they genuinely can't see that though.

John Milius is 82. Walter Sobchak in The Big Lebowski was partly based on the Coens' friend, the mercurial & brilliant Milius, thus creating one of the greatest movie characters ever. 'This is not 'Nam. This is bowling. There are rules.’

A good man defends a brave woman from a man like Eric Swalwell. There are many good men and they're our allies.

"It’s as if there’s no ceasefire at all." Israeli attacks have killed 738 people in the six months since the ceasefire, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry.

The fuck is this shit? What is she getting out ahead of?

Everybody should watch this insane presser. It's like a bad scene in a Netflix thriller right before shit is about to go down.

Was this her mother who was buried on a golf course?

From the drop-intro about the drop-intro to these three perfect paragraphs, this from @bryce.lol is one of the most truly pleasing things I have read in a while www.ft.com/content/94bb... (free because @alphaville.ft.com is always free)

A helpful glossary for Leavitt's press conferences is that "frankly insulting"=true.

It's not clear why the New York Times would publish this long conversation among three woke people. Is it intended to mock wokeness or celebrate it, to bury Trump or explain him? Perhaps it doesn't matter. Anyway 3 people walk into a bar. rb.gy/zq6v6p

‘I'm pleased and happy to repeat the news that we have, in fact, decided not to destroy an entire civilisation. But, as you see, it's a beautiful day, The Strait of Hormuz is open and people are having a wonderful time.’

Usha Vance Catches Husband Measuring Her Skull Again

All The President’s Men is 50. Well, at least this is no longer happening.

BREAKING: JD Vance has his call to Trump forwarded to voicemail as he speaks to a crowd in Turkey. Almost as embarrassing as it being revealed what he did to his couch.

This tween crush thing in the New Yorker is so bad and sad. Any good editor would have said no. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

This is one of those things that is a much funnier set-up for a sitcom than an actual real life scenario

My school was reenacting Christ being judged by Pontius Pilate for Easter. A slightly nervous looking student had two words to shout: ‘FREE BARABBAS!’ When it came to her moment she shouted: ‘FREE BARBADOS!’ I think about this often.

“Engagement is down” I’m not the king of engagement… post a puppy or move around

It always cracks me up that this is the only product that users are supposed to shoulder the burden of growing. Apple doesn't call me once a week like "Bad news sir the quarter's not looking good"

New: Wikipedia has officially banned AI-generated content. After months of heated debate and previous attempts to restrict the use of LLMs, volunteer editors accepted a new policy that prohibits using them to create articles for the online encyclopedia www.404media.co/wikipedia-ba...

I genuinely believe a lot of writers do not realize (though they should) that AI tools which suggest edits and summaries are not independently sentient ….they are using someone else’s work. (Just say no kids)

This is a great thread - every use of AI in any article should (imo) be accompanied by any disclosure of marketing/licensing agreements with said AI companies by the publisher or author, plus whether those licensing agreements include further agreements to ‘integrate AI tools’ into workflows

Co-operative freelancers create lube to make the AI enter more easily.

One thing we’re going to see a *lot* of: Pieces that appear to explore an intellectually provocative question inspired by AI, but that assume a premise (in this case “friendship with a chatbot is possible”) that’s a) nonsensical and b) perfectly aligned with the aims of AI marketing

Fox News reports that Pam Bondi has already been fired

Someone sent me this.

“Yay, our plate has lobster, and the bib has lobster right on the front, and now we won’t mess up our shirt,” said 61-year-old York, ME, resident Brandon Mena

Ya got to hand it to Greg Bovino because he can't reach the top shelf at the grocery store.

This is Pulitzer shit right here.

Tiger Woods’ Liver Photographed Crawling Out Of Golfer After Crash https://theonion.com/tiger-woods-liver-photographed-crawling-out-of-golfer-after-crash/

This is an excellent summary of current circumstances Kyle Kulinski: “A sundowning president with Alzheimer’s who’s a malignant narcissist is dragging us into WWIII, committing war crimes on a daily basis and crashing the global economy, and nobody is actually grabbing the steering wheel.”

So many of my idols have crashed to the ground this year. Yes, it was my fault for worship in the first place but it has been hard seeing fine and smart people's sanity detach and go flapping off into the wind in Trump Phase II. Baseline belief: all will be mended, all forgiven at some future point

Things are rushing at us, most of them dreadful. What I value most in public life is sanity. That's it. I used to want much more than that from people I admired but now, sanity is it. I think Prime Minister Mark Carney is sane. A few writers too. Adam Rupar. Paul Krugman. Helen Lewis. So few, so sad

Trump told a lengthy story last week about negotiating over the price of Sharpie pens. The company says it has no record of any such conversation. "We don't have any information about the conversation described."

TAB, Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ! It stands for "Thanks a bunch!"

WOW!! 200,000 No King’s protesters in Boston alone today

"Look at the results... PBS, defunded. NPR, defunded. Joy Reid, gone from MSNBC. Sleepy-eyes Chuck Todd, gone. Jim Acosta, gone. John Dickerson, gone Stephen Colbert is leaving. CBS is under new ownership, and soon enough, CNN is gonna have new ownership as well." www.status.news/p/brendan-ca...

Dear effing god, my personal lifelong campaign for young people to memorize things in school because it will be useful in prison has hit a great big bollard.

‘Visibly upset and struggling’: Acting ICE head hospitalized twice over stress, officials say

This is 👌 “Jenrick, like a man who has recently left his wife to shack up with the younger woman he has only ever known in budget hotels and who he is rapidly discovering he hates, is looking aggrieved.”

In space nobody can hear you speak

Algorithms are stupid, obsessive weirdos. YOU CLICKED ON THAT THING MAYBE YOU WOULD LIKE NOTHING BUT THAT THING FOREVER NOW. It’s like going to someone’s house for dinner and saying yes to soup, so they shove a hose in your mouth and pump in 40 litres of bisque until you explode.