the kinda unique thing about YouTube is how much of what it serves me is about death and grieving youtu.be/-NapohJwQCo?...

good question!

maybe it's a forgery. but if so, it's a patriotic one lol

TIL Bari Weiss went on Rogan and used the word "toady" without knowing what it means or how to spell it www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fkT...

this man simply can't get enough hospital

this is wonderful www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIxA...

Marjorie Taylor Greene’s new bill, which would make pediatric transition care of any kind a federal felony, passed the House last week. @ryanlcooper.com thinks “a total ban on trans care for anyone is highly likely to be the next goal.” trib.al/EfjwP8R

Scott Pelley "asked why she had weighed in at the last minute after not attending five screenings of the segment as it was being completed." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/b...

thanks to AI we have to get our heartwarming animal stories from archival footage www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPqI...

simply incredible

merrick garland set a world record for being bad at your job, colts head coach jeff saturday was better at that job than merrick garland was at his

Retired 27-year FBI agent Brian Carroll, who specialized in managing exactly the type of cases like the Brown University shooting, explains all the ways in which Kash Patel just ain't it. Really great inside analysis: prospect.org/2025/12/23/k...

The smear campaign against Mustapha Kharbouch -- falsely accused of the Brown shooting and MIT murder by powerful politicians, pundits and plutocrats -- is a prime example of how pervasive racism has become. It's also a story largely ignored by the mainstream media www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Holy shit, was googling around to find out if this could possibly be real and came across this Rolling Stone June 2023 story about the EXISTENCE of this letter, but the content wasn’t known — until now www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

Canadian TV network bravely airs dissidents’ report on U.S. abuses after political commissar orders its suppression

worth noting that the legit NYT reporters who come on here just to post their articles get a good bit of pickup

Does anyone wanna see a really good Getty image of Rita Moreno and Sam The Eagle having dinner in 1979?

“We’re left with no aid, just a little food trickling in.” Trump’s cuts to USAID have deepened the humanitarian crisis in Syria where more than 16 million people depend on aid to survive. From Santiago Montag: trib.al/Asi5HtS

it's the last few days of our @prospect.org fundraising drive, please consider chipping in here! we can promise that we will not spike any stories because Larry Ellison told us to: prospect.org/donate/

The right, along the Roberts Court, is trying to nullify the Reconstruction amendments guaranteeing equality under the law, in order to restore the Antebellum Constitution, which envisions “liberty” as an eternal aristocracy of race and class (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

BREAKING: The Trump administration is using "national security concerns" to halt all offshore wind construction. Here's @jael.bsky.social with what's going on — and what happened last time they tried this argument: heatmap.news/sparks/trump...

Reminder that Weiss left the @nytimes.com because the paper declined to punish staffers who disagreed with her when she publicly attacked them. "Free speech for me, institutional fealty for thee" has always been her mantra, and that of the prestige media intellectual project writ large.

The political commissar does not want the regime news to report on the president’s foreign gulag. that’s where we are.

This is what Bari Weiss et al think "censorship" actually is; when subordinates criticize their superiors. That has been the bedrock of the entire "cancel culture" discourse in elite media; rage at the idea that students, women, journalists, interns, etc might be able to speak against the boss.

BlueSky seems to think that this was a request for celebration and the Streisand effect is it backfiring. Someone risked their job to post this because they want you to know.

how bad are things going when Dylan Byers won't even tell the story you want him to

this is some legit great journalism youtu.be/wwB3FmbcC88?...

we’ve been saying!! www.patreon.com/posts/145450...

this is wild youtu.be/FJSPO55yMYk?...

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fresh @leftanchor.bsky.social episode, we have James Fishkin on to talk about some fascinating experiments he's done on actual deliberation in an election setting (ie, not Bari Weiss on TV). I was very skeptical at first but he brought me around: www.leftanchor.com/e/the-case-f...

terfs have been reading my article it seems. lovely people, very rational, calm, and polite

we gotta torch the climate so that repeatedly successful Dems in swing districts can win by a larger margin

That was really the plan newsletter.mikekonczal.com/p/a-year-in-...

This Yglesias piece in the NYT is horrifically bad. Almost every "fact" it cites is provably false. At best it is cocktail party banter from a pundit who knows nothing of energy. At worst, it was cut/paste from oil industry talking points. So, a rebuttal: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/o...

HUGE NEWS from the new Epstein files: Records show that Maria Farmer, who worked for Epstein, filed a "child pornography" report to the FBI in 1996. The FBI has never before acknowledged that complaint. The case went nowhere, and mass abuse followed. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/u...

suddenly remembering the time when a friendly dog got loose and wandered up to us but didn't respond to any commands until it occurred to us that instead of saying "sit" we should try "sientate" and the dog immediately sat down

Confirmed: House Democratic leaders have decided to use a stock trading ban bill as a campaign issue rather than actually pass something that had the GOP support to advance. Jeffries' team is actively discouraging participation in the bipartisan bill and warning outside groups too.

I'm at the Pizza Hutt. I'm at the The Donald Trump And The John F. Kennedy Memorial Center For The Performing Arts. I'm at the combination Pizza Hutt and the The Donald Trump And The John F. Kennedy Memorial Center For The Performing Arts.

"Starting in May, right after Liberation Day, men have gained 4,000 out of a total of 119,000 new jobs." newsletter.mikekonczal.com/p/a-year-in-...

this is very true. there's a real tendency in politics as in war to be always fighting the last war

the reality is Spanish is our de facto second language and white people need to sack up and face reality

For years, Republicans have hidden behind an air of concern when it comes to trans rights. They said they were worried about trans women harming other women in the bathroom. But now, for @ryanlcooper.com, the lies have stopped and the transphobia is out in the open. trib.al/vwKR3ty

"It’s no exaggeration to say that the government of the United States of America is controlled by a mob led by the criminally insane and the pathologically unscrupulous." www.unpopularfront.news/p/the-high-t...

this is crazy, how am I just now hearing about this? youtu.be/QoOVqQ5sa08?...

our current system has a strong chance of putting a far-right government in complete power with about a quarter of the vote. electoral reform *must* be a Labour priority. FPTP is simply not set up to deal with a system with five competitive parties.

TIL you can buy exercise equipment with HSA money, but only if it's to treat a specific condition and not for general exercise. what an excellent and logical system hsastore.com/hsa-eligibil...

I read the book they used as the source for this 1-2 years ago and when I watched it the biggest change in my reaction was whereas the book I thought "Guiteau, clearly crazy" the movie it was "my God, we have an entire Government run by people like him"

From me: If they wanted to tank their majority, Republicans couldn't do much worse than dragging out a debate on their worst issue (health care) into an election year, after affirmatively causing a severe rise in the cost of living for tens of millions. prospect.org/2025/12/19/r...