“The energy in the room shifted”. Ears started ringing. The room was plunged into darkness. Cold chills as a ghostly pink ectoplasm rose off the desert. I thought I heard someone scream, before I blacked out.

This Christmas Eve, my heart is with Sophie, Colin, and the entire Hortman family after the unimaginable loss of Melissa and Mark — two extraordinary Minnesotans who gave so much to our state.

I love this framing.

For the love of god, THIS

The people who profited most from the cancel culture/free speech panic were less interested in actual freedom of speech than establishing their own control over public discourse. You don't even have to take my word for it. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

This is genuinely horrifying. Fact-free far-right agitprop given accolades by credible media across the political spectrum.

"Her family has now been told she has been deported, despite US District Judge Brendan Hurson ruling Thursday that she could not be deported pending a hearing...attorneys said Monday that they have...confirm[ed] with the hospital she was born in Maryland." https://bit.ly/3MMdJvz

This has always been a Bluesky-first campaign. But as of today, we will no longer be using Twitter. At all. And I'm calling on other candidates to follow suit.

60 Minutes is one of only two documentary-style public affairs programs left on the air. The other is Frontline on PBS, which saw its funding gashed by the Trump admin and Congress. They have a matching donation rn. www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontli...

It looks like it's been scrubbed from every official 60 Minutes page now. It's only a 30-second promo but here it is if you didn't get a chance to see it.

Goddammit, I Just Got Home But Have to Leave Again: a memoir

Elise Stefanik ends bid for N.Y. governor and won’t run again for House www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

“The thing that’s been the most difficult so far is that, in all of our interactions with the government, they’re denying that any of her birth certificates, which are from Laurel, Maryland, her records of immunization, medical records — they’re denying the authenticity of them.”

Just in: Florida's supreme court today has UPHELD a recent state law that enables juries to sentence someone to death nonunanimously. Bolts reported on FL's law a few years ago, amid huge concern that nonunanimous convictions have a high error rate, & are likelier to sideline Black jurors.

I hate those people who ride your bumper and start flashing their lights at you like hey look at me I'm driving a police car

I was in the Speaker's Lobby when this happened and it generated a storm of protest. Rep. Riley Moore R-WV gaveled a procedural vote to a close while one Democrat was ready to vote. That vote would have defeated the measure on a 204-204 tie - but Moore opted for a very fast gavel.

it’s fine, we can make people pay us money to quality-test the products they have told us very clearly they don’t want

Made a site comparing the sizes of living things :) The great Julius Csotonyi spent 5 months painting over 60 illustrations for the site, no ai used > neal.fun/size-of-life/

Sonic the Herzog

A tiny trial in New York has shown that personalized mRNA vaccines can provoke massive, lasting immune responses against pancreatic cancer, even as sweeping federal cuts now threaten the fragile labs required to produce them. theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/a-breakthr...

This event brought together a German neo-Nazi pol, ex-Kremlin payee Benny Johnson and fringe-right propagandist—and self-described opponent of democracy—Jack Posobiec to witness the head of the New York Young Republicans declare himself an insurrectionist by endorsing Trump for an illegal third term

More adventures in Oaklanding (as in California). This beautiful grilled fish banh mi at Raymond’s Nudough was, I think, $11? Truthfully, the very good fish got lost a little among the other flavors, but I really enjoyed the pate and the brightness of the vegetables.

This is really bad, @gettyimages.com. What the hell were you thinking?

I'm loathe to spread rumors / whip up fears on social media, but people I trust report that ICE is on patrol in Manhattan Beach this morning. Be careful & know your rights; silence is both a virtue and a constitutional right for all. #FuckICE #NotInMySouthBay

VA: is short staffed, barely providing adequate svcs to vets. Also VA: is compiling a doc that will very likely help DHS goons terrorize its already depleted workforce. “It seems like the [regime] is trying to reduce – not just the availability of healthcare for veterans, but for all Americans”.

AP on Trump now, and Biden in June 2022. For Trump, declining to 36 percent approval is “good news.” For Biden, holding steady at 41% is “a source of concern.”

♫ 12 drummers drumming ♫ 11 pipers piping ♫ 10 lords a-leaping ♫ 9 ladies dancing ♫ 8 maids a-milking ♫ 7 swans a-swimming ♫ 6 geese a-laying ♫

Meta has removed or restricted dozens of accounts belonging to abortion access providers, queer groups and reproductive health organisations in the past weeks in what Repro Uncensored call one of the “biggest waves of censorship” on its platforms in years.

Eight months ago vs today. 🤡 @atrupar.com @cnbc.com @cbsnews.com

Time again for my favorite christmas post ever, one that still makes me laugh every time i read it

“I am so bored by AI. One of the things I love about the theatre is AI can’t do it.” Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻

Everything is fine in Apple's walled garden

The Trump admin gave states an ultimatum: Cooperate with the immigration crackdown, or lose your federal funding. Oregon and 19 other states fought back — and won. Then officials logged in to the grant website to accept the money, only to find the button to do so was disabled: propub.li/4a4Bsk5

*More than half of the GOP believe the 2020 election outcome was the result of fraud *More than 4 out of 10 believe 9/11 was an inside job *37% believe the Holocaust did not happen or was exaggerate *36% believe NASA faked the moon landing *1 in 3 believe vaccines cause autism

I figured I’d try a Popup bagel as I left Harvard Square. Went in, didn’t want to wait three minutes for a plain to come out of the oven, they gave me a salt and I moved my phone to the sensor to pay. And they said it was free. It was hot and delicious. Great bagel. What the fuck is going on

I find this deeply alarming -- Grok is giving stalkers extremely detailed information about how to locate targets, install spyware on their devices, leverage revenge porn against them, and way more ultra-creepy advice futurism.com/artificial-i...

“She showed up as scheduled, and when she arrived, officers were asking everyone what country they were from, and if they said a certain country, they were told to step out of line and that their oath ceremonies were canceled.” www.wgbh.org/news/local/2... @gbhnews.bsky.social

Macworld writes on the departure of Apple design head Alan Dye and gives me some hope that its software may soon suck less. “Many designers inside Apple are happy at [his replacement], ‘if not downright giddy,’” the piece says. Dye is moving on to … Meta. No comment.

Let me guess

I laughed aloud at this. Why, it’s as word as it is synonym!

Jason Lee Van Dyke was once a leader of the Proud Boys, has posted racist threats online, and sports a white nationalist tattoo. Now he’s running for public office as a Republican. thebarbedwire.com/2025/12/02/j...

The University of Alabama suspended publication of two student-run magazines on Monday, claiming that the publications were not in compliance with federal guidance on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs.

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

Pretty much ANY statistic you see cited to frighten you about vaccines comes from the VAERS database. (Including the recent evidence-free missive from Vinay Prasad). Here's why VAERS can NEVER be a proper source for population-level vaccine risk estimates. Thread [1/9]

ICE DETAINED MARILYN. Fuck these people. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

• Jewish suspect commits a crime: They use it to stoke conspiracies about “elite globalists.” • But when a white American shoots up a whole ass school: It’s the video games. It’s the music. It’s mental health. It’s anything except whiteness. 4/5

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/h... We are now one of the few countries that will no longer honor World AIDS Day We join with Russia, Iran, Kuwait, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, Nigeria, Libya, North Korea You know all the countries that hate humans rights I find it shameful Callous Cruelty

Cover Reveal! “The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy" arrives on August 4, 2026. How extremist tech billionaires are dismantling democracy to crown themselves as kings—and what we can do about it. Please pre-order! ➡️ www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ne...

The EPA is starting to allow the use of pesticides containing PFAS on food. The move is part of an effort to roll back the regulation of PFAS — also known as "forever chemicals" because they don't break down easily in the environment.

New analysis by the House of Commons library estimates that Brexit is costing the Treasury up to £90bn a year in lost tax revenue, and the average Briton has seen a hit to GDP per head between £2,700 and £3,700. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...