Here it is: the poll to determine the release date of YANKEE HOTEL FOXTROT. Please read the entire form, consider the arguments, laugh at the jokes. The poll runs until 12:01 AM Mon Dec 15. You can change your vote anytime before then. I have tried to turn off the results so that you vote blind.

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The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow

Wait a minute

A court with a normal-ish conservative majority would have been tolerable. I'm not eager for court packing, impeaching justices, and other such options. But this court sticking around post-Trump is untenable. They've already torched their own legitimacy, the only question is what do we do about it.

The NYT photo desk FTW. www.nytimes.com/athletic/685...

Joint Statement of the Acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery by Netflix.

It's almost impossible to make me feel sorry for Trump, but the sheer depth of his brokeness, combined with his age, the utter humiliation involved in this farce was making me legit sad.

Oh wait!

wtf is a FIFA peace prize? that's like being an NFL laureate in physics

The award would make more sense if all those hands were grabbing as described in the Access Hollywood tape.

Warner Bros. Discovery announced that it will sell its assets to Netflix. This merger would create an unprecedented media behemoth in the news & entertainment industry. This deal is an antitrust nightmare that should be immediately struck down.

Remember when the internet wasn't awful? We can go back to that. Some friends and I have released the Resonant Computing Manifesto: a call to bring back such a time, to see if we can bring back a world where technology works for us, rather than against us. resonantcomputing.org

How long before we start photoshopping different videos in the background?

An American journalist helped facilitate RFK Jr's ingratiation into Trump's world and kept secret disqualifying information on him that could have kept him out of major policy, which impacts millions of people.

They’re killing people as a twitter joke. It’s depraved. Can’t let yourself lose the capacity to be appalled and disgusted and outraged by this.

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NEW: The Trump Justice Department failed to secure an indictment today against New York Attorney General Letitia James. www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

There was no way this was gonna go well lol

whether hegseth gets away with it remains to be seen but it is interesting to see that he thought trump handed him a license to murder with this job, no questions asked, and now questions are definitely being asked.

U.S. Department of Defense's Inspector General's report on the Signalgate saga is now online media.defense.gov/2025/Dec/04/...

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Mark Warner, the top Dem on the Senate Intelligence Committee, says he reviewed the DOD IG's Signalgate report and Pete Hegseth either needs to be fired or resign.

i'd say the midterm-level turnout for a special election is even more ominous than the swing

He shouldn’t just be pushed out as the House Democrats’ leader; he needs to be primaried out of his seat entirely. Just a complete waste of a deep blue seat.

There are plenty of areas where I wish the Democratic Leadership would engage with the Republicans in a more symmetric manner, but pardoning corruption is not one of those areas. Jeffries is not worthy of a leadership position and should be ousted

For anyone who knows anything about genocides and the incitement of genocidal violence, this is the kind of hair-raising stuff you find in transcripts of testimony before special tribunals.

A lot of other books published today you know

Do your thing Bluesky.

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The emperor has no doze

I hope you appreciate by now that if you see the White House doing Nazi shit, then it is not a mistake.

Nov. 5:

The Ryan Lizza installments will continue until morale improves

That’ll leave a mark

It was better in the original German

I named my fists "Dunning" and "Kruger" because I haven't trained in any sort of martial art but am confident I would do pretty well.

"Strong floor, no ceiling" is very literally the basis of like every Gilded Age political cartoon

don't really think drugs, as a concept, will ever be able to recover from the reputational hit they're about to take

How it started / How it’s going

Looks like it’s time to re-up this thread on the fascist genealogy of the seemingly pablum term “Americanism.”

Just in last 48 hours: -President pardons Honduran prez serving 45 years for conspiring to smuggle cocaine to US -BUT ALSO on verge of war w/VZ based on unsupported claims its govt. is smuggling cocaine to US -DefSec openly committing war crimes -Trump envoy selling out Ukraine for deals with Russia

Like 30% of the country is absolutely enraged because they thought they were going to be able to be utter shitbirds without anyone being allowed to call them shitbirds, but here we are, calling them shitbirds.

As foreign policy “We must kill all narcotics traffickers and we must pardon that narcotics trafficker” makes no sense

The DC shooting story is really getting to me because we literally trained this man as a child soldier for a death squad in a forever war and Stephen Miller et al want to blame it on other cultures? It's our culture, American culture, that killed that woman.

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No one shld lose sight of the fact that the Guard was only in DC as part of an extended political messaging stunt. The shooter is guilty for the attacks/carnage. Donald Trump is responsible for them. This is the collateral damage of Trump abusing his powers as President.

Rose Parade > Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade