Happy Fourth Launchiversary, JWST! And thanks to Richard Panek for this lovely mini review of JWST science… time.com/7342406/jame...

Breaking: The ATA picked up an unexpected signal… turns out it was Santa, piloting a saucer through the Saturn system. He was navigating the icy fractures of Enceladus to deliver presents to any single-celled residents who might be hiding in its subsurface ocean. 🎅🪐🛸 Happy Holidays!

WHO GIVES A DAMN? It’s a public service, right there in the name. It exists as a public good for all the people in this country. It’s not supposed to turn a profit, you dolts. Go audit the Pentagon and see what kind of return on investment we’re getting there.

Hope you've got 'a little something' special waiting for you on this Christmas Eve! Have yourself a merry little Christmas now! #TheXFiles

57 years ago today, Apollo 8 crew member Bill Anders took his iconic photo of the Earth rising over the Moon. It is still a fantastic image. Here's a little video of how it was done: www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHbF...

Bari Weiss is the logical endpoint of corporate media. This is what happens when people who hate journalism are in charge of it. The only way journalism works is when it’s independent from the power it’s supposed to hold to account, which means ownership can’t have anything to do with those in power

I think Weiss’ entire excuse for shelving the CECOT episode was bullshit, but I also think it’s incredibly disturbing to suggest trying to “both sides” the crimes against humanity happening inside a concentration camp

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

The Olivia Nuzzi story and the Bari Weiss at CBS story are the same story, which is that the upper echelons of legacy media are absolutely rife with people who worship power and don't feel burdened by any sense of responsibility to their profession or the public.

Found the actual men in women's bathrooms assaulting women.

The body cam footage from Beker’s arrest has been released. “Hey, this is Officer Hingiss with the Whitefish Police Department. Just out with a male that only speaks Spanish, wondering if you want to check him?” flatheadbeacon.com/2025/12/19/c...

By trying to grease an interview with Stephen Miller, she sends the White House the message that they should work through her rather than CBS journalists. It’s a terrible way to run a newsroom, and it is exactly what you’d expect from an insecure editor who knows she’s over her head.

And Weiss wouldn’t know how to physically stop a broadcast if they all banded together and just aired it. Put it up on digital, YouTube, anywhere. Take a stand for journalism.

Exactly this. For every sound ethical journalist you get dozens of execs who only care about clicks and revenue.

Jack Smith wants to testify in public - Republicans refuse. He wants his depo tape made public - no again. The second strike boat video? - nope. Epstein files law complied with? - not today. Vote on ACA? - maybe next year. Republicans: Hide, obstruct, lie, delay, deny.

Elon's little serfs are quite literally begging journalists to come back because every publicly available source of data shows people have fled the platform and young people won't use it. They are literally begging regular people to come back. Don't do it! It is a website by and for actual Nazis!

They’ll use this to target anyone who speaks out against the administration

@maddow.bsky.social @maddowblog.bsky.social Another foot found on a beach in the PNW.... www.sequimgazette.com/news/human-r...

I’m not interested in letting this administration disable me. I get vaccines when I can but I mask everywhere indoors. Nothing is foolproof but it’s a lot better than just rolling the dice. Ask yourself if it’s worth the risk.

WTF does this even mean?

Nearly 1,900 immigrants were detained during the first half of Operation Midway Blitz. Most had no criminal record, newly released federal data shows. @joemahr.bsky.social and @lauranrodriguez.bsky.social report www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/01/o...

Watch Gillian Anderson explaining that infamous chaos scene with the car crash from Season 3's 'War of the Coprophages', her wax figure and more on 'Jimmy Kimmel Live!' www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezyp... #TheXFiles

This is a staggering cool JWST image of one of the most terrifying star systems I have ever seen. Apep is a monster… *three* monsters, actually, and blasting out radiation and dust and junk at speeds to freeze the soul. Read all about it! badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/a-ridiculo... 🔭 🧪

Arbitrator: “If the goal is speed and the cost is accuracy and accountability, AI is the clear winner. If accuracy and accountability is the baseline, then AI, as used in these instances, cannot yet rival the hallmarks of human output, which are accuracy and reliability.”

We must keep calling out those that cave to the Trump Admin, and the latest is Northwestern. As part of their "deal," NU will pay $75 million, stop vital research, renege on agreements with its students over the war in Gaza, and more. Throwing your students under the bus to please Trump. Shameful.

I miss Twitter so much. I loved it for the fandom spaces and for years was super active with one of the news shows I worked on because it was safe to do so. I made so many friends there. But I also quit after the election for many of the reasons Kat explains so well here.

….if you’ve ever had an MRI, especially of your head, there’s no question why.

It would be nice if @cnn.com acknowledged this story was broken last week by The Handbasket: www.thehandbasket.co/p/fema-emplo...

CBS is the only one who did this right with context in the headline.

This is murder. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Hard same. Presentations, LinkedIn posts, newsletters. Just tells me you’re ok with theft and you don’t fact check.

Maybe because Rachel was right?

Doggett, Reyes, and Scully back together again! Robert Patrick shared photos of his reunion with Annabeth Gish and Gillian Anderson at Monster-Mania Con in Philadelphia! www.instagram.com/p/DRX4s3dD4I... #TheXFiles

This whole appearance is absolutely wild

SCOOP: A federal grand jury in Maryland is investigating whether FHFA director Bill Pulte and Justice Department prosecutor Ed Martin improperly appointed unauthorized people to help in mortgage fraud investigations of President Trump's critics. With @carolleonnig.bsky.social

New: the govt has moved to dismiss its assault case against Marimar Martinez and Anthony Ian Santos Ruiz, two people accused of "box[ing] in" a Border Patrol vehicle in Chicago on Oct. 4. One agent shot Martinez, with evidence presented to the court that he later bragged about in text messages.

Today, @washingtonpost.com is hosting a Global Women’s Summit. Meanwhile, the @postguild.bsky.social is protesting and raising awareness about the fact that the Washington Post illegally fired me, its only Black woman opinion columnist, for doing my job. Salute to the Guild. Shame on the Post.

Here are the #I/ATLAS releases from varied NASA/ESA missions. Having worked with such telescope & spacecraft data for 40 years, my perspective is: no surprises. It's a comet; its differences from Solar System comets are intriguing but every comet is different! science.nasa.gov/solar-system...

This also sounds like they’re ready to gut coverage for pre existing conditions too

Republicans keep talking like health is a moral achievement instead of a human reality. People get sick even when they do everything ‘right.’ That’s why we have healthcare in the first place.

After a bird flu outbreak tore through Midwestern barns, killing millions of chickens and spiking egg prices, the federal government didn’t investigate if the virus was airborne. So ProPublica did. Absolutely terrifying reporting from @natlash.bsky.social: www.propublica.org/article/bird...

An underrated part of our misinformation problem: It's not just that we're awash in deliberate propaganda from ideologues and hacks. Huge, huge numbers of people are primarily getting their political news from morons. They're not deliberately lying; they just pull stuff out of their ass on stream.

So 💔 & angry… that Alice is gone, Teen Vogue is gone, community care is all but gone, but dangerous infectious diseases are still being given red carpet treatment. The disability, Long Covid, & ME communities keep losing people, & it doesn’t have to be this way. We can do better. We must.

Respect Alice Wong’s call here: “When I am in public spaces and see most people unmasked either because they think the virus is a hoax, that masking is virtue signaling & a sign of weakness, aren't thinking about it, or that they simply don’t care, I feel like an expendable burden not worth saving.”

NEW: In his first interview since his arrest for protesting outside the Chicago-area ICE facility, @revdrmichaelwoolf.bsky.social tells me he has "bruises all over my body." Even so, he said, “the cruelty that goes on that facility … must be 100 times worse." religionnews.com/2025/11/15/a...

NEW: DHS invoked the “national emergency” at the border to skirt competitive bidding rules for a $220 million taxpayer-funded ad campaign. We found that a firm with deep ties to Kristi Noem secretly benefited from the deal.

Predictable but still amazing to watch people who spent literally years accusing every librarian, teacher, and trans person they could find of sexually grooming children suddenly throw themselves in with "actually it's ephebophilia"

An interesting tidbit in the joint status report filed in the Broadview ICE facility case today: ICE says video from inside the facility "between October 19, 2025, and October 31, 2025, has been irretrievably destroyed" and can't be produced in discovery. www.courtlistener.com/docket/71832...

Everyone thinks they will be the exception. Serious illness or disability won’t happen to them and IF it does, they will be able to afford it. The reality is it only takes one catastrophic event to change your life, especially in a country that doesn’t guarantee healthcare for all.