once again shoutout to every dipshit who insisted it was hysterical to talk about trump and white supremacy in the same breath www.rawstory.com/trump-267487...

Favorite Golden Globes dresses!

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said the US central bank had been served grand jury subpoenas from the Justice Department threatening a criminal indictment, a dramatic escalation of the Trump administration’s attacks on the Fed. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

This is your regular reminder that authoritarianism is just domestic abuse writ large.

Please hit pause, I need a second

WSJ investigation: In the past 6 months ICE agents have fired at vehicles 13 times, leading to: * 8 people shot * 5 of which were U.S. citizens * 2 died * no victims drew a weapon The playbook: Agents box in a vehicle, block attempts to flee, then fire www.wsj.com/us-news/vide...

Americans will use anything except the Metric system.

Today once again proved that everyday citizens protesting their government are braver than the titans who own the largest media corporations, run the biggest law firms and lead the most powerful technology companies.

@chrislhayes.bsky.social: “A 37-year-old American citizen, the mother of a young child is dead tonight. She was shot in the face by an agent of the federal government, and that government has spent the day telling despicable lies about her.”

From an email to one of our faculty members.... Not even Plato can escape censorship at Texas A&M!

What a convenient way to expose yourself to liability under the wiretapping laws of several states

missed opportunity to thank Sal Saperstein

It's awards season, meaning I will now occasionally start posting my totally subjective favorite outfits, starting with the #CriticsChoiceAwards (though I don't think I've seen every look, since there was no Chalamet yet).

Finished my first book of the year!

babe wake up, they're doing insider trading on war crimes

Once again.

file a DROP request here: consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov * Delete Request and Opt-out Platform

How to delete your data in one easy step — if, that is, you live in California. Gift link: wapo.st/44RD9y3

Ladies and gentlemen, it is time once again for the only year-end list that matters. I present the 2025 list of band names taken from phrases actually uttered in conversation while discussing food over the past year:

I am extremely sad but at least we still have Urban Cookies, I guess. www.azcentral.com/story/entert...

Really enjoying reading everyone's posts celebrating and closing out 2025! I wrote mine a few weeks ago; here it is again. blog.yaelwrites.com/2025-in-revi... Wishing everyone a 2026 filled with joy, adventure, and hopefully less fascism.

THIS. Did you know sickle cell is curable, now? FULLY curable. If you're feeling down or despairing about what FEELS like technology/advancement/science "standing still" or being fully malicious, I have great news: You're not paying attention to actual science. Just tech industry marketing.

Every year, I do a list of 10 games I loved that year -- this is 2025! My guess is you'll know some of them, and also that you won't know some of them. Please let me tell you about these fine video games!! (Links are mostly to Steam, but some are on console too.) /thread

Here's a tragedy of DOGE that most people will never know about, even though it has big consequences: no one is left to coordinate the transition to memory safe systems code. 🧵

Tell me about the worst injuries you've ever had!

please hold while i attempt to connect you

Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up. I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.

I fell in love with Nettle & Bone; what should I read next?

Bodies were a mistake.

The last hike I’ll be doing for a while!

Dr. Further research is needed.

Happy howlidays, friends!

When you’ve gone to this place, it’s time to just admit your only interest in antisemitism is claiming it doesn’t exist

if you're shooting jews at a jewish social event in the diaspora, you're not targeting the state of israel, nor are you targeting its policies, nor are you targeting anyone with the power to effect change in israel's policies. you are just targeting jews.

If you’re wondering why your friends in academia are a little on edge right now, it’s because an eighteen-year-old who hasn’t done the reading, doesn’t look at the assignment, and has does no critical thinking skills more complex than “because I think it’s in the Bible” can literally end your career

says a lot about the current state of journalism for cnn not to know that citation requires actually quoting the source material or at the very least referencing a specific passage (something that wasn't done once in what was supposed to be a post-secondary academic paper)...

I attempt to explain the FBI Epstein dump redaction failure. cybersect.substack.com/p/unredactio...

I know we're all trying to get through the holidays and the end of the year and nobody's thinking about February yet, but mark this in your calendar? @huertanix.bsky.social @cactuscon.com

The story is insane. The acting head of cyber security, a Noem crony, repeatedly demanded to see highly classified information he didn’t need access to, and when staff set up a lie detector test as a condition to grant him access, he failed it. So DHS suspended the staffers.

Happy Hanukkah and happy Solstice, friends! Here’s to letting our light shine in the darkness. 🕎

I was trying to submit Bailey to @weratedogs.com but couldn't get the portal to work. In any case, here are the seven cutest (IMO) photos of her!

brb moving to new york so mamdani will come to my hanukkah party

When I was in grad school at Cronkite, we would get a zero on an assignment if we misspelled a proper noun or made an error that would have required a correction. I think about this a lot.

Client gifts I've given over the years: Dragonfjord's Puzzle a Day game, holiday candles, chocolate, touchscreen cleaner rollers, 100% Soft dumpster fire keychains, stickers and pins, @muckrock.com redacted mugs...

I made a quick update to BADBOOL to clarify the list is mostly U.S.-based because it is... a volunteer project based in the U.S. With that, I'll be taking the month off of updating. Thank you to everyone who's spread the word about this project, especially @privacyguides.org @freedom.press. 💕

I took a look back at the year and posted links to my major projects, articles, white papers, public talks, podcasts, and interviews. blog.yaelwrites.com/2025-in-revi...

I played pickleball and didn’t hate it.

people keep asking me if I'm ready for the holiday and I'm like, I'm IN my holiday

I try to get to inbox zero once a month and this is the time of year where I realize I stopped sometime in September and suddenly have thousands of emails to go through. The time-sensitive ones help because I can just delete them.