Best part of large holiday gatherings is when the men start summarizing the latest nonfiction books they're reading.

For all the minimizers out there:

Ossoff: "You're seeing what I'm seeing, right? The president posting about the Obamas like a Klansman."

Just awful. The cuts at the Washington Post will include the elimination of the Books section--one of the nation's premier outlets for thoughtful book reviews.

seeing conservatives admit alex pretti was disarmed and need to change their message to “well you know where you won’t get shot? at home” is just an impressive level of pathetic allegiance to their dictator

ICE has now carried out two summary executions of innocent people in the streets of an American city. If you work for ICE, there's no denying that's the mission you're supporting now. You don't get to claim in one year or ten or twenty that you didn't know what ICE was doing. You're complicit.

It's not happening, people. Not anytime soon.

Weed. They were carrying weed.

"Visual culture has changed form. It has become detached from human eyes and has become largely invisible. . . The overwhelming majority of images are now made my machines for other machines, with humans rarely in the loop." -Trevor Paglen

NPR going the way of CBS.

I recommend Culpability by @bruceholsinger.bsky.social, as it is thought-provoking and absorbing! www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

Luis Suárez will be presenting the FIFA Peace Prize.

"that new book is so bad here's our second review, 4th profile, and third podcast about it"

Bruce Holsinger on Culpability — a novel about AI, moral agency, and a family facing impossible choices.
Elizabeth George on A Slowly Dying Cause — an Inspector Lynley mystery set in Cornwall, rich with character, place, and difficult truths. @bruceholsinger.bsky.social Listen: tinyurl.com/WritersV

Next week Prince Andrew gets a cabinet post over here.

He's a great gadfly but he CANNOT be the nominee.

My university

White House Deputy Press Secretary seen here posting data showing how much more prevalent right wing domestic terrorism is than left wing domestic terrorism... while thinking she's showing the reverse. Apparently she can only read headlines, but not the actual graph with the data.

omg

About this Florida vaccine story: When they were little - 1 yr and 3 1/2 - my two older boys, who’d had all their shots, got whooping cough. We asked their pediatrician what would’ve happened if they hadn’t been vaccinated. “Oh, they’d have died.”

Join us next week as @bruceholsinger.bsky.social discusses his Oprah's Book Club pick novel, "Culpability"! This book explores a world newly shaped by chatbots, autonomous cars, drones, & other nonhuman forces in ways that are challenging & unimaginably provocative. Tix: HolsingerBBS.eventbrite.com

Oh wait … that thing every #climate scientist told us was going to happen for the last 15 years is actually happening?!?!?!?! “Rapid loss of Antarctic ice may be climate tipping point, scientists say” - www.reuters.com/sustainabili... Trending Content

Q for those w experience in politics or diplomacy: Is there *any* other example of a US prez, on US soil, letting a foreign leader control the mic for a very long time, in his own language, w/o consecutive translation, before letting US prez say anything all? I don't know of any. Humiliating.

Look, Gavin Newsom is always going to be Gavin Newsom, with everything that implies, but he seems to grasp the reality of what's happening here more clearly than most national figures in the Democratic Party

mRNA tech is some of the coolest, most powerful, most promising scifi shit humans are currently doing. They are being investigated to help with cancers, autoimmune diseases, M.S., stroke recovery, heart disease, diabetes, arthritis, and high cholesterol.

"We took a quick peek into your file" is an excellent subject line for a Democratic fundraising e-mail. Hit it out of the park. My wallet is open.

So excited for @bruceholsinger.bsky.social and his new book Culpability, which in unputownable! www.oprahdaily.com/entertainmen...

Framing this around “viewpoint diversity” and the supposed expediency of tracking professors’ political donations is absolutely brilliant. www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...

Book people: the following small presses have just lost funding from the National Endowment for the Arts. Please consider supporting them! A Thread.

People who believe not voting 2024 makes them morally superior because they're not "murdering children" should be constantly reminded that they helped elect Trump, who destroyed USAID - an act that's now murdering children around the world. www.bu.edu/sph/news/art...

Today Charlottesville #NoKings was four deep and we're 1/20 of DC's population.

I think this is what American brownshirt activity will look like. Not a literal paramilitary force, but a heavily armed constituency that's been emboldened to kill.

absolutely horrifying

weakness, not power

Finally a workout app designed for me.

This

sequel

Every single Democratic lawmaker should be calling for Hegseth's immediate resignation right now. Not just some. Not just a few dozen. Every single one, starting at the top with Mr. Schumer and Mr. Jeffries. And the fact that it hasn't happened yet is nearly as shocking as Hegseth's conduct.

The administration is removing phone support for Soc Security recipients. Making it more difficult for seniors to get their checks. It’s a back door way to cut SS benefits. Horrific. If you know anyone who is impacted, please help them get online to get their benefits approved

Don't kill me but this was weirdly cathartic.

Truly one of the greatest pieces of research in book history you will ever read. I call Vnouček the "parchment whisperer."

🧵 1/5: I'm THRILLED to see Jiří Vnouček's paper on the Hamburg Bible's parchment finally published with such stunning illustrations (73 in all)! This research shows how a careful reading of parchment tells a rich story of its creation. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

I'd feel a lot better about everything if Chuck Schumer held another "We will win!" rally right about now.

Great vibes from CNN

Can't you just fire the people in charge of announcing unemployment numbers so this isn't a problem?

20,000,000 orders for Ketel One just dropped.

Google Maps right now. I just . . .

Deep State Audio Glitch

Literally everyone in Dem politics and in Biden's inner circle who covered up Biden's incapacity since January of last year is responsible for Trump entering the White House on Monday Unforgivable arrogance and sinecure protection at the expense of the country.