Weiss is bad at this. It’s too big a stage. She’s the Kash Patel of journalism

Okay first this is extremely funny and just as predictable. Notable, can you Imagine what you’d have to get in a segment on CECOT to think wow, Trump comes out of this torture gulag thing looking pretty good! lol. Predictable, stupid, absurd.

it's not that you have to be stupid to be an effective regime mouthpiece, but it certainly helps bari weiss that she has a wind tunnel between her ears www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...

tonight the government killed a story on cbs about the slave labor camp in a foreign country theyre illegally sending people to

"The suppression of evidence ought always to be taken for the strongest evidence." — Andrew Hamilton, 1734

Even Elon Musk started with changes to Twitter's code, instead of going full Nazi right away. Early on the biggest complaints were that certain features were no longer working. The Nazi stuff took a little longer to bake in, long enough that it was successful in cooking a lot of people's brains.

If the idea of hiring a toady to run CBS News was so that it would stop making the Trump administration look bad, "60 Minutes is working on a story about CECOT" seems like something Bari Weiss should have known a lot earlier and killed before they started running promos for the segment.

she's just doing what she was hired to do

"The project—[Bari Weiss's] and that of her backers—is to establish herself and her cohort not as new-right media, but as the new liberal media, staking out the leftmost acceptable position within the new right-wing paradigm." (This is a gift link, from October) defector.com/bari-weiss-s...

Happy Hanukkah! Here’s to hoping the coming year is full of light.

Nobody wants white people to apologize for being white. JD Vance should personally apologize for lying about immigrants to fuel race-based hate, for having no deeper values beyond a commitment to JD Vance and his career.

Since a lot of people seem to be confused, this is what fascism sounds like in the American context.

the vice president is a klansman

Cars Ruin Society is quite the Chapter asserting that 🚗🚙 have isolated us from each other by making streets inhospitable #LifeAfterCars

The holidays are just around the corner and if you’re looking for some great books, these were my favorites this fall: The story of CO₂… - @peterbrannen.bsky.social 20,000 Leagues under the Sea- Jules Verne Life After Cars - @thewaroncars.bsky.social Careless People - Sarah Wynn Williams 1/2

Canadians are still super pissed at their treatment by the White House people around the world — Europe, Asia — are buying fewer American goods and traveling to the US less … … but with Canadians it’s even moreso booze: spectrumnews1.com/ky/louisvill... tourism: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/t...

The NY TWU turned opposed congestion pricing as well. Really seems like they're laser-focused on extracting the rents they can from a static or declining system rather than participating in a positive-sum program to expand transit service to more New Yorkers

Imagine being a journalist and thinking that withholding evidence is "complying with the spirit if not the intent" of a law and not, say, a sign that criminals might be meddling with or destroying the evidence they're withholding.

“Would you acknowledge [bad faith spin from the administration’s toadies which I will present as an objective fact]?”

And then they wound up blocking public transportation, a thing we should be wanting people to take *especially* in a widespread blackout!

Cars are not as useful as people think they are in a widespread emergency or natural disaster. Driverless cars even less so.

At least 4 Waymo robots, one in front of the bus and three right behind it. Who knows how many more are heading right into this to suffer the same fate/FUBAR. Waymo knows they have this problem and so should their regulators and anyone who has been paying attention. OP: tiktok.feelwellwitharielle

At least five FUBARed Waymo robots: Market & Guerrero, SF One is a problem, two a mistake, five a major ops screw up. Waymo has never fixed their cascading failure problem. Maybe they don't know how. Fundamentally unfit for service at scale until they do, IMO. OP: tiktok.brahmsstan

PG&E is having a massive outage in San Francisco. Waymo robots aren't handling the traffic light outages well. Cell service is also out is some places. No surprise as Waymo robots & cell have repeatedly failed during power outages. CPUC regulates both Waymo and PG&E (Profit Greed & Explosions).

What an outstanding human being.

Still there by the Williamsburg Bridge.

This is a surgical dismantling of yet another dumb Matt Yglesias argument by a former clean energy exec and current Representative. This is the sort of thing that should make people stop listening to people like Yglesias. Read the whole thing.

The @mtsw.bsky.social seal of approval.

a couple book recommendations that came out this year: LIFE AFTER CARS from the people who make the awesome WAR ON CARS podcast www.lifeaftercars.com amzn.to/4qqzM9H

This is potentially a massive cover-up. Where is the corporate-owned legacy media that claims it exists to expose government corruption? www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

This is beautiful.

This is the shit that'll get them. We already have footage that all the public has seen (even the dopes) & photos of them together. A smart crook would leave a few photos/emails/notes in the files to show that what contact he did have with Epstein wasn't as bad as others, but instead they do this

I refuse to shut up about this: NYC started charging $9 to bring a car into our most transit-rich zone, the haters & trolls predicted doom, but traffic evaporated instantly and here’s Times Square tonite (even after the holiday tourists have left). For a better future, build transit & price driving!

Here are more inexpensive ways that cities (and especially states who own the most dangerous roads) could test ways to save lives. www.smartgrowthamerica.org/programs-and...

It comes down to this: Everyone knows the issues that won the last election. No one knows the issues that will win the next one.

This Yglesias piece in the NYT is horrifically bad. Almost every "fact" it cites is provably false. At best it is cocktail party banter from a pundit who knows nothing of energy. At worst, it was cut/paste from oil industry talking points. So, a rebuttal: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/o...

Extremely obvious combing through this who is redacted and why. It's Epstein, Maxwell, a lot of Bill Clinton, maybe Michael Jackson (?) and basically nobody else. Everybody else's head is in a black rectangle. In practice, they didn't release shit.

From this point on, I'm forced to assume that every elected politician who does not immediately call for Trump's impeachment is in the Epstein files. Sorry. Just cutting the Gordian knot here, as one does during societal collapse.

The war on vaccines is a war on child mortality on the side of death, & everyone who did anything to aid and facilitate RFK Jr's rise to authority over vaccine rules has a hand in the future rise in child deaths. Widespread vaccination for a time was a pinnacle of human achievement, undone by fools

rfk will not rest until your kid is dead wapo.st/4s2l2zn

Happy Hanukkah!

As the Trump regime is about to dismantle NCAR.

the main reward you are likely to get for total loyalty to trump is the destruction of your career and your reputation www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/n...

I would add doing more big avenues with bike-speed signal timing like 3rd Ave in Manhattan. This is just programming the signals & can be done in winter before painting/concrete season. Takes away any incentive for "speeding ebikes" & makes the whole street much safer

We asked the experts, and they had a lot of ideas: "Tow some MTA workers' cars in Downtown Brooklyn as a statement!" hellgatenyc.com/zohran-mamda...

It’s not that there isn’t antisemitism on the Left but “the Left,” however defined, is nowhere close to controlling the Democrats. Schumer, Jeffries, Harris, Newsom, AOC, Sanders, Pritzker…not one of them is antisemitic. Some are Jews! Meanwhile, JD Vance is directly connected to actual Nazis!

When a random college student who says something antisemitic has as much power as the Vice President of the United States of America, I'll believe that antisemitism on college campuses and within the Republican Party are both a problem. Until then, no.

I remain quite angry at the people, many of them fellow Jews, who spent so much energy worrying about leftwing campus antisemitism when it was so clearly used as a distraction from the growing acceptance of mask-off Nazism within the Republican party. So many people allowed themselves to get played.

gen z republicans, regarding the dictator hitler. you do, under some circumstances, "gotta hand it to him"

"we need to listen to their concerns!" ok but their concern is that Jews run Hollywood