As an immigrant, my one question for this season is; Who the hell is Parson Brown? Wrong answers only please.

As someone very familiar with government and tech procurement, the idea that a mega investor is donating products to a police force, and all from companies he's invested in, that's seeding sales and earning free press like this. I struggle to see how it's legit. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Think Tank Called ‘The Himmler Institute’ Assures Nation This All Legal https://theonion.com/think-tank-called-the-himmler-institute-assures-nation-this-all-legal/

Let's call a cult, a cult yeah?

This administration is so afraid, so pretty, and so comfortable lying, it's truly embarrassing, and yes, harmful too. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

By its own admission, ICE now poses a serious threat to Americans’ free speech and privacy rights. bit.ly/3Kq348R

The people who profited most from the cancel culture/free speech panic were less interested in actual freedom of speech than establishing their own control over public discourse. You don't even have to take my word for it. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

Decided to upload the entire 60 Minutes segment in today's newsletter. Let's see how long it lasts. www.readtpa.com/p/watch-the-...

Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.

Did a shroom explore by the high school in Moraga, pretty amazing variety and volume! #fungifriends

Watching @jwbee.bsky.social drop a truth bomb into Berkeley NextDoor.

Bikes and newts, December edition

If we are banning cell phones for kids we need to be talking about banning chatbots for boomers www.persuasion.community/p/my-chatgpt...

We measure what matters, and as our fash leaders dismantle federal infrastructure to measure anything, it allows them to do harm and not be held to account for the damage their self righteous, greedy policies cause. www.propublica.org/article/texa...

This is nuts! He’s now claiming that Venezuela stole their oil fields from the US and demands their “return.” He’s also unilaterally imposing a blockade of oil tankers. In a normal world, starting a delusional war & demanding Venezuela hand over their oil would instantly trigger the 25th Amendment.

A million Muslims live in New York City. We belong here, as does every other New Yorker. This is vile Islamophobia from the Councilwoman and it has no place in our city.

A movement that demands grace and empathy whenever someone from their side suffers while offering none to the other isn’t really a movement that gives a shit about anything other than power and control

Housing affordability, the next weapon of mass societal destruction!

Every single reporter there needs to hold the line on this too. Don't throw him a lifeline with another question if he dodges. Have each other's backs and demand he answer the question.

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!

Armed ICE agents trapped US citizens in a restaurant and demanded their papers. Federal agents walked into East African restaurants in Cedar-Riverside, MN. They closed and blocked the doors. Then they demanded to see everyone’s papers. Every person present was a US citizen.

This is fucking grim. Somebody invented a white guy, an "IT professional" named Edward Crabtree, who stopped the Bondi shooting and spread it all over the internet, which was picked up by AI agents and slop aggregation sites. The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.

Michael C. Rockefeller got shipwrecked in 1963, washed up on an island, and was promptly eaten by cannibals.

Like so many very American things, racism is at the root of the ridiculous policy/default.

A big subtext here: The GOP and Trump administration — including Trump himself! — have repeatedly bemoaned the plight of persecuted Christians over the years, often referencing Iranian Christians in particular. But per this priest, the admin is trying to deport Iranian Christians back to Iran.

“You don’t solve public health problems with bombs,” Tree added. “Otherwise we’d be bombing tobacco and alcohol executives.”

DetentionReports.com has been updated with ICE detainee population data through November 28, 2025. Information for 232 facilities can now be found on the website.

Many countries have figured this out. It's good to see more firm evidence supporting these measures, hopefully the idea will get adopted widely here soon. Yes, tickets suck, but way less, and with way less risk/harm than having cops do this. Out with license plate readers, in with speed cameras.

Jared Kushner's involvement was "not mentioned in Paramount's press release on Monday morning about its $108 billion bid, nor were participating sovereign wealth funds from Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi and Qatar." fancy that

Oops. @ddale8.bsky.social www.cnn.com/2025/12/08/p...

Remember, as Sean Duffy keeps telling us his ideas for air travel -- dress up nice for your flight! do a little workout before you get on too! -- this is an actual Good Thing We Wanted that Democrats secured for us before these assholes took it away

Only ride I could squeeze in this week, freezing, foggy, still so much fun, even solo. Night in the back woods solo is kinda freaky.

Who has made this 🤣

By the time I was vetted and tested and ready for my US Citizenship ceremony I was so thoroughly vetted and tested, it's an intense, long, careful process. This is just evil and hateful.

By “sovreignty” he means “states should be weak enough so that billionaires like me should be able to treat them as feudal vassals” bsky.app/profile/lora...

On January 1, Illinois begins to regulate employer use of AI, making it a civil rights violation to use AI tools that result in discrimination based on protected characteristics in hiring, promotion, discipline, termination, or other employment terms and requiring notice of AI use. #AIBillofRights

you know how i know im a 44yo dad? how much i laughed at this shit

Build it

If we're not at war, Pete Hegseth is a murderer. If we are at war, Pete Hegseth is still a murderer. He's a murderer. And you don't need to go to The Hague to hold him accountable because there are perfectly good, American laws AGAINST MURDER. My latest in @thenation.com

City: We unanimously declare a climate emergency! We must make change no matter what the cost, humanity's survival depends on it! Community: Can we put in a protected bike lane to get more people cycling. City: No, we'll lose parking spots.

Major decision. In D.C., ICE/CBP can no longer arrest immigrants without a warrant unless they find individualized probable cause of a flight risk. "Viewing all immigrants potentially subject to removal as criminals is, as a legal matter, plain wrong." www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

Wonder how folks involved in the boat strikes feel about a successor administration declaring presidential pardons invalid.

If you ever wondered what state propaganda looks like under fascist rule, this is it. Unquestioning platforming of fear mongering officials, never questioning the ethics nor validity of their threats.

Hot off the keyboard and gifted: Hegseth has to go. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

This is ridiculous. It was the first TRUMP admin which developed the cases against President Hernandez. His brother Tony Hernandez was indicted in 2018 and convicted in 2019, and key ally Geovanny Fuentes Ramirez was indicted in 2020. Both were later sentenced to life in prison!

My bipartisan IRS MATH Act with Senator Bill Cassidy is now law. Now, if you mess up your taxes, the IRS has to tell you where you made a mistake and how to fix it. No more spending a fortune on lawyers or hours to find errors. That means fewer headaches and more money in your pocket.

Thou shalt not pretend that you’re at war with drug traffickers while pardoning drug traffickers.

Since 2010, pedestrian deaths in the US 🇺🇸 have increased by 80%. During that same time, pedestrian deaths in the EU 🇪🇺 have dropped by 37%, but that stat could be about to change. A new video by NJB. 👇

Did his creepy fucking publicist write this piece for you? Do better.

News media has to do better with headlines that present false and unverified public health claims.