trump getting his feelings hurt by european leaders is the culmination of this new type of guy that emerged in the last decade or so: guy who goes out of his way to be a huge asshole who then gets really offended when the people he's being an asshole to don't like him

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More protests should have singing. Something so unifying and inspiring about it.

Apple and Google have previously removed apps providing nudify services from their app stores. So why havent they taken action against X and Grok? @carolinehaskins.bsky.social reports

Dean Martin, born Dino Paul Crocetti, son of Italian immigrant Gaetano Crocetti Frank Sinatra, son of Italian immigrants Antonino Sinatra and Natalina Garavanta Merry Christmas to everyone except Stephen Miller and his enablers and handlers

The fact that every other professor at OU didn't stage a strike - and yes - risk their careers - over this - is goddamn disappointing. This is the future that awaits them if they don't resist it.

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

via The New Yorker, Ellis Rosen cartoon

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All of these links went to promotion of this story earlier today. All these links are dead now — that's how thoroughly they've scrubbed this.

In the summer of 1950 most US newspapers ran an AP story about how race had become the main issue in the upcoming Georgia governor's race. Segregationist Herman Tallmadge, governor from '47 to '55 and then a Senator until 1981 made a name for himself by refusing to "apologize for being a white man."

not releasing it will, in itself, also detract from their winning streak and make the inevitable leak of the text more of a news event.

The networks were afraid not to run Trump because they assumed he would use his office to punish them if they didn’t. The irony is that this is what Biden was warning about, a warning they chose not to share with America.

This tweet from Big Balls says the new “Tech Force” website is their first using the “America Design System.” Here are just a few reasons why that sucks. 🧵

"The existing NDS sites therefore behave more like billboards than public infrastructure. ... What makes this shift hardest to justify is that the federal government already had ... [an] office whose job was to actually make government UX work better. From 2014 to 2025, that work lived inside 18F."

TIL the original lyrics to Deck the Halls are awesome and “don we now our gay apparel” is temperance movement bullshit

The thread is great it really is, people have superbly and supremely weird ideas about why unsafe speeds make safe driving. My current leader is all the white people who say they need to drive fast to, it seems, outrun ICE

A lot to unpack here about class, gender, and caring work 19thnews.org/2025/12/ice-...

“I brought this horrid creature into the world, and now I must take him out!” Winfrey said

It's cold as Stephen Miller's heart out there

AT&T commits to ending diversity, equity, and inclusion programs as it seeks approval from the Trump admin to buy wireless spectrum assets

So, seems like we’re not all that serious about fighting the war on drugs after all. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/u...

“There’s a public health imperative to quickly expand the adoption of autonomous vehicles.” Would the author say the same about building bike lanes? Installing automatic traffic cameras? Requiring Intelligent Speed Assist? All of those are proven to save lives — and at a fraction of AVs' cost.

The Olympics and every other international sports, arts, scientific and academic event has to be moved out of the US as long as whole countries are being blocked from travel here.

Tomorrow from Ezra Klein and Matt Yglesias: the Democratic Party will never win elections again unless it stops listening to its far-left extremists like Bill Kristol

Reminder: please telll any Latino folks in the DC area to avoid BWI parkway (295) & other similar roads that are covered under the park police. In particular, do not take any vans/trucks on that road. Technically commercial vehicles aren't permitted but that's never been enforced. Now it is.

Lol, Zillow tried to rate the climate risks facing individual properties. The real estate industry *hated* it, precisely because it worked -- it made selling risky properties more difficult. So they rebelled & Zillow caved. Don't look up!

Everyone stop, this is important

The fiscal impact statement for the 2025 Virginia PFML program estimated $110 million in startup costs, and I guarantee you that the lion's share of that was for licensing some shit "commercial off-the-shelf software" (no such shelf exists) that was built for another state and "customizing" it.

Since people find being hopeful and optimistic so cringe these days, let me remind you once again that there isn’t a single liberation movement in the world that wasn’t built on hope and optimism.

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Fun non-spoilery Pluribus detail - this is actually the mayor of Albuquerque

"Personnel office staffers also began to conduct 15-minute interviews with DOGE staffers to determine what exactly each did. At least one Cabinet member was informed that he was free to fire any name he found from lists of DOGE employees." Oh, poor things www.politico.com/news/magazin...

Your move, Harvard.

So Harvard is keeping this guy, but Claudine Gay had to step down over ginned up plagiarism accusations and bad-faith accusations of anti-Semitism. Got it.

Fuck this dude. Literally making excuses for murdering and dismembering a journalist in an embassy.

The Salvation Army are a hate group. Do not forget that this winter.

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Probably fewer women in economics because they’re just not as smart, right, Larry?

On one hand polygraphs are pseudoscientific BS. On the other hand these guys believe they work so they're definitely hiding something.

Hey @safety.bsky.app, found an account making death threats you should suspend.

Newspapers should not be granting anonymity to allow slander.

Remember that Nimarata Nikki Randhawa ran as Nikki Haley Piyush Jindal ran as Bobby Jindal Raphael Cruz ran as Ted Cruz Meanwhile—Barack Obama ran as Barack Obama and Zohran Mamdani ran as Zohran Mamdani, and MAGAs accuse Dems of identity politics Every MAGA accusation is a confession

If you have tenure at Texas A&M and aren't maliciously emailing the president a dozen times every day to ask if you can say this or you can say that, then what's the point in having tenure?

Professors need permission from the g government to discuss anything related to race, gender identity, or sexual orientation. You know, like a free country like Stalinist Russia would do.

1) Ethics officials at Fannie Mae investigate how Bill Pulte got Letitia James mortgage docs 2) They send findings to Inspector Gen. of FHFA, which Pulte heads 3) IG sends it to Lindsay Halligan, new USA prosecuting James 4) IG and ethics officials are all fired. www.wsj.com/finance/regu...

Under the Big Ugly Bill, Alphabet gets $17.9B in tax breaks. That could pay for SNAP benefits for 7.5 million Americans. Amazon gets $15.7B. That could lower ACA premiums for 2.4 million people. Microsoft gets $12.5B. That could cover Medicaid for 3.8 million children.