“Have Yourself A Merriam Little Christmas” Merriam, a career-oriented lexicographer from the city, returns to her small town for the holidays and meets Webster, a ruggedly handsome librarian, who shows her the true DEFINITION of Christmas.

Leader of newly expanded paramilitary force, accused of bribery, promises to arrest law enforcement in dissenting cities

What a coincidence that, in addition to their passion for American politics, they also happen to be monetized.

thinking back to when Facebook launched its Oversight Board in 2020—a transparent move to defuse crises on its own terms, a fig leaf to evade external audits and appeal to the technocrats. "Self-regulating" trillion dollar company is now a model for AI firms to playact as their worst critics.

Federal Government Announces Racial Profiling Campaign, Explains It’s Because of the President’s Personal Bigotry

It is beyond baffling that Google seems intent on destroying any remaining vestige of trust we might place in information shared on the Internet, which is to say, the very source of its wealth and power. "We have a golden goose! Let's slaughter that sucker."

a good reminder that most of the trash-talking requires at least an MA and possibly a Phd in the Trump Cinematic Universe to even know what on earth they're talking about.

“Effective immediately, 100 will now be 5,100 and—I’m reading off the official statistics from my people—500 will be 25,500,” said Trump

And an immediate ceasefire is a significant concession by Ukraine as it would leave millions under Ru occupation. It's a concession that Ukraine has already agreed to make. Ru refuses.

Ignore any Trump admin and/or Ru apologist talk about progress. Ru demands remain maximalist, outrageous, and, most importantly, disconnected from the realities of the battlefield. Only an immediate ceasefire is progress. The discussion in Moscow today was useless noise. Ru continues its aggression.

Statehood for D.C. is an ethical obligation at this point, required to protect the rights of our residents to govern ourselves against such out-of-state troops being sent to patrol our city.

It may not happen soon, but Mitch Bradley should remember that he can be recalled to duty someday and court martialed for ordering murder.

There is a movement to "prove that the datacenter water issues is fake". If you venture into Muskrat's hell site, you can see the community note these people put on this great piece of investigative journalism, accusing them of unfairly implicating datacenters. www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

Rep. Cammarck wants my entire family to disappear from America in the name of some cultural cohesion, the same way Nazis wanted my family to disappear from Austria (which they indeed achieve) for the same reason. My opinion is that Rep. Cammarck is a Nazi PoS.

1980s: D&D promotes Satanism! Your kids will be <gasp> sacrificing pets! 2020s: D&D promotes wokeness! Your kids will be <gasp> tolerant and respectful!

America: Did you order the code Red? Hegseth: YOU’RE GODDAM RIGHT I DID! America: Uhm, it’s a crime. Hegseth: Ok, someone else ordered the Code Red.

I don’t know what the right way to cover this madness is, and I recognize that what’s being attempted here is journalistically correct dry understatement, but it’s a bit too under-.

Analysis | Zelensky says he's serious about peace. It's impossible to evaluate that claim without seeing what kind of real estate portfolio he's offered to Kushner, Witkoff, and Trump.

I named my fists “Strong Floor” and “No Ceiling” because they are not ready to win any important fights.

The issue about killing the last 2 survivors is secondary: Trump and Hegseth have ordered *83* murders, not 2. None of these people were ‘enemy combatants’. They were suspected drug smugglers until proven to be guilty in a fair trial. Without that, they were murdered. That is all. 🙄🇺🇸🙄

Correct. Elite journalists are failing the moment because elite journalists are trying to do the job they imagined they would have instead of the job they actually need to do right now.

Just imagining how much better it would be if ALL news stories about vaccine-preventable illnesses were illustrated with pictures of people with the disease, not pictures of needle injections. If you must show something that people will find scary & unpleasant, make it the disease, not the cure.

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

Thank goodness Republicans got rid of all the bureaucracy and political correctness in education

If you have to get your syllabus approved by an apparatchik before you can teach a class, you're not a university anymore you're a regime indoctrination center.

Crypto Leaders Call For Infusion Of 20 Million Dopes To Stabilize Market

Republicans won’t roll over & let Hakeem win so he won’t bother fighting That they haven’t gotten rid of this huge loser is a stink that hangs on every House Democrat

Energy transitions can happen faster than we think: In 2000 almost 90% of Denmark's electricity was from fossil fuels. In 2024 less than 10% of Danish electricity was from fossil fuels.

Good piece by @polphilpod.bsky.social at @theunpopulist.net. I think there is something to be said for distinguishing fascism proper from merely illiberal right-populism. And there's no plausible narrow and precise definition of "fascist" that Musk doesn't very obviously meet.

Time for Bradley to blow the whistle.

They keep calling them “kinetic strikes” for some reason, as if the particular method of murder remotely matters here. Maybe it’s just because they’re dumb and they think it sounds cool?

One contributor to this University of Oklahoma business is that a student is free to say what they want, but an instructor is bound by FERPA and basic decency not to say anything in public about a student or their work. That tilts the framing. Far as I can tell from the rubric,

Conspiracism can excuse anything. When asked why he did it, Donald Trump airily said that his conviction was a "Biden hoax." He was convicted.

Lecturing on Watergate this morning and trying to decide how to communicate "no, Congress used to care when presidents did crimes!" without derailing the lecture and/or sobbing

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

This is less like appeasement and more like two mob families deciding how to divide up a rival's territory.

They haven't even gone to the pretense of giving him some made-up official role and title, as they easily could and did during the first term. They're flaunting the lawlessness and patrimonialism, as if being a close relative of Trump is in and of itself enough to be conducting foreign policy.

The only silver lining is that all the attacks on higher education go to show how important it is. Would rather recognition was given in the form of proper funding though.

According to BBC, defending yourself is an escalation.

Had to denazify those pre-Nazis.

OTD in 1918 USSR invaded Latvia. This is how Russia became the world's largest country. We keep peacefully attacking our neighbours.

This is not true. Musk is endorsing (again) a version of the white nationalist great replacement theory, as told by Stephen Miller. It is a conspiracy theory and it was confined to the fringes of the Internet until 10 or so years ago. If true, Harris would’ve easily won in 2024.

Wild how people like this, just like russians, still can’t comprehend that the Revolution of Dignity wasn’t staged. It was Ukrainians choosing freedom over fear. Imperialists and small minds always assume someone else must be pulling the strings, because they’ve never seen a nation with a spine.

Has this been posted yet

They demonstrated pretty conclusively that they understand how to cover pardons as if they are huge scandals when they ran multiple days of banner headlines and scolding op-eds and follow ups when Biden pardoned Hunter exactly one year ago. They just choose not to for trump because they like him

As is typically the case, the accusations were confessions.

Teaching children empathy = Marxist attack on western civilization Teaching children to glory in extrajudicial murder = Patriotic, Christian freedom juice

HA HA get it It’s funny because the United States now favors war crimes, this will surely never come back to harm us in any way

We belong dead

The AP didn’t used to be known for saucy headlines, but that whole Gulf of Mexico thing must have unleashed their AhFuckIt gene. apnews.com/article/dona...