The First Amendment is more of a guideline now than actual law.

The Junky’s Christmas — by William S. Burroughs A holiday tradition! youtu.be/u6kHN92Yv48

Coming on January 6 to American Experience on PBS: “Bombshell: The Fight to Control the A-Bomb’s Story,” about how the US news media worked with the government to manipulate the official narrative about the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki—and how a few journalists refused to play along.

If you are reading the NAR article at the NYT please listen to this as soon as you finish. The NAR is a violent movement bent on destroying democracy. @matthewdtaylor.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...

For years, “Ladybug Ladybug” was streaming on YouTube, but sometime this year Amazon MGM Studios (which owns the rights) ordered it removed. It is now available via ScreenPix on Amazon Prime (for a fee). But you can still watch about 10 minutes early in the film when the air raid warning goes off.

Just as Marcy was one of the VERY few calling out Trump's political prosecutions of the first term, she's continually kept focus on the first political prosecution of this regime and the most ominous one—a member of Congress! Why has LaMonica Iver gotten 1/1000th the coverage of Comey? You know.

via The New Yorker, Ellis Rosen cartoon

I was there at the birth folks. Che Ahn was down the street doing stuff with the Toronto Blessing. When i tell you I been knowing these folks, believe me. They are political, and want to install Christians in every arena of American life. It's their belief system. Saying they aren't political is BS

Worth noting that the student admits that she just threw the thing together in 30 minutes without reading the paper she was supposed to be responding to.

Renuclearizing the surface navy means assuming so many new risks: more chances for mistaken identity, severe complications for crewing and sustainment, and just blurring of stakes. But even if not, all the inherent problems of TNW would apply. We looked at naval use briefly here:

Tepco prepares to restart world’s biggest nuclear plant, 15 years after Fukushima

Bari Weiss lied in her memo. She said segment didn't report administration's legal justification (it does in the very first sentence) and didn't say how many detainees had been charged with crimes as opposed to just those who were convicted (it does). www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...

It'd be really useful if someone could map out the various shades of antisemitism on the right currently and how that overlaps with Evangelical beliefs.

As a nuclear historian I can only say that I am glad the AI bubble will burst long before these nabobs can build a new generation of short-cut #NuclearPower plants and saddle generations with the waste.

Citing his age, Ken Watanabe closed a cafe he established in 2013 in Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, which was deeply affected by a tsunami from the March 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake.

There is perhaps no greater example of "Leopards eating faces" than all of the right-wing Jews resigning from the Heritage Foundation because they've discovered that right-wing nationalist politics is not ultimately good for the Jews. www.nationalreview.com/news/exclusi...

CBS News(max) is officially cooked. Bari Weiss killed a whole-ass network.

Amid the disruption, Tesla CEO Elon Musk posted on X: “Tesla Robotaxis were unaffected by the SF power outage.” Unlike Waymo, Tesla does not operate a driverless robotaxi service in San Francisco…. 🧐

Handwaving away your party’s embrace of antisemitic conspiracy theories by saying “at least we’re not controlled by George Soros” is the most ridiculously quiet-part-loud thing I’ve ever seen.

Past tense. He's already running.

JD Vance gave an RNC presidential acceptance speech at the TPUSA gathering. Has anyone told Trump that he's completely irrelevant to these people now?

The Donald J. Trump CBS News

Erika Kirk is a very odd duck. I thought that selfie video of her crying over the coffin was macabre enough. This takes it to another level. Creepy.

Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...

He recruited her even after she praised Adolf Hitler, partly because they shared similar views about Jews. Here's Ben spewing antisemitism on a Nazi podcast. He helped create this golem and he's faced zero accountability in the Jewish community because of his Zionism: redice.tv/radio-3fourt...

Reupping this new project with @jessicacalarco.com, just in case you, like me, are traveling today and need something to listen to. New episodes every friday through winter break!

The debate about nuclear energy must be reframed for the future buff.ly/hq6oEHl

Remember how hard this hit when you only got to hear it once a year

An absolutely magnificent Freudian slip! 🤌🏼

Happy Solstice to we lucky people on the tilty Earth

Who inherits the Seven Mountains Mandate after Charlie Kirk? - My new piece for @rns.org religionnews.com/2025/12/19/w...

Sig is fantastic! Couldn’t ask for a better perspective on the subject! Thank you for sharing the link.

Here is the piece in the Bulletin, which is well worth your time. First top takeaway: People are - unfortunately - likely to conclude INCORRECTLY that Trump's Golden Dome anti-missile system is the answer to the nuclear threat, thebulletin.org/2025/12/a-ho...

From Twitter Turning Point USA recreated the moment Charlie Kirk was executed at their convention for people to take selfies with...

2/ It wld be more viable in practical terms if once a prize court rules in the favor of the privateer the privateer could sell the cocaine into the Miami or Gulf Coast market. So Lee's bill shld package the Letters with a pardon for the drug trafficking similar to the deal the Honduran prez got.

Good @mattpolprof.bsky.social review of @lkatfield.bsky.social's great new book on the intellectual roots of MAGA, with a focus on the sheer opportunism of MAGA intellectuals who opportunistically glommed on to Trump: www.commonwealmagazine.org/big-ideas-no...

#OtD 20 Dec 1970 the Koza riot took place in Okinawa, Japan, when 5000 residents clashed with American military police in protest at US occupation, injuring dozens of US troops, burning cars and destroying several buildings stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9257...

Researchers at Tokyo University of Science showed that sodium-ion batteries with hard carbon anodes can charge faster than lithium-ion batteries by using a diluted electrode method that reveals sodium insertion is intrinsically quicker than lithium. www.pv-magazine.com/2025/12/19/r...

The White House has been caught. The administration inserted a photo of Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross into the Epstein files and falsely implied it showed them with victims. In reality, it’s a publicly available fundraiser photo featuring Jackson and Ross’s own children.

Japan gov't affirms no-nuke policy amid backlash on official's remarks But "Defense" Min. Koizumi says, "To protect people's peaceful life, it is only natural that we make considerations WITHOUT EXCLUDING ANY OPTIONS" They're just waiting for an opportunity. mainichi.jp/english/arti...

Hell yeah: @science.org's official Breakthrough of the Year for 2025 is ... [drumroll] ... ... the unstoppable rise & spread of renewable energy.

Trump's evident physical and political decline are happening simultaneously, increasing Republicans' sense that there's life after Trump, fueling divisions in their coalition, @gregsargent.bsky.social and @moiradonegan.bsky.social (who up til now I knew only from her writing) deftly explain.

"The group says the stolen food, worth around $3,000, was redistributed under a Christmas tree at place Valois in Montreal's Mercier-Hochelaga-Maisonneuve borough, with leftovers going to various community fridges." www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Here’s @zeblarson.bsky.social in March www.liberalcurrents.com/american-con...

Biggest technological revolution in our lifetime and it's not AI:

Brooke: "Count me in, actually." Never forget: www.yahoo.com/entertainmen... Also, never forget: David Brooks left his wife of 28 years to marry his research assistant (on a book about "character").

"Japan needs to possess nuclear weapons, prime minister's office source says" As far as we know, Takaichi hasn't embraced this yet. However, these people seem bent on destroying everything that I loved and respected about Japan. english.kyodonews.net/articles/-/6...

Tonight Skyrgámur (Skyr Gobbler), the 8th of Iceland's 13 Yule Lads, comes down from the mountains. He loves skyr, a type of Icelandic yogurt. Children leave their shoes out in the window for him, he gives the good ones a small gift or a treat, the bad children get a potato. A potato of SHAME.