This might be one of my favorite @thisamericanlife.org episodes and I haven't even made it to the end yet. Just surreal to listen to how bizarre this situation is and all of these characters are

A small (personal) example of this book’s intellectual dishonesty: My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media. Huh? When did I say that?!

This is as easy a test of your belief in the American system as is conceivable: Should this be an acceptable argument from a president?

The conditions reported by 60 Minutes are abhorrent but also are things that members of the Trump administration have largely expressed their enthusiastic support for. Truly cowardly of Weiss to cut this

This thread is locked now but folks insisting that the one trick we need to eliminate traffic deaths is simply banning human drivers are doing the AV industry's work for them. We know that vision zero is achievable with technology that not only exists today but has been around for decades

We tried to go to the Symphony tonight (didn't realize that the show was canceled until we got to Hayes Valley). What stood out the most in the chaos of so many traffic lights being out was how many Waymo vehicles were just stopped at or even in intersections, totally paralyzed

That this has happened is shocking. That this is even possible, however, is alarming. No cult of personality can be reconciled with representative government. Idolatry is betrayal. Acquiescence is cowardice. Neroism is despicable.

Very cool!

There’s an orchestrated campaign to pretend antisemitism only exists at the extremes. It’s not just the extremes. It’s pervasive and we see it online and in real life on a daily basis. It has profound consequences in terms of violence. We must call it out and never normalize it.

I'm not sure if people realize the murder strikes are taking place across a large region. It's quite staggering. www.newsweek.com/map-us-strik...

why would immigrants do this www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Just to be clear: if 'no one was ready' a lot of people fucked up, bc those of us who work on this laid out what was going to happen 8yrs ago. The twofold issue that 1)it's not just a tech problem, and 2) Big Tech allowed itself to be ref-worked into spinelessness. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/t...

This is the most corrupt White House in the history of the country.

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!

Picard management tip: Share the credit. Take the blame.

Dudes will listen to two hour podcasts about the loneliness crisis instead of just cold calling their friends to chat.

The biggest priority for Project 2029 is putting Republicans in prison. But right under that is purging all of these companies from the federal payroll and blacklisting them for any taxpayer money.

this is a fantastic point that I hadn’t thought about: when antivaxx was associated with crunchy Marin libs and caused an outbreak at Disneyland what happened? Dems fought back and passed stronger vaccine requirements now that antivaxxers are republicans they instantly took over the party

AP on Trump now, and Biden in June 2022. For Trump, declining to 36 percent approval is “good news.” For Biden, holding steady at 41% is “a source of concern.”

A great example of technology that exists today (and in this case has existed for decades) that would reduce dangerous and distracted driving without needing to resort to vehicles that are fully controlled by computers. But we don't have any NYT op-eds from physicians advocating for it so 🤷‍♂️

someone tell the California ACLU who is disproportionately more likely to be killed in traffic accidents including those involving people under the influence

Trump declares war on state AI laws, including a law I passed to ensure transparency of AI safety protocols. He’s doing so purportedly to promote U.S. AI “dominance.” Of course, he just authorized chip sales to China & Saudi Arabia: the exact opposite of ensuring U.S. dominance.

Trump 0-3 on indicting Tish James and just had his ass handed to him by Indiana Republican legislators he threatened and bullied. Also new low in AP poll at 36% approval.

In a normal administration, this would be a career-ending, weeks-long scandal

White House Begins Christmas Season With Ceremonial Lighting Of Cross

California is a majority-minority state. Our strength is defined by diversity.

Every part of this is bonkers. The intro is bonkers. The transition to his health is bonkers. The mention that other presidents didn't need cognitive exams is bonkers. The claim that this screening test is somehow hard is bonkers. The idea that criticism of him is treason is bonkers. All of it.

And all New Jersey got out of it was statistically significantly cleaner air

First of all, the prosecutor was Emil Bove, a Trump ally who just got rewarded with a lifetime appointment as a federal judge. Second of all, he's now saying he didn't know anything about it and relied on what "people said" (Christ) but just ten days ago he was claiming he'd pored over the records.

They’re killing people as a twitter joke. It’s depraved. Can’t let yourself lose the capacity to be appalled and disgusted and outraged by this.

We’ve just stopped talking about the disgraceful complicity of every MSM outlet and reporter that has chosen to remain on a site that is an explicitly racist, Nazi cesspool. It is unconscionable that they have CHOSEN to continue using it as their primary social media platform.

Claude the albino alligator is dead My story with @aidinvaziri.bsky.social Lots of cool facts from biologists I've interviewed. Claude knew his name & briefly had a pit-mate named "Bonnie." Most common question from guests: "Is he real?" RIP to an SF icon 🐊 😢 www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...

Love to see some new BikeLink lockers going in at @caltrain.com's Lawrence Station

it’s always very odd how people talk about rail in a vacuum without mentioning the interstate highway program. Then they get Professor Zuremski to say something that’s arguably not true (the USA has the best freight railroad network).

Very disappointing episode of @planetmoney.bsky.social's The Indicator this morning - basically USA doesn't have a better passenger rail network because cities are far apart, freight is more profitable, and building rail is expensive. But huge factors left unmentioned... one.npr.org/i/nx-s1-5622...

The heart and soul of Trumpism in one tweet

Hope @edmarkey.bsky.social @markey.senate.gov will follow @moulton.house.gov's lead here

Every single congressional Democrat needs to be out there, right now, insisting that Pete Hegseth resign right now and announcing that he will be held accountable for committing war crimes. If you do not demand accountability here and now, they will only become more emboldened.

From Frederick Douglass's 1867 "Composite Nation" speech, a defense of Chinese migration to the United States at a time when anti-Chinese sentiment was intensifying. teachingamericanhistory.org/document/our...

Can't decide if this cult of personality stuff is more disgusting or pathetic. Truly corrupt either way to try to taint all aspects of the federal government with the Trump brand

Savage thread, but it's not like we should pretend that as a nation we truly had a deep reverence for the rule of law before Trump showed up

Homeland Security doesn’t grasp the fact that the first Thanksgiving was about making “room at the table” for European “invaders.”

The President doesn't want you standing up and speaking out against him, so he's coming after me to intimidate all of us. But I won't back down — and neither should you.

One of the big tidal forces of the coming years is that the baseline reliability of things you see on a screen is going to decline. I think this has not been adequately metabolized. This is one version, but there are a bunch of them.

Kudos to Brazil for being one of the hundreds of countries on this planet that has a more functional political system than the USA

Who does Trump pardon first, SBF or Holmes?

This feels like a bit of a cheap shot at @londonbreed.bsky.social by @sfchronicle.com www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

Musk is unequivocally responsible for more deaths than almost any person alive. Somebody connect the dots.

It’s crazy to think about the crimes we’re going to learn about after this regime ends. We’re already hearing about Watergate level crimes every week. Imagine what will come out after it’s over. We’re going to need a full accounting of all that’s been done in violation of the constitution.

Interesting piece. Tldr is that the Trump DOJ + TX leg botched their redistricting badly such that, under very recent SCOTUS precedent, it is unconditional. And also there is no logically consistent way to find TX constitutional while overturning Prop 50. But SCOTUS majority has no shame, so 🤷‍♂️