Live look of all the Harper’s letter signatories:

We better start firing up that GoFundMe for Sharyn Alfonso, it’s what the MAGA shitheads would already be doing.

LOL

The next reporter to interview vance should ask him to explain what the joke is here. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

In case you need to hear it from someone who was raised Hindu: Usha is not a hostage, she is an accomplice. She is culpable. Fuck her and the fascists she colludes with. May she go down with all of them. As Zohran ably demonstrates, our communities do not aspire to whiteness & don’t seek to appease.

When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.

Where those Harper’s Letter folks at

these are the people that got mad about biden asking social media sites to remove his sons dick pics in violation of their own terms of service

I'm not saying this to be snarky, but Bari doesn't actually know how a national newsdesk is run because when she was at NYT she was on opinion and the Free Press doesn't count because it was much smaller and explicitly propaganda.

Exactly this. Especially local, independent media.

Betty Reid Soskin, the National Park Service’s oldest ranger, has died. She was 104.

Benoit Blanc and Philomena Cunk independently investigate the same murder and come to the same correct conclusion for vastly different reasons

“These men risked their lives to speak with us. We have a moral and professional obligation to the sources who entrusted us with their stories. Abandoning them now is a betrayal of the most basic tenet of journalism: giving voice to the voiceless.”

It's incredible they would do this right after everyone got the _explicit documentation_ that Byers is the designated hack for laundering lies that literally no other publication will touch.

Can't believe Bari Weiss called the refs and said the MAGA quarterback had to win.

oh the CBS bosses went to dylan byers? then they are definitely lying.

The rate of return here is crazy: for a few hundred thousand dollars, this lab produces literally billions of oysters and supports a seafood industry worth hundreds of millions. And the Trump administration is just like "fuck all that, it's wasteful spending, you're fired"

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.

doink lol

POV: Your spouse is neither white nor Christian but you need the support of people who demand both.

🤡There's never been a time in US history where people expect you to apologize *for being white*. People expect you to apologize*for being pro-racism*. Worldwide, fewer than half of all white people are pro-racism.♥️ In the US it takes an active disinfo campaign to keep the pro-racism group > 50%.

every person I've heard say that they have to be there for their followers has had approximately 1% as many followers as I had on that platform. Bring your community to places where they're not under siege.

the broad inability to leave a social media platform owned by a white supremacist and prolific manipulator of public perception really is one of the most discouraging data points right now

This sale ends TONIGHT!!!

Fun fact: It’s easy to keep premiums low when you only have to insure healthy people.

@vicmsong.bsky.social @davidpierce.xyz okay, deep cut here — Jack Dorsey's original sketched concept for proto-Twitter, which he was directly influenced by LiveJournal, but it was _called_ stat.us — specifically because of the inspiration of AIM away status messages. (Though it mentions Jabber.)

And the air is noticeably cleaner! Literally we can all breathe better thanks to the law!

The actor Michael Sheen used all his money to start a fake debt collecting business, buy 900 people in Wales's debt, and excused it. If Musk bought ALL $194 billion in medical debt in the U.S. and excused it in the same way, he'd still be the world's riches man by hundreds of billions of dollars.

Alt text is incredibly useful for sighted folks too. * It helps me understand the reference if I don't recognize the image you're posting * It makes the image searchable * It gives you many more characters in which to express your rapier wit Use alt text!

Skilled-worker visa holders who traveled back to India this month to renew their US work permits are now stranded far from home after their appointments were abruptly canceled by U.S. consular offices and rescheduled for months later.

Meanwhile folks like the ADL are downright obsessed with Zohran, making sure that *every single day* he’s asked and re-asked about words he’s never said, by people who apparently have no issue with Republicans openly trading in the most vile and hateful tropes.

i really think there is legit political space for running on "we are going to dismantle ICE"

What makes these Christians so psychotic? How is every single decent church in America not up in arms over this kind of shit? They do it *all the time* and we don’t hear a peep from the major denominations.

DHS just shared this video to X with the caption "This Christmas, our hearts grow as our illegal population shrinks." The video is set to a version of Mariah Carey's "All I Want For Christmas Is You" and has text that reads "Christmas after mass deportations." The end reads "Mirthnuke." Evil shit.

VIBHISHANA: "i dunno about this, Ravana, i don't think you should have kidnapped Sita. what if Lord Rama comes and beats your ass" MATT YGLESIAS: "let's talk about how kidnapping Sita polls among moderate voters in the Kingdom of Lanka"

It was such a joy to celebrate Hanukkah with Mandy, Kathryn and their son, Gideon. As Jewish New Yorkers across our city prepare to light candles and mark the seventh night today, I wish you and your families a Hanukkah full of light and love. youtu.be/KIxAKyioXng

Today on Volts: I've got a nerdy one for you! I talk with political scientist @samuel-bagg.bsky.social about the epistemic crisis & its roots in social identity. He explains why factchecking & media literacy classes will never solve misinformation -- why something deeper & stronger is required.

I refuse to shut up about this: NYC started charging $9 to bring a car into our most transit-rich zone, the haters & trolls predicted doom, but traffic evaporated instantly and here’s Times Square tonite (even after the holiday tourists have left). For a better future, build transit & price driving!

And the air is noticeably cleaner! Literally we can all breathe better thanks to the law!

Blows my mind it hasn't even been a full year of congestion pricing in NYC yet. Years of cranks whining about it and then you just DO IT and everything is instantly better and everyone gets used to it and moves on. We should do good things more often! PS - T-minus 12 days to Streets Mayor Mamdani!

Have seen this sentiment a lot. But it’s wrong because it inverts the core, fundamental causes. Nixon wasn‘t pushed out by his own because they wanted him out. Republicans were FORCED to push him out, by the weight of public opinion, which got his approval down to around 25%.

This is a dumbfounding guideline. Absolutely a destructive and incompetent recommendation that was clearly made by people not qualified to judge such decisions.

CATO INSTITUTE: Despite DOGE slashing jobs, government spending in every month of 2025 “was greater than in every other year .. An observer who did not know when DOGE started could not identify it” on a chart. 🤡 www.cato.org/blog/doge-pr...

Yes, but it’s not a “nuclear option.” It’s the most basic, obvious, conventional option available if you want to actually do something effective. The fact that they’re not immediately promising it en masse tells us something, and that something is not good.

Oh, just the usual Republican platform: they want to sexually abuse children, and they want you to pay for it.

RFK Jr. is going to end CDC recommendations for most childhood vaccines. It will take a few years before the deaths and disabilities ramp up to a level that even the most vile Republican cannot tolerate. RFK Jr. will be long gone and unaccountable, as our babies die from preventable illness.

Remember, his children’s grandparents are refugees. When I say this man’s a piece of shit, it’s impossible to overstate the depth of my sincerity.

A lot of times, younger folks (understandably!) don't know why Prince was such a big deal, especially in the 80s. To explain it, sometimes what I can do is give them context if they've heard of other big stars of the era, like Michael Jackson or Madonna, whose music they often know better.