another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

“This was a preventable disaster, but Harris and the Democratic Party leadership prioritized the agendas of corporate donors and gambled on a centrist path, while largely abandoning working-class, young, and progressive voters.”

Trump "has not successfully consolidated power. That has been staved off, and it has been staved off not, frankly, due to the efforts of pretty much anyone in elite institutions or political leadership but due to the efforts of regular people declining to go along with fascism.”

(daft punk One More Time voice) Auld Lang Syne

Mr. Cuban, I'm a professor at Yale School of Public Health. Here's a paper published by one of my colleagues in the top medical journal evaluating the Medicare for All Act, which would not only get us there, but would save $450B per year. Happy to discuss! www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

I just watched ‘The Insider’ last night, the 1999 drama about the time ‘60 Minutes’ clashed with the tobacco industry. I think what is happening now is worse. In that case CBS News lawyers had specific legal concerns about a whistleblower. The CECOT thing is just Bari Weiss being a fascist idiot.

Every pundit who took at face value the idea that the Right sincerely cares about free speech, or ideological diversity, or in fact has any principles at all, should be wearing a dunce cap and writing a lengthy mea culpa right now. Not for our catharsis but for public awareness at least

One confusing thing about liberal media outlets like the NY Times and CNN is that they're extremely right-wing: open.substack.com/pub/thecolum... by @ahjohnson.bsky.social

It was an unforgivable dereliction of duty that the majority of elected congressional Republican office holders were not in prison for open insurrection by March 2021.

"His pinhole view of both markets and states leaves little room for the more complicated, sometimes antagonistic interplay between them." "...if capitalism thrives on accumulation *and* non-accumulation, stability *and* crisis, the suspicion grows that we’ve been sold a story without a subject."

Jesus, can you hear me? Good, the comms are working. Now, you're gonna need to run if you want to evade those Roman soldiers. Hold down A to sprint. Go ahead and try it. ... Good work! You just might be the savior yet. Now pick up that AR-15 and let's do some target practice.

I covered this in my premium last week, it’s laughable! www.wheresyoured.at/ai-mythbuste...

The handwritten note appears to refer to President Trump, saying he “shares our love of young, nubile girls.”

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DOJ briefly uploaded this letter from Jeff Epstein to serial child molester Larry Nassar: "Our president shares our love of young, nubile girls. When a young beauty walked by he loved to 'grab snatch,' whereas we ended up snatching grub in the mess halls of the system."

UPDATE I have updated my story linked below with a high-quality broadcast version of the 60 Minutes segment that was pulled by Bari Weiss. Here it is (no paywall): bit.ly/4qn6Jn5

if they had just shown it on 60 Minutes nobody would have seen it

60 Minutes

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Medicare for All is the LEAST radical approach to healthcare. That’s probably why it's so POPULAR. Two of every three voters want a national health insurance program that would guarantee healthcare for all Americans. Take a look.

It’s an indictment of The New York Times that Bari Weiss came out of that institution.

2025's oligarchical ascension has spurred a backlash from Mitt Romney, let alone those to his left. As Harold Meyerson writes, "Democrats will either go full progressive populist, or they won’t go anywhere at all." prospect.org/2025/12/22/h...

Bari Weiss is the logical endpoint of corporate media. This is what happens when people who hate journalism are in charge of it. The only way journalism works is when it’s independent from the power it’s supposed to hold to account, which means ownership can’t have anything to do with those in power

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

Time to retire “vibe shift”

Trump is like when Mr. Burns from the simpsons has every disease but in his case it's every greek myth that's meant to teach you a lesson

“Epstein took the then 14-year-old to Mar-a-Lago in 1994, where she was introduced to Donald Trump. … Doe said she felt uncomfortable, but she was too young to understand why.”

Woman comes to US at age 6. Graduates nursing school. Work permit. No criminal record. Snatched and imprisoned by ICE for 6 months now. About to be forced back to Honduras. A life destroyed and one less nurse. Merry Christmas. www.nola.com/news/educati...

"Has feminism failed women brought to you by bank of america" is my MKULTRA sleeper agent activation phrase

From computer files to Epstein files, files were everywhere you looked this year! That’s why I’m declaring 2025 the Year of the File

Straight up forgot I wrote this in 2025, but I think it’s my favorite piece. Also it’s fun to say “the business idiot”

It’s a sign the system is really broken if even Mitt Romney is now saying it’s time to tax the rich.

Some of these redactions are almost like modern art

Mitt Romney is in the New York Times saying we should tax the rich.

The Democratic Party is allergic to democracy.

The U.S. is giving dying mall vibes. I can't explain it, but you know I'm right.

“During the past decade, Twitter, now known as X, had an outsized and frankly grotesque hold on the journalism business,” Jay Caspian Kang writes. “This past year, the fever broke.” Read about five major trends in media this year. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/WDXUiw

If fentanyl is a weapon of mass destruction then what is unleashing measles across vulnerable populations in the United States

The people who hate woke the most famously have the hardest time defining it. This clip of Musk trying to put it into words is amazingly excruciating.

From 2015: “For years, Hollywood director Rob Reiner and his wife struggled as their son Nick was addicted to hard drugs … The couple wondered if there was an end in sight, and whether it would be the tragic one that a voice in the back of their heads kept telling them was coming.”

This is a horrible path, but completely unsurprising. The gamification of this horrible timeline is getting much worse. Just traveling through Detroit, 80% of the billboards are encouraging “get rich quick” schemes: Lottery, Gambling, Personal Injury Lawyers with “GET PAID” everywhere….

It’s every man’s dream at some time or another to punch his boss in the face. But thanks to Jeff Lawrence, I actually got to do it, because my boss was Jeff Lawrence. www.bostonmagazine.com/news/2025/12...

I can’t believe someone who won the FIFA Peace Prize would act like this.

Probably should have shared this ahead of the story that Ford was pivoting its battery efforts to AI data centers from EVs. They are totaling taking the L on electric vehicles. I bet the EV tax credit was all that was keeping that business alive.