I am sorry but it is very funny that Democrats spent $120MM on a special election campaign to gerrymander Doug LaMalfa out of office, only for LaMalfa to simply die in office just a few months later.

Every night I craft an immaculate schedule for the following day, and every morning that schedule has mysteriously vanished and I am immobilized for the next 24 hours.

Riding high today on making the @oaklandreviewofbooks.org calendar with @xlenc.bsky.social and pushing it out to our 500+ subscribers AND on having an actual review of books publish today in The Georgia Review, one I started well more than a year ago: www.thegeorgiareview.com/posts/the-th...

Every single NYT headline is like "A new DOJ memo clarifies that all politics are reducible to the distinction between friend and enemy. Some legal experts are alarmed."

Search "gangstalking" in a municipal public records request database to instantly ruin your day.

people mock the excesses of 2010s SJ activism without acknowledging they were basically right about everything

"We are going to win" okay but does your definition of "winning" include literally throwing every single one of these ghouls into the ocean? Because if not...

The political pendulum won't swing on it's own, it never has. You have to pull it yourself.

The whole 60 Minutes affair has made it clear that, to the extent that we have some freedom of the press in written journalism, it's only because nobody cares. The U.S. public has been functionally illiterate for decades, & there isn't much need to censor journalism unless it is in a video format.

A common talking point on the left is that a lot of the present crisis was caused by letting George W. Bush get away with war crimes, torture, stealing an election, etc. And while it's true... Bush is still alive! It isn't too late to demand that he face justice today! Same with Obama and Biden!

[Paulie Walnuts voice]: Hold up, Chrissie. You're telling me that this guy works at the intersection of art... and technology???

Torrenting darude_sandstorm_remix.mp4 only to discover that the file is a bootleg episode of 60 Minutes.

Especially when 1 in 3 Americans have a criminal record.

One of the revelations in the 60 Minutes CECOT story, as sourced by the UC Berkley students, is that Kristi Noem's torture porn video was filmed in a different part of the prison - not with the deported Venezuelans, but with domestic criminals from El Salvador.

David Brooks wrote a NYT column attacking members of congress for preparing to release the Epstein files, without disclosing his personal relationship to Epstein. In a normal world he would be fired for this.

"Diversity statements violate freedom of speech!" Okay, did you know that you have to sign to sign a loyalty oath to get a part time minimum wage job at the University of California?

State-building continues to be a transformation of, rather than an end to, civil war. www.reuters.com/investigatio...

This ceaseless rage is going to kill me. How the hell is everyone else managing.

A Judge Tossed a Prison Sex Abuse Lawsuit Over Typos. Hundreds More Dismissals Could Be Coming. nysfocus.com/2025/12/22/p...

Bari Weiss furiously googling "who is Julius Streicher and what happened to him"

Okay, wow, you "value lived experience?" So I guess you're perfectly fine with blatant zombie erasure??

One of the worst parts of the "Jews own Hollywood" canard is that early Jewish producers in LA are the reason why we even have an independent American cinema at all. Thomas Edison had the film industry in a stranglehold until they defied his patent cartel and broke his monopoly in court.

I think if you oppose war with Venezuela (correct) you should open with that. Illegal and unconstitutional can follow. But the cause is monstrous and legality could never justify it.

Winter sucks because it's cold and dark and full of stressful obligations, but it's also the season when my cat will sit in my lap and purr for hours every single time I sit down, so I can't hate it completely

The Amazon may be entering a climate state Earth hasn’t seen in millions of years. Research led by UC Berkeley scientists identifies a shift toward hypertropical conditions with major ecological consequences. news.berkeley.edu/2025/12/10/a...

It's hard to overstate how important this is. You don't need to wait for a new president, you don't need to wait for Republicans to lose their majority in congress, we have the ability to stop most of these federal raids at the local level RIGHT NOW.

The United States is preparing a legally dubious invasion of an oil-rich country. Dan Brown novels are flying off shelves. Congressional Republicans are writing a massive healthcare bill. A musical adaptation of "Wicked" just came out. People online are arguing about Chomsky. The year is 2003/2025.

Sorry to blaspheme on main but how could a loving G-d allow the release of a Barbarella remake starring Sydney Sweeney? The world is full of sin and wickedness but we do not deserve this.

New from me for @theintercept.com: As public support for the death penalty fell to the lowest level in 50 years, the US is poised to execute 48 people in 2025 -- the highest amount in 15 years. FL drove the surge in executions. I wrote about @deathpenaltyinfo.org's report, which was released today.

It's so funny when people are surprised to learn that Ben Grimm is canonically Jewish. Like bro have you ever heard of a golem. Have you ever read Genesis. Do you know who Jack Kirby is.

In which a Border Patrol agent and a youth minister abuse their adoptive daughter to death. The girl was homeschooled; the homeschool sponsors knew and did nothing. The family was evangelical; members of their church knew and did nothing. A San Diego police officer knew, and GAVE THE FAMILY PADDLES.

What's fun is that this doesn't even include all of the mainstream spellings. The Penguin edition of the Talmud spells it "Hanuka."

Hanukkah is barely mentioned in the Mishna, but some sources speculate this was a political omission: Judah ha-Nasi, the Mishna's main compiler, may have redacted material about Hanukkah because publishing information about a holiday about overthrowing colonial power would attract Roman repression.

"If you don't give freedom of speech to Nazis, that makes YOU the oppressor." Okay but you see the thing is that I would be thrilled to oppress Nazis. Oppressing Nazis is actually extremely cool. You can put "oppressor of Nazis" on my tombstone, by all means.

It's kind of cool that the majority of YA novels fit one of two genre categories (mystery and paranormal/supernatural) that are ideologically at war with one another.

Banning congressional stock trading is going to have some very negative unintended consequences unless the ban includes crypto.

I feel it growing within me once again. The call of the flame. The candle mania. The Hanukkah madness.

It isn't an exaggeration to say that this administration is programmatically pro-rape. www.npr.org/2025/12/04/n...

Homicide dropping by nearly 50% in two years is truly incredible. That's even lower than the homicide rate prior to the pandemic.

Getting up each day and checking the NYT website for biased headlines to get mad at, take screenshots of, and post on social media alongside hectoring appeals for people to not look at the NYT website that you check literally every morning:

It's so funny when guys complain about single mothers saying "My kids are my whole world" on dating apps. Yeah dude, wow, it is totally weird of her to prioritize her own children. It is soooo cringe of her to express her love for them. btw how's that hunt for a new therapist going buddy?

Getting up each day and checking the NYT website for biased headlines to get mad at, take screenshots of, and post on social media alongside hectoring appeals for people to not look at the NYT website that you check literally every morning:

The latest right wing attack on trans people is to manufacture a conflict and then pressure the administration to cave. To counter this, spineless administrators need to be held accountable. Top admins often switch schools over their careers, other colleges should refuse to hire those that cave.

Stranger Things fans are like cicadas because I completely forget that they exist for years at a time, and then suddenly they emerge and are SO INESCAPABLE AND LOUD.

Fascinating stuff (and yeah, obligatory note that AI is a stupid label, this isn't an LLM etc) But once again, this is also about substituting mere prediction for explanation. Understanding is overhead to capital, predictions are all it cares about. Capital is trying to get rid of science

if you ask students to list the causes of the Irish famine and they just say “the Irish are demonic” can you really not fail that kid?

Disciplining an employee for competently grading a paper in good faith is grounds for a ULP strike, for what it's worth.

I will vote for you if you promise to execute all of these goons for war crimes the moment you take office, otherwise please stop wasting my time.

RIP Tom Stoppard, thank you for providing Bay Area repertory theaters with the majority of their box office income over the past 40 years.