My friend and Pulitzer Prize winning colleague Ann Telnaes quit the Washington Post in protest of the killing of a proposed cartoon criticizing the publisher and his billionaire buds. Here's my tribute to Ann.

The name “Adrian Dittman” means “rich, famous person”

In this Indiana diner, everyone has three questions: How's the breaded tenderloin? Is the quarry hiring? And what does esteemed X commentator Adrian Dittman think about the alpha, high T DOGE initiative?

Best Western, Bama Budweiser and Burger King are among the more than 500 businesses to "lease incarcerated workers" (aka slavery) from one of the most violent, overcrowded and unruly prison systems in the U.S.

I was a lifelong liberal Democrat. Then I learned that Vivek Ramaswamy hated ‘Friends’.

One prediction for 2025: expect more tone policing. Bad stuff will happen, people will get angry, and be told is the problem is the way they present their anger.

"How did this all happen in America?" SEPARATED, from Academy Award®-winning filmmaker Errol Morris, is now available on demand.

Literally none of the headlines about the woman burned alive on the subway include the fact that at least one NYPD officer looked on and did nothing. So a reminder: - Cops feel zero obligation to protect you - Press can't be trusted to hold cops accountable, they're effectively the police PR wing

Ah when you got jokes, you gotta use them.

it’s probably all just pirated stuff

Tbilisi, Day 24. 1000s of students have blocked the main East-West highway across #Georgia, shutting off the entrance to Tbilisi. 24 straight days of people power demanding: - free & fair elections 🗳️ - release of political detainees🚓 - EU membership🇪🇺 - a non-Russian future 🇷🇺❌ #GeorgiaProtests 🇬🇪

Watching live right now – Georgians dancing the “Khorumi” war dance with incredible pride, lifting the flags of both Georgia and Europe.🇬🇪🇪🇺 #GeorgiaProtests

Evergreen

Protestors gathered in Damascus, Syria for unity and calling for a secular, law abiding, and plural state. Syrian actor Maxim Khalil in front of thousands of people in Umayyad Square spoke up in support for the rights of women and girls: "The Syrian woman deserves to take on all roles”

This. This. This. And that message carries across a huge range of circumstances.

Here you go: the #Superman trailer. Krypto, take us home. youtu.be/uhUht6vAsMY?...

UFW announces boycott of Sunnyside mushrooms, its first in 20 years www.yakimaherald.com/news/local/b...

"The shooting comes just days after a Montreal-area synagogue was firebombed, and is the latest in a series of attacks on Canadian Jewish institutions since Oct. 7."

One thing a shutdown’s might do is usher in Governor Abigail Spanberger

The right wing machine is doing a good thing that we should figure out whether there is any way to counter: (1) blaming Dems for the shutdown, and (2) blaming Obamacare for bad healthcare policy.

This is literally forbidding public health workers to do the work of increasing public health and it is one of many troubling signs of where the US is heading... www.npr.org/sections/sho...

"The Arrest of Christ" might be an instant classic

The Arrest of Christ, German artist, 1480-1495, 📸 by @1ontapdigital

Our good Christian governor.

Nothing says “populism” like taking orders from the richest guy in the world

It’s not really ha ha funny but the gop is now IRL the right wing tinfoil hat fever dream version of the Dem party with Musk in place of Soros bsky.app/profile/adam...

Term "President Musk" takes off.

Did y’all see they are giving away Grok for free on the bad place?

in-groups, out-groups, protecting, binding, etc.

I fully support this.

For a big budget story to resonate, it needs a broadly relatable anecdote. Years ago, it was the Pentagon spending $10,000 on a toilet cover. Today it might just be the $400 billion man screwing cancer kids out of research money.

Michigan enacted legislation in October abolishing fines and fees for children. The effects of charging that debt were devastating — a teenager I spoke with had to stay on probation an extra two years and couldn't go to public school because she couldn't pay back $800. boltsmag.org/michigan-juv...

except chickens, because fuck chickens

NEW: Louisiana files a brief in a U.S. Supreme Court lawsuit alleging the state's congressional map is gerrymandered to benefit Black voters. The state argues that racial gerrymandering claims are nonjusticiable and should not be heard in federal courts: www.democracydocket.com/cases/louisi...

Bravo, anonymous hero.

Whoa—the Montana Supreme Court holds that its state constitution protects the right to "a stable climate system," and strikes down a law that barred consideration of greenhouse gas emissions when permitting new fossil fuel projects. juddocumentservice.mt.gov/getDocByCTra...

Protest in Damascus today calling for a democratic, secular and civil state

If you see anyone talking about how the Amazon strike could disrupt the flow of packages:

“Almost 190 moderators are bringing the multi-pronged claim that includes allegations of intentional infliction of mental harm, unfair employment practices, human trafficking and modern slavery and unlawful redundancy.”

MISSED CONNECTION: I was the guy who posed nude for your class. You were the math professor who called campus security

Really interesting piece on how we have been arguing about "wokeness" in different forms for more than six decades. laurenmgoldstein.substack.com/p/weve-been-...

This was a tough one to report. After a young migrant was murdered in Dallas, her mother wanted her remains returned to Venezuela. Instead, officials in Texas cut up her daughter’s body and assigned prices to the parts undamaged by the bullet that killed her. 1/ www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

When Musk put his foot on the scale, half of Congress bowed down. The world’s richest man could shut down the government, and that’s just the start. He wants to gut public services and sell them for parts, screwing all of us over while billionaires get even richer. www.jphilll.com/p/the-riches...

remembering how there was no such thing as a government shutdown until Jimmy Carter's attorney general made the whole idea up in 1980 theweek.com/articles/819...