Well all the people who say “we need to hire the most qualified people” are getting a chance to run things and it turns out they aren’t qualified to shovel shit into a bucket.

Honestly it's going to be pretty fun watching her try to run a national news organization that is 100 percent united in hating her guts

I think it's likely that "whoops, we forgot to not air the segment in Canada" is the kind of thing that starts happening pretty frequently

When I teaching the Holocaust I note the Holocaust museum’s definition of a concentration camp is a prison whose inmates are denied due process. These are by definition concentration camps.

I don't think Trump should get access to standard medical care, he should have to let RFK Jr treat him

Today I wrote about what it means to write a free newsletter with voluntary subscriptions, and the delicate gift that it is to have a readership, and re-shared 12 essays from the year that was. www.the-reframe.com/goodbye-to-2...

People conjuring the signers of that Harper's Letter; it's apt to point out the hypocrisy, but it's important to realize that nobody who signed that thing ever wanted to protect anything like free speech. What is happening at CBS with Bari Weiss is precisely what that letter was meant to facilitate.

This is NYT headline morning after JD’s grotesque hot blast of white supremacist nativism at Turning Point’s hate-fest?!

CBS really Bari'd the story huh.

Parisot (the Director) tells a story about how Tim Allen just started crying after a scene one day "I don't like these feelings i'm having." Says Tim. "I'm going back to my trailor" and walks off. There's silence for a second. "Oh my god." Says Rickman. "I think Tim just experienced acting."

Something which isn't always acknowledged is that "contrarian thinkers" are just regurgitating conventional wisdom with a little extra racism, and these forbidden views are generally expressed by the most platformed mainstream figures, like Pinker.

Jamelle Bouie is one of the most measured voices in punditry and his continued open scorn for the almost unimaginably self-serving and shallow-minded work of Thomas Chatterton Williams is both supremely well-deserved and one of my favorite bits on here.

Holding a story because the subject of reporting refuses to provide comment is b.s. and everyone knows it, even Bari Weiss. Just Google "request for comment" and "site:https://www.thefp.com" and you'll see pages of stories on Weiss' own website published without comment.

bank robbery is blurring the lines between money that belongs to you and money that belongs to the thieves

Why did CBS delete this promo and cancel this from airing in full?

So Bari Weiss’s first real editorial intervention at CBS is to repress coverage of American concentration camps.

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

if this was me at a public event mourning my spouse who was violently murdered my kids would either have me committed or never speak to me again

lady looks like she's about to ask the ghostbusters if they're gods.

My main takeaway is not so much how it demonstrates that they know they're full of shit, because we already know that. My main takeaway is how easy it is to catch them with the simplest follow-up, and how obvious this makes it that they're not used to being asked basic journalistic questions.

Specifying that they're being forced to "waste resources" protecting incumbents is INCREDIBLY telling re: how stuck they are in their thinking: a primary that produces a new, exciting, motivating candidate is worth WAY MORE than anything your campaign funds can do for your "check-the-box" incumbent!

Sorry guys. If you had actually been “our own” instead of getting friendly with our enemies trying to kill our neighbors and our families, maybe you wouldn’t be getting attacked now, food for thought. www.cnn.com/2025/12/21/p...

Third Way Terrified to Learn of Fourth Way

“There’s never been a moment when someone’s like ‘oh, I didn’t want to let you know I really want universal child care.’ … When you say ‘I’m a moderate,’ or ‘I’m a centrist’ I immediately know you’re right-wing, and I also think you’re a coward.”

If your bluesky is white, you segregate yourself.

Saying impeaching these fascist is "premature" should itself be impeachable. Impeachment is his sworn constitutional duty. Primary this useless waste of space please.

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.

As Arendt and Sartre and so many before have told us -- the goal is not to replace truth, but to render the entire concept of shared truth to ruins. To fray all bonds of fellowship and shared ethic among a free people.

This guy looks like he murdered Laura Palmer and just can't stop dancing.

I know it doesn't speak to the finest part of my soul but seeing fake internet boxer Jake Paul face the first actual non-retired boxer of his career and get the piss beat out of him is deeply healing on some level.

Epstein redactions aren't believable, and they are valuable to fascists specifically because they aren't believable. Fascists prefer lies to truth. Believing in a lie is preferable to believing a truth, if what you want is to dominate. Believing lies dominates truth. So they believe lies.

There are a few major purveyors of misinformation on here that I had hoped would be left behind on Twitter, but no, they’ve found lots of fans here too. It’s demoralizing.

the way people talk about AI is like it's a stalker you ought to be nicer to

“Coverups are difficult in free societies. They are routine for authoritarian governments. The Epstein coverup will be an indicator of how far we are down the road to authoritarianism. The success of such a coverup would take us much further down that road.” www.thebulwark.com/p/why-the-ep...

Today I wrote about what it means to write a free newsletter with voluntary subscriptions, and the delicate gift that it is to have a readership, and re-shared 12 essays from the year that was. www.the-reframe.com/goodbye-to-2...

Americans & Europeans needlessly exposing African babies to preventable diseases just to see if they can find something that would justify their preexisting antivaccine beliefs is not only unscientific and actually anti-science, it is very much reminiscent of colonialist, racist human rights abuses

There are people being paid by the federal government to sit around and think of increasingly outrageous posts to titillate Nazis on the 9th most popular social media site in the U.S.

Makes me proud every time! Did you know we’re shipping whistles anywhere in the US? Email whistlerequests [at] proton [dot] me for your free 3D printed whistles. We’ve sent over 30,000 so far in December!

Trump reveals which animals he was required to identify in mental tests

I’m told it’s several of the hardest animals, many of which have rarely if ever been identified.

The price of coddling conservative ignorance and malice is astonishing.

I know people are rightly going to be worried about child health, their own health. But we also can't afford this. Like, John Hopkins did an estimate (next link) and every measles case during outbreaks cost on average $43,000 to treat. That kid who got tetanus cost $1 million dollars to treat /1

Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition: fuck you, you deserve to die because I say so.

andrew is one of the best human beings i have ever had the pleasure of knowing and deserves one hundred billion dollars

THE HOLDOVERS is still, in my opinion, good. letterboxd.com/andrewmoxon/...

Cruelty is anhedonic. It rarely delivers the euphoria promised because, in the abstract, what feels righteous and joyful inevitably reveals itself to be sordid and small. Then it's "No not like that". "No not enough". "No the real battle, the forever war to make this feel good starts now". Forever.

the main reward you are likely to get for total loyalty to trump is the destruction of your career and your reputation www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/n...

Feminism is the idea that women are full human beings, so the question “has feminism failed women?” interrogates the assumptions of those asking far more than it interrogates feminism.

I watched it in grad school and was SHOOK. If you haven’t watched it, I’m not sure you can appreciate the significance of President Woodrow Wilson loving it so much that he screened it in the White House. The first film to be screened there, of course. It is incandescently racist.

It's best to understand that fascists see hypocrisy as a virtue. It's how they signal that the things they are doing to people were never meant to be equally applied. It's not an inconsistency. It's very consistent to the only true fascist value, which is domination.