And the students are doing this while the murderer is on the loose, and their friends and neighbors have been ordered not to leave their rooms or homes. Even the local hospital is on lockdown right now. bsky.app/profile/bgru...

Updates from the Brown Daily Herald, including the one above, are here:

Nate--

Towards a Deeper Understanding of Our Age of Monsters and Predators talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/towar...

Grandchildren Politely Decline David Cronenberg’s Bedtime Story Offer https://theonion.com/grandchildren-politely-decline-david-cronenbergs-bedtime-story-offer/

Michael C. Rockefeller got shipwrecked in 1963, washed up on an island, and was promptly eaten by cannibals.

Happy 100th birthday to Dick Van Dyke!

Je vais surement ouvrir un compte bis juste pour reposter ce genre de machin...

Quick thread for pet owners. We had a scary and terrible week with our critters after the "indiscriminate eaters" ate rat poison from a basket atop our dryer

He's 70 and she's 59 in this photo, by the way. Good stuff.

“Forget ‘best.’ Sinners may well be the most movie of 2025.”

History majors have lower unemployment than computer science majors. Folks with humanities graduate degrees are more sought after by corporate recruiters than those with MBAs. Study history! Get a job!

I highly recommend reading this excellent peace. Gave me a sense of optimism, and pessimism.

Jealous

This is amazing

The Heritage Foundation is cracking

Inconsiderate Woman On Bus Eating Live Tuna https://theonion.com/inconsiderate-woman-on-bus-eating-live-tuna-1819575933/

Stealworkers

So, like, Long John Silver?

Wild.

If I didn’t see this myself on Truth Social I’d assume it was some phishing site

Measles Again H A

Thinking about one of my all-time favorite historians, CUNY grad Nick Salvatore, & what he did for cultural/political biography, radical history, Af-Am history. I am always telling folks about We All Got History: The Memory Books of Amos Webber. www.ithacavoice.org/2025/12/obituary-nick-salvatore/

You will be visited by 3 spirits.

New York City went 12 days without a murder in November / December. That's tied for the longest stretch in history, according to the NYPD. As someone who was here when there were 6+ murders per day in this town, it continues to amaze me how safe the place is.

Sen. Hawley on ACA vote: "Republicans had better offer something. I mean, what signal will it send if Republicans say, 'we're going to say no to the Democrats' plan. but we're not gonna offer anything?' The message that will send is: 'Good luck to the American people, we don't really care'"

Wins 2025 hands down

Dan Sturman details in an NYT op-ed how Nixon solicited a CIA profile showing that Daniel Ellsberg was a nutcase, but the CIA psychiatrists concluded he was a person of "dazzling brilliance" who was motivated by a high order of patriotism.

Good morning

Herman Melville on moderates, all the way back in 1857:

So love wobbegongs. Everything is good about the wobbegong. Its name. Its flattened Oscar the Grouch face. Its frondy bits. Its lazy life as a hungry rug. And it’s a shark. Outstanding animal 10/10

this man made my life better.

WOW! AN HONOR! — GCN

Couldn’t Sam Altman just ask ChatGPT how to make itself profitable

It's good—very good, and very important—that district courts keep issuing these 100-page rulings upholding the law. It must be incredibly dispiriting to see them overturned in a two-page, lawless, unsigned order, but please, keep them coming. They expose SCOTUS' corruption like nothing else.

I don’t know, I still randomly trip out over the fact that the President told states to specifically gerrymander for him. And they did.

Libraries man

I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood. I had, as I now think vainly, flattered myself that without very much bloodshed it might be done.

High praise!

More recently, Semafor hosted Megyn Kelly as a key speaker in one of their "restoring trust in news" conferences

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

“That sounds illegal”

Crypto Leaders Call For Infusion Of 20 Million Dopes To Stabilize Market

Remarkable story of a Georgia high school team who used CRISPR to make a rapid diagnostic test strip for Lyme disease, speeding dx from 2 weeks to days www.cbsnews.com/news/teens-m...

Keeps on happening