coerced my locals into running a genesys night! they’d been exploring a second locals a week, but couldn’t fill seats on a weekday, so we just offered an easy 100-point 3-rounder. got 9 tonight, excited to grow a little community 🥰

Damn fucking right.

Y i k e s man

amazing how the entire machine can pivot within 24 hours. no need to slowly upsell the argument; just issue new marching orders

A tale in 3 acts: US Senator Mike Lee, R-Utah, from skepticism to full embrace of U.S. military involvement in Venezuela

Find someone who loves you as much as Chuck Schumer loves not doing his job

Because of a conspiracy theory-based stunt by a January 6 insurrectionist who was trying to intimidate children and daycare workers, Trump is now freezing ALL childcare payments across the country. You’ve got to be fucking kidding me. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

on some level you have to stand in awe of the gall it takes to use this tone about someone people are angry at for suppressing a story about a concentration camp

This student effectively killed this TA’s career and likely feels not a lick of shame about it

Kudos to Sharyn Alfonsi for exposing the truth But Bari Weiss killing the 60 Minutes story about Trump sending innocent immigrants to CECOT is only part of the story The bigger issue is MAGA trying to take over all our broadcast networks and social media to spread their hateful propaganda

They got the secret lair line on the Epstein files I hope the foil bundle doesn’t sell out

Do not cite an academic paper unless you’ve read it

BREAKING: Justice Department is reportedly rapidly redacting the Epstein files before release tomorrow, per CNN

vanity fair photographer christopher anderson posts this story on his instagram, suggesting he intentionally posed stephen miller underneath a painting of native americans

"[M]onetized the dysfunction" is a good way to describe the American health care system too.

Transcriptional responses to proteotoxic stressors are profoundly diverse and tissue-specific https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.17.694942v1

This is a stupid country

FCC Chairman Brendan Carr told a Senate committee today that his agency is “not formally ... independent.”

Look at this claim from the intro: “White men fell from 39 percent of tenure-track positions in the humanities at Harvard in 2014 to 18 percent in 2023.” Things look very different if you go by numbers: they went from 11 tenure-track positions filled by white men in 2014 to 10 in 2024. A loss of 1.

In a second example of local police securing a path for Bovino's caravan today, Evanston cops just assisted with the feds' departure by blocking and directing traffic.

Earlier this week L.A. TACO’s Aisha Wallace-Palomares, Izzy Rodriguez, and @eltragon.bsky.social joined Harbor Area Peace Patrol for their daily monotoring at Terminal Island, the staging ground for federal immigration agents.

Rep. Dan Newhouse, one of the last remaining House Republicans who voted to impeach Trump, won't seek re-election www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

Big: GOP Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick just signed the Democratic discharge petition by Hakeem Jeffries for a clean 3-year ACA funding extension. All 214 Dems have signed. Fitzpatrick is 215. Three more Republicans and it has enough support to end-run Mike Johnson and get a House vote.

Wemby on finding out he had a blood clot: "It was 5 minutes of total breakdown. Obviously crying and sadness. Basketball wasn't my priority all of a sudden. It was just the whole motor all summer and I think it's gonna be for the rest of my career"

Everyone should read this incredible first-person piece by Jason Collins (as told to @ramonaespn.bsky.social), on his battle with brain cancer. So much admiration for this man.

NEW: The Trump administration and TSA is sharing all US air traveler's names with Immigrations and Customers Enforcement (ICE) and its departments to find travellers subject to deportation orders, per NYT

Indiana Senate Republicans have just rejected the new congressional maps in defiance of Trump’s redistricting push per AP

Really important that this is out for those waiting for it

"They told me that they dropped me back off, but no, they just dropped me off somewhere random,” the man explains, after being interrogated inside of a vehicle. The full story: lataco.com/cbp-detains-... By @afroxander.bsky.social

Although not financially related here are the FIFA groups announced today.

Congrats to Russell Westbrook of the Sacramento Kings for moving up to 17th on the all-time SCORING list!

What an incredible moment celebrating UC LEADS’ 25th anniversary! This program opened doors for me and so many others pursuing academic careers. Hearing alumni share how transformative it has been is living proof that access, mentorship, and opportunity work. This is impact.

Randomly arresting people that they have nothing to charge with seems to be the norm now. It's like a sport for them.

Harrison Barnes hits 7 threes and helps lead the Spurs to their best 20-game start since 2016-17! De'Aaron Fox: 29 PTS, 4 REB, 4 AST, 3 STL, 4 3PM

November private payrolls unexpectedly fell by 32,000, led by steep small business job cuts, ADP has reported. Larger businesses, entailing companies with 50 or more employees, actually reported a net gain of 90,000 workers. However, establishments with fewer than 50 saw a decline of 120,000.

Pete Hegseth, 'SSecretary of War'

Judge Anthony Napolitano on Newsmax: "It gives me no pleasure to say what I’m about to say because I worked with Pete Hegseth for seven or eight years at Fox News. This is an act of a war crime... There’s absolutely no legal basis for it.”

BREAKING: The FBI has paid nearly $1 million in overtime to redact the Epstein files, per Snopes.

His obsession with me is creepy. I hope he gets the help he desperately needs.

President Trump has officially pardoned former Honduran President who US officials said was at the center of one of the largest and most violent drug-trafficking conspiracies in the world. n.pr/4rzhG6q

Admiral Bradley should lawyer up.

Wow, that's pretty sus.

Americans’ household debt levels, including mortgages, car loans, credit cards and student loans, are now at a new record high, per Federal Reserve Bank of New York,

The between-instituion differences in these "deals" are interesting. At some point it might be useful to code these and do side-by-side comparisons.

Socialism for fascists, violence for everyone else

Malik Monk with the Matrix move

So either Trump spoke to Bolsonaro about plotting to escape to the US right before the latter got caught trying to saw off his ankle monitor, or Trump imagined a conversation he didn’t have. Both scenarios are incredibly dark

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