Have to highlight the absurdity in a public discourse that holds the idea of systemic racism out as exotic and academic while also reporting that one of the two major parties in the country is making racism an explicit central pillar of their party identity.

Rather than take the L handed to it by a judge two weeks ago who voided its ban on wind power, the White House has employed the only move it knows: doubling down — in this case through the invention of “national security concerns.”

Newsweek lives on as a zombie publication long after it ceased being Newsweek as one would recognize it, and it wouldn't surprise me if their readership was higher than ever. This may be the fate of 60 Minutes.

The story is insane. The acting head of cyber security, a Noem crony, repeatedly demanded to see highly classified information he didn’t need access to, and when staff set up a lie detector test as a condition to grant him access, he failed it. So DHS suspended the staffers.

Bari was a leading voice lamenting the future of free speech under political correctness. Now we watch her deciding which opinions are correct, on political grounds — and censoring the press on that basis. It’s not _ironic_, because this was always bound to happen — but it’s quite something.

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

So much for “the Free Press,” one could even say.

Trump’s retribution on behalf of an incarcerated election cheat is a real act of dedication. Dedication to _evil_, yes — but once he chooses a course of evil, he really sticks with it.

An April story by @ewong.bsky.social: “A draft of a Trump administration executive order proposes … eliminating almost all [State Dept.] Africa operations … [with] all ‘nonessential’ embassies and consulates in sub-Saharan Africa [to] be closed by Oct. 1.” Maybe this is nothing … but maybe not.

I’m told that AI is very good at writing code

I saved a radio station in my car settings today that played a Puff song not long after … and two Chris Brown songs and “Monster” over the following days. I need to get it out of my car settings.

These people all go to rich people megachurches so they have no idea how freaky this looks to normal people

Oh, look there: an editorial-interference canary.

1) People had to apologize? If anyone can discern when that was ever compulsory, LMK. 2) Who’s his implied “you” here? Because I, for one, have never “had to” apologize for being white — but I get a sense that he doesn’t mean me.

Just what Republicans always promised us: a government small enough to bar millions of Americans from buying Pringles.

“Racial slurs and Nazi symbols,” yes, yes — but could we please get back to the topic of how left-wing political correctness on campus remains out of control?

A good many people need to get sued for libel in the aftermath of the late ridiculousness. You can see one such fellow below.

U.S. border agents caused a traffic incident, then exploded into the home of the driver, a U.S. citizen, arresting him for alleged damage to federal property. Here's the latest from Visual Investigations, on Border Patrol's militarized tactics in cities: www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...

I’m sorry, but what the f––ing f–– left the NIST time benchmark vulnerable TO A POWER OUTAGE? How the f–– could this happen?

Okay, popularists: is the goal to notch wins by the greatest possible margin above replacement, or to enact policies? Because Casten seems to express a pretty clear preference for the latter.

I also don’t think Yglesias talks to knowledgeable people who disagree with him. Like the permitting reform mention here is so silly: Republicans aren’t negotiating in good faith on it, that’s why green groups are skeptical. Tons of experts and public interest lobbyists are happy to point it out!

Casten is the single most informed federal elected official on the energy system. If he said this about something I penned on energy I would die of shame. Unfortunately, the neighborhood troll has none.

“People concerned about climate change should [solve] the not-yet-solved problems that keep the world dependent on fossil fuels”: Dude, a key such problem is the truculence of companies and regimes bent on keeping the world dependent on fossil fuels no matter how capable renewables become.

This Yglesias piece in the NYT is horrifically bad. Almost every "fact" it cites is provably false. At best it is cocktail party banter from a pundit who knows nothing of energy. At worst, it was cut/paste from oil industry talking points. So, a rebuttal: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/o...

Woman comes to US at age 6. Graduates nursing school. Work permit. No criminal record. Snatched and imprisoned by ICE for 6 months now. About to be forced back to Honduras. A life destroyed and one less nurse. Merry Christmas. www.nola.com/news/educati...

Things That Matter —— WOULD YOU LIKE FRIES WITH THAT? Mr. Potato Head vs Hamburglar (Brought to you Bank of America)

If the executive branch has the power of the purse now, then why shouldn’t the legislative branch have free rein to pass bills of attainder? I know just where to start.

With all respect (and no real disagreement with Kristol): who’s to say Johnson had no advance word of DOJ’s plan to censor the files, and didn’t adjourn the House to keep it from responding?

So the minions of an aficionado of child exploitation have managed to hurt their young victims yet again — while covering the faces of those who harmed them? My word. How imaginable.

“We’ll see about that. The UVA Board of Visitors is not fully constituted. The Senate, & as Chair of our [P&E] Committee, we have clear oversight over UVA’s Board of Visitors, & we intend to exercise it this upcoming session” – VA State Sen. @aaronrouse.bsky.social bluevirginia.us/2025/12/uvas...

Got some figures from the @lachlanmcnamee.bsky.social Salma Mousa & @kylepeyton.bsky.social DEI analysis from 4.67 million employment records at US public universities (1993-2024) Compact article gets it backwards. Unis diversified *leadership* not faculty.

1) That's @jamuslynch.bsky.social to us; sorry to miss your Q when you asked me, Melissa! 🙃 2) This is of dwindling importance every year … but y'all know my profile photo comes from the front stoop of Romney's old car-elevator house in La Jolla, right?

Never change, Marco.

Yep: the U.S. has no cordon sanitaire b/c it has a 2-party system, and U.S. institutions are thus engineered to treat both parties as equal in political legitimacy and moral intent. The only escape from each election being Russian roulette w/ Nazis is to take apart the 2-party framework.

The only solution is multiparty institutional reforms. These people exist in every rich democracy. They're 15-25% of the population. But other countries have electoral/legislative institutions that allow the pro-democracy supermajority, split among other parties, to govern bsky.app/profile/mcop...

Naming a federally sponsored, state-backed competition after a frickin' Tom Clancy novel, SMDH.

responding to “what do you think of Adolph Hitler?” with “I’m in favor of a strong executive” is advanced conservatism. these kids have perfected the craft.

I see people posting this AM in praise of a Doerfler and Moyn op-ed on the Roberts court — but I found it churlish and tendentious, for precisely the reason sketched out below.

Vought is one of the top three or four enemies of the Constitution & American democracy. His removal from power is one of the highest priorities for any project of checking the dictatorship's lawless wielding of the vast powers of the state

*Some* Americans — but they’re Americans who’ve been inculcated by white evangelical sects to accept an authoritarian model of society, so as far as MAGA goes, Adam’s post is impeccable.

“Entered through the diversity visa lottery in 2017”: quick question, WHO WAS PRESIDENT IN 2017?

[congressional DEMOCRATS, in 2024:] “People are turning against Israel. We must do something! Banning TikTok is something.” (*TikTok sold to billionaire MAGA mogul*) [congressional DEMOCRATS, in 2025:] “Children are being exploited. We must do something! Sunsetting Section 230 is something.”

Seems mighty impertinent of Mrs. Kirk to back Vance before Trump reaches a decision about seeking a third term, eh?

Wow, finally: a blender FOR MEN™.

An FDA confident enough to imagine it should regulate non-medical chest binders is one that Dems should compel — through legislation — to regulate nutritional supplements at the very next opportunity.

We are living in the answer to the question: If Congress never exercises or defends Article I powers, do they even exist?

Cities across California are on the cusp of bankruptcy due to the NIMBYs that control them. Build more homes, IMO.