Any excuse to make roast

When you are raised to believe that God is love, and that God ALSO damns most people to an eternity of torture in hell, you develop a warped sense of “love.” If you love someone, of course you try to save them from eternal suffering, no matter how offensive they find your proselytizing.

My sister gifted me the first four books of this series for my birthday, and I have absolutely flown through the first two. 10/10, highly recommend.

Kinda seems like Trump punishing Colorado for not releasing Tina Peters (who tried to help him steal the election) from prison should be a bigger story

Not Just The Tudors dropped this episode today because Professor Suzannah Lipscomb wanted me to have a lil treat on my birthday.

Reposting this with alt text. Delete your Twitter. Now.

a lot of people don't realize that Christmas carols and traditions are actually folk memories of suppressed pre-Christian events, namely the end of the Third Age and the Fall of Sauron.

Nothing builds trust like nixing stories about human rights abuses because the abusers haven’t agreed to be quoted

42 Democrats voted for the Laken Riley Act knowing full well this was the plan. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

"The goal is to control information so thoroughly that the administration becomes the sole arbiter of "truth" in ways that preserve power and advance a particular narrative and agenda," writes Allie Cashel on the authoritarian strategy to silence the scientific community.

Inshallah we will repurpose these to store Steven Miller & his goons before their crimes against humanity trials held live at 8/7 central on MS NOW

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To be clear, I was, of course, in a car on the way home from the airport when this came down — after more than two months.

My god. From Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her ‘60 Minutes’ colleagues, posted by the NYT Michael Grynbaum:

If you are involved with this report, or have any information about the process involved in today's decision, please reach out. I am on Signal: crg.32

Earlier this week, the Sixth Circuit blocked Michigan's conversion therapy ban. In doing so, the appeals court did something somewhat unusual — jumping ahead of the U.S. Supreme Court to issue a decision likely to be resolved in large part by a forthcoming high court decision. Law Dork:

Happy Solstice 🖤

On standing: When Catholic Charities is “more guarded and cautious,” it has standing in the Sixth Circuit to challenge Mich.'s conversion therapy ban. When Friends of George’s “alter[s] the content of their productions,“ it lacks standing in the Sixth Circuit to challenge Tenn.'s anti-drag law.

NEW: The Sixth Circuit jumps out ahead of SCOTUS to block Michigan's conversion therapy ban. In doing so, the appeals court also shows how conveniently standing law is used. Tonight, at Law Dork:

There will come a time when people of good faith are empowered to uphold the law. When that time comes, Illinois will have the testimony and records needed to pursue justice to its fullest extent. The truth of what Trump and his masked agents are doing in Chicago will be told.

You can downplay Trump’s illegal actions and use scary words like “authoritarian” all you want, but you will not manufacture our consent for war on Venezuela.

I’m going to be really pissed if my bounty isn’t impressively high.

“It was not unanimous. I was muted and not allowed to speak.” 🤔

(Filling my blender well past the max fill line) “Just do your best sweetie, you’ll be ok.”

Inject this into my veins. If you’ve already accepted that the law doesn’t matter, what are we even fighting to protect here?

What in the Hunger Games

These are the people who are willing to go on the record. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...

And, to be clear, what they are proposing is unconstitutional and illegal and should be blocked by any just court. (I know, I know, but, the fact remains.)

This is a paragraph written by a guy who was absolutely freaking out that his photo would show up in the tranches of Epstein material being released by the House Oversight Committee.

A photo of David Brooks palling around with Epstein in the latest Epstein files drop three weeks after he wrote a column chiding America for caring about the Epstein story is some serious Rafael Palmeiro shit.

Congratulations, those of you who decided to platform fringe voices and create a climate of fear and hate out of ignorance because those voices insisted a non-problem was a problem. They're now on an HHS stage trying to ruin children's lives. You will live with the harm you have done forever.

I have lived several lifetimes today and it is 11am.

Genuinely curious if they don't want to publicly admit that Israel was indeed a dealbreaker for a not small number people who didn't vote in the presidential election.

hi hello sometimes leaking documents is in the public interest www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...

Nazis are pathetic losers. They always have been. They were pathetic losers in the 1930’s, too, but they had impressive aesthetics. Vanity Fair refused to give the Nazis an impressive aesthetic to hide behind, and that is so fucking important. Art matters. Artists do vital work.

Everyone is understandably sharing the Miller quote, but I found this response from photographer Christopher Anderson to be notable, too.

The Vanity Fair photographer from the Susie Wiles story. Holy. Shit. www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...

WHY can I never watch a recorded CLE on double speed? It’s the same information. I’m taking the same little quiz to prove I listened. Just let me listen at a speed that doesn’t make my ADHD brain want to die.

This is the true story of 11 judges picked to live in a court, work together, and have their opinions published to find out what happens when the D.C. Circuit stops being polite and starts getting real: En Banc.

BREAKING: The full DC Circuit will also rehear the climate fund cases en banc. Arguments also set for Feb. 24. The 2-1 panel decision in September siding with the Trump admin was a Rao, joined by Katsas, majority. Pillard dissented. Order: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Introducing the Shadow Docket Sunlight Act, Sen. @blumenthal.senate.gov told Law Dork that the Supreme Court's September order OK'ing "Kavanaugh stops" shows the need for his bill, as it would "require[] the Supreme Court to be accountable and explain its rulings." www.lawdork.com/p/100-days-o...

Let’s fucking gooooooooooo

EXCLUSIVE: 100 days of Kavanaugh stops, the justices who silently allowed them, and a bill to change that. The Shadow Docket Sunlight Act is being introduced on Wednesday. And, Justice Kavanaugh still isn't saying if he's having second thoughts on his September opinion. Today, at Law Dork:

Every day I wake up and I’m haunted by the fact that it hasn’t even been a year.

Shelby County Jail has had 10 deaths this year alone, and 66 deaths since 2019. The jail is chronically and intentionally understaffed by the county. And ICE detentions are making everything worse.

I keep saying this but no one is connecting the dots. The war is to satisfy legal preconditions for mass removal *domestically* of Latinos (i.e., suddenly a lot of people are going to be “Venezuelan” for purposes of removal). This is 100% Stephen Miller…oil claim is to make grandpa go along

remember when the secretary of defense, vice president, and president lied to the american people and congress about made up weapons and involvement in an attack on america to start an illegal war? just try not to pretend that conservatives haven't been doing this long before trump.

The orange nose is top tier visual commentary.

“My ungrateful son Ishmael doesn’t want anything to do with me and I don’t know what I did wrong.“

I just spent 5 minutes scrolling through this woman’s instagram and the vibes are, predictably, absolutely rancid. Also, SHE IS THE ONE WHO CUT OFF HER ADULT DAUGHTER