far too many media orgs have been slow to learn that in the age of social media the headline IS the story

Btw we already had someone to do 11.7% of work tasks, they were called "a secretary" and the suits decided it was cheaper to make everyone do their own emails and schedules. But you can add up any number of secretaries and still not get one programmer, or architect, or nurse.

(Watching the Macy's parade) 4yo cousin: A LITTLE CUTE FOOOOOOX Her 7yo sister: I'm kinda bored. The people there are probly getting bored too.

East coasters: has the kpop demon hunters performance happened yet?

My uncle is watching the new Ken Burns documentary and the soundtrack is @zoekeating.com!!!!

I want to very gently say something, and I hope nobody will be mad: If somebody on the internet says something that is NOT about politics and NOT about how terrible everything is, it’s a kindness not to reflexively make a comment (in jest or not) that brings it back to those things.

Am I a hypocrite for wanting this after giving a hard no to muppet knives out

My brother in christ, you are literally describing All Teh Apps. All of them. Shit, even video games fall into the category of "produces information to the government when required to do so."

Not when you're doing it just because you want to read a thing without paying, or the trouble and inconvenience finding a used copy, going to a library, or any of a wide range of other widely available non-infringing options. At that point, you're also part of why we can't have nice things.

Please also remember that when a T&S team is extremely overworked and under-resourced, a massive write-in protest based on that one-sided presentation of the facts will do absolutely nothing but slow down the work even further, because now there's an extra 20,000 emails they have to weed out.

also the self-censorship people on here just sound Iike naive children to me you can in fact viciously and highly effective criticize evil people without giving them needless points of vulnerability to get you back with

also I think it’s good actually that Bluesky isn’t really treating celebrities or high profile people differently from anyone else with regards to moderation, even if you don’t agree with those decisions

Not for nothing, this is one reason why we say "pregnant patient" instead of "woman." It's not just for non-binary inclusion.

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this post made me realize that it has already been a whole decade since Trump was holding a steady lead in the Republican primary and it didn’t feel like a joke anymore

If people are moving out of your city because they can work elsewhere more cheaply, your problem is affordability, not remote work.

every time this happens people start going "what about this, huh" and getting suspended too, so may I recommend not doing that at this point everyone should know what the policy is and "I'm going to go right up to what I think the line is and poke it with a stick" is asking to get got

There is a very good reason why the thing I say most consistently about situations like this is "the violent rhetoric policy is my least favorite policy to write and enforce, and the policy that creates the most upheaval among the userbase when it is applied"!

Costco Ryan is, and will always be, a hero.

*** II. WHAT WE DO *** The sole purpose of this event is helping school-aged kids from lower income families eat during the 2-week school break in December ➡️ In the US, most food aid is school-based ➡️ In NC, access to that aid goes away when schools are closed Dumb? Yes. But so it goes

Watching more people discover this infuriating fact and getting righteously furious about it is at least good reinforcement that we are correct to be righteously furious about it

the thing is that there are only two explanations for this and they are both utterly disqualifying for Dem leadership 1. you knew they would come for abortion and you already decided you were willing to give it up 2. you did NOT know, because you are too gullible for the job you currently hold

This hurt my heart to read. As the co-founder and operator of a weird blog that is still going because it's largely reader-supported now, value for private equity shareholders can consume a satchel of richards.

D.C. doesn't have statehood. We don't have voting representation in Congress. We have limited home rule that can be taken away any time. When Trump oppresses us, we have few democratic means of fighting back. Juries are one of them. And Trump can't take that away. slate.com/news-and-pol...

I have long argued that the single best thing you could do to improve the functioning of the US government is double the salaries of everyone working on Capitol Hill. Serving Congress shouldn’t involve poverty wages in DC. You could attract a much wider set of perspectives netting a better result.

We're at the point in the government shutdown where the entire Democratic congressional delegation from Colorado is urging the FAA to please let their state's biggest airport use its own funds to pay air traffic controllers.

It’s bad here, chat.

NEW: A federal judge said the decision by Trump WH to end sign language interpretation at briefings by Trump and Leavitt likely violated the Rehabilitation Act and harmed deaf people who communicate in ASL. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

I would be more okay with the timing of reversion to standard time if the time zone lines were half further west. (The county line maps of "should we be on permanent DST or permanent ST" are very very illuminating.)

Also an annoying number of people in the comments do not understand that the reason FDR was constitutionally able to serve more than 2 terms was not that he was like a dictator, but that the 22nd amendment establishing presidential term limits was passed after FDR.

Narrator voice: the legal case for a third term is that Trump violates the constitution at will. This is not so much a legal case as an illegal one.

Work-from-home increases birth rates, but firms seem to hate it. So despite a pro-fertility coalition growing in US politics, no politicians openly supports work from home www.nber.org/papers/w30569 via Mike Konczal

I've been ranting about sports gambling ever since New Jersey legalized it and let DraftKings and FanDuel in. I don't expect the owners to make the right decision until there's a cheating scandal that throws doubt on a Conference Championship Game. They do not understand the trust thermocline.

This is no shade to Chicago but this actually started in LA. They bought out a ton of vendors to keep them home.

Only a third of Americans even somewhat support drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Source: @yaleclimatecomm.bsky.social

people really don't understand the difference in choices between a primary and a general election and i think that's a big part of our current problem

the through line of "got an accidental nazi tattoo while drunk" to "regularly takes shirt off at the bar" to "starts a senate campaign with no experience and no plan to address any of this" to "gets a terrible coverup overnight" is "total lack of judgment and impulse control"

Full article from 2024 by Reeves Wiedeman: nymag.com/intelligence...

This is why you never vote for the party of "tax cuts for prosperity." The prosperity is never for *you*.

the president has destroyed the east wing of the white house without so much as a word of input from anyone else to build a royal ballroom paid for with bribes

As would anyone SANE

If you're wondering why so many of your apps and services aren't working properly this morning, it's because the AWS region US-EAST-1 is having... some problems, and that's where quite a lot of apps and services host what they need to function (👋 hi Duolingo, NYT Games etc)

👇🎯 Two wildly different media standards for two wildly different parties, on every topic & every issue & every event

Again, this is disastrous for public higher education in 🇺🇸. If federal funding is now gone or seriously 📉, & foreign student tuition $ are collapsing, that leaves (also 📉) state funding or private money (RIP <public> education), or simply doing less with less: bsky.app/profile/mcop...

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

and yes I do feel like the Chicago of it all matters here for Pope reasons

this is more than just marching in full regalia to Broadview and praying outside of it this is very deftly trapping ICE into the position of having to literally - LITERALLY, to them - turn Christ away from the door any Catholic ICE officer was probably shook, I’m really not exaggerating

Good for them: it is a violation of the Hatch Act that limits the use of public assets for partisan messaging. Orgeon has its own version of that law, and covers those who run the airport. Other airport administrators should look to see if they are in the same position.

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

One of the things about this study is that a lot of baby and toddler books are written in house, by editors. So the study reveals the whiteness of editorial in kidlit even if not explicitly. But, big picture, this trend is unacceptable. I remember so many promises www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...