Authenticity 👏 does 👏 NOT 👏 equal 👏 accuracy

"During closing arguments, Mills urged the jurors to imagine Leonard as their own son. 'There isn’t a father among you who would not rather see his son in his casket than to see him wedded to a mulatto woman,’ he said." Markle may be basic, but the ugly vitriol she gets comes down to this.

My adorable five year old niece calls it "Cake Pop Demon Hunters."

My iPad mini is my little buddy. A game changer fr.

Sending love to everyone spending the holidays alone or with their chosen family. You're not required to accept anyone's abuse. Your life belongs to you, no one else. Be where you are loved.

Pope Woke II

I'm super pleased to have a short new essay live on @assignedmedia.org this morning. It's about surviving the holidays while estranged. Huge thanks as always to my wonderful editor @evanurquhart.bsky.social ... www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new... Grateful to all who read and share this one.

Recreating this legendary Peanuts scene. Yeah hoe!

fröhe weihnachten!

You are 38 years old. Someone asks, “What do you do for work?” You answer, “I drive around town buying up all the children’s games and resell them at a premium so I can turn a profit.” When they edge away from you, belligerently, you say, “That’s capitalism! How is it any different from…”

In other news, water remains wet. More at 11.

Solidarity with everyone else spending the holidays alone

Wishing you all a happy holidays, Illinois.

Most New Yorkers can’t afford childcare.

It’s wild so many people are willing to go to bat for prisons as a reserve for rural jobs when universities are better in every aspect for such a role.

A Christmas-themed horror film in one skeet.

Adding this to the list of reasons why I'm grateful for my undergraduate training.

My first Chicago apartment was across the street from Best Subs #2 and I cannot stress how much this humble restaurant meant to me during my first year in this city. absolutely heart breaking to discover it's owner has been in ICE custody since September blockclubchicago.org/2025/12/23/f...

"Like Amazon Prime, but with human beings."

Award-winning East Village bakery Izola in San Diego serves up fresh bread and fresh starts through 2nd chance program.

anyway you don’t even have to read between the lines of this piece to see that the real complaint is that nikole hannah-jones won a macarthur fellowship and he hasn’t. which, talk about ego.

i wallow in self-pity A LOT and yet the sum total of it over my whole life would not equal the amount that Thomas Chatterton Williams manages in a single essay! It's incredible! www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

Many such cases. The public is worse off for it.

Federal agencies regularly take forever to honor records requests for the general public and journalists. Now would be a good time to take our public records problem seriously.

Nothing like asking career AUSAs who have been under assault for the last year, watched their colleagues get fired for no reason, and their offices taken over by incompetent boobs to volunteer their time to perpetuate a cover up of their boss's involvement w/a sex predator 🙃

When I looked at mass deportation in NYC, I found fear + a robust resistance supporting migrants. @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social is part of that movement. His legislative office held weekly asylum clinics that "served over a thousand undocumented New Yorkers." talkingpointsmemo.com/feature/zohr...

“Target, which is headquartered in Minneapolis, was not chosen at random. Twin Cities locals explained the reasoning behind keying in on the chain on social media, which includes a hiring discrimination lawsuit and a history of funding and supporting local police.” Very familiar.

You do not, under any circumstances, gotta hand it to the Supreme Court

Gotta say, as a survivor, I’m not super loving this thing where the Department of Justice is running a cover-up of evidence the President sexually abused minors.

I like being an uncle for the holidays because: Mom and dad are responsible, and will discipline you. Grandpa and Grandma are indulgent, and will coddle you. But the uncle... the uncle is unpredictable. The niece and nephew cannot know what the uncle will do, because the soul of the uncle is CHAOS

always amazed to see the ways people will debase themselves for free

I think gift wrapping is maybe harder than journalism even

I just uploaded @jasonparis.bsky.social 's recording of the segment CBS News pulled from "60 Minutes" to YouTube:

The meme-ification of abuse victims is so wrong. Why are y'all so quick to make a joke of people's exploitation???

Doctors warn they expect the flu season to be particularly tough on young children. One area of concern has been the rise of a relatively new viral strain. Read more here: www.latimes.com/california/s...

logging onto limewire under dark of night to download 60 minutes

I think Weiss’ entire excuse for shelving the CECOT episode was bullshit, but I also think it’s incredibly disturbing to suggest trying to “both sides” the crimes against humanity happening inside a concentration camp

lol at Bari not knowing about the distribution process for foreign markets and not asking and no one volunteering the information.

whew

NYT shows how Bari Weiss really screwed this up. She didn't attend any of the 5 screenings of the story, which began on Dec. 12. She only first weighed in on Thursday, and the show incorporated her suggestions. She then waited until weekend to ask for more edits. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/b...

It's so sad to know how many mid-career+ journalists who have been laid off and/or burned out are going to leave the industry because of how bad everything has become, not return, and journalism will suffer from that level of experience, skills and perspective walking out the door forever.

At first, I thought it was wild that so many children could go missing in Derry. And then I remembered that we're in America so...that tracks.

the samizdat 60 minutes report www.theverge.com/policy/84943...

WATCH: Here's the segment CBS News pulled from "60 Minutes" last night

“The Free Press”

Fellow music writers: Does anyone have a _music_ press contact for Ice-T?