Muting a Black woman to claim the vote was unanimous is so incredibly on the nose

It gets even more pathetic— x.com/RepBeatty/st...

They booked a bunch of 14 year old models to come to a Mar A Lago party, told them to dress sexy and tried to ply them with alcohol.

David Brooks, who wrote in the NYT last month, "The Epstein Story? Count Me Out" is... in the latest Epstein photo dump published by @oversightdemocrats.house.gov. He should absolutely be fired by NYT for this. Major conflict of interest that he didn't disclose.

it's good that people who work for ICE are being ostracized by their communities and confronted at their churches. that's actually what living in a society is

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

It’s just such a profound shame and horror that you go to Google for news and now get AI with focus on the family propaganda

Well, EPA, CDC and FDA seem effectively gone (already or very soon), then presumably NSF and then NIH. Fewer vaccines, more supplements. Only real question: what can states (or coalitions of states) who still follow science do? I hope state gov'ts are thinking hard.

Annual reminder that if you see a menorah in someone’s window, that’s an act of defiance against bigotry and hate. It’s also pride and bravery. It’s says “a Jew lives here” and that’s both painting a target but also reminding everyone that we still exist and we always will.

The ACA isn't just "health care for people who don't have a conventional employer." It also disallows something that was incredibly common 20 years ago, which I fear is getting lost to generational memory: insurance companies could deny you health care for essentially any previous health problem.

I always say that the old axiom "Never mistake for malice that which can be attributed to incompetence" is wholly inverted when it comes to the wealthy and powerful.

And finally, the assault on Section 230. This is the endgame for independent speech. If you repeal 230, you don’t hurt Google or Meta—they have the lawyers to survive. You destroy the small forums, the independent blogs, the dissenters. You make the cost of speaking the truth too high to bear.

christmas has gotten so far from its religious roots, wish we could celebrate our holidays like medieval christians (cross-dressing, being told by the bishop to stop cross-dressing, resolutely refusing to stop cross-dressing, threatening the bishop in defense of cross-dressing)

so far tonight msnbc has interviewed two students from brown university that are also survivors of separate high school shootings. insanity.

“I miss blockbuster video” the library has every dvd totally untouched and I never see you there

this is a general warrant and it's specifically the kind of warrant the framers passed the 4th amendment to outlaw

John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett were all participants in Bush v. Gore. They would go on to become key players in the dismantling of the United States.

How about Boyhood? On one of the rare days over the 12 years they filmed they had a scene with Ethan Hawke and the boy at an Astros game. Richard Linklater just happened to be pointing his camera down the 3rd base line just when Jason Lane homered down that line.

Not an original thought but it really is something that the United States federal government can raid your home with helicopters, molest your children in the middle of the night, destroy your home and render you homeless…and YOU’RE on the hook thetriibe.com/2025/12/judg...

When the winner of the Nobel peace prize smuggled herself over the water and out of Venezuela to attend the ceremony in Oslo this week, her allies called the Pentagon to ask them not to arbitrarily murder her. www.wsj.com/world/americ...

is Richard Linklater the first director to have two movies that aren’t comedies simultaneously nominated for best comedy

Richard Linklater marks the first filmmaker in 50 years - following Herbert Ross in 1975 (for FUNNY LADY and THE SUNSHINE BOYS) - to direct two films to Best Picture (Musical or Comedy) Golden Globe noms in the same year.

In an exclusive interview, Daniel Sanchez Estrada says he was arrested for transporting anarchist zines after a protest against ICE in Texas.

I can't stop thinking about the purported drug smugglers being murdered by the US military. The punishment for drug offenses isn't the death penalty. This is just bloodlust and men in suits playing with lives they don't care about. It's truly grotesque and gravely compromises this country.

It might be easy to find things like this merely petty or superficial, but that would be a mistake. Demeaning, erasing or eliminating celebrations or acknowledgments of Black America is straight from Redemption playbook, and is intended to reinforce the racial hierarchy and signal its reinstatement.

I loved this interview with Richard Linklater & Ethan Hawke. They talk about new collab Blue Moon, but also meditate on time, aging, the fundamental human impulse towards creativity and the challenge of reclaiming our attention which is nothing less than saving our own life youtu.be/tFEG_TTWSco

The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"

Check it out - this MFer never got as far as the exploding star systems chapter of Finnegan's Wake

I have come to the idea that we have to collectively, brutally, ritualistically kill Target just to show capital that we truly aren’t fucking around.

It’s in fact extremely easy to give away money in a way that helps people. Stuff like this is just what you say when you don’t actually want to help others.

The news has entirely failed to grasp the unprecedented scope of the ICE and DHS budgets. Nothing like it in modern history. A galaxy of public/private surveillance and caging institutions for $100,000,000,000s unleashed on a public that will be forever changed. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...

I named my fists Darryl and Darryl, after my brothers

Unfortunately, in US journalism it is considered neutral to spread a lie, but it is considered "biased" to call out a lie. So, there is a structural asymmetry that rewards colorful lies with virality.

"Never spread the lie in the headline" should be a hard rule of 21st century journalism. Research shows that repeating lies helps to spread them, and people read headlines more than they read stories.

This is a bad headline. How many people will scroll past & use it to confirm their bias? It’s not just unethical, it’s contributing to disinformation & I question the intent.

Columbia and Northwestern are the academic homes to the most prestigious journalism schools in the country and they are the two universities that caved to the Trump administration’s extortion demands that are directly connected to the First Amendment. Just gonna sit with that for a while.

Just got the word that the Trump administration is throwing a brilliant medical researcher friend of mine out of the country because they’re Chinese. Insane and unreal. Literally doing research in the US to help the US

This Friday at 10 PM Pacific, #CultShelf brings us the Richard Linklater classic SLACKER! Spend a day following the lives of some of Austin’s weirdest! You can find the movie on Criterion Channel, HBO Max, and Tubi!

Critics have likened the New York Times’ approach to capitulation, while others have chalked it up to cooperation.

Every single congressional Democrat needs to be out there, right now, insisting that Pete Hegseth resign right now and announcing that he will be held accountable for committing war crimes. If you do not demand accountability here and now, they will only become more emboldened.

This is so deeply at odds with the vision and history of America. Take pretty much any ethnic or racial group that are part of the American mosaic America today - they have all faced the same accusation. The moment these accusations are turned into policy are some of the most shameful in US history

In 1945, the US Army put out a training manual designed to equip rank and file soldiers with the tools to spot and combat incipient fascism were it to emerge in post-war America. Those lessons are just as American as Miller's illiberal bigotry, and worth remembering today. bsky.app/profile/seth...

Trump is an instinctive bigot, but he doesn’t have the attention span to be an ideologically committed white nationalist. He also craves approval from everyone (e.g. his Mamdani meeting). That’s why Miller’s role as Trump’s white nationalist whisperer has been so important. bsky.app/profile/atru...

In 2005 Duke undergraduate Stephen Miller wrote this piece framing multiculturalism as a form of unpatriotic segregationism. He has always been a maladjusted white nationalist who doesn’t understand what the US is. bsky.app/profile/seth...

The reality, of course, is that Miller and a significant portion of Trump’s base are the ones who failed to assimilate to America’s post-WWII culture of multi-racial democracy & religious pluralism…and they are now using their power to destroy that once dominant (and still popular) American culture.

Every genocide starts off as a massive forced migration. Armenia, the Holocaust… I can’t believe we’re at this junction again and that so many people are still this oblivious to it all.

Charlie Brown was dead, to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed by Scheoeder, Lucy, Linus, and Peppermint Patty. Snoopy signed it: and Snoopy’s name was good upon ’Change, for anything he chose to put his hand to.