"This is our enemy" is a fascinating Justice Society story for a number of reasons, the most outrageous of all is how it disrupted the publishing of All-Star Comics for years to come. See this story was not supposed to be published when it was, in March of 1945. Short 🧵

Even beforehand! The first amendment is great that way.

#MartySupreme is, at once, the embodiment of perfectionism, narcissism, greed, moxie, passion, genius, and cultural degradation. The protagonist, Marty Mauser, elicits all of your feelings because you can’t make sense of how you should feel about him. www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/perf...

12YO girl signed up to do “stand up comedy” at the talent show. 13YO boy decided to heckle her. Teacher started to tell the boy to leave her alone, but the 12YO comedian said “no, no, let him go, this is the closest he’s ever going to get to having a conversation with a girl.”

They're desperate to rationalize "heritage American" as if it's some serious intellectual theory and not a white nationalist twitter meme. Which doesn't work because it is, in fact, just a white nationalist twitter meme.

Sinatra hated racists and would have punched Miller in the mouth. Or as Phil Hartman's impression of Sinatra put it, "I got chunks of guys like you in my stool."

Dean Martin, born Dino Paul Crocetti, son of Italian immigrant Gaetano Crocetti Frank Sinatra, son of Italian immigrants Antonino Sinatra and Natalina Garavanta Merry Christmas to everyone except Stephen Miller and his enablers and handlers

"While President Donald Trump’s peace plan appears to be holding, albeit with regular Israeli airstrikes, the crisis endures." That is one hell of a load-bearing "albeit."

This is perfect. The DOJ's embarrassing snafu with disappearing redactions was the fault of Elon Musk. Musk cancelled government subscriptions to Adobe programs that would have made the redactions permanent. What a pack of fools.

Can someone please respond to Stephen Miller with this message from Frank Sinatra?

This deterrence discussion is insane. 1) we are trying to compel them to stop, not deter them from starting 2) deterrence / compellence is not predicated on “something they can’t fight against” 3) do the relevant adversaries even know what the strike was meant to do? Read Theory.

Imagine watching Sinatra, son of Dolly & Antonini born in Genoa & Sicily, respectively, and Martin, son of Gaetano & Angela, born in Montesilvano, Italy & Ohio respectively, (Angela to parents born in Monasterolo, Italy), and crusading against the value of children of immigrants to the U.S.

Michał Urbaniak, a Polish violinist and jazz fusion pioneer who in the 1970s became one of the first jazz musicians from his Eastern bloc country to gain an international following, eventually playing with luminaries like Miles Davis, Wayne Shorter and Herbie Hancock, died on Saturday. He was 82.

Hohoho! I drew this year's holiday card for my art rep, Felix Comic Art. I wanted the recipients to get something that looked like a piece of vintage original art, but also couldn't help poking some fun at Felix's love for Dark Knight Returns.

A great example of how the @nytimes.com centers white Americans and Trump supporters in its anecdotal political coverage. You never see stories like this about Black Democrats whose cities are cracked in Republican gerrymandering to give them Republican elected officials.

but nike never really stopped using it, nor did consumers stop associating it with nike & trademark rights in the US depend on use, not registration--so the case for abandonment (& thus infringement) here is weak. www.wsj.com/business/ret...

i spoke with @wsj about the "total 90" trademark dispute. a small company noticed nike's trademark registration for TOTAL 90 had lapsed, so they registered it & started using it on related goods & then sued nike for infringing it...

“New York City’s syndromic surveillance system, which collects information about every patient who visits an emergency room, reported 9,857 visits for “influenza-like illness” last week. That was higher than in the worst weeks of the 2017-18 or 2024-25 flu seasons, both ranked as “high severity”

I always thought Plato was pretty pollyannaish on this point, but this is decent evidence for the view that a man of bad character will therefore be unhappy even with every external trapping of success and good fortune.

“Lots of teeth when necessary”. From 1943, a character sheet for Bugs Bunny.

This is why it’s so important to trace things back to the beginning whenever possible. I believe @rauchway.bsky.social calls these “historical urban legends”

New at The Virtues of Captain America Blog: thevirtuesofcaptainamerica.com/2025/12/26/t...

BTW, and then it'll be time to tuck this away for a year: A great thing about this great essay is that the author is actually reading and illuminating what's on the screen, not devising spurious, fantastic alternatives.

It's a calendar, so no, I don't need a summary, thank you.

Yeah this is just what his communications team wants right now

Just imagining if Merrick Garland’s DOJ had shitposted.

“There’s early evidence that service dogs can help veterans stick with their antidepressant medications. But for many veterans, the companionship and real-time support matter most… “He’s my battle buddy,” Dr. Bahr said, “my constant reminder that I’m not fighting alone.”

xmas movie posters but with muppets: thread

You have to wonder if Santa is a little more worried this year about NORAD tracking him.

This is on an official town website: How do you know if a bear is dangerous? Step 1: bang two pots together. Step 2: did it eat you?

As an actual Religious Studies scholar, it is an insult to our field to describe anything this student wrote about gender as "Bible-based."

If you’re wondering why your friends in academia are a little on edge right now, it’s because an eighteen-year-old who hasn’t done the reading, doesn’t look at the assignment, and has does no critical thinking skills more complex than “because I think it’s in the Bible” can literally end your career

“Mr. Epstein’s tan, leathery skin is folded into a smile; in one photo a bit of blond hair is peeking out from under the large black redaction box. In another photo we see what looks like a young foot in a Croc. One photo shows a note that says someone…. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/24/o...

Pope Leo vs. Franklin Graham

ICE has posted a video of Santa Claus arresting immigrants. Your government is hijacking a symbol of charity to spread fear and hate. it’s up to all of us to defeat these twisted fascists.

This headline upset me all morning, so I sent the NYT this letter. “This headline egregiously misrepresents the ethical and political implications of embracing those who promote hatred… To refuse to draw any moral line is not to refuse to take sides. Quite the opposite: It is to side with bigotry.”

“The evidence will show that the school board named that school for Stonewall Jackson —a prominent Confederate general well known for fighting to preserve slavery —to make it very clear that Black students were not welcome,” Kaitlin Banner, a lawyer for the plaintiffs, said in her opening statement”

Protection as in, "Nice island you got there -- be a shame if anything happened to it"

If you're not on ballet YouTube you're missing out on some of the most hilariously hypercritical observations on the planet

The people who profited most from the cancel culture/free speech panic were less interested in actual freedom of speech than establishing their own control over public discourse. You don't even have to take my word for it. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

I'm loving this new age of American liberty where the news is contraband that has to be smuggled across the border from Canada

A couple thoughts on reading this: - Epstein was a snake who when he wrote this in 2019 knew trying to make his links to Trump prominent would be an embarrassment for the admin, so it’s possible this was an elaborate ruse to seek a better plea deal. - Jesus Christ this is bad.

Where we send you if we catch you inferring future events on the basis of resemblance to past occurrences. Or, at least, where we've sent people so far.