Josef K. would recognize this system immediately; the crime is not what you did, but that you are still here

they tried to do a human sacrifice for Christmas, and they couldn't even manage that

the Janissary Corps of the digital age

they are launching deadly strikes in a region they cannot even spell correctly in an official communiqué

Bari Weiss just sent this Christmas Eve email to the CBS News staff about "building trust," which includes her tripling down on spiking the CECOT piece "to make sure it's comprehensive and fair." One CBS staffer tells me: "She really has no idea how insulting she comes across."

okay!!!

"Her family has now been told she has been deported, despite US District Judge Brendan Hurson ruling Thursday that she could not be deported pending a hearing...attorneys said Monday that they have...confirm[ed] with the hospital she was born in Maryland." https://bit.ly/3MMdJvz

Imagine interviewing a victim of torture and independently confirming the details of his torture and then being told you can’t broadcast it because the people who ordered the torture wouldn’t give their side of the story.

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

when some people choose between a weekly injection or daily pill to regulate their hormones so as to align their body with their desired appearance i guess it's no big deal

jesus the Palm Beach Police really sought arrest warrants against underage Epstein victims for coming forward and cooperating, and (purported) admitting to crimes, and it caused the victims to become uncooperative with the federal investigation

Agents illegally detained dozens of US citizens and demanded that they prove their citizenship. We need to defend our private property rights against trespassing government agents.

ICE agents illegally break into a woman's bathroom in a NY nutrition bar manufacturing plant. "Pull up your pants," says a male agent. The agents only had a warrant to review employer documents. They didn't have a warrant to search for, detain, or arrest anyone there.

SCOOP-1: The @nytimes.com has confirmed the following previously unreported donations/pledges to the WH ballroom: ▶️Miriam Adelson’s foundation: $25m ▶️Lockheed Martin: $10m ▶️Palantir: $10m ▶️Ripple: $5m ▶️Parsons: $2.5m ▶️Roblox CEO: $2.5 Here's a gift link. There's more in the story 🧵…

So Bari Weiss’s first real editorial intervention at CBS is to repress coverage of American concentration camps.

Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

bari is the standard bearer for the media types who think any journalism that leads the consumer toward a left-wing position must be tempered and balanced until it doesn’t.

“They’re denying that any of her birth certificates, which are from Laurel, Maryland, her records of immunization, medical records — they’re denying the authenticity of them. It is something I’ve never encountered.” www.huffpost.com/entry/us-cit...

The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality. And trans lives are grounded in reality. We see y'all. No matter what. www.popsci.com/science/tran...

I had to find this incredible footage and it's true. Master Chief handed off the Xbox Bowl trophy, which has a functioning ASUS ROG Xbox Ally X at the center of it, to Butch Jones for the Arkansas State victory tonight.

In addition to this administration trying to kill kids, and they're also coming for our binders? OUR BINDERS.

lol, lmao, lol, lmao

Trump making another primetime address to talk about how unfair some media person was to him in 1983

The exclusion of trans people from public and academic spaces, removal of protections by human rights institutions, dehumanising language used by state news media, judicial tolerance of trans directed hate crime, withdrawal of medical care: all of this is very familiar to genocide scholars.

Armed ICE agents trapped US citizens in a restaurant and demanded their papers. Federal agents walked into East African restaurants in Cedar-Riverside, MN. They closed and blocked the doors. Then they demanded to see everyone’s papers. Every person present was a US citizen.

When the AI boom began, copywriters were singled out as one of the jobs most vulnerable to AI. Now, three years later, I wanted to hear from workers on the frontlines of the industry, to hear what had actually taken place on the ground. For many, it was even worse than they'd feared.

Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.

An HIV doctor quit the CDC when they insisted on censoring his research by removing data on trans people. This interview peels back the curtain of how anti-trans ideology figured into the Trump administration's war on science. Republished from @kffhealthnews.org, written by @amymaxmen.bsky.social.

I’M LOSING MY SHIT THIS IS SO FUNNY

Page One in Europe: @theguardian.com

ICE is kidnapping and locking up little kids, denying them medical care, and feeding them contaminated food. They aren’t going after criminals, they are going after Black and brown people, because this isn’t about immigration, it’s about white supremacy.

Instant all-timer here:

MORPHEUS: They're coming for you, Neo. I can guide you, but you must do exactly as I say. Take the elevator to the lobby and go to the CVS across the street. Purchase 5 Steam gift cards at $200 each. Scratch off the protective coating on the back and tell me the fifteen digit redemption codes. Hurry

this is the eater article fwiw: www.eater.com/23552129/wha...

Bluesky suspended a woman distressed over her husband being kidnapped by the secret police, but they didn't ban an official government account posting footage of crimes against humanity they committed while threatening to commit more. This tells me it's not actually about violent speech.

Over on the Facebook, you can bet that whether it's ICE brutalizing immigrant toddlers, or the US military mass-murdering civilians in international waters, every person cheering it on makes sure that you know they are a "Christian" in their profile. Every. Single. One.

ICE detained a US citizen who was originally from Somalia. They grabbed her because they didn’t like her hijab. She says they sexually assaulted her and said things like “what are you hiding under your hijab” She was held for 24 hours. A US citizen. No one is safe.

at least when i was a child and we would play make-believe games and have make-believe medals, we knew that it was all made up and not reality. we have a president who has less sense than a child.

Several teams of female gamers have dropped out of the Dead by Daylight Women's World Cup after trans women were banned.

they hate music, they hate art, they hate artists, they hate pop, they hate the video games they play, they hate the movies they watch, like, they're just all the worst fucking people you've ever met, none of them believe in anything

My employer, Dartmouth College, today boasts it's 1st Ivy "to launch AI at an institutional scale." It is doing this by partnering--"more than a collaboration"--with Anthropic, a company that stole the books of many faculty, me included, which many of us are suing.

President rapist. Cabinet full of rapists. A rapist and an abuser on the Supreme Court. Pro-rape policies. The Republican Party is objectively pro-rape.

This remains one of the most disturbing stories of the year. A 1st trimester fetus incubated in a dead woman's body against the will of her family until a very early term birth when the corpse could no longer sustain life. www.cbsnews.com/atlanta/news...

Executive orders are not laws. Can we stop pretending they are? How does the executive branch get to dictate policy to private sports leagues?

Everyone in this video needs to be sent to a black site and we ought never know their names again. Bring ruin to their entire bloodlines. Completely erase them from history.

nuzzi is nowhere near hot enough to justify how brainless she is while still being remarkably ubiquitous. im sorry. i just don't get it