How I ended up not lasting in college and joined the military instead. It was the 80’s. I was the first to graduate from high school. I had no path and no mentor.

I can’t emphasize enough how much you need to watch this until the end

This is our new CEO, Javier. I have officially adopted him. He is estimated to be 8 years old and he's deaf, so there's no need to give any feedback on his job performance. He is just a perfect gentlemen and I am so grateful he made his way to me. 14/10 no bias at all

Where The Red Fern Grows IYKYK

tonight while recording a guest spot on a podcast i experienced an unacceptable level of disrespect from one of the hosts. so i decided to do what felt right for me and i left. i didn’t need to stick around to show i’m “tough” or “thick skinned.” i reminded myself that no one is owed my time.

I’ve had the pleasure of being Nicole’s editor at ProPublica these past two years. Holding power to account is what fuels her. And she’s damn good at it. She finds stories. She reports the eff outta them. And she won’t take no for an answer. In the best way.

Trump is considering demolishing 4 historic Washington buildings, incl those that housed the Dep of Housing and VOA, per former gov official WH is independently soliciting bids to recommend demolition of the historic buildings, w/o input of the General Services Administration.

At some point it may occur to the extremely wealthy people on Netflix’s side that the best way to save their deal is to make sure everyone in America knows how corrupt Trump and Ellison are. Their opponents paid off the referees! Make some noise about it!

Last week: On the day the feds came to shut Willie down, Trigger somehow slipped out of bed, made it to the golf course, travelled by mail to Hawaii, and hid out until Willie got his house and taxes back in order.

Our students are raising money to keep their magazines going after the University of Alabama suspended them for foregrounding the voices of women and African Americans. If you've got the means, please support them. givebutter.com/F0LNOA

Jane Fonda Op-Ed: The WBD Deal Puts Hollywood, and Democracy, at Risk open.substack.com/pub/theankle...

some significant part of this is just catch-all fear for “this is not the child I ordered” I think

Of course…

Nayra Guzmán was arrested 15 days after her daughter’s difficult birth. Before Trump took office, postpartum immigrants were rarely detained by ICE.

A Colorado state Senator is launching a primary challenge from the left against Colorado's U.S. Senator Hickenlooper: coloradosun.com/2025/12/08/j...

Jay Jacobs still has his job(s) by the way. Jay Jacobs is still the Democrats' man in charge of turning New York State purple

FWIW DOJ still has not appealed the ruling disqualifying Halligan, nor have they appealed the Third Circuit ruling disqualifying Alina Habba on similar grounds (and nor did they respond to my request for comment about whether they plan to appeal)

What do you have on offer?

#Paramus #NJ Honk 2 Impeach Hegseth #VisibilityBrigade

unicornriot.ninja/2025/ice-tar... latest from @unicornriot.bsky.social Unicorn Riot on ICE raids and community counter response in Twin Cities

Every paper in America should have a 6 inch headline: Sitting Member of Congress, Adelita Grivalja, Attacked by Trump's ICE with Chemical Weapons. The Congresswoman was hit by gas pellet munitions when coming upon an ICE abduction at a restaurant she frequents in her community. #ICELawlessness

Democrats need to lay the groundwork for reform by attacking the villains on the Supreme Court - loudly, angrily, personally, relentlessly. And they should start now. paulwaldman.substack.com/p/democrats-...

Hey folks, my first book is out in April! It's a narrative non-fiction account of five years of life in Berkeley Springs, WV after the "great replacement" fixated group VDARE bought a 19th century castle there. Get 20% off now with the code STRANGE20: www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/micha...

👀 hey bluesky can do something crazy and share the hell of this to get 1000 downloads of kaiconic in 24 hours?? kaicomedy.bandcamp.com/album/kaicon...

He’s going to keep having kids until one of them loves him.

The Chinese government’s repression of journalists at home is well-known. Less visible is how that machinery now reaches far beyond its borders. Read the accounts from Journalists who faced intimidation for reporting on human rights abuses tied to China’s ventures in African countries.

“Traumatized, humiliated, degraded.” The nurse, a US citizen, 4’11”, 85 lbs, says she was following orders when she was dragged out of her car by masked immigration agents in Florida. It was the 3rd time she had been stopped and told to produce ID. Free link ⤵️ www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

The sandwich newsletter is back!!! Prepare to learn more than you ever thought you would about pastrami! Origin myths! Disputes! An outstanding historical mystery! Yiddish ballads! Unlikely lyricism! The Armenian Church takes a stand! buttondown.com/theswordandt...

Such hateful, petty, bigoted trash bags. Their hate will never erase the history she made.

It isn’t a holiday party but the dinner party in Big Night.

A cache of files related to Jeffrey Epstein are set to be released. In The Atlantic Daily, the investigative reporter Julie K. Brown shares tips with @dgraham.bsky.social on how to read the files like an expert:

The truly funny thing is Mel Blanc based Bugs Bunny on Clark Gable, the manliest man to ever man beginning in the ‘30’s and Gable was rumored to be George Cukor’s main snack before Gable hit the big time. Which is why Gable refused to make a movie with Cukor once he had a say so.

At the same time, USC is paying a presumably large sum of money to OpenAI to give students access to ChatGPT we-are.usc.edu/2025/12/03/a...

A massive problem today is the uneven distribution of shame. Some of us are running dedicated on-site shame servers 24/7 while others have no access to shame at all, even though they desperately need it. What we need to do is put shame in the cloud

2000: measles declared eradicated in the U.S. 2025: measles surging in the Americas; U.S. expected to lose measles-free certification next month and is a harbinger of things to come [discussion of polio and diphtheria follows] 🧪 #medsky www.bmj.com/content/391/...

Hey, hey, RFK How many kids did you kill today?

Go get your flu and pneumonia vaccines this weekend. Go. Now.

Right out of the United Daughters of The Confederacy playbook.

hey my book's in here!

DC friends & readers can RSVP for the event here –> www.sankofa.com/events/book-...

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I feel the need to remind folks Tim Miller was Jeb! Bush’s ‘16 GOP presidential primary campaign manager.

There is a reason the US Veteran suicide rate is 57% higher than the general population. Call the veterans in your life. There’s a good chance all of the coverage of these actions is not doing them any favors.

Fellow academics and cultural workers, please consider joining me and scholars like Robin Kelley, Angela Davis and Ruthie Gilmore in signing this important UAE boycott letter: spectrejournal.com/for-a-cultur...

Anyone remember Second Life? That’s what I thought.

The fact that four hostile drones tried to hit Zelenskyy’s plane & it’s barely a blip in the news cycle should terrify everyone. We’ve been dragged so deep into the chaos era that an attempted strike on a world leader doesn’t even break through. When this becomes normal, the world is in real danger.

It's simple — @propublica.org workers should not be replaced by artificial intelligence. Our contract proposal specifically says that generative artificial intelligence ("GAI") should not be used to replace employees. Management struck out this entire section in their response to our proposal.

Where’s the CBS News town hall focused on the Democrats assassinated in Minnesota?

Can someone tell me if this is good news or bad news for the future of Turner Classic Movies and the Warner Brothers back catalogue?