Trump Halts Five Wind Farms Off the East Coast www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/c... So many jobs are lost

concentration camps.

Happy to oblige please don’t mind the long of journalists whose Signal accounts I have on a list taped to my desk.

thinking of the fugitive slave act and people who profited from it

uh www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

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

The right, along the Roberts Court, is trying to nullify the Reconstruction amendments guaranteeing equality under the law, in order to restore the Antebellum Constitution, which envisions “liberty” as an eternal aristocracy of race and class (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

My grandfather, who became a nativist, changed his name so that people wouldn’t know he was Italian. Or at least that’s the totally plausible family lore. Considering that I’ve never met someone with my last name who didn’t turn out to be a relative, I figure it’s probably true.

I am brimming with holiday spirit

via The New Yorker, Ellis Rosen cartoon

Ok. Now had a chance to check and, well, at least some docs do appear to be straight up classic redaction fail. And there are some *interesting* bits here. www.justice.gov/multimedia/C...

This is absolutely insane.

The regime-wide cover-up of the Epstein files has long been highly suspicious. Now it’s illegal. Nearly every Republican joined Democrats in passing the Epstein Files Transparency Act. Tell your GOP Members of Congress to ensure the whole truth comes out — in keeping with the law they voted for.

22 Dec 2025 @rikiwilchins.bsky.social -- FDA letter to 12 companies making chest binders says they are violating the law by not registering them as "medical devices." No word yet if FDA is also going after sports companies who make sports bras or manufacturers of popular "minimizer" bras.

for privacy 404 media is blurring videos shared to the story but there was a clip we had of a flock condor camera following a man so closely we could see exactly what he was looking at on his phone a must read scoop:

This is 404 Media's @jasonkoebler.bsky.social waving at himself through a Flock camera; one of 60 we learned was left exposed to the open internet. Not only could anyone with a link livestream it, but some admin portals were open with no login credentials required. www.404media.co/flock-expose...

EXCLUSIVE: We found that Instacart is using AI algorithms to charge customers different prices for the same items. It's not just online. It's in physical grocery stores too. Our months-long investigation with @consumerreports.org and @groundwork.bsky.social found it could cost families $1200/year.

I took one journalism class in high school 22 years ago and I could’ve told you this. But somehow the editor in chief of CBS News doesn’t understand it.

This and the discussion about how academics can now just read AI summaries of things really drives home how much these guys always confuse the product for the goal. You don't do a coloring sheet because you want to have a colored sheet at the end!!! The coloring is the point!!!

band of brothers is wild imagine the american government paying you to kill nazis

Waaaaaaaaaahhhhhh. People want us to actually stand for things instead of capitulating and using our offices to get even more rich

The CIA plays a "key role in picking the targets that are chosen by the military for destruction" in the Trump administration's ongoing attacks at sea, says investigative journalist Aram Roston.

A Chicago man originally from Bulgaria died in ICE custody this week after being arrested during Operation Midway Blitz. blockclubchicago.org/2025/12/21/c...

“We can’t pay creators more. It’s not sustainable. Where would we get the money from???”

Once when we wanted to show the ineffectual dithering of The Good Place Committee, we had one of them say, "There are rules, procedures. This is The Good Place -- we can't just *do stuff.*" We almost didn't include it, because we thought it was a little on the nose.

I don’t know how to identify a bad parent anymore. But sweeties, you’re doing great!

Ross Douthat was the EIC of this publication when we were in college. “variations of a racial slur used casually in a group chat of members; an unpublished issue featuring a call for mass executions; and draft versions…that included two images of swastikas and a Nazi slogan in the subtitle.“

An argument for shopping in-person instead of online: At a physical store, they can’t go around marking up the prices of every item you want to buy. Online, a retailer can use an algorithm, your IP address, and any data tied to it to artificially inflate prices instantaneously.

“The Supreme Court decided not to have a Christmas party for 12 straight years because the justices couldn’t agree on whether to invite the Court’s Black employees” is about as tidy an encapsulation of the Supreme Court’s whole deal as I can think of

You know who else died of a medical emergency in a detention center? Anne Frank

FLASHBACK… Seems relevant today…

Page One, @latimes.com “.. Stanford computer-science graduates are struggling to find entry-level jobs. I think that’s crazy.” 👀

Tech guy watching Planet Earth III and shaking his head the whole time to let everyone know he thinks it would be more efficient to burn down the forest, build a data center, and generate the documentary with GenAI.

You don’t redact every mention of your name from The Pedophile Chronicles unless you’re guilty as fuck

This was always going to happen. It’s no less frustrating.

Gonna stop looking at the Epstein Files in a second because I'm frankly way too skeeved out to keep going but I will say this: the CSAM isn't blacked out nearly enough while the faces of guys in ties are obscured by vanta black rectangles the size of the sun.

I love working at the Department of Justice and participating in a conspiracy to cover up the demented 80 year old president's sex crimes. I spend 18 hours a day redacting documents and there's a putrid husk where my soul used to be

From this point on, I'm forced to assume that every elected politician who does not immediately call for Trump's impeachment is in the Epstein files. Sorry. Just cutting the Gordian knot here, as one does during societal collapse.

A tremendously profound amount of stupid here. I don’t like to call people stupid, and maybe in some ways these people are smart, but they clearly lack any capacity for critical thinking, empathy, or concern beyond themselves. Selfish, immature, and antisemitic.

Not done finding every instance of Trump to redact.

From a focus group of Gen Z Republicans. (www.city-journal.org/article/manh...) Tell me again about how Zohran Mamdani is the big threat to Jewish thriving in the US today.

Okay. Scary thing for me to do for reasons, but doing it anyway. I'm in search of a writing group. Online, in person, doesn't matter. I tried starting one, but it never took off. I write in a few different genres, usually some mix of comedy, horror, thriller—all with speculative elements.

The 6 richest men in the world are all Trump allies. They control your algorithms and data on X, TikTok, Twitch, Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp, Threads, and YouTube. Just in case you’re wondering why more isn’t done to stop right-wing bots and misinformation on social media.

Yes! This! 100%!

Fuck all of you saying "this is inevitable" or "it's here deal with it" or even "it's fine"/"it's not a big deal". Be antihuman on your own time. This is a moveable needle. It's ruining lives (mine included already), ruining the environment, ruining art and creativity, isn't needed and isn't wanted.

Our new golden age of free speech, where opposition to immigration enforcement can trigger a federal investigation

Just normal stuff that happens in a normal, functional democracy that’s normal.