they didn’t leak it to make the shooter look innocent, but to make the victim look guilty. not guilty of a crime. guilty of having a visibly queer wife. guilty of liberalism. guilty of opposing the regime. they don’t seek to exonerate themselves, only to demonstrate who deserves to die.

Initial reports from chaotic, violent scenes are always wrong (in some way). Where you were standing influences perception. Fox News interviewed an eyewitness who stated agents were on both sides of car. Said she was shot thru driver's side window. Details matter. Don't get attached to one story.

Absolutely horrific details about an ICE shooting in Minneapolis. A witness says a woman was trying to drive away from an ICE operation and the ICE agent "reached across the hood of the car and shot her in the face like three, four times." Bovino was there. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

he should be impeached for this alone

It must be terrifying to be a jack-in-the-box. Remember, he doesn't control his own emergence. To him, the world pops inward, a noisy, many-colored beast, until he can push its churning faces out of his dark home

Anyone have popular book recommendations on archaeoastronomy?

Happy Holidays! The #Christmas Day picture from the @NSF Amundsen-Scott South Pole station! Picture by Michael Rayne. #Antarctica #southpole

PEOPLE/EINSTEIN.GIF

in the meadow we can build a snowman and pretend that he is parson brown why do the wicked prosper, parson brown?

Thomas Hardy's 'The Oxen', composed in wartime and first published in The Times, 24 Dec. 1915.

merry christmas all!

NEW: By a 6-3 vote, the Supreme Court blocks Trump’s deployment of the National Guard to Chicago to assist immigration agents. A majority holds that he likely lacks authority to do so. Thomas, Alito, and Gorsuch dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

I just wrote an article about this and decided not to publish it yet. It is in the DOJ files (file got renamed after originally published and taken down. It’s online now). But too many unknowns about whether the letter itself is real or not. Some additional info though:

☃️In the meadow we can build a snowman Then pretend that he is Parson Brown He'll say: Are you married? we'll say ...𝐧𝐨 𝐦𝐚𝐧! 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐮𝐩𝐨𝐧 𝐚 𝐰𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐧. É𝐨𝐰𝐲𝐧 𝐈 𝐚𝐦, É𝐨𝐦𝐮𝐧𝐝'𝐬 𝐝𝐚𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐞𝐫. 𝐁𝐞𝐠𝐨𝐧𝐞, 𝐢𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐛𝐞 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐬! 𝐅𝐨𝐫 𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐫 𝐝𝐚𝐫𝐤 𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐝, 𝐈 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐬𝐦𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮.

I'm excited about this — expect lots of interesting things in the new year! thebulletin.org/2025/12/alex...

Would You Like Help With That?: The Cultural Memory of Clippy in the Age of AI Assistants

pullman park michigan city, indiana

The Eschatian Hypothesis arxiv.org/abs/2512.09970

man this country is big

i read stuff like this and can genuinely angry at guys like jd vance who insist that this country belongs to some narrow vision of the "native born"

is a bread bowl a soup sandwich? many are asking

La communauté @iap.fr a l'immense tristesse de vous annoncer la disparition brutale de Karim Benabed, dans un accident de la circulation, hier après-midi, le 3 décembre.

Our political language around this is stuck in the Cold War. It needs to get unstuck. We need to own part of our workplaces, have voting rights in local institutions, stable housing, properly stewarded data, distributed power, local autonomy, and transparency. We need to broadly distribute power.

wake up dead man lives up to the hype, just as good as the original knives out imo

introducing a new kitchen appliance, the Comptonizer: rapidly cools food by inverse compton scattering photons off of it

SaaS

IT HAS BEEN WRITTEN

On this day in 1942, Enrico Fermi and the Metallurgical Laboratory at Chicago achieved the first man-made, self-sustaining nuclear reaction. Here is a short Lego film about it www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-_i...

Your mausoleum is formidable, Charlie Brown

This is absolutely unreal!! Our Webb image in APOD!!!! This is getting framed

well i personally think Fahrenheit makes more sense but then again i use base 53

sf/oakland

we meet again, Table 2 of Planck 2018 results. VI. Cosmological parameters

the vibe has shifted in the state of denmark

The wheel turns, and it crushes us, but it turns again, and the fight was not worthless merely because it was lost. Because the cause endures. EQUALITY OF MAN BEFORE HIS CREATOR

Heyo! I have just arrived in front of Zellerbach Hall at the University of California, #Berkeley where hundreds of people have gathered to protest Turning Point USA's final your stop tonight. An arrest of some sort is happening it appears. No idea why. The crowd is irate.

anyone know what’s up with the helicopter presence in Berkeley tonight?

i’m rollin with van hollen

Van Hollen Senate Minority Leader vote when

Party realignment in our times

i am a lifelong loyal democrat and i cannot wait until i don’t have to be

imagine a computer that loses money and tells people to kill themselves. sharks, I am asking for

Chicago is the greatest city in the world

A stunning breakthrough: the first example of a primate exhibiting rational thought.

the wildest thing is that it would take ~24 or so republicans to end all of this. all of this damage and terror and blatant criminality. 24 people! in a nation of 300 million or so