Earl Lamont Smith was convicted of stealing thousands of government computers and selling them for profit. He pleaded guilty and waived his right to a trial. Trump pardoned him on May 28, 2025.

Took me too long to realise that TikTok karaoke (words in the closed captioning highlighted as they're pronounced) serves the same purpose as a kid's finger tracking on a printed page. People are functionally illiterate.

Saw this one coming a mile away.

I’m more afraid of the upcoming LA rain posts than I am of actual flooding.

Auld Lang Syne is SO last year.

daily routine

I resolve to lay down sometimes and be upright sometimes

Who was President in 2020 is simply impossible to answer. also say what you will about Biden, but the last two Republican Presidents are Trump and W, I don’t think on his worst least defensible actions he gets anywhere close to their idiocy

A mistake in three acts

lol

That scarlet vexillum of yours is a red flag.

Witches' tits: surprisingly warm

richard simmons once chased me down in the middle of park avenue to pet my dog and tell her she was cute

Is there any way to persuade folks to cut back on the emojis in their bio fields.

Watched my dad and Ron Reagan sort through adjacent piles of t-shirts at the Gap in Century City. Dad would have recognized him immediately, but was oblivious.

My man looks like the host of a podcast about Werther’s hard candies

A billionaire is one followed by a whole lot of zeros.

can i offer you a pretend egg in this trying time

An unattractive woman asked for my phone number today outside a restaurant, so I gave her a fake. I feel a little guilty about it; especially as I’d just rear-ended her car.

many are saying

Read Jim's whole thread! I also want to add some historical context. During the 1918 pandemic, there was so much confusion because many scientists still thought that a bacteria, not a virus caused the flu (because, as Jim notes, we couldn't even see viruses under a microscope yet).

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has stated that the 1918 flu pandemic was caused by a lab virus from vaccine research, a defective influenza vaccine. Let’s analyze what a lie this is. First, in 1918, 107 years ago, virology was in its infancy

i don’t see how any of the benefits of chatgpt and other consumer-facing LLMs can possibly outweigh their incredible ability to induce suicides

By any reasonable historical standard — including that of the technology industry! — ChatGPT should be pulled from the market and its product managers and executives held accountable for creating a product that ROUTINELY tells teens to kill themselves. This is a basic, common sense standard.

Immigration is incredible because it's one of the few policy areas where people are willing to suffer real, concrete consequences in order to solve completely imaginary problems.

every time I read a good history book I'm amazed anew at how each page delivers more useful information than the combined efforts of a thousand hours of YouTube videos

just got a text from my basement that says Scary Noise and i am freaking out

Lays did some consumer testing and found that most people don’t know they’re made with potatoes so they redid the packaging and I wish I were joking

You should work for the Huffington Post because it seems like you're huffing a ton before you post

bro did you just copy that floppy

Dreaming of meeting the dogs, of meeting the cats, of meeting the pets of the people that live there.

bringing this energy into 2026

Sidmouth Fatberg.

I just taught my lecture course on mid-20th c US history, which starts with Harding and concludes with Nixon. For the first time, I had to pause and stress that those scandals were actually shocking at the time and, what’s more, that Americans actually demanded people be held accountable.

You can donate your old Christmas trees to the zoo and our goats will eat them. They hate Christmas that much.

AI isn’t going to take your job I am You’re going to go in to your next shift and I will be there, I will be wearing your clothing and your badge, I will be sitting in your chair, I will be answering to your name As much as you tell people I’m not you, they won’t believe you or recognize you

It’s pretty wild that the most rabidly anti-immigrant administration in recent memory is comprised of a President married to an immigrant, a VP married to the daughter of immigrants, an assistant AG in charge of Civil Rights who’s an immigrant (Dhillon), & it was all funded by an immigrant (Musk).

This quote is from a piece that’s 8 years old now.

Sleigh bitch!

Brett Cooper on Nazis in her party: "I don't think I need to sit here and condemn anyone either way." Brett Cooper on people who took risks to defy Nazis in the 1930s: Those people are heroes, legends. We should all strive to be like that.

This is the key part. Only Christian Americans are allowed to confidently proclaim the truth of their beliefs, if anyone else does it they’re trying to “ram their beliefs down your throat.”

he was so real for this

"It's not a war on Christmas," I growl, pausing to spit tobacco and lock my rifle scope on an elf, "if those little fucks shot first."

Taro is now a Snail

Correct me if I’m wrong, but I sense an emerging consensus on Bluesky that Matt Yglesias is wrong and bad.

Is ICE beating up cleaning ladies on Christmas eve, or are they taking the day off?

Happy Wednesday to everyone except people who spell it "alright" - get a fucking grip.