"It is logically impossible to simultaneously be evil, corrupt, and incompetent" is an absolutely amazing take to have in the year of 2025

Brett Kavanaugh (September 2025): The facts and how they relate to the law don’t matter. Assume ICE and other federal forces always act with integrity, always respect rights, and consistently impose minimal burden. Brett Kavanaugh (December 2025): Should I not have done that? Was that wrong?

The cease-fire in Gaza is more than two months old. But the killing of Palestinians has not yet stopped for more than a day or two at a time.

Retroactively declaring them the “Trump Kennedy Center Honors” but not actually changing the logo is a weird mix of hardcore and super lazy sycophancy

I hadn’t thought about 60 Minutes in forever, but then they started hiding the news, like a cool scavenger hunt.

Damned if you do; damned if you don't. The government spent months turning immigration court into a deportation trap.

I just uploaded @jasonparis.bsky.social 's recording of the segment CBS News pulled from "60 Minutes" to YouTube:

BREAKING: WATCH the full 60 Minutes CECOT segment here. This was sent to me anonymously. It appears to be the segment CBS' Bari Weiss killed. www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...

really cannot be emphasized enough that bari weiss has literally never done journalism. i don’t mean that in the pejorative sense. i mean that in the “has never performed the job she was hired to do” sense

Seems like the fact that the change doesn’t appear to be legal should be a bigger part of the story

Trump’s speech went well, I gather?

Fox, of course, making no effort to inform their audience whether what Trump is saying is true (it’s not, recruiting exceeded targets in 2024)

i wonder what this totally brave soul is doing right now

They updated the website today to remove the word "independent" Before (left), after (right)

well, nice to be able to skip the “this war isn’t for oil, how dare you” phase of things this time around

When did Venezuela steal “Oil, Land, and other Assets” from us?

It’s really telling that Wiles laughed off the notion that she should have tried to talk Trump out of weaponizing the Justice Department against one of his enemies

utterly incapable of grace

The guy who offered a bounty to anyone who could provide proof of Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio eating dogs -- and then offered as evidence a video of Congolese immigrants in Dayton, Ohio eating chicken -- has opinions about the right's "conspiracy, psychodrama, and tabloid conflicts."

In American high schools, many teenagers are assigned few full books to read from beginning to end — often just one or two per year, according to researchers and thousands of responses to an informal reader survey by The New York Times. trib.al/gNp7kWK

Is this just going to become like a weekly thing now?

On some level, I’m going to miss him.

So they *are* able to stop a ship in international waters and seize control of it without killing everyone on board? Huh.

“It’s very simple — with Netflix you get eyebrows. Unkempt, difficult to maintain eyebrows. But with Paramount — no eyebrows. It’s that simple. It’s that tidy. No eyebrows.”

“I told them their kids get two dolls max”

🤷‍♂️

Really hard to even imagine how the media would have reacted if Biden went around bragging about passing multiple cognitive exams and insisting they were super hard.

Literally billions of humans over literally hundreds of thousands of years have handled this task successfully without using Sam's theft-fueled mediocrity generator.

After MTG lied about me for weeks, she said that she felt bad for my unborn child because he'd have me as a mother. Her rhetoric led to threats against my family. No one, even her, should receive threats like those, but I'd like to see her own up to the role she played in creating them for others.

In case you missed today’s hearing. There were some incredibly powerful stories told by the five main witnesses. You’ve seen many of the videos of what happened to them, now hear from them in their own words. Also grateful for how many members of the House and Senate showed up to uplift the issue.

How did the New York Times publish this completely unironically?

sitting next to a sweaty guy on a plane who just finished a workout at terminal 8 while wearing a shirt, tie, and suit

Remember when Bart was punished and couldn’t go to The Itchy and Scratchy Movie? And said, “Well, nothing can match the imagination of a ten year old boy!” and in his imagination, Itchy and Scratchy just stood there and shrugged? Yeah, that’s AI.

“Their consistent refrain serves as an important message to Republicans and Democrats as they look to sway swing voters in key races across the country next year: Candidate quality matters, ranging from positions on issues to personality to professional background.” www.nbcnews.com/politics/ele...

Yep, this all sounds super legit and prestigious

At least the Kennedy Center thinks things are going great at the Kennedy Center 🤷‍♂️

Such an incredible honor, wow. A dignified, esteemed award. Just plop that medal around your neck, great.

“confidential drafting process for Donald Trump’s…National Security Strategy…has stunned some in government who’ve seen the pages so far. A federal staffer tells Zeteo that one version…they saw reminded them of “fascist internet trolls getting worked up…on Twitter.”” zeteo.com/p/trump-nati...

"The Donald Trump administration has changed which holidays qualify for free entrance to national parks, removing two holidays celebrating Black people and adding the president’s birthday."

Trump may have accidentally pardoned the pipe bomb guy?

Well, this certainly complicates the “FBI inside job/Biden cover up” narrative www.cnn.com/2025/12/05/p...

JUST IN: Statement from Abbe Lowell, defense counsel for Letitia James, on Virginia grand jury’s refusal to re-indict the NY Attorney General on mortgage fraud charges:

THR: Paramount studio chiefs “only later learned that Paramount would be distributing [Rush Hour 4] around the time news leaked to the media about Trump’s overtures to Larry.” @thr.com $PSKY www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

Good. The last thing the country needs is more people who insist on being accurate and non-abusive. bsky.app/profile/klon...

I wrote a bit for McSweeney's about Isaac Chotiner interviewing Santa Claus. Just a little something for the holiday season. Enjoy!

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The Institute of Museum & Library Services has restored all previously canceled federal grants to libraries, following a ruling by a federal judge "Restoration of these grants is a massive win for libraries of all kinds in all states."

every time i see that water tower i remember the animaniacs are trapped in there by david zaslav. Yet every story leaves it out

Next we're going to slash framerate standards so that we can bring back the Atari 2600.