It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans. 🧵 1 of 9

im sorry you all will do all this, line everybody up at half court, have a whole ass ceremony, put nice music on, make everybody feel good, but putting up a banner is just too far? for the org that has a Billy Joel banner in that same building?

The internet sucks now because everything needs to result in the maximal outcome so instead of seeing the Coldplay couple and going “lol pretty funny” we end up with this, everything is Qanon, everything is the Inquisition, when the fun of it should be “well, never have to think about this again!”

oh did he die?

Breaking: Rep. Ro Khanna says the Trump DOJ's production "does not comply with" the Epstein Files Transparency Act. Khanna says he and Rep. Thomas Massie "are exploring all options" — including impeachment of DOJ officials, inherent contempt, or referring individuals for obstruction of justice.

friends, if I share "How the Trump Administration Is Quietly Resegregating the American Workforce," describing how several policies--some of which you may not know about--work in tandem, and you immediately reply 'quietly???' I'm quieting you with the mute button ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

The Epstein Files, everybody!

Elise Stefanik dropped out of the governor's race and is exiting Congress. But we'll always remember her for that balmy day in Plattsburgh, New York, when she was roundly booed by her constituents while honoring a deceased county clerk. Not just boos, but shouts of “Traitor" and “You’re a Nazi.”

In the Epstein line. www.justice.gov/epstein

The Vanity Fair photographer from the Susie Wiles story. Holy. Shit. www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...

For the past few months, I have been looking at what President Trump's mass deportation agenda really looks like on the ground in NYC for a TPM series. We're about halfway through it and I'd like to show you what we've done so far. talkingpointsmemo.com/feature/life...

it’s interesting to see so many MAGA folks acting shocked at Trump’s statement, which is basically the same as every Trump statement I’ve ever seen

to be clear, it is fine if you just want to dick around! that's what i mostly do on here. but the idea that "you're giving up the fight to influence people by not using X" is belied by the fact that effectively *no one* uses X. and i don't see any of the "use X!" people on tiktok or youtube.

If okc loses this does their streak end or does it not count 🤔

Magic Castle

Me: "I wish Disney would stop being so draconian and protective of their IP"

Saying Trump admin officials "misled" the court and removed him without lawful authority, Judge Xinis demanded Kilmar Abrego Garcia's release immediately. (Govt ordered to notify him no later than 5pm ET today of his exact time and location for release.) www.huffpost.com/entry/judge-...

damn brother that's a tough one

The titular wokeness being rolled back is the Civil Rights Act of 1964

ah yes, everyone remembers that moment after 9/11 where everyone got cancelled and we started the extremely woke war on terror www.piratewires.com/p/heather-co...

big fan of the wikipedia editor maintaining the Dylan Byers controversies list

It’s sort of interesting that giving Sonic the Hedgehog a gun was a big deal but Nintendo has given Kirby a gun a few different times and no one really reacts because it’s like “yeah he’d have one”

y'all it turns out Nate Silver and Matt Yglesias are very lazy

It’s a huge day for the journalists of The Columbus Dispatch and The Newark Advocate. Here’s why we are unionizing. Read the full mission statement on our website: cwalocals.org/columbusdisp...

the defensiveness and incredulity of a good chunk of the commentary class toward arguments about trump’s racism is, imho, downstream of the same impulse behind the endless trump voter safaris and self-flagellation about being out of touch with the heartland

it remains absolutely funny to me that the one thing that unites MAGA and Blue Labour is "we are too high up on the value chain and we need to go back"

Max Huntsman, the inspector general tasked with holding the LA Sheriff’s Department to account, is retiring… and going out with a bang in this letter 🔥

For folks thinking Netflix is the better option to Paramount here, what was worse for American media and democracy: Facebook killing most newspapers or Jeff Bezos buying the Washington Post

new york democrats shouldn't be let anywhere near power. the ideal democratic leader is a guy who won by 2 percent and actually thinks of the GOP, rather than other Democrats, as the enemy.

This is so incredible. You have to see the photos. These workers held the line for THREE YEARS www.publicsource.org/post-gazette...

What? nypost.com/2025/11/24/m...

You know what I think Isaac Chotiner is right to be suspicious of the Semafor article credulously arguing that it's fine for the Saudis to be real life Bene Gesserit

i don't really wonder why isaac chotiner is like this. i wonder why our journalists in general aren't like this.

Not really familiar with this new Chotiner fight but I will be using this treasure in the replies from time to time

Oh yes of course, "Semafor Gulf," sure

A new kind of rapid Chotining. Please appreciate the alt-text.

Give the monkey guy a cigar to chomp on and some space Jimi Hendrix to listen to while laying down covering fire with his laser M60 machine gun, and Rogue One would be a masterpiece

donald trump endorsed zohran mamdani before chuck schumer lmao

#BREAKING: Former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers will immediately leave his role as an instructor at Harvard while the University investigates his ties to child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.

This is the lady who wrote Michelle Obama's "When they go low, we go high" speech

The crime is not what we were doing protesting in the 10th floor elevator lobby of 26 Federal Plaza. The crime is what ICE agents are doing on the other side of the door.

for the nyt defense squad who spent yesterday crying that people were mean to the nyt, you don’t have to rush to their defense. you can just Not Post

In the same week a news hurricane engulfs the BBC in the UK, the NYT: hold my beer. To be fair, I believe the NYT deserves a shitstorm: it does brilliant journalism. It’s also untransparent & unaccountable

Good things are possible and all, but we're talking about law enforcement types here -- a serious and hard nosed insider who the rank and file dislike for being a hard ass is probably the best you're gonna get

I cannot begin to properly articulate how upsetting it is to have had people baselessly accuse trans people of being groomers and pedophiles only for it to come out that they were deliberately doing this as part of a project to provide cover to actual groomers and pedophiles in positions of power

It's almost like when you tax the rich in a place you get to make that place a better place and even the rich just looking out the windows of their limos at most of that place in passing prefer to think "oh, that looks nice" rather than "I must prepare my bunker for the impending apocalypse"

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WHAT

you could fact check this — there aren’t 30 million illegal immigrants and there is no evidence that the presence of an immigrant in say houston has any impact on housing in madison, wisconsin — or you could note straightforwardly that this is just nazi rhetoric

as a current new york times employee or former one who was supposed to be covering all of this, let me just say some of you should absolutely trust me when I say there’s no funny business going on with the epstein documents. what reason would I have to say otherwise