Shoutouts to everyone reading this post when they get up to pee at 2 am

Fed society goobers like kavanaugh have basically been tabletop gamers arguing about line of sight rules in Warhammer 40k for decades, but then they finally caught the car, and that theory is now informing state practice. They’re (appropriately) terrified by the outcome

I can only assume the deep thinkers at the NYTimes are thinking of the titular pouty incel narcissistic manchild in troilus and criseyde, an apparent role model for all of today’s pouty incel narcissistic manchildren (Would also accept any man but hector from the Iliad)

On DOGE’s watch, federal spending did not go down at all. It went up. But is still led to cuts that closed offices, canceled programs and deprived people of food, medicine and other aid. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u...

The “free speech” and “cancel culture” panics have led to overt state censorship because that was always their purpose. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

This is as easy a test of your belief in the American system as is conceivable: Should this be an acceptable argument from a president?

Lmao “Ted Wentworth: Sheep know 99 easy ways to die but are always searching hard for the 100th.”

every single “masculinity” influencer should be required to get in the ring against a professional boxer once they hit 500 subscribers

Everyone gangster till Vince guaraldi trio

Almond milk makes for superior dairy-free egg nog imo

The Grinch Who Came In From The Cold

If any journalist wants to talk to a trans man with a PhD in Human Genomics who was trained in labs that studied the evolution of sex, I'm right here Or just keep platforming Republicans who have a 5th grade understanding of biology so they get more trans people killed, sure 🤷🏻‍♂️

The obsession with debates, rather than careful analysis and argument, is very much a part of #TheStupidestTimeline.

This headline is emblematic of reporting from @npr.org, @nytimes.com, et al, which inevitably hinges like this: Trump: economy good, prices down Polls: indicate people disagree Instead of citing opinion polls, can’t these orgs cite actual price data about housing, gas, and eggs? Like with Biden?

Arizona, the model for voucher programs across the country, spent so much money paying private schoolers’ tuition that it faced hundreds of millions in budget cuts to critical state programs and projects last year. (Published July 2024)

“Had” to go to the bookstore to “buy Christmas presents”

The morning that Cmdr. Elizabeth Nakagawa was scheduled to have a D&C to remove fetal tissue after losing a very wanted pregnancy, she learned the surgery had been canceled because the military’s health insurance plan refused to pay for it. (Published Dec. 2024)

this excellent review of oral arguments in trump v. slaughter gets to the profound dishonesty of the conservative majority — the refusal to own the consequences of their actions

i asked chat gpt to fact check an article for me

“The Kiss” is one of my favorite pieces of short fiction and it’s only #168 😩

RE: Daniel Day Lewis and probably 100% accurate

EXCLUSIVE: Epstein didn’t just prey on children. He helped bankroll and embed a worldview of race science, climate “culling” and eugenics inside Silicon Valley’s elite AI networks. Tonight we publish the final part of my @bylinetimes.bsky.social investigation bylinetimes.com/2025/12/05/h...

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Our investigation showed that levels of benzene, a cancer-causing gas, were 37x higher than what the facility reported in the past. The Trump admin has halted efforts to monitor for benzene near large industrial plants like this one, leaving communities in the dark about the air they breathe. (2/2)

The letters are fantastic for a LOT of reasons, but one of them is that Harding had a nickname for his penis. Jerry. Not sure why, he doesn’t elaborate about the choice in the letters. But Jerry pops up frequently in the letters. (Wink)

Got a tree and a wreath!

MacKenzie Scott: *donates $50M every 10 hours° Joe Lonsdale, co-founder of Palantir: "I want to see people hang"

Banning trans women from e-sports is mind-numbingly stupid on an entirely deeper level. Those of us who actually play video, tabletop, and virtual games WANT inclusivity — and the games usually reflect that with character, setting, and themes. Gamers and devs understand. Why don’t these organizers?

coming soon: "the constitution is unconstitutional"

“What have I done!” 🤡

I heard a BBC interview last night where the reporter was absolutely grilling a Kenyan official about saving young men who were duped into fighting for Russia. She wasn’t letting him skate on anything, pressing the points, insisting he answer follow ups — the kind of shit we never get in the US

How many auto companies will actually bite on this efficiency-standards bait? I doubt any do — the standards will soon surpass even Biden’s modest goals, likely in the next admin. Plus, efficiency is what consumers outside the MAGA sphere want. What business would self-harm like this?

this shit is so unbelievable I feel like I’m being pranked sometimes

I hope you spend some time with this package. It's an important story on how our public lands are being used and abused. www.propublica.org/article/graz...

Expecting the state and national measles surge to continue amid low vaccination rates, distrust and some isolating themselves from medical care, Utah health officials are bracing for the outbreak to get worse in coming months. #utpol

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We spent a year investigating billionaires for @washingtonpost.com. We found: the wealthiest 100 Americans gave $1.1 billion to influence the 2024 elections — 140x more than they did in 2000. And almost all of that giving boosted Republicans. washingtonpost.com/politics/int...

Even though we’re not doing anything, still gotta dress for the day

Photographic evidence that Žižek is just Bloom’s ratchet account

GF is sick now (caught it from me — sorry babe!), so this is the Thanksgiving dinner plan

He is risen

This is the correct take. Stewing in white supremacist propaganda is bad for your thinking. And if think you are so savvy that it won’t impact you, you are the exact kind of mark they are slowly converting (I’m looking at you, centrist pundits).

This is the first Thanksgiving for Sophie & Colin Hortman without their parents, Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and Mark Hortman who were assassinated along with the family dog in an act of political murder. National guards troops were not deployed to the state in response.

This feels like a timely prompt to announce that I have a new book out, The Women of 1922 (ed. w/ Sascha Morrell). These really superb essays each consider the stakes of women’s writing in 1922, #modernism 's miracle year, across different global contexts link.springer.com/book/10.1007... #modwrite

The Utah state legislature rushed to ban fluoridated drinking water based on no evidence, but they continue to do nothing about the arsenic and other poisons that’ll kill the Wasatch front when the great salt lake dries

Looks like I’ll be watching Spacek and Duvall in 3 Women after thanksgiving dinner

$300M for golf trips, a fancy $250M ballroom, a $1B flying palace, gold trinkets from everyone, making money hand over fist with advanced knowledge of tariffs and the stock market. I can see why he thinks things are doing so damn great. It's never been better for him. For us? Not so much.