Along with the bogus redactions, it seems pretty clear they're releasing a bunch of hoaxes and spurious tips and such, of which there are plenty as you'd expect, deliberately disconnected from investigative assessments of their credibility in order to create confusion and cast doubt on all of it.

AI is a cancer.

New from me: The storied fiddler Ashley MacIsaac wanted to play a show at a Nova Scotia First Nation. It got cancelled because Google's AI search summary incorrectly called him a sex offender. Now he's worried for his safety www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/arti...

Year 1 data on congestion pricing in Manhattan… * Vehicle traffic: -11% * Foot traffic: +3.4% * Storefront vacancy: -0.9% * Pollution: -22% * Revenue for mass transit: $548M So YES this has been a huge success.

#academiclife goldengatexpress.org/114511/campu...

"this could have been slop, but it's not" is rapidly becoming a surefire signifier of premium-ness

This is critically important. Democrats need to pass it if they retake Congress. Trump will veto it. So pass it again. Campaign on it. Given current polling, corruption of the FBI, and the brutality of ICE and BP, there’s no better time to say, “Federal police are not above the law.”

Some indications that it is both real (as in included in the releases) and also not real (as in a hoax that ended up in the FBI files) are in this thread

Worth noting that the student admits that she just threw the thing together in 30 minutes without reading the paper she was supposed to be responding to.

Bill Clinton releasing a statement saying 'release the Epstein files, you cowards' was not on my bingo list.

But I can see you Your bronze helm shining in the sun And there's Gilgamesh with scale armor on, baby And I can tell you and Enkidu will still be strong After the boys of Sumer have gone

There should be INTERNATIONAL criminal warrants out for everybody involved. So that way if any of these people who facilitated this ever leave their home countries, they’re getting cuffed.

We no longer have enough space on our bookshelves for all our books, and our house doesn't have space for more bookshelves. I think I just found a solution!

Anyway, watch for yourself and see what you think of Weiss's defense. To me, it's demonstrably full of shit

I still think of this interaction on Twitter. I think it repeats like weekly.

Oh come ON www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

On the new Tucker Carlson interview out today, Matt Gaetz claims that Israel was behind the pedophilia claims against him. I swear I’m not making this up.

My colleagues have been working on this since June, so it’s a big day to see it finally finished and filed. And just thrilled that 17 other scholarly orgs joined.

Weird how The Free Press was able to publish all of these without comment from the Washigton University Transgender Center at St. Louis Children's Hospital.

Found the actual men in women's bathrooms assaulting women.

Just when a bipartisan bill banning congressional stock trading was picking up speed, Hakeem Jeffries pulled the rug out from under it, introducing his own partisan bill that all but guarantees both bills will fail to obtain a majority. From @ddayen.bsky.social: trib.al/uXIx2sm

Tyson Foods is closing its beef plant in Lexington, Nebraska, laying off 3,200 workers next month in a town of just 11,000.

The New York Times investigated 346 people who donated at least $250,000 to Trump and found that more than half of them (197) have received pardons, jobs, government contracts, special treatment, or favors.

Delighted to discover that there's a township in NJ with a street named Hoes Lane.

Imagine if just by refusing to comment, you could stop any story from running. You would literally never find out anything unflattering about anybody. It amounts to asking people for their blessing to publish your reporting about them.

Revenge for Tina Peters now in full force. @thehill.com #Colorado thehill.com/homenews/sta...

this made me so happy

Over the weekend, JD Vance said: "In the United States of America you don't have to apologize for being white anymore.” That’s a longtime theme of white supremacists in America, as Vance no doubt knows. In this thread, I cite similar racist rhetoric using the “apology” theme. 1/6 🧵🧵🧵🧵🧵🧵

If you're not trans, I don't think I can fully explain how important this is. It's so powerful that one of the most circulated science media publications in the world has come out and said "trans children are real and providing transition care improves their lives." That's groundbreaking.

I mean that certainly sates any curiosity *I* had

the main reward you are likely to get for total loyalty to trump is the destruction of your career and your reputation www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/n...

Ooooof

A Trump-appointed judge was so upset with the living conditions in which ICE detained an immigrant in Long Island, New York, that he threatened to hold the government in contempt. “I have never encountered anything like this." trib.al/2LMHIj6

The winds in Colorado/Wyoming are insane. @mikezaccardi.bsky.social

landmines are already back www.reuters.com/business/aer...

Missing the deadline = breaking the law.

UN says Burundi overwhelmed as tens of thousands flee Congo violence reut.rs/4aYlW9O

Breaking News: Workers began adding President Trump’s name to the Kennedy Center, despite no action by Congress to legally rename it. This sparked outrage among the Kennedy family, since it was built to be a living memorial to the 35th president.

Holy crap chart from Gallup

Attacks on feminism are similar to attacks on vaccines. We begin to take for granted a world where women have rights and most children live to see adulthood, and then, over time, we begin to forget, neglect, and (now) reject the movements and innovations that brought us here.

So if anyone is confused by the statement that the Flyers just put out, this is apparently what happened last night. Lmao

Among the nominees just confirmed is Leo Brent Bozell III, a far-right activist and critic of the fight to end apartheid, who Collins just approved to be the United States AMBASSADOR TO SOUTH AFRICA. Vile and irredeemable. tinyurl.com/5fwv4dzc #MEpolitics

There's so much that pisses me off about these doofuses and their nonsense. But perhaps the most ridiculous element of their whining is how in the process of making their complaint that they have been done wrong by an academic culture that doesn't recognize or reward their aggrieved brilliance

This post has me thinking about a paradoxical moral-praxis dynamic in my "Writing with Robots" seminar this semester which would inform attempts to develop such policies—my sample size is obviously limited but I suspect this paradox is widespread among undergrad & grad students—& many faculty tbh+

In honor of me being mad on the internet, and also needing to feel like other people share my values: Tell me about the class you didn't want to take in college that ended up bending your mind or being otherwise "useful" in your development as a person

I'm pretty sure, if I remember high school math correctly (and I have no reason to assume I don't), that 1/7 of something is exactly equivalent to 700%. Totally checks out.

It gets even more pathetic— x.com/RepBeatty/st...

Second worst thing that ever happened to JFK

How a ‘Habeas Machine’ Reunited One Family That Was Pulled Apart by ICE  talkingpointsmemo.com/news/how-a-h...