Claudia Sheinbaum’s Impossible Dilemma www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

DOGE was A LOT less likely to cancel contracts from companies that donated money to Republicans than companies that donated to Democrats.

the president is not popular. the civil society-based opposition is very real. the vibes and stories out there are not appreciably different than 2018; it’s the media environment that has decidedly shifted/balkanized.

they all got mad that square enix made lara croft's tits a bit smaller in 2013 or whatever and it's all rationalizations for filling their diapers from there www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2025/12/17/w...

Bit of a wild story. Hearing this second hand, but buckle up. ICE attempted to pull a Kavanaugh stop last night (Christmas Eve), pulling over my mom’s boss (an LPR). He proved his immigration status, but they decided to go after the coworker he was with instead. It gets wilder from here… 1/

They like Trump and want to help him rule us.

There are only two offenses the Constitution goes out of its way to specifically say merit impeachment, and this is one of them.

I'm old enough to remember this shit.

A million pages is conservatively 400 bankers boxes.

one little thing that really rankles about the reporting on this story is how they say she "cited" the bible. no she didn't! she alluded to it at best

I’ve only been confident that my paternal grandfather was born in Hungary for the last hour and my mother has already started inventing anti-Hungarian stereotypes to pin on me

I think it's sweet that the oldest surviving printed book in the world - the Diamond Sutra - is also the oldest creative work explicitly released into the public domain, with a colophon at the end that says it was created for universal free distribution. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamond...

Bari Weiss killed CBS News in 76 days open.substack.com/pub/stevesch...

LUDWIG KAAS RULE STRIKES AGAIN! (“Someone who privately knows that the person/cause they’re supporting is evil, but is choosing to side with it anyway for transactional reasons, is worse and more morally abhorrent than a true believer”)

The Great Khan of the Northern Steppes 6, Trump 3

when somehow the lawyer interviewing you turns out to be your lawyer after all 🥹

This is infuriating. Thanks to Adam for a wonderfully comprehensive account of how the Roberts court is attacking the Civil War amendments to the constitution 1/

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.

Fwiw machine learning/AI is probably very effective at reconstructing redacted text. Once you know the font and the size of the bars, inferring “what combinations words fit here pixel perfect” is a task AI would be good at

Coffeezilla has them: www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7i9...

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

Stephen Miller Loses It as Jury Acquits Man Who Towed ICE Agent’s Car flip.it/eClEv4 😂😂😂😂😂

An editor who thinks novelty is having a town hall with Alan Dershowitz, or publishing the thousandth anti-woke story, doesn’t think having first hand testimony of migrants suffering abuse because of US decisions is newsworthy.

Is the legal document an unconditional surrender?

Bill Clinton: “come at me bro”

😭😭😭😭😭

Ar-Pharazôn-ass bullshit

Learning about AI bros going at each other's throats over "prompt theft", and it's *delightful*. My initial thought was how funny it is to see no honor among thieves in real time, but the more I thought about it, they really do give the whole game away. There is no community, it's a *competition*.

They redacted over 90% of everything and still missed pics and docs with Trump! Think about that for a second. They were actively redacting everything Trump and still missed some of it.

Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.

#29 and #66 (out of the full 149 set) are not to be missed

😢🚨✊ “This document proves if the FBI had done its job in 1996, Epstein’s decades-long sex trafficking operation could have been stopped at the outset... the FBI’s negligence allowed Epstein to continue abusing hundreds of girls and young women for nearly 25 more years.” thehill.com/homenews/adm...

fresh @leftanchor.bsky.social episode, we have James Fishkin on to talk about some fascinating experiments he's done on actual deliberation in an election setting (ie, not Bari Weiss on TV). I was very skeptical at first but he brought me around: www.leftanchor.com/e/the-case-f...

@annmlipton.bsky.social @chancethelawyer.bsky.social what I can’t stop thinking is, if quantum meruit is good enough for BLBG, who did their job loyally, why isn’t it good enough for Elon Musk, who breached his fiduciary duties? Pay him for the hourly rate of the work he actually did.

Jake Paul coming to the ring to honor Hulk Hogan and then getting his jaw punched into his eyeballs by Anthony Joshua has to be one of the best moments in sports this year. Doubly so because I didn’t spend a dime on it.

Redactions can incriminate as easily as they absolve. This is good poasting.

having to look this shit up, as, much as with Kendrick Lamar/Drake I was not familiar with the people or genre but I am all about a no holds beatdown of a thoroughly deserving subject

Former NSA employee (16 years) with a pro tip for you. Released controlled document on the left, Epstein on the right. See the difference? In real redactions, some words, headers, and bits will almost always still be visible, but especially classification headers. These documents are UNCLASSIFIED

Francis Fukuyama on 2025 (With Transcript) open.substack.com/pub/yaschamo...

The reasonable inference T this junction is that “any redaction whose purpose isn’t clear on its face is intended to protect Trump”

"megachurches are shen yun for white people" is an incredible and damning true statement

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

brava www.businesslawprofessors.com/2025/12/per-...

Glorious

A colloquial German word about someone viewed as low on intellect, especially popular in the 1990s, was Teletubbyzurückwinker. It means “one who waves back at the Teletubbies.”

Hey you bought one product once, can we email you fifteen times a day until the end of time, refusing all unsubscribe messages, so that your email is unusable