So, Star Wars fans: When are we going to talk about the fact that the Darksaber is a vacuum cleaner attachment?

Why would 45 want the Ellisons to ruin his 5th column? TV News is not your friend.

works progress administration, but so that kids with wikipedia families who went to ivy league schools can work a real job at least for a bit

Simon Bazelon is the JD Vance of Peters Doocy. It always helps to be the son of a pundit and you'll never go broke selling centrists their own conservative priors. The only reason to pay any attention to his takes is to use them as a buoy from which to tack left.

"I'm not in denial, I'm in open rebellion" damn that quote goes hard

I'm not good at anything. I dont do anything. I dont know anything. But I know this: Certain forces are out of control

this joke plagues transphobes because it’s an incredibly cutting take on what the modern transphobic panic is, a hysterical panic based off of a lie that transness is fake and that there is an intentional effort from the right to prop up this wedge to destroy all LGBTQ rights

Trump’s obsession with me is beyond weird. He needs serious help. Since he has no economic policies to tout, he’s resorting to regurgitating bigoted lies instead. He continues to be a national embarrassment.

folks we are into “breaking gerrymanders” territory here we are going to win

it's 2025 and the gangly guy who appeared on a few seasons of The Office is now our only mirror to society

This @capitolfax.bsky.social column lays out the facts about pretrial release and safety and gestures toward the political and financial motives of those who (my words) lie in wait for a tragedy to exploit

Federal agents cut off her wedding ring.

Code of Conduct for United States Judges, Canon 5: "A judge should not . . . attend or purchase a ticket for a dinner or other event sponsored by a political organization or candidate... A judge should not engage in any other political activity." (All judges receive training on this.)

CONFIRMED: Eileen Higgins, a Democrat, will be the new mayor of Miami. She'll be the city's first Democratic mayor since the 1990s. She flipped the office from Republicans, and does so easily. She leads the DeSantis-endorsed Emilio González 59/41 right now with most ballots counted.

Seems to me a settlement like this should be subject to the approval of congress

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In the middle of a rant about Ukraine, published in Politico this morning, Trump began repeating Kremlin talking points. He questioned Zelenskyy’s legitimacy, even accusing him of drawing out the war for personal political gain.

Found Nick Offerman’s oscar nomination for a leading role.

I thought the whole purpose of suspect sketches was that they *weren't* lifelike and realistic so the witness doesn't get attached to the image over their own memory.

*small domino* my mum tells me not to drink diet coke because she read in the Guardian that it causes dementia *BIG DOMINO* zoom meeting with the editor-in-chief of Neurology to discuss errors i found in multiple peer-reviewed papers

Terry Gross Conducts ‘Fresh Air’ Interview On Bluetooth During Uber Shift https://theonion.com/terry-gross-conducts-fresh-air-interview-on-bluetooth-during-uber-shift/

“A representative for Harris told The New York Times that he had not been charged with any offense and will continue to stay in Japan to research an upcoming project.” variety.com/2025/theater...

to quote myself on this

So this video is perfect and you should watch all of it but if you truly do not care about Christmas lights please skip to here (22 minutes in) for commentary on lighting in the LED age that pretty much every sighted person would benefit from consuming.

In addition to all of the other benefits already reported about NYC congestion pricing, "In the first six months of the program, air pollution – in the form of particulate matter 2.5 micrometers and smaller – dropped by 22% in the Congestion Relief Zone (CRZ)" news.cornell.edu/stories/2025...

The Wall Street Journal reports that Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison “offered assurances” he would drastically transform CNN if he bought Warner Bros. Discovery www.wsj.com/business/med...

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NEW: Chemical industry lobbyists have long pushed the government to adopt a less stringent approach to gauging the cancer risk from chemicals, one that would help ease regulations on companies that make or use them. They finally got their wish.

Pretty infuriating: King Gizzard quit Spotify over ethical concerns -- and now Spotify is letting AI knockoffs of its music (with all the lyrics copied verbatim) proliferate on its platform futurism.com/future-socie...

Seeing Rolling Stone lay off multiple staff less than three weeks before Christmas, one of them Brittany Spanos, a cover story writer with 11 years at the title, really confirms how bad things are in media right now

At this point if your candidates are not running on court reform, they don’t have your best interests in mind. As you settle on primary candidates for congress make sure they support SCOTUS reform

“For those enrolling in Obamacare for next year, the plans will cover a considerably smaller fraction of their medical bills. More and more people are discovering that their deductibles are rising significantly… That’s on top of higher premiums; they could more than double.”

They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.

He signed a mirror?

the whole structure of this argument — independent agencies are politically unaccountable therefore the president must have removal power — treats congress as if it were a total nullity, or as if only the president truly represents the public.

hey a fun thing is that if congress is delegating authority to an independent agency then by definition that agency is not "unaccountable." it is still accountable to congress. and it is interesting (read: extremely frustrating) to me that these people just write congress out of existence here.

You'll know I won the lottery when I roll up to the potluck in one of these www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNCV...

Elon Musk’s X found a reason to disable the ad account of the EU Commission.

Their colleagues, their opponents, athletes, your kids; these guys are obsessed with genitalia.

"Post about Roger Clemens and the Hall of Fame, that'll get all the veterans to pipe down about Hegseth"

Please boycott his apartheid products www.iphoneincanada.ca/2025/12/05/s...

My candle burns at both ends; It will not last the night; But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends— It gives a lovely light! Edna St Vincent Millay

15/ Today we’ve published a deeply reported 5-part series. It’s about Albany, Georgia. It’s about getting sick in America. And it’s about what happens when the most powerful institution in town is a hospital.

"If you pardon Cuellar he'll flip to the GOP"

I don't think I'd go as far as Nibali, I like that the TdF is the center of the big Grand Tour trio, but I definitely agree with him and Pogačar that the Giro and the Vuelta should swap.

The people pushing for the elimination of birthright citizenship are currently committing atrocities against immigrants within our country's borders and murdering fishermen overseas. This cannot be ethically discussed as an abstract legal question. There is no law here, only a fascist will to power.

Heartbreaking. The University of Nebraska will terminate its entire Earth science department. One of the country's most successful and respected geology & climate programs: gone. When ideologues & politicians are threatened by the very act of studying climate change, I wonder: who of us is next?

My dog there is nothing culturally normal about harassing trans people and hounding them out of public life. There's nothing normal about destroying every earthy possession that belongs to a homeless person when you know for a fact that you could save money by housing them.