Friends, we're living under a malevolent incompetocracy. These mufuckas are messy af and it maybe be the only thing that saves us.

Give a child safety, and you give them room to reason. Give them security, and you give them freedom to think. Liberation begins with how we make space for our children.

when some people choose between a weekly injection or daily pill to regulate their hormones so as to align their body with their desired appearance i guess it's no big deal

Friends, we're living under a malevolent incompetocracy. These mufuckas are messy af and it maybe be the only thing that saves us.

The Dunning-Kruger Effect and the Streisand Effect, when merged, become the Bari Weiss Effect

Solar noon shadows in Anchorage on the winter solstice.

Far too many squander what little agency they have.

David Duke wakes up every day and thanks his lucky stars, I'm sure. There's absolutely no difference, no daylight at all, between what he'd do in the WH and what the Trump administration is doing. Hell, they're probably being more ambitious than he'd ever dreamed.

Also, characterizing the suffering of my loved ones as virtue signaling is real garbage behavior. So, with all due respect and Merry Christmas and all of that, I'll most emphatically reiterate: you can fuck all the way off.

Your charitable efforts are commendable. Likewise, I volunteer 3x a week at a food bank. Unlike you, I possess the rudimentary empathetic & critical thinking skills required to act in the overall interests of those you're "helping" by, for starters, voting against the corrupt authoritarians, ffs.

Yes - it’s not a big group. There are maybe 20 core accounts. They make this site almost unusable for a lot of people. Ban them!

Hide behind your half-baked electoral critiques all you want, but it won't change the fact that you don't give shit - at all- about your Black, trans, immigrant, pregnant, et al, neighbors who are now suffering needlessly under this cruel & corrupt regime.

Then advocate for election reform. Ranked Choice Voting in national elections could help end the two-party duopoly. In the meantime, helping to elect a felon, rapist, racist, fraudster, grifter, and aspiring despot to the White House ain’t it. And you know better. Grow the fuck up.

A Lord of the Rings cover band called A Fellowship Called Quest.

Far too many fundamentally misunderstand what voting is. It's not a form of personal moral expression; it's a large scale harm v benefit equation, & that takes certain sympathetic & critical thinking skills, of which there's a woeful dearth in this country. Dumb & mean. That's what we are, mostly.

Our daughter's descendants came to America on the Mayflower _and_ on slave ships. Proud heritage? Eh. 100% American, though.

Then advocate for election reform. Ranked Choice Voting in national elections could help end the two-party duopoly. In the meantime, helping to elect a felon, rapist, racist, fraudster, grifter, and aspiring despot to the White House ain’t it. And you know better. Grow the fuck up.

Far too many fundamentally misunderstand what voting is. It's not a form of personal moral expression; it's a large scale harm v benefit equation, & that takes certain sympathetic & critical thinking skills, of which there's a woeful dearth in this country. Dumb & mean. That's what we are, mostly.

A Lord of the Rings cover band called Flock of Smeagols

A Lord of the Rings cover band called A Fellowship Called Quest.

Oh look, another libertarian who can’t do basic math or doesn’t understand the current two-party electoral paradigm. He doesn’t vote and thinks he and other nonvoters aren’t responsible for Trump’s reign of five-alarm fuckery. Anyone who didn’t vote for Harris absolutely shares the blame. Full stop.

Our daughter's descendants came to America on the Mayflower _and_ on slave ships. Proud heritage? Eh. 100% American, though.

The Epstein Files are blacked out more than Pete Hegseth.

The Donald J. Trump Elise Stefanik drops out of NY Governor’s race and will leave the Congress next year.

Think I have conclusively demonstrated that the search tool for the limited release Epstein Files published so far by the Justice Department does not work

The grief is immense. Our movements grow. May the joys we tend sustain us. ✨✨✨ My “Sustain Us Solstice” design for this year. Wishing you all an easeful and nourishing winter solstice! 💚

Terrifying headline if you don’t realize they are sports teams.

Happy Inaugural Epstein Files Release Day to all who celebrate!

NB: When I, a professor of law, profess that an act is unlawful, I am not doing it to inform the lawbreaker, but rather to inform you, the reader. So the question “what, like you think he cares?” is inapposite. The question is whether *you* care. I think you should, which is why I bother.

Lord knows, the world sure loves an origin story. Because of the repeating, cyclic nature of experience, we're really attached to that particular narrative - beginning, middle, end / coming, staying, going. Something comes, stays, and goes, but what precisely?

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Lolololo dude is giving this ICE goon the business

matt & co’s theory of how public opinion on immigration would respond to new information was simply empirically wrong. at this point the only reasonable conclusion is they refuse to update their priors w/ new data because the data is inconvenient for them www.gelliottmorris.com/p/the-cost-o...

One small way to try to re-establish social trust would be to transparently disclose *in this very column* that you hung out with Jeffrey Epstein. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/o...

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Photographer Christopher Anderson on the Vanity Fair photoshoot

BREAKING: Jack Smith just revealed that Trump broke the law, in his statement to the House. "Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that Trump engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election and to prevent the lawful transfer of power."

Read this. Then read it again.

I have no answers but I saw so you see

Don't steal pies this Christmas.

One of the biggest moments of my career: USCIS canceled my client’s naturalization oath ceremony. We filed a lawsuit, went to trial, and the judge swore him in right there in the courtroom!

Are we in a recession? Perhaps. Maybe. Hard to tell. The Sahm Rule focuses on the 3-month average unemployment rate, and asking if it's risen half a point above its year-long low. The low was 4.0% in January. The latest (average of Sept & Nov, with Oct missing): 4.5%. That's +0.5%.

Shepherdess Leaning Against a Tree, with Two Sheep https://www.artic.edu/artworks/197686/

lolz "Residents packed a city council meeting to watch the data center go down in flames in a 7-0 vote. [Lobbyist Kyrsten] Sinema was nowhere to be found."