At some point, the public is going to need to become wise to the Faustian bargain AI is offering them, because right now a very powerful lobby is already being formed to argue, legally and practically, that the difference between reality and fiction is not important.

Shota Imanaga's 26 whiffs tonight vs. the Phillies are the most by a pitcher in MLB this season. Imanaga's 26 whiffs also tie Yu Darvish (Aug. 23, 2020) for the most whiffs by a Cubs pitcher in the pitch tracking era (since 2008).

It just really feels like we’re all living through a terrible nightmare.

I'm expecting a wheelbarrow-full of pardons for insider trading on January 19, 2029. Note that the prospect of those pardons helps to keep subordinates in line. Corrupt-cop style, make sure that lots of people get a little taste, then make clear that the pardon depends on continued loyalty.

I don't think people fully appreciate how apocalyptic things are for US science. I haven't had any new funding since 2024, but I'm still ok since typical grants are for three years. This means next year I will be completely out of funding and will have to fire everyone in the lab. It's not great.

Realism vs. Reality

If a secdef violating the 14th amendment rights of US servicemembers by denying promotions based on race isn’t impeachable then I don’t see what is. The man would rather the military be racist than effective.

"Republicans too radical, Democrats too woke" is the ideology of the owners of most major news outlets and many of the senior editors and reporters they have hired/promoted. This is Rahm's platform. So of course they amplifying his message. It is their message too.

Marking it.

This kind of explicit gutter racism goes beyond what Buckley would have been willing to publish in his pro-Jim Crow days

Looks like it was a narco trafficking compound in exactly the same way Alex Pretti was a domestic terrorist.

the human body was not designed to know what the worst person in the world is doing every fifteen minutes

Imagine not only bragging about but also demanding plaudits for micromanaging your own vanity project.

This was one million percent written by AI.

Lawyer: You don't regret that people might have lost income? Cavanaugh (DOGE): No, I think it was more important to reduce the federal deficit from two trillion dollars to close to zero. Lawyer: Did you reduce the federal deficit? Cavanaugh: No, we didn't.

For most of my journalism career, pardons were considered criminal justice or human interest stories. Now, thanks to Trump's transactional approach, they're part of the lobbying & influence beat. A look behind the scenes of the @nytimes.com's clemency coverage:

The conditions feel ripe, with the quality of character at the helm, for this war in Iran to feel exactly like Apocalypse Now.

I really don't think I should have to verify that I am human to look at the Cheesecake Factory menu online. Dogs and robots should be able to look at 57 types of cheesecakes too.

Well that Shia LaBeouf Andrew Callaghan interview is just impossibly troubling.

feels pretty bad that our lives are being buffeted about by some of the dumbest, cruelest people imaginable, with the goal of making all of us dumber and crueler too

((Paramount’s purchase of WB is just as illegal as Netflix’s 🫡))

I swear to fucking god this gambling ad just told me I could use their app to make bets AT A FUNERAL OR IN TRAFFIC.

Remember how Rob Manfred sanitized Pete Rose for this fucking guy?

James Murphy licensing music to Starlink is really the final nail in the coffin of his waining artistic credibility.

The Tigers and MLB picked a fight with Tarik Skubal — and now they’re paying for it. Column: www.nytimes.com/athletic/702...

Why does Leonardo DiCaprio cough like that in every movie?

To every writer, artist & [insert your creative thing here] who feels they maybe shouldn't be posting stuff that *isn't* 'How Do We Stop The Fascists' right now: One of the tools of Evil People is hopelessness - where everyone's so exhausted they forget what Better looks like. Please remind them.

Craig Breslow seems like an alien from Men In Black.

I wish I believed in hell.

God help us when Wikipedia goes.

25%.

im sorry what

Good stuff from @enosarris.bsky.social Tucker's very, very good. Elite plate discipline, good launch angles. But his defense is in decline, he's not the most durable & he's already got 50th percentile bat speed a few years out from the age when it starts to tank. www.nytimes.com/athletic/687...

Interesting nugget from @dgoold.bsky.social's latest "Write Fielder." https://www.stltoday.com/sports/article_ae16a404-c3bc-4d74-93ce-26d852a50e79.html?

I reached out to the author of this viral Reddit post thinking there might be a story in it. He sent me an employee badge that Gemini flagged as being AI-generated and supporting documents that I suspect were also generated by AI. Be careful out there folks! www.reddit.com/r/confession...

This pervasive, pernicious framing concedes that Republicans have no agency in any of their evil and are simply doing what they do. I continue to think that fallacy is more damaging than that the exterminators (btw, interesting choice!) are overmatched.

ACA tax credits expired on 12/31. Trump is not complying w Epstein release but what's come out is damning. Dead bodies in the Carribbean. Fragile peace in Ukraine and the Middle East. So House floor time next week will be dedicated to... rolling back shower head and energy efficiency standards.

I mean given that he is constitutionally barred from re-election what exactly can you call this other than legalized bribery?

Took some time to think about what I needed from the movies aiming to engage with the current political landscape this year. Shout out to both my fantastic editor Clare Lombardo and the truly dreadful ELLA MCCAY, for helping me crystalize my perspective. www.npr.org/2025/12/29/n...

Our photographer Alex Kormann captured the exact moment the presses stopped for the last time in Minneapolis, ending a 158 history of locally printed newspapers.

The people who profited most from the cancel culture/free speech panic were less interested in actual freedom of speech than establishing their own control over public discourse. You don't even have to take my word for it. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

(Trump is gonna seat one, maybe two more on SCOTUS next year.)

For the record, he is a traitor, thus ineligible for the presidency, and his entire reign is illegitimate on a legal level. This seems worth stating from time to time.

—I’ve been asked to baptise the King of Spain’s daughter —Infanta? —No, holy water as usual. Weird thing to ask honestly

My dad was a state judge and made me take the KERRY EDWARDS bumper sticker off my car in 2004 because the title was in his name.

Something every 2026/28 Dem should commit to is investigations of any company that did deals with Trump. A kind of forward guidance to get companies to think twice in advance of what’s coming.

NEW: A new congressional investigation prompted by ProPublica reporting has found that, contrary to the Trump administration’s claims, immigration agents have frequently detained and mistreated U.S. citizens. By @nicolefoy.bsky.social

The bones of Santa have been leaking liquid for 1,700 years.

When we talk about physical media, we are often only taking about personal collections but a big part of shunning the current digital ecosystem is supporting your local library. Not just for print books and periodicals but for movies, games and other medias too. Get. A. Library. Card.