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The Angel Belly of Cleansing is here to heal your timeline. Photo from my collection, ca. 1970s.
December 24, 2025 at 3:40 AM
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I hope this email finds you w—

*veritable deluge of out of office emails*
December 23, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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when you believe all sins are equally bad, it allows you to minimize atrocities and demonize the mundane
December 23, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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These declines are MASSIVE.

And the comparative silence in media coverage is absolutely DAMNING.

“Why are ppl always so afraid of crime?”

THIS is why. When crime goes up, media trips over itself to report it.

Falls to pre-war (!!) levels? Just CRICKETS.
I count 10 cities in 2025 that are on track to have the fewest murders since at least 1970. Newark is on pace to have the fewest murders since 1956 (though only have data through Oct this year) and San Francisco is on pace to have the fewest murders since 1942.
December 23, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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404 Media is about to enter energy saver mode. We're still publishing throughout the week, however, so watch your inbox / RSS / the @404media.co feed and you won't miss us too badly.

Before we all slip into the ether, I wanted to highlight a few stories I published this year that stuck out. 🧵🪡
December 23, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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I mean posting this will trigger the doom loop in my mentions again, but at this point they're probably not favorites to keep the senate. Which, based on the map, is insane.
"Trumpism is going to win forever and ever" buddy he's 6 points underwater WITH WHITE PEOPLE while the economy is good numbers and the dumbest shit of his signature bill hasn't hit the population yet
It’s remarkable every time this dumb site gets in a doom loop that amounts to “Trump is going to outflank the feckless Dems with bread and circuses!” Because lol lmao
December 23, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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Yep. It is in fact bad that people are addicted to a 24/7 Bad News Machine
Anyway the problem with a permanent vibescession caused at least in part by social media posturing is that while it might screw Trump in the short term it really screws the politics of generosity and solidarity in the long term. Believing times are bad makes people more selfish.
December 23, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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It looks like there's been some reporting on this, which is good, but I really wish the breathless "THEYRE OFFERING THREE *THOUSAND* DOLLARS!!" articles would mention that results may vary.
‘They tricked me’: Migrants were promised $1,000 to voluntarily leave the US. Some never received it
People who signed up for a US ‘self-deportation’ scheme say their payoffs were delayed, misdirected or never arrived – leaving them empty-handed in their home countries
www.theguardian.com
December 23, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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In This House We Believe Lydia Tár is real and lives in our neighborhood where she is banned from several local coffee shops
I wish Lydia Tár was real so she could appear on one of the new CBS debate shows
December 23, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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When planning tonight's Festivus dinner be sure to allow more time than usual for the Airing of Grievances.
December 23, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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alright well time to make my coffee and put my 8 hours in I guess. everything is normal and fine!
December 23, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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“I just realized we never had a wedding for the cat and the dog. They've been living in sin.”
December 23, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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Since the Internet Archive has popped back into relevance tonight, just an FYI: It's one of a handful of tech nonprofits that have low-key become super important *in general* over the years, and perhaps especially this year.
I feel like there’s a story to be done on the under-recognized importance of tech nonprofits to modern journalism.

E.g.:

• Signal
• RECAP/Courtlistener
• Internet Archive/Wayback Machine
• Wikipedia/Wikimedia

See also: nonprofit outlets like AP, ProPublica, and RNS, obvi.
December 23, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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Toward the end of this episode they reference Bill Maher’s interview with Billy Joel where he talks about trying to write a song that sounded so crazy I had to look it up and the clip is more nuts than I imagined.
December 22, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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Earlier this year, King George, founder of the Texas Renaissance Festival, died following two devastating defeats.

I reported on the power vacuum the king left behind and the rennies worried their fantasy land will become a Disney-style attraction.

www.texasmonthly.com/being-texan/...
The King Is Dead. And the Texas Renaissance Festival Begins an Era of Uncertainty.
George Coulam, who ruled over the country’s most popular ren faire for fifty years, has left a power vacuum in a sixteenth-century-styled Texas hamlet.
www.texasmonthly.com
December 21, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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📣 NEW: Rebutting Sen. Lankford's disingenuous CNN appearance (Part 1 of 2):

acasignups.net/25/12/22/reb...
Rebutting Sen. Lankford's Disingenuous CNN Appearance: Part 1 of 2
Yesterday morning on CNN's "State of the Union," host Kasie Hunt talked to Oklahoma GOP Sen. James Lankford about the enhanced ACA tax credits which are currently scheduled to expire exactly 10 days f...
acasignups.net
December 22, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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SCOOP: Flock left at least 60 of its AI-powered, people-tracking surveillance cameras exposed and livestreaming to the open internet. We tracked ourselves. The exposure highlights the power of these cameras and types of things they're tracking. Not just cars.

www.404media.co/flock-expose...
Flock Exposed Its AI-Powered Cameras to the Internet. We Tracked Ourselves.
Flock left at least 60 of its people-tracking Condor PTZ cameras live streaming and exposed to the open internet.
www.404media.co
December 22, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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Last week @sabs.bsky.social, @izdaramola.bsky.social and I watched She’s Making A List, which is the only movie I’ve seen where Santa vaporizes a dude into a cloud of dust defector.com/we-watch-a-c...
December 22, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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this car market calls to mind the bloated, chrome-dripping excess of the 1950s, just waiting for the modern equivalent of the Volkswagen Beatle to remind buyers that a hard reset is possible
December 22, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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Worth noting, I guess, that inside of a year we've gone from administration officials taking selfies of themselves at CECOT and bragging about how it's hell on earth to now getting their horrible little media worms to kill stories about it
December 22, 2025 at 2:55 AM
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Today I visited the Takeshima Aquarium in Gamagori, which specializes in deep sea animals. I saw giant isopods, spider crabs, deep sea octopus and all kinds of fascinating #invertebrates.
December 22, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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Historians disputed the Renaissance idea of the collapse of the Western Roman Empire as a complete ruin of civilization 150 years ago, and it's surprising to see even a conservative historian using such an outdated view of civilizational change.
December 22, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.
Surviving CECOT (full documentary) | Deported to a Maximum-Security Prison | FRONTLINE + ProPublica
YouTube video by FRONTLINE PBS | Official
m.youtube.com
December 21, 2025 at 10:26 PM