Nice Chester
@ccrude.bsky.social
Higher Ed guy in the Bay Area. Wisco Forever. Books, YIMBY, and a good park to take the kids.
Joining the Big Migration.
Joining the Big Migration.
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From our family to yours, merry Christmas! We hope your day is filled with good people and good food.
December 25, 2025 at 8:30 PM
From our family to yours, merry Christmas! We hope your day is filled with good people and good food.
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i do think there are worse things than the highest grossing movie every couple of years consistently stating that violence against oppressors is fine and making you cheer when an allegory for us military imperialism get their head blown in
December 23, 2025 at 7:58 PM
i do think there are worse things than the highest grossing movie every couple of years consistently stating that violence against oppressors is fine and making you cheer when an allegory for us military imperialism get their head blown in
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watching my favorite christmas movie and what is possibly the great american comedy about class and race
December 24, 2025 at 12:18 AM
watching my favorite christmas movie and what is possibly the great american comedy about class and race
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I just uploaded @jasonparis.bsky.social 's recording of the segment CBS News pulled from "60 Minutes" to YouTube:
WATCH: Segment CBS News Pulled From "60 Minutes"
YouTube video by Phil Lewis
www.youtube.com
December 22, 2025 at 10:45 PM
I just uploaded @jasonparis.bsky.social 's recording of the segment CBS News pulled from "60 Minutes" to YouTube:
Can Apple add a timer to a phone contact? Something like, ask to delete/keep in 30 days?
Something many times I’ve added people short term and realize they’re still in my phone two years later.
Something many times I’ve added people short term and realize they’re still in my phone two years later.
December 23, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Can Apple add a timer to a phone contact? Something like, ask to delete/keep in 30 days?
Something many times I’ve added people short term and realize they’re still in my phone two years later.
Something many times I’ve added people short term and realize they’re still in my phone two years later.
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Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
December 22, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
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Fears about AI data centers’ water use have exploded. Experts say the reality is far more complicated than people think.
You’re Thinking About AI and Water All Wrong
Fears about AI data centers’ water use have exploded. Experts say the reality is far more complicated than people think.
wrd.cm
December 22, 2025 at 4:15 AM
Fears about AI data centers’ water use have exploded. Experts say the reality is far more complicated than people think.
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Inside the federal government as Trump and DOGE pushed it past its breaking point in 2025, as told by some of the more than 1,200 federal workers @hannahnatanson.bsky.social and @merylkornfield.bsky.social have spoken to this year
The year Trump broke the federal government
How DOGE and the White House carried out a once-unthinkable transformation of the nation’s sprawling bureaucracy.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 21, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Inside the federal government as Trump and DOGE pushed it past its breaking point in 2025, as told by some of the more than 1,200 federal workers @hannahnatanson.bsky.social and @merylkornfield.bsky.social have spoken to this year
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Woman comes to US at age 6. Graduates nursing school. Work permit. No criminal record. Snatched and imprisoned by ICE for 6 months now. About to be forced back to Honduras. A life destroyed and one less nurse. Merry Christmas.
www.nola.com/news/educati...
www.nola.com/news/educati...
December 20, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Woman comes to US at age 6. Graduates nursing school. Work permit. No criminal record. Snatched and imprisoned by ICE for 6 months now. About to be forced back to Honduras. A life destroyed and one less nurse. Merry Christmas.
www.nola.com/news/educati...
www.nola.com/news/educati...
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rfk will not rest until your kid is dead wapo.st/4s2l2zn
U.S. plans to stop recommending most childhood vaccines, defer to doctors
The plan, which is not finalized, suggests children get fewer shots and shifts to a model telling parents to consult doctors to make their own vaccine choices.
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December 20, 2025 at 12:25 AM
rfk will not rest until your kid is dead wapo.st/4s2l2zn
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"The drink tasted like a Cosmo someone had strained through a French Vanilla Yankee Candle."
"Wealth has always been about signifiers, but no one said they had to be this lazy."
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"Wealth has always been about signifiers, but no one said they had to be this lazy."
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Two Nights Playing With Fire At Patrick Mahomes And Travis Kelce's Steakhouse | Defector
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — As celebrity restaurant mascots, athletes offer a tidy sense of vertical integration: Why not supply the very calories they need to expend on the field? I’m surprised there are so f...
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December 20, 2025 at 4:28 AM
"The drink tasted like a Cosmo someone had strained through a French Vanilla Yankee Candle."
"Wealth has always been about signifiers, but no one said they had to be this lazy."
defector.com/two-nights-p...
"Wealth has always been about signifiers, but no one said they had to be this lazy."
defector.com/two-nights-p...
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The money for Trump’s “Warrior Dividends” has already been approved by Congress for troops so they can afford housing and basic living expenses.
Trump is NOT rewarding our service members with new bonuses, he’s just renaming funds that troops were already going to receive to score political points.
Trump is NOT rewarding our service members with new bonuses, he’s just renaming funds that troops were already going to receive to score political points.
Trump will use military housing money for $1,776 Pentagon bonuses
The Trump administration will repurpose $2.6 billion in military housing assistance to pay $1,776 “warrior dividend” bonuses to service members, according to a senior administration official.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 19, 2025 at 6:41 PM
The money for Trump’s “Warrior Dividends” has already been approved by Congress for troops so they can afford housing and basic living expenses.
Trump is NOT rewarding our service members with new bonuses, he’s just renaming funds that troops were already going to receive to score political points.
Trump is NOT rewarding our service members with new bonuses, he’s just renaming funds that troops were already going to receive to score political points.
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longstanding theory on this is that people who know the applicant that they don't want to hire has racial resentment offer "wish i could've hired you, but they made me hire a black woman instead!" as a let-them-down-easy cope rather than admit to them that they just didn't want to hire them.
December 19, 2025 at 3:08 AM
longstanding theory on this is that people who know the applicant that they don't want to hire has racial resentment offer "wish i could've hired you, but they made me hire a black woman instead!" as a let-them-down-easy cope rather than admit to them that they just didn't want to hire them.
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The White House claims the vote to rename the Kennedy Center was “unanimous.” That is false. I was muted on the call and denied the opportunity to speak or register my opposition. That is not consensus. That is censorship.
December 18, 2025 at 7:42 PM
The White House claims the vote to rename the Kennedy Center was “unanimous.” That is false. I was muted on the call and denied the opportunity to speak or register my opposition. That is not consensus. That is censorship.
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absolutely wild move by @oversightdemocrats.house.gov to allow comments on the dropbox folder with the epstein photos
December 18, 2025 at 7:29 PM
absolutely wild move by @oversightdemocrats.house.gov to allow comments on the dropbox folder with the epstein photos
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Photographer Christopher Anderson on the Vanity Fair photoshoot
December 18, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Photographer Christopher Anderson on the Vanity Fair photoshoot
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College costs are soaring! www.brookings.edu/articles/wha...
December 16, 2025 at 10:11 PM
College costs are soaring! www.brookings.edu/articles/wha...
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good luck staffing up those rural hospitals bsky.app/profile/reic...
Here is a map of the affected countries (excluding Tonga), to give you a sense of how much this new ban restricts immigration from Africa in particular.
Of the newly-added country, Nigeria faces the largest impact, with tens of thousands of visas issued every year to Nigerians.
Of the newly-added country, Nigeria faces the largest impact, with tens of thousands of visas issued every year to Nigerians.
December 16, 2025 at 10:42 PM
good luck staffing up those rural hospitals bsky.app/profile/reic...
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He's right!
www.ign.com/articles/sta...
www.ign.com/articles/sta...
Star Wars: The Last Jedi Director Rian Johnson Says He Was 'Hoping For' Fan Pushback, Rather Than Being 'Afraid of Doing Anything That Shakes It Up' - IGN
Rian Johnson, director of Star Wars: The Last Jedi, has said he anticipated and welcomed the movie's polarizing response — and argued it would have been worse to create something "afraid" of shaking u...
www.ign.com
December 15, 2025 at 6:37 PM
He's right!
www.ign.com/articles/sta...
www.ign.com/articles/sta...
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For better or worse, public figures are judged when they die — their character, contributions, beliefs. It's undeniable that millions have mourned Rob Reiner's tragic death, celebrating his talent and contributions. I suspect when a certain public figure kicks the bucket, sentiments wont be the same
December 15, 2025 at 9:26 PM
For better or worse, public figures are judged when they die — their character, contributions, beliefs. It's undeniable that millions have mourned Rob Reiner's tragic death, celebrating his talent and contributions. I suspect when a certain public figure kicks the bucket, sentiments wont be the same
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Rob Reiner either made your favorite movie, or made somebody you know’s favorite movie. If you’re a Californian, he’s also part of the reason you or your friends can get married. He has changed more lives for the better than this asshole commenting on him ever did.
December 15, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Rob Reiner either made your favorite movie, or made somebody you know’s favorite movie. If you’re a Californian, he’s also part of the reason you or your friends can get married. He has changed more lives for the better than this asshole commenting on him ever did.
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Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
December 15, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
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MukhammadAziz Umurzokov, a freshman who dreamed of becoming a neurosurgeon, was one of two students who died after being shot in a Brown University classroom, his sister told the Globe.
MukhammadAziz Umurzokov, Brown freshman who dreamed of becoming a doctor, died in shooting, his sister says - The Boston Globe
“We want to show everyone how amazing of a person he was,” his sister Samira Umurzokova told the Globe.
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December 15, 2025 at 4:32 PM
MukhammadAziz Umurzokov, a freshman who dreamed of becoming a neurosurgeon, was one of two students who died after being shot in a Brown University classroom, his sister told the Globe.
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🧵Bruna Ferriera was detained by ICE in MA while legally working to obtain her green card in this country she has lived in since being a little kid.
Her son is 10, & he is WH Press Secretary Leavitt's nephew and godson.
“I asked Karoline to be godmother [to Michael Jr] over my only sister."
Her son is 10, & he is WH Press Secretary Leavitt's nephew and godson.
“I asked Karoline to be godmother [to Michael Jr] over my only sister."
Mother of Karoline Leavitt’s nephew rejects White House portrayal of her after ICE arrest
Bruna Ferreira, who was released from ICE custody Monday on bond, denies claims that she’s an absentee parent
www.theguardian.com
December 13, 2025 at 7:59 PM
🧵Bruna Ferriera was detained by ICE in MA while legally working to obtain her green card in this country she has lived in since being a little kid.
Her son is 10, & he is WH Press Secretary Leavitt's nephew and godson.
“I asked Karoline to be godmother [to Michael Jr] over my only sister."
Her son is 10, & he is WH Press Secretary Leavitt's nephew and godson.
“I asked Karoline to be godmother [to Michael Jr] over my only sister."
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We sent 9 weeks reading Catcher in the Rye and 9 weeks reading The Outsider at my public High School in the mid-1980s. I can count on two hands the number of my classmates who regularly read books outside of school. Kids should be reading more, but be wary of overly nostalgic declension narratives.
In American high schools, many teenagers are assigned few full books to read from beginning to end — often just one or two per year, according to researchers and thousands of responses to an informal reader survey by The New York Times. trib.al/gNp7kWK
December 12, 2025 at 11:03 PM
We sent 9 weeks reading Catcher in the Rye and 9 weeks reading The Outsider at my public High School in the mid-1980s. I can count on two hands the number of my classmates who regularly read books outside of school. Kids should be reading more, but be wary of overly nostalgic declension narratives.