Guin Kelly
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Bi nerd. Writer. Earper. TCBOO. she/her #BwiththeT
Bi nerd. Writer. Earper. TCBOO. she/her #BwiththeT
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The reason for the season:
December 26, 2025 at 3:03 AM
The reason for the season:
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social consequences for embracing fascism
ICE agent recognized out Christmas shopping—throws tantrum when citizens profile him.
"We're trying to prevent you from kidnapping our neighbors," they say.
"I'm not doing anything but walking, leave me alone!" he yells.
"Not right now you're not—but the past 5 days you have."
Philadelphia, PA
"We're trying to prevent you from kidnapping our neighbors," they say.
"I'm not doing anything but walking, leave me alone!" he yells.
"Not right now you're not—but the past 5 days you have."
Philadelphia, PA
December 26, 2025 at 2:25 AM
social consequences for embracing fascism
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the funniest category of Christmas text is if you have friends in the ballet world who are primarily celebrating the fact that “The Nutcracker” is finally over
December 26, 2025 at 3:01 AM
the funniest category of Christmas text is if you have friends in the ballet world who are primarily celebrating the fact that “The Nutcracker” is finally over
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When I was on CNN's northeast desk, the first job at 6a every morning was to read the local papers. That guided some of what the massive CNN machine followed every day.
When those papers die, CNN doesn't hire new regional reporters. What you get instead is more panel shows, more punditry.
When those papers die, CNN doesn't hire new regional reporters. What you get instead is more panel shows, more punditry.
"The newspaper industry served as a feeder for our entire news media ecosystem. So when we lose those newspapers, we've lost that journalism. In the early 2000s, we had 40 journalists per 100,000 people. We're now down to 8 journalists per 100,000 people," says @victorpickard.bsky.social.
December 16, 2025 at 7:25 PM
When I was on CNN's northeast desk, the first job at 6a every morning was to read the local papers. That guided some of what the massive CNN machine followed every day.
When those papers die, CNN doesn't hire new regional reporters. What you get instead is more panel shows, more punditry.
When those papers die, CNN doesn't hire new regional reporters. What you get instead is more panel shows, more punditry.
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Ideas are, no question, the cheap part. I have SPREADSHEETS of ideas, and if I keep up my current production rate, which is already unrealistically high, I will die before I finish using them all. EXECUTION is the important part.
America, you have spoken loud and clear: You do not like AI. But what if AI is the way to restart the world’s idea machine?
We’re running out of good ideas. AI might be how we find new ones.
What if the best use of AI is restarting the world’s idea machine?
www.vox.com
December 25, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Ideas are, no question, the cheap part. I have SPREADSHEETS of ideas, and if I keep up my current production rate, which is already unrealistically high, I will die before I finish using them all. EXECUTION is the important part.
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I really think if you're a legit book club, you have to find some way to make it super clear you're not a scam. I don't exactly know how. Maybe just spelling out exactly what you want to do and what it entails?
I've had scammers who claimed at first that no money need change hands. 😭
I've had scammers who claimed at first that no money need change hands. 😭
I just received an extremely well-crafted solicitation from the Austin Book Club. Google came in handy as the lengthy email had all the earmarks of the current scams. Shame on these folks.
December 25, 2025 at 11:24 PM
I really think if you're a legit book club, you have to find some way to make it super clear you're not a scam. I don't exactly know how. Maybe just spelling out exactly what you want to do and what it entails?
I've had scammers who claimed at first that no money need change hands. 😭
I've had scammers who claimed at first that no money need change hands. 😭
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I have had a couple that seemed legit but I'm so exhausted right now!!!!
if you are a legit book club the best thing you can do is just open with a social media link or website link and say "I promise I'm not chatGPT here is proof"
a short email that doesn't blow smoke up my ass!!!!
if you are a legit book club the best thing you can do is just open with a social media link or website link and say "I promise I'm not chatGPT here is proof"
a short email that doesn't blow smoke up my ass!!!!
I really think if you're a legit book club, you have to find some way to make it super clear you're not a scam. I don't exactly know how. Maybe just spelling out exactly what you want to do and what it entails?
I've had scammers who claimed at first that no money need change hands. 😭
I've had scammers who claimed at first that no money need change hands. 😭
I just received an extremely well-crafted solicitation from the Austin Book Club. Google came in handy as the lengthy email had all the earmarks of the current scams. Shame on these folks.
December 25, 2025 at 11:27 PM
I have had a couple that seemed legit but I'm so exhausted right now!!!!
if you are a legit book club the best thing you can do is just open with a social media link or website link and say "I promise I'm not chatGPT here is proof"
a short email that doesn't blow smoke up my ass!!!!
if you are a legit book club the best thing you can do is just open with a social media link or website link and say "I promise I'm not chatGPT here is proof"
a short email that doesn't blow smoke up my ass!!!!
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A murder of shiny little crows for #ArtAdventCalendar day 25! Merry Christmas!
December 25, 2025 at 11:27 PM
A murder of shiny little crows for #ArtAdventCalendar day 25! Merry Christmas!
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President Trump’s spiteful defamation suit against the Pulitzer Prize Board may backfire, as the latter is now demanding Trump’s psychological records, prescription medication records, and tax returns in the discovery process. trib.al/LUCScTR
December 25, 2025 at 10:39 PM
President Trump’s spiteful defamation suit against the Pulitzer Prize Board may backfire, as the latter is now demanding Trump’s psychological records, prescription medication records, and tax returns in the discovery process. trib.al/LUCScTR
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As the US bombs Nigeria, the most populous country in Africa - on Christmas, which half of Nigeria celebrates - realize there could be no diplomatic negotiations about this beforehand because the US pulled its ambassador out of Nigeria last week.
Trump on Christmas: “Tonight, at my direction as Commander in Chief, the United States launched a powerful and deadly strike against ISIS Terrorist Scum in Northwest Nigeria.”
December 25, 2025 at 11:47 PM
As the US bombs Nigeria, the most populous country in Africa - on Christmas, which half of Nigeria celebrates - realize there could be no diplomatic negotiations about this beforehand because the US pulled its ambassador out of Nigeria last week.
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The immediate threat has always been not that it would take jobs, but that some dipshit exec would spend a billion dollars integrating it into the business, drive everything off the cliff, and 5-8 years later the rest of us are left picking up the pieces.
The exec that said "we thought it was farther along then it was" is absolutely the greatest issue right now. Not only is it not capable of doing any of these things on a broad scale, it will do them significantly worse than any employee. Going all in on something to boost stock value that fails.
Honestly im shocked
Well
Not that shocked
Well
Not that shocked
December 26, 2025 at 12:17 AM
The immediate threat has always been not that it would take jobs, but that some dipshit exec would spend a billion dollars integrating it into the business, drive everything off the cliff, and 5-8 years later the rest of us are left picking up the pieces.
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All I want for Christmas was another reminder that when conservatives feel trapped they execute obviously racially coded escalations
And the foolish hope that folks start moving with some urgency
And the foolish hope that folks start moving with some urgency
December 26, 2025 at 12:19 AM
All I want for Christmas was another reminder that when conservatives feel trapped they execute obviously racially coded escalations
And the foolish hope that folks start moving with some urgency
And the foolish hope that folks start moving with some urgency
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As per tradition, hubs and I are watching Christmas movies all day, so this is the reminder that Die Hard and Batman Returns are Christmas movies that integrate the holiday into their plots.
December 25, 2025 at 11:50 PM
As per tradition, hubs and I are watching Christmas movies all day, so this is the reminder that Die Hard and Batman Returns are Christmas movies that integrate the holiday into their plots.
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"When they finished work, they weren't going to a home. They were going to a shelter."
"[A]ctively written out of the story we as a nation have told ourselves about who becomes homeless, and why."
"[P]eople are not falling into homelessness; they're being pushed."
#Georgia #USA #Housing #Labour
"[A]ctively written out of the story we as a nation have told ourselves about who becomes homeless, and why."
"[P]eople are not falling into homelessness; they're being pushed."
#Georgia #USA #Housing #Labour
Working, homeless, hidden: A talk with Brian Goldstone
Street Sense editor-in-chief chats with author of “There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America,” Brian Goldstone.
streetsensemedia.org
December 23, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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Why wouldn’t people expect poverty to be digital? If they hear in the newspapers or something that poverty exists, why is it a shock that in times when everyone’s online, poor people are online asking for what they need?
December 25, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Why wouldn’t people expect poverty to be digital? If they hear in the newspapers or something that poverty exists, why is it a shock that in times when everyone’s online, poor people are online asking for what they need?
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Kind of wild how the take that some of Trump's supporters were "deplorable" was some huge scandal, but regularly screaming about "radical left scum" is just a thing he'll say with no media backlash.
December 25, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Kind of wild how the take that some of Trump's supporters were "deplorable" was some huge scandal, but regularly screaming about "radical left scum" is just a thing he'll say with no media backlash.
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In my book I tell story of grad student who was training as therapist at Oklahoma State University Psychological Resources Center, giving bargain-rate therapy to working-class locals.
Antifa exposed him as influential neo-Nazi who went to Charlottesville rally.
The school then let him graduate.
Antifa exposed him as influential neo-Nazi who went to Charlottesville rally.
The school then let him graduate.
A graduate teaching assistant who gave a University of Oklahoma student a failing grade on a psychology essay will no longer be teaching at the university
Graduate instructor who gave failing grade to Samantha Fulnecky no longer teaching at OU
A graduate teaching assistant who gave a University of Oklahoma student a failing grade on a psychology essay will no longer be teaching at the university.
www.koco.com
December 23, 2025 at 2:45 AM
In my book I tell story of grad student who was training as therapist at Oklahoma State University Psychological Resources Center, giving bargain-rate therapy to working-class locals.
Antifa exposed him as influential neo-Nazi who went to Charlottesville rally.
The school then let him graduate.
Antifa exposed him as influential neo-Nazi who went to Charlottesville rally.
The school then let him graduate.
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Something that's getting lost in this story is that the "instructor" in question is not a professor with a PhD; she is a Graduate Teaching Assistant, meaning the University of Oklahoma has thrown one of ITS OWN STUDENTS under the bus to appease a right wing grifter who tried to dunk on a trans woman
The University of Oklahoma has removed an instructor who was accused by a student of religious discrimination over a failing grade on a psychology paper in which she cited the Bible and argued that promoting a “belief in multiple genders” was “demonic.” https://cnn.it/4b6g3rd
Oklahoma instructor removed from teaching for failing a Bible-based gender essay | CNN
The University of Oklahoma has removed an instructor who was accused by a student of religious discrimination over a failing grade on a psychology paper in which she cited the Bible and argued that promoting a “belief in multiple genders” was “demonic.”
cnn.it
December 24, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Something that's getting lost in this story is that the "instructor" in question is not a professor with a PhD; she is a Graduate Teaching Assistant, meaning the University of Oklahoma has thrown one of ITS OWN STUDENTS under the bus to appease a right wing grifter who tried to dunk on a trans woman
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Merry Christmas. Please stop asking if you're on the naughty list
December 25, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Merry Christmas. Please stop asking if you're on the naughty list
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every time I see a headline framing this as being primarily an issue of the student having controversial opinions, and not the student being an asshole with a right wing podcaster mom who wanted to ruin a trans person’s career for the clicks, I age another ten years
December 25, 2025 at 8:22 PM
every time I see a headline framing this as being primarily an issue of the student having controversial opinions, and not the student being an asshole with a right wing podcaster mom who wanted to ruin a trans person’s career for the clicks, I age another ten years
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This is a really good point that I had not run into before: these "creators" have no further insight into their alleged creation than the average audience member and that is why it cannot be called art (besides all the other obvious reasons).
December 25, 2025 at 9:05 PM
This is a really good point that I had not run into before: these "creators" have no further insight into their alleged creation than the average audience member and that is why it cannot be called art (besides all the other obvious reasons).
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The slogan is stupid he says as masked gestapo hauls his loved ones off to a warehouse of people. No no I would have done something if your slogan was less bad as you are whisked away in a van.
In a democracy you have to convince people to vote for policies and positions that you hold. If your slogans bring up imaginings of chaotic anarchy, of bands of criminals going door to door with no cops to protect people, that slogan is stupid.
December 25, 2025 at 2:05 PM
The slogan is stupid he says as masked gestapo hauls his loved ones off to a warehouse of people. No no I would have done something if your slogan was less bad as you are whisked away in a van.
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This lady won $70million dollars and spent Christmas Eve buying people groceries.
This is such a beautiful report.
www.youtube.com/shorts/QiHcc...
This is such a beautiful report.
www.youtube.com/shorts/QiHcc...
Ottawa lottery winner making sure neighbours don’t go hungry
YouTube video by CTV News
www.youtube.com
December 25, 2025 at 4:49 PM
This lady won $70million dollars and spent Christmas Eve buying people groceries.
This is such a beautiful report.
www.youtube.com/shorts/QiHcc...
This is such a beautiful report.
www.youtube.com/shorts/QiHcc...
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I loved this. And I want to note the whole “there were no autistic people before …” discourse has an answer here: just the people were sent away in the incarceration (yes “care homes” like this), and if they fled, they were just abandoned by society, usually to die.
December 25, 2025 at 4:56 PM
I loved this. And I want to note the whole “there were no autistic people before …” discourse has an answer here: just the people were sent away in the incarceration (yes “care homes” like this), and if they fled, they were just abandoned by society, usually to die.
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when people hear the word "autonomous" they jump straight to science fiction, but here in reality there isn't a single robot that doesn't require some level of human oversight and maintenance
“Because riders and passersby can be unreliable, Waymo pays workers in Los Angeles $20 or more for rescuing a robotaxi by closing a door, summoning help through an app called Honk that is like an Uber for towing companies.”
When robot taxis get stuck, a secret army of humans comes to the rescue
Waymo robotaxis get stranded when a passenger leaves the door open. Tow truck operators can get paid $22 to close a door and set them free again.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 25, 2025 at 5:17 PM
when people hear the word "autonomous" they jump straight to science fiction, but here in reality there isn't a single robot that doesn't require some level of human oversight and maintenance