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DOGE: Fake savings, real damage and pain. Great reporting here from a @nytimes.com team. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u...
How Did DOGE Disrupt So Much While Saving So Little?
www.nytimes.com
December 30, 2025 at 4:48 PM
DOGE: Fake savings, real damage and pain. Great reporting here from a @nytimes.com team. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u...
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Good thread. A reminder how heartening and significant it is that the American people are resounding rejecting the Trump/Miller worldview and agenda:
Trump's attempting to transform the US from a country that welcomes immigrants into a radically xenophobic nation that demonizes immigrants of color, and even their US born children. But Trump didn't campaign on this destructive/reactionary remaking of America and most Americans don't support it. 1/
December 30, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Good thread. A reminder how heartening and significant it is that the American people are resounding rejecting the Trump/Miller worldview and agenda:
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These both-sidesing year-in-review pieces that don’t center the cruelty, destructiveness, racism, and derangement of the Trump agenda are the perfect capper to a year of inexcusable normalizing by the elite media.
December 30, 2025 at 3:48 PM
These both-sidesing year-in-review pieces that don’t center the cruelty, destructiveness, racism, and derangement of the Trump agenda are the perfect capper to a year of inexcusable normalizing by the elite media.
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Vendors are so confident of the value of their AI bolt-on features that they make the tools impossible to turn off, hide, remove from the limited menu bar etc.
December 30, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Vendors are so confident of the value of their AI bolt-on features that they make the tools impossible to turn off, hide, remove from the limited menu bar etc.
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This is as close as they can get to Nuremberg Laws. They can't (yet) forbid the hiring of people of color but they prosecute any attempts at equity. It is fascism.
Justice Department Using Fraud Law to Target Companies on DEI
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Justice Department Using Fraud Law to Target Companies on DEI
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Exclusive | Justice Department Using Fraud Law to Target Companies on DEI
Google and Verizon are among those being investigated under the novel interpretation of a law applying to government contractors.
www.wsj.com
December 29, 2025 at 1:55 PM
This is as close as they can get to Nuremberg Laws. They can't (yet) forbid the hiring of people of color but they prosecute any attempts at equity. It is fascism.
Justice Department Using Fraud Law to Target Companies on DEI
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Justice Department Using Fraud Law to Target Companies on DEI
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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The American people deserve to know the details and the legal justification when their military blows up things in foreign countries.
But that transparency isn't happening because the dictator Trump sees the military as his, not ours.
But that transparency isn't happening because the dictator Trump sees the military as his, not ours.
NYT confirms some sort of action: “American officials said that Trump was referring to a drug facility in Venezuela and that it was eliminated, but provided no details. Military officials said they had no information to share, and the CIA declined to comment. The White House declined to comment.”
Trump Says the U.S. Struck a ‘Big Facility’ in Campaign Against Venezuela
www.nytimes.com
December 29, 2025 at 2:29 PM
The American people deserve to know the details and the legal justification when their military blows up things in foreign countries.
But that transparency isn't happening because the dictator Trump sees the military as his, not ours.
But that transparency isn't happening because the dictator Trump sees the military as his, not ours.
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Once again, @theguardian.com's journalism shows the way:
Donald Trump in his own words – the year in racism and misogyny
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Donald Trump in his own words – the year in racism and misogyny
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Donald Trump in his own words – the year in racism and misogyny
The president has increased the amount of invective he’s spewed against women and people of color
www.theguardian.com
December 29, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Once again, @theguardian.com's journalism shows the way:
Donald Trump in his own words – the year in racism and misogyny
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Donald Trump in his own words – the year in racism and misogyny
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Immigrant-hating Stephen Miller talks about Americans being "first to harness the atom." But the first controlled, self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction was conducted by a team led by Italian immigrant Enrico Fermi, who didn't become a U.S. citizen until a year and a half later.
December 28, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Immigrant-hating Stephen Miller talks about Americans being "first to harness the atom." But the first controlled, self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction was conducted by a team led by Italian immigrant Enrico Fermi, who didn't become a U.S. citizen until a year and a half later.
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She was fired for teaching what she was hired to teach. She was fired for doing what she did not do. She was fired for breaking a law that does not exist.
Texas A&M University will not reinstate a lecturer who was fired after a video of her teaching about gender identity in a children’s literature class went viral, despite a faculty appeals panel unanimously concluding that her dismissal was not justified.
Texas A&M won’t reinstate fired lecturer despite findings
A vice chancellor upheld the firing of Melissa McCoul, seen in a viral video being confronted by a student on her gender identity teachings, saying the termination was done with “good cause.”
www.texastribune.org
December 26, 2025 at 5:40 PM
She was fired for teaching what she was hired to teach. She was fired for doing what she did not do. She was fired for breaking a law that does not exist.
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Stephen Miller is a horrible racist in the sense that he is actually not that good at being racist.
Dean Martin, born Dino Paul Crocetti, son of Italian immigrant Gaetano Crocetti
Frank Sinatra, son of Italian immigrants Antonino Sinatra and Natalina Garavanta
Merry Christmas to everyone except Stephen Miller and his enablers and handlers
Frank Sinatra, son of Italian immigrants Antonino Sinatra and Natalina Garavanta
Merry Christmas to everyone except Stephen Miller and his enablers and handlers
December 26, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Stephen Miller is a horrible racist in the sense that he is actually not that good at being racist.
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Trump, January 2024: "Also, I was never on Epstein's plane..."
December 23, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Trump, January 2024: "Also, I was never on Epstein's plane..."
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Bari Weiss has “a curiously narrow definition of free speech”—one in which free speech means whatever conservatives want to say, Adam Serwer argues.
December 23, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Bari Weiss has “a curiously narrow definition of free speech”—one in which free speech means whatever conservatives want to say, Adam Serwer argues.
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This struck me too. As Anne Applebaum doesn’t mention, she wrote a classic history of the Gulag.
The CBS investigation portrays a modern concentration camp, similar to the Soviet GULAG (like CECOT, an acronym): sadistic guards, 24 hour lighting, isolation cells.
Americans once opposed this inhumane system.
The Trump administration sent innocent people there to suffer.
Americans once opposed this inhumane system.
The Trump administration sent innocent people there to suffer.
The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
December 23, 2025 at 5:57 PM
This struck me too. As Anne Applebaum doesn’t mention, she wrote a classic history of the Gulag.
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The Access Hollywood tape should have been a political career ender. We’re not really getting new information, just more evidence.
December 23, 2025 at 3:14 PM
The Access Hollywood tape should have been a political career ender. We’re not really getting new information, just more evidence.
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No, you can’t do that, airhead. It’s not within your authority and it violates several laws.
Sean Duffy on blue states: "What I can do is I can pull their money. That's the leverage I do have ... I guarantee you that the federal taxpayer is not going to fund their roads and bridges and their systems when they are putting illegals on the roads."
December 23, 2025 at 4:09 PM
No, you can’t do that, airhead. It’s not within your authority and it violates several laws.
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The “free speech” and “cancel culture” panics have led to overt state censorship because that was always their purpose. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
December 23, 2025 at 4:54 PM
The “free speech” and “cancel culture” panics have led to overt state censorship because that was always their purpose. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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I think that her incompetence in agitprop is kind of the other side of her sole skill set, which is telling rich people what they want to hear. 1
I mean the more interesting conversation (to me) isn't that Bari Weiss isn't good at journalism, it's that she's not very good at agitprop, the REAL role she was hired for
December 22, 2025 at 9:57 PM
I think that her incompetence in agitprop is kind of the other side of her sole skill set, which is telling rich people what they want to hear. 1
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perhaps one of the larger issues with AI is the utter lack of guardrails around it as it is being essentially forced into everything we use & no way for opting in or out to consent to any of this
and then shit like this happens again, despite it being a constant concern for years
and then shit like this happens again, despite it being a constant concern for years
December 22, 2025 at 10:55 PM
perhaps one of the larger issues with AI is the utter lack of guardrails around it as it is being essentially forced into everything we use & no way for opting in or out to consent to any of this
and then shit like this happens again, despite it being a constant concern for years
and then shit like this happens again, despite it being a constant concern for years
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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:
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Bill Clinton releasing a statement saying 'release the Epstein files, you cowards' was not on my bingo list.
December 22, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Bill Clinton releasing a statement saying 'release the Epstein files, you cowards' was not on my bingo list.
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The Olivia Nuzzi story and the Bari Weiss at CBS story are the same story, which is that the upper echelons of legacy media are absolutely rife with people who worship power and don't feel burdened by any sense of responsibility to their profession or the public.
December 22, 2025 at 6:35 PM
The Olivia Nuzzi story and the Bari Weiss at CBS story are the same story, which is that the upper echelons of legacy media are absolutely rife with people who worship power and don't feel burdened by any sense of responsibility to their profession or the public.
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really cannot be emphasized enough that bari weiss has literally never done journalism. i don’t mean that in the pejorative sense. i mean that in the “has never performed the job she was hired to do” sense
One explanation for Bari killing the story is that she did so as a public act of fealty to the administration. But another is that, as an inexperienced journalist, she doesn’t understand that a refusal to go on the record is a kind of comment in and of itself
December 22, 2025 at 2:19 PM
really cannot be emphasized enough that bari weiss has literally never done journalism. i don’t mean that in the pejorative sense. i mean that in the “has never performed the job she was hired to do” sense
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Galaxy Quest - a perfect movie, just a wonderful love letter to actors, sci-fi, Star Trek in particular, and to fandom - really deserves a proper physical release with decent extras. Think Weaver's right that releasing a R-rated cut would be fun, too.
Sigourney Weaver Says She Wishes DreamWorks Released A Director’s Cut Of ‘Galaxy Quest,’ Reminisces On Sequel That Never Came To Pass
Sigourney Weaver reflected on cult classic Galaxy Quest and how she wishes the sci-fi satire had released an R-rated director's cut.
deadline.com
December 22, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Galaxy Quest - a perfect movie, just a wonderful love letter to actors, sci-fi, Star Trek in particular, and to fandom - really deserves a proper physical release with decent extras. Think Weaver's right that releasing a R-rated cut would be fun, too.