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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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To give you an example of how small the Jewish community is, the guy who sang at the wedding of some of my best pals last weekend - and who I know - lost his cousin (Rabbi Eli Schlanger ז״ל) in the Bondi Beach attacks
There are so few Jews in the world, it’s hard to explain
There are so few Jews in the world, it’s hard to explain
December 14, 2025 at 8:12 PM
To give you an example of how small the Jewish community is, the guy who sang at the wedding of some of my best pals last weekend - and who I know - lost his cousin (Rabbi Eli Schlanger ז״ל) in the Bondi Beach attacks
There are so few Jews in the world, it’s hard to explain
There are so few Jews in the world, it’s hard to explain
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The ACA isn't just "health care for people who don't have a conventional employer." It also disallows something that was incredibly common 20 years ago, which I fear is getting lost to generational memory: insurance companies could deny you health care for essentially any previous health problem.
I'm dubious about Amazon's commitment to keeping pre-existing conditions a thing of the past.
December 14, 2025 at 11:50 PM
The ACA isn't just "health care for people who don't have a conventional employer." It also disallows something that was incredibly common 20 years ago, which I fear is getting lost to generational memory: insurance companies could deny you health care for essentially any previous health problem.
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They used to "laugh and call him names." Now they're all dead
December 14, 2025 at 1:55 PM
They used to "laugh and call him names." Now they're all dead
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Two victims of previous school shootings — Mia Tretta, who was shot in the stomach in 2019 at Saugus High School, and Zoe Weissman, who survived the 2018 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School — are now at Brown. Gun violence is out of control in this country.
December 14, 2025 at 6:38 AM
Two victims of previous school shootings — Mia Tretta, who was shot in the stomach in 2019 at Saugus High School, and Zoe Weissman, who survived the 2018 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School — are now at Brown. Gun violence is out of control in this country.
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The answer to this is, obviously, start eating children.
So chicken farms have started spending millions of dollars putting in state of the art air filtration and circulation systems - because culling whole flocks to mitigate avian flu is expensive - but we have done zero to improve air quality in schools - because kids are expendable I guess.
December 13, 2025 at 2:30 AM
The answer to this is, obviously, start eating children.
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Any Pennsylvania senator has to play both sides. The meaning changes with time but Casey was masterful at it, and before him Specter. This is something else. It has no practical political basis on either side.
Fetterman drafted a letter to Israel's president asking him to grant Netanyahu's request for a pardon.
Fetterman Writes Letter Asking Israel’s President to Pardon Netanyahu
Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) prepared a letter in recent days asking Israel’s...
talkingpointsmemo.com
December 11, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Any Pennsylvania senator has to play both sides. The meaning changes with time but Casey was masterful at it, and before him Specter. This is something else. It has no practical political basis on either side.
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Orcas have started targeting commercial ship control systems, like rudders, to disrupt or break them. Eyewitnesses feel unnerved by the precision of these attacks in how the orcas ignore peripherals and know exactly what to do. Well, duh. Sophisticated intelligence as good or better than our own.
December 11, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Orcas have started targeting commercial ship control systems, like rudders, to disrupt or break them. Eyewitnesses feel unnerved by the precision of these attacks in how the orcas ignore peripherals and know exactly what to do. Well, duh. Sophisticated intelligence as good or better than our own.
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Today is the 10th anniversary of one of the stupidest tweets ever written
December 7, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Today is the 10th anniversary of one of the stupidest tweets ever written
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That's right
December 7, 2025 at 5:20 PM
That's right
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““Very frankly,” Ronald Reagan said of Roots, “I thought the bias of all the good people being one color and all the bad people being another was rather destructive.”” — Reaganland: America's Right Turn 1976-1980 by Rick Perlstein
May 11, 2025 at 1:51 AM
““Very frankly,” Ronald Reagan said of Roots, “I thought the bias of all the good people being one color and all the bad people being another was rather destructive.”” — Reaganland: America's Right Turn 1976-1980 by Rick Perlstein
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In 1983 Reagan voters were 48/44 opposed to MLK day and Reagan himself still thought MLK might have been a Communist. We know this because he said it to his friend Meldrim Thompson, a former NH governor who sat on the board of the John Birch Society in 1983.
December 6, 2025 at 1:56 AM
In 1983 Reagan voters were 48/44 opposed to MLK day and Reagan himself still thought MLK might have been a Communist. We know this because he said it to his friend Meldrim Thompson, a former NH governor who sat on the board of the John Birch Society in 1983.
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Prison rape is wrong.
Jokes about prison rape are wrong.
Eliminating protections against prison rape is wrong.
If another country sentenced a criminal to be raped, we'd consider it a crime against humanity.
BUT
A large segment of Americans regard prison rape as a de facto part of the sentence.
Jokes about prison rape are wrong.
Eliminating protections against prison rape is wrong.
If another country sentenced a criminal to be raped, we'd consider it a crime against humanity.
BUT
A large segment of Americans regard prison rape as a de facto part of the sentence.
BREAKING: Trump administration plans to end prison rape protections for trans & intersex people, memo says. A DOJ memo says certain standards under the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) do not align with Trump’s Jan. 20 anti-trans executive order, @byadamrhodes.bsky.social reports.
Trump administration plans to end prison rape protections for trans and intersex people
A Department of Justice memo says certain standards under the Prison Rape Elimination Act do not align with Trump’s executive order
prismreports.org
December 5, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Prison rape is wrong.
Jokes about prison rape are wrong.
Eliminating protections against prison rape is wrong.
If another country sentenced a criminal to be raped, we'd consider it a crime against humanity.
BUT
A large segment of Americans regard prison rape as a de facto part of the sentence.
Jokes about prison rape are wrong.
Eliminating protections against prison rape is wrong.
If another country sentenced a criminal to be raped, we'd consider it a crime against humanity.
BUT
A large segment of Americans regard prison rape as a de facto part of the sentence.
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Every year I see the panic-inducing headlines "IS CANNED PUMPKIN ACTUALLY PUMPKIN"
Designed to get us all to click because wHaT iS In oUr FoOd!?
And like, the answer is yeah ok it's not a Jack O' lantern pumpkin but the REAL answer is: WHAT THE FUCK IS PUMPKIN
www.snopes.com/fact-check/c...
Designed to get us all to click because wHaT iS In oUr FoOd!?
And like, the answer is yeah ok it's not a Jack O' lantern pumpkin but the REAL answer is: WHAT THE FUCK IS PUMPKIN
www.snopes.com/fact-check/c...
Canned Pumpkin Isn't Actually Pumpkin?
Just ahead of the fall holidays, a viral social media rumor suggested the pumpkin in pumpkin pie is secretly produced from other squash.
www.snopes.com
December 4, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Every year I see the panic-inducing headlines "IS CANNED PUMPKIN ACTUALLY PUMPKIN"
Designed to get us all to click because wHaT iS In oUr FoOd!?
And like, the answer is yeah ok it's not a Jack O' lantern pumpkin but the REAL answer is: WHAT THE FUCK IS PUMPKIN
www.snopes.com/fact-check/c...
Designed to get us all to click because wHaT iS In oUr FoOd!?
And like, the answer is yeah ok it's not a Jack O' lantern pumpkin but the REAL answer is: WHAT THE FUCK IS PUMPKIN
www.snopes.com/fact-check/c...
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the Comet Ping Pong attack was nine years ago today—weeks after Trump’s 2016 win—and inspired by a conspiracy theory promoted by Jack Posobiec, who was recently invited to the White House, demands antifa be designated a terrorist group, and asked questions as “press” at the Pentagon this week
December 4, 2025 at 1:04 PM
the Comet Ping Pong attack was nine years ago today—weeks after Trump’s 2016 win—and inspired by a conspiracy theory promoted by Jack Posobiec, who was recently invited to the White House, demands antifa be designated a terrorist group, and asked questions as “press” at the Pentagon this week
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Jews have been forced by society to be experts on this topic because every single goy we meet demands we state our position on it before they decide if we’re a good Jew or a bad Jew but yeah ok we’re just too ignorant to understand.
The goyim will always hate us no matter what we do. We cannot win
The goyim will always hate us no matter what we do. We cannot win
December 2, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Jews have been forced by society to be experts on this topic because every single goy we meet demands we state our position on it before they decide if we’re a good Jew or a bad Jew but yeah ok we’re just too ignorant to understand.
The goyim will always hate us no matter what we do. We cannot win
The goyim will always hate us no matter what we do. We cannot win
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She was first in her family to go to college.
She’d been in the U.S. since she was seven.
They grabbed at the airport on her way to surprise her family for thanksgiving.
They put her in shackles. Her ankles, her arms, and her waist.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/u...
She’d been in the U.S. since she was seven.
They grabbed at the airport on her way to surprise her family for thanksgiving.
They put her in shackles. Her ankles, her arms, and her waist.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/u...
College Student Is Deported During Trip Home for Thanksgiving
www.nytimes.com
December 1, 2025 at 1:05 AM
She was first in her family to go to college.
She’d been in the U.S. since she was seven.
They grabbed at the airport on her way to surprise her family for thanksgiving.
They put her in shackles. Her ankles, her arms, and her waist.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/u...
She’d been in the U.S. since she was seven.
They grabbed at the airport on her way to surprise her family for thanksgiving.
They put her in shackles. Her ankles, her arms, and her waist.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/u...
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Target:
We will comply in advance like cowards, please keep shopping here while we jack up the prices and let quality slip into the trash
Costco:
We kept the price of staple goods stable to protect our customers. We’re suing to get the tariffs removed from everyone.
www.nbcnews.com/business/bus...
We will comply in advance like cowards, please keep shopping here while we jack up the prices and let quality slip into the trash
Costco:
We kept the price of staple goods stable to protect our customers. We’re suing to get the tariffs removed from everyone.
www.nbcnews.com/business/bus...
Costco sues the Trump administration, seeking a refund of tariffs
The wholesaler is the latest company to sue a federal agency over the president's signature economic policy.
www.nbcnews.com
December 2, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Target:
We will comply in advance like cowards, please keep shopping here while we jack up the prices and let quality slip into the trash
Costco:
We kept the price of staple goods stable to protect our customers. We’re suing to get the tariffs removed from everyone.
www.nbcnews.com/business/bus...
We will comply in advance like cowards, please keep shopping here while we jack up the prices and let quality slip into the trash
Costco:
We kept the price of staple goods stable to protect our customers. We’re suing to get the tariffs removed from everyone.
www.nbcnews.com/business/bus...
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a lot of people debating the merits of that dogshit essay meanwhile the girl’s mom is retweeting demands to ban all trans people from teaching at any level. it’s forest for the trees shit
December 1, 2025 at 4:42 AM
a lot of people debating the merits of that dogshit essay meanwhile the girl’s mom is retweeting demands to ban all trans people from teaching at any level. it’s forest for the trees shit
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reminds me thoroughly of how conservatives love to fill pharmacies with people who refuse to do the pharmacist's actual job of giving you your fucking medicine
December 1, 2025 at 12:55 AM
reminds me thoroughly of how conservatives love to fill pharmacies with people who refuse to do the pharmacist's actual job of giving you your fucking medicine
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if you ask students to list the causes of the Irish famine and they just say “the Irish are demonic” can you really not fail that kid?
December 1, 2025 at 12:53 AM
if you ask students to list the causes of the Irish famine and they just say “the Irish are demonic” can you really not fail that kid?
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Absolute debasement of academic standards
*student submits opinion in psych class
*gets bad grade
*instructor says she can make whatever arguments she wants but must draw on empirical sources
*student & Turning Point says her religious freedom & first amendment rights violated
*professor suspended
*student submits opinion in psych class
*gets bad grade
*instructor says she can make whatever arguments she wants but must draw on empirical sources
*student & Turning Point says her religious freedom & first amendment rights violated
*professor suspended
OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:
November 30, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Absolute debasement of academic standards
*student submits opinion in psych class
*gets bad grade
*instructor says she can make whatever arguments she wants but must draw on empirical sources
*student & Turning Point says her religious freedom & first amendment rights violated
*professor suspended
*student submits opinion in psych class
*gets bad grade
*instructor says she can make whatever arguments she wants but must draw on empirical sources
*student & Turning Point says her religious freedom & first amendment rights violated
*professor suspended
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Each July 4th Americans celebrate a successful war of anti-colonial liberation.
Each Thanksgiving Americans celebrate the colonists who occupied North America against the will of the original inhabitants.
The rest of the year is spent not thinking about the tense relationship between those 2 things.
Each Thanksgiving Americans celebrate the colonists who occupied North America against the will of the original inhabitants.
The rest of the year is spent not thinking about the tense relationship between those 2 things.
November 28, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Each July 4th Americans celebrate a successful war of anti-colonial liberation.
Each Thanksgiving Americans celebrate the colonists who occupied North America against the will of the original inhabitants.
The rest of the year is spent not thinking about the tense relationship between those 2 things.
Each Thanksgiving Americans celebrate the colonists who occupied North America against the will of the original inhabitants.
The rest of the year is spent not thinking about the tense relationship between those 2 things.
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If the U.S. was at war, Pete Hegseth's order would be a war crime, a military lawyer said. Instead, it might just be murder. wapo.st/49KbUJ1
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:07 PM
If the U.S. was at war, Pete Hegseth's order would be a war crime, a military lawyer said. Instead, it might just be murder. wapo.st/49KbUJ1