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I wait for these lists every year; they rarely disappoint.
The staff of The New York Times Book Review chose the year’s top fiction and nonfiction. Take a look. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/b...
December 31, 2025 at 5:25 PM
I wait for these lists every year; they rarely disappoint.
"Caitlin Flanagan, Chris Cilizza—these are not people who produce investigative journalism. These are take-merchants and mouthpieces who publish what powerful people tell them over text and DM as if it's a transgressive secret and not a comms strategy."
Good Lord, this is savage, lol
Good Lord, this is savage, lol
Fantastic piece putting the Bari Weiss Experiment in perspective
As it happens, I have experience with high-level government demands to stop an explosive, accurate story from running, and I also have experience with 60 Minutes spiking a story I was involved in, so I have thoughts about the travesty at CBS. If you want some journalism anecdotes, here are a lot:
December 31, 2025 at 3:44 PM
"Caitlin Flanagan, Chris Cilizza—these are not people who produce investigative journalism. These are take-merchants and mouthpieces who publish what powerful people tell them over text and DM as if it's a transgressive secret and not a comms strategy."
Good Lord, this is savage, lol
Good Lord, this is savage, lol
All these years later, I don't think we've ever gotten a definitive reason for the Iraq War. Possibilities:
● Incorrect beliefs about Iraq having WMD
● "He tried to kill my daddy"
● Oil
● Turn Iraq into a staging ground for US troops, should deployment be needed in the Middle East
Who knows?
● Incorrect beliefs about Iraq having WMD
● "He tried to kill my daddy"
● Oil
● Turn Iraq into a staging ground for US troops, should deployment be needed in the Middle East
Who knows?
Can’t be overstated that “America invaded Iraq for oil” is a myth that is infinitely more flattering and logical than what actually happened
December 31, 2025 at 3:37 PM
All these years later, I don't think we've ever gotten a definitive reason for the Iraq War. Possibilities:
● Incorrect beliefs about Iraq having WMD
● "He tried to kill my daddy"
● Oil
● Turn Iraq into a staging ground for US troops, should deployment be needed in the Middle East
Who knows?
● Incorrect beliefs about Iraq having WMD
● "He tried to kill my daddy"
● Oil
● Turn Iraq into a staging ground for US troops, should deployment be needed in the Middle East
Who knows?
This @wsj.com story is weird. If the reason #Trump kicked #Epstein out of Mar-a-Lago was accusations that Epstein pressured spa workers for sex, then why did Trump say, earlier this year, that the reason was that Epstein was poaching Mar-a-Lago employees?
www.wsj.com/us-news/trum...
www.wsj.com/us-news/trum...
Exclusive | The Incident That Prompted Trump to Ban Epstein From Mar-a-Lago’s Spa
Mar-a-Lago sent an 18-year-old spa worker on a house call to Jeffrey Epstein in 2003. She complained to her bosses that Epstein pressured her for sex.
www.wsj.com
December 31, 2025 at 3:27 PM
This @wsj.com story is weird. If the reason #Trump kicked #Epstein out of Mar-a-Lago was accusations that Epstein pressured spa workers for sex, then why did Trump say, earlier this year, that the reason was that Epstein was poaching Mar-a-Lago employees?
www.wsj.com/us-news/trum...
www.wsj.com/us-news/trum...
💯 % correct tho, to be fair, many Democrats were centering LGBTQ+ rights, etc., and that might be what folks are really referring to. It's just that Harris/Walz mostly avoided the subjects.
Trump ran a very identity politics campaign in 2024, JD Vance is giving speeches going “it’s ok to be white,” Kamala Harris avoided identity politics, even dismissed prompts to bait her into it with “same old tired playbook, next question.” And yet.
By “identity politics,” a lot just mean identity.
By “identity politics,” a lot just mean identity.
i think a lot about how like the normie voter codes Kamala more radical than Bernie and/or Trump
December 31, 2025 at 3:05 AM
💯 % correct tho, to be fair, many Democrats were centering LGBTQ+ rights, etc., and that might be what folks are really referring to. It's just that Harris/Walz mostly avoided the subjects.
Haha!
BREAKING NEWS: Actual facts appear for the first time on "Truth" Social.
December 31, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Haha!
I have this image of a future hr'g, where DOJ Blanche or Singh is found guilty of contempt and they tell the Judge, "Your order encroaches on executive prerogative, we aren't following it, and there's nothing you can do about it." An inescapable #ConstitutionalCrisis
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/30/n...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/30/n...
Justice Dept. Leaders Pushed to Charge Abrego Garcia, Emails Show
www.nytimes.com
December 31, 2025 at 1:37 AM
I have this image of a future hr'g, where DOJ Blanche or Singh is found guilty of contempt and they tell the Judge, "Your order encroaches on executive prerogative, we aren't following it, and there's nothing you can do about it." An inescapable #ConstitutionalCrisis
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/30/n...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/30/n...
"A cast of Trump’s lesser-known political appointees and DOGE operatives cut programs in ways that guaranteed widespread harm and death in some of the world’s most desperate situations." This Trump Admin is unspeakably horrible.
"Trump officials celebrated with cake after slashing aid. Then people died of cholera."
John Gai carried his sick father to a nearby clinic in a wheelbarrow, but he died from cholera on the way.
Gai then pushed the wheelbarrow for hours through the camp to take him to the cemetery: “Nobody should have to carry a dead body among the living.”
Gai then pushed the wheelbarrow for hours through the camp to take him to the cemetery: “Nobody should have to carry a dead body among the living.”
December 30, 2025 at 7:13 PM
"A cast of Trump’s lesser-known political appointees and DOGE operatives cut programs in ways that guaranteed widespread harm and death in some of the world’s most desperate situations." This Trump Admin is unspeakably horrible.
I wonder how much my impressions are based on my partisanship. Like, I see a photo of Homan and think, "he looks like a thug." My in-laws, who are MAGA acolytes, see a photo of Homan and think, "he looks like he protects us." If Homan was a progressive, I wonder if I'd see his appearance differently
Same way Kushner got one, I imagine. It was just approved by Trump. He can do that. Background checks are for the client to do with as they wish. The client here is Trump.
Border czar Tom Homan didn't receive a normal background check for his role while his bribery probe was still ongoing:
Justice officials felt sure Homan would not be able to obtain a security clearance based on the evidence gathered. It remains unclear how Homan was eventually granted clearance.
Justice officials felt sure Homan would not be able to obtain a security clearance based on the evidence gathered. It remains unclear how Homan was eventually granted clearance.
December 30, 2025 at 4:17 PM
I wonder how much my impressions are based on my partisanship. Like, I see a photo of Homan and think, "he looks like a thug." My in-laws, who are MAGA acolytes, see a photo of Homan and think, "he looks like he protects us." If Homan was a progressive, I wonder if I'd see his appearance differently
The escalating tension between the US and Venezuela makes me wonder about the line between "overseas operations" and "war." Isn't this an act of war? What more would be needed? It can't be that there's no war unless Congress declares it; that would elevate form over substance. So ... is this war?
"The CIA carried out a drone strike earlier this month on a port facility on the coast of Venezuela, sources familiar with the matter told CNN, marking the first known US attack on a target inside that country"
edition.cnn.com/2025/12/29/p...
edition.cnn.com/2025/12/29/p...
Exclusive: CIA carried out drone strike on port facility on Venezuelan coast | CNN Politics
The CIA carried out a drone strike earlier this month on a port facility on the coast of Venezuela, sources familiar with the matter told CNN, marking the first known US attack on a target inside that...
edition.cnn.com
December 30, 2025 at 1:35 PM
The escalating tension between the US and Venezuela makes me wonder about the line between "overseas operations" and "war." Isn't this an act of war? What more would be needed? It can't be that there's no war unless Congress declares it; that would elevate form over substance. So ... is this war?
I'm a Monk in 18th-century Madrid?
Well, now I'm an English professor...
December 30, 2025 at 1:23 PM
I'm a Monk in 18th-century Madrid?
This reminds me: we're now a week or two past the day the CECOT segment was pulled from #60Minutes for "additional reporting." Has anyone said what additional work has been done, what's left to be done, and/or when the revised CECOT segment is expected to air?
I would point out that Crawford has long seen her job as justifying whatever Republicans do, but I don't have to, there's a convenient label that shows a person's statements are unreliable and unworthy of consideration: "CBS News."
NEW: Jan Crawford's attack on SCOTUS "corruption" narrative was its own substance-free narrative.
On Face the Nation, CBS News's chief legal correspondent went after Supreme Court critics as "dangerous." And yet, her court defense was completely lacking in specifics.
Tonight, at Law Dork:
On Face the Nation, CBS News's chief legal correspondent went after Supreme Court critics as "dangerous." And yet, her court defense was completely lacking in specifics.
Tonight, at Law Dork:
December 30, 2025 at 12:58 PM
This reminds me: we're now a week or two past the day the CECOT segment was pulled from #60Minutes for "additional reporting." Has anyone said what additional work has been done, what's left to be done, and/or when the revised CECOT segment is expected to air?
"Rock’s last grand heyday was in the 90s, when grunge, nu-metal and pop-punk were all happily blasting away." Eh. The 00s were a Golden Age for rock, artistically / commercially. Maybe rock is better off on the fringe, but I miss it being a primary cultural language.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/a...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/a...
Who Says Rock Is Dead?
www.nytimes.com
December 30, 2025 at 7:28 AM
"Rock’s last grand heyday was in the 90s, when grunge, nu-metal and pop-punk were all happily blasting away." Eh. The 00s were a Golden Age for rock, artistically / commercially. Maybe rock is better off on the fringe, but I miss it being a primary cultural language.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/a...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/a...
Can't get over this part, if it's genuine. Trump was glib and dismissive when there was a death threat made against Greene's *son*. "You have no one to blame but yourself"? That's f--king low.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/m...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/m...
December 30, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Can't get over this part, if it's genuine. Trump was glib and dismissive when there was a death threat made against Greene's *son*. "You have no one to blame but yourself"? That's f--king low.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/m...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/m...
Holy s--t the last part.
Marge tells NYT Trump yelled at her “my friends will get hurt!” if the Epstein files are released, and told her the Epstein victims “had done nothing to merit the honor” of meeting with him 🤔
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/m...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/m...
December 29, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Holy s--t the last part.
Young men "were getting more religious, more Trump-curious, and rebelling against Dems and pop culture for making traditional masculinity taboo—all while dealing with a mental health/loneliness crisis." This was my understanding, too. It's all v confusing. Maybe "it's [still] the economy, stupid"?
December 29, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Young men "were getting more religious, more Trump-curious, and rebelling against Dems and pop culture for making traditional masculinity taboo—all while dealing with a mental health/loneliness crisis." This was my understanding, too. It's all v confusing. Maybe "it's [still] the economy, stupid"?
This is one of the most depressing articles you'll see in this last week of 2025.
#Crypto #Cryptocurrency #SportsBetting #Jobs #USeconomy #LaborMarket
www.wsj.com/personal-fin...
#Crypto #Cryptocurrency #SportsBetting #Jobs #USeconomy #LaborMarket
www.wsj.com/personal-fin...
Why My Generation Is Turning to ‘Financial Nihilism’
It might seem reckless for Gen Z to gamble money on meme coins and sports, but many of us have lost confidence in the traditional ladder of success.
www.wsj.com
December 29, 2025 at 2:16 AM
This is one of the most depressing articles you'll see in this last week of 2025.
#Crypto #Cryptocurrency #SportsBetting #Jobs #USeconomy #LaborMarket
www.wsj.com/personal-fin...
#Crypto #Cryptocurrency #SportsBetting #Jobs #USeconomy #LaborMarket
www.wsj.com/personal-fin...
The economy is in a weird place. On the one hand, growth was greater than expected and inflation was lower than expected based on the last reports, all of which seems like good news, but then there's a constant drip of stories like this, plus anemic job creation numbers
www.wsj.com/economy/jobs...
www.wsj.com/economy/jobs...
Companies Are Outlining Plans for 2026. Hiring Isn’t One of Them.
Large employers indicate that they either want to maintain the size of their teams next year or let go of workers.
www.wsj.com
December 28, 2025 at 11:22 PM
The economy is in a weird place. On the one hand, growth was greater than expected and inflation was lower than expected based on the last reports, all of which seems like good news, but then there's a constant drip of stories like this, plus anemic job creation numbers
www.wsj.com/economy/jobs...
www.wsj.com/economy/jobs...
I'm sure this is true, but Trump's kids seem like the biggest, least sympathetic weirdos ever. I think I feel more empathy for *Elon Musk* than for Ivanka, and that's saying somethin'.
She should be under the prison, but the likelihood that Ivanka did not have a *harrowing* childhood and adolescence is nil.
December 27, 2025 at 7:23 PM
I'm sure this is true, but Trump's kids seem like the biggest, least sympathetic weirdos ever. I think I feel more empathy for *Elon Musk* than for Ivanka, and that's saying somethin'.
This story breaks my heart.
"the most immutable law of teenage social code: that a bullied kid, having been exposed to his peers as weak, will often be revictimized again and again, unto infinity." I know this "law" well, from personal experience in high school. F--k these lowlife bullies.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/m...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/m...
He Tried to Protect His Son From Bullies. He Didn’t Know How Far They Would Go.
www.nytimes.com
December 27, 2025 at 7:19 PM
This story breaks my heart.
"the most immutable law of teenage social code: that a bullied kid, having been exposed to his peers as weak, will often be revictimized again and again, unto infinity." I know this "law" well, from personal experience in high school. F--k these lowlife bullies.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/m...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/m...
He Tried to Protect His Son From Bullies. He Didn’t Know How Far They Would Go.
www.nytimes.com
December 27, 2025 at 7:01 PM
"the most immutable law of teenage social code: that a bullied kid, having been exposed to his peers as weak, will often be revictimized again and again, unto infinity." I know this "law" well, from personal experience in high school. F--k these lowlife bullies.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/m...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/m...
Reinforces a point that needs to be made much more often: President Biden's economy was very good. And President Trump's economy is, right now, very bad. History should take note
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Biden Boom Vs. Trump Freeze: Paul Krugman Says We Traded Pro-Worker Recovery For K-Shaped Recession - NewsBreak
Economist Paul Krugman warns that the United States has traded the inclusive, pro-worker recovery of the Joe Biden years for a stratified “ Trump freeze ,”
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December 27, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Reinforces a point that needs to be made much more often: President Biden's economy was very good. And President Trump's economy is, right now, very bad. History should take note
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Hm! Staff cutbacks at the Bureau of Labor Statistics meant they couldn't sample as much data as normal, leading to "imputed" numbers or even assumptions that inflation was 0% in a given month, all of which made the inflation report look better than reality
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Trump admin fudged the numbers to make faltering economy look better: economists - NewsBreak
Los Angeles Times reporter Michael Hiltzik writes that President Donald Trump and his helpers are cheering prematurely over some good economic numbers that
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December 27, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Hm! Staff cutbacks at the Bureau of Labor Statistics meant they couldn't sample as much data as normal, leading to "imputed" numbers or even assumptions that inflation was 0% in a given month, all of which made the inflation report look better than reality
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