Dave Lee
@davelee.me
US technology columnist, Bloomberg Opinion. Based in New York. Previously FT and BBC. Watching Cambridge United from afar. dlee1285@bloomberg.net / Signal: davelee.01 / www.davelee.me
Lawmakers update
With fewer than 40 bills signed into law as of Dec. 22, the House and Senate set a modern record for lowest legislative output in the first year of a new presidency, according to data maintained by C-SPAN and Purdue University. https://wapo.st/3YPTQGo
December 27, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Lawmakers update
So that’s just the price then isn’t it lads
December 27, 2025 at 1:22 AM
So that’s just the price then isn’t it lads
Liz Truss is Patient Zero for the UK’s MAGA online grifter movement. Sadly, it will work for her, so others will follow.
December 26, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Liz Truss is Patient Zero for the UK’s MAGA online grifter movement. Sadly, it will work for her, so others will follow.
Seem to have entered the women and children first stage of my journey home
December 26, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Seem to have entered the women and children first stage of my journey home
Best description I’ve heard: “The generation who said don’t believe everything you read on the internet started believing everything they read on the internet.”
We need to start talking about the radicalisation of the older generation by the internet: perhaps we should have upper age limits on social media like Facebook, or an age-related ban on owning mobile phones.
"Foreign-born doctors and nurses were being put off by antagonism by politicians towards migrants, media coverage of immigration, the racist abuse of international medical graduates by NHS colleagues and racist aggression by patients toward minority ethnic NHS staff, she said."
December 26, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Best description I’ve heard: “The generation who said don’t believe everything you read on the internet started believing everything they read on the internet.”
Dread to think what the equivalent would be for my parents’ gift of a year’s sub to the New Yorker
merry christmas, my gf got us a print sub to @theonion.com and gave it to me like this
December 26, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Dread to think what the equivalent would be for my parents’ gift of a year’s sub to the New Yorker
Miller doesn’t mean immigrants, tho. He means non-white. Straightforward as that.
Imagine watching Sinatra, son of Dolly & Antonini born in Genoa & Sicily, respectively, and Martin, son of Gaetano & Angela, born in Montesilvano, Italy & Ohio respectively, (Angela to parents born in Monasterolo, Italy), and crusading against the value of children of immigrants to the U.S.
December 26, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Miller doesn’t mean immigrants, tho. He means non-white. Straightforward as that.
My favorite Facebook feature these days is when it reminds you of how useful the site was 10 years ago
It's really jarringly noticeable how bad the algorithmic aspect of Facebook is precisely because it used to be relatively good at, you know, just showing you photos of your friends and their kids. Plus groups you had actually joined.
December 26, 2025 at 7:59 PM
My favorite Facebook feature these days is when it reminds you of how useful the site was 10 years ago
Suggest to Elon we could spend money to improve the DMV and you’ll be called a communist and/or pedophile by lunch time
MechaHitler, M.D.
December 26, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Suggest to Elon we could spend money to improve the DMV and you’ll be called a communist and/or pedophile by lunch time
Could we please start this today
After a year of surprises and upheaval, the airline industry is hoping 2026 brings something rare: a stretch of relative calm.
Here are the trends set to shape air travel in 2026.
https://cnn.it/45szFSG
Here are the trends set to shape air travel in 2026.
https://cnn.it/45szFSG
December 26, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Could we please start this today
ooo that's gonna stick
There's a subreddit for people who are too in love with chatbots and it's called... Round of applause please... COGSUCKERS
www.reddit.com/r/cogsuckers...
www.reddit.com/r/cogsuckers...
December 26, 2025 at 3:16 PM
ooo that's gonna stick
It's going to be one of those "I've memorized the ticket confirmation number" kind of trips home.
December 26, 2025 at 3:06 PM
It's going to be one of those "I've memorized the ticket confirmation number" kind of trips home.
Chase should have a separate URL for travel booking so I don't have to look at my credit card bill first
December 26, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Chase should have a separate URL for travel booking so I don't have to look at my credit card bill first
100% this. The point isn’t the football but the afternoon out. When else are you bringing your gran to the football?
Boxing Day with fewer/no top flight fixtures could be a new lower/non-league day. Lots of more affordable local games for people to attend wherever they're spending Christmas.
December 26, 2025 at 1:20 PM
100% this. The point isn’t the football but the afternoon out. When else are you bringing your gran to the football?
Two years after the war... this is paradise
London, 1948
Two Bobbies examine the Trafalgar Square Christmas Tree through the smog of a grey December day
#Christmas 🎄
Two Bobbies examine the Trafalgar Square Christmas Tree through the smog of a grey December day
#Christmas 🎄
December 25, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Two years after the war... this is paradise
Netflix production team clearly hates football. This is a variety show
December 25, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Netflix production team clearly hates football. This is a variety show
This is some next level spon con from the NYT
December 25, 2025 at 7:38 PM
This is some next level spon con from the NYT
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they don’t tell you when you buy a christmas tree at the christmas tree farm that you could take it home, decorate it, and then be relaxing in your living room seven nights later when A BAT suddenly flies out and starts CRASHING AROUND YOUR HOUSE
December 24, 2025 at 11:43 PM
they don’t tell you when you buy a christmas tree at the christmas tree farm that you could take it home, decorate it, and then be relaxing in your living room seven nights later when A BAT suddenly flies out and starts CRASHING AROUND YOUR HOUSE
A new experience for me … a warm Christmas 🥴
December 24, 2025 at 10:24 PM
A new experience for me … a warm Christmas 🥴
Preach
.@jonaskaiser.bsky.social: Social media’s decline is journalism’s hope
www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/soci...
www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/soci...
December 24, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Preach
Love when a city doesn’t create capable public transit to its airports and then punishes the already expensive alternative
The Port Authority is preparing to increase the charge for Ubers, Lyfts and yellow cabs to pick up and drop off passengers at the airports in New York City. nyti.ms/4qpBN5S
December 24, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Love when a city doesn’t create capable public transit to its airports and then punishes the already expensive alternative
A man on this flight just accidentally used my head to steady himself as he walked down the aisle
December 24, 2025 at 5:45 PM
A man on this flight just accidentally used my head to steady himself as he walked down the aisle
Reposted by Dave Lee
Edward Hopper, Christmas card, 1928 whitney.org/collection/w...
December 24, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Edward Hopper, Christmas card, 1928 whitney.org/collection/w...
Gotta be a million dollars-worth of iPads on this flight
December 24, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Gotta be a million dollars-worth of iPads on this flight
Reposted by Dave Lee
Internal email: CBS' standards department told staff to use the Kennedy Center name, saying the change to Trump Kennedy Center needs Congressional approval (Washington Post)
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December 24, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Internal email: CBS' standards department told staff to use the Kennedy Center name, saying the change to Trump Kennedy Center needs Congressional approval (Washington Post)
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