NickUrfe
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One of the more wretched things I've ever seen. His 'joke' at the end, at his wife's awful expense, is genuinely degenerate.
December 7, 2025 at 10:12 PM
One of the more wretched things I've ever seen. His 'joke' at the end, at his wife's awful expense, is genuinely degenerate.
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helps to think about the details like any regular crime you'd see on one of the 800 cop shows that run on TV constantly: these guys committed one set of murders, thought it over, and then decided to kill the witnesses as part of the coverup. mention of drugs is just jingling keys at this point
December 5, 2025 at 3:14 AM
helps to think about the details like any regular crime you'd see on one of the 800 cop shows that run on TV constantly: these guys committed one set of murders, thought it over, and then decided to kill the witnesses as part of the coverup. mention of drugs is just jingling keys at this point
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It may sound radical, but if one guy has so much wealth and power that he can use the large newspaper he owns to publicly threaten to ruin a service we all rely on, presumably as a bargaining tactic to get lower rates, we probably need to tax that guy until he can't do that anymore.
Exclusive: Amazon has long been USPS’s top customer, providing over $6 billion in annual revenue in 2025.
But Amazon may give up its long-standing partnership with USPS to deliver packages itself, which could spell disaster for the mail agency.
But Amazon may give up its long-standing partnership with USPS to deliver packages itself, which could spell disaster for the mail agency.
Amazon explores cutting ties with USPS, building its own delivery network
Amazon looks into expanding its nationwide delivery network and giving up its longstanding partnership with the U.S. Postal Service.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 4, 2025 at 3:19 PM
It may sound radical, but if one guy has so much wealth and power that he can use the large newspaper he owns to publicly threaten to ruin a service we all rely on, presumably as a bargaining tactic to get lower rates, we probably need to tax that guy until he can't do that anymore.
Imagine learning that this was the cause for which you’d ended up giving the last full measure of devotion.
December 5, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Imagine learning that this was the cause for which you’d ended up giving the last full measure of devotion.
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I shall simply free the stuck wheel of bureaucracy by firing everybody who knows how to do things
Lesson one: Yes, you can do a lot of things if you break the law.
Lesson two: Doing something is not the same as doing a good thing - it is harder to build than it is to destroy.
Trump has built nothing like the TVA. His lawbreaking is not "freeing the stuck wheels of bureaucracy."
Lesson two: Doing something is not the same as doing a good thing - it is harder to build than it is to destroy.
Trump has built nothing like the TVA. His lawbreaking is not "freeing the stuck wheels of bureaucracy."
December 3, 2025 at 4:32 PM
I shall simply free the stuck wheel of bureaucracy by firing everybody who knows how to do things
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Rich Lowry is a bigoted piece of shit whose existence makes America a worse place. He's vapid patrician gentility used to mask gutter racism. He's a Brooks Brothers pocket square used to wipe Nick Fuentes' ass.
December 2, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Rich Lowry is a bigoted piece of shit whose existence makes America a worse place. He's vapid patrician gentility used to mask gutter racism. He's a Brooks Brothers pocket square used to wipe Nick Fuentes' ass.
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i think you're just being disagreeable in exactly the way that you seem to relish and i'm glad that's fun for you.
December 3, 2025 at 2:56 AM
i think you're just being disagreeable in exactly the way that you seem to relish and i'm glad that's fun for you.
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This is an ethnic cleansing campaign
Officials prepare immigration operation in Minnesota that would focus on Somali immigrants, source tells AP, as Trump says he doesn't want Somalis in U.S.
Federal authorities plan operation in Minnesota focusing on Somali immigrants, AP source says
Federal authorities are preparing an immigration enforcement operation in Minnesota, focusing on Somali immigrants living unlawfully in the U.S.
bit.ly
December 3, 2025 at 12:27 AM
This is an ethnic cleansing campaign
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HBOMax has started showing a 'remastered' 4K Mad Men and they’ve messed things up so during Roger’s oyster vomit scene you can now see the crew men with the vomit hose on the right
December 2, 2025 at 11:28 AM
HBOMax has started showing a 'remastered' 4K Mad Men and they’ve messed things up so during Roger’s oyster vomit scene you can now see the crew men with the vomit hose on the right
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This is insane. Any material a prof thinks is necessary but isn’t for formal licensing has to get the signoff of the chair, then dean, then provost?
This is an absolutely mockery of academic freedom.
I feel like Texas Tech HAS to lose its accreditation for this, no? It’s preposterous.
This is an absolutely mockery of academic freedom.
I feel like Texas Tech HAS to lose its accreditation for this, no? It’s preposterous.
TX Tech has a flow chat for guidance on what can be taught in the university system. Two things:
1. Very little content seems to be permitted. This is partisan control of the curriculum.
2. I would not enjoy teaching under these conditions, but I really would not want to be a Chair or Dean.
1. Very little content seems to be permitted. This is partisan control of the curriculum.
2. I would not enjoy teaching under these conditions, but I really would not want to be a Chair or Dean.
December 2, 2025 at 2:30 AM
This is insane. Any material a prof thinks is necessary but isn’t for formal licensing has to get the signoff of the chair, then dean, then provost?
This is an absolutely mockery of academic freedom.
I feel like Texas Tech HAS to lose its accreditation for this, no? It’s preposterous.
This is an absolutely mockery of academic freedom.
I feel like Texas Tech HAS to lose its accreditation for this, no? It’s preposterous.
It's a national failing that only a visionary President would've seen that the American prefiguration of 2020 was the election of 1860. It's the only precedent we have of the opposition refusing to compromise on the winner's legitimacy and then resisting through actual physical violence.
Perfect natural experiment. If Biden and Congress had treated the Jan 6th insurrection like the treason it was and jailed the people behind it, Trump’s power would have shriveled on the vine.
"Mussolini once said that he didn’t create fascism – he extracted it from the Italians’ unconscious. And I think it’s the same thing with Bolsonarismo. Bolsonaro dies, but these radical ideas and ideology are here to stay." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
November 30, 2025 at 8:33 PM
It's a national failing that only a visionary President would've seen that the American prefiguration of 2020 was the election of 1860. It's the only precedent we have of the opposition refusing to compromise on the winner's legitimacy and then resisting through actual physical violence.
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With his new comedy show and debut novel, is it time to let Louis C.K. force women to watch him masturbate again?
When a cancelled performer reënters the culture, we expect them to offer us a great work, channelling their newfound clarity into the finest art they’ve ever made. With his new comedy show and début novel, has Louis C.K. met the bar?
www.newyorker.com/culture/crit...
www.newyorker.com/culture/crit...
Louis C.K.’s Next Chapter
In a new standup special, and a début novel, the comedian navigates murky, post-#MeToo terrain: not quite exiled, not quite welcomed back.
www.newyorker.com
November 29, 2025 at 11:05 PM
With his new comedy show and debut novel, is it time to let Louis C.K. force women to watch him masturbate again?
There is in fact a fool-proof way to stop students submitting papers written with AI: require that all written material be *composed* in GoogleDocs, etc. GoogleDocs tracks changes *to the second*--which is to say, it tracks the writing *process* itself. AI simply cannot mimic this.
"It's impossible to tell definitively if someone is using AI!"
—Someone who has never contemplated the plagiarism-detection mechanism of, for instance, asking a student what a word they used in their paper means.
—Someone who has never contemplated the plagiarism-detection mechanism of, for instance, asking a student what a word they used in their paper means.
November 29, 2025 at 7:45 PM
There is in fact a fool-proof way to stop students submitting papers written with AI: require that all written material be *composed* in GoogleDocs, etc. GoogleDocs tracks changes *to the second*--which is to say, it tracks the writing *process* itself. AI simply cannot mimic this.
750 students threatening credibly to transfer would equal in tuition revenue the $75m the university is paying out here.
Indeed, a credible transfer threat really is akin to a form of labor action, and student activists might consider ways of organizing around it.
Indeed, a credible transfer threat really is akin to a form of labor action, and student activists might consider ways of organizing around it.
NU “agreed to pay the fed govt $75 mil & reverse the Deering Meadow Agreement that ended the 2024 pro-Palestinian encampment” I’ll have more to say ltr but that it took the feds & NU 1.5 yrs to do this just proves how powerful & brave our student protesters were dailynorthwestern.com/2025/11/28/c...
November 29, 2025 at 6:47 AM
750 students threatening credibly to transfer would equal in tuition revenue the $75m the university is paying out here.
Indeed, a credible transfer threat really is akin to a form of labor action, and student activists might consider ways of organizing around it.
Indeed, a credible transfer threat really is akin to a form of labor action, and student activists might consider ways of organizing around it.
@profanity.accountant: okay, let's fucking hear it.
November 29, 2025 at 4:46 AM
@profanity.accountant: okay, let's fucking hear it.
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The prohibition is rather specific.
"The DOD Manual is clear because the law here is clear: 'Persons who have been incapacitated by . . . shipwreck are in a helpless state, and it would be dishonorable and inhumane to make them the object of attack.'"
"The DOD Manual is clear because the law here is clear: 'Persons who have been incapacitated by . . . shipwreck are in a helpless state, and it would be dishonorable and inhumane to make them the object of attack.'"
Harvard Law School’s Jack Goldsmith:
“In short, if the Post’s facts are correct, it appears that Special Operations Forces committed murder when the ‘two men were blown apart in the water, as the Post put it.’”
open.substack.com/pub/executiv...
“In short, if the Post’s facts are correct, it appears that Special Operations Forces committed murder when the ‘two men were blown apart in the water, as the Post put it.’”
open.substack.com/pub/executiv...
November 29, 2025 at 4:33 AM
The prohibition is rather specific.
"The DOD Manual is clear because the law here is clear: 'Persons who have been incapacitated by . . . shipwreck are in a helpless state, and it would be dishonorable and inhumane to make them the object of attack.'"
"The DOD Manual is clear because the law here is clear: 'Persons who have been incapacitated by . . . shipwreck are in a helpless state, and it would be dishonorable and inhumane to make them the object of attack.'"
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calmly explaining why we shouldn't bomb random venezuelan boats to people who argued we should torture random iraqis and then won an election by saying they were against a war they advocated for
November 29, 2025 at 4:35 AM
calmly explaining why we shouldn't bomb random venezuelan boats to people who argued we should torture random iraqis and then won an election by saying they were against a war they advocated for
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When the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade was directed by Hieronymus Bosch
November 28, 2024 at 3:03 PM
When the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade was directed by Hieronymus Bosch
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I wish it didn’t feel so unusual and inspiring to see a leader treating everyone like they matter and saying that we have a responsibility to help each other
Combatting poverty and hunger in this city will take every single one of us. Myself included.
November 27, 2025 at 3:19 PM
I wish it didn’t feel so unusual and inspiring to see a leader treating everyone like they matter and saying that we have a responsibility to help each other
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Everyone (esp media) pay attention. In 2021 almost every Republican attacked the Biden administration and State dept for being too slow in approving Afghanistan special visas as Afghanistan fell.
Now they are attacking Biden for doing what they asked him to do.
Now they are attacking Biden for doing what they asked him to do.
November 27, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Everyone (esp media) pay attention. In 2021 almost every Republican attacked the Biden administration and State dept for being too slow in approving Afghanistan special visas as Afghanistan fell.
Now they are attacking Biden for doing what they asked him to do.
Now they are attacking Biden for doing what they asked him to do.
The Leavitts aren't going to learn any lesson except what happens when their son understands what his father did to his mother. The rest of their lives will be spent evading his righteous judgement and its consequences. *Whatever* (imagine what you will) the son does, the family will have earned it.
People keep posting about how “maybe Leavitt will learn a lesson now that it’s happening to her sister-in-law” and…you are missing a key point. The woman is Leavitt’s brother’s *ex* & Leavitt’s entire family - including her brother & his new wife - seem pretty eager to deport this woman.
“After Ferreira was detained, Dos Santos Rodrigues said Michael Leavitt Sr. and his father, Bob Leavitt, reached out to her.”
“‘They just kept saying, ‘Tell her to self-deport,’” she recalled. “Self-deport to where? Brazil is not her home.’” www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/26/m...
“‘They just kept saying, ‘Tell her to self-deport,’” she recalled. “Self-deport to where? Brazil is not her home.’” www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/26/m...
November 26, 2025 at 7:47 PM
The Leavitts aren't going to learn any lesson except what happens when their son understands what his father did to his mother. The rest of their lives will be spent evading his righteous judgement and its consequences. *Whatever* (imagine what you will) the son does, the family will have earned it.
It's interesting that in American musical theatre, there are almost no hugely successful film adaptations of Broadway hits, and certainly none recently.
And not for lack of trying or resources: Sweeney Todd, Into the Woods, Carousel, Oklahoma!, Phantom, Les Mis, Cats. Ugh, Rent? All terrible.
And not for lack of trying or resources: Sweeney Todd, Into the Woods, Carousel, Oklahoma!, Phantom, Les Mis, Cats. Ugh, Rent? All terrible.
November 26, 2025 at 4:45 AM
It's interesting that in American musical theatre, there are almost no hugely successful film adaptations of Broadway hits, and certainly none recently.
And not for lack of trying or resources: Sweeney Todd, Into the Woods, Carousel, Oklahoma!, Phantom, Les Mis, Cats. Ugh, Rent? All terrible.
And not for lack of trying or resources: Sweeney Todd, Into the Woods, Carousel, Oklahoma!, Phantom, Les Mis, Cats. Ugh, Rent? All terrible.
Is the oblique phrasing here supposed to suggest that Leavitt maneuvered to have his son's mother arrested by ICE?
You know conservatives really aren't committed to the bit because, in the honor culture they too ardently strive for, Leavitt's son's hero story has exactly one possible arc.
You know conservatives really aren't committed to the bit because, in the honor culture they too ardently strive for, Leavitt's son's hero story has exactly one possible arc.
"A woman with a family connection to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has been arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Revere, Massachusetts."
www.wcvb.com/article/karo...
www.wcvb.com/article/karo...
![REVERE, Mass. —
A woman with a family connection to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has been arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Revere, Massachusetts.
The woman, Bruna Ferreira, has an 11-year-old son with Michael Leavitt, Karoline Leavitt's brother.
Ferreira migrated with her family to the United States from Brazil as a child and is currently in custody at an ICE facility in southern Louisiana.
Michael Leavitt released a statement, saying that his "only concern has always been the safety, well-being, and privacy of [his] son."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:x4qyokjtdzgl7gmqhsw4ajqj/bafkreiacyzixchgacpjse7wyra342opgjsvdxzqdrkxq55zzqah65zyeae@jpeg)
November 26, 2025 at 4:20 AM
Is the oblique phrasing here supposed to suggest that Leavitt maneuvered to have his son's mother arrested by ICE?
You know conservatives really aren't committed to the bit because, in the honor culture they too ardently strive for, Leavitt's son's hero story has exactly one possible arc.
You know conservatives really aren't committed to the bit because, in the honor culture they too ardently strive for, Leavitt's son's hero story has exactly one possible arc.
Do we all remember dog faced pony soldier?
November 26, 2025 at 4:10 AM
Do we all remember dog faced pony soldier?
Only blackguards and cowards refuse to pressure caramelize the butternut squash and sweet potatoes that they’ll puree for pie filling.
November 26, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Only blackguards and cowards refuse to pressure caramelize the butternut squash and sweet potatoes that they’ll puree for pie filling.