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here are some surprisingly complicated charts in case anyone is interested
December 19, 2025 at 7:30 PM
here are some surprisingly complicated charts in case anyone is interested
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I wrote this under embargo and remember being shocked when the other reviews came in.
It felt like @pattonoswalt.bsky.social was the only other person fully behind this absolute kickass time at the movies.
Punisher War Zone & @lexialex.bsky.social forever.
www.sfchronicle.com/movies/artic...
It felt like @pattonoswalt.bsky.social was the only other person fully behind this absolute kickass time at the movies.
Punisher War Zone & @lexialex.bsky.social forever.
www.sfchronicle.com/movies/artic...
Movie review: 'Punisher: War Zone' bloody good
Every few months, my father calls me out of the blue, informs me that he's at a video...
www.sfgate.com
December 19, 2025 at 3:42 PM
I wrote this under embargo and remember being shocked when the other reviews came in.
It felt like @pattonoswalt.bsky.social was the only other person fully behind this absolute kickass time at the movies.
Punisher War Zone & @lexialex.bsky.social forever.
www.sfchronicle.com/movies/artic...
It felt like @pattonoswalt.bsky.social was the only other person fully behind this absolute kickass time at the movies.
Punisher War Zone & @lexialex.bsky.social forever.
www.sfchronicle.com/movies/artic...
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At least 20 people who have received clemency from President Trump so far this year were also forgiven of financial penalties totaling tens of millions of dollars.
Some of these offenders owed money to real-life victims of fraud.
Some of these offenders owed money to real-life victims of fraud.
Trump’s pardons wipe out payments to defrauded victims
In addition to clearing prison sentences, the president’s clemency actions have erased millions in restitution payments.
wapo.st
December 19, 2025 at 4:30 PM
At least 20 people who have received clemency from President Trump so far this year were also forgiven of financial penalties totaling tens of millions of dollars.
Some of these offenders owed money to real-life victims of fraud.
Some of these offenders owed money to real-life victims of fraud.
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December 19, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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There's a series of things (like the ballroom, Gulf of America) that we're going to have to *undo* the moment this guy is out of office.
And yet I can already hear future Democrat presidents saying "I'm focused on the people's work, not the knucklehead stuff" and just leave this man's shit up.
And yet I can already hear future Democrat presidents saying "I'm focused on the people's work, not the knucklehead stuff" and just leave this man's shit up.
The president's name was added to the sign outside the performing arts center.
Trump Ignores Law and Sticks His Name on Kennedy Center
The name of the president was added to the sign outside the performing arts center.
trib.al
December 19, 2025 at 4:49 PM
There's a series of things (like the ballroom, Gulf of America) that we're going to have to *undo* the moment this guy is out of office.
And yet I can already hear future Democrat presidents saying "I'm focused on the people's work, not the knucklehead stuff" and just leave this man's shit up.
And yet I can already hear future Democrat presidents saying "I'm focused on the people's work, not the knucklehead stuff" and just leave this man's shit up.
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Yes, it’s illegal. Like changing it to Department of War, like ten thousand other things. Part of the Trump strategy is to break the law and convey “the rule of law is weak and feminine and laughable and should be overridden by Our Guy.” Trump is fundamentally anti-law.
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NEWS: They're adding Trump's name to the Kennedy Center building right now. www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
Kennedy Center adds Trump’s name to building
The signage change follows a vote by the board of trustees to rename the performing arts complex the Trump Kennedy Center.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 19, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Yes, it’s illegal. Like changing it to Department of War, like ten thousand other things. Part of the Trump strategy is to break the law and convey “the rule of law is weak and feminine and laughable and should be overridden by Our Guy.” Trump is fundamentally anti-law.
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December 19, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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"We here at Bank of America remember a time when a woman couldn't get a credit card without her husband's approval. Wouldn't that be fun again?"
"Has feminism failed women brought to you by bank of america" is my MKULTRA sleeper agent activation phrase
December 19, 2025 at 3:33 PM
"We here at Bank of America remember a time when a woman couldn't get a credit card without her husband's approval. Wouldn't that be fun again?"
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i feel like this is an empirical question you could answer with good research design.
longstanding theory on this is that people who know the applicant that they don't want to hire has racial resentment offer "wish i could've hired you, but they made me hire a black woman instead!" as a let-them-down-easy cope rather than admit to them that they just didn't want to hire them.
December 19, 2025 at 12:50 PM
i feel like this is an empirical question you could answer with good research design.
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matt & co’s theory of how public opinion on immigration would respond to new information was simply empirically wrong.
at this point the only reasonable conclusion is they refuse to update their priors w/ new data because the data is inconvenient for them
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/the-cost-o...
at this point the only reasonable conclusion is they refuse to update their priors w/ new data because the data is inconvenient for them
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/the-cost-o...
December 18, 2025 at 3:56 PM
matt & co’s theory of how public opinion on immigration would respond to new information was simply empirically wrong.
at this point the only reasonable conclusion is they refuse to update their priors w/ new data because the data is inconvenient for them
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/the-cost-o...
at this point the only reasonable conclusion is they refuse to update their priors w/ new data because the data is inconvenient for them
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/the-cost-o...
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can betazoids feel it when you swipe right on them
December 18, 2025 at 6:13 PM
can betazoids feel it when you swipe right on them
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I think about this the way that punt coverage works in football: you don't actually want everyone making a directly line to the ball, you actually want different players occupying different lanes because *the punt returner is going to move!* and you want to have broad coverage of the field.
Sometimes there are trade offs, but this zero-sum fixation is a poor and inaccurate model of public opinion. Lots of people are doing lots of different things over huge amounts of time. The idea that *at the margin* Van Hollen's activities with KAG *hurt* senate dems chances seems obviously wrong.
December 18, 2025 at 4:35 PM
I think about this the way that punt coverage works in football: you don't actually want everyone making a directly line to the ball, you actually want different players occupying different lanes because *the punt returner is going to move!* and you want to have broad coverage of the field.
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one kind of has to wonder if the reason the friend was so nervous was she was in junior high school at the time
December 18, 2025 at 7:50 PM
one kind of has to wonder if the reason the friend was so nervous was she was in junior high school at the time
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Every new Trump Epstein revelation is somehow both shocking and not a surprise at all.
Ladies and gentleman: The President of the United States
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...
December 18, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Every new Trump Epstein revelation is somehow both shocking and not a surprise at all.
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dreamed i won a salad making competition by googling "hitler's favorite salads" finding a listicle of hitler's 20 favorite salads and letting the judges know my opponent had made hitler's 17th favorite salad
December 18, 2025 at 12:20 PM
dreamed i won a salad making competition by googling "hitler's favorite salads" finding a listicle of hitler's 20 favorite salads and letting the judges know my opponent had made hitler's 17th favorite salad
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They booked a bunch of 14 year old models to come to a Mar A Lago party, told them to dress sexy and tried to ply them with alcohol.
These are the people who are willing to go on the record.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...
December 18, 2025 at 5:58 PM
They booked a bunch of 14 year old models to come to a Mar A Lago party, told them to dress sexy and tried to ply them with alcohol.
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This this this. And if you, the public, cease to care, why should the President?
NB: When I, a professor of law, profess that an act is unlawful, I am not doing it to inform the lawbreaker, but rather to inform you, the reader.
So the question “what, like you think he cares?” is inapposite. The question is whether *you* care. I think you should, which is why I bother.
So the question “what, like you think he cares?” is inapposite. The question is whether *you* care. I think you should, which is why I bother.
December 18, 2025 at 9:08 PM
This this this. And if you, the public, cease to care, why should the President?
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On the most recent Serious Trouble I remarked that asking whether someone has standing is increasingly like asking whether an elf can wield an axe in Dungeons & Dragons: it’s an arbitrary fantasy-based question determined by the 6-3 DM, who does whatever amuses him.
Let's figure out who has standing.
December 18, 2025 at 9:51 PM
On the most recent Serious Trouble I remarked that asking whether someone has standing is increasingly like asking whether an elf can wield an axe in Dungeons & Dragons: it’s an arbitrary fantasy-based question determined by the 6-3 DM, who does whatever amuses him.
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Remember how I said I have it written into my foreign-language contracts that my work has to be translated by an actual human? This shit is why.
Those book translations are gonna suck. They'll save money putting out books that are going to be painful to read. That's not a great long-term strategy.
Those book translations are gonna suck. They'll save money putting out books that are going to be painful to read. That's not a great long-term strategy.
French publishing house Harlequin decided to use AI translation instead of human translations.
All their freelance translators (some of whom had been working with Harlequin for +30y!!!) were told they would no longer receive work from Harlequin
All their freelance translators (some of whom had been working with Harlequin for +30y!!!) were told they would no longer receive work from Harlequin
December 18, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Remember how I said I have it written into my foreign-language contracts that my work has to be translated by an actual human? This shit is why.
Those book translations are gonna suck. They'll save money putting out books that are going to be painful to read. That's not a great long-term strategy.
Those book translations are gonna suck. They'll save money putting out books that are going to be painful to read. That's not a great long-term strategy.
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