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December 27, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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So much I want to read in here!
It has been a bracing moment for American federalism, with both unprecedented efforts to extend executive control over state and local govts, novel forms of subnational resistance. Where is federalism going? Paul Nolette and I have edited a new issue of Publius on that question. Short thread:
December 26, 2025 at 6:15 PM
So much I want to read in here!
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Big part of why all these game studios are coming out with ridiculous statements of "oh yeah, we use generative AI, but not for anything important!" is because they know consumers hate AI but investors want to hear the studio is using AI, and they're trying to please both
December 26, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Big part of why all these game studios are coming out with ridiculous statements of "oh yeah, we use generative AI, but not for anything important!" is because they know consumers hate AI but investors want to hear the studio is using AI, and they're trying to please both
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When someone says there a “Heritage American” they are a “blood and soil nationalist.”
www.ushmm.org/antisemitism...
www.ushmm.org/antisemitism...
December 26, 2025 at 8:22 PM
When someone says there a “Heritage American” they are a “blood and soil nationalist.”
www.ushmm.org/antisemitism...
www.ushmm.org/antisemitism...
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The third paragraph reads as if the Russians wrote it. Maybe they did. In any event, it is an atrociously big lie; 1984-grade, as Aaron Rupar rightly says.
December 26, 2025 at 8:59 PM
The third paragraph reads as if the Russians wrote it. Maybe they did. In any event, it is an atrociously big lie; 1984-grade, as Aaron Rupar rightly says.
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NOT A DARK LORD BUT A FUCKING QUEEN
The Lord of The Rings movies were rated PG-13. By current rules that means that each film could contain one use of the word "Fuck". Which line are you altering to insert the most useful swear word?
"I can't carry it for you, but I can Fucking carry you"
"I can't carry it for you, but I can Fucking carry you"
December 26, 2025 at 9:38 PM
NOT A DARK LORD BUT A FUCKING QUEEN
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Documenting the crimes of Bari Weiss
Read the "60 Minutes" segment on the CECOT prison in El Salvador. In the interest of preserving the public record in this authoritarian moment, this transcript is now a historical document. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
Read the CBS Report Bari Weiss Doesn’t Want You to See
A transcript of the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT, the notorious prison in El Salvador.
www.thenation.com
December 26, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Documenting the crimes of Bari Weiss
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People like Musk and RFK Jr. are entirely fine with the use of government power to shut down actors who are drawing attention to their conspiracy theories and promotion of hate. And in the same breath present themselves as defending free speech.
December 26, 2025 at 4:00 AM
People like Musk and RFK Jr. are entirely fine with the use of government power to shut down actors who are drawing attention to their conspiracy theories and promotion of hate. And in the same breath present themselves as defending free speech.
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I did not understand this: one of the five Europeans the US has barred from traveling to the United States...is a permanent resident who lives with his family in the US.
Now he is worried about being arrested and deported for the crime of monitoring online hate.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/25/u...
Now he is worried about being arrested and deported for the crime of monitoring online hate.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/25/u...
Judge Blocks Detention of British Researcher Who Scrutinizes Online Hate
www.nytimes.com
December 26, 2025 at 3:55 AM
I did not understand this: one of the five Europeans the US has barred from traveling to the United States...is a permanent resident who lives with his family in the US.
Now he is worried about being arrested and deported for the crime of monitoring online hate.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/25/u...
Now he is worried about being arrested and deported for the crime of monitoring online hate.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/25/u...
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This is a real tweet...the Representative both heralds Trump's deadly strikes and also him for being the "Peace President" in the same tweet
Astonishing how ridiculous this country is right now
Astonishing how ridiculous this country is right now
December 26, 2025 at 3:15 AM
This is a real tweet...the Representative both heralds Trump's deadly strikes and also him for being the "Peace President" in the same tweet
Astonishing how ridiculous this country is right now
Astonishing how ridiculous this country is right now
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Texas A&M University will not reinstate a lecturer who was fired after a video of her teaching about gender identity in a children’s literature class went viral, despite a faculty appeals panel unanimously concluding that her dismissal was not justified.
Texas A&M won’t reinstate fired lecturer despite findings
A vice chancellor upheld the firing of Melissa McCoul, seen in a viral video being confronted by a student on her gender identity teachings, saying the termination was done with “good cause.”
www.texastribune.org
December 24, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Texas A&M University will not reinstate a lecturer who was fired after a video of her teaching about gender identity in a children’s literature class went viral, despite a faculty appeals panel unanimously concluding that her dismissal was not justified.
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This quote is from a piece that’s 8 years old now.
Thinking about that time I got quoted in the National Review about Bari Weiss
December 26, 2025 at 2:51 AM
This quote is from a piece that’s 8 years old now.
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The perfect way to celebrate Christmas is by dropping bombs on foreign countries, apparently.
President Donald Trump gifted the world with nearly 200 Truth Social posts (and counting) on Christmas Day, where he amplified conspiracy theories about the 2020 election and called for a member of Congress to be deported.
Trump Posts Nearly 200 Times in Unhinged Christmas Day Spree
The president amplified conspiracy theories about the 2020 election and called for a member of Congress to be deported.
trib.al
December 26, 2025 at 3:25 AM
The perfect way to celebrate Christmas is by dropping bombs on foreign countries, apparently.
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That billionaires tax is for democracy not primarily for revenue.
December 25, 2025 at 9:30 PM
That billionaires tax is for democracy not primarily for revenue.
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For 11 months, Haitham Salem, an electrician from northern Gaza, languished in Israeli prisons and a detention facility without charge, enduring harsh conditions and, by his account, violent abuse. He was released as part of the cease-fire deal, but his suffering only intensified when he returned.
After Suffering in Israeli Prison, a Gaza Detainee Comes Home to More Pain
Haitham Salem spent 11 months held by Israel without charge and said he endured beatings and abuse. He was released as part of the cease-fire deal, longing to return to his family.
nyti.ms
December 25, 2025 at 10:30 PM
For 11 months, Haitham Salem, an electrician from northern Gaza, languished in Israeli prisons and a detention facility without charge, enduring harsh conditions and, by his account, violent abuse. He was released as part of the cease-fire deal, but his suffering only intensified when he returned.
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Happy Christmas from under the missile toad
December 25, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Happy Christmas from under the missile toad
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The blatant selling of pardons is perhaps the clearest instance of criminal conduct authorized by SCOTUS. Pardons are a quintessential "official act." So, even when Trump takes a bribe to issue one, he is presumably above the criminal law.
The president’s own chief of staff was reportedly stunned by his pardon of a former Honduran president.
Trump’s Ice Maiden Blindsided by President’s Controversial Pardon
The president’s own chief of staff was reportedly stunned by his pardon of a former Honduran president.
trib.al
December 25, 2025 at 4:23 PM
The blatant selling of pardons is perhaps the clearest instance of criminal conduct authorized by SCOTUS. Pardons are a quintessential "official act." So, even when Trump takes a bribe to issue one, he is presumably above the criminal law.
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Talarico at an event last week. “I will use every bit of financial and diplomatic leverage that this country has to end the atrocities in Palestine,”.
I will not use your tax dollars to fund these war crimes. I will vote to ban offensive weapons to Israel.”
I will not use your tax dollars to fund these war crimes. I will vote to ban offensive weapons to Israel.”
December 24, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Talarico at an event last week. “I will use every bit of financial and diplomatic leverage that this country has to end the atrocities in Palestine,”.
I will not use your tax dollars to fund these war crimes. I will vote to ban offensive weapons to Israel.”
I will not use your tax dollars to fund these war crimes. I will vote to ban offensive weapons to Israel.”
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As a Jew, it’s fun watching the administration post Christian nationalist messages while also saying they are doing everything they can to curb antisemitism.
Here’s the U.S. government being officially religious in a country with no official religion.
December 25, 2025 at 3:37 PM
As a Jew, it’s fun watching the administration post Christian nationalist messages while also saying they are doing everything they can to curb antisemitism.
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CBS destroying a brand they built up over the course of like 100 years for one criminal idiot is a pretty funny bit
'Smallest audience ever': Kennedy Center Honors tank on CBS after Trump takes over
www.rawstory.com/trump-kenned...
www.rawstory.com/trump-kenned...
'Smallest audience ever': Kennedy Center Honors tank on CBS after Trump takes over
"The Kennedy Center Honors" reportedly drew its lowest ratings ever after President Donald Trump announced he would host the event."According to preliminary Nielsen data, 'The Kennedy Center Honors' o...
www.rawstory.com
December 24, 2025 at 10:44 PM
CBS destroying a brand they built up over the course of like 100 years for one criminal idiot is a pretty funny bit
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If only those profligate and irresponsible Germans could learn the economic prudence of [checks notes] the Italians.
Honestly it’s legit insane how badly most of the world has adapted to the post-pandemic new reality.
The US has (ikr? ffs) been really unusually effective at handling this!
Honestly it’s legit insane how badly most of the world has adapted to the post-pandemic new reality.
The US has (ikr? ffs) been really unusually effective at handling this!
Here's each G7 country's cumulative increase in real GDP per capita, since just before the pandemic:
🇺🇸 +11.3%
🇮🇹 +7.7%
🇯🇵 +3.7%
🇫🇷 +3.2%
🇬🇧 +0.8%
🇨🇦 +0.5%
🇩🇪 -1.7%
🇺🇸 +11.3%
🇮🇹 +7.7%
🇯🇵 +3.7%
🇫🇷 +3.2%
🇬🇧 +0.8%
🇨🇦 +0.5%
🇩🇪 -1.7%
December 24, 2025 at 10:34 PM
If only those profligate and irresponsible Germans could learn the economic prudence of [checks notes] the Italians.
Honestly it’s legit insane how badly most of the world has adapted to the post-pandemic new reality.
The US has (ikr? ffs) been really unusually effective at handling this!
Honestly it’s legit insane how badly most of the world has adapted to the post-pandemic new reality.
The US has (ikr? ffs) been really unusually effective at handling this!
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Former head of trust and safety at Twitter, Yoel Roth, demonstrating the intellectual dishonesty of “In Covid’s Wake” by showing how they distorted his own words to make them say the opposite of what he was arguing.
A small (personal) example of this book’s intellectual dishonesty:
My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media.
Huh? When did I say that?!
My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media.
Huh? When did I say that?!
December 24, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Former head of trust and safety at Twitter, Yoel Roth, demonstrating the intellectual dishonesty of “In Covid’s Wake” by showing how they distorted his own words to make them say the opposite of what he was arguing.
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A small (personal) example of this book’s intellectual dishonesty:
My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media.
Huh? When did I say that?!
My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media.
Huh? When did I say that?!
December 24, 2025 at 7:00 PM
A small (personal) example of this book’s intellectual dishonesty:
My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media.
Huh? When did I say that?!
My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media.
Huh? When did I say that?!
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An enraging trend right now, from CBS to the CDC, of people actively undermining institutions, then taking the reins of those institutions and claiming they need to rebuild the trust they helped destroy. (Also, people already trusted 60 Minutes.) bsky.app/profile/just...
Bari Weiss just sent this Christmas Eve email to the CBS News staff about "building trust," which includes her tripling down on spiking the CECOT piece "to make sure it's comprehensive and fair."
One CBS staffer tells me: "She really has no idea how insulting she comes across."
One CBS staffer tells me: "She really has no idea how insulting she comes across."
December 24, 2025 at 6:52 PM
An enraging trend right now, from CBS to the CDC, of people actively undermining institutions, then taking the reins of those institutions and claiming they need to rebuild the trust they helped destroy. (Also, people already trusted 60 Minutes.) bsky.app/profile/just...
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It’s the opening line of Weiss’ staff-wide email and unrelatedly a common refrain of populist attacks on institutions.
First you break trust in the thing. Then you point at the thing and say “hey, nobody trusts this, we got to make it more like I want it to be”.
First you break trust in the thing. Then you point at the thing and say “hey, nobody trusts this, we got to make it more like I want it to be”.
I’m not a fan of “this institution that has been attacked non stop for years by a propaganda machine has lost the public’s trust” as proof of anything but the need to deal with the propaganda machine.
December 24, 2025 at 11:16 PM
It’s the opening line of Weiss’ staff-wide email and unrelatedly a common refrain of populist attacks on institutions.
First you break trust in the thing. Then you point at the thing and say “hey, nobody trusts this, we got to make it more like I want it to be”.
First you break trust in the thing. Then you point at the thing and say “hey, nobody trusts this, we got to make it more like I want it to be”.