The Haitianist
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an emblem of our boundless affinity for disposable ephemera
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That time they had a process server waiting at the hospital to give him papers because they assumed he'd be there at some point
December 25, 2025 at 6:34 PM
That time they had a process server waiting at the hospital to give him papers because they assumed he'd be there at some point
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Sonny Rollins getting ready to go onstage at the Apollo Theatre in New York City, 1961.
Photograph by Steve Schapiro.
Photograph by Steve Schapiro.
December 25, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Sonny Rollins getting ready to go onstage at the Apollo Theatre in New York City, 1961.
Photograph by Steve Schapiro.
Photograph by Steve Schapiro.
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Kids are playing with their Christmas presents but I'm going online to cyberbully the governor of Oregon
December 25, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Kids are playing with their Christmas presents but I'm going online to cyberbully the governor of Oregon
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Okay these stayed cute after baking, I’m proud
December 24, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Okay these stayed cute after baking, I’m proud
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She’s a doofus, but it’s pretty easy to see why this shit hits like drugs with the rich and clueless
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 7:42 PM
She’s a doofus, but it’s pretty easy to see why this shit hits like drugs with the rich and clueless
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john waters' 1995 christmas card with steve buscemi as him
December 24, 2025 at 8:35 PM
john waters' 1995 christmas card with steve buscemi as him
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A delightful #AppellateTwitter OG moment. I do miss those carefree days full of onesies and puns and nerd swag. We had a good thing going.
It was 3 years ago that @carlcecere.bsky.social so ably, and kindly, filed this brief in support of my daughters making Santa’s “nice” list. I have no doubt his briefing, along with the girls’ kindness throughout the year, made the difference.
December 25, 2025 at 1:39 AM
A delightful #AppellateTwitter OG moment. I do miss those carefree days full of onesies and puns and nerd swag. We had a good thing going.
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got these for secret santa @hannahstrong.co.uk
December 25, 2025 at 3:34 AM
got these for secret santa @hannahstrong.co.uk
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This is how I want people to be posting on Christmas. Do not try to convince Mark Cuban's goofy ass that universal healthcare is right. I want to see pleas for character actors to cleave them in twain with a broadsword. I want people volunteering to get kicked down the Exorcist steps by Alicia Witt.
debi mazar punch me in the stomach for $15 challenge
December 25, 2025 at 4:01 AM
This is how I want people to be posting on Christmas. Do not try to convince Mark Cuban's goofy ass that universal healthcare is right. I want to see pleas for character actors to cleave them in twain with a broadsword. I want people volunteering to get kicked down the Exorcist steps by Alicia Witt.
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Ya'll the footnotes. I have never seen anything like this.
![2 In its public-facing statements, the DOJ appears determined to project two images: it, the great protector of culture and children, see discussions supra; and it, the champion of the faithfuloppressed (mostly, Christians, although sometimes with the slightest pinch of “Judeo-”). See, e.g., DOJ press release of Apr. 22, 2025 (celebrating “the inaugural meeting of the Task Force to Eradicate Anti-Christian Bias in the federal government,” where the AG “was joined by peaceful Christian Americans who were unfairly targeted by the [prior a]dministration”; discussions included “efforts to push radical and anti-Christian gender ideology on kids in classrooms, foster care, sports, and healthcare”). These perceived imperatives have formed an unholy alliance, from the perspective of transgender people, who find themselves in an increasingly inhospitable environment. Justice Alito has acknowledged “the discrimination” and “disadvantage[]” facing the transgender community today. Skrmetti at 577. It also is of great concern, for those who value the separation of church and state, to see the Department of Justice cavalierly blurring the lines. See also, e.g., press releases dated Sept. 9, and Sept. 30, 2025 (second and third hearings regarding “threats to religious liberty in education,” which ‒ of course ‒ included matters of gender transition).](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:24vva42nxim6zbcmnozegoef/bafkreifolehrzbx4tqud53zwep5fps47jbuvsea7gvprwey7m2mlju42ha@jpeg)
December 25, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Ya'll the footnotes. I have never seen anything like this.
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Extremely funny to call the pope “holier-than-thou”
December 25, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Extremely funny to call the pope “holier-than-thou”
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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
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Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription:
■ The Truce Is 2 Months Old. So Why Have Hundreds of Gazans Been Killed?
• [D]eath can come for Gazans while on a family outing or sleeping in a tent. . .
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/24/w...
■ The Truce Is 2 Months Old. So Why Have Hundreds of Gazans Been Killed?
• [D]eath can come for Gazans while on a family outing or sleeping in a tent. . .
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/24/w...
The Truce Is 2 Months Old. So Why Have Hundreds of Gazans Been Killed?
www.nytimes.com
December 25, 2025 at 6:07 AM
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription:
■ The Truce Is 2 Months Old. So Why Have Hundreds of Gazans Been Killed?
• [D]eath can come for Gazans while on a family outing or sleeping in a tent. . .
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/24/w...
■ The Truce Is 2 Months Old. So Why Have Hundreds of Gazans Been Killed?
• [D]eath can come for Gazans while on a family outing or sleeping in a tent. . .
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/24/w...
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The people who profited most from the cancel culture/free speech panic were less interested in actual freedom of speech than establishing their own control over public discourse. You don't even have to take my word for it. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
December 23, 2025 at 6:17 PM
The people who profited most from the cancel culture/free speech panic were less interested in actual freedom of speech than establishing their own control over public discourse. You don't even have to take my word for it. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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We don’t spend enough time discussing how the entire MAGA movement is kept afloat by the constant threats of stochastic terrorism orchestrated by the president of the United States.
Congress, the courts, much of the media … all kept in line by the mob boss and his army of anonymous goons.
Congress, the courts, much of the media … all kept in line by the mob boss and his army of anonymous goons.
“I’m 84 years old. Threats against my life expectancy are kind of hollow. I don’t have much time anyway. I’m more concerned that our democracy is at risk because of the trends against the rule of law.” www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...
Judges who ruled against Trump say harassment and threats have changed their lives
More than 100 pizzas were delivered to the homes of judges and their families this year, some with signs of foreign involvement. Judges say the message is clear: We know where you live.
www.nbcnews.com
December 24, 2025 at 3:06 PM
We don’t spend enough time discussing how the entire MAGA movement is kept afloat by the constant threats of stochastic terrorism orchestrated by the president of the United States.
Congress, the courts, much of the media … all kept in line by the mob boss and his army of anonymous goons.
Congress, the courts, much of the media … all kept in line by the mob boss and his army of anonymous goons.
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giving this beautiful essay a Christmas Eve boost
This is an almost shockingly wise essay. I'm glad I've finally read it.
There Is No Mary Problem in ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’
George’s vision of his wife without him is essential to the film, but critics continue to miss its true—and profound—meaning.
open.substack.com
December 24, 2025 at 3:36 PM
giving this beautiful essay a Christmas Eve boost
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Started using "I age greatly every time you speak" thanks to @maladroithe.bsky.social
December 24, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Started using "I age greatly every time you speak" thanks to @maladroithe.bsky.social
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(unwrapping my double cheeseburger) WITNESS ME
i have high cholesterol too, i have since i was a teenager. but im not gonna be a goddamn coward about it. if a plate of corned beef hash with eggs over easy kills me then that’s just how i go
December 24, 2025 at 4:21 PM
(unwrapping my double cheeseburger) WITNESS ME
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Art is not a want, it's a need.
I'll never pass up an opportunity to share this stunningly accurate portrait of the Australian mining billionaire who's obsessed with opening a mine in Alberta.
December 24, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Art is not a want, it's a need.
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Is charity itself society-in-society? How can we improve our charity? Can charity only be improved by the creation of community within society? Someone give us a deep, evenhanded sociological reading of GoFundMe!
December 24, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Is charity itself society-in-society? How can we improve our charity? Can charity only be improved by the creation of community within society? Someone give us a deep, evenhanded sociological reading of GoFundMe!
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December 24, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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rural New Jersey is really underrated as a place with quietly threatening energy
One of my roomies in Philly was an old school Piney and he once said "Living in the Pine Barrens is like, 'meet me at the haunted abandoned plane fuselage. No, not that one the other haunted abandoned plane fuselage'
December 24, 2025 at 3:20 PM
rural New Jersey is really underrated as a place with quietly threatening energy
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This is so spot on and somehow so many are just pretending this isn't where things are going. Great work, Radley, as per SOP.
December 24, 2025 at 3:12 PM
This is so spot on and somehow so many are just pretending this isn't where things are going. Great work, Radley, as per SOP.
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Third result in my search history after “Strokes MTV $2 Bill 2002 + raw footage” and “Julian Edelman highlights”
December 24, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Third result in my search history after “Strokes MTV $2 Bill 2002 + raw footage” and “Julian Edelman highlights”