Bezos isn't destroying the Washington Post because it isn't profitable. He's destroying the Washington Post because he's calculated that a robust free press threatens the ability of his class to warp society around their interests
Conspiracy Theory Wastes No Time Getting Racist
Conspiracy Theory Wastes No Time Getting Racist theonion.com/conspiracy-theory-wastes...
A large mount of gray-brown slushy snow formed in a near-perfect pyramid with what look like steps on one side.
Slushu Picchu
I’m more interested in the Christmas Adventurer than Krasinski in this car ad.
At Terminal One at LAX, Kristi Noem is on a TV in front of a mural by Latino artist Mister Cartoon.
There’s something so Twilight Zone about this that I had to stop and take a photo headed to my plane at LAX.
The Seahawks are going to mop the floor with either of these teams.
!["The temperature in Minneapolis is dangerously high. There is an urgent need for the federal agents deployed to the city to step back and take a breath before more Americans are hurt or killed. [Highlighted]: Those protesting the Trump administration have an equal obligation to avoid violence.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:zknk3rjsatent75sdbbopown/bafkreid6g5bmlf3gyxj2egzcy33hkwiaqgrzuoh3yhbpenmvdmvyyobfq4)
"The temperature in Minneapolis is dangerously high. There is an urgent need for the federal agents deployed to the city to step back and take a breath before more Americans are hurt or killed. [Highlighted]: Those protesting the Trump administration have an equal obligation to avoid violence.
This is from the NYT masthead editorial about the murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti. The highlighted line invalidates not just the editorial, but the very idea of newspaper editorials crafted by the consensus of a board. Better to publish nothing at all than to publish a line like this.
LA folks in Echo Park/Silverlake: ICE is staging at Vons on Alvarado, and have kidnapped vendors on Sunset and Alvarado and Sunset and Echo.
Harvard professor Sarah Fortune, looking fly.
This is awesomely named Sarah Fortune, Harvard prof who had to stop her TB research because of the idiot. Gangsta Nikes (what we called the Cortez in the 90s) makes her look doubly awesome.
Adolf Hitler's “Mein Kampf” is still on U.S. Naval Academy shelves. “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” and “Memorializing the Holocaust” are not.
An order by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s office led to a purge of books that are critical of racism — but preserved volumes defending white power.
When you have a chance to elect a terrible businessman who will—in a week—kill the economy in a way that will last generations, but also go to a golf tournament hosted by the Saudis instead of going to Lithuania to honor fallen troops, you gotta do it.
“The termination of your grant represents an urgent priority for this administration”
My NEH grant has been terminated
Incredible when the funding for your book about the educational culture wars is cut as a result of the educational culture wars
You can’t say history isn’t relevant
"In his grave, we praise him for his decency—but when he walked amongst us, we responded with no decency of our own."
Four days after the April 4, 1968 assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., The Los Angeles Times published a letter from Rod Serling: thenightgallery.wordpress.com/2018/04/04/s...
Elbows up, Canada.
Nazi punks fuck off
International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, March 21, 2025
Fight racism, fascism and anti-Semitism every day, always, without compromise
#fucknazis #fightracism #nazipunksfuckoff #deadkennedys #punkrockhistory
JFC…
Harvard's prez 1950s to early 1970s, Nathan Pusey, made his name and reputation by standing up vs McCarthyism.
He was overtaken-by-events during Vietnam-era turmoil, but is remembered for his earlier stand.
Time to choose for university leaders, and all of us.
(Have written off quisling GOP.)
Google maps screenshot of the Drake passage between South America and Antarctica
If we’re renaming bodies of water based on petty grievances, I propose that this be renamed the Kendrick Lamar passage.
BB (looking into my soul): Did you know Alexander Julien designed the basketball uniforms?
Listening to Do They Know it’s Christmas, and man, wildly out of pocket there by Bobby Geldof.
L.A. folks, don't miss this free early screening of Miguel Gomes' dazzling GRAND TOUR, Best Director winner at Cannes '24 and one of the great new releases of '25. Many thanks Acropolis Cinema for hosting this event (Dec. 3, Culver Theater, w/Gomes in person): www.acropoliscinema.com/films/grand-...
Pizza guys jacket in home alone is so incredibly sick
That Watt Family commercial for Dick’s is like a mishmash of four John Hughes movies. Commercials are always artistically bankrupt, but that is a “Airline filing for Chapter 11”-level of bankrupt.
Chinese state media is reportedly troubled by the latest exodus of X users flocking to Bluesky. State outlets, which put considerable resources into amassing millions of followers on Elon Musk’s social media platform — including by buying ads, deploying bots, and hiring influencers — have recently seen their growth plateau. The growing popularity of Bluesky, which has a largely liberal base and harder-to-manipulate algorithm, has sparked “worried chatter within Chinese state media circles,” a former Xinhua and China Daily employee wrote in his newsletter. He predicted the accounts will migrate to Bluesky, though it may take time. For now, the sector’s focus has shifted back to domestic, Mandarin-language channels and platforms like Bilibili, WeChat, and Douyin, the Chinese version of TikTok.
lol China's state media is sad about Bluesky because it's not an easy propaganda distribution channel like X (and Facebook)
www.semafor.com/article/11/2...
