Screenshot of a WaPo article on feedly. Headline: An unfettered Trump enters his second year on his own terms Picture of the President at a podium during a news conference. Text below: Donald Trump's extended, unfiltered appearance in the briefing room reflected a presidency increasingly unburdened by traditional constraints.

I feel like I’m actually going crazy.

Not an archivist, but one of the most striking things I've ever seen in an archive (@ Duke): a midwife's tiny notebook, containing locks of hair of the babies she delivered. How do you digitize that?? No digital copy could capture it or inspire the same feeling as holding it in your hands.

Please read and sign. Generative AI has no place in newsrooms.

One thing Americans have to break themselves out of is assuming certain policies are impossible, because all this is a policy choice and a sizable chunk of the world isn’t worried about their schools be shot up.

I know I can be an acquired taste and that I’m a good listener—that’s all I know

I’m always baffled by this advice because I spend an apparently impressive amount of time paying attention to and thinking about other people?

Kids go straight from school to intensive club sports practices to mandatory family dinners to math tutors and then are so tired (or have parents who have read extensively about the importance of sleep for teenagers) that they go to sleep.

But there’s another issue I don’t think has gotten enough attention, which is: kids today are completely overscheduled and many who WANT to read don’t have time.

Politico management violated key AI adoption safeguards, arbitrator finds The ruling marks one of the first major tests of an AI clause in a newsroom union contract.

The contract “requires that if AI technology is used for ‘newsgathering’ that it meet Politico’s ‘standards of journalists ethics and involve human oversight.’”

That was apparently violated.

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Man Who Thought Fleetwood Mac’s ‘The Chain’ Was Over In For Thrill Of His Fucking Life

Man Who Thought Fleetwood Mac’s ‘The Chain’ Was Over In For Thrill Of His Fucking Life theonion.com/man-who-thought-fleetwoo...

This might be the single funniest thing that has happened during this incredibly cursed year

You would think the council budget director saying, "We literally can't afford to pay [the water bill]," would be a bigger story?

The best thing I ever did for myself is name the robot vacuum Your Mom

one thing about this is that in the wake of all of this kirk is basically forgotten. he was barely cold in the ground before his allies — before his *wife* — started scheming over what they could take for themselves. a real life parable.

I have exactly one spacial skill, and I wish I could put it on my resume: eyeballing the 1/4 of butter for Kraft mac’n’cheese

I’m not sure what it says about me that YouTube was like, “I know it’s 5 am in Pittsburgh, but you should know that Lincolnshire County Council’s audit committee meeting is live,” but I thiiiiink it means I’m pretty cool and should probably get a hobby

Me, 2009, adding to a list of nonsense words the PhD students use: problematic
Bubble Guppies, 2025, minding its own business: well, that’s problematic

What if they made a 6:00 a.m. alarm that didn't feel like getting punched in the face when it went off

The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.

The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.

People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.

And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.

🙃🙃🙃

Rep Yassamin Anasari has set up a table and a sign saying "Mike Jonhnson is starving families and gutting healthcare to cover up the Epstein files, CHANGE MY MIND" outside Johnson's office.

Absolute queen shit

It's Journalism 101. Here's a handy flowchart to remind you.

A shitshow

An Emboldened Mamdani Sheds Conciliatory Tone Fresh from a stunning victory, Zohran Mamdani, the mayor-elect, said in an interview that his supporters wanted "a politics of consistency" and aggressive action, including on taxing the rich.

The funny thing is that Democrats often say they want to tax the rich and expand social services - Mamdani is “aggressive” and not “conciliatory” bc he apparently was not lying and actually wants to accomplish these goals

Huge personal and community victory tonight:

We organized our community to stop an effort by corrections officers to overturn portions of our solitary confinement ban.
🎉🎉🎉

The way all of these people convinced themselves that Mamdani is antisemitic is a subject far more worthy of media examination than any of the ‘groupthink on campuses!’ thinkpieces we’ve been subjected to

Suffs 2024 Tony Awards Performance YouTube video by YourContemporaryTenor

My prayer this celebratory morning is that we harness its energy to continue the work that is ours to do.

“The future demands that we fight for now / it will only be ours if we keep marching, keep marching on.”

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That was definitely doing some things to me

I don’t think I had seen her in anything since The Naked Truth, and that was a couple of years shy of “huh, I do find people attractive—girl people”

My real takeaway from this season of Only Murders is that I might have a thing for Téa Leoni