Marc Levy

Immigrants kept from Faneuil Hall citizenship ceremony as feds crackdown nationwide Trump administration is pausing naturalizations for immigrants from 19 countries.

“She showed up as scheduled, and when she arrived, officers were asking everyone what country they were from, and if they said a certain country, they were told to step out of line and that their oath ceremonies were canceled.”

www.wgbh.org/news/local/2... @gbhnews.bsky.social

Apple software has been bad for years, but now there's finally hope for the future The departure of VP Alan Dye isn't cause for alarm—it's an opportunity to get Apple's software design back on track.

Macworld writes on the departure of Apple design head Alan Dye and gives me some hope that its software may soon suck less.

“Many designers inside Apple are happy at [his replacement], ‘if not downright giddy,’” the piece says.

Dye is moving on to … Meta.

No comment.

“The fight”?

"Stretching" is a good summation. My TL;DR from making it through several paragraphs: The guy's a fucking idiot. Just another stumbling incel dolt.

You want me to commit to a 12-minute read?

I thought we were all agreed to assume this guy is, you know, racist, antisemitic and chatty

New York Times headline: “How a Kansas Republican Became Part of a Racist, Antisemitic Group Chat”

Let me guess

Gonna go out on a crazy, crazy limb here that it applies only to Christian football coaches, sir

Meta, it’s okay to abandon building the metaverse

New York Times excerpt has Representative Virginia Foxx of North Carolina, who leads the Rules Committee saying “the insinuation that there was mounting ire from women directed at Mr. Johnson was ‘brainless as it is ignorant.’"

I laughed aloud at this.

Why, it’s as word as it is synonym!

Even the typography in this book sucks. Why are the first lines of text in a paragraph with a drop cap (though they aren’t drop caps; they rise) set off with extra leading?

He’s an Unapologetic Fascist Who ‘Despises’ Democracy. He Still Wants You to Vote for Him. He was once leader of the Proud Boys, has posted racist threats online, and sports a white nationalist tattoo.

Jason Lee Van Dyke was once a leader of the Proud Boys, has posted racist threats online, and sports a white nationalist tattoo.

Now he’s running for public office as a Republican.

thebarbedwire.com/2025/12/02/j...

A bunch of demented grotesques.

The similarity of the man’s scarf and the woman’s shirt (these are probably not the right terms) has me wondering – if not about the story, about the artist’s choices. Could the artist possibly have been unaware? Or should we blame the colorist?

Might waste a trip in a time machine to ask

Well, you know, boys will be boys, by which I mean screaming, drooling morons who don’t know when to shut the fuck up

University of Alabama suspends student magazines for Black students, female students | Arkansas Advocate The University of Alabama suspended publication for Nineteen Fifty-Six Magazine and Alice Magazine citing a memo from Attorney General Pam Bondi.

The University of Alabama suspended publication of two student-run magazines on Monday, claiming that the publications were not in compliance with federal guidance on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs.

“You shouldn’t block people, because blocking people doesn’t block people”

– Some Guy who thinks science doesn’t prove things

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

Pretty much ANY statistic you see cited to frighten you about vaccines comes from the VAERS database. (Including the recent evidence-free missive from Vinay Prasad). Here's why VAERS can NEVER be a proper source for population-level vaccine risk estimates.

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Good talk

I understand the objection, for sure. I wish I could find Eartha Kitt and ask her the motivations behind the recording.

What’s the street value of that 8-foot nutcracker

‘Northern Exposure’ actor gave ICE agents in Redmond her tribal ID. They called it ‘fake,’ she says Indigenous actor Elaine Miles of "Northern Exposure" was detained by ICE at a Redmond bus stop. When she showed them her Tribal ID, they told her it was fake.

ICE DETAINED MARILYN. Fuck these people. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

• Jewish suspect commits a crime:
They use it to stoke conspiracies about “elite globalists.”

• But when a white American shoots up a whole ass school:
It’s the video games.
It’s the music.
It’s mental health.
It’s anything except whiteness.
4/5

Trump Administration Will No Longer Commemorate World AIDS Day

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/h...
We are now one of the few countries that will no longer honor World AIDS Day

We join with Russia, Iran, Kuwait, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, Nigeria, Libya, North Korea

You know all the countries that hate humans rights

I find it shameful
Callous Cruelty

Book Cover for The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy by Gil Duran. Red background with white and black text, and a tech circuit background.

Cover Reveal!

“The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy" arrives on August 4, 2026.

How extremist tech billionaires are dismantling democracy to crown themselves as kings—and what we can do about it.

Please pre-order! ➡️ www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ne...

The EPA is starting to allow the use of pesticides containing PFAS on food. The move is part of an effort to roll back the regulation of PFAS — also known as "forever chemicals" because they don't break down easily in the environment.

Brexit costing UK up to £90bn in lost tax revenue , new analysis shows Exclusive: Britons also up to £3,700 worse off, leading to calls for the Labour government to improve relations with the EU

New analysis by the House of Commons library estimates that Brexit is costing the Treasury up to £90bn a year in lost tax revenue, and the average Briton has seen a hit to GDP per head between £2,700 and £3,700.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Olivia Nuzzi’s Real Victims More than her fiancé, or fellow female journalists, the public will pay the price for these misdeeds. RFK Jr. will see to that.

Olivia Nuzzi wrote an entire story based on unnamed sources about Biden's decline, reinvigorating calls for him to leave the race -- and the whole time, she was working on RFK Jr.'s behalf, according to her ex-fiance. newrepublic.com/article/2035...

Smith’s response is classically bad. Ben, Isaac didn’t say that he or anyone wouldn’t research something after having a reaction to it. But the point is that he had THAT reaction to it.

But keep on Ben Smithing

Let me guess, Chotiner wins.