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Single issue voter here. And this is the issue.

If you see John Roberts in person, be sure to tell him he’s a worse Chief Justice than Roger Taney (pronounced “tawny”). That’s a nerd burn that will hit him where it counts.

Agree with this thread. Worth reading in full.

25 years ago John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, and AC Barrett all worked on GWBush's 2000 Florida recount team. What they're doing now is, if anything, more nakedly partisan.

Fire-breathing dissent by Kagan, with Sotomayor and Jackson.

Design forecasting is dumb but also jesus christ

… Replacing this year’s color, which was literally brown

Pantone’s color of the year being white is a little on the nose

Feels like a dam is beginning to break

The American people hate Trump’s corruption — we simply can’t afford for Democrats to be seen as associating with or encouraging it in any way. A Democratic Party that wants to win back voters’ trust should use this pardon as an opportunity to criticize Trump’s open corruption and kick Cuellar out.

These are good moments to remember that the CEOs of all the biggest companies in America are happy to go to White House dinners and slap this guy’s back. They do not care about this. Remember this, years from now, when they want you to forget.

people thought Judith Butler was exaggerating before but she's been proven right, i think

going around my apartment turning on my lamps at 4:47 p.m. like a woman lighting the candles in her farmhouse

ALL IMLS grants restored in every state & territory.

In response to a ruling from a federal judge in Rhode Island, the Institute of Museum and Library Services reinstated all previously canceled grants in every state and territory. It's a huge win for libraries and our communities.

"The reinstatement of all IMLS grants means that libraries across the country will be able to resume vital services for learning, imagination, and economic opportunity. We are breathing a sigh of relief, but the fight is not over." ALA President Sam Helmick. Show up for our libraries, American Library Association.

NEWS: The Institute of Museum & Library Services has restored ALL previously canceled federal grants to libraries, following a ruling by a federal judge in Rhode Island last month.

This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory!

Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...

today’s date is the 3rd? what’s next, the 4th? the 5th? the minor fall, the major lift?

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Data centres are energy hungry but what if we could use their waste heat to heat our homes?

That's exactly what happens in places like Finland: Cities are tapping the vast amounts of waste heat generated by data centres, and feeding it into district-heating networks.

‘We now have confirmation, with the OECD saying in a new report that, without AI capex, U.S. economic growth declined in the first half of 2025. People keep wondering why the employment market is weak, but the economy somehow chugs along. This is why.’ paulkedrosky.com/ex-ai-capex-...

what the fuck!!!

No-strings-attached, zero-means-testing, no-questions-asked cash payouts have been proven, over and over again, to be the most effective form of charity/aid going.

It gets people in housing, and it saves the state money. We know this. It's fact, not theory.

Women Be Shopping as the Republican health care plan

Thank you for the responses! The answer is “sports rule us all lol”

Can someone explain to me like I'm a Golden Retriever—why do institutions shower these people with cash when they're fired? Surely any possible civil suit litigation and payout would be less expensive?

The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"

Great culture can save lives. Literally.

Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

Watching the Ken Burns series on the American Revolution it continues to be crazy that British snipers didn’t take out G. Washington by any means possible

@PeteHegseth on X: Let’s make one thing crystal clear: Admiral Mitch Bradley is an American hero, a true professional, and has my 100% support. I stand by him and the combat decisions he has made — on the September 2 mission and all others since. America is fortunate to have such men protecting us. When this @DeptofWar says we have the back of our warriors — we mean it. 01 Dec 25

Hegseth is very transparently blaming a Navy admiral for his own decision. Let this be a lesson for every other military officer: The Trump administration will issue unlawful orders, then blame you for following them.

Lol. Lmao even.

Franklin Goes to The Hague

The U.S. president speaks and relates information like a mentally disabled person or a person with a head injury. I will never understand how this is not front-page, top-of-the-hour news.

He's going to kill so many people and we're powerless to stop it. One of the most vile humans currently wandering around this watery rock.