Leigh Grossman

this sentence alone, my goodness

According to the Talmud, “If a fledgling bird is found within fifty cubits of a dovecote, it belongs to the owner of the dovecote. If it is found outside the limit of fifty cubits, it belongs to the person who finds it.” Jeremiah, a renowned fourth-century rabbi, once asked what the outcome would be if a bird were to have one foot inside the limit and the other outside. This was one quibble too many. “It was for this question,” the text relates, “that Rabbi Jeremiah was thrown out of the House of Study.”

Team Jeremiah

Jason Paladino @jason_paladino Cole's usernames online were: - USAForever -America1 -patriotism4usa -Brony1Delta and -Lam_Hot4_Cock Kyle Griffin Griffin@@kylegriffin1.6h BREAKING on MS NOW: Brian Cole Jr., the suspect accused of being the Jan. 6 pipe bomber, confessed to agents that he planted the bombs and has indicated he supported President Trump, according to two people familiar with his ... 9:28 AM • Dec 5, 2025 • 692 Views

oh god, the Jan 6th pipe bomb guy was a Brony

I sincerely hope we get to the point in which all MAGA swag is treated as nazi paraphernalia and the only place you will be able to buy it is at a sketchy booth exiled to the very back of a flea market.

A Bluesky post with the account name cut off. It shows an image featuring an 11-branched menorah. In the background is what is clearly supposed to be a Hanukkah scene: There's a dining table with blue plates, a center peak of blue and white flowers, and wine glasses with royal blue liquid inside. There's a single branch of what looks like some kind of Christmas wreath, covered in blue and white Christmas lights. The text of the post says: "15 Hanukkah decoration ideas that won't make your space look like a craft store exploded. Modern menorahs, DIY projects for the kids, outdoor displays, and yes - floating dreidels are a thing now. Read full post here!" Then there's a link to fortheloveofliving.com.

A quick tip: AI is notably bad at menorahs.

(Special mention for the blue glasses of Traditional Hanukkah Beverage)

I didn’t need these people to convince me to hate gambling, but I appreciate all the effort they’ve put into making my personal stance appear sane and reasonable.

George Will:
“Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth seems to be a war criminal. Without a war. An interesting achievement.”

Trump Admin Lawyers Now Warn Boat Strike May Be Illegal, as Hegseth Passes the Buck ‘If the Washington Post is right, then a crime was committed,’ a Trump admin lawyer tells Zeteo, as Pete Hegseth tries to pass the buck.

Good point from @swin24.bsky.social and team here: Trump and Hegseth suddenly refusing to take credit for the second strike, after they've spent weeks sadistically yukking it up over their killings, is a key tell:
zeteo.com/p/trump-hegs...

jesus christ

North Carolina Prison Officials Raise Prices for Those Who Can Least Afford It - Bolts It’s 4:30 pm on a Monday as Colell Steele stands in front of the closed canteen window at Neuse Correctional, a medium-custody prison in North Carolina. He’s lined up to... Read More

NEW: North Carolina prison officials, this summer, raised the price of items that incarcerated people can buy.

The prices are already way marked-up; & incarcerated people make a tiny fraction of minimum wage if they work.

An incarcerated reporter explains what's happening, & why it matters:

Trump: "Under Boot Edge Edge - another grossly incompetent. Get on his bicycle, ride to work. What they do is they take the fiber optics & they take fiber, try to hook it into copper. And fiber and copper don't mix. You can't do it...you saw that by the helicopter crash. You saw that into the plane"

there is no legitimate definition of the term "democracy" under which maps like these are "democratic." this level of stovepiping is banana republic shit. this is effectively no different from stuffing a ballot box

6 years today the first COVID case was identified in a man in Wuhan marking the beginning of a global pandemic that changed the world. We are way less prepared today to face another pandemic than we were back then. This fact makes me sad.

Scenes from a Hallmark Hanukkah Movie Written by Someone Who Has Definitely Met a Jew EXT. SMALL TOWN BUS STOP – DAY (A beautiful woman with slightly wavy brown hair steps off a bus. She’s RACHEL, a corporate lawyer from The Big Cit...

(RACHEL walks past children playing. Her biological clock ticks. She’s thirty, almost dead.)

LITTLE GIRL: Are you excited for the County Hanukkah Fair?

RACHEL: Not really. I’m not super into Hanukkah.

Sen. Mark Kelly to NBC: "When I heard the Secretary say that they're going to pause immigration from 'third world' countries, I mean, I take that as a message that they don't want brown people coming to the United States. And I find that disturbing."

Hoover still got 39.6% at the height of the Depression, so probably not. But that still was a landslide that led to all sorts of good things that have taken the Republicans 90 years to undo.

I think the theoretical minimum is 28%. IIRC, that was what Alan Keyes got as a black, carpetbagger Republican running in Illinois, so the lowest possible will-vote-for-anyone-with-R number.

Green Card Interviews End in Handcuffs for Spouses of U.S. Citizens

"Agents are arresting foreign-born spouses when they report for the final step to obtain permanent residency, and charging them with visa violations that could result in deportation." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...

much like the Nippon Ham Fighters was the best name in sports only until the moment I realized Nippon Ham was a company, and it wasn't in the usual [city][team name] format.

I 100% set Gemini up for failure here but I appreciate LLMs' game willingness to go along when I asked it for details on the musical number I had just entirely made up

X rolled out a new feature overnight showing where accounts are based. This network of “Trump-supporting independent women” that claimed to be “real Americans” are based in Thailand.

The photos were stolen from European models & posts pushed pro-Trump lines while targeting Islam and LGBTQ people.

In Rhode Island, ICE arrested an intern who worked for a court, and then a judge intervened to say they had the wrong person.

All leading to a scene where ICE agents surrounded the judge's car and "threatening to smash in the windows if they did not comply." www.wfla.com/news/judge-i...

Ms. Velázquez, 72, cited the calls for generational change in her party, acknowledging that she had considered retiring for the last few years. But after Zohran Mamdani’s success in the November mayoral election, she felt confident that a new cohort would continue her efforts. “I love this work and I love my district, but I believe now is the right moment to step aside and allow a new generation of leaders to step forward,” she said in an emotional phone interview from her office in Washington. “After devoting so much energy and so much time to help elect young leaders, I feel at ease,” she added, pointing to Mr. Mamdani’s election.

Props to Rep. Nydia Velazquez. This is exactly the right approach from a longtime member of Congress in their 70s. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/n...

Not should, when

I would love to have a functioning second party that made voting a tough choice, rather than Dems vs. tire rims and anthrax.

Standing up to a tyrant - who is willing to impose pain as leverage to compel loyalty or acquiescence - is hard. You can convince yourself that yielding stops the pain and brings you back to "normal".

But there is no "normal". Submission emboldens the tyrant. The threat grows.

Talking Oglaf with Trudy Cooper and Doug Bayne: 'We'd stay up all night drawing stuff to make each other laugh' - The Comics Journal Other than some time off every year for Christmas, Trudy Cooper and Doug Bayne have delivered a new Oglaf comic, skewering fantasy tropes with absolutely not safe for work humor, every week since 2008...

A rare interview with the creators of the always-funny, always-brilliant, and *usually*-sexy—or occasionally anti-sexy—OGLAF!

Cooper has kept a low profile over the years, but is legitimately one of the very best artists in comics today. Read OGLAF if you're old enough to drive!

been doing some light reading about the aftermath of the korean dictatorship and I think it's really important that we repeat this to ourselves, to our friends, to our neighbors, to our politicians

theres a whole category of newstertainment thats gotta go. and its "ask a really rich freak who is also evil and directly stealing from you what hes seen on the computer lately that has made him feel bad." the only -- ONLY -- story about this guy worth exploring is: he is getting rich spying on you