Tom Wrongbottom

The eternal pledge of my sword to the first reporter who says, "Here's a cognitive test: Name all your grandchildren."

Screenshot of email: Subject line: Workshops to help you prepare for the spring semester CETLI Teaching Bulletin: Events and resources for teaching at Penn [Featured image description: Generic people in short sleeves around a conference table, two of whom overlap in a physically improbable way, likely AI-generated] Message text: “As you prepare for the start of the coming semester, CETLI invites you to join a series of workshops designed to support your teaching. Each workshop will take place in January, before the start of the semester, and are held on Zoom, making it easy to participate—whether you're on campus or away.”

Bleak: getting an institutional teaching workshop announcement that is itself faintly redolent of AI slop

Schism! Schism! Schism!

MTG wants a schism, former republicans want a schism, all my homies love schisms

At least they didn’t call it a norm, I guess?

All ideas are valid. 🙃

Miller goes under oath for Dems in Congress immediately when we take the House back.

Newsmax chyron: GO BACK TO SOMALIA? DIVERSITY HAS BECOME A DISTRACTION

mainstream MAGA media is just unvarnished white nationalism now

Exactly.

Dude is the Shecky Greene of Adolf Hitlers

Man we really have to just reject Miller out of society when this is over, dude's gotta be what David Duke used to be

Papua New Guinea grapples with HIV epidemic as it battles stigma and US aid cuts Papua New Guinea has one of the fastest growing HIV epidemics in the Asia-Pacific region, with many unaware they have the virus

Papua New Guinea grapples with HIV epidemic as it battles stigma and US aid cuts

Post-information society etc etc

Actually...

i am all in favor of the rip-roaring return of shame

Heritage is arguably the most influential policy shop in the conservative movement and these cracks in the ranks are worth watching closely—both where they happen and what the responses to it look like

These guys were all fine with punishing Democratic states

👀

President Trump’s AI order is an attempt to kill responsible safety reforms passed by states, which would create a lawless Wild West environment for AI companies that puts Americans at risk. This is a terrible idea.

My statement:

Absolutely, it would.

My bet, based largely on the sudden posting of promotional materials for vendors of cannabis products on Trump's Truth Social account over the last six months, is that Trump and his children and members of his entourage, have made substantial investments in cannabis companies in the last few months.

Politico article: Providing American Sign Language interpretation in press conferences “would severely intrude on the President’s prerogative control the image he presents to the public”

Wait wut

Denmark’s intelligence service has labeled the US a security threat to itself and Europe, putting us in the same category as Russia and China.

New ICE arrest data show the power of state and local governments to curtail mass deportations Using fresh data on ICE arrests through mid-October from the Deportation Data Project, we examine how jails continue to facilitate mass deportation, spotlighting important opportunities ...

With the whirlwind of changes in the immigration system, significant discretion has been pushed down to local police who collaborate with ICE and decide who gets sent into the system. Read more here: www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2025/12...

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Yes, Golden Dome's SBIs will cost us trillions, and that's reason enough to dismiss the idea. But even if they were free to build, SBIs will cost us deeply in strategic terms.

In short: what happens if they work, and traditional ICBMs are obviated? We're gonna hate navigating crises in that world.

So much better than Ol' Five Finger Biden.

"Six fingers, can you believe it? We've already increased fingers by 1200%"

half our economy is pictures of six-fingered people standing in front of gibberish signs