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twitter screenshot Isaac Chotiner @IChotiner You would have to be brain-dead to read this piece and not immediately wonder who is funding Semafor Gulf. Quote Ben Smith @semaforben · 4h Fascinating @msergie piece on covering a monarchy https://semafor.com/article/11/24/2025/to-judge-saudis-crown-prince-think-in-decades 10:28 AM · Nov 24, 2025 · 95.4K Views

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this is my super bowl

Look, it’s act 2 of wicked there’s only so much they can do with it.

Spoiler-free Wicked: For Good review:

I’m pretty sure this is going to be like the first one where I enjoyed it a lot more watching reactors on YouTube watch it because they have to cut out a lot of it.

So, essentially, we are to believe that a high schooler created multiple fake songs with the name they were using professionally, had a random stylist use one in a video, made a Myspace and on topic tweets over a long period, and sent out promo for this music all as a ruse nypost.com/2025/11/19/u...

It’ll be both. Trump’s entire lifelong legal strategy has been do whatever takes longest and wastes the most money for other people.

It means if nothing else this admin gets to waste more time and taxpayer money and defense money arguing that they should get a do over.

Without prejudice because abject bad faith is a magical get out of consequences free trick in this admin.

Or jansen looking at roster vs results.

All this. It’s exhausting.

It’s weird to see everyone suddenly discovering a thing I thought we all knew was true for the last nine years.

Great thread.

I got spinning silver on a reco. she’s one of the founders of ao3?

"My SWAG is that many tech people who do not agree with DOGE's aims nonetheless agree with their methods."

i think this is accurate

I got a ticket for the 5pm screening so I can do nothing all day and then it will be dark out when I’m at the movie. Seems fair

Yeah but in pants.

Thinking about getting tickets to wicked for good but I kind of want to just not do anything today. But then it will be Tuesday which is almost Wednesday which is almost thanksgiving which is almost the end of vacation.

I took the week off because I’m going to lose vacation days otherwise and I’m already getting neurotic about wasting my time off doing nothing because I’m a sane, well-adjusted person.

The idea that an enlisted member doesn't know what premeditated murder, torture, violation of treatment of detainees means is saying they have zero respect for the troops.

No the Koch brothers named it after Scalia.

I'll believe the resignations when I see them...but certainly telling that people want to leak this sort of thing. 1

BLITZER: “I just want to be precise - should members of the military obey clearly illegal orders?”

Republicans like @RepLisaMcClain now openly say the military should ignore their oath to the constitution, and follow Trump no matter what.

This is how democracies end.

Maybe this is why he hates Black people. It all comes down to the dozens.

Some quick-fire yo mama jokes had him crying to his actual mama.

I have always done that but that's my ADD. Now it's a tricky game of is it ADD, Covid, weed, or menopause. Lol

oh I have add life hack for this exact scenario:

you just need to repeat the thing you're looking for as you move from room to room. As soon as you leave a room you forget what you were looking for. So just walk through your house saying "keys keys keys keys keys keys"

What if it’s funny and my brother kind of deserves it after me having to live with him for the first 16 years of my life?

"Men are in trouble, is the solution making them a problem for women and children too"

Leave aside the AI thing, this highlights the problem with so much in the tech “solution” space: at best it’s like setting timers or turning up or down heat automatically or something, but like anything that requires physical manipulation, you’ve still gotta do that.

This has lost me thousands of pounds (not to mention book sales) and put me in a state of terror and panic. I urge anyone thinking of moving their list from Substack, or wanting to know more about how Substack works, to read it....

Delta barn where Emmett Till was slain is bought as a ‘sacred site’ The Emmett Till Interpretive Center has purchased the barn where 14-year-old Till was tortured and killed, thanks to a $1.5 million gift from TV producer Shonda Rimes.

Delta barn where Emmett Till was slain is bought as a ‘sacred site’

The Emmett Till Interpretive Center has purchased the barn where 14-year-old Till was tortured and killed, thanks to a $1.5 million gift from TV producer Shonda Rimes.

Dems win key messaging battles against Trump Dems across the ideological spectrum are taking him on and emerging stronger.

Trump's erratic and unpredictable, but both Mamdani and Slotkin showed you can advance your message and make him look terrible if you state core principles clearly and refuse to bend the knee. www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-mamd...

AI is too risky to insure, say people whose job is insuring risk | TechCrunch Major insurers including AIG, Great American, and WR Berkley are asking U.S. regulators for permission to exclude AI-related liabilities from corporate policies. One underwriter describes the AI model...

Together with Cybertruck and Florida's coastal mansions, AI has now joined the elite ranks of the uninsurable.

In the big debate over who is liable when the AI fucks up, the insurance companies boldly take the lead by shouting NOT US, and slamming the door.