Drew Arrowood

TikTok Ban Live Updates: Supreme Court Seems Poised to Uphold Law That Could Shut Down App Both Republicans and Democrats in Congress see a threat to the nation’s security from the app’s Chinese ownership and passed a law requiring it to be sold or effectively shut down in the United States...

Breaking News: The Supreme Court appeared inclined to uphold a law requiring that TikTok be sold or that the app be effectively shut down in the U.S. on Jan. 19.

And we could not build it again, we do not know how.

How Trump “Won” The Anesthetized Anti-MAGA Majority

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This is a must-read and is also the first comprehensive post mortem I’ve read working off the vote cast data (which is the real deal) as opposed to the dubious exit polling.

Photo of a taxi TV news story with the headline: “2025 marks the start of Generation Beta”

Hmm can we workshop the name please? They’re going to be bullied by the skibidi kids

‘He Saved Our Lives’: Former Hostages Recall Carter’s Quest to Free Them The Iran hostage crisis became a symbol of a failed presidency, but for some of those who lived it, Jimmy Carter was the one who brought them home at the expense of his political career.

Of all the people mourning the death of Jimmy Carter at age 100 this week, few could say that he changed the course of their lives more directly and consequentially than the Americans taken captive by Iranian militants at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran in November 1979.

Went to see Nosferatu with my girlfriend. She screams at horror movies. There was a guy in front of us that fell asleep and was snoring loudly. One time she screamed and startled him awake. She screamed and then he did. Funniest horror movie I’ve ever seen. 😂

Finished the plague lectures I was listening to and now on to reading “The Journal of the Plague Year” by Daniel Defoe (author of Robinson Crusoe). Did you know that he was considered the father of realistic fiction? I love the way that reading it like a personal account draws me into the history!

Justice Gorsuch Recuses From Supreme Court Case That Could Benefit Colorado Billionaire The justice had been under pressure to step aside from the matter because of his myriad ties to Philip Anschutz, an oil and gas magnate.

Justice Neil Gorsuch Recuses From Case That Could Benefit Colorado Billionaire

The justice had been under pressure to step aside from the matter because of his myriad ties to Philip Anschutz, an oil and gas magnate.

www.nytimes.com/2024/12/05/u...

Trump Has ‘Lost Faith’ in N.R.A., Says Gun Group Official In a new letter, an N.R.A. vice president said the troubled group needed to rebuild trust with Donald J. Trump and his inner circle.

President-elect Donald Trump has “lost faith” in the NRA, according to a top official at the gun organization, who argued that the NRA needed to regroup so that it could help protect the Republican Party’s new edge in Congress in the midterm elections in 2026.

Fun fact: there’s never been a Democratic director of the FBI in its entire history.

Oh look! It’s a gallery of things I must now order online because it takes 20 minutes to find the Keeper of the Deodorant Key

If I take a step back and think about it, it actually makes perfect sense we would end up with a right coded social media platform and a left coded one.

There have been a lot of times where I feel like we need to have honest discussions on the left about what has worked and what hasn’t, share observations without judgement, but it feels like there isn’t much space for it. I think it’s holding us back.

I wonder how and where we can accomplish that.

1/ A reasonable compromise on trans women in bathrooms.

In North Carolina, a doctor must sign off on legal gender changes. Their license would obviously be at risk for not taking the clinical criteria seriously. Clinical distress, HRT, living as a woman.

Hello, world.