And So It Begins: Paramount, Netflix And Comcast Formally Submit Bids For Warner Bros. Discovery Paramount, Comcast and Netflix have submitted bids to acquire all or part of Warner Bros. Discovery, ushering in a dramatic period of evolution for the media business.

you can read a 1000 word story on these mergers without the journalist EVER mentioning the fact that almost every merger like this has resulted in oodles of debt, layoffs, chaos, frustration, and shittier product

they just don't think that's useful context to even mention

gambling for kids, but make it educational so it’s fine???

1. I love that someone came up with and then followed through with this.
2. I wonder if the specific superhero matters? Batman feels like a loaded choice.
3. I wonder if you'd get similar results from any non-superhero uniforms.

‘Restricted’: Did US troops try to cordon off a Mexican beach? Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum seeks the International Boundary and Water Commission intervention.

This has gotten very little coverage in the US, but on Monday US military contractors or troops or some other paramilitary group placed signs on a beach in Mexico, claiming it as US territory. (The contested location is close to the SpaceX base outside Brownsville)

www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11...

A city of 10 million people now has to move. It won't be the last.
As impossible as it seems, everything happening now will be a footnote to the climate crisis.

It’s widely known (and, I think, pretty uncontroversial) that learning requires effort — specifically, if you don’t have to work at getting the knowledge, it won’t stick.

Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.

"The Enemy of Imagination": Here's the Speech I Gave Last Night I had such an incredible day yesterday, y’all. First I was at the Trans Day of Literature at George Mason University, talking with incredible authors...

So I was invited to accept an award for "imagination in service to society." This forced me to think a bit about what "imagination," "service" and "society" mean to me.

Here's the speech I delivered last night:
buttondown.com/charliejane/...

the sooner most people realize white supremacy and rape culture are intertwined, the better. disgusting humans.

Wait u don't mean to tell me prosecutors ever bring cases they know are bullshit based on bullshit testimony from cops they know are bullshitting???????

this.

also, if you care about disability justice, hope you’re also pro-fat liberation.

do you know how many people have gone to the doctor for troubling symptoms, been automatically dismissed and told to lose weight, and then developed late-stage/severe chronic and acute illnesses?

They misidentified the intern. The judge told them they had misidentified the intern. But instead of double checking, they took that as an affront to their authority. So they surrounded the judge's car and threatened to smash the windows to get to the intern.

They had misidentified the intern.

America 2025.

I feel like the last couple decades of "is representation good or not?" discourse missed more important questions of "how fragile is representation?", "what do we do when multiple industries eliminate it as an intentional move against us?" and "how can we sustain queer artists when shit goes south?"

OH MY GD???????!!!!!!!!

Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) says someone showed up to her D.C. office today and made white supremacist threats. Capitol Police had to intervene.

This was hours after Trump said Democrats in Congress should be executed.

"When leaders promote hate, hate shows up."

Time to move past the neverending trial stage. Yes, basic income reduces homelessness.

Zohran Mamdani doesn’t make me, an American Jew, feel unsafe.

Having the Coast Guard, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, decide that a swastika isn’t really a symbol of hate? That makes me, an American Jew, feel pretty damn unsafe.

On October 1, 2025, after successfully completing 16 weeks of the FBI Academy's 19-week training program, Maltinsky was handed a letter terminating his employment with the FBI. The letter was signed by Defendant Patel ("Patel"). In the letter, Patel wrote that he had "determined that [Maltinsky] exercised poor judgment with an inappropriate display of political signage in [his] work area during [his] previous assignment at the Los Angeles Field Office." In short, Patel fired Maltinsky for displaying a pride flag at his workstation that had been flown by the FBI at the LAFO and then given by the FBI to Maltinsky. The Defendants' discrimination against Maltinsky for engaging in protected speech was a clear and brazen violation of federal law and the Constitution.

Kash Patel's personal firing of the Pride flag-displaying employee was always absurd and unconstitutional, so I'm glad David Maltinsky is suing, but, wait.

It was a flag FLOWN BY THE FBI that was given to him BY THE FBI?! Come on.

Complaint: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

We have to all agree to not let the menswear guy see this. He doesn't deserve that pain.

So... spells.

We're using spells to undo the work we've done... tricking rocks into thinking with lightning.

And trapping evil cars in circles of salt.

The old ways are new again.

THREAD: Judge Ellis is the first federal judge to review extensive body cam video of DHS's actions in Chicago. She finds that DHS *repeatedly* misled the public and made claims that were disproven by agents' own videos.

I'll go through some of the most egregious ones here.

Probably the most important lesson you can learn from D&D: there is a difference between being lawful and being good.

As ICE descends on Charlotte, faith leaders draw on other cities' actions to aid immigrants (RNS) — As many as 500 people, a mix of clergy and other volunteers, have appeared at the training sessions on how to counter ICE.

Good reporting on good news.

religionnews.com/2025/11/20/a...

“Prohibited words and concepts: Equity, diversity, & inclusion; anti-racism; Bias; Critical race theory; implicit bias; oppression; intersectionality; prohibited discriminatory practices; racial privilege; promoting stereotypes based on personal identity characteristics.”

This week, I withdrew from a speaking engagement at a public university because they sent me a list of prohibited “words & concepts.” I will not humor this censorship. It does a disservice to the stories I’m discussing & the audience, who deserve unfettered access to information & conversation.

Not a criticism of Mamdani in particular, but as long as we allow massively funded, heavily armed right-wing paramilitaries to have veto power over every aspect of public policy, it will be impossible to enact even the most basic social democratic reforms that a lot of liberals say they want.

CBP agent who threatened to shoot people on the street in Illinois.

Ellis repeatedly accuses multiple CBP and ICE officials of lying (under oath) and says their "widespread misrepresentations call into question everything" they "say they are doing in their characterization of what is happening." She broadly discredits their testimony as objectively false.

an illustration featuring a jackalope levitating in the void with a red ribbon flowing around it that says 'if it doesn't exist, make it.'

If It Doesn't Exist, MAKE IT.

Aka. The motivational bnuy.
#originalart

Swastikas are no longer to be considered "hate symbols", only as "potentially divisive" under this new policy.

This is Cole. He is a deaf service dog at Dr. William Mennies Elementary School. He just turned 9, and all of his students learned sign language to sing him happy birthday at a massive party. 14/10 for all (IG: colethedeafdog)