The father’s black, the mother’s white, the prosecutor is a Republican, and this is North Carolina. And this is The New York Times, so the parents’ race isn’t even mentioned. Wouldn’t know it’s a mixed marriage if the paper hadn’t included a photo, but you can bet District Attorney Travis Page knows.

This is so perfectly 2025.

Most obviously, no, nobody in the AI industry is “horrified” by this. Mildly inconvenienced, at worst. Anthropic is playing the role of Horrified, but there’s simply no chance that the courts will rule against Big Money.

Copyright is one of the many laws aimed only at little people. If you pirate a movie or photocopy a book, the omnipresent ‘they’ could come after you, and they’d win, and you’d be facing serious consequences. If you’re big and rich enough to steal from virtually every artist and author alive or dead, it’ll be ruled “fair use.”

I think you mean “Trump illegally raises tariffs on Canada to 35% with no trade deal in sight.”

With raving cover-flap blurbs by Liz & Dick Cheney, Alberto Gonzales, Adam Kinzinger, and Anthony Scaramucci!!

“If a publication ran an editors’ note to ‘clarify’ that some portion of Nazi death camp victims had preexisting conditions, it would rightfully be accused of Holocaust denialism,” said writer Natalie Shure. “This is one of the most depraved things The New York Times has ever published.”

May I quibble? This is just one of the many, many depraved things The New York Times has published. And it’s pretty damned depraved, but I don’t think it’s in the top twenty.

I’d like the ability to block users when I stumble over an imbecile while browsing, but I still need to see the blocked user’s comments in groups that I moderate.

At present, user blocks are absolute, and don’t take moderation into consideration. This means, since I moderate a group, I can’t block users. If I do, and they later post to the group I moderate, I won’t see their posts or comments.

I must cordially vote ixnay. Shorter headlines are better, and should be encouraged.

Throw in a blowjob for the President and twenty-million for a ‘library’, and maybe you’ll have a deal.

Compared to what we have in 2025, Joe Biden was a very, very good president. I mean, he had brain rot to be sure, and was nothing much even before the rot set in, but compared to what we have, a 90% presence would be a relief.

It makes no sense to blame the current DNC for anything before February.

You’re hilarious.

I’ll take good news with a swig o’ morning whisky, thanks.

Ladies & gentlemen, The New York Times — always ready to blow the lid off ‘news’ everyone already knows.

Newsom’s aunt was married to Nancy Pelosi’s brother-in-law until they divorced, almost 50 years ago. This wouldn’t make him her nephew, even before the divorce, and there are more pertinent reasons to abhor both Pelosi and Newsom.

“Vote blue no matter who” got us Donald Trump, and a Democratic Party that barely makes a shadow effort to oppose him. I for one am finished with that.

It doesn’t matter.

If someone unearthed video of Trump raping an 11-year-old, Republicans would love him even more, his approval ratings would go up, leaders on the “religious right” would explain that it’s all Biblical, and Trump would successfully sue for the profits from video sales.

Sign me up. I’ll pay.

It’s not easy to shake off a lifetime of being told “Nobody’s above the law” and all that crap, but it is entirely crap. The rich and well-connected are miles above the law. It’s a miracle when any of them face justice, and it’s not happening in this case, certainly.

Oh, bullshit. His believers will believe what Trump tells them to believe.

I will not vote for Gavin Newsom.