Popehat of Serious Proportion

Interesting and important 9th Circuit decision about the free speech rights of professors at public schools, just won by FIRE, likely to be subject of culture war disputes. /1 cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/op... cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opin...

The legacy media narrative has been unified in claiming that Jeffrey Epstein abused minors. But how can anyone report that without interviewing Jeffrey Epstein? I asked Alan Dershowitz. —Bari Weiss, today in the New York Times

As is the case with Musk, and even Trump, the most grotesque part is not their existence — awful people have always been around and always will be. The most grotesque part is nominally smart or honest or decent people taken in by them. Or, at least, pretending to be taken in, for advantage.

60 Minutes, dead at 57. The murder weapon was Bari Weiss.

Vivek: “any of you dogs know where these fleas came from”? www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/o... Opinion | What Is an American?

Making a production in discovery that is almost entirely redacted is a popular way to say “fuck you”

I took my friend with only a high school degree to a fancy party and saw his face freeze up at the terminology being used by the elite. “Hebephile?” “Ephebophile?” I quickly asked him if he wanted to go somewhere else and he anxiously nodded yes and so we went to a Trump rally. By David Brooks

I missed the address. I assume that it was inspiring and levelheaded.

Question: if somebody’s perception in engagement and companionship with AI is entirely based on delusion — based on misunderstanding what it is and what it does — is it bad? Is it bad if it provides happiness?

FIRE files suit on behalf of a TN public employee fired for a social media post about Charlie Kirk. www.thefire.org/research-lea... Complaint - Meeks v. Lawrence