God save the qweens

Japan plans to restart the world’s biggest nuclear power plant, which has sat dormant ever since the Fukushima disaster. / CNN

Emmanuel Macron says France intends to build a new aircraft carrier, its first in decades. / The Associated Press, Semafor

A brief look at some of the bills signed into law this year in the United States Congress. / Wake Up to Politics

A timeline for Bari Weiss’s decision to shelve a 60 Minutes story about Venezuelan men deported by the Trump administration. / Reliable Sources

Things we learned this year: a term for sleep neuroticism brought about by wearables is “orthosomnia.” / The Atlantic [$]

A mountaineering tragedy is “testing ideas of freedom and responsibility” in the Austrian Alps. / The New York Times [$]

Psychoanalyst Jamieson Webster quizzes Daniel Kolitz on the aftershocks of his “gooning” article. “I got called conservative, sex-negative, a fascist.” / Cultured

“It’s just a bomb.” An astonishing story from 2023 of one man talking another out of blowing up a hospital. / Bungalow

An engineer from Germany becomes the first wheelchair user in space. / The Guardian

A power outage in San Francisco causes Waymo robotaxis to stall in traffic. / Business Insider

Jmail.world—a Gmail-like interface for exploring the Epstein files—adds tools for exploring photos, Amazon orders, and more. / Jmail.world

Photographs of a “Christmas capital” in Washington struggling to attract tourists after a series of brutal storms. / The Wall Street Journal [$]

Some pictures from the band Ween’s officially sanctioned headquarters in New Hope, Penn. / Ssense 

TMN’s Andrew Womack lists his top albums of 2025. / Andrew Womack

And in case you missed it when we linked it back in May: some wrapping paper from Japan that turns your presents into bread. / Spoon & Tamago

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