Look at my sleepy boy

I hope Bari Weiss is having a terrible day. I hope it's the worst day of her life and I hope the rest of them are even worse

I’m sorry ezra but I could swear you told me the cruel folks were doing this the right way

Bari Weiss will eternally be remembered as a Shonda for covering up realities of a modern concentration camp. She’s a horrifying disaster for our people. Her existence represents a great mark of shame

she's just doing what she was hired to do

Neo-liberalism has killed off imagination and creativity.

We’re eating good this holiday season

A member of the neo-Nazi white separatist group PNW Wolf Pack fell to his death trying to pick a mistletoe from a tree this holiday season 🎄❄

BIG NEWS EVERYONE. I’m taping my first comedy special/third album Saturday February 28 in San Francisco. Two shows. All ages. I want to see you there. These jokes kill fascists. Tix: www.eventbrite.com/e/nato-green...

NEW from LCRW: A Proud Boys propagandist made a sizzle reel for the hate group with Netflix's logo. Netflix—and nobody else apparently—want to talk about it. @jwcroxton.bsky.social writes.

again thinking of when The Free Press ran an article alleging that George Floyd was not killed by the cops, and @radleybalko.bsky.social proved beyond any question that the article was bullshit, and instead of retracting it Weiss asked him to come on her podcast

Ladies and gentleman: The President of the United States www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...

w/ passage of Marjorie Taylor Greene bill banning gender-affirming care for minors, re-upping story I wrote couple yrs ago abt Renton Sinclair, trans dude in KC who survived horrific, non-affirming childhood w/ a mom who later became a MAGA anti-trans influencer www.huffpost.com/entry/trans-...

Babushka Peanut over here

The Vanity Fair photographer knew what he was doing. (I doubt I’m the first to notice this but it hasn’t graced my TL)

It's the latest escalation in an increasingly testy relationship between BPD and the city's civilian oversight apparatus.

Of course Cuellar was one of the 3, that sniveling little weasel.

The reporters and staff at ProPublica have done great work to build the outlet into a trusted public interest media brand. Is @propublica.org management trying to make it into another untrusted content aggregator and purveyor of AI slop? Why?

it's so cool that he was able to run for president again and people elected him. just awesome stuff.

They developed the "high school girl's sports" angle as a wedge issue, to lever their way up to full society-wide discrimination. What's endlessly stunning to me is how many purported liberals a) helped them when it started & b) are still helping them even after the larger purpose has become clear!

i think it's beautiful that they couldn't name a single victim of communism

LCRW's friends at @ktownforall.org are trying to raise money for funeral costs for one of our unhoused neighbors. If you have anything to spare, please donate to help Armando's wife Lety afford a dignified funeral for her husband.

Happy Hanukkah from all of us here at Der Spekter! We wish you and your loved ones peace, joy, love, and א ליכטיגן חנוכה (a light-filled Hanukkah!) We are immensely grateful for the community we've built in our pages and look forward to many more beautiful celebrations together.

HAPPENING NOW: About a dozen faith leaders chained themselves to San Francisco's immigration court, blocking the entrance. "If you come for them, you'll have to go through us," the group sang. Dozens rallied alongside them, hoping to shut the building down for the day.

Hahahaha

man’s paralyzed by his own shit

I fucking love Mick Foley

Rest in piss bozo

As we prepare for the festival of lights we ask you to consider your spelling style guide

Oakland’s controversial Flock surveillance camera proposal is back. OPD is seeking approval of a $2.25 million, two-year contract with Flock Safety. The proposal failed in the Public Safety Committee in November, but was revived this week and advanced by the Rules Committee. #flock #privacy 1/3

Another first with the Meta sponsor just added to the Turning Point USA mega conference

Real “finger on the pulse” moment for national Dems. Truly a wonder why the slightly less corrupt, slightly less fascist party doesn’t poll better.

Just found out my cat has stage 2 kidney disease :( luckily the general prognosis for cats with CKD is generally positive but it’s still scary and stressful :(

The indispensable Spencer Ackerman, whose piece about the Bundist revival of 2023 got a lot of us on the path and is indirectly responsible for Der Spekter coming into being with a banger.

If M4A passed, RFK Jr. wouldn’t be anywhere today. It’s the current for-profit system that has created a whole cottage industry of wellness garbage.

Hey Mark, here’s a set of graphs, you unbelievable dipshit

I haven’t stopped listening to Lonely People With Power since I first heard it last month. Album of the year and one of the greatest records I’ve ever heard, period.

NEW: A judge ordered the immediate release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia from the Trump admin’s custody, concluding he's been illegally held by ICE for months.

New Vote on Flock Expansion Plan in Oakland Announced for December 11

Tech execs LARPing as ironworkers is borrowed valor for people whose riskiest move is a fucking keynote. A deliberate insult to anyone who’s ever carried a toolbag, climbed a scaffold, or bled for a paycheck. They turned real labor into a branding prop. Hideous.

crimethinc.com/mercenaries To keep Donald Trump’s voter base entertained with spectacles of predatory violence, ICE recruiters are offering bribes to seduce gullible individuals into doing harm to their neighbors. To counter this, we have prepared a video and poster campaign of our own.

White House Begins Christmas Season With Ceremonial Lighting Of Cross

As Trump drags us into an Iraq-style war in Venezuela, 312 members of the House — including 115 Democrats — just voted to authorize over $900 billion in military spending.

Just joined Kehilla Synagogue! I've never been a dues-paying member of a synagogue before, this is a cool new journey!

🚨 Today, I formally introduced articles of impeachment against Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. RFK Jr. has turned his back on science and the safety of the American people. Michiganders cannot take another day of his chaos.

Really wish I had gotten a better shot of this but holding a phone that says “who else was just ‘following orders’?” up to a riot cop is hard as hell