Reading the big Bari Weiss piece, all I can think is how it reinforces that she has only one value proposition: aiding the backlash against the democratization of speaking truth to power.

It’s always the way!

I am begging people to just imagine for a second talking as if the lives of the people in Greenland are an important part of what is happening in Greenland.

In honor of Owsley (1935-2011), have some Blue Cheer. youtu.be/dSdtoGUmpuY?...

RIP Curves

Blanche won’t investigate the killing of an innocent woman on camera but they’ve got all hands on deck for a church service being interrupted

My favorite post-9/11 thing was in the first few days after the attack when the press kept reporting on Iranian people showing massive public support for the US "even Iran is with us!" and then Bush put them in the Axis of Evil and the press shifted to "actually this never happened, fuck Iran."

Seeing a lot of “you could have been forgiven for falling for it then”. Whatever you have to tell yourself.

"it is believed" archive.is/2sS2T#select...

We're going to need a denazification program for the federal government when this is over. It's that simple, and that stark.

typo in the first line really makes this transcendent

I’ll never get tired of this ad at our local indie theater 😂

Say the implication: republicans can stop this anytime they want to, but they don’t. They don’t want to stop it. Republicans in Congress enable this because they want it. They’re bad people and the people who voted for them have bad judgment.

"King’s support of labor predated the 1963 march. He believed that racial equality was inextricably linked to economics, and saw the fights for civil rights and labor rights as inseparable." www.clasp.org/blog/remembe...

Big ups to Bret “Brew-Dog” Kavanaugh

These are the icy mountains of Pluto. It took 9 years to get these magnificent images… and 4.8 billion kilometers.

It's cool that these guys just use pepper spray casually now, against people who are wholly within their rights, without a moment's hesitation. Several shots of them using it as they climb into their cars and drive away, not even a pretense of urgency or need. Just a parting "fuck you" to them.

The mayor of Miami Beach is clearly a little bitch. Feel free to respond with what else this little bitch is.

social media was a mistake

Imagine playing in a world where the story, environment & world lore were all slop. No profound interconnections, no elaborate web of meaning underlying it & holding it all together. No greater story to reveal once you see how the pieces play off each other. Just slop vomited everywhere

It was for PICTURES of her daughter . He made other detainees look out You know where else they made detainees exchange sex for news of their children Auschuwitz www.kalb.com/2025/12/29/i...

On a serious note: this is exactly what the right does all the time. “You didn’t pat me on the back enough for not being openly racist so I’m gonna be a Nazi now” is kinda their whole thing.

Black Lives Matter organizers warned everyone about this. Black thinkers like @ruha9.bsky.social also warned everyone about this! Read her book Race After Technology!

Here. Pass it out as needed.

Riley Gaines as foreign policy

this is just to say I have eaten the plums that were in the icebox and which you were probably saving for breakfast Forgive me I'm so unpredictable so heterodox

Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago

Not for the first time, it looks like Channel 4 just handed the keys to their socials to an evil genius:

The media understood that Project 2025 was damaging Trump in the election and helped him spread the lie that he wasn't behind it.

Americans' economic and political pains mainly stem from unprecedented concentration of our wealth, a few dozen mega-billionaires control 12%. They buy a lot of politicians, media outlets, & influencers to distract from their power by blaming our pain on immigrants, DEI, women's careers...

On this day in 1930, mobs of white people roamed Watsonville, California, and the surrounding towns and farms, attacking Filipino farmworkers and their property after Filipino men were seen dancing with white women at a newly opened local dance hall.

They like Trump and didn't like Biden

Let’s be real: Republicans, who voters gave the majorities to, won’t remove him. Democrats impeached him, twice. Call out the Republicans and call your reps: demand they vote with Dems

incredible stuff

…but definitely *sometimes* the old ways are the best ways.

donald trump experienced a level of what was, for him, humiliation equivalent to death when obama lightly mocked him back in 2011 and we all are going to pay for it

Trump claimed that Russia would never have invaded Ukraine while he was president because Putin respects him too much, but now he's claiming that the US must have Greenland or Putin will invade it.

It is incredibly frustrating that all I can do is scream at my two perfectly useless senators while these MAGA fools go out of their way to inaugurate a truly chaotic multipolar era that has a decent chance of killing all of our children. It's just madness. Absolute madness.

Born 102 years ago today: voice actor Robert McFadden (d. 2000), whose collaboration with Rod McKuen as "Bob McFadden and Dor" on the "Songs Our Mummy Taught Us" LP yielded this wacky cover of Big Joe Turner's "Shake, Rattle, & Roll." #1001CoverSongs Song # 128: youtu.be/h1QJFwrYWrA?...

Happy 11th anniversary of me losing my fucking mind over this QVC clip

Condolences Buffalo. Yikes.

A passage from the 1943 OSS psychological assessment of Hitler, for your holiday mo(u)rning www.cia.gov/readingroom/...

I mean. Dr. King is speaking to this very moment.

The reason the “paid protestor” accusation is so popular is that these are people who cannot imagine doing something because it’s right, to stand up for a principle, talking to other people like that.

Mayor Mamdani calling up Uber and doordash execs like:

Of course I am thinking of all those struggling for Black lives, but also those struggling for trans people, especially Black and brown trans folks, as well as all the immigrants documented and otherwise Fuck borders, fuck gender enforcement, abolish ICE, abolish carceral values and systems

'Little Man in Snow', 1947. Location: New York City. Photograph by Ted Croner (American).

Fantastic photo from Phil Laybourne capturing the moment a Red Deer steps on some Lego.