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Uh oh. That last post is doing numbers. It’s going to be a long night.

Kudos to the Golden Globe producer who - immediately after a joke about famous people on the Epstein list - cuts to Bill Maher.

Profiles in Courage.

“Show me what comic you loved when you were 13, and that's all I need to know about you.” - Brad Meltzer (Only Spidey#1 was released when I was 13, but that also happens to be the year I started collecting in earnest, including loads of beat-to-hell back issues.)

GM

Slightly diminish a band: 9,999 Maniacs

“It is time to put our bodies between the powers of this world and the most vulnerable.”

This is stunning. Listen to this in Philadelphia. Thousands singing “Hey-Oh, we won’t be silent while our friends are gunned down.” Really listen to it.

Finally had a chance to see “Predator: Badlands” tonight and it was an absolute hoot. Halfway through my wife described it as “like Avatar, but I care about what’s happening”. A refreshing, fun, exciting film. New rankings: Predator Prey Badlands Predators Predator 2 *infinite distance* The rest

Dementia caregiving really never stops forcing you to adapt to things you never, EVER expected. Today’s adventure: My mom has a boyfriend now. A very sweet guy who lives in the same memory care community. He’s a retired chemical engineer who she likes to sit outside with, holding hands.

Finished Stranger Things last night. While I disliked most of this final season, they did a decent job of bringing the whole thing in for a landing in the final movie/episode - at least in terms of not leaving big things dangling or confusingly explained. Spoilers in the comments.

Consult your doctor before attempting to watch Avengers: Doomsday for Your Butt, Back, and Joints.

How many servings of man per ball? Are the men pasture-raised?

Gonna need this late. And frequently.

All hat, no cattle. Excuse me… not cattle. Soul. She has no soul.

In America you drop your kid off at school, get your brains blown out on the ride home, then the Vice President drops everything for a week to call you a terrorist, to slander your family, to protect the circumstances that led to your death so they can do it again. It is government by Alex Jones.

Here’s a comment for the people who are upset that MN hasn’t charged Jonathan Ross already: If you just Leeeroy Jenkins this shit you will lose and you will empower fascism and murder. It is indescribably hard to prosecute cops for murder. It is even hard when the murder is ON VIDEO. /1

My favorite local screen printing studio has some new items that may be of interest to you. A good chunk of the proceeds are donated to the National Immigration Law Center.

We've removed the paywall from this guide so everyone can access it. 👇 Stay safe.

Instagram just served me an ad for compression stockings and shoe inserts for aging skaters. I’m going to go walk into the sea now.

Just paged through my journal from this day, one year ago... "Watching President Carter’s funeral and it’s hard not to feel like it’s also a funeral for the country."

Optimism.

I've been a big @danlarson.bsky.social fan for many years* but he's really outdone himself this time. *OR HAVE I? I'm looking at you, @garthlarson.bsky.social.

BREAKING NEWS: We are opening a formal investigation into the shooting involving federal agents in Portland today. Our office will take every step necessary to ensure the rights and security of Oregonians are protected. #orpol #breakingnews

These motherfuckers just want to kill us all.

DHS Warns Any Action By Americans Will Be Treated As Domestic Terrorism https://theonion.com/dhs-warns-any-action-by-americans-will-be-treated-as-domestic-terrorism/

Far too little, far too late. As a reminder, Qobuz will give you the vast majority of Spotify’s catalog at a higher quality and at a lower price while ALSO sending much larger payments to artists. The improvement in quality (sonically and morally) is well worth the occasional weirdnesses.

Identifying the shooter in Minneapolis, The Intercept found a photo captioned “Jon Ross in Iraq” posted by a man noted in public records as his father.

Get their asses, doc.

It turns out Mexico IS going to build a wall to keep everyone north of their border out.

Conservatives spent 80 years slowly crafting a permission structure for fascism to return with the full-throated blessing of the GOP. They spent 50 years molding corrupt jurists and lying to get them installed so they could claw back protections for women and minority populations.

Fundamentally rotten to the core at every level and in every way.

Thousands of Minnesotans gathered last night to honor Renee Nicole Good. We will never accept that a single federal agent can be judge, jury, and executioner in our streets. ICE needs to get out of Minneapolis.

“Please coordinate your violent terrorist assaults with the people who murdered George Floyd in cold blood” isn’t the winning argument you seem to think it is.

Hey guys I'm starting to think this wasn't really about ethics in games journalism at all

At the center of it all, and at the end. "Blackstar": bowiesongs.wordpress.com/2026/01/08/b...

Murdering mothers and terrorizing children. Shameless, soulless ghouls.

We cannot be more clear. Leave us the fuck alone.

my friend @manzirae.bsky.social's not online cousin is out in minneapolis right now, and sent this image of a makeshift memorial from the site of the protest

Front page of the Drudge Report.

The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.

This longer version is worth seeing.

Real old heads may recall Jim Bell, the maniac tax cheat who proposed a system very much like this in the mid-90s where people could “wager” on the dates that public figures would die and collect bounties that had been secured ahead of time to be paid out to the first person who “wagered” correctly.

Just a wild, full-on failure of leadership. And the bar these days is SO LOW, yet somehow he’s wiggled under it.

We send them to a secret prison in Ecuador, OBVIOUSLY.

Don’t just let the murderer roam your streets armed and dangerous while you’re “investigating”. They’re looking for an excuse to kill again, just like they were looking for an excuse to kill today.