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We will never forget January 6, 2021.

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Woah. people.com/california-r...

This is why keeping the government open to save SCHIP and TANF doesn't work any more as a baseline strategy.

Not crazy to say there was a much clearer criminal case against MBS, who ordered the murder of an American newspaper columnist, than there is against Maduro.

On the 5th Anniversary of the failed January 6th insurrection attempt, we’re reminded how fragile democracy can be. We must remember the darkness of that day so it’s never repeated. As history is rewritten by some, we choose to speak the truth of what happened.

Five years ago.

Statement from she who should have been our President.

Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago

BBC journalists have been banned from describing the kidnapped Venezuelan leader as having been kidnapped. The BBC News Editor has sent this to BBC journalists.

The first two hours this morning

all this is both foolish and unnecessary

Endless Column, by Constantin Brâncuși, 1938, 📸 by @stephenmally

You can’t report illegal acts because you don’t want to compromise them being carried out is an interesting take, if true

Untitled (flag), 2020 Barbara Kruger

Just woke up even angrier. Impeach, convict, remove. Draft articles now. Either we have a representative government or we don’t. Do not shut up about this until there’s a vote.

Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts. Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.

OMG 😭 Huntington's is an inherited disease that's like Alzheimers + Parkinson's all in one. NOW: "once the gene therapy has been delivered into the brain... [it] injects a piece of DNA to reprogram the neuron to become a factory for its own cure." LIFE SAVING! www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhEx...

i basically think the popularist fabian tactics do not work with high salience issues like this which are never really going away. we either build a durable consensus around a liberal immigration policy framework or the right has a hammer to keep hitting us with

I've seen the normal McClellan people that @jamellebouie.net talks about, too. I get so mad about how cowardly they are and had difficulty finding a way to talk to them about it. Maybe talking about tit-for-tat is that way youtu.be/Msz2daPeTyg?...

Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries can make opposing the masked secret police who terrorize US citizens while kidnapping black and brown people to internment camps a cornerstone of the opposition messaging whenever they want to. The issue is that they simply don’t want to.

Here's a tragedy of DOGE that most people will never know about, even though it has big consequences: no one is left to coordinate the transition to memory safe systems code. 🧵

New Syrian currency designs go incredibly hard

INHERITANCE MUST BE ABOLISHED

“There are two sexes, it’s basic biology!!!” Biology: But like what does UAG even *mean*, man?

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Why do none of these fuckers call their companies Gandalf or Samwise

This is the world Justice Kavanaugh sanctioned in his foolish & unnecessary concurring opinion to the Court’s order in Noem v Vasquez Perdomo. His hopes of cleaning up that blunder with a plaintive footnote in last week’s concurring opinion in Trump v. Illinois, demonstrates his staggering naïveté.

Got this fantastically clever Christmas gift. It's a dedicated algorithm free music player that you can carry around without the distractions of your phone, and it can hold thousands of songs without needing an internet connection. The UI is so simple anyone can manage it. Fantastic

Here’s to 2026

Actually, it's exactly the duty of an artist. To take a stand through their art.

More than 20% of videos shown to new YouTube users are ‘AI slop’, study finds

What a beautiful way to summarize the past year

While I don't think most candidates can count having the CEO of one of the most recognizable media brands in America as their partner, I can see people prefer replicating this across wards and towns and cities and congressional districts rather than getting a million scam PAC texts from consultants

"Did you see what Mark Cuban posted? Oh did you see the clapb—" You shake yourself awake in the cold North Atlantic water. You are not online. It is July of 1858. You are a baleen whale, and you have changed your mind. The future most not come to pass. The telegraph cable must break.

Every Democrat running for office needs to promise investigations and full prosecutions from top to bottom, remove its funding bloat then break up the agency and distribute its core remaining useful functions across other agencies.

This is the true message of Christmas

Tax the fucking billionaires into nonexistence and feed the hungry children

This is literally a holiday-themed missile strike. It is as insane as it sounds and should be front-page news.

President Trump’s spiteful defamation suit against the Pulitzer Prize Board may backfire, as the latter is now demanding Trump’s psychological records, prescription medication records, and tax returns in the discovery process. trib.al/LUCScTR

Me communicating with the new Japanese users.

This is what it took to shame Kristi Noem into letting an Irish green card holder who bouncing $80 in 2 checks 10 years ago free after 5 months in detention: A veteran, Trump-voting spouse 9 US descendants Letter signed by 18 Senators 30 character witnesses www.star-telegram.com/news/nation-...

This is John Roberts' America.

A church in Bethlehem, where Christmas celebrations have been cancelled, has placed the baby Jesus on a pile of rubble. “Jesus was born among the occupied,” says the pastor.

I think it’s important to insist on recalling, at all available opportunities, that this was specifically an attack on a trans instructor over an assignment about gender. Neither of those details are incidental; they are the center of the story