Genuinely can't tell if this is a bit or if someone got lost on the way to Xitter, but these being the only five accounts they follow is a nice touch.

Horseshoe Theory, but make it pedophilia.

Donald Trump and Elon Musk are both in the Epstein Files - a lot - but they want us to be scared of "illegal immigrants."

Nothing suspicious about delaying the complete release of the Epstein Files for over a month and then releasing millions of files on the last Friday of the month. That's just what a fully transparent administration would do.

Weird that this fraud story out of Texas (from last June) got basically no traction even though it's basically identical to the Minnesota fraud story, with one minor difference. Can you spot it? www.fox4news.com/news/48-texa...

Trying to be both sane and informed is the ultimate catch-22. I attempt to not get drawn into dumb Twitter or TikTok rabbit holes and subcultures because I think that's a first-class ticket to brain rot, but at the same time, I'm often out of touch with "the discourse" and useful cultural context.

My foster kitty

I know all eyes are on Minneapolis, but there's a fast-approaching nightmare in Springfield, Ohio. Trump is revoking protected status for tens of thousands of Haitians living there on Feb. 3. Reportedly, on Feb. 4, 1000 ICE agents are arriving to remove this population. Ethnic cleansing.

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

Absolutely incredible sequence from CNN. "Maduro was a paranoid lunatic always lying about the CIA trying to overthrow him. Anyways, now that the CIA has overthrown him..."

There are a number of annoying commentators who I no longer see in my feed - e.g., Nate Silver, Briahna Gray - and I know it's just because I'm not really on Twitter anymore, but I like to think they're also just fading from prominence in general.

The most annoying part of the hype train: when the highly praised piece of art breaks out of containment to a wider audience, which inevitably results in more people *not* liking the film (because art is subjective), and those people feel the need to psychoanalyze the people who did like it.

The Kristi Noem/Steve Miller story perfectly exemplifies what I've been saying for years: Everyone in Trump's orbit hates each other. When that old bag of ground beef kicks it, MAGA is going to implode into infighting. Everyone will battle to be the new leader of a movement that only worships Trump.

New Reuters/Ipsos poll U.S. approval on Trump's handling of immigration has slid from +7 to -14 in one year. www.reuters.com/data/trumps-... (conducted Jan. 23-25)

The North American Enlightened Centrist is a fascinating animal. It sits on its haunches with no coherent political worldview other than "Everybody is nuts but me." Its limited perception only allows it to see the political poles. It survives by sitting absolutely still and hoping no one notices it.

Sen Chris Murphy warns Dems: "If people don’t see us fighting on something as existential as whether we condone the federal government murdering our own citizens, there will be a mass withdrawal from politics altogether." On the pod, Murphy lays it all out so well: newrepublic.com/article/2057...

Even in this time of darkness, sometimes we get some good news.

It's okay to cut people out of your lives if they support this regime. It's the moral thing to do, in fact.

Are these "ordinary people" in the room with you right now, Megan? www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Hey. I get it if you're trying to de-Amazon. I stopped shopping there a few years ago. They're big evil. But you know who's not big evil? Your favorite writers who're struggling cos people aren't buying their books anymore. It's OK to use Kindle to support your faves. I'm giving you permission.

I hate the "Who cares if it's AI, it's funny" responses. The AI is why it's not funny. Someone obviously made the image with the prompt "Make her clothes the same pattern as the couch." So the image already is the joke (made with no effort), and the comment is the equivalent of explaining the joke.

Yesterday was the release day for The Awakening, my second novel. What writing have you recently put out into the world? #WritersLiftWednesday

The "Elon isn't really Pro-Trump, he's forming another party" takes aged like milk.

The Awakening, the new novel by Joseph Lyttleton (10 Cities/10 Years; Yahweh's Children), is now available for purchase.

I went to go look for Census data this morning and.... y'all. #econsky

It's release day! My novel, The Awakening, is now available: linktr.ee/theawakeningJL The Awakening is contemporary #litfic with a speculative element. It asks the question, "Is it possible to find redemption in unbelief?" 💙📚 #writerslift #NewReleaseTuesday #WhoAreTheElenchi

I've had some wild experiences on buses - including bed bugs on a recent trip from Spain to France - but this story is a hell of a journey.

It's release day! My novel, The Awakening, is now available: linktr.ee/theawakeningJL The Awakening is contemporary #litfic with a speculative element. It asks the question, "Is it possible to find redemption in unbelief?" 💙📚 #writerslift #NewReleaseTuesday #WhoAreTheElenchi

ICE ended up returning the man, Saly, after realizing he’s a fucking US citizen with no criminal record, per his sister-in-law. These fucking animals.

My favorite foster kitty is back for a couple months

'AI boosters and well-wishers are obsessed with making this comparison because saying “things worked out after the dot com bubble” allows them to rationalize doing stupid, destructive and reckless things.' If dark times await, odds are they'll be very dark. Zitron is a great (if terrifying) read.

Randomly, Duolingo increased the difficulty of their chess game and it's nigh unbeatable. Don't know what the point of it is now.

I think maybe "Nobel Peace Prize winner lets someone else pose with her award" isn't the breaking news story the media is making it out to be.

When humanity is stripped of faith and thrown into chaos, a man takes to the road to find his vanished brother. The Awakening, my latest novel, is #litfic with a speculative angle and a heavy mix of humor. Pre-orders for The Awakening are now available. Publication date: Jan 20, 2026 #writerslift

In one week, The Awakening comes out. Over fifteen years in the making. Have you pre-ordered your copy? Here is the official The Awakening playlist to whet your appetite: open.qobuz.com/playlist/367... open.spotify.com/playlist/71w... 📚💙 🖋️📚

So this is a tack that phishing scams are taking now. This is an actual email that my husband received from a scammer posing as the email management company his employer uses. The opt-out link went to the company's name dot net; its legitimate website is dot com.

Why is the guy who hates transwomen celebrating the murder of a woman at the hands of a far-right, racist organization... Oh, wait, no, I hear it now.

Remember folks preorder those books, shows the author some love and helps with sales and marketing

this is your mission. roll up to this daycare in full tactical gear to harass some kids and teachers. when you get spooked by your own shadow like a panicked horse and start shooting your gun, our pedophile president will call the person you shot a terrorist. good luck soldier

I don't know how many last straws a person needs, but I would think still running ads for the US Murder Agency (aka ICE) would have to be enough. Ditch Spotify. Try any other platform, ideally one that pays the artists more fairly. I recommend Qobuz: 10cities10years.com/2025/10/21/s...

The devotion to white supremacist theology by the American Christians of my parent's generation is utterly shocking. I had many issues with the Christianity I was raised in (hence me not being one anymore), but this adoption of "White genocide" beliefs and 4Chan-style racial grievance is terrifying.

Prominent MAGA figures are making it 100% explicit that MAGA is a neo-imperialist movement that's all about pillage and plunder justified by assumed racial superiority:

If there's one thing this Venezuela thing makes clear, it's that MAGA still sees itself as the "Law and Order" movement, they just don't believe anyone but Trump has the right to say what is legal. They mock the "no Kings" protests while insisting that there is no greater authority than him.

I hated the original, but this one is even worse...

As a Leftist, I will say, nothing undermines the base premise of Leftism like the fact that Leftists are always looking for new ways to make everyone their enemy.

At least 40 Venezuelans, including civilians, were killed in the attack. And that's likely an undercount as reporting is ongoing.

Right-wingers are justifying Trump's illegal Venezuela invasion by showing videos of Venezuelans celebrating. As if the parallels to Iraq weren't already clear enough.

Trump started a war 24 hours after this. Guess he couldn't keep his resolution. American Presidents: They're Just Like Us!

Trump to America as he starts another pointless war: "Just ignore I'm all over the Epstein files and blast the Lee Greenwood!"

How is Glenn Greenwald feeling about his personal "peace president" this morning?