AI tally: Economic growth: ~0 Kids driven to kill themselves: >0

In: Unions Out: The State of the Union

So, what's everyone doing tonight instead of watching a criminal madman air personal grievances and try to tell you that your reality isn't real?

Ways to get civically engaged instead of watching That Man lie on national television for an hour: 1️⃣ Check in on your neighbors and help them with shoveling 2️⃣ Contact your Senators and ask them to oppose the SAVE Act 3️⃣ Tune into @moveon.org and @meidastouch.com's People’s State of the Union

In: Loving each other Out: Bro’ing out in locker rooms

Behold, the breakfast doodle

The utterance of "A.I.'s inevitability" is one of the most stark pure performatives I've seen in my time working in higher ed. Every time it is uttered, it is clearly not reporting a fact about the world but instead actively trying to create the reality it narrates. We can and must refuse.

I prefer this Troy McClure.

In: Looking away from figure skating because you’re afraid they’ll fall Out: Whatever other people do

In: Being a good friend Out: Beginning your fundraising text, “Friends,”

The generic white bro-ness of it all. Is that new world order we requested here yet?

Speak up! Fight back! #HVStrong #Indivisible #Iceout dailyvoice.com/new-york/bri...

A politically motivated hearing will launder debunked claims and bad data through a Senate committee in an effort to undermine decades of scientific consensus on the safety of mifepristone and restrict access to medication abortion.

❤️ If you're grappling with how to show up right now in the face of fascism, I found this read on heart-centered organizing useful: www.yesmagazine.org/issue/love-a...

"The Democrats Have a Superweapon. They Use it to Beg" —  THANK YOU to writer Paul Shattuck (who has a wonderful newsletter about sustainable resistance paultshattuck.substack.com) www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...

Getting lots of reports of full DC and local office voicemail boxes. Keep it up 😎📞🔥

YES. This: “The many can and will defeat the money.”

YES

2025 sucked in so many ways… *and*, I can’t remember a better Christmas-to-New Years stretch than this one. I’ve felt suspended in a beautiful place of anticipation and savoring the birth of the new. I’m almost sad for it to be over tomorrow…

Well Bluesky, even though I'm experiencing a crippling headache for the 8th day in a row, I still posted my annual Holiday Music That Doesn't Suck playlist for you. Enjoy, you filthy animals. wiredformusic.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-...

If you live in DC and are active on normie social media sites, you should be flooding the zone with videos of boring peaceful life in the city.

I feel like we can cool it already with the advice to “do the thing that scares you,” because living in America right now is some John Carpenter-level shit.

Just back from a huge, joyful #NoKings protest in NY’s Hudson Valley. A little kid led the crowd in a call and response. An older man yelled “Henry Miller, not Stephen Miller.” There were dancing paper mâché cats. This is what democracy feels like.

My grandmother was a young pregnant Jewish woman alone on a train in Poland during WWII when a German soldier told her to get off at the next stop because there wouldn't be any soldiers waiting at the station. She survived because, in that moment, a soldier chose the right thing over obeying orders.

Some inspiration for today. From Marge Piercy's book, To Be of Use. No Kings. #poetry #books #writing #nokings

Guy at my rally: “comparing DT to a king makes me feel bad for KINGS. At least kings can project some ✨MAJESTY✨ - has anyone ever seen majesty out of this guy?” 😂 #NOKINGS

My 77-year-old mother is attending her first protest today. #NoKings

House Dems are demanding that Noem testify before Congress after Sen. Padilla was detained by federal agents at her DHS press conference in LA.

A DHS spokesperson defended the detainment, accusing Sen. Padilla of failing to properly identify himself during Sec. Kristi Noem's press conference. But multiple videos show Padilla clearly identifying himself as a senator.

We must teach media literacy around AI. And we must have guardrails in place for ethical governance of this technology. futurism.com/judge-lawsui...

"We cannot escape the paradoxical conclusion that while there is no limit to what people will do to each other, there is also no limit to what they will do for each other." - Filippo Grandi, the United Nations High Commissioner for UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency @unhcr.org

"I've spent years in movement spaces and know how vital collective action is. But most of us aren't full-time organizers. We're trying to stay human inside a system we depend on that is being ransacked and torn apart." paultshattuck.substack.com/p/the-harms-...

“Chaos contains information that can lead to knowledge, even wisdom.” - Toni Morrison Stay curious in this moment. (Saying this to myself as much as anyone.) What are we learning?

Frustrated CEO Stuck In Dead-End 7-Figure Job theonion.com/frustra...

Bring Kilmar Abrego Garcia home now.

I won’t share RFK Jr.’s lies about autism. It’s disgusting and dangerous. If he had a shred of decency, he would apologize and resign. Autistic people contribute every day to our nation’s greatness. To every kid with autism, I’m in this fight all the way for you.

What’s your sign

An important message for the White House courtesy of Laura Benanti: www.instagram.com/reel/DIhbQ64...

I just landed in San Salvador a little while ago, and I look forward to meeting with the team at the U.S. embassy to discuss the release of Mr. Abrego Garcia. I also hope to meet with Salvadoran officials and with Kilmar himself. He was illegally abducted and needs to come home.

Four R senators and four R House members could announce they're caucusing with the Dems for now, and will vote for Schumer for Majority Leader and Jeffries for Speaker, because the threat to the rule of law is dire. Meanwhile, they'll work with Democrats to construct guardrails against dictatorship.

Get yourself a senator willing to rescue you in a foreign country after your messy president wrongfully deports you… …seems like a sentence I shouldn’t have to write in 2025 but here we are. Senator Chris Van Hollen leaves for El Salvador tomorrow to initiate the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions - rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking steps to make sure students can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and mutual respect. Let’s hope others follow suit.

I cannot convey enough how grateful I am to the millions of you all supporting us with your time, resources, and energy. Your support has allowed us to rally people together at record scale to organize their communities. All with an average donation of $21. THANK YOU & Pa’lante 🙏🏽♥️

Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a legal resident of the United States, was illegally disappeared and remanded to an El Salvador concentration camp in the absence of due process as guaranteed by the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution. Call your senators *now* & demand to know how they're responding to: 1/3

cc @schumer.senate.gov @kirstengillibrand.bsky.social

In defiance of the Supreme Court & without any evidence, the White House claims that Kilmar Abrego Garcia is a “terrorist,” who was “sent to the right place.” This is a blatant LIE. He is innocent. He cannot be allowed to rot in an El Salvadorian jail. He must be brought home.