Kind Harald "Bluetooth" Gormsson is going to make your AirPods explode if you try to invade.

Renee Nicole Good *was* practicing politics the right way.

I met a Trump voter today. I asked him if he liked the administration. He said he wasn’t sure. I said: “you’re a dumbass“ and walked away.

Un bon résumé de l’affaire (j’avoue avoir lu tous les posts de Ryan Lizza, grâce à de bonnes âmes les ayant sorties de derrière le mur payant).

Banks make money on credit cards in three ways. 1. Interest on card balances 2. Interchange revenue 3. Other fees Interest is easy. Card issuing banks charge cardholders interest on their balances. The banks pay interest to creditors and depositors. The difference is net interest income.

La honte. le-reveil-vivarais.fr/a-la-une/voi...

Gets it right.

There’s a reason why the Danish military ordered 750 000 pairs of woollen socks from Finland a year ago

::taps sign::

I wonder what new fresh hell does Trump have in store for Tuesday, the 5-year anniversary of his coup attempt and the first he can celebrate as President again.

Post a famous bathroom scene

Sophia Chikirou, candidate LFI à la mairie de Paris, sera jugée en mai pour escroquerie par le tribunal correctionnel de Paris, une annonce de procès destinée, selon elle, à la « salir » avant les municipales de mars.

Very interesting conversation, for those interested in international law, recognition issues, what makes a head of state, articulation with domestic law, and the legal history of the use of force.

Évitez de reproduire cette pirouette chez vous, laissez cela aux professionnels du « en même temps ».

Wild indeed.

The unanswered question is whether the Trump administration worked in tandem with seditious elements within the Venezuelan military. It does not appear to be the case so far, but this is Day 1 and we know very little.

Credit where it's due: this is spot-on.

Look, agreeing with the French doesn't make me happy, believe me.

French Foreign Ministry: “The removal of Maduro from power and the violation of sovereignty constitute a serious act of aggression against the dignity of the Venezuelan people and their right to determine their own future.

Un autre enlèvement, une autre époque (avec la complicité de la France).

This person went on a buying spree over the past 24 hours. Fresh wallet. Only existed since Dec 27th and has only bet on Venezuela-related markets. polymarket.com/@0x31a56e9E6...

French king 👑

Nope

Photo incroyable

New from @pamherd.bsky.social & I: Key takeaways from Mamdani's inauguration speech. "Mamdani will force a conversation among the left about how it should govern." 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/understand...

A look back at how the NYT’s leadership chose to spread disinformation on trans issues to please the right at minimal reputational cost for the NYT.

Une tragédie de plus, puisque les rédactions n'ont obtenu aucun garantie d'indépendance. Arnault se retrouve en situation de quasi-monopole sur la presse économique. Et il a montré, avec Trump, qu'il pourrait se rallier à l'extrême droite sans la moindre difficulté www.liberation.fr/economie/med...

Happy new year everyone

Shiiiit

Governing is constantly making judgement calls that balance competing interests, good and perfect, short and long term, risk and opportunity. That's why electing an objectively horrible person because they happen to agree with you on a few major policy areas is a recipe for heartbreak.

I drove past The Donald J. Trump And The John F. Kennedy Center For The Performing Arts today. The signage is so ugly and the grammar is so stupid it hurts.

My takeaway is that we have not been mean enough to the New York Times this year www.nytimes.com/2025/12/27/a...

Well put

post a perfect album from the 90s that isn’t nirvana, pearl jam, soundgarden, or alice in chains

J’aime bien éviter de dire du mal de gens dont je partage le positionnement général et le soutien à l’Ukraine, mais à un moment le coup du drone naval a 20 000€ qui détruit un porte-avions, c’est le signe qu’il faut arrêter les drogues dures.

Décembre 1995 – décembre 2025 : en finir avec les Trente Désastreuses de la gauche française Par Joseph Confavreux

I am getting to the conclusion that some of the left-of-center pundits who constantly want to triangulate for right-wing voters on almost every topic have a pathological need to be liked by everyone. This would also explain why they radicalize when the online left yells at them. 1/2

Rien de bien ne peut sortir d’une institution qui fonctionne aussi mal, et ce n’est pas qu’une question d’individus.

So apparently daiquiri is pronounced da-kiri around here. Merry Christmas !

Après un relevé manuel via Wikipédia (des erreurs et oublis possibles), on arrive à 542 personnes ayant été membres d'un gouvernement depuis le gouvernement Fabius (17/07/84 - 20/03/86). 83 ont été condamnées* avant, pendant ou après l'exercice de leurs fonctions. Soit 15.31%

Il y a trois façons d’interpréter le comportement de plus en plus osé des réactionnaires, dénués de la peur du retour de bâton démocratique: - ils se trompent - ils ont raison, une majorité d’électeurs approuvent ou ne désapprouvent pas trop - ils ont raison, il n’y aura plus d’élection libre

Genuinely appalling that Princeton would publish this, much less that they're still promoting it. On the face of it this would seem to be at least plausibly defamatory.

"Even after accounting for the upfront costs and delayed benefits, enrolling marginal applicants to public universities generates substantial net returns for society, the marginal students themselves, and the government budget." Public Universities FTW!

The response to this feels somewhat akin to the response to Hillbilly Elegy— that certain liberals must read it and praise it so that they can properly and publicly perform humility to atone for their eliteness. This is despite both of these books being written by Ivy Leaguers.

If someone keeps advancing despite demonstrable incompetence at public‑reason journalism, perhaps they are doing a different job than advancing public reason—effectively, and deliberately… The "1984" Theory of Bari Weiss < braddelong.substack.com/p/the-1984-t... >

i’ve been thinking about this a lot lately. it feels like a mutually reinforcing cycle or something, loser electeds and loser voters caught in the loser loop and refusing to do a single thing differently despite absolutely hating where it has brought them

This is genuinely horrifying. Fact-free far-right agitprop given accolades by credible media across the political spectrum.

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

My depressive take is that the 60 minutes piece on CECOT would have reached many more viewers - and swing voters - than its leaked version, so Bari Weiss was right to pull it.