This is one way to reduce crowding on DC's municipal golf courses. 🙄 Every time I think there's no remaining norm for him to break, this egocentric, relatively mindless, easily distracted, lazy, unbright narcissist whose monomania is simply himself finds another.

I'm worried that, no matter what happens over the next three years, the sensible middle is going to squeezed to death from both the left and the right. Four part post here: 1. This post from FB 2. The article 3. The podcast trailer 4. The podcast (~20 min)

OMG! Terrific idea!

Oil just lost to silver for the first time in 40 years and the energy transition people think it's validation. What they're missing is this isn't demand dying, it's a supply glut that ends the second geopolitics remembers it exists.

Germany has now fallen further behind its pre-COVID trend for real GDP than was the case - on a comparable time scale - after the 2008 crisis. This plus a super strong Euro mean that the Euro zone will resume its slide towards deflation as slack grows. This is a huge deflationary shock coming.

𝗛𝗔𝗣𝗣𝗬 𝗡𝗘𝗪 𝗬𝗘𝗔𝗥!!!!! May your hangover be less brutal than Great-Grandpa's here.🙂

Good thread here. I think I'll start reading the transcript in the morning.

I wish I could say that I have done as well.

It was a busy year! This year on Bluesky I wrote 5,898 posts and 6,219 replies. I received 42,080 likes, whereas 3,369 was from my most popular post, and apparently I love saying "its" and 🤣! www.madebyolof.com/bluesky-wrap...

Happy New Year, Mr. President.

Every time they do something like this, they become more isolated in the world. Not right away, but someday, they're going to need a friend and no one will step up.

Everybody do this at the same time!

This New Year's Eve, party like it's 1955!

Federal officials claimed Operation Midway Blitz/At Large was supposed to make Chicago safe. Instead they killed a man, shot a woman five times, tear-gassed a 1-year-old, separated families and brutalized people across the city.

😃

I wonder if Russia can make it through 2026 without collapsing.

DOGE cut 7000 jobs at the Social Security Admin and closed 50 field offices. Now they’re struggling to respond to up to 6 million pending cases in its processing centers and 12 million transactions in its field offices. Next, they’ll say it’s broken and must be privatized.

Reuters: Drugmakers raise US prices on 350 medicines "The number of price increases for 2026 is up from the same point last year, when drugmakers unveiled plans for raises on more than 250 drugs." They hope you have a happy but not 𝘵𝘰𝘰 healthy New Year.

So are we paying our Christmas bills or no?

Protests in Iran have expanded geographically and demographically since December 28 & many of the recent protests adopted an explicitly anti-regime tone. So far, the Khamenei govt has taken a relatively measured tone but security forces are doing what they've always done—bash heads & arrest people.

These people are so damned gullible.

A Community Note for the ages.

Gun rights supporters and military enthusiasts (probably the guys who "almost joined"). I can't imagine a more stable group of citizens to recruit from, can you? 🙄

Voyager 1 is on course to reach 1 light-day from Earth in November 2026. Almost 16 billion miles after 48 years.

Don't see this very often.

This reads like a prayer written by people who were promised mass arrests and woke up to reality instead. This is what happens when conspiracies and lies finally collide with reality.

I have long been a big Spanberger fan—and still am. She's a moderate pragmatist, two qualities I respect, but every one of the statist policies she's proposing here will almost certainly backfire and increase costs instead of making things more affordable. Let's review:

Furious Minds author Laura Field joins Jonah Goldberg to discuss the ideas driving the New Right (or Woke Right? Hard Right? What are we calling them these days?)

"Regardless of the measure, consumers are noticeably gloomier today than in recent years." -JPMorgan Asset Management The chart highlights that consumer #sentiment and #confidence are down sharply, with sentiment falling 29% and confidence 19% y-o-y.

If only Donald Trump was less boring to write about, we could have better reporting?!

Apparently, many people are not completely truthful when answering surveys. Who knew?

Until Minnesota the largest medicare fraud in history was run by.... A guy who used oxycontin and fentanyl to get patients addicted so they remained in his nursing homes. Trump pardoned him in 2020. $1.3 billion in fraud by one person. Presidential Pardon.

The S&P 500 was up 17.4% this year when US markets closed on Monday, undershooting the 29% gain for the MSCI All Country World ex-US index by the widest margin since the global financial crisis in 2009. Investors are "diversifying" a/k/a grabbing their money and running for the exits.

Who needs 'Hamilton' at the Kennedy Center when you can go watch Lara Trump perform this chart bottoming song instead???

"Worst fear has come true": Trump's thirst for respect mocked as laughable. Can't imagine why. 🙄

Russian Railways has been defying the odds ever since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine started nearly four years. Derailments have become much more common as track maintenance has been deferred and, besides being destroyed by Ukraine, a significant number of their locomotives have simply died,

AI is an incredible achievement that has already proved extremely useful in so many areas and promises so much more is a Jekyll and Hyde monster that must be regulated. As I already posted today, China is showing the way. bsky.app/profile/paul...

Tatiana Schlossberg, the granddaughter of the late President John F. Kennedy, has died at 35. Environmentalist, writer, mother of three (including a newborn), and fierce critic of RFK Jr, she lost her battle with acute myeloid leukemia. Read her own words about her tragic journey:

In case you were wondering what all of the right-wing militias have been up to these days. Roughly 50 ICE agents arrested two (2) people in the waiting area outside courtrooms in the Ridgedale Service Center in Minnetonka, Minnesota today. I think it took 50 because they're all so out of shape.

If you want to start taking steps to enhance your digital security, it can be hard to know where to start. Here are some simple concepts and tips. ssd.eff.org/playlist/wa...

Talk about nailing the post-Charlie Kirk assassination MAGA madness and what it had evolved into, this does it.

The measures they are proposing all seem like good ideas to me. Human intervention on first mention of suicide, requiring that minors and the elderly provide contact information for a guardian who can be notified if the subject of suicide comes up, and annual safety audits and many other things.

The headline is precisely the wrong take. We'll end up hopelessly bogged down if only one party leads the anti-AI movement, forcing the other to be the pro-AI party. The question of AI is not binary. Under the AI umbrella, there's a hugely multifaceted and interconnected set of issues to be

Drivers with those words in their customer feedback were 12X more likely to commit sexual assault. On the other side of the coin, Uber says that many of the complaints it receives turn out to be from riders trying to score a refund or are so vaguely worded that they're no actionable

What killed the local newspaper? Craigslist. The actual reporting function of the newspaper was never what made it profitable—it was simply a way to get people to look at the classified advertisements. With that gone, the work with positive externalities died.

Age 50 is so far in my rearview mirror that I need help. DOES THE PHOTO BELOW 👇 SHOW A 50+ YEAR OLD WOMAN? 1️⃣ Yes! Where can I meet her? 2️⃣ 🤣🤣🤣 You gotta be kidding!!!! 🤣🤣🤣 📊 Show results

When your name doesn’t appear in Epstein’s personal flight logs.

This is a new low. I don't feel badly for him at all.

I hadn't seen anything about this.