Yeah, but if we only open more bases, what could Trump stamp his name on? He’s past building gold-encrusted towers; from here on, TRUMP needs to be visible from outer space.

The Supreme Court gave Trump absolute immunity for using his official powers even for the most corrupt reasons ever, including to criminally investigate state and local chief executives for using their official powers to serve their constituents

Safe astral travels to Bob Weir

I, too, heard aggrieved and eternally fragile masculinity in Jon Ross’s “fucking bitch.” Every woman has known men like this. Men who employ coercive control against women—and, should that fail, brute violence. I’m a fan of Kate Manne‘s writing. I hope millions will read this piece.

Superb thread summing up how Jonathan Ross‘s actions ring a bell with anyone familiar with dynamics of domestic violence, coercive control, and misogynistic horrors of myriad kinds. I learned Ross‘s name and saw the “fucking bitch“ video. I looked for DV arrests. Found none. But cops protect cops.

Minnesota friends, now is the time to get creative with the lutefisk. I can’t imagine a better weapon to repel ICE agents with. I am 100% serious. GO GET ‘EM. 🇳🇴🇳🇴🇳🇴🇳🇴🇳🇴🇳🇴🇳🇴🇳🇴🇳🇴🇳🇴🇳🇴

It appears JD Vance has concluded that the best way to get elected president in 2028 is to become an amalgamation of Jack Posobiec and Catturd.

A country that blows up foreign fishing boats for no reason is one that will shoot its own citizens for no reason.

Emily Heller, an eyewitness, is speaking out to set the record straight. Officers were screaming at Renee Nicole Good, “Move, move, move.” So she moved, and they shot her multiple times? Then Noem and Trump branded her a domestic terrorist. Does everyone see how absolutely insane that sounds?

When I first heard about “network states,“ I laughed. I thought no one could be so ridiculous as to try to create startup nations based on crypto and run like little fiefdoms. But it’s real. It’s serious. It’s backed by some of the richest men in history. I’m paying attention. I hope you will too.

Absolutely horrific details about an ICE shooting in Minneapolis. A witness says a woman was trying to drive away from an ICE operation and the ICE agent "reached across the hood of the car and shot her in the face like three, four times." Bovino was there. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

JFC

Francisco Goya's Saturn Devouring His Son Phish's Sloth with Ice Cream Cone

It is kind of wild that no big media outlet has busted open the story of who is making DHS' posts on X. Whoever that may be is certainly plugged into hardcore white supremacist internet propaganda with a harder edge. "Groyper" would be underselling it. This is Daily Stormer-tier sludge.

Was in SoHo earlier and the cadres were already fully differentiated by ideology and had selected comrades to lead a purge.

Needs moar gold

So good. So true. If I’m an AI hater (and I believe that’s a true statement), it’s because I love humans. I love humanity. I love what’s human. I won’t apologize. But really, just read this short essay and howl with joy.

A Meowy Christmas to all from Reba, Tela, and me! No, I did not dress them up for real. The only good and wholesome use for AI is dressing one’s cats. This definitely justifies trillions of dollars in investment, right?

The responses from MTG and Thomas Massie are examples of how deciding not to comply with Trump’s lotalty tests sets you free. GOP: Wouldn’t that feel soooo good???

Not that it's not appalling enough, but this is an official US Government post, paid for by our federal tax dollars.

Basic and simple factual reporting like this is a major reason why Trump wants CNN to come under control of his allies via the proposed merger of CNN/Warner with Paramount. (I dictated the last sentence, and merger was rendered as murder. I think that’s not wrong!)

Holy shit. Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

There’s something to be said for putting all the cards on the table

If anything counts as a smoking gun, it’s this email. “i was pointing out that that alleged rape was reported to be at my house with Donald and I raping her”

Victims can consent to revealing otherwise private/redacted material. If they have that material in their personal possession, they can do it directly. This happened in a sexual harassment case on my campus where the perp would have escaped except that the victims released the investigation report.

Ms. Leavitt, just because we can all see right through him, that doesn't mean he's being transparent.

I love this so much, I’m now ruminating about my own weird pedantry and/or erudition

I really think that we need to talk more about the fact that Republicans have basically quietly abolished the House of Representatives

This is very good

Texans. Remember that the next time you say we deserve this administration.

They have nothing to charge them with because these are fishermen, and it’s not illegal to survive an unprovoked murder attempt by a foreign military.

Trump and Vought are now breaking both sides of spending law. They’re illegally not spending where the law requires them to spend, and they’re illegally spending where they don’t have the money to spend. What we have is an appropriations king. Spending “deals” are meaningless under that setup.

But I was told trump was going to make things cheaper

Neurologically speaking, there's no such thing as 'useless' subjects or 'rip-off' degrees Insisting we should only teach useful subjects is like saying science should only do research that gives positive results If you honestly believe that's how anything works, *your* education was the wasted one

It's going up to $40 billion. USAID's budget last year was $28 billion.

Almost certainly AI. But it’s also true that cats will try to teach their hapless humans to hunt. My dear kitties had a mouse cornered earlier this week but it slipped away. Just in case, I won’t leave any pots unattended on my stove until the mouse resurfaces.

I love this beyond all rational measures. I played in the Stanford Band in college, before Silicon Valley became a nest of right-wing vipers. I would so love to bring this energy to No Kings this weekend, except I lack a band. Also, my horn-playing chops are mincemeat for lack of practice.

The Trump administration won't spend $7.1 billion to prevent millions of people from dying from AIDS but is happy to drop $40 billion to bail out a political ally and the right-wing investors who bet on his flawed economic policies.

The cost of holding down ACA premiums for a year is less than this…

It’s increasingly clear to me that the reason the six reactionaries on SCOTUS won’t commit to definitively resolving issues on the shadow docket is that they reserve the prerogative to apply diametrically different standards should a Democratic president be elected in the future.

I endorse this. I urge all protesters to wear silly costumes to ramp up the absurdity to 11.

This is why I don’t have drapes in my house. This is perhaps why I should have drapes in my house.

If Greg Abbott and his cronies have their way, the class will be brought back in a future semester, now titled Cultivating Oppression and Injustice.

AI HUCKSTER: "i built you a machine that reads books for you." ME: "can you build me a machine that unloads the dishwasher for me so *i* can read a book?"

the basic problem is that it is easier to reproduce an artist's style in almost every detail or answer most questions with like 88% accuracy than to walk up four steps

This is the way. Completely peaceful with a heavy dose of mockery.

Pete Hegseth is a basically a meat cybertruck

I’ve got a felt grape suit in three different shades of purple that turns 40 years old this fall. I sewed it myself when I was in college. And though it’s a little mangy after all these years, it will serve very well indeed as my costume for No Kings!