The ignorance of folks who are flailing in their efforts to make sense of this moment does not make them the enemy, and verbally slapping them around won't make you feel better for very long. They are poor stand-ins for your actual enemies.

None of us knows exactly what's going to happen next. Too much is being decided by chaotic buffoons. Even if you accurately map what major players would do to best serve their own interests, that's not a reliable map. Uncertainty is difficult and also a real condition.

The kidnapping of Maduro inaugurates a highly dangerous era of U.S. empire that for perhaps the first time in an era of mass media is not pretending to be anything other than a violent, extractive enterprise of domination.

earlier:

MS NOW confirms that Maduro will be taken to Brooklyn's Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC), the same facility—with horrific conditions—that held prominent prisoners like El Chapo, Sam Bankman-Fried, and Sean Combs, as well as ICE detainees.

I know a lot of people in the US (myself included) are posting through it right now, but I am sure even very smart people are not privy to some inside info about this “actually” being about the Epstein files

the president reserves the right to indict any foreign head of state in US courts in order to take control of their country, wants credit for men taking their wives and daughters to dinner in Washington, and complains about Democratic mayors ungrateful for “saving” their cities

In general, we'll probably stand a better chance at beating fascism the less we bullshit people and the less it sounds like we're talking about Santa Claus.

the important marble and onyx shopping seems to have bled into the president’s available energy to announce his kidnapping of a head of state

real question, are they going to end up at MDC? www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

The World Policeman, now with qualified immunity

all I’ve got is that the idea that you can commit any act of violence and say you were just executing a warrant is chilling and also common to US police

what

I’m no longer Catholic but I’m sure I was for a lot longer than these crusadecore losers

lingered long enough on a garden youtuber to get to the videos about how she realized “self-sufficiency” wasn’t individuals raising their own dozens of llamas and goats or each homesteader having their own raw milk dairy and maybe they need to work communally, to share, to help others

like much of what’s been done to the media in this era: deeply embarrassing and also dangerous

always read @natashalennard.bsky.social: "It’s high time that Democratic leaders treat the assault on trans youth for what it is: the attempted eradication of an entire category of persons, against which committed political opposition should be the baseline."

Seems like there's a line to be drawn from Occupy Wall Street to Bernie as national figure to AOC to Mamdani. Many other factors, of course! But maybe messy, beautiful 2011, crushed so brutally by Bloomberg & countless other mayors, forgotten in the Trump years since, was a turning point after all.

congratulations to the anti-porn and anti-sex work groups for helping create an internet where independent adult sex workers have been exploited, ripped off, and then run off and are now being replaced by on-demand CSAM

Mamdani’s first act as mayor? Announcing the city as an interested party in my slumlord landlord Pinnacle’s bankruptcy auction. (And a slew of executive orders addressing housing!)

finally defrosted from the mayoral inauguration. today (how dare it) was very good!

The way the crowd cheered when she said you best know me from the voice saying "please stand away from the platform edge"

Mahmoud Khalil and his wife Dr. Noor Abdalla arrive to Zohran Mamdani’s inauguration. Audio impossible due to jams that are bumpin.

en route to the mayor’s street party

new quarter century more art more good

meanwhile, waking up this morning in New York, outside did not look unlike this

not to ruin the year already, but around 12:33 am Eastern…

tremendously kind words! and into 2026 we go…

it is once again time to appreciate this look:

honestly excited to have a mayor

maybe, in 2026, Jan 6 will finally be over

Nick Shirley at the US Capitol on January 6th, 2021.

Planned Parenthood of Western Pennsylvania’s union says the affiliate is “pausing” gender-affirming care for 18-year-old patients for two weeks. Any other PP affiliates suspending GAC services? Reach out on Signal: garnethenderson.12

“Some tree species refuse to be fooled and demand to feel actual snow and freezing cold.”

no better epitaph for this year, too, than “as crass and consequential as a Pokémon deportation meme”

"Caitlin Flanagan, Chris Cilizza—these are not people who produce investigative journalism. These are take-merchants and mouthpieces who publish what powerful people tell them over text and DM as if it's a transgressive secret and not a comms strategy."

can’t ever narrow down my favorite post-vogue madonna video, here’s a few:

how much does it matter that there are people who got what they were sold as mass deportations (whether they didn’t get them, or did get them and worse) if we accept first that mass deportations are wrong no matter how popular they are

“Self-deport” is a whitewashed way to describe “fleeing the country under the threat of state violence.” I agree with Maria here — it’s important to call that exactly what it is.

sharing to add that, after long having followed the constituent parts assembled here into QAnon Voltron, it makes getting to this racist harassment campaign feel both crazymaking and inevitable

gardening youtube is such a delight, for me, right now. i have no idea who is famous or in a beef with who or who sold their soul to whatever brand. as long as the person doesn't seem MAHA'd out or trad-y, i am locked in. even better if without fanfare they let their cat wander through.

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there is no moral universe in which someone who ran on QAnon and supported a coup is pro-democracy, and if there is, it’s worse than worthless

truly never want to hear about the Crossfit QAnon congresswoman again

in other “invoking ‘protecting the rule of law’ to protect the powerful” news:

“If Western so-called liberal democracy had boasted the emergence of a ‘post racial’ society, if it claimed that it was ‘law and order’ that held back the worst of its racist, fascist instincts instead of activating them, the brutal killing of George Floyd undid that claim.”

people’s faith in the law is getting people they’d rather ignore killed

I think a lot of people would be perfectly happy with illiberal policies (like the ones MTG continues to support for trans people, immigrants, women, free speech, you name it) as long as they can keep the uniparty, Morning Joe framework of politics they've lived with their whole lives

saw one other soul masking today and my first thought was “thank you,” but that’s also because I already spend too much time pissed off about the state of the ongoing pandemic, and I don’t only think about that when I see masked people, and I would never take it out on them/us

mood going into 2k26: @leahsottile.bsky.social's living manifesto for journalism