The Stars lost to the Blackhawks in regulation..... so the Avs remain 10 points ahead in the standings #Avs #GoAvsGo    @HockeyMtnHighCO

Auston Matthews' 14th career hat trick lifts him past Pat LaFontaine (13) for the most hat tricks by a U.S-born player in NHL history. #NHLStats: https://media.nhl.com/public/live-updates?date=2026-01-01&utm_source=xdotcom&utm_medium=nhl_social+&utm_campaign=pr

Magic Johnson was the grand marshal of the Rose Parade today, and as someone who remembers his November 1991 HIV announcement: if you had told anybody that day that he would be alive and healthy 34+ years later, I don't think they would have believed you. Medicine and research—they work.

Reup -- my post on the Jack Smith transcript: Jim Jordan Buries His Own Cowardice in a Cowardly Document Dump www.emptywheel.net/2026/01/01/j...

The GOP claim of being fiscally conservative is always B.S. They spend like there's no tomorrow, wreck the economy, and then Dems get elected and come back in and fix it -- all the while taking the blame for tightening spending to do so. It's a stupid circle and people can't see it.

I was wondering what Mamdani's first executive order would be, and I'm not disappointed by this. He has wiped off the books EVERY Eric Adams executive order issued on or after September 26, 2024, the day Adams was indicted on federal bribery charges.

Fair warning: If you don’t want to see a LOT of get out the vote content this year, I’m probably not a good person to follow. My goal for 2026 is to help hand the GOP the largest midterm loss in history. We’re going to make 2018 look like a small trickle.

AOC: New York City has chosen the ambitious pursuit of universal childcare, affordable rents and housing and clean and dignified public transit for all. We have chosen that over the distractions of bigotry and the barbarism of extreme income inequality

Lavrov demanded that Trump publicly promise to force Zelensky to hand over Donbas, according to NYT According to the outlet, in September 2025 Russia’s foreign minister spoke with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio. During the conversation, he claimed that he believed an informal agreement had

What the KENNEDY Center used to be… Remember that time Aretha Franklin performed at the 2015 Kennedy Center Honors, paying tribute to Carole King, who co-wrote “You Make Me Feel Like A Natural Woman,” and it brought a tear to Obama’s eye and everyone to their feet? And Carole King’s reaction. Wow.

This is now my favorite movie tagline of all time

Happy 70th Birthday to Michigan J. Frog, a showman, um, showfrog introduced on this day, December 31, 1955, in the Chuck Jones-directed short One Froggy Evening before finding even more long-lasting fame 40 years later as the mascot for The WB Television Network. Kiss the frog, baby!

Take a screenshot of this GIF, and whichever new word you land on is YOUR word for 2026. Let's. Go.

Mamdani arrives to his mayoral inauguration at City Hall in a motorcade of NYC taxi cabs—workers he went on hunger strike with in 2021.

Smith told lawmakers that his team found “proof beyond a reasonable doubt” that Trump engaged in a “criminal scheme” to overturn the results of the 2020 election. Smith also testified that Trump “repeatedly tried to obstruct justice” in the classified documents case. www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

Ladies and gentlemen, the brilliant mind who’s been called the “philosopher behind JD Vance”

I'd add that Vance has repeatedly insisted that the GOP welcome Hitler-lovers like Nick Fuentes, who continually bashes Vance and his wife, into the party. This has been reported almost exclusively as him expressing "unity" and trying to avoid infighting.

Juicebox Jeanine went out partying last night without first filing her justification for indicting the pipe bomber in Superior Court rather than before a Federal grand jury. The defense seems to think DOJ can't prove those were viable pipe bombs.

Last night's most uncomfortable moment was when my being a medievalist was revealed and someone asked me if Tuchmann's A Distant Mirror is a "real book." I allowed that it exists, which was NOT the question, and then the terrible follow up: is there a single-volume history you'd recommend.

New Years resolutions are usually bad but I learned the secret to having good ones a few years ago and they have actually changed my life. Anyway, my resolution this year is to dress real cunty every day.

...and, as you don’t need me to tell you, the thing about long hours of drinking is that they have consequences

Ah, New Year’s Day! That can only mean one thing. YES, THAT’S RIGHT! The 148th anniversary of New York Herald proprietor James Gordon Bennett Jr being banished from polite society for pissing in his fiancée’s fireplace, thus giving the world the phrase ‘Gordon Bennett!’ 🧵

I’d rather use an armadillo as a tampon than see this year in review

Do you even brown all the facets of your meatballs bro

Trump and Stephen Miller are actually failing in crucial ways. Deportations are lagging behind their goals, courts are mostly functioning, and their fascist, ethnonationalist cruelties have unleashed a countermobilization of unexpected scope and power. New from me: newrepublic.com/article/2046...

Jack Smith told House committee he had ‘proof beyond reasonable doubt’ in cases against Trump .. the fact that Trump's Jan 6 coup attempt didn't end with him in prison is perhaps America's biggest miscarriage of justice ever

In which the President decides to call and chat on the record with a newspaper he’s suing for a billion dollars, for libel. (gift link) www.wsj.com/us-news/as-s...

“Can’t believe NYC elected a Muslim as mayor.” In truth—a Black American Christian woman swearing in a Ugandan American Muslim of South Asian ethnicity as his Syrian American wife holds the Qurans he swears in on, all while standing on the steps of a subway station—is the most NYC thing imaginable.

REMINDER: For the first time in US history, the GOP is intentionally uninsuring millions of Americans

Great, now my calendar is out of months.

Just finished reading the Jack Smith transcript. I've highlighted what I consider to be stand-out moments, and our team at MSW Media will be cutting together a highlight reel for you. Stay tuned!

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.

How about this from NHL Stats: Valeri Nichushkin (2-0—2) and Nathan MacKinnon (2-0—2) became the second set of teammates in NHL history to each score multiple goals in the opening five minutes of a game. They joined the Islanders’ Duane Sutter (2-0—2) and Bryan Trottier (2-0—2) on Jan. 26, 1982.

DHS now says it's aiming for 100 million deportations. In an amazing coincidence, there are 104 million Black and Hispanic people living in the U.S. right now.

It's like the holiday version of the Friday news dump.

Jack Smith Deposition Released Outlining Evidence of Trump's Alleged Crimes 'Beyond a Reasonable Doubt' The Special Counsel makes clear there was sufficient evidence to pursue the charges meidasnews.com/news/jack-sm...

The cargo ship, FITBURG, traveling from Russia to Israel, was boarded and seized by Finnish authorities after its anchor chain was found deployed in the water, dragging it from Estonia to Finland. The vessel is suspected of sabotaging the Elisa submarine telecommunications cable.

BREAKING: The House Judiciary Committee has released Jack Smith's 255-page deposition transcript: judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

SMITH said he refused to review Volume 2 of his investigation (the classified docs report) because he didn't want even the suggestion that he was violating Judge Cannon's order.

Smith says Trump "without question" added to the danger to Mike Pence's life with his 2:24pm tweet while the Capitol was under attack.

Here is the 255-page Jack Smith deposition transcript. The House Judiciary Committee just released it. Don't let it get buried and obscured with all the bs news Trump and his thugs are going to flood us with.

1/ Tina Peters is in prison for criminally breaching election security, not for exposing fraud. No court, audit, or investigation found widespread voter fraud in Colorado. Mail-in voting in Colorado has existed for years, is used by voters across parties, and has been upheld by courts.

I take no leave of you, 2025. I send no compliments to your mother. You deserve no such attention. I am most seriously displeased.

Just like every year, a friendly PSA: “Feliz ano nuevo” means “happy new anus.” “Feliz año nuevo” means “happy new year.” Wishing folks either one is nice, but make sure you’re using the one you mean.

This latest reporting shows Bondi, Blanche, and others at the DOJ have been lying to the American people about the Epstein files since day one. The less than 40,000 pages that have been released represent less than 0.01% of all the total documents. They are hiding something.

Thirty years ago today, the last “Calvin and Hobbes” strip was published.

“I resent my employer because the germ theory of disease is insufficiently deferential to my preferred style of classroom instruction.” Can you hear yourself man

I think we should shut the internet down and let the people return to making spurtles out of beech wood

400 years ago, a ship carrying Irish servants ran aground off Cape Cod. These were some of the first Irish to set foot in New England and they immediately set about hanging lace curtains and saving parking spaces with lawn chairs