we need to ask for guillotines and put up this as the compromise

The wonderful new President of Ireland has a chance to do the funniest thing

it’s interesting to see the start date different people attach to this condition of existential american embarrassment. ten years ago, twenty, sixty. everyone’s sort of right

You should be embarrassed to be a member of congress and issuing anything other than impeachment resolutions. You're in the model UN. They should give you legos and a propeller hat

Miss me with your “We should admit Maduro’s bad because facts matter and etc.” takes in this moment. We should know this by now; because it’s not about whether Maduro is good or bad…

Are we supposed to call our reps and tell them we don’t like when the president engages in overt war crimes, or can we trust them to get there on their own?

It's a big day for those fluent in the good grammar of civility looking to deploy decorum to mask agendas of cruelty

Good morning, from the actual axis of evil

Seeing stuff from NYC and from Seattle today and we deserve that here in Providence. David Morales, people. Don’t screw this up!

as a texan i'll spare people zohran takes but one thing i think we're going to see even more of now that he's mayor is mainstream media shift the goal posts of what having a mandate is. trump had a mandate when he narrowly won but zohran has to reach out to all these factions no matter what

NEW YORK (AP) — Democrat Zohran Mamdani sworn in as mayor of New York City.

I’m reserving my new year wishes for IMBOLC, fyi

(art by @wardsutton.bsky.social)

Good stuff from Damon, as always

So, is there a MRS. Scrub Dadd—oh I’m so sorry, you folks have a good night

"According to a 2018 study, the percentage of trans people who end up regretting vaginoplasty is about 1 percent, significantly lower than your average knee surgery. The most common reason for regretting trans-affirming surgery, in fact, is inadequate surgical outcomes."

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller December 29,1947 Note: A concertina is a hand-held, bellows-driven musical instrument with buttons on each end, similar to an accordion

I’ve played clubs in Raleigh and dropped in at #OccupyRaleigh once, but never an in-store. I just wasn’t sure if the screen shot was real.

Did this actually happen? (in the show, I mean)

And a good morning to everyone reading the “later life” section of Brigitte Bardot’s wikipedia page for the first time

How could it possibly do this when it is a plausibility generator? Why would I want the most likely sounding response if I am supposedly 'using it as a dialogic thinking space' why would I want any of it??? Why do you think it is possible to improve cognition by doing less of it? I do not get this.

Well that went fast. We’re adding a second show on the night BEFORE. Follow Cats Luck on instagram, because they’ll have the link up before I will!

First solo show of 2026 is Feb. 15 at Cats Luck in Neptune, NJ, with my pal, Mikey Erg. Only predictable thing about 2026 so far, is that this will be fun.

[doing backing vocals for Sam Cooke] Science Book

Don Henley, backstage after a Brian Wilson show telling Wilson how much his music meant, asked him to sign a first-pressing vinyl copy of "Pet Sounds." Wilson signed it: "Don, thanks for the great songs" and started to hand it back, but then decided to cross out "great" before returning it to him.

look at how little effort it takes for someone on the conservative grievance circuit to destroy a life millions of college kids have half assed an assignment at the last minute, you eat the F and move on but the effort to push trans people out of public life will use whatever it can get

Gotta post the 4chan meme, sorry:

i did very nearly call it “Affordable Christmas Act”

Trump went through all the trouble of releasing redacted Epstein Files then uploaded the files but used Acrobat to redact text making it highlightable and now the real files have leaked showing Trump was accused of raping a teenager who was found dead

Look, the Beatles were HUGE for me as a kid, and I still love them as much as, if not more than, the next #BeatlesGuy. But I’m BEGGING someone to put this kind of energy into the KINKS, for the love of god

Archivists are h go on an save the world

It got taken down from ytube, but it’s still up here, & I encourage everyone to take 15 minutes (13 + 2 to breathe afterward) to watch it. So much to say about civil v. criminal offenses, why ANYONE should wind up in a place like this, what America is doing, &w/in that, what CBS & Weiss are doing

Weird how The Free Press was able to publish all of these without comment from the Washigton University Transgender Center at St. Louis Children's Hospital.

I truly cannot believe that I have had to spend almost the entirety of the last two decades knowing who Bari Weiss is. And ONE MIGHT SAY it’s my own damned fault for knowing, but now she’s spiking stories at my old employer, CBS News, so

Wake Up Dead Man was more Catholic than Conclave

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Zohran Mamdani explains that thousands and thousands of New Yorkers are already eligible for free and reduce public transportation, but because of the bureaucratic hurdles they never get enrolled in the program. That's why he wants to just make the bus free.

if the mta sold F/M swap merch they'd be funded for the next decade

So… folks…

An ICE agent in Minneapolis pinned a pregnant woman’s face into the snow and knelt on her body. She was also dragged across the pavement by her wrist.

A chilling account of what stress from ICE raids does to the pregnant body: high blood pressure, disrupted sleep, chest pains, depression. And when immigrants fear going outside, they skip prenatal appts & go untreated. OBs are worried: "These policies are having very deep effects on our patients.”

No thesis more vindicated www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/622555... bsky.app/profile/rgoo...

Included in this week’s That’s Marvelous newsletter is a list of horrible fake (mostly) nü-metal and rap-rock bands I accused @tedleo.bsky.social of playing in. If you would like more context, you can read the whole thing here: www.thatsmarvelousnewsletter.com/162-malort-a...

We’re not running out of good ideas, but the tech fetishists who have no ideas other than “but I put a lot of money and emotion into this basket” always do, and their narcissism does not allow them to consider that their failed ideas suck, and the flop sweat is palpable.

The usual suspects are trying to drag the Overton Window to permit “deport all Muslims” as acceptable rhetoric. Consider what should be done to those people, and then drag the Overton Window to encourage that.

Bluesky, I’ve been stuck at Minneapolis airport, reading the actual news all day. I’m at the point now, where I could use the diversion of #Part6, if anyone has the full thing they can share.

Josh is the most delightful “villain” I’ve ever shared a stage with!

Once in a century political opportunity here, if only there were a party to claim it

Today’s That’s Marvelous newsletter is up featuring some thoughts about Judaism and community and nü-metal and Malört. Lots of umlauts this week. Read it all: www.thatsmarvelousnewsletter.com/162-malort-a...