“The old world must fall. The new world will look exactly like the old world, except it will be run by people who are really bad at everything turning in a strangely half-hearted performance of their jobs, and they’ll all be friends with each other.”

A Tennessee library has banned a book where cartoon chickens model historical undergarments and I’m sorry, I need this on my shelves immediately and probably you do too. A History of Underwear with Professor Chicken by Hannah Holt and Korwin Briggs hannahholt.com/store/a-hist...

Bit of a theme developing at Bellingcat this year.

Chris Madel is the lawyer of Jonathan Ross, the ICE agent who murdered Renee Good.

For any elected official who needs to hear this, I impart a lesson learned from the NFL: When the other team is tired and on the back foot, you don’t call a timeout so they can catch their breath. You grind their fucking face into the dirt until the final whistle blows and you’ve won the game.

“do everything we ask, go above and beyond, become our public face, and we will demote you and force you into retirement” is a message i hope all CBP employees hear loud and clear

Bovino is just the patsy - a noxious and odious fall guy. Stephen Miller is the architect and prime mover of the whole thing. Everything they do is at his direction - often after his threats. As long as he runs policy in the WH, nothing will change no matter how many Bovinos come and go.

There is no divine state sanctioned justice at the end of the road, most Nazis who died did so at the hands of active resistance, not as an epilogue happy ending for a historic genocide

A good video to watch with the rising yearning for new Nuremberg Trials in response to the actions of the US government youtu.be/n9Ay5tzHIBU?...

Whether we're talking about Boston in 1770, Kent State in 1970, or Minneapolis in 2026...people who live in places where the military shows up en masse under false pretenses, are places where people tend to organize to protest for their rights....and also, sadly, places where protesters are killed.

Following the Kent State massacre in May 1970, a Gallup poll showed that 58% of Americans thought the shootings were justified. The night *before* the killings, Ohio's GOP governor described the student protesters this way: "They're the worst type of people that we harbor in America."

What they're demanding is to see all the metadata history and internal tags, but that doesn't really tell you more useful info about the individual voter. It tells you more about what the state is doing to administer its list maintenance policies. They want to gin up bogus allegations about that.

The DOJ demand for voter rolls is not about micro-targeting. That kind of voter data is already freely available between the public voter lists and data brokers. The difference in what they're demanding is more technical backend metadata so they can make spurious claims about list maintenance.

this is a fake problem. no one is saying this to regular, offline people who are coming around. they’re saying it to people who are engaged in professional political analysis who committed professional malpractice by scolding people who saw what was coming. no, those people shouldn’t get a break.

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Obviously this is a setback but I think it's important not to let it discredit the concept of building a long, extremely narrow glass city in the middle of the desert. www.ft.com/content/036b...

In the early 1930s the SA was roughing people up, creating chaos in neighborhoods, seeking to terrorize with the occasional killing. By the late 1930s it had been supplanted by the SS, which was much better trained.

I'm not saying CSM Waltz has to lead a brigade sized guard of honor to lay the Martyrs in state under the 1st Minnesota's standard, and above the 28th Virginia's captured standard, to show they fell in the same cause and deserve the same honors. But the thought does occur to me.

This is so fucking haunting.

This is a 16-year old girl who was carrying documentation and was pulled over with her documented friend, also 16. This is what they did to both.

Future historian looking for an opening anecdote: Today, Jan. 23, 2026, the people of Minnesota hold a general strike to protest the federal gov't's assault on their persons and rights. Also today, someone (perhaps a billionaire) will pay ~$5,000,000 for a copy of the Declaration of Independence.

Thousands and thousands and thousands of Minneapolitans putting aside their jobs, lives, their personal safety and comfort, and all their petty differences and turning up in staggering numbers, with no guarantee this nightmare will end in a week or a month or a year. They’re all heroes

As someone who had the lowest possible expectations for Democratic leadership and electeds, watching Democrats in Congress see my neighbors brutalized by a government hellbent on causing us harm and then clumsily change the topic is… radicalizing

They are trying to whip people into a frenzy, in the hopes that someone will do something violent, or we’ll riot, and give them an excuse. It’s not a coincidence that JD Vance is coming tomorrow. Again, every journalist on the ground knows this, but we’ll see if their editors will let them say it.

They are targeting children because they are trying incite violence. I have talked to many journalists today, and they all made the same observation: Border Patrol and ICE have been rolling around with maximum aggression, lingering for ages as crowds, gather, seemingly trying to cause a riot.

Two hairdressers and a stylist working full-out for 90 minutes before his speech at The Dracula Ideas Summit to make this guy look as absolutely fucked up as possible. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

if it happens at a televised event, global news organizations should run the footage with audio from that vengaboys 6 flags song

Iceland at Davos

just a couple more months of this cold before it’s finally time for allergies

"Drink whole milk, you'll come in 5th place" is an incredible ad campaign.

This looks like an indictment. It is. But I see it as a reason for optimism. We don’t need to be exceptional to transform Americans' lives. We need to become average. The solutions exist. We see them working. We have to choose them. And that means fixing our democracy so that it delivers.

If there's one empirical insight I'd want everyone to understand about American politics, it's this: America's problems are solved problems. Just not here. What would change if the US simply matched the average of 31 peer democracies? Not Denmark or Norway. Just the middle of the pack. 🧵

huh what happened to him

Some background on Simon Rosenberg for those interested:

it would be hilarious if all the Seattle teams start winning championships now that Mayor Big Sports Guy is out of office. (if the Sonics came back I think he'd have an aneurysm)

An animated graphic showing wingbeats of different birds. This one is so beautiful. Image: Eleanor Lutz tabletopwhale.com/2014/09/29/f...

chat is it good for your team if they start playing Radiohead’s Jigsaw Falling Into Place before cutting to ads

“laser focused on affordability”

Been sick as hell with a cold so I’ve gone ahead and made what I am now calling Pain Ramen and the fucked up thing is that you can have been taking DayQuil for a week and Pain Ramen shows up and lets that mfer know who’s boss

look at this city. she’s shining like a gem

When I lecture to students about how the apparently thriving economy of the 1920s was really a house of cards just waiting to be knocked down, one of the points I stress is how much a small number of the very rich were essentially propping up consumer spending in unsustainable ways

Saw a lot of headlines saying "wikipedia is embracing ai" being tossed around tabloids, and I'm pretty sure they were maliciously written to make you feel a certain way about Wikipedia. What's actually happening is that wikipedia is demanding payment for data scraping and the corpos don't like that.

planned to change a lightbulb but she’s using the ladder right now

dems and libs need to start developing muscle memory around: "i am taking this position because it is the right thing to do, and because i can make a compelling case for it as part of my broader vision" -- if your vision includes paramilitary squads well, maybe politics isnt for you

That's too many to keep track of

A group of current employees and two new partners completed the purchase on Thursday afternoon.

Republican South Carolina state Rep. RJ May sentenced to 17.5 years in federal prison today. 5 counts of distributing child sex abuse material. He shared hundreds of images of kids, including pictures of adults raping seven-year-olds. Moms of Liberty had named him its Legislator of the Year.

Harrell's deputy mayor and direct city employee literally ran his corporate PAC, as depicted. No violation according to Wayne...but he fines Wilson for...her grandparents helping out with childcare during the campaign. This is literally insane. bsky.app/profile/jsea...

internal bleeding is when someone hurts my feelings but I don’t let them see me cry 😶