October-7th and what followed have radicalized me very hard against ethnonationalism. Just legions of people on every side who should and absolutely do know better saying “ok but [attrocity] is good when it’s us tho” and being taken seriously for some reason. Fuck your blood and fuck your soil.

A) HYMN B) CAROL C) SECULAR SONG A: O Come, O Come, Emmanuel B: God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen C: Deck the Halls

Firing the writers for being this lazy tbh

People are saying “you can’t just say a sport is bad!” And I keep insisting that, yes, I can. Not all the athletes, mind you. But as it exists, UFC is bad. I think it’s an unethical enterprise for participant and spectator.

"The end of 2025 has been difficult for all of us," Meloni said, adding: "Don't worry, because next year will be much worse. So rest properly during these holidays, because we must continue to give answers to this extraordinary nation." Kind of love her for this.

One of my favorite artists. Always does very cute Christmas specials.

The thing is that I just don’t believe class politics of any kind is The Key To The Happenings Capital genuinely are money-hoarding dragons and labor genuinely are backwards provincial bigots Every class holds monsters of their own unique variety because it is within their own agency to be such

We are ruled by a Satanic death cult.

Kate is a bad person and should feel bad.

Cute furry art to improve your timeline.

"Your new moons and your appointed festivals my soul hates; they have become a burden to me; I am weary of bearing them. When you stretch out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you; even though you make many prayers, I will not listen; your hands are full of blood."

Okay, so…children, immigrants, people who look to racists like immigrants, Venezuelans who own boats, anyone who depended on USAID, and trans people are all super fucked, but at least the people of Gaza are…hang on I’m being handed a memo The memo just says VOTE BETTER YOU FUCKING DOORKNOBS

"we need to listen to their concerns!" ok but their concern is that Jews run Hollywood

Uh, guys? Willard Mitt Romney is tax-the-rich-posting on main

Finally taking pictures of some prints I finished up a while ago.

"One would think that liberals, too, would come to the conclusion that the symbology of such a nation no longer appropriately serves--" AND WE'LL FILL OUR VACANT RANKS WITH A MILLION FREEMEN MORE SHOUTING THE BATTLE CRY OF FREEDOM THE UNION FOREVER HURRAH BOYS HURRAH DOWN WITH THE TRAITOR UP WITH TH

Sen. BLUMENTHAL: Was the U.S. Capitol attacked on January 6, 2021? Trump nominee: *dodges* Trump nominee: *dodges* Trump nominee: Well, individuals entered the Capitol. Blumenthal: You are in fear—how will you have the courage to be fair and impartial?

Elisa writes cogently how this conflict with Venezuela is a continuation of the same conspiratorial animus that led the public to cheer on the invasion of Iraq; and how it is easier for people to believe a war is about oil than confront the American Volk's taste for racist bloodlust.

"ICE and CBP must be abolished" is the only reasonable position. We can debate the specifics of new agencies for immigration functions, but these agencies are simply too infected with a culture of impunity, racism, and fascism to continue. They're gangs with badges.

ICE PEPPER SPRAYED A ONE-YEAR-OLD because her mother was filming them.

"But for liberalism to offer a persuasive alternative to the hateful and authoritarian snake oil coming from the right, it will have to be willing to have big conversations about virtue, meaning, and the good life."

we had decades of discourse about how the only possible solution to climate change was global-scale hair-shirtism and now--

“You don’t owe anyone anything” has done apocalyptic damage to society

Bovino, the man overseeing mass deportations, publicly declared that we must all have our papers on us, at all times, or we could be stopped, harassed, kidnapped, and detained, as they did with the man in this case, who is a US citizen.

You meet the most interesting people online.

Liberal Currents being like “they’re persecuting Christians” while the Bulwark is like “the siege on LGBT Americans is obscene” is the buddy cop team up of our decade

I want to rub every non-interventionist's face in this until they either understand their ideas are stupid, or admit that they just don't think humans outside of their chosen identity are actually people. The alternative to intervention is genocide. Because we can act, we have a duty to. Man up.

60,000 is the *low end* estimate.

So much terrible writing and thinking about race and racism starts from trying to invent special rules for race and racism, rather than accepting the broad principles of “am I not a man and a brother?”.

Which was something he shared with another bearded socialist political figure of the 19th century

Not to cite a church father from a faith that I don’t believe in but Marx reviled gambling as providing the exact kind of false hope that the lefty defender of it in the screenshot uses to call it a potential point of relief

Counterpoint: if she cannot handle the task of "not saying racial slurs and not gesturing at her crotch" during anywhere from 4 to 8 hours, she's unfit for any job that involves working with the public. I feel like if you want socialism, then you need to understand that requires treating people well

Something actually non-political. Iso's a fun artist, you should follow.

We are called to be peacemakers, and I must ask, what peace is possible here? There is one side here who is at fault. One side who violently violated the rights of another. Peace requires them to stop and they continually choose not to. So, again, what peace is possible for peacemakers here?

It is once again that time of year when the ghosts of British folklorists and German nationalists from centuries past rise to possess the living and make them spout a whole bunch of rubbish. www.youtube.com/watch?v=uW5v...

'Fetishes run amuck' being a useful frame in understanding both our government and body politic is deeply upsetting.

2026 is going to be a great year to run for office. It’s not too late in most places! runforwhat.net

See? It's word-play. It's funny. I am funny! Get your damn hands off that bottle! I WILL TELL YOU WHEN I'VE HAD ENOUGH!!

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have developed a cancer vaccine that has shown STUNNING results, PREVENTING up to 88% of MULTIPLE aggressive cancers by harnessing dual-pathway nanoparticles that train the immune system to recognize and destroy tumor cells. In some cases, it COMPLETELY prevented metastasis.

we should start calling undocumented immigrants “prenaturalized US citizens”

THESE PEOPLE ARE FILTH

I love this. Instead of liberals simply whining about all the bad stuff Trump is doing to take over media, here's ACTUAL CREATIVE LEGAL THINKING ABOUT HOW TO FIGHT BACK. This is exactly what we need! Will all this stuff work? No! But we need to TRY THINGS. counterpunch.news/p/nexstar-go...

genuinely remarkable how depraved this government is

Doing test print for a friend. Five 1/8th scale figures on a four piece base and they fit this perfectly dry fit. For those of you who don't resin print, pieces warp. Bigger pieces warp more. Getting this many figures to connect to different base pieces and each other and stay without glue is A+

a) run candidates in every damned district. b) districts that were Trump +25 are meaningfully in play and they won't be able to fight for all of them all at once. c) they're diluting their OWN districts b/c of gerrymandering. d) being aggressively liberal is not a downside even in R+25 districts.

just ask yourself, as a democrat, how you would feel if AOC only managed to win by 5 points in an off-year election under a new democratic president

There are far too much of gender and far too little of virtue here. I am not suggesting cannibalizing a reliable senator while we are trying to save the republic. You fight with the Hemingways *after* dealing with the Goebbels. However, what people like Gallego want is a problem, politically.

The dystopian sci-fi writers would be in awe of the torment nexus we have created.