kind of amazing that everything trump does can be understood through the lens of narcissism and it's related needs (e.g., self aggrandizement, revenge, domination, grievance validation). i don't think any character has been so one-dimensional, not even wile e coyote or scrooge mcduck

I spent my childhood inside of American concentration camps. I know one when I see one. And that is what ICE is building.

I really think this is how we all end up in Trump’s America.

Sort of gives away the lie that they're arresting hardened criminals who are drags on society when they're setting up traps to lure in Good Samaritans

Dayum!

I'm going to do a thread of all the references and context behind Bad Bunny's performance and what it means for Puerto Ricans to see this on the biggest stage. The opening title screen is a street mural in Puerto Rico that comes to life with footballs as coconuts. Follow along!

I hate IOS 26.2.1. Leave well-enough alone!

BREAKING: The Epstein survivors are releasing this ad on this Super Bowl Sunday to send the message that they will not “move on” from the largest sex trafficking scandal in the world. #standwithsurvivors

Anybody else saving random pieces of cardboard for future protest signs?

Tim Scott: “The is the most racist thing I’ve seen come out of this White House.” Subtext: There have been lots of other racist things, but this is the MOST racist.

A good thing you can do about this instead of dooming is Google “how to become a poll observer in [your town]”

SCTV is on Internet Archive if you'd like to enjoy the early work of Catherine O'Hara and her fellow sketch comedy gods. S1: archive.org/details/sctv... S2: archive.org/details/sctv... S3: archive.org/details/19-m... S4-5: archive.org/details/66-s... S6 + Cinemax: archive.org/details/sctv... #TVSky

The goal of nonviolent civil resistance is not to convince the regime they're wrong. The goal of #NonviolentCivilResistance is to convince the people to work together to make it impossible for the regime to sustain itself. We aren't nonviolent for the regime. We're nonviolent for each other.

Bonus: people who voted for Trump won't even get the joke.

it’s like we elected the kid who wishes people into the cornfield

I’m just glad the US military is finally focused on the real threats - Minnesota and Denmark.

France is our first and oldest ally. The fact that they are sending troops to fight against us should actually fill every American with horror and shame.

O rare Ben Jonson.

Expertise, research, and knowledge. How refreshing.

amazing how the entire machine can pivot within 24 hours. no need to slowly upsell the argument; just issue new marching orders

"America is an oil company with an army." —George Carlin

“The full wrath of American justice.” What happened to this?

Me today.

Happy New Year from Philly!

Just making sure that 2025 is definitely over

This is a story about Welsh cookies with the not-very-original theme that we are all immigrants. My Great Aunt Bessie, the daughter of immigrants, made delicious Welsh cookies (or Welsh cakes, to some). 1/4

THREAD. A collection of photographs of excellent sheep I have met on walks. You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.

This is a better link than the last one.

The “Seven Social Sins,” enumerated by Anglican priest Frederick Donaldson and promoted by Mahatma Gandhi: Wealth without work. Pleasure without conscience. Knowledge without character. Commerce without morality. Science without humanity. Religion without sacrifice. Politics without principle.

The NYT asked me to write about Christmas in the Trump economy, but also assigned too many holiday columns so mine didn't make it in. But here it is! The Hallmark Christmas movie you didn't ask for: www.elizabethspiers.com/a-hallmark-c...

This may interest some of you.

On this Hanukkah, let us hope that light truly does triumph over darkness. 🙏

Get a heated toilet seat they said. It's the best thing ever they said. #FridayVibes 😼 #Caturday #CatsOfBluesky

Listening to playback of Carole King's Tapestry: James Taylor, engineer Hank Cicalo, Joni Mitchell, Carole King, producer Lou Adler 📷 Jim McCrary, 1971 The album won the 1972 Grammy Award for Album of the Year. youtube.com/watch?v=SyQ-...

#xpncountdown What?!? This Jersey girl had no idea Jersey Girl wasn’t a Bruce song.

#xpncountdown Millenials think they have all the power and then the Boomers represent with Manfred Mann’s Blinded by the Light. Boom!

#xpncountdown We’re in the whiny white boy section of the countdown (apologies to Santana and Ritchie Havens). Hopefully it doesn’t last for the last 50 covers.

As you’re preparing for your Thanksgiving meal, remember the skilled work it took to get that food to your grocery store. Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.

Fox Sports (Brady, etc) word of the day if “spark.”

share.inquirer.com/reWm4W?utm_s... GIFT ARTICLE The Philadelphia Inquirer @inquirer.com, a public benefit corporation, and the largest American newspaper owned by a nonprofit, is an alternative to WAPO and NYT. This article by Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social is a fine example.

"the wealthy and powerful appear not as master operators but as bumbling sycophants, eager to cozy up to influence no matter how villainous or depraved" PS read those emails and tell me you would pay that person hundreds of millions of dollars for investment advice

I gotta be real, I did not suspect we would reach "roving mobs of white folks chanting "shame" at ICE" within 9 months, and it really feels like a sign of how much more horrifying it must be on the ground than those of us not there can even imagine.

Who’s the most boring yet inane sports announcer, John Smoltz or Tony Romo?

The girlfriend of one of the founders of Antifa.

Matthew 15:29-31: And great crowds came to him, bringing with them the lame, the blind, the crippled, the mute, and many others, and they put them at his feet, and he healed them after verifying their citizenship status.

A’ja Wilson put the Aces on her back and willed them into the playoffs. 2025 MVP well-deserved! #4XMVP

They all look so joyous, as if they know this is the group they’ll be spending eternity in hell with.