I mean given that he is constitutionally barred from re-election what exactly can you call this other than legalized bribery?

Yeah, people are fixating on a Cabinet Secretary being given a sovereign country to run because the president waged war without congressional approval and kidnapped the old leader. Weird that they’d get hung up on that.

if pretending we're better than blowing up innocent foreigners gets us to stop blowing up innocent foreigners, I am more than happy to fake it

Proud to present this pictorial thread of Jamelle Bouie insulting you #1: You're a dumbass

We can make jokes about the FIFIA Peace Prize but boycotting the World Cup seems like a pretty good start for a lot of countries

This person went on a buying spree over the past 24 hours. Fresh wallet. Only existed since Dec 27th and has only bet on Venezuela-related markets. polymarket.com/@0x31a56e9E6...

Nothing about this is okay. The President of the United States is on Fox News right now gabbing about the U.S. attack on Venezuela before addressing the American people. So the new order of information is: Truth Social → Fox News → the public → Congress, maybe?

fwiw it’s been about six weeks since Trump pardoned the former president of Honduras who had been convicted of trafficking drugs into the US

Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts. Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.

I think it’s important we adhere to the core ideas and laws of our society, actually.

And there it is:

Since Reagan, the GOP has systematically sought to increase the public's cynicism about our government by making our government more dysfunctional. It has worked.

AI companies are playing a game wherein these computer programs are presented to the public as autonomous individuals capable of issuing a meaningful apology. The machine is just a machine. Human beings owe the apology for building the machine irresponsibly and unleashing it on the world.

what’s happening with grok and nudity spam requests should be a global wake up call about AI image gen and instead very few media outlets have even covered it yet

A reminder of the stunning rate of scientific progress: it’s only been 101 years that we’ve known the Universe is larger than the Milky Way. Now we know that it’s at least *1 million* times larger in linear size than the Milky Way (and probably 50 or more times larger than that, even).

What could be better than starting the year off with The Thin Man? Nothing.

Ringing in the New Year with First Contact and a Magic Carpet Ride. The line (of 2025) must be drawn HERE. This far. No further!

There aren’t anywhere remotely close to 100 million aliens in the US, undocumented or naturalized.

It’s not even “are these people racist?” It’s “do these people have any beliefs at all besides white supremacy?”

One Battle After Another

I wrote this pre-pandemic. "Sometimes it may seem thankless but you need to know that our kind is getting to be rarer in a time when what we do is more important than ever." www.ranchogordo.com/blogs/blog/a...

Cheers to 2026 from your friends at TCM!

Champagne jams for the fresh midnight. Don't ask me shit about work 'Cause I'm on my champagne shit I'm talkin' high heels and no shirts 'Cause I'm on my... I used to pray about takin' vacations Remember them bills we split? Now I'm here with Bueno & we bussin' bottles Like we won a championship

The "No." from this reporter is the energy I need from everyone with a journalism degree or job description in 2026.

CNN: “Surely you don’t think a daycare should be unlocked.” SHIRLEY: “There should be a reception area.” CNN: “No, every day care is locked.” SHIRLEY: “Fair point.” 🤔 He shows up to a day care with masked men and wonders why they don’t let him in.

'Celebration in the Forrest' hand stitched embroidery by Irem Yazici, Turkish born textile artist #WomensArt #NewYearsEve

A movie about race and class in Reagan’s America will be relevant as long as we live in the long shadow of Reagan’s America.

i recorded like 30 minutes of footage for this 15 minute video. youtu.be/j2_o-YK8tJo?...

Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.

Open up this picture fully. Then look at the surface of Mars. Then look up to the top right. Spot Mars' moon Phobos high in the sky. Then notice the bright spot beside Phobos. That's Earth.

Feels like part of the plan to pressure & shame women out of the workforce. Destroy paid childcare? Guess who's expected to give up their access to capital in exchange. Much love to all the men of good conscience who understand and abhor how it insults and diminishes their place in the family, too.

Same person.. FWIW

Interesting so you think there should be a subsidy scheme for low income people that's interesting hey did you know about a neat little thing called the 'Affordable Care Act' and its various statutory provisions that you voted to defund

The Associated Press' most striking images from nature in 2025 show existence as fragile as an albino turtle hatchling among its peers or a cicada's translucent wings.

A lot of people are trying to justify their own desire to surrender to Trump early in the year

I didn’t know until now that in the original Rosie the Riveter painting, she is crushing a copy of Mein Kampf under her foot. Happy feast of the Blessed Virgin Mary, remembering all the women who crush the serpents of Satan under their heel.

Orange County D.A.'s office was mired in snitch scandal. Now DOJ says monitoring no longer needed

Beth Robertson Fiddes, contemporary land and seascapes painter whose work captures the wild nature of the Scottish highlands and Western Isles #WomensArt

Talking Heads’ bassist, Tina Weymouth, from the August 1985 issue of Vogue #Womensart (Via TalkingHeads Fans FB)

Maybe 15 years ago I was in Western Massachusetts with a partner who wanted to check out the Norman Rockwell Museum. I only knew of Rockwell as 1950s kitsch and had low expectations. As it happened, we showed up while an exhibit on Rockwell's Civil Rights legacy was on display. Blew my mind.

NEW: Citing a "large docket of cases", a Justice Dept attorney asks a court to DELAY the upcoming deadline for the Trump Admin to respond to a lawsuit, which seeks to require the hanging of the Jan 6 plaque honoring police at the Capitol Federal law required the plaque to be hung by 2023

Knives out: the upper middle class are squabbling vicious children who do not deserve their inheritance Glass onion: the new elite are the stupidest murderous cunts alive and deserve your scorn Wake up dead man: those preaching anger as salvation are leading you to death, hope and kindness matter

What's extra cool is that if you don't want to talk about all of that with a stranger, they'll make fun of you for that too

I have a pre-cancerous condition that gets worse every time I get sick. I got covid for the first time this year and I progressed through 2 stages right up to the barely-not-cancer one, which I now need a surgical procedure for. I mask because others are too selfish to do it when they're sick.

>uncovering the relics of the past, searching for noble efforts abandoned and unkept promises >New York City's first metamodernist mayor WELCOME, WIDE AWAKE ZOHRAN MAMDANI 👁

How stochastic terrorism works - Trump leverages the threats he induces against even Marjorie Taylor Greene's family www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/m... One important reason that so many Rs are scared to challenge him.

Trump to a reporter: "You're saying maybe the attack didn't place? That's possible too I guess. But President Putin told me this morning it did."

Nazi *My Little Pony* fan character art to be cursedly specific.

“i don’t like either party”