wrote this week about a topic there's surprisingly little coverage of in the United States even in think tanks focused on the Chinese military: the everyday lives of Chinese soldiers. foreignpolicy.com/2025/12/16/c...

I don’t think they all knew, no. We are fed on a 24-hour diet of propaganda and it’s easy to succumb. But very generally speaking I think we have a better chance of reaching through apathy than we do of reprogramming the uniquely conservative brain rot. At least in the short term.

Watching NYT columnists talk into their tiktok cameras is not my jam

Taking action, no matter how small or humble, vaccinates you against despair.

So are the killers who shot up a 2-year-old’s birthday party in Stockton, CA, a couple days after Thanksgiving. The FBI is definitely NOT performing up to the standard we expect.

Reminder: The man in charge of @la28games.bsky.social has been accused of having sex with subordinate workers, rode on the Epstein jet 10 times, and put his Twitter on private the day Epstein was arrested.

when i was searching for a photo of a flame, i just so happened to come upon one that looked like trump’s bouffant. it was kismet.

“Mom home schooled me between fourth and eighth grades, and even today, as a parent who has come to see plainly how damaging those years were, I know that she believed that her choice was in my best interest. It was the lack of state oversight or standards that allowed our situation.”

Normalize telling other men you wish they were your dad

Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai found guilty of national security offences

There is an absolute fucking scandal going down at The New School, wherein at appears that the university is funnelling to a MEMBER OF THE SCHOOL’S BOARD while purging faculty and staff. This should be headline news. x.com/uaw7902/stat...

When criticized, Piker claimed that “Xinjiang is awesome.” newbloommag.net/2025/12/15/h...

Russia destroyed 100% of Odesa’s energy infrastructure. All substations were destroyed by missiles and drones. The city has been completely left without electricity, hot water, and heating for over one million people, including all critical infrastructure.

I haven't heard anyone say anything positive about dad bods for like 10 years. Are dad bods out of style?

ICE snatched a human rights hero. Guan Heng risked his life to capture video of Uyghur concentration camps. After escaping to the U.S., Guan was in hiding for years, not knowing his work had been crucial to substantiating China's mass detention practices. On Monday, he has an asylum hearing in NY.

The viziers continue to scheme, except the most competent among them is lil marco so it's less scheming and more groping around blindly to get president grandpa to say he likes your idea and have it executed before someone else talks to him and he changes his mind

Look at a donkey now imagine you took it and pressed its ass end into its face and made it small that's a rabbit

"Shade is king," but trees are disappearing from schoolyards in California. New research aims to address the impacts of that loss on kids.

This really fucking sucks!!! I’m not even paid to be here by an outlet, so doing this is just fucking me personally!

All these types of blue wave accounts end up somehow converging toward the same asymptote or whatever

SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA acasignups.net/ira-subsidy-... IMPORTANT: California is backfilling 100% of lost federal tax credits for all ~290,000 enrollees who earn less than 150% FPL, plus small state subsidies for those earning 150 - 165% FPL. This is reflected in the graph below.

ICE detain U.S. citizen for looking Somali—use illegal chokehold to tackle him to ground. Man repeatedly begs agents to look at his digital passport ID—they refuse. Drove him 7 miles away before releasing him alone into Minnesota snow storm—told him to "walk home" in freezing weather advisory.

We Must Absolutely Ignore Them': Experts Defy CDC Panel's Hep B Vaccine Vote — Medical societies, health departments, insurers continue to support birth dose. www.medpagetoday.com/pediatrics/v...

Let's improve the experience for air travelers. Maybe a cool gym, maybe a pool. Maybe a mosh pit to get the blood pumping. Maybe legal prostitution only inside the terminals. Maybe a place to earn a little extra money smuggling contraband. Maybe a weed bar. Maybe legal cock fight arenas.

It's also time to stop using the naturopathic term "natural immunity" and replace it with "disease-acquired immunity" to emphasise all of its disadvantages.

Jimmy Lai turned 78 today. He is still behind bars -- specifically, in solitary confinement at a maximum security prison in Hong Kong -- and his national security law trial has yet to conclude.

this has become a very important video to me

Drones struck one of Kadyrov‘s prestige objects in Grozny, Chechnya, in Russia. The highrise in Grozny City is burning. The building is pictured on the 500 Ruble bill note.

The Department of Homeland Security under the fascist Trump administration must show more respect to one of my favorite comic book/movie adaptations

hillary clinton doesn't get a lot of love on this site but let's never forget she took odo's virginity with such gentleness and skill that they made a baseball card out of it

It's good—very good, and very important—that district courts keep issuing these 100-page rulings upholding the law. It must be incredibly dispiriting to see them overturned in a two-page, lawless, unsigned order, but please, keep them coming. They expose SCOTUS' corruption like nothing else.

The more facts that come out about the "double tap" boat strike, the more reprehensible Trump's fake "war" appears. Based on a raft of legal fictions, the Navy apparently deemed two guys floating on the wreck of a capsized speedboat to be in active combat with the US, and killed them in cold blood.

January 6 was the American Beer Hall Putsch, but the "gallows" wasn't even suitable for hanging a person to death. It was a flimsy mockup.

Rocco is a rock! Rocco can't build a snowman, Howie! Elmo will end up doing all the work!

Just recently learned that the MAGA guy won the local election in my town's school district. He ranted about ending pride month at a public meeting

Tracy Beth Høeg, Makary aide who investigated Covid vaccines, to lead FDA drug center @statnews.com Høeg’s appointment as the agency’s top drug regulator comes after director Richard Pazdur filed paperwork to retire at the end of the month.

i sleep in a big bed with my wife

A basic and intuitive understanding of the law is that punishments should not be retroactive upon a policy change. This is even worse. There is no formal policy change, they are simply penalizing couples for following common practice - explicitly allowed by Congress - for decades.

Russia isn't a "normal country". It's a rump empire with internal colonies. For over three centuries, it has relied on strategic depth for defense. Ever since St. Petersburg was founded on Finnic ancestral lands, the Kremlin has lamented that St. Petersburg is too close to Finns/Sweden/Europe.

#10 in the Russo-American peace plan: "If Ukraine launches a missile at Moscow or St. Petersburg without cause, the security guarantee will be deemed invalid" The Russian Federation comprises of two city states and colonies. The colonies are there to extract resources from and to act as a buffer.

See entire 🧵. Russia is a feudal state: only Moscow-St Petersburg and the people who live there matter. The rest of the populace is just disposable garbage, fit only to work to enrich Moscow, or die to protect it.

Senator Kelly is correct. Plus a Public Service Announcement: KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1. The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal: "orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."

I've done a deep dive into the Trump family's global moneymaking campaign. The White House says there's no conflict of interest. But from Serbia to Vietnam to crypto it's being called "pay to play" on a vast scale. If you have info, get in touch @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Flight tracker shows Venezuela airspace after Trump orders shutdown

As to be expected from the multi-award winning infographics team at the SCMP - an excellent multimedia report on how the Hong Kong tower complex fire spread catastrophically multimedia.scmp.com/infographics...

Every American has an inalienable right to go out and shoot random people with a gun (at least one time).

"The CIA has denied the allegations of brutality among the units, saying they were the result of Taliban propaganda...However, USCIS used a Human Rights Watch report decrying the units as a reason to deny US citizenship to an Afghan soldier who had worked alongside American forces"

“to this day, they and others have no room at all for serious examination of the role of the press in the racist nightmare that shaped her life—much less for any discussion of what they’re doing to prevent such a nightmare’s recurrence—beyond, that is, preparing sad obituaries for the victims.”

They got the excuse they wanted.