Russ Vought set out to ensure a second Trump term would not be hampered by checks and balances: “I don’t want President Trump having to lose a moment of time having fights in the Oval Office about whether something is legal or doable or moral.” By @andykroll.bsky.social, with @newyorker.com

Yes please.

The only violence I’ve been seeing in Portland is from the so-called Feds!!! Keep sharing these videos; it’s evidence.

Pritzker: "If the Constitution means anything -- and I guess we all are questioning that right now -- the Insurrection Act cannot be invoked ... they just want troops on the ground because they want to militarize especially blue cities in blue states."

A new episode from Jim Acosta @jimacosta.bsky.social youtu.be/N-wyirM3hlk?...

“Or maybe she was still asleep asleep. Maybe everything she saw now was only a reflection of a reflection of reality, like that moonlight in the water.” New fiction from @gregoryspatz.bsky.social in our latest issue! Keep reading + subscribe at zyzzyva.org

Apricots apricots apricots and more apricots

Still waiting excitedly for my copy!

Excited to dive in! @zyzzyvamag.bsky.social going strong at 40. Kudos @ovillalon.bsky.social & contributors @arlozoroff.bsky.social @cubistoctopus.bsky.social @poetkellycm.bsky.social @mpalaia.bsky.social @fetaplace.bsky.social @dapowell.bsky.social @kimsamek.bsky.social @gregoryspatz.bsky.social

That was a day of work?

Upon learning that your own mistake sent an innocent father to a brutal prison where he’s likely to be tortured, anyone with a shred of decency would be overcome with shame and fight like hell to get him back. They think it’s funny. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Fun time in LA at the AWP conference with old friends and new.

👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

On the road in Prague, day one. Good times!

The Execution of the Doge, by Delacroix, 1825. He was beheaded for attempting a coup d'etat. Apropos of, you know, absolutely nothing at all.

You are so appreciated, Marc. (Please read his response to musk).

Chaos is the goal. Why? Is it because that is Putin's goal and he's in charge?

Trump officials have terminated more than 300 staffers at the National Nuclear Security Administration without realizing that they oversee America’s nuclear weapons. They are now trying to rescind the terminations.

When I heard Musk say this on Tuesday, my assumption was that it was a programming issue. Because I can code and have written to databases and because I am familiar with other examples of default values being misinterpreted. Yet somehow Musk isn't.

These are the clowns Congress refuses to stop.

Perfectly captured.

Suddenly, out of nowhere, a declassified World War II-era CIA guide to sabotaging fascism in the workplace has become one of the most popular free ebooks on the internet: www.404media.co/declassified...

Breaking - Caroline Kennedy speaks out on RFK jr. calls him a “predator” www.threads.net/@jackuno/pos...

“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist” James Baldwin

Pam Hemphill, a J6er who has since expressed serious regret for what she did, says she will not accept a pardon from President Trump. “I committed a crime.”

The fiddle maker and her apprentice, hard at work. One of them anyway.

So true.

That Felony Guy makes zero sense and is only going to get worse.

Another little piece of good news from the end of last year! Best American.

From @deadder.bsky.social in support of @anntelnaes.bsky.social 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Jeff Bezos never wanted this cartoon to become public. He killed it, and as a result, pulitzer prize editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes quit. Make sure everyone sees this cartoon.

Pretty much

One dead after Tesla Cybertruck catches fire outside Trump hotel in Las Vegas

A very relaxed cat wishing you the happiest of Happy New Year's.

Back in the pandemic my wife Caridwen and I posted a new song every night on social media. At least 200 nights, maybe more. And all of them featured our cat “listening.” Music With Mr Buttercup. Here’s a new sixty second reprisal we posted last night. The Hinge of the Year. Happy Hannumas to all!

A happy surprise! Special mention in this year's Pushcart Prize anthology for my story "Brake"!

A cat who loves all cases equally!

Coffee with a heart in it, as always, but this time with a little snow.

I think he's subtly making it known that he would rather if I didn't go on the road with the band. Or that he'd like to come with, but I doubt he'd be all right with that

Please.

Those saying Joe Biden’s pardon of his son gives “permission” to Trump to issue wild pardons forget that Trump never asks or needs permission to do anything wild.

Great to see high school friends Elizabeth Graver, Peter MacGillivray, and Richard Scullin in Williamstown today!

I wonder if him and Jesse Watters’ mom meet up at the world’s worst sons support group.

Can anyone identify this strange object??

We saw this wise being today walking in the woods near my parents house in the Berkshires. So pleasing and beautiful

Works for me.