lmao

This afternoon, retired Army general Stanley McChrystal spoke at the retirement ceremony hosted by HRC for six trans service members who were forced out under Trump’s ban. “I shouldn’t have to be thanked for being here. First off, we shouldn’t be here. This shouldn’t be happening.” Full remarks:

BREAKING NEWS: We are opening a formal investigation into the shooting involving federal agents in Portland today. Our office will take every step necessary to ensure the rights and security of Oregonians are protected. #orpol #breakingnews

Trump, in a sit down interview on Fox News aired just now, said the US will be conducting land strikes against the cartels. "We are gonna start now hitting land, with regard to the cartels. The cartels are running Mexico."

Another image that sums up the protest.

🧵In my expert opinion as a researcher of vehicle ramming attacks, what has been publicly described in the video evidence does not support the claim that Renee Nicole Good was attempting a deliberate ramming attack when she was shot in Minneapolis on January 7, 2026. 1/7

Ashley St. Clair says X removed her verification and demonetized her shortly after she spoke out about the Grok deepfakes

**SPOTIFY, target of a long and strong boycott campaign from @indivisible.org has announced ICE recruitment ads are no longer running on their platform. **Another boycott target, Avelo Airlines just halted deportation flights. **Next Up: Citizens Bank. variety.com/2026/digital...

lmao even *US SPY CHIEF GABBARD EXCLUDED FROM MADURO PLANS OVER PAST VIEWS they did a little war and iced out the DNI for reasons

UPDATE: I still haven't dug up the clip, but he definitely used to be a fairly popular world of warships streamer under the name...generaldort (lmao). Looks like he's streamed close to 8,000 hours, mostly from 16-19 Also from reddit 🤔 (context is it involves harassing a woman if that wasn't clear):

it's been an absolute motherfucker of a week, give each other some grace today

important message to all bluesky users

Actions have consequences.

Here's the Photo of USS Enterprise through the periscope of U24

THUCYDIDES: In my book I described the Sicilian Expedition where you invade a basically random and sort of distant country to try to loot it as a cautionary tale DIPSHITS: At long last, we have done the Sicilian Expedition from the classic of military history Don't Do The Sicilian Expedition

he taught me it was okay to be weird www.nytimes.com/2026/01/06/o...

From an email to one of our faculty members.... Not even Plato can escape censorship at Texas A&M!

Maduro is gonna walk lol

lol x.com/whitedatenet...

On his first day after leaving the FBI, Dan Bongino essentially confirms that he's going right back to podcasting and his radio show.

Update: someone dug into the wallets connected the the wallet used here and found that it was connected to an ENS domain called Stevencharles.sol Steve Witkoff's middle name is Charles en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_W...

One of most remarkable US presentations at UN Security Council I've ever seen. - No reference to UN Charter legal justification - Claims Panama as precedent (which the UN condemned) - Energy reserves ⤵️ as justification is illegal - Sharp contrast with US Ambassador Pickering presentation in 1989

OK - now at US v. Nicolas Maduro presentment in SDNY, in Venezuela narco case 1st indicted in 2011, Maduro added in 2020, wife Cilia Flores added last week. Inner City Press has covered it all, including in UN until banned, and will live-skeet, thread below

Two Aliens Looking At Bluesky

#BREAKING from me and Jennifer Jacobs - additional reporting on the strikes in Venezuela.

It's fascinating to see the changes in one company's logo over the years.

this post is even funnier with the fancy uk schools labeler on

They gentrified the tinfoil hat

#HappyNewYear! Start 2026 on a radiant note with this breathtaking video of the Sun: our Solar Orbiter spacecraft captured a stunning plasma flare dancing above the solar surface 🔥🧪🔭 🔗 www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed...

The Congressional Research Service 2-pager on the big dumb boat is up now. One of my mutuals put this in the group text. It really says it all.

BREAKING: Explosions felt across New York City as full socialism begins

This is your energy for 2026 *via Zjaan on masto/original source unknown

Shout out to everyone who made 2025 the most exciting year yet for NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory! 🎉 This year, Rubin completed its construction phase, entered operations, and revealed its first images during Rubin First Look. We couldn't have done it without all of you! 🔭

MTV is officially ending all of its music channels. In honor of that, what's your favorite music video?

I've waited 3 years to make this post

Very sad to say it seems Mike Fossey, aka Mike F. has died. Truly one of the funniest posters of all time and a talented artisan. Had been friends online for many years, but I got to hang out a couple times at shows in Boston and he was funny and sweet in real life too.

New Syrian currency designs go incredibly hard

Exclusive: The CIA carried out a drone strike earlier this month on a port facility in Venezuela, sources told CNN, marking the first known US attack on a target inside that country. This is the attack Trump has repeatedly alluded to in recent days. www.cnn.com/2025/12/29/p...

"Fern, check this out. It's the best PC music player. It's called Foobar2000. It can even rip your CD's." "Frieren-sama, people listen to music on their phones. Even if they do listen on PC, they just use Spotify or YouTube." "Huh? What happened to Winamp? Himmel loved Winamp."

Anyone have opsec (activist security / digital safety) questions?

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

Here’s to 2026

Happy Pop-Tarts Bowl Day to all who celebrate

Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software. Just fuck you. Fuck you all. I can't remember the last time I was this angry.

ICE agent recognized out Christmas shopping—throws tantrum when citizens profile him. "We're trying to prevent you from kidnapping our neighbors," they say. "I'm not doing anything but walking, leave me alone!" he yells. "Not right now you're not—but the past 5 days you have." Philadelphia, PA

It could be one more weird anomaly in this unending cycle of what the fuck.

saw this on unsplash and staring bug-eyed what the hell is going on here

Beano #753, December 22, 1956