Ha! Well done.

What a strange fucking era.

And let’s remember that not all of the survivors have, in fact, survived.💙🕯️

Just to add that I love how this guy is wearing a hard hat... in case a ham falls on him and breaks his skull. Maybe you think that's very unlikely... but the more time you spend in a cave full of hung hams, the more that probability approaches absolute certainty.

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To everyone else w/ a major disability and/or chronic illness, an extra heap of holiday good wishes, especially if you're alone or w/ family members who just don't get it. Peace, all. xoxo❤️❄️

Merry Christmas if you celebrate and Happy Wednesday if you don’t. It’s been a brutal year for everyone and I hope you get a little peace today. To that end, Wham!’s “Last Christmas”. Really, George Michael dying for our sins doesn’t make any less sense than Jesus.❤️😎🎄🎅 youtu.be/E8gmARGvPlI?...

This is a useful overview if you were offline for much of today, just doing normal holiday stuff and momentarily not keeping up w/ Trump's depravity:

my grandfather said: "...as long as there has been a capacity for gobshite, there has been gobshite."

"Bringing back LimeWire to illegally rip copies of reporting suppressed by the government is definitely some cyberpunk shit." https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/12/yo-what-limewire-re-emerges-in-online-rush-to-share-pulled-60-minutes-segment/ #censorship #uspol

This week on GOOD HANG Amy Poehler interviews Paula Pell at the start and then Ana Gasteyer for the full ep and it's a glorious summit of Gen X wonderfulness. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rux...

The “My Columbus, My Community” children’s book release celebrated the creative work of students from Muscogee County, Georgia, and Russell County, Alabama, who spent the past six months documenting their neighborhoods through photography and storytelling.

Russell Brand has been charged with rape again. I know I'm not in charge b/c somehow these guys aren't all hanging in the town square. news.sky.com/story/comedi...

BREAKING: Among the files is a letter HANDWRITTEN by Jeffrey Epstein and mailed from his prison cell that claimed Donald Trump shared his love of “young nubile girls.” All prison mail is read by authorities. Epstein died just a few days later.

Co-signed.

DOJ briefly uploaded this letter from Jeff Epstein to serial child molester Larry Nassar: "Our president shares our love of young, nubile girls. When a young beauty walked by he loved to 'grab snatch,' whereas we ended up snatching grub in the mess halls of the system."

There is one overriding political problem, from which all others follow. Until it is addressed, every policy advanced by governments is window dressing. www.theguardian.com/inequality/2...

We are so completely lost when anyone, any human being won’t remove a demented pedophile from the White House. There is a Matterhorn sized pile of evidence. Bondi, Patel, the DOJ… They’ve actually read it all! They know what Trump & Epstein did. Yet they’ve done nothing and are actively hiding it.

Variety not having Sinners in their best 20 movies of 2025 is insane. I’m so very tired.

sinners really gave me hope that real shit is always going to be made and is always going to make a huge impact even when the odds feel insane and the powers that be try to flatten everything to Content

i feel like this from roosevelt's 1942 state of the union address still works as a mantra today for our fight

1) If you have an ounce of humanity, this will be gutting to watch. But that’s why it’s necessary. 2) She’s ABSOLUTELY an American hero. 3) Everything ICE is doing to her can happen to anyone of us:

The full Weiss memo is dogshit -who cares if administration figures “regret” sending people to CECOT -who cares about the criminal histories of the people we sent to CECOT, we sent them to a torture prison —who cares about the “debate” over the legality of sending people to a torture prison

This could wind up being the most-watched newsmagazine segment in television history!! Congratulations to the Ellisons and Bari Weiss!!!

Rewatched SINNERS and even though I knew it was coming, that final scene w/ Elijah and Annie still hit so hard. I remain in awe of Ryan Coogler.

The one and only Josephine Baker.

I've already signed it. To all our #disability allies, could you please sign this letter to the HHS? See below. Thanks on behalf of the tens of millions of us in the U.S. w/ #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis and #LongCovid. Post-infectious illnesses have over 200 symptoms. Utter agony. #pwME #pwLC

I've already signed it. To all our #disability allies, could you please sign this letter to the HHS? See below. Thanks on behalf of the tens of millions of us in the U.S. w/ #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis and #LongCovid. Post-infectious illnesses have over 200 symptoms. Utter agony. #pwME #pwLC

Bill Clinton is right on this one. BUT he's got no one to blame but himself for repeatedly tarnishing his own legacy.

Michael B. Jordan really should be in the Best Actor conversation right now.

"But today all fandoms are concentrated onto just a handful of Big Tech platforms. Everything cross polliates at hyper speed, making an alliance between MAGA and the Barbz a frictionless process." Really smart--and scary--piece on Nicki Minaj's fans supporting her MAGA turn:

I like that People Magazine is printing these stories b/c it shows they're breaking through to the mainstream:

If you are a whistleblower and need legal representation, @lawyers4goodgov.bsky.social may be able to help Please contact us www.lawyersforgoodgovernment.org/pro-bono-lit...

Why isn’t RFK Jr. or anyone in this wretched administration working to make healthy foods cheaper?

SCOOP: Flock left at least 60 of its AI-powered, people-tracking surveillance cameras exposed and livestreaming to the open internet. We tracked ourselves. The exposure highlights the power of these cameras and types of things they're tracking. Not just cars. www.404media.co/flock-expose...

CBS didn't run the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT, but over here at @propublica.org we've been working on the story since March, including finding out who each and every man sent to that maximum security prison was. You can see our reporting here: www.propublica.org/series/depor...

Curious to learn more about CECOT? Hear Juan, Andry, and Wilmer share firsthand how the Trump administration branded them as gang members without evidence and deported them to the brutal El Salvadoran prison. This @pbsnews.org documentary is available on YouTube. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lku5...

Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

Pete out here being smart and kind and normal:

No media org has ever set its credibility on fire so quickly.

Happy 88th birthday to the peerless Jane Fonda!🎂 “9 to 5” publicity still from my collage wall:

In an era teeming w/ monsters, it's worth remembering how many great people still move forward w/ compassion. God love you, Michael Sheen.

I don't have much spare money, but I still subscribe to Pro Public @propublica.org and the Boston Globe @bostonglobe.com b/c real journalism is particularly vital now and each is rising to the occasion.

“What has come with Trump, I’ve never experienced anything like it,” said one aid worker who has been in Kakuma for decades. “It’s huge and brutal and traumatizing.” In abolishing USAID, Trump & Co. have intentionally created an extreme famine that's starving and killing thousands of Africans:

Now that it's come out that Nick Reiner had recently been diagnosed w/ schizophrenia, it's worth reminding everyone that most people w/ schizophrenia are NOT violent.

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Publishing parties used to go hard.

Started a Rob Reiner film fest--"fest" sounds too festive, but you know what I mean--and so far, I've rewatched WHEN HARRY MET SALLY, SPINAL TAP, and SPINAL TAP II: THE END CONTINUES. The films are so great that for long stretches I can actually forget why I'm rewatching them now.

The sitting president is a child rapist and if he weren't, he'd release ALL of the Epstein files, unredacted. The women have been waiting decades for justice and deserve the truth to come to light about each of their abusers, regardless of wealth or party affiliation or royal title (gag).