Here's the clip of Tony Dokoupil ending tonight's broadcast by absolutely gushing over "ultimate Florida Man" Marco Rubio.

"Marco Rubio, we salute you!" A real thing that was said by the CBS Evening News anchor tonight.

Americans’ long unfamiliarity with overt authoritarianism is probably why we’re seeing such cartoonish displays of surrender and compliance. Had to learn them from comic books and B movies.

FIVE YEARS & he has not been held accountable for one of the most disgraceful events in this nation's history. Trying to overturn a fair election in an attempted coup against his own government is the very definition of TREASON. We can never move forward until this is fully adjudicated. #ShameOnUS🇺🇸

Pam Bondi's Injustice Department has backed off a dubious claim about Maduro that the Trump administration promoted last year in laying the groundwork to remove him from power in Venezuela: accusing him of leading a drug cartel called Cartel de los Soles. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/05/u...

Is this ethical? Yes. Popper: Paradox of Tolerance. "If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them."

At least a major news outlet is finally reporting on the fact that the farmwork exception to child labor laws exists, because basically no one knows it's even a thing, and you can't end something nobody knows exists.

Five years later, and it still bears repeating: January 6 was a heavily armed insurrection.

My mind reaches for quotes from Pulp Fiction almost daily but too few young people have seen it so they just roll around in my head.

1. Did you know that Girl Scouts has, for a long time, accepted trans girls and nonbinary scouts? Trans kids are under attack. Every year, I make a thread of trans and nonbinary girl scouts you can get your cookies from. Lets get our cookies from them this year in solidarity!

If any media outlets want to talk about the closure of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, I'm currently writing the official history of public meeting for the CPB and Current, and I'm available.

Newsom should be deploying the Mike Johnson/Greg Abbott precedent and take his time to hold the special election to fill this seat.

"Even when weighed against this stunning record of degeneracy, the pardoning by Trump of his cop-beating foot soldiers represents the lowest moment of this presidency so far, because it was an act not only of naked despotism but also of outlandish hypocrisy." www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

I'm almost certainly late to this, but the list of risks for the Claude in Chrome beta is 👀. Essentially, you the human need to be extremely cautious so that the AI agent can be permissive support.claude.com/en/articles/...

Curtis Yarvin has written a very long screed in defense of his post in which he said, “Hitler spoke the truth.” A sampling of select portions is below and includes, in reference to Jewish people, the words: “The only way to tell is the name and the nose.”

Editor’s note: No one believes it because he made it up

I seem to recall we once fought a whole war in part over whether it was ok to deny lodgings to imperial Troops

Abortions will remain legal in Wyoming. The state’s supreme court ruled Jan. 6 that two near-total abortion bans are unconstitutional. (via @wyomingpublicmedia.bsky.social)

5 years after the J6 attack on the Capitol, the threat to American democracy hasn't faded, it's grown more dangerous. Political violence has surged, trust in democratic institutions has plummeted to historic lows, and leading democracy experts now classify the U.S. as an "electoral autocracy."

Pathetic.

THIS

"Last year, before capturing President Nicolás Maduro, the Trump administration designated a Venezuelan slang term for drug corruption in the military as a terrorist organization and said he led it."

Fox showed fires in the street from Aug. 19, 2020, the day after a crowd set fires in the Multnomah County headquarters. They aired it in September 2025 while discussing current protests. Trump said afterward: "I didn't know that was still going on."

ProPublica reviewed months of Fox News coverage and 700+ social media videos from Portland protests. The found that Fox repeatedly aired 2020 footage and labeled it 2025. Trump watched, announced the National Guard was coming, and said the city looked like "World War II."

Yet another huge contract, awarded without any competitive bidding process, to Wes Streeting's favourite NHS supplier, the Hard Right US surveillance tech specialists Palantir, for military decision making capability.

It remains unclear if big oil will go ALL IN VZ. They know the region. It will take a decade to rebuild the infrastructure and get oil pumping…. North of $100bn in investment and @potus will he out of office in 3yrs Cont….

"Hernández boasted that he would 'stuff the drugs up the gringos’ noses' while trafficking more than 500 tons of cocaine into the US. "Trump freed him, saying, 'If somebody sells drugs in that country, that doesn’t mean you arrest the president and put him in jail'..." www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

"The Monroe Doctrine was a policy born of US weakness and discarded as soon as the US became a world power" should be something that all journalists know

Lying to the American people and to American courts is just what real presidents do, and we strongly approve... writes Jeff Bezos' English editors at WaPo. This paper becomes more farcical with each passing day.

Lia Smith just wanted to swim.

More stupid than evil? Tough call.

Way down the list on how insane and evil this is, but... just a point of con law trivia, I guess: the president doesn't have the power to annex territory. Like, even assuming we militarily occupied it. Just on the domestic law angle, it still wouldn't be "part of the US" w/o Congress saying so.

It’s genuinely wild that the United States spent decades building an elaborate rules-based international order which de facto cemented its permanent status as the dominant global hegemon, sustained by ideology rather than might, and now is just blowing it all up for literally no reason

this is small comfort given he has state power and i don’t but i am struck by what an obviously weak and fragile man miller is. a blubbering piss baby whose entire affect and personality is an attempt to make up for his profound feelings of inadequacy

Children will die with RFK Jr.'s new vaccine recommendations. We're NOT doing the "experts disagree" game. The US vaccine schedule was painstakingly constructed through a deep & thorough process by experts with unquestionable expertise. This is policy by fiat. It is pre-meditated murder. 1/

@CNN and @nytimes.com should have a “US Measles Cases” ticker running every minute of every day. This is a national emergency. It matters more than the DJIA.

I used to help draft the Article 51 letters for the US government. This dog's breakfast of nonsense from USUN is just embarrassing. The US government has no plausible self defense claim for its unlawful attack on Venezuela.

Copyright Cases To Watch In 2026 www.law360.com/media/articl...

We cannot become numb to the outrage of this. The wife of the President’s Senior Advisor threatens a sovereign nation.

Maduro’s Ouster Plays Right Into Putin’s Hands www.nytimes.com/2026/01/04/o...

When I was a reporter we entered every event and interview assuming every statement every politician uttered was BS or a lie. They don’t come to it like that any more.

So many in media are ill-equipped to interview officials about what’s happening because they begin with the presumption of legitimacy and don’t know enough about history or U.S. foreign policy to foment intelligent pushback and hold officials accountable.

The AI destruction of undergraduate education is about to get much worse. Yet universities do nothing but pander to the industry www.chronicle.com/article/can-...

I don’t understand all these white Americans trying to get EU citizenship, as if Europe did not invent and perfect fascism and as if France and Germany are not about to elect fascists like Italy, Hungary, Slovenia, and (almost) Poland already have. Even NL and Sweden are fascist-adjacent now.

As a teenager, Marco Rubio worked for his brother-in-law Orlando Cicilia in an import and sale business of exotic animals. It was a front for moving nearly half a million pounds of cocaine and marijuana Maureen Tkacik prospect.org/2025/12/23/n...

Love this from Guillermo del Toro

With that being said, Grok and other AI image generators should be destroyed. If we had a just society, it never would have gotten this far.

The end goal of Grok sexual harassment is to make women afraid to be visible. It’s a punishment for daring to exist in a way the perpetrators can’t control. There’s no one solution to this, because the problem isn’t just technological. It’s cultural. It’s misogyny. This is just one expression of it.

Colin and Sophie Hortman, the children of Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, are asking Trump to remove the false posts about their parents' killing: