The number of household names who were born in 1926 is stunning—and includes David Attenborough! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1926

Holy shit. Alan Greenspan, aka Mr. Andrea Mitchell, will be 100 years old in March.

In 1926, a generation of artists was born that reshaped jazz for decades. This episode celebrates eight centennials, including Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Lou Donaldson, Tony Bennett and more. n.pr/4sVW5pu

A force de jouer au con lui il va prendre le retour de manivelle Il a vraiment des problèmes mentaux. impulsivités, narcissisme ses critiques sont devenus irrationnels des colères soudaines des signes de déclin cognitif lié à l'âge.

Кобза - Зачекай - [Ukraine, Psychedelic/Jazz/Funk] (1976) https://redd.it/t0rguv https://youtu.be/BmeCaZ4Nn9Y

While ICE is killing innocent people, teargassing babies and pastors, and kidnapping our neighbors to ship them off to foreign torture prisons, seven House Democrats just voted with the GOP to give the regime’s secret police even more funding.

Budanov is looking like he’s already read Trump's 2 a.m. tweets that haven’t even been thought of yet 👁👁

The worst is the smell... #Budanov #Trump #TrumpSmells

Oh shit!!!

true, as i say in this column zeteo.com/p/trump-puti...

This is one of the most unsettling three-paragraph sequences I've read in my life, and I've spent two decades reading the most deranged people on the planet.

Why are people still reading NYT bullshit. NYT hates you. and has hated you for 20+ years. Its not news. Its billionaire opinions and talking points.

Giddy Putin Stooges Celebrate Trump’s ‘Rape’ of U.S. Allies ‘WELL DONE, TRUMPUSHKA!’ My latest for @thedailybeast.bsky.social: www.thedailybeast.com/giddy-putin-...

Meanwhile in Russia: decorated state TV host Vladimir Solovyov praised Donald Trump for the way he is treating America's allies: "Well done, Trumpushka! Well done!" www.youtube.com/watch?v=8c-q...

Tennessee’s own Al Gore: “To take a wrecking ball to our alliances is insane.” He notes Denmark helped us and sacrificed lives after 9/11, and Trump appears to have backed off his Greenland threats when the stock market dropped.

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Government of, by, and for the media hits

amazing that most people have *very* strong feelings about this.

French President Macron reported that a Russian shadow fleet tanker under false flag was boarded and detained. This is the first time a European country took such an assertive role. Germany recently barred a Russian ship entry to the Baltic Sea.

Good that the magistrate shot them down. But "they tired to arrest Don Lemon" is still pretty goddamned bad.

There is no pre-Trump world to which we can return. That has all been washed away. And there is no near future that is not defined by him and the cataclysm of his rule. My latest for @liberalcurrents.com www.liberalcurrents.com/after-trump-...

🇺🇸🇫🇮🇷 Finland’s President Alexander Stubb spoke bluntly at Davos: “What the U.S. achieved in Venezuela in just 12 hours is what Russia tried and failed to do in Ukraine.” He warned against believing the narrative that Russia is winning:

As ever, thoughts and prayers to whoever has diaper duty at the White House today.

Zelenskyy: The world stood aside as Iran drowned protests in blood Zelenskyy said the Iranian regime’s message is clear: “Kill enough people, and you will remain in power.” He accused the world of standing aside as thousands were murdered. 📹 via Clash Report

Considering there is no “prices go down” button, just a “prices go up slower” button, and Biden already pushed it, yeah, dismantling ICE and pushing for the other 99% of the Epstein files would be a better use of resources.

ツトム ヤマシタ Stomu Yamashta - And [Japan - Funk, Experimental Jazz] (1984) https://redd.it/vkn99m https://youtu.be/qtfoPSi5myY

Who would’ve thought that threatening to annex a European country’s sovereign territory wouldn’t go down well with nationalist European parties. Good luck with the ”civilisational agenda”

This is nice work by Elliott. Note too that the only demographic group in which Trump has majority support is white non-college-educated respondents, and there he is just barely holding on. There is no electoral downside to opposing authoritarianism.

On the left, English. On the right, Newspeak.

One court decision, two different headlines. Guardian on the left, NY Times on the right. Which one more directly conveys information and the stakes to the reader?

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The House Ethics Committee found that Matt Gaetz did all of the horrible things previously claimed—sex trafficking minors, prostitution (including of minors), drugs, drunk driving, obstruction, the works. The Florida Bulldog has secured and published the House report this evening.

So few people have backbones anymore.

Rare to see discusson of the point @jamellebouie.net makes here. "Most coverage of Trump treats him as president in a functional way, even if he doesn’t perform the civic duties of the office." www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/o... Rather than designing coverage for a cateory of one — the mad king...1/

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A man from Kazakhstan went to great lengths and made a carousel out of...a huge ice block.

Trump’s rambling, nonsensical, bullying speech hopefully woke up Europeans to what’s been sadly normalized over here.

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Looks like momentum for Friday's general strike against ICE is growing paydayreport.com/minneap/?ref...

Some kind of small critter has crawled up into my car somewhere and died. I have no idea where, but it smells. Fortunately, it could be a lot worse.

There is power in numbers.

Exhibit #4,293 for Watch What He Does, Not What He Says: Trump floated a 10% cap on credit card interest rates, to take effect... yesterday. Just checked my statement. Rates are still higher than 10%. Turns out this was all hot air, which took a whole news cycle but achieved nothing.

I hate that I had to write this. It’s a terrible idea for Europe’s security to consider using the US’ military bases in Europe as leverage. Unfortunately, we’re at a stage where all options are bad - so at the very least we need to put them all on the table to decide which to use when.

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Aaaaand, just FOUR days later, Trump TACO's and calls the whole thing off. Fuhgeddaboutdit -- No more trade war with Europe. The U.S. sure taught the world a lesson! (What was that lesson?)

Abolish is the fucking floor.

This is very good. Host is at Sky News Australia.

Less than 25% of all Americans voted for Trump. *Maybe* 30% of American adults voted for Trump. Remember these things.

Michael Weiss is always worth a listen. open.substack.com/pub/macspaun...

It’s unclear why the FT chose today of all days to run this piece. 😏 @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/0012...