...is seriously contemplating a ground war in Iran, there is nothing he can do to protect Iranians on the ground from Khameini's bullets. But as with Eisenhower and Dulles seventy years ago, he isn't measuring the cost of his hype on Iranians. He's talking trash; others can pay if they believe him.

...and certainly not with a ground campaign that risks a nuclear exchange with the Soviets. The uprising is crushed and the cost of all that prideful rhetoric about supporting a Hungarian rebellion is borne not by American Cold Warriors, but by Hungarians only. Unless Trump is...

The cynicism of this -- and the real risk to the lives of those willing to confront the Iranian theocracy -- calls to mind Hungary in 1956. "Rollback" rhetoric encourages dissidents to rise up against Soviet domination; when they do, the U.S. is in no position to intervene militarily...

Why do I have to read an Irish paper for a feature about this?

What does it mean when your doctors keep insisting you redo the cognitive exam

Breaking news: Sparklers placed on top of bottles of champagne appear to have been the source of a fire that tore through a crowded bar in southern Switzerland on New Year’s Day, killing 40 people and injuring 119, a local official said.

I’ve never seen a video or photo from a Mar-a-Lago party that didn’t look like some nightmare event in a fictional Eastern European country that the scrappy hero has to infiltrate undercover in act two to eventually save the world.

If you are a resident of California, the state now has a portal where you can demand deletion of your personal data from 500+ registered data brokers with a single request form, for free. consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov

Find me the conservative parents with kids in daycare who would be okay with a group of anonymous men, some masked, some with cameras, being allowed without their permission into their kid’s daycare in the middle of the day to *film their kids*. Find me one.

The billionaire President is mad that a member of Congress didn't help him enough with his pedophilia scandal, so rural Colorado has to keep drinking contaminated water.

I'm not even sure how you can stop an AI picture/video generator from creating CSAM. The shit needs to be regulated out of existence.

elon made his bot make kiddie porn and its ridiculous to pretend otherwise

Newfoundland fishers donate cod to those who lost everything in summer wildfires www.ctvnews.ca/canada/newfo...

Kaikai woke up with a spring in her step – she was off to spend the day with her big friends. Mwinzi flopped on the ground, trying to get her to play. Korbessa? Jealous. She kept trying to lure Kaikai away to form a ‘girls only’ club. swt.bio/kaikai

One thing I wrote about here is how technology has made buses *way* more convenient while techno-futurists were obsessed with flying taxis and self-driving cars.

Before we get into what Mamdani did talk about, its also worth noting what he didn’t talk about. A striking aspect of the speech was the relative inattention to Trump. The only time he named him was to welcome former Trump voters into his tent: donmoynihan.substack.com/p/understand...

Are you ready for this weekend's Super Wolf Moon? No matter where we are in the world - or even in history - we all see the same moon. We've put together a guide to all the Full Moons of 2026 on the Butser blog! Find it here: www.butserancientfarm.co.uk/blog/2025/1/...

Trump is a big fan of free speech rights so long as they are exercised by protesters in Iran and not in, say, Los Angeles or Portland or Minneapolis. (Also, nothing would delegitimize the protesters in Iran more quickly than Trump "coming to their rescue.") www.nytimes.com/2026/01/02/w...

Well spotted on the date. In his emails to Epstein in mid November 2018 Bannon claims to have met up with Rees Mogg, Farage and Boris Johnson to keep Brexit on track and defeat Theresa May. Farage denies this…. And yet…. bylinetimes.com/2025/11/19/d...

Canada: Our Prime Minster studied at Oxford and Harvard, was the Governor of both the Banks of England and Canada, and is recognized as one of the sharpest financial minds around. America: oh yeah? Our guy has to take dementia tests every week.

My main takeaway from the Jack Smith testimony: we should push our presidential candidate to make him Attorney General in 2029.

Donald Trump’s illegal deployment of the National Guard in California is over. The courts have once again rejected the President and returned control of the guard to our Governor. California will continue to lead the fight against this administration.

I think Rogan is a genuine reactionary and is fine with most fascism. But he's also a genuine mark. What he shares with Trump is that he's both the perfect purveyor and consumer of his own BS.

This you?

Stolen image (of course)!

contrarian.substack.com/p/the-worst-... No president has understood less about what makes America great than Donald Trump; none has been more ignorant of the post-WWII international framework that allowed America to remain the premier superpower.

open.substack.com/pub/contrari... In weakening alliances, frittering away our moral authority, aligning himself with international dictators, trashing multilateral organizations, hollowing out the State Department and acting as feckless, corrupt bully, he demolished US standing around the world

Criminals fleeing New York as Mamdani takes charge

That a party official would write such a statement is a sign of the creeping normalization of authoritarianism. Good for Pro Publica.

2025 saw the rescue of orphans big (Chapeyu) and small (Kipekee, Kaikai, Daba, Tytan, and Pips, to name a few). It also saw the births of 19 elephant calves born to orphans we rescued, raised, and reintegrated back into the wild – reminding us how one life saved leads to generations of elephants.

2025 was a year in which our pilots flew 347,000+ km for conservation, veterinary units conducted 600+ field treatments, and rangers covered 475,000+ km on patrols. We secured habitats, supported communities, and proudly worked with the Kenya Wildlife Service to further conservation across Kenya.

You say “Sunday” but I call it the week of “What-day-is-this-day” Days

i didn’t know you could have an entire week of sundays

Maria Farmer tweeted several years ago that Tara Reade had contacted her & tried to get her to claim she saw Joe Biden on Epstein’s Island & around him. Farmer let everyone know Reade was trying to convince her to lie about Joe Biden.

Revisit one of our most-read stories of 2025: One year out of college and with no apparent national security expertise, Thomas Fugate became the DHS official tasked with overseeing the government’s main hub for combating violent extremism. (Published June 2025)

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The liberal nonprofit and political world should be classifying each SCOTUS decision since Sept 29, 2005 when John Roberts took his seat. Classified as consistent with longstanding law and precedent or not. Made-up doctrines of the Roberts court like the MQD and gun “history and tradition” should

Here’s that speech from Raskin. Everyone should watch it. And especially every scientist should watch it, given the posture of the Roberts Court on administrative law principles that create the foundation on which #NIH and NSF are built. @altnih4science.bsky.social

when i say that democrats have got to stop worrying about what republicans will to do us and make republicans worry about what we will do to them, this is what i am talking about www.liberalcurrents.com/democrats-mu...

i was just thinking about this. when a fascist squeaks by, it’s a mandate. when a progressive wins by a landslide, he needs to be deferential. it’s such bullshit.

We can use the date when Justin Sun funded Trump's crypto scam as the date (November 25, 2024) after which all Trump actions must be reversed.

DHS reportedly fast-tracked a contract worth almost $1 billion to a company led by a donor to a pro-Trump nonprofit group where one of the officials overseeing the deal previously worked. That raises serious ethics concerns.

🚨 🚨 Major scandal in Ohio! Hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars sent to a for-profit organization that claimed to be helping Ohio kids, but later, turns out they couldn’t account for a bunch of the kids they claimed and were paid for. “Ghost” students, they were called. 1/

Fair warning: If you don’t want to see a LOT of get out the vote content this year, I’m probably not a good person to follow. My goal for 2026 is to help hand the GOP the largest midterm loss in history. We’re going to make 2018 look like a small trickle.

Cc the democrats if they retake the White House

It’s classic fascist to take money from the arts to make a personal slush fund.

You'll be shocked to learn that Trump and his buddies are using The "Trump" Kennedy Center to loot, grift, and hand out money to pals, just like he did with his charity and inaugurations. Well probably not shocked. Sheldon Whitehouse is working to expose this. www.rawstory.com/investigatio...

This is a statement you’ve come to play ball.

Omens.

My man looks like someone who would sit for an interview with the Epoch Times … oh wait