both martin and sinatra were the sons of immigrants from the mezzogiorno, which was basically a third world country until the 1970s. your average immigrant from sub-saharan africa comes from a society more developed than the early 20th century mezzogiorno. miller as usual is full of shit

and this is an Obama judge! (who at this point seems to be a nut who's gone MAGA, she was the same one who allowed the USIP takeover)

any sufficiently advanced catholicism is indistinguishable from witchcraft

"you sound like a gay Lois Griffin"

heard this one second hand like ten years ago but a friend of a friend (bald white guy) told some noisy teens on the subway to quiet down and one of them looked at him and said “suck my pussy uncle fester”

funny plausible but pretty unlikely scenario where Gill runs a completely old-school machine campaign and then gets hilariously knocked into fourth place by two weeks of super PAC TV spots for Mejia and Way

my hot end of year take is I wouldn't be surprised if Brendan Gill ended up in third place in the end

inspirational: you can in fact just send your leaders to prison for effective life sentences

Santa and the Grinch have returned to the shadow realm, where they will murder each other with rusted knives and axes repeatedly until the next Christmas season dawns once more

It's Christmas. You are attempting not to argue with your uncle who thinks Mossad plotted with undead John McCain and the Clintons to frame Trump for the Epstein stuff. Why not give him the gift of a new Congress that will make him totally fucking miserable?

NYT provides no evidence here, probably because the claim is flatly untrue. See eg recent Pew data, or many posts on the subject from @gelliottmorris.com this year www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u...

look at my blue-state trifectas dawg

eyes suddenly turning blue like those Timmy Chalamet movies I haven't seen about the books I haven't read: Julie Gonzales beats John Hickenlooper at the Colorado Democratic convention so badly he doesn't get ballot access, and he's too arrogant to petition independent of the convention system

to elaborate on this a bit, landlords committing arson-based insurance fraud was a documented epidemic on both sides of the Hudson before and during this time period, before you even get into the murder rates

I don't think Trump should get access to standard medical care, he should have to let RFK Jr treat him

they held a press conference with a dude who claimed to be an ex-marine sex worker who’d had a months-long BDSM affair with Warren, who was apparently too much for him this was the sign I am not making any of this up

Merry Christmas to me, got a $250 class action settlement from Themis I guess

When you're grumpy because three annoying ghosts kept you up all night.

as a Christian fuck this!!!!

I take the 2/3 from Penn to Borough Hall most days and I've had to tell my family like half a dozen times that it's an extremely safe trip which by the way goes exclusively through rich neighborhoods

wow, if only literally every other developed country in the world had done some version of universal healthcare, then we might have some information to work off here. As it is I guess we're just flying blind.

the old white Boomers who run the entire tristate GOP and the LI/Westchester/NJ Dems live in such an epistemic bubble that they genuinely don't realize this kind of constant subway/city crime panic makes you seem like an actual paranoid insane person to the average tristate adult under 50

Elon Musk fixing Bluesky's notorious problems attracting brands and government/quasi-governmental institutions by personally chasing the entire Japanese internet off Twitter for no reason

They confirmed that wheat causes celiac disease during the post WWII Dutch famine (when celiac kids, like all kids, didn’t get any bread but actually died less than before )

*at a christmas party* oh Rudolph is your favorite reindeer? That’s cool yeah yeah he’s pretty great *in reindeer chat* BlitzenBoy92: at the work thinh. take a guess DonnerTime: buncha dolphies? VixenLover: fuckin lame bro just keep ur cool change the subject The Dasher Enjoyer: thinh

nobody tells you as a kid that once you get old enough for your relatives to be old and ailing, the Thanksgiving-to-New Year's stretch is the most powerfully depressing place on the entire calendar

to be clear: Jesus also said denying help to the poor is rejecting God.

it was really funny watching medical professionals initially (and understandably) assume the worst of the hemophilia patient covered in blood from head trauma only to gradually realize, disbelievingly at first, that I was somehow completely fine and checked out in every possible way

I ran to catch a train, tripped over nothing at all, fell face-first into tactile paving bumps on the platform edge, and split my forehead open as my phone skittered over the edge onto the tracks. I ended up hospitalized with about half a dozen X-rays and CAT scans; I was, somehow, completely fine.

Tiny Tim, who was charged by a Boston grand jury today with 16 counts including tax evasion, grand larceny, bribery, and witness tampering, maintains his innocence but unconvincingly denies prosecutors' suspicions that all the alleged acts were directed by Executive Vice President "Neez" Scrooge

Dua Lipa, Cardi B, and Sabrina Carpenter somehow holding it down for millennial/zoomer leftism though

oh so the DSCC straight up does not have a candidate in Texas. honestly, great!

please file queen I'm a bitter East Coast socialist and I'd pay $50 for a second pro-fish mug

One of America's low-key worst couples. The Millers of the Biden administration.

What

the live-action Grinch somehow came on our TV and it's...upsetting to even look at? I would say this film is a series of choices but that implies a level of intentionality that I'm not sure was present in the making of this dead-eyed slop

six months ago Reader’s Digest asked if they could purchase the publishing rights for this elaborate shitpost I wrote a year ago now wherein I pretended to be the elf equivalent of David Brooks at the North Pole. Thought it was maybe a phishing scam but it’s real LMAOO

cold open with a 50,000 ft view contrarian take, then a gentle turn into “grindset and we won’t apologize for having high standards”, this basically gets a retired executive to lay on his back and ask for belly rubs

She’s a doofus, but it’s pretty easy to see why this shit hits like drugs with the rich and clueless

As I’m celebrating the holidays with my family, I’m thinking about how Jesus was a refugee fleeing persecution. It’s why I attended a prayer vigil at Delaney Hall for Jean Wilson Brutus this week. My faith inspires me to help immigrant families & resist the masked ICE agents tearing families apart

Our first lamé duck president

call me the United States the way I've had a mostly terrible and universally humbling year

a grinch is the offspring of a who and a sneetch. and like a mule, is genetically sterile

rural New Jersey is really underrated as a place with quietly threatening energy

ngl I only actually put Goodlander's challenger on the list because her voting record is terrible and she's married to Jake Sullivan. I genuinely did not realize she was also a Lieberman and McCain alum closely related to multiple New Hampshire Republican politicians, lmao

alright! so! let's go district by district. secure.actblue.com/donate/bring...

I like that the Senate President is scared enough to suddenly be hitting every Democratic super voter in his district with holiday cards but also too sloppy to copy-edit the things. look at that unnecessary and nonsensical comma. why is HOLIDAY SEASON shouting at me

It's actually worse. The Supreme Court has held 9-0 -- Clarence Thomas and other executive power fanatics included -- that detainees rendered to another country via the Alien Enemies Act are entitled to a pre-deportation hearing. There is no legal debate whatsoever.