Every day Mamdani comes out and is like "hey guys, I turned off the orphan-crushing machine. Literally just had to flip a switch. Took less than 5 minutes." After decades of dem leadership pissing and moaning and fundraising about how complex an issue it is and how difficult the process is etc

It’s a blessing. You get up and walk the dog at 15°F, and it’s such a relief to be out in double-digit weather you don’t even put on a coat.

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Even if you’re not a lawyer, read these 3 pages. Signed, “With a judicial finger in the constitutional dike” wow

Why is it whenever that creature is photographed holding up his fist as if in triumph…it always looks like such a weak little fist? I know his hands are small but it never looks like any forearm flexors are involved.

That was not the obit I was hoping for today.

The next Dem administration has to take a sledgehammer to this Supreme Court. I don’t care if it’s court packing, ignoring orders, or whatever they have to do, they need to do it in the first 100 days. We can’t go on for 30 more years of this shit.

Once again, I am asking media outlets NOT to say “conservative” when you mean “right-wing.” The term conservative has a meaning which includes support for the Constitution and law. Fascist cosplaying and real fascism isn’t conservative: it’s radical rightwing bullshit.

“Is the federal government we have more harmful than no government at all? The answer is yes.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Society of Critical Care Medicine: statement on the murder of ICU nurse Alex Pretti.

Well, that’s something, coming from a grossly incompetent US Senator.

Back to the pit they issued from, presumably

I am just gonna say it, these guys are completely emasculated by the knowledge that they have been out-organized by a group that is significantly made up of women, and all the bullshit call of duty nonsense is cope for their wounded egos bsky.app/profile/jeet...

Time to dust off & read or reread some prison memoirs. Solzhenitsyn & Navalny, obviously. Mandela. Who else?

Won’t be enough to abolish ICE.

The hazards of failing first-year biology: you invade the wrong pole. 🇦🇶 🐧 🇬🇱 🐻‍❄️

Gaza Genocide & Grifter Trump's Land Grab theorkneynews.scot/2026/01/24/g...

"“An Outside Context Problem was the sort of thing most civilisations encountered just once, and which they tended to encounter rather in the same way a sentence encountered a full stop." Iain M. Banks

Canada and the US are breaking up and I think all their friends are going to choose Canada. I bet the children will want to live there too.

Netanyahu: Bored of peace. Time to go bulldoze some more villages.

Let tonight be a lesson to all of us: Make sure you have established your own, and are aware of your loved ones', advance directives. Do you want to be awakened from your slumber when It Happens? Or do you want to find out when you awake naturally and unlock your phone? Let your loved ones know.

2026 is seeing that the U.S. Army is mobilizing a unit specialized for winter conditions, but not knowing if the intended mission is violent repression of an American city or stealing territory from a U.S. treaty ally.

Between Mamdani and Spanberger, the establishment of "instantly repeal all the bullshit the last pig put in place" as Democratic priority #1 for both democratic socialists and ex-CIA types is an extremely heartening development.

The Department of Grudges

If you don’t know what to say while living through the horrors, it’s okay. Boost the voices of your colleagues and peers that do. You can use your platform, even if words are failing you.

This is your reminder that Hungarian-Jewish scientist George de Hevesy dissolved two Nobel Prizes in aqua regia to keep them out of the hands of the Nazis. He then left the dissolved solution on his shelf and fled to Sweden. (After the war he un-dissolved the gold and the prizes were re-cast.)

Would have been a better outcome for the world if he’d just been an early-onset alcoholic. Less destruction.

South Korea has a level of FAFO that makes me envious

So…threatening action in Tehran because of state-sanctioned violence to protestors, but state-sanctioned violence against protestors in Minneapolis is ok?

KO'ing everyone's 401k the week they started bragging about murdering citizens in the street on camera is the behavior of people who are on actual drugs. Not metaphorically, it's the behavior of people with underlying mental illness on uppers and steroids who are starting to feel cornered.

DHS invading Minnesota in winter

Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG... www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...

Thread on legitimacy, worth your time to read

I’m Irish, take insults like this as compliments. She is in fact emblematic of the central role women play in Rapid Response work. Regular folks who drop what they’re doing to protect their neighbors. They do heroic work. The example they set keeps me going; they’re my sheroes.

Not going to link to it…but the official White House account is pushing lies & propaganda. Jan 6, 2021 was just as bad as you remember it, and we all saw the videos.

The Brits - “Oh my god we may have to develop nuclear war plans against the United States” The French - “OH HO HO TIME TO DUST OFF OUR NUCLEAR WAR PLANS WITH THE UNITED STATES”

In which the delightful Yiddish word “ungapatchka” is resurrected.

Would appreciate it if the military operations folks would estimate how many of these gender-affirming operations the US military can sustain.

Dunno Doctrine. This is an experiment to see what happens if you put the dumbest, most soulless man in the world in charge of what was once the greatest economy and strongest military in the world.

Mark Kelly for President 2028 🇺🇸

Just to draw a line under this: there are mechanisms in place to stop him. The problem is that congressional Republicans (who hold the majorities in both chambers) do not have the character to use them.

What a profoundly stupid man.

Hi! I’m the old wooden sled without steering who encountered a tree downslope on Suicide Hill. (Can’t help it, that’s what it was called.)

The conversation on Threads

So when can you start

Ok. So. They anonymised the sheep.

thinking about how, in the Russian history elective I took in HS, every time a tsar was facing domestic weakness the teacher would turn to the assembled students and ask "so what is it time for?" and we would chant "stunning territorial annexation!" and she would respond "well, DUH, girls"

I beg Americans to imagine an EU strike force -- stop laughing! -- abducts Trump only, and the next day Brussels is talking about how JD Vance will have to comply and an A350 full of CEOs from windmill, non-GMO cheese, and metric ruler firms is headed for Manhattan to discuss terms