"my one plea as we ring in the new year with Zohran being sworn in as mayor is to take some fucking wins he’s not going to be perfect, there will be setbacks & disappointments, but take some joy and some pride in the good that comes out of this good things are more durable when we celebrate them"

They did it. The beautiful bastards really did it 😭Chongqing, China.

Will eggs go negative?? Now a 6-year low @teconomics 58.8 cents/dozen wholesale

Thanks Peter, for this post. Spot on. It's only in one party's interests to lie and conflate being against Israeli Gaza actions and antisemitism: the Israeli government and its supporters. Here in Oz Albanese is fighting for sanity against a well organized and funded Israeli campaign of same BS.

Turns out he was pretty prophetic considering the speed and scale of change in currency diversification since 2019.

Back when Mark Carney was a central banker he said that “In a multi-polar world, you need a multi-polar currency,”& said USD as a reserve currency is too risky & proposed a new digital currency to replace it. We asked Shahin Vallee to look into a global euro www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/a-g...

Never before seen footage‼️ Tornado genesis of the Clear Lake, South Dakota tornado earlier this year. @myradar.bsky.social #tornado #weather

HE’S STILL GOING, FOLKS

This is a thread of major media outlets falsely anthropomorphising the "Grok" chatbot program and in doing so, actively and directly removing responsibility and accountability from individual people working at X who created a child pornography generator (Elon Musk, Nikita Bier etc) #1: Reuters

Chongqing = cyberpunk Pittsburgh. Or perhaps, Pittsburgh = steampunk Chongqing.

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.

an annoying thing about realists insisting they're the no-nonsense reality-based group is that few of their predictions have been based in reality

They did it. The beautiful bastards really did it 😭Chongqing, China.

Read @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social’s first executive orders, establishing two housing task forces: “WHEREAS, New York City is experiencing its worst housing shortage since 1968… that shortage must be addressed through the delivery of additional housing at all levels of affordability”

old word of the year: polycrisis word of the new year: smolcrisis :)

Take a screenshot of this GIF, and whichever new word you land on is YOUR word for 2026. Let's. Go.

day one in mamdani’s new york

Sweeping science cuts in 2025 halted clinical trials, erased public health data and forced researchers into impossible choices. “This year nearly broke me as a scientist,” one writes. Six researchers share their stories: buff.ly/u2MHIQo 🧪

I was wondering what Mamdani's first executive order would be, and I'm not disappointed by this. He has wiped off the books EVERY Eric Adams executive order issued on or after September 26, 2024, the day Adams was indicted on federal bribery charges.

COMMUNIST SHARIA CALIPHATE OF NEW YORK baby bsky.app/profile/tyle...

As Zohran Mamdani takes over as mayor of New York City, he joins his new Deputy Mayor for Economic Justice, Julie Su, to talk about building an economy that works for the many — not just a select few.

Magic Johnson was the grand marshal of the Rose Parade today, and as someone who remembers his November 1991 HIV announcement: if you had told anybody that day that he would be alive and healthy 34+ years later, I don't think they would have believed you. Medicine and research—they work.

@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social and Rawa Duwaji on Inauguration Day, January 1, 2035, NYC City Hall! More pictures coming soon - I took a bunch and everyone was beautiful! Happy New Year, friends. We're gonna win.

Proud, proud parents.

Real "oh my god, she admit it" moment here. Trump is treated as an uninteresting figure without agency so we can dump endless criticism on liberals for how they react to his "natural disaster." He "doesn't participate in moral frameworks" lmfao

universalize this please

"China is the only large country driving the energy transition at anything close to the necessary speed and scale." It's also the only one whose energy transition is not hamstrung by reliance on the motive force of renewables profitability. Coincidence? I think not.

My son’s idea of Christmas humor. 😀

In case you thought they just meant undocumented immigrants…

Off to a good start

Shoes on or off is etiquette. Turning it into ideology just makes you unserious.

BREAKING: After legal setbacks, President Trump says he's dropping push for the National Guard in Chicago, Los Angeles and Portland for now.

Mamdani: For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty

the water thing about genAI is bullshit but the thing where it makes on-demand nudes and CSAM isn't and the thing where it talks you into killing yourself isn't and those seem pretty bad

i am rooting as much as is appropriate for mamdani to be an effective mayor because if he manages it, he will be an important model and national leader for american progressives — one part fiorello la guardia, one part robert la folette

one of my recent preoccupations is the visceral hostility the MAGA right has for the histories and traditions of the United States. these are people who spit on the Declaration and salute third-rate European despots!

This is not a hard message. Localize it. Embrace it. Win.

Mamdani won on affordability, but the real keyworld for the left’s challenges and opportunities is SPEED. Biden was slow, opening the door for Trump 2. Mamdani get it though: deliver fast or die. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/01/n...

Democrats’ national theme: “Corruption is unlawful, it’s personally disgusting, it takes money out of your pocket, and we’re treating every incident of it like an attack on the public interest” Probably a powerful message?

BERNIE: “Lastly, and perhaps most importantly— Demanding the wealthy and large corporations start paying their fair share of taxes…” CROWD: “Tax the rich! Tax the rich!” ZOHRAN: “If you are a New Yorker, I am your mayor.”

The State is back. But not disciplining capital,empowering workers or coordinating green.Instead,a "unravelling of the US-led world order,a decaying neoliberalism & reinvigorated imperial & “sub-imperial” scrambles across continents" transitionsecurity.org/imperial-sta... bsky.app/profile/trio...

Here’s hoping the new year brings us an iconic young lead singer named Polly Crisis.

just so it's clear: this is the exact core function of genAI Fascist government and climate deniers love it because it can produce the aesthetics of knowledge without any actual tendency towards truth. It is automated denialism. Shame on every climate scientist promoting its use (there are lots)

Beginning from mosques across Istanbul to the Galata Bridge, tens of thousands took to the streets on New Year’s Day, marching in solidarity with Palestine. 🇵🇸

happy new 2026, starting the year with some redistribution baby! www.ft.com/content/8b74...

Accidentally messaged the subaltern periphery group chat "may your new year be full of imperial superprofits" and the metropole labor aristocrat group chat "may Babylon finally fall this year," so 2025 is starting off great 😒

A message for you all to carry through the year

And I think liberals should stop taking the bait and ceding ground on immigration. Immigration is good. Multiculturalism is good. Free trade is good. Stop being embarrassed to say so.