The way Colonel Lockjaw wears a tear gas canister ready for deployment at any time is pure theater.

Petition for every use of the word from now on, in all English-language news reports, to have it pronounced « Grok ». Usage will automatically plummet by 60 percent.

Can't even cover up their child porn creation properly - No, Grok hasn’t paywalled its deepfake image feature www.theverge.com/news/859309/...

NEW: Elon Musk is pushing people to pay for X's nonconsensual intimate image generator Grok, meaning some of the app’s tens of millions of users are being hit with a paywall when they try to create nude images of random women doing sexually explicit things within seconds.

Update www.theverge.com/news/859309/...

Leaving my house with the ‘don’t tread on me’ flag on it, putting on my mask and tactical gear, strapping on my weapon, and roaming the cities and towns that didn’t vote for my favorite candidate as an armed anonymous agent of the state kidnapping and shooting people who I don’t like the look of.

At Status_ @oliverdarcy.bsky.social has learned that Bari Weiss, CBS News' Trump-approved minder, has held up another “60 Minutes” report: An Anderson Cooper investigation of Trump’s acceptance of white S. African refugees, which is “guaranteed to provoke Trump and inflame his MAGA base.”

A lot of people have strong feelings about what’s happening in Venezuela, but not much grounding in the history or politics. I talked to Geo Maher, who’s written two books on Venezuelan politics, to offer some context.

Greg Grandin on Trump’s “Universal Police Warrant”  theintercept.com/2026/01/09/t...

We got “liberated”, alright. 🤡 @justinwolfers.bsky.social #NFP

Rubio thinks Cuba is frozen in the amber of the 1950's. He's given zero thought to any of the repercussions.

People in Venezuela are burying the dozens of people, including civilians, killed in American strikes on the country.

At some point, these sorts of markets are going to just dry up, right? After this, who outside the White House would put any money into it? You know it’s rigged, and it can be rigged in either direction, just contrary to how the majority is betting.

Trump talking about giving each person in Greenland $100,000 in US taxpayer money is incredibly America First. And he keeps sending fundraising emails to his cult promising them $2,000 checks if they send him money. At this point you can only conclude they like being hustled.

Rep. Wesley Hunt (TX-R): "The bottom line is this: when a federal officer gives you instructions, you abide by them and then you get to keep you life" The Right went from Don't Tread on Me to Comply or Die in 12 months.

Now that Trump is mimicking his hero William McKinley in taking over small nations, which one's next? Ellen Ioanes looks at Greenland, Cuba, Colombia, and Iran, the potential for invasion/regime change and the difficulties of doing so. prospect.org/2026/01/09/t...

NEWSFLASH: Kyiv mayor calls on city residents to leave if possible as power/heating conditions worsen; water supply cut off to many due to last night's attack. More than 1K settlements across Ukraine remain without power; Russia used nuke-capable missile to target energy.

Leave it to NYT to be madder about this than one of its own columnists dining with Jeffrey Epstein?

🇺🇸🇺🇦The United States of America has announced the termination of co-financing of the Ukrainian Science and Technology Center (USTC). militarnyi.com/en/news/usa-...

I spoke with the head of Greenland's largest labor union about the Trump administration's threats over annexation www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

no no don't tread on ME, you see. I of course am going to tread the shit out of YOU

*bad guy music fades in*

I can't figure out what Swalwell and Goldman are talking about here. First, what Goldman is discussing here isn't QI, right? QI asks if the act was "plainly contrary to law" in a CIVIL case. This is changing the standard in a CRIM def force statute.

I think it is probably a bad idea to put clearly unhinged, angry psychopaths in federal law enforcement positions.

Think about the mindset, and the expectation of immunity, of someone who texts this to friends.

Couldn't agree more with this. The democratic party refusing to engage with the obvious reality of police violence & racism and instead giving them more & more power was always going to lead the country here Also all you shrewd commentators in the replies please read this note from the author

Iran supreme leader: The President of America said: “If the Iranian government does such and such, then I will stand by the side of the rioters.” The rioters are pinning their hopes on him. Let him first manage his own country well, if he is capable of doing so.

Something I always wondered is how it would be covered if America became a dictatorship This is it

"Get civil, you guys!" i stress as i rip a child from their mother's arms.

This picture, from Karem Yucel, on instagram. Outside Roosevelt high school, At dismissal. AFTER Federal agents KILLED A WOMAN EARLIER IN THE DAY The parents.

CHINA REAFFIRMS SUPPORT FOR VENEZUELA China says it values its relationship with Venezuela and will continue close communication and cooperation with its government. Beijing reaffirmed its support for Venezuela’s sovereignty, security, and lawful rights, adding that its

They finally found something to replace all the shows and performers that canceled on them.

Why read past headlines: This isn't about "fact-checking" MAGA's obvious lies. No one believes them anyway. This is about calling out how ICE and their defenders are the whiniest fucking cowards I've ever seen in my life. www.salon.com/2026/01/09/i...

I am only now catching up with the theory that Trump's fixation on Greenland is because of its enormous size on Mercator Projection maps

This is exactly what it must have felt like to live under an Ancien Regime monarchy. The courtiers competing for proximity to the royal personage, controlling his access to information, everyone in the kingdom psychologizing the ruler to work out why things are happening

The evidence is increasingly pointing to the probability that an ICE agent killed a woman after misreading her as a threat because he was distracted by his simultaneous effort to record her so he could upload her image to a facial recognition database.

The Trump premises its offer to "buy" Greenland by paying $10k to each Greenlander on complete ignorance of what Denmark now pays every Greenlander (which is a huge multiple of the Trump offer).

Lol (Alt: A translated satirical Danish headline that reads "Denmark changes Greenland's name to Epstein Island so Trump will stop talking about it.")

The PayPal Mafia wants Trump to take Greenland

basically; “the summary execution of americans on the streets is a land of contrast” this guy is a true airhead. just nothing between those ears.

A 'serious medical condition' with an astronaut aboard the International Space Station led NASA to bring the whole crew back to Earth months earlier than planned, the first such emergency return in the orbiting laboratory's 25-year history, officials said reut.rs/4qMhOOZ

I am begging Democratic leadership to recognize that funding and legitimizing your authoritarian opponent’s secret police is a bad idea. This should not be a difficult concept.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

I, for one, cannot understand why men like Rupert Lowe are opposed to banning X, despite it assisting sex offenders, paying people to invite the foreign powers to invade the U.K, and allowing state-sponsored cyber warfare against our democracy. It's a real mystery...🤔

Biden was way better for Ukraine

Trump, who is openly discussing annexing Greenland, wants UK's Starmer to know that if he takes any action against Elon Musk's automated child sexual abuse material delivery system X, the UK will "face consequences" until Starmer allows US oligarchs to plunder the UK like a good boy.

GERMAN PRESIDENT STEINMEIER: “.. the United States has broken with the values that it helped to establish .. “.. we have now moved beyond the stage where we can lament the lack of respect for international law or the erosion of the international order; we are far beyond that, I believe.”

I just watched two women get kidnapped right in front of me in Northeast Minneapolis. ICE is still terrorizing our city.

❗️A large crowd in Bagh Ferdows Square in Babol (northern Iran) tonight was chanting "Long live the Shah!" and "Death to the dictator!" during protests against the regime.