De Speld (a Dutch satire site) has been on top of this: "Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen announced that the Arctic island will henceforth be called Epstein Island, so that Trump will stop talking about it." speld.nl/2026/01/08/d...

Voter intimidation from the Trump camp?

The FDA won’t tell Americans where their generic drugs are made, so ProPublica did it instead. Use information from your prescription label to locate the factory and see if the plant has a history of inspection violations ⤵️

My books cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com

A joke for the history buffs: Germany’s satirical newspaper @der-postillon.com titles: “Vienna Academy of the Arts offers Trump admission as a student — They don’t want to get blamed again“

it's crazy that there's isopod species spanning from the deep ocean to arid deserts while still looking basically the same. this is a message against fast fashion trend chasing. find a look that is truly timeless and for all locations, like the isopod body plan

I have a working theory that the worst harms to public health have come from nerds discovering shrooms as adults instead of tripping like normal teens

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"Humiliation of their victims, a kind of relish in their fear and misery, a kind of—let’s call it what it is—sadism has become a dominant part of the culture of ICE."

We now have a full-blown European-American crisis, and for no reason that the president is able to articulate

any "via media" that is compromise for the sake of peace rather than comprehension for the sake of truth, any via media that makes peace with oppression rather than fearlessly contending against evil, such a "via media" should burn in the fires of gehenna

My main concern with Newsom is that something is going to have to be done about Silicon Valley in 2029 (ideally after they've been cut down to more manageable size with an AI bubble burst) and he very obviously does not have that in him.

My last two shots before my world went dark.

I have the utmost respect for Senator Kaine and Senator Warner but we do not need “coaching” on redistricting coming from a cuck chair in the corner. How about you all stay focused on the fascist in the White House and let us handle redistricting in Virginia. 10-1

More than 200,000 Danish citizens have signed a petition to buy California as a response to Trump’s attempt to take Greenland. They say they will provide Californians with “rule of law, universal health care, fact-based politics, and a lifetime supply of Danish pastries.”

“For the families of Danish soldiers who died in the American-led campaign against the Taliban, their country’s partnership with the United States is not an abstraction. Denmark’s loyalty to America brought Sophia Bruun to Afghanistan, and it ended her life.”

Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.

I've reached my lifetime quota for "interesting times." Give me bland times. Boring times. Normie times, one could even say. Times that are both dull and unexciting. Load me up with times that feel stale and uninspiring. That's the good stuff right there.

“The United States will not let men steal trophies from women…” - says guy who happily took the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to a woman

There are two types of bathing....

Read our @boltsmag.org story on the fourth of these, a big one that risks not getting enough attention. boltsmag.org/virginia-con...

The Virginia legislature today passed four constitutional amendments, all by day 3 of 2026 session: —protect abortion rights —repeal the same-sex marriage ban —allow mid-decade redistricting —greatly expand voting rights restoration. These will all go to 2026 referendums.

ICE detained people while waiting in line at a food pantry. Again, ICE DETAINED PEOPLE WHILE WAITING IN LINE AT A FOOD PANTRY.

I need to apologize for something I did. The @bostonherald.com is right, there is no place for profanities in politics.

Gail can run the world and knows exactly when it so dinner time and where the car should take her. Lennie had to be rescued from a wire hangar this morning.

“Can I go check a pulse?” a bystander said after Good was shot, his hands in the air. “No! Back up!” an ICE agent told him. “I’m a physician!” “I don’t care!” the agent replied, before another came up and said they had their own EMS on the way. trib.al/0QT1gBF

pretty sure he meant the other thing, grok, but very cool that those are your two things

A video in Minneapolis appears to show a federal agent kneeing a man in the face while he is being arrested.

Jesus. www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have developed a nasally delivered, antibiotic-inactivated Bordetella pertussis (AIBP) vaccine that NOT ONLY prevents SEVERE disease BUT also CURBS bacterial TRANSMISSION. This NEEDLE-FREE AIBP platform could open the door to new vaccines against other respiratory bacteria.

"The first thing I noticed when I got to Minneapolis last weekend was the new language: The work C was doing has a name—“commuting”—a deliberately mundane term for pursuing, tailing, and deliberately irritating ICE agents moving through the city in unmarked cars." slate.com/news-and-pol...

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This is Kevin. He's a reactive dog getting some training to be more comfortable. His trainer brought him to a pet store for some socialization where they learned he is no longer reactive when given a giant stuffed dinosaur. 14/10 (TT: katieandtatesfostermates)

Posts from Minneapolis residents read like they'll be read in voiceover in a Ken Burns-like doc one day

This is Dumpling. She got her very first sweater and promptly deactivated. 12/10 (TT: jmw495)

Bluesky going to work over on Twitter

love to have healthcare money converted into a fascist goon army

Texas A&M decided to publicly cancel my Ethics class, and share a false statement that I declined to provide information, which made it impossible for [them ] to request an exemption. See for yourself, if this statement is true. They are getting creative!

Senate Democrats absolutely have to shut the govt down to stop this ICE insanity in the Twin Cities. This is not sustainable & cannot be normalized. Any Democratic vote to provide money to the thugs who are brutalizing this community is a grave betrayal to the people here. Accountability can't wait.

It used to be that victims of murders in the U.S. would be smeared by InfoWars and Gateway Pundit as a way to fetishize guns and violence for ad dollars and supplement sales, with the added benefit of cozying up to far-right politicians. Now that work is done by CBS News.

This is Hamm. He has deli slices for ears. We have never wanted to scritch cold cuts before, but there is a first time for everything. 13/10 (IG: slices_of_hamm)

Folks in the US still like to treat the whole Greenland invasion stuff as sufficiently unserious to engage with, but it is sufficiently serious that NATO allies are actively deploying tripwire forces to deter the US. That is *already* a political and actual cost to them, and to US relationships

ive seen more articles this week about how the phrase “abolish ice” could hurt dems in the midterms than ive seen articles about how paramilitary death squads terrorizing cities will hurt republicans in the midterms

I'm guessing all kinds of things are happening with cars, apartments, furniture, bank accounts, cash in wallets, etc.

He was a silly guy in a lot of ways despite all the artistic seriousness he used to sell himself. Here's an outtake of Bowie impersonating Springsteen, Neil Young, Iggy Pop, Lou Reed, Bob Dylan, and others. It's always made me laugh. www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyuU...

We've gone from broken windows policing to breaking windows policing.

As you read this article elsewhere in today’s Times (gift link) ask yourself: did you know the Government did any of these things that, thanks to the Administration, they’re not doing anymore? I didn’t. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/b...