oh christ look at the time

Cis comedians making great trans jokes is always such a treat

Lifehack: instead of calling next year 2026, refer to it as -46 B.I. When people ask what it is counting down to just respond "the Incident" as if it needs no explanation.

RIP 2025 2025-2025

Heated Rivalry obsession peaked today. Be brave! #heatedrivalry

2025 recapped

A stranger just helped me move all my groceries to a new cart when mine broke, gave me a hug, said merry Christmas, then carried on. Found my 2026 North Star.

the least shocking thing in the epstein files that wont get enough attention. police regularly arrest and charge victims to coerce them into participating, often jailing them in conditions that are worse.

uh www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

This victim told a driver that she couldn't report Trump raping her because "They will kill me." In 2021, another victim said that Epstein told her girls who don't behave are fed to alligators and took her where they die. He threatened to kill her and her son.

Golf is not an elite sport Golf country club memberships are an elite sport

ok everything stop costing money right now!!!!!!!!

The “free speech” and “cancel culture” panics have led to overt state censorship because that was always their purpose. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

It used to be that the United States would use Voice of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty to transmit truth across the borders of repressive regimes. Now the work of American reporters, having been censored, is being smuggled across the border to reach Americans.

They just closed a federal investigation into nationwide price fixing operation favoring the landlords but sure lets blame Haitians

HEATED RIVALRY had already achieved obsession status for me. Then this week they went and made a flat out exceptional episode of tv. Direction, editing, performances, writing, music. Connor Storrie is such a star. Also holy shit this romance! I love this show so much.

From a focus group of Gen Z Republicans. (www.city-journal.org/article/manh...) Tell me again about how Zohran Mamdani is the big threat to Jewish thriving in the US today.

Interesting to consider that if you were to go and deface the Kennedy center by removing Trump’s name, you’d be arrested and charged with a crime, but your act would be no more unlawful than what they’re doing right now.

I love my two blackout drunk Minnesota sons

A THOUSAND TIMES THIS

White men are 30% of the US and if they look around the room and see it’s less than 90% white men they think it’s affirmative action.

Philly is America's greatest city

The Vanity Fair photographer from the Susie Wiles story. Holy. Shit. www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...

Bravo, anonymous hero.

True Soulless Mates

New WMD just dropped; a different kind of 'forever war'. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

The Miami Herald & Tampa Bay Times have blown the lid off scheme in which Gov. Ron DeSastrous funneled more than $35M from child welfare & medical funds toward falsehood-riddled TV ads to defeat pro-abortion & legal weed ballot measures. www.jezebel.com/ron-desantis... via @jezebeldotcom.bsky.social

Remember when we were not losing jobs in droves, or at odds with all our allies, or attacking other nations for their resources, or deploying masked thugs to terrorize our citizens, or pardoning drug traffickers and violent criminals in exchange for bribes? It was only little over a year ago.

Fiddler on the roof, but with ICE agents playing the part of Cossacks. I know people think of Fiddler as a heartwarming story about a funny man doing Ya-ba-dibba-dibbas, but it's literally about pogroms like this

Good morning Victor Wembanyama

taking my mental illness off its leash so they can do zoomies

Note to self: DO NOT SCHEDULE THIS MANY NIGHTS OF DRINKING IN A ROW, EVEN AMID THE COORDINATED DECEMBER ASSAULT ON CALENDARS AND LIVERS.

Yep, they're also proposing to make it so that you cannot get ESTA without a smartphone. They'll get rid of the functionality on the current website and require you to use ESTA Mobile. Don't have a smartphone? Well, the answer will apparently be "tough luck, you can't come to the US through ESTA."

This is INSANE www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/t... and these are our closest allies!

I rediscovered this post I wrote in May, about how Trump has shifted the money the US used to spend on curing cancer into snatching your neighbors. I think I'll keep harping on this point. www.emptywheel.net/2025/05/09/s...

ah, i’ve gotten dressed fancy for my flight. now to do three sets of 10 kipping pullups in my jcrew ludlow suit, cool down with a few windsprints, and then go sit in an airtight box with 100 strangers for a few hours.

As with everything he says, this is wildly uninformed. Formula keeps getting better and saves lives. And modern research indicates that outcomes are roughly the same. There are reasons to breastfeed but your child isn’t suffering if you don’t

They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.

ALL I said was "you're a damn commie bastard who is going to hell for being a faggot, and there you will burn in all eternity, along with all the Palestinians I'm glad are dying, I hope you get your healthcare taken away and all your friends kidnapped" And then they RUINED CHRISTMAS for NO REASON

These guys were taught a *very* different version of the Christmas story than I was, I guess.

I like whatever is wrong with my algorithm over there

Himes: "I think it's really important this video by made public ... it's important people see what it looks like when the full force of the US military is turned on two guys who are clinging to a piece of wood and about to go under just so they have a visceral feel for what it is we're doing"

Sex Workers. No one has been listening to sex workers for the past decade.

The Nobody Listened to the Women vortex is swirling.

The problem with being chatty is that sometimes you accidentally charm a bartender when you don’t plan on it and end up drunk on a Saturday afternoon.

Fun fact: nobody has to care what Elon Musk likes.

It only took four of us making a two-minute public comment about the library at the city council meeting for the councilors to restore the funding the mayor’s office had cut.