I honestly expected more from a FIFA Peace Prize recipient

Nothing more than perceived wealth that doesn’t exist for the purposes of taxes, but magically does for the purposes of leverage. Meanwhile, the rest of us pay real taxes on low wages and can’t leverage shit. The game is rigged. Tax the rich.

Some takeaways from the Susie Wiles interview in no particular order. 1) Before anyone congratulates her on telling the truth, we must first acknowledge that when it comes to the craziest and most unqualified cabinet members...she absolutely fucking loves it because deep state something something.

Time magazine put him on the cover of its Person of the Year issue, even!

kyrsten sinema seemingly had a long-term plan to cash out of her senate job by establishing a reputation as someone who was connected to both parties, so at minimum it is good to see her get to find out that her name is mud

Hanukkah is here. Christmas is coming. There’s no better gift than a signed book. The gift of love. Order today in the shopping cart on the Dark Delicacies website (www.darkdel.com)

When I interviewed Spinal Tap and Marty DiBergi this summer, none of them broke character, for the whole hour. Except Rob Reiner, once, losing it when Michael McKean's David St Hubbins talked about minimalism. I didn't use this in the feature and hadn't published any audio, but this is joyful.

"Team leaders of Los Angeles' Angel City FC expressed disappointment last week in what they call a "racist and transphobic" editorial from their teammate calling on the National Women's Soccer League to implement "gender standards.""

With federal regulation in retreat, debt collectors have declared open season on consumers. www.forbes.com/sites/jeffka...

PLEASE read this important update to my earlier post about the state of the NWS. Media reports this evening make clear that rather than having a poor forecast for the Skagit River in WA, the NWS played a key role in enabling mitigation efforts to reduce flooding impacts. tinyurl.com/488jvp33

People support him because he reflects their values and character. He reflects their souls.

I believe giving the worst person on the planet the most power was a bad move.

The president is using this apparent family tragedy, which as far as we know had absolutely nothing to do with him, to convey the message that if his fans brutally murder his critics, they will receive his support and approval.

I think it's kind of beautiful that this was Rob Reiner's final line on television

I also wrote something for Mr. Porter, which touches on the same topic. The general gist: choosing a gift is not about imposing your (I'm sure superior) taste on others, but rather showing someone you value them and recognize their inner world. www.mrporter.com/en-gb/journa...

if these kids were conservative influencers, it would not have been "things can happen"

It hasn't even been twelve hours, but all three of us have been overwhelmed with requests from media for comment and I'm mostly writing this now so they'll leave me alone.

incredible things happening at the nazi bar

We’re suing to expose records related to President Trump’s stunning effort to pocket $230 million in taxpayer dollars as a payout for investigations into his own misconduct. The public deserves answers about this self-enrichment scheme. We’ll get them in court.

James Talarico’s message to Gen Z: “You may not be interested in politics, but politics is interested in you. Your boss, your landlord, and your insurance company cares about politics. And until you care about politics, they're gonna keep using the political system to screw you over.”

ICYMI - the latest issue of Gothic Studies journal is devoted to the author, mystic, and media star Algernon Blackwood. The Intro asks how we can understand Blackwood as an author both in and beyond the Gothic tradition and how his work reshapes the genre. doi.org/10.3366/goth...

Just a reminder that at least 600 Americans were fired for failing to show sufficient respect after Charlie Kirk's murder.

Faculty and staff need to be fluent in the language and techniques of univ budgets. Budgets are how an institution's mission is operationalized. But they're arcane documents, cloaked in obscurantism. And upper admin and boards use that opacity to do all sorts of shit, unaccountable and unfettered

Scandalous self-dealing by New School trustees

There’s a specific mechanism in authoritarian movements that we’re seeing play out in real-time across American media and tech. It’s a simple rule: "If we cannot co-opt it, we must destroy it." It is the logic of "scorched earth." It's the logic of the Nero Decree and it's happening right now. 🧵

In a highly unusual move, the EPA is revising an assessment of the health dangers posed by formaldehyde, a widespread pollutant that causes far more cancer than any other chemical in the air. By @fastlerner.bsky.social

btw i don't agree with folks who say posting here doesn't matter because every time i help organize an event, people show up in real life & tell me they heard about it here on bluesky it absolutely matters if you make a habit of organizing & sharing practical suggestions of stuff to actually do ❤️

Wishing a Joyous, Healthy and Happy Hanukkah to all who celebrate.

“All our work is being destroyed.” The FBI spent a generation relearning how to catch spies. Then came Kash Patel.

Bovino longs to be an SA-Stabschef.

The latest example of the power of anti-corruption, pro-reform politics.

God: Welcome Me: So what was the meaning of life? God: Did you ever see a cat do something stupid and then act all embarrassed? Me: Yeah. That's the whole— God: Hilarious

Russia destroyed 100% of Odesa’s energy infrastructure. All substations were destroyed by missiles and drones. The city has been completely left without electricity, hot water, and heating for over one million people, including all critical infrastructure.

One for you! bsky.app/profile/nsou...

gravy boats imply the existence of gravy maritime law

It's because she doesn't know how to be the head of CBS News. Just no clue what a person in this role does. Similar to how Pete Hegseth and Sean Duffy don't know how to be cabinet secretaries. A hallmark of this movement is people being out of their depth. It says, "expertise is unnecessary."

The next Democratic trifecta needs to do this, right away. Burning all the time & majorities first on The One Big Policy Fix doesn’t work. We have years of evidence on that now.

Care about gun control? Climate change? Gun control? Abortion rights? Gun control? Universal health care? Gun control? Higher education funding? Gun control? Abolishing ICE? Gun control? Ending murder on the high seas? Gun control? Etc. Your platform is <institutional reform>

It is most definitely low intensity political violence/low intensity warfare.

Once again.

Started handing out my "Find Your Organizing Home in NYC" zine this weekend! It includes shoutouts to @bkindivisible.bsky.social @nywfp.bsky.social @socialists.nyc @jfrejnyc.bsky.social @handsoffnyc.bsky.social and SO MANY OTHER GREAT GROUPS! Download it digitally at zinefun.fyi !

If you wanna learn more about immune amnesia this is a good primer from the American Society for Microbiology. Measles binds to your immune system’s memory cells and infects them, effectively erasing their database. It then produces all new memory cells - that contain info ONLY for measles.

No parent wants this text. Thinking of the Brown University community.

This fall, my 12yo daughter was in her classroom when they had a shelter in place warning. Her teacher had briefly left the room so the kids were alone. They hid in a closet. It was not a shooter, but they didn’t know. Their baseline assumption is that someone will shoot them in their classroom

NEW: As Pete Hegseth faces increasing calls to resign for his illegal strikes in the Caribbean and Pacific, sources tell us that Donald Trump has already been discussing preemptively pardoning officials he thinks may be criminally investigated once Democrats gain power. led by @swin24.bsky.social

We lost more than that his last year as president. Not that anyone members that part. All we talk about is how people were forced to wear masks and kids had to go to school via computer for a few months. And it was hard to get a haircut. The 1.3 million people who died are completely forgotten.

What is it with her facial expressions, she looks like she's playing the scheming one in a movie about a bunch of sister witches.

Exactly. The full weight of the White House propaganda and legal apparatus bearing down on one day laborer and his family for months simply because the addled despot can never be wrong.

The document is extremely light on the “strategy” part, but is chock full of naked racism and Great Replacement rhetoric. www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-nati...