Impeachment proceedings are mandatory. You either believe the presidency is governed by rules or you don’t.

It’s a dark night when you look at the news and are forced to admit that you no longer believe in the power of the FIFA peace prize

If you had asked me to quickly name the place I thought was the number one spot for catching measles,

“A bunch of well-off men who are not very affected by politics making fun of people who very much are is the short story of how we got here.” Glad to see multiple outlets covering this Jon Stewart moment www.jezebel.com/jon-stewart-...

What's the first word of the Constitution?

I would wager that the actual reason why no prior sitting president has apparently ever taken the Montreal Cognitive Assessment test, is that no prior president or VP since the test's creation in 1996 has ever engaged in behavior that is as suggestive of cognitive impairment as Trump has.

Wow. What a lede by @radiofreetom.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Mamdani has only been Mayor for a day & criminals are already fleeing New York

Thanks for the shout out!! 😉

And please, PLEASE let us not forget that time in 2023 when Karen Smith was elected President of the school board in Bucks County, Pa and swore her oath on a stack of banned books. The most gangsta oath ever! Just brilliant. www.edweek.org/leadership/t...

Strange takes on Mayor Zamdani swearing his oath on the Qu’ran. It has nothing to do with church & state. The point of the oath is for the person swearing in to do so upon some text that is sacred TO THEM. Some Presidents swore in w/o any book. John Quincy Adams was sworn on a law book. His choice.

I'm trying to get a sense of how many (other) people were invited and then disinvited from US campuses last year. If you have a story to share, please dm. I will keep it confidential – just trying to figure out the scale of this.

we should do something about this

New Mamsterdam

New year incoming

Louise Fletcher’s Kai Winn is my second favorite Star Trek character of all time (second to Leonard Nimoy’s Spock). I grew up like 15 minutes from Pat Robertson’s compound, I knew so many women that were EXACTLY her. This portrayal let me know that I wasn’t the only person who had noticed the rot.

This is how Christopher Caldwell begins his essay on Zohran Mamdani for the Claremont Review of Books. Why are these people such freaks?

You know what, shitbird? I have an idea. What about a VACCINE? There are several in late stages of development. Will you promote them so we can get “children back into the woods” as you say?

Maybe 15 years ago I was in Western Massachusetts with a partner who wanted to check out the Norman Rockwell Museum. I only knew of Rockwell as 1950s kitsch and had low expectations. As it happened, we showed up while an exhibit on Rockwell's Civil Rights legacy was on display. Blew my mind.

Well that sucks

Dear Jon Stewart, No one randomly owes you information about their health, their loved one’s health, or, understandably, just wanting to avoid Covid, which is the only way to prevent Long Covid.

Not just the rich and that's also something to sit with.

Dozens of dead birds discovered on Hoskins Creek Bridge in Tappahannock prompt Virginia wildlife officials to collect samples for investigation.

A Hampton Inn in Asheville just canceled my family's reservation because our address (incorrectly) showed Asheville—and the hotel bars locals within 50 miles. When I asked why, they said, "because of our homeless population," adding that most hotels here have similar policies. This is outrageous.

All of the money that changed hands in the Teapot Dome scandal totaled less than $10 million after adjusting for inflation, and it was considered so corrupt we still teach it in high school government classes a century later.

I've quietly watched Brynn go through this for the past year. It's absolutely heartbreaking. I'm glad she can share her story now but it's rough. She gave her life to helping people and doing medivac rescues with the California national guard and she's being tossed out line trash because she's trans

In U.S. history, some white people were enslavers & other white people were abolitionists. White people like JD Vance who think teaching about America's history of racism shames white kids should explain why they think white kids will associate more with enslavers than with abolitionists?🤔

I see there’s a post about microplastics going around with a photo of drinking straws, so here is my semi-regular reminder that the 3 biggest sources of microplastics are tires (45%), synthetic clothing particles (35%) and paint (~10%). Lay article attached:

Here’s the U.S. government being officially religious in a country with no official religion.

I worked for DOJ. I don't think people realize how dangerous it is for the White House to takeover the daily operations of the Justice Department.

"Judges who ruled against Trump say harassment & threats have changed their lives. More than 100 pizzas were delivered to the homes of judges & their families this year, some with signs of foreign involvement. Judges say the message is clear: We know where you live." www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...

Replace “spoke with” with “said weird stuff to”. There, I fixed it.

“Since they are Canadian, I would not rule out treachery” should be our new badge of honour :) 🇨🇦

Which completely ignores the scientifically proven fact that about 50% of covid infections are asymptomatic. Nobody knows who’s sick. A big reason I mask persistently and use air purifiers.

Improving indoor air quality might save your life yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/12/impr...

Prison guards: - Watched a woman experiencing psychosis gouge out her own eyeballs. - Ignored a man’s beeping insulin pump for more than 24 hours before he died. - Left a man sitting in his own feces not eating for weeks, he lost 60 lbs before he died. All in San Diego County, last ~5 years.

"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?" Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.

It's 2025, and we're sharing bootleg 60 Minutes segments broadcast in other countries because our own country is being run by fascists and their billionaire-owned state media helpers, just as the Founding Fathers intended, of course.

credit to Bari Weiss, of a sort: I cannot remember the last time I watched an entire 60 Minutes segment

She’s really going to hate it when not a single person says “Actually she’s playing 3-D chess”

Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

“I mask to protect myself and to avoid being a part of the infection chain that takes another person's life, knowing that asymptomatic infection is incredibly common."—Venus Justice nearly lost their life to COVID near the end of 2021. www.instagram.com/p/DShzlzekZX... #MaskTogetherAmerica

It looks like it's been scrubbed from every official 60 Minutes page now. It's only a 30-second promo but here it is if you didn't get a chance to see it.

An absolutely magnificent Freudian slip! 🤌🏼

This Yglesias piece in the NYT is horrifically bad. Almost every "fact" it cites is provably false. At best it is cocktail party banter from a pundit who knows nothing of energy. At worst, it was cut/paste from oil industry talking points. So, a rebuttal: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/o...

47. As Amory Lovins has said for years, no one wants a lump of coal, or a barrel of oil. All we want is a hot shower and a cold beer. And if we can get that heat and light and chilling without paying for (or burning) fuel, we're all happier... with one notable exception.

Won $8 on the Powerball. Later, bitches.

Pretty much sums up America today.

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