All-cockney comedy show at The Comedy Store tonight.

Lots of patches at the basement show, lots of pins and buttons, and then the first band sounds like The Sundays. Good combo!

Best TikTok thing going is the two dudes trying food from every country without leaving NYC. If you haven’t seen them yet, it’s incredible. My favorite so far is last week’s. Legit got me emotional.

I like to think Jesse Ventura is speaking for other “screw both parties” folks who might usually keep their heads low and sit out civic action: m.youtube.com/watch?v=udSU...

A Minneapolis pastor of an MCC church — a denomination rooted in LGBTQ equality — recounts being detained by ICE. Says an ICE officer walked up to him as he was chanting “we are not afraid.” The agent, he says, raised his gun and said “are you afraid now?” m.youtube.com/watch?v=lcSO...

per my point about the mercator projection being the root of this whole thing

Wrote a piece for @slate.com explaining that states have a long history of prosecuting federal officers when they allegedly use excessive force. Federal officers are only immune from such prosecutions when they act reasonably in carrying out lawful duties.

According to MPR, Good's ex-husband said she was a stay-at-home mom and an active Christian who had gone on missionary trips. It isn't even clear she was there to protest. She had just dropped her kid off at school.

Who knows, but it case anything sets off soon, worth remembering who stoked it last time: www.theguardian.com/world/2020/o...

Gyles Brandreth assembles some of the best actors alive to talk about Twelfth Night for 90 minutes - www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQ3L...

Another reminder: - meds - hydrate - eat something - turn off autoplay of video/gifs if you haven't already - you don't have to watch the videos - stay safe, be smart - sometimes it's good to not post (or read) - shutting the fuck up is a valid strategy at times

If you're kitted out like you're going to fight in Fallujah and a legal observer in a car makes you fear for your life....

First song of the year is due by bedtime today if you wanna participate in this challenge! 🤓

It was the best of hair times, it was the worst of hair times:

Walz not having to worry about the election could bring some major results as governor.

looking back at now once again trump loyalists statements on jan 6 is crazy because it really illustrates how they’ve managed to sanitize what everyone knew was going on. the jan 6ers were ultimately successful it seems

CBS News has fully fallen, and I hope the honorable journalists left there are looking for quick, safe landing pads. I know the expectation is always “Just quit!” but that’s hard for most normal people to do without going broke. My thoughts are with all of them. This is grotesque.

In a world where Ghislaine Maxwell gets moved to a nicer prison for saying Trump did nothing bad with Epstein, "Maduro gets a sweetheart deal to say he helped steal the 2020 election" feels eerily plausible. www.mediamatters.org/foxdominion-...

Philip Glass polka: www.youtube.com/watch?v=YV3q...

Saw Stranger Than Paradise after a decade or three (and seeing it a dozen times in my teens), and am so happy to report that it has lost nothing over time. If you have friends under 40, it will offer a window into a kind of boredom and stillness that rarely exists. No wonder they smoked.

Dean Johnson's 'I Hope We Can Still Be Friends' LP = really good! deanjohnsongs.bandcamp.com/album/i-hope...

This ICE post is a reference to a Rhodesian Army recruiting poster ("Be A Man Among Men") that's very popular with white supremacists.

Even one Dano (Prisoners) was a lot!

Iceman Cometh but now the bar's Bluesky, now the bar's Twitter.

Right wingers love to attack the very concept of daycare centers. In the 80s and 90s, local outbreaks of Satanic Panic often involved daycare centers and their employees. And it’s all about trying to scare and shame women into quitting their jobs

Love how this part of Quebec City has all these buildings from the 1600s:

But inexpensive when compared to children.

December 1994 at First Avenue and 7th Street Entry. From the Minnesota Music Archive.

The Safdie GATSBY opens inside Chalamet’s eyeball as he gets a 1922 retinal exam…

USPS quietly changed its postmark rules — mail is no longer dated when you drop it off. The “official” date is when it hits automated sorting — sometimes days later Which could have major implications for mail in voting — it’s a clever way to disenfranchise voters that’s going largely overlooked

Lynn & Sue - Grace and Peace [US, Psych-Folk] (1972) Privately released dreamy folk in 5/8 time. One of the most beautiful songs i've heard in a long time. Incredible vocals. Full album in comments. https://redd.it/dk0b02 https://youtu.be/u-s-vhqDUXY

I skulked around the Strib printing plant in the fog. No parties spilling out anyway on the night of the last daily newspaper being printed in Minneapolis.

US doing a Brexit!

Sinclair, 12/27/2025, 11:15:21 PM

Somehow 90% of my favorite podcasts have not yet pivoted to video, but I might just turn audio-only podcast purism into a personal shtick. Because the truth is, I really don't want to see anyone's face. No offense

"And if you look at me and my dress say 'how kitsch you are' And if I look at you and your rage as testicular Humanity’s best interest is circular- they’re just making money off of us fighting."

Something I haven't seen mentioned about Marty Supreme is that there's a chase scene where, maybe for the first time in this century despite being a trope when I was a kid, a sidewalk fruit stand gets plowed into. Maybe this happened all the time back then.

give me the privilege of making my own summer with my own coals

The Coctails playing our wedding party at Club Lucky with Julia’s parents, and our friends Lana and Lynn. May 22, 1993

I love how Marty Supreme doesn't have stunt casting as much as *really fun* casting, with Abel Ferrara and Pico Iyer as my MVPs, but really all bangers across the board, and no idea how Safdie gets those kinds of rhythms and subtlety from them.

Edward Hopper, Christmas card, 1928 whitney.org/collection/w...

On Ad Reinhardt's birthday, a 1967 New Yorker cartoon by Everett Opie. That's it. That's the cartoon.

“Pray tell, the Baron, what sort of gentleman is he?” “Well…”

this image is maybe the single greatest joke in TRADING PLACES. and also a pretty apt description of the trump/vance/national conservative vision of america

watching my favorite christmas movie and what is possibly the great american comedy about class and race

Gift shopping for loved ones can be demoralizing because it's oh, you love them? Name literally anything they would like.

In a poker game, the most frustrating opponent is one who is so inexperienced/incompetent/inebriated that they don’t even know whether or not they have a good hand. Which is also what it’s like trying to parse these DOJ social media missives.

Relentless rains from a series of atmospheric rivers are expected to take a “dead aim” at Los Angeles, with dangerous flooding, mudslides and debris flows possible in the region through Christmas, forecasters said.