Hi lo, I live in Massachusetts, and I teared up at @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social swearing in ceremony

No you watched the swearing in ceremony of @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social while crying, I’m normal * *I am not normal

OMG give Andy and Anderson an Emmy for their Muppet show

I’m dead from how outraged Anderson Cooper was when Andy of Cohen called him the Ilya to his Shane. #heatedrivalry #cnn #cnnnye #nye

I’ve been mostly offline, and a fun thing is how many universally panned this Trump 2.0 has been. Like Normies HATE it. The big takeaways are: 1) Everything is too expensive and Everyone is getting laid off, 2) everyone hates Vance like universally, and 3) Trump looks like a dying elderly relative

#hottake the second- Justified was a perfect tv show in a style that simply does not exist anymore

The USCCB mounted a nationwide campaign against health-insurance reform that would have required plans to covered birth control. Catholic teaching on the inadmissibility of the death penalty is much clearer, and the violation of human dignity here is direct & explicit. Where is the official outcry?

My new year's resolution this year, as every year, is to be a more available, supportive friend as well as an increasingly looming, formidable enemy.

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Ooooooooh @markey.senate.gov

I am on winter break. As a result, I will only have extremely low stakes holiday and non-work/political #hottakes ( #extremelymildtakes) Take the first: The Holiday is great actually. Way more romantic & cozier than Love Actually. People hating on Jack Black as a male romantic lead are wrong

This is the only way to expose your brain to this horror

“He was the kind of guy who went up to the chalkboard and started writing out equations and explaining everything,” said Bruno Gonçalves… “The students loved it,” Dr. Gonçalves said. “He was like an Einstein without the crazy hair.”

The Brown shootings and MIT ones are probably linked? Cool cool cool. Anyone know of any politicians, media outlets, and internet personalities who have made elite institutions (particularly in big, bad blue New England) targets? Really would love to not be afraid to go to work.

The White House claims the vote to rename the Kennedy Center was “unanimous.” That is false. I was muted on the call and denied the opportunity to speak or register my opposition. That is not consensus. That is censorship.

It's going to be like the "Department of War" that's how they'll refer to it, the media will go along, but no one else will and it's official name won't be changed.

Ditto for the alleged Department of War (see, e.g., 10 USC 111) and the alleged Donald J. Trump Institute of Peace (see 22 USC 4603).

So I realize I have a lot of 10 year+ #onebadmother #obm friends in real life and on the internet, but not a lot on Bluesky, so if you are a one bad mother, please show yourself, and know you’re doing a great job! #momsky

“Wake Up Dead Man” was so good I want to fight someone. Spouse co-signs. #LiberalCatholicsUnite

Stephen Miller is 5’4”

a #booksky #romcom #ownvoices question- I am a bisexual cis woman, in a straight marriage- my current main character is a bi woman who ends up in a straight relationship. Do we think this is n #ownvoices issue? Like it’s not me, but the way it shakes out is not *not* me- appreciate your thoughts

By the way, he’s only pulling this sh*t because his cabal of rotating actual presidents realized admitting he can’t be president in 2028 made his unpopular lame-duckness crystal clear

Just waiting to see if @clairewillett.bsky.social has any insights on Cardinal Dolan’s replacement

Spouse pointed out that my favorite Christmas songs start out sort of blah on Christmas and then get fully into the spirit. I had never really thought of it, but it’s 100% accurate. Now I’m trying to think of others that fit this description. #christmasmusic #holidaymusic

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

In comments to NYT, Susie Wiles was asked about her quote that Elon Musk was using drugs. "That's ridiculous," she said. "I wouldn't have said it." But Peter Baker notes: Chris "Whipple played a tape for The Times in which she could be heard saying it." nytimes.com/2025/12/16/u...

Mike Lawler says, “omg guys, I like totally am representing you now that I see Trump’s poll numbers. For real this, time please don’t vote for @mikesacks.bsky.social”

@kim.senate.gov has really started to make a national name for himself, and it will continue with stuff like this. As a millennial born in NJ, this makes me happy.

Democrats need to do whatever it takes to give Jack Smith the opportunity to say this & everything else publicly to the entire country. This Republican behind closed doors hearing is a disgrace.

Re-upping this in light of the news that @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social got another discharge petition to 218

Of all these evil assholes, I want the harshest punishment to happen to Russ Vought

Sometime, if I just want to start trouble, I will call Paul Atreides the ultimate Mary Sue and watch and laugh as a certain type of dude tries to argue with me. And then, I just mute them. (It’s not even an unpopular opinion.)

This is going to be a must listen

This is such an important point. They genuinely have no sense of what is actually popular in the real world.

TIL Susie Wiles is Pat Summerall’s daughter, and now all I see is him in drag

The skin on these “young” trumpers in this @vanityfair.com article is KILLING me. We know that hate makes you ugly. The evil in your soul is literally decaying your body. BUT ALSO Racism means you are not immersed in K-Beauty. Anti-science means there’s no SPF or Tretinoin in your life & it shows.

Susie Wiles pulled a scaramucci and talked to the reporter candidly without thinking about it, and now she’s like whooooooops

One way that the reaction to Rob Reiner's murder mirrors Charlie Kirk's is that the best way to eulogize each of them is to quote their words, and in both cases, doing so pisses off conservatives.

Instagram handed me the video of the Heisman winner thanking his mom, and now I’m sobbing with mom empathy. Happy Monday!

SULLIVAN: While large news organizations “are doing great reporting .. government coverage often feels like business as usual. Journalism should be communicating the .. five-alarm fire that’s burning up our nation’s purpose ..” @sulliview.bsky.social margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/america-ha...

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

Remember, Trump is just a mindless mouthpiece for every special interest that owns the right. In this case the NRA. They write the talking points, he clumsily and mindlessly regurgitates them.

No one talks about how Michael Urie is a national treasure, and that’s bad for democracy. And also Christmas Spirit, and also general happiness of millennial and Gen Z women. Michael Urie for all the things.

I just started Enshittification, and it already know I’m going to like it (and be infuriated by it) since it opens with this quote from @edzitron.com #BookSky

NEW: The Trump-Vance White House has falsely accused an ally of Pope Leo — Sr. Norma Pimentel — of illegal activity tied to migrant aid, and cut off all federal funding to Catholic Charities in Texas. Church leaders say it’s a targeted, political reprisal against Pope Leo and the Catholic Church.

I am just now learning Mistletoe Murders is a thing, and I am mad at everyone who knew but didn’t tell me.

MERCENARIES: A Video and Poster Campaign to Counter ICE Recruitment "They are not protecting our communities—they are trying to destroy them. They aim to wear down our ability to identify w/ each other, our ability to feel compassion.
If they succeed, all of us will be in danger." @crimethinc.com ✊🏼

Best thing to come out of Congress in over 25 years is Raskin’s war cry: “…there’s nothing remotely ethical or moral about unilaterally disarming before authoritarians in a game that they’ve created.”