2025, ugh, what a year. One of the worst ever on a national level and pretty uneven on a personal one. One great thing: one month ago today, I became a permanent resident of Canada. 2026 promises a whole new slew of adventures, such as actually moving to Ottawa and adapting to a new culture.

Can't go contradicting the Ministry of Truth!

The CBS Times Square coverage abruptly cut away from a guy mid-sentence when he said he hoped things would get better for the Latino and immigrant communities in 2026.

One last fucked up 2025 scoop—FEMA has begun issuing termination notices to CORE staff (appointed under the Stafford Act, ordinarily extended for 2 years) effective Jan 2, agency sources tell me. Sr leadership was asked if they could be given more notice but Acting Administrator Karen Evans said no.

Happy new year, Newfoundland! What's it like living in the future?

Two weeks ago I spent the whole day at the Museum of the Moving Image to listen to New Yorkers. This is what Liam shared with me.

the 2000s and 2010s were full of people in the entertainment world being rightly fired for saying things that pale in comparison to what comes from prominent Republicans today and the main difference is that major national news media have accepted "Republicans are racist" as no longer newsworthy

Until Kari Lake seized control of USAGM and collaborated with Elon Musk's DOGE to dismantle the Voice of America, the VOA Persian Service had a 24/7 satellite TV channel, multimedia website and five social media platforms reaching ~16% of Iranian adults.

any discussion of city transit improvement online ever

Timezones are so weird. Australia is in 2026, Canada is in 2025, and the United States is in 1939.

Metro is free right now. Good! Now, about the entire rest of the year...

Happy New Year from our family to yours! Long Beach, Southwest Arm #happynewyear

God I hope my new CIA girlboss governor uses her experience to [TOS VIOLATION] the DOGE boys.

This is so unkind that I hope everyone who caused this wakes up every day to step on Legos everywhere.

DHS now says it's aiming for 100 million deportations. In an amazing coincidence, there are 104 million Black and Hispanic people living in the U.S. right now.

theyre storming kindergartens because there was literally no price to pay for calling in bomb threats to children’s hospitals in 2023…its only upside for them

Tossed away? TOSSED AWAY??

The problem with scrolling through old posts while bored on the Metro is a sudden hunger for oversized pretzels. WMATA in-station pretzel stands when?

The first screenshot below is just a crim law description for a coup.

All you need to know about this asshole.

DC does not have a triumphal arch, despite all its other Roman architecture, because they are an imperial and not a republican symbol. They became reserved for the Caesars, and the Arc de Triomphe is a monument to Napoleon. If this dumb thing gets built, the only acceptable course is to demolish it.

Amazing how legacy media panics over a leftist mayor, compared to how chill they were about an actual fascist becoming president. Really clarifies their priorities.

I have no idea if this was a compliment or not: In my late 20s I went to an Irish bar in DC. Bartender carded me, looked at my ID for a long moment and then yelled “JAYSUS CHRIST!” and gave it back.

This is why I don’t trust the "Never Trump" Bulwark guys. They’re perfectly comfortable with real people being harmed, so long as the harm comes via a process they can label “liberal democracy.”

My basic points are: 1- that’s not easy 2- they’ve way overplayed their hand in year one 3- even if they fail they will hurt and kill a lot of people 4- throwing them out in 2026 and 2028 won’t be enough, we need to think about what comes after www.liberalcurrents.com/we-are-going...

it's so upsetting to pause Sarah Marshall's podcast about the Satanic Panic to come inhere and see this screenshot.

Would be a lot easier on everyone if they just said "I could cover the impacts Trump's actions are having on the lives of Actual People (read: not the ones in my group chat) but that would be Hard and Take Time and I'd rather just churn out slop if it pays the bills."

Everyone is very worked up about this but does not seem to be clicking/reading the article. This reg change is codifying the longstanding reality that postmarks are not always applied immediately. This is not a new practice or a change in policy, and the skeet is inaccurate

I have issues with how Alexandria is handling [gestures broadly] all this, but glad to see the city doing little things like providing these cards at city hall

Just drove behind a Porsche with VA plates "KYS XD". Feels like a missed opportunity for the VA version of @ca-dmv-bot.bsky.social

I’m not buying MTG’s repentance shtick but I’ll happily take the dirt she’s dishing in hopes we’ll buy it.

How to responsibly dispose of holiday waste in Alexandria

i am suddenly getting endless, unskippable youtube ads that this merger needs to be approved to protect president trump variety.com/2025/tv/news...

Peter Thiel’s Christmas party had an odd theme this year: “all things Britain.” (per NYT) As Trump sunsets and backlash builds, expect a focus shift to the UK—where some see brighter possibilities for fascism,network states, and monarchies.

In America, where irony is dead, a hotel chain uses a policy denying shelter to local people, for fear of accidentally housing homeless persons… To deny a reservation to the author of a much-lauded book on how American economic unfairness forces working people into homelessness.

Here’s a hot take: kind of like social media in 2008, 2028 will be the first presidential election in which vibe-coding apps will be basically mainstream tech, and whichever campaign figures that out first and best will have a real advantage

LeMonde said, not on our watch

One of the pernicious things about GOP domination of the Gerrymandering Wars is that even in what could be a wave Dem year they're gonna have to win a bunch of red-tinted seats and that means candidates who think they have to run like squishy moderates to win (and to win and then hold the seats)

MOM SAYS YOU HAVE TO PLAY WITH ME

The Dillon Rule sucks ass but so does unchecked home rule

My dog and two cats love to throw up on the floor and they represent 60% of the household. As a leader I can't just ignore public opinion so I also throw up on the floor sometimes to stay popular

“Then they shouldn’t have voted for this!” Bitch, Asheville is a blue college town and the county has gone blue for decades. I am so sick of this “if I pretend disasters only happen to red areas, it means I’m safe because I’m properly on the left!” No. You’re not safe. That’s why we save everybody.

Folks look at you like you’re crazy when you say we’re in the midst of the worst, most unprecedented Article I constitutional crisis in 🇺🇸 history, & then it’s Saturday.

SELL IT TO WHO, BEN?? FUCKING PUMAMAN??

[through gritted teeth] I agree with the hereditary monarch about the importance of pluralism

This has been the autocrat’s playbook for a decade or two: have friendly oligarchs buy up independent media and then they impose government-friendly editorial policies so the autocrat doesn’t have to get their hand directly dirty killing the free press.

oh brother, another bad post from political influencer beltway brian. i am furious at beltway brian all of the time. i share screencaps of beltway brian's posts with people who have no idea who he is. i hate all of beltway brian's posts and i read all of them every single day, including weekends

Transit's main competition is cars. If you raise fares from $2.50 to $3, you're still way more affordable than driving. But if you cut the bus from every 15 to every 20, you're screwed because cars have infinity frequency and 24 hr service span.