Today, I writing about the environmental legacy of Nixon (the last criminal in the white house before this). He relied on a 1965 report stating clearly the impact of the greenhouse effect. Today, the current occupant trashes all of this - www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

How is this not satire? How... Is this not... Satire? www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

As someone who knows nothing about figure skating, I think it seems very repetitive. It looks like they're just doing the same spinny jump thing over and over again. It looks very hard, but I don't think it looks like there's much variation other than in how good they are at that jump.

You're seeing what I'm seeing, right?

Ossoff: "You're seeing what I'm seeing, right? The president posting about the Obamas like a Klansman."

I'm hugely in favour of this thing where conservatives from now on have their own separate entertainment with only conservative artists. Because watching them try to convince themselves and others that what they have is good is just quality entertainment for everyone.

If he really peed this, with that penmanship, drip-control, and volume, that is a more impressive accomplishment than he will ever achieve as an Olympic athlete.

On board with this.

We've reached the "you should smile more" stage of fascism.

Turns out she managed to get the selfie before she was mauled.

As Trump slides into madness, so seemingly does the crowd of people that he likes to have standing behind him. Very soon, they will be joined by a firefighter, three toddlers in a trench coat, a wookiee, the bottom half of a giraffe, a mariachi band, and the bony remains of Charlton Heston.

BREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.

better to have prompt and lost than never to have prompt at all

Guess the movie.

'Brett Ratner’s tasteless, tedious, criminally shallow propaganda puff piece 'Melania' is nearly two hours of self-congratulatory torture...Ratner couldn’t find the humanity in a funeral." www.rottentomatoes.com/m/melania

Why am I supposed to take it as a positive that someone was a "man of faith"? Tell me that they were a "man of reason" and I'll take it as a positive.

The worst thing about being an atheist is knowing that Trump is 79 years old and believing that only while he still lives will he be able to pay for everything he's done.

Is anyone else seeing this? Read the last page... www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

I hate how, in discussions about whether videos of current events are AI-generated or not, agendas have overwhelmingly come to overshadow the pursuit of truth. I was studying videos of Alex Pretti kicking the car taillight tonight, trying to find out which are real and which are AI... (cont.)

There is to me something especially sad about seeing how deeply corrupted all the official channels of communication have become. Crazy individuals will be crazy individuals, but it used to always seem like official institutional channels of communication would remain professional, if not impartial.

the White House's official X account gloats over the arrest of Don Lemon with a chains emoji

I can't believe I'm writing this but: free Don Lemon.

I found a very useful website. is-he-dead-yet.com

Conservationists warn that realistic AI-generated wildlife images are fueling misinformation — making dangerous encounters seem normal, wasting authorities’ time on false sightings, and stoking fear of animals. Experts say it risks eroding trust, encouraging persecution, and harming conservation.

Gorgeous footage of a snow leopard taking on an ibex. Video by Andres Novales (andresnovaleswildlife on FB).

A new leak reveals just how far Trump is going to decimate the National Park Service. The playbook goes like this: crush morale, force rangers to quit, hollow out the agency and let parks fall into disrepair. Then they'll call parks “mismanaged” and invite private interests in to pillage them.

This is how public lands get handed over to industry, locked away into private playgrounds for billionaires, and permanently stolen from the American People. Great reporting from the Intercept here: theintercept.com/2026/01/21/n...

under grilling from Duckworth, Rubio defends Trump's comments denigrating the service of American's NATO allies in Afghanistan

In other news...

I think Melania's movie is just about ready for a FIFA Oscar.

That is one hell of a rare attack, and sounds like an unusually human-habituated snow leopard.

I know Epstein is still a big thing and all that, but someone needs to have a chat with the US about their weird obsession with pedophiles. I don't think they know that it's possible to disagree with someone or dislike them without calling them a pedophile.

The president should be impeached and convicted, as should everyone responsible for these outrages. ICE should be disbanded. So should the Department of Homeland Security. And the people who have killed should be investigated and brought before judges and juries.

They know what they say is untrue, they do not care it is untrue. The media know that what they repeat is untrue, they do not care it is untrue. Their supporters know what they are told is untrue, they do not care it is untrue. Telling the truth is not enough, unless people care about the truth.

Noem lies shamelessly: "An individual approached order Patrol officers with a 9mm semi-automatic gun. The officers attempted to disarm this individual, but the armed suspect reacted violently. This looks like a situation where an individual arrived to inflict maximum damage and kill law enforcement"

My sister and I have quite a compacted Wordfeud game going here. Hard to make progress now.

Kash decided to do a news conference on an airplane tarmac for some reason so he has to yell and cannot hear questions from reporters lol

Give it a day or two and Trump will say that Carney can join, but only if he eats an earthworm.

The official White House account is posting AI-altered photos of protesters. In a normal country, that would be a scandal of its own, lawsuits would be filed, and people would be fired.

Board of peace.

Pure joy seeing Trump coming down the stairs tonight, repeating "great deal for everybody" over and over like a demented old man, and as if doing so could convince himself that he didn't just get his ass handed to him and didn't get any of what he wanted, least of all ownership of Greenland.

You wouldn't think that dropping a bomb on something called a "Board of Peace" could make the world so much better, but here we are.

This speech by Zelensky is a miss, I'm afraid. Or part of it is. His criticism of sending just a few dozen soldiers to Greenland assumes they were sent there to put up a meaningful fight. They were sent there to signal how many different countries you'd be attacking, if you attacked Greenland.

Pure joy seeing Trump coming down the stairs tonight, repeating "great deal for everybody" over and over like a demented old man, and as if doing so could convince himself that he didn't just get his ass handed to him and didn't get any of what he wanted, least of all ownership of Greenland.

I need all European leaders in Davos today to say: "Fuck off, you raving lunatic." Not in diplomatic words. In exactly those words. Stop trying to reason with madness.