i am a middle aged white mom with a minivan. i live in a brick ranch and vote democrat in every election. i am the electoral equivalent of a free space in bingo. I PROMISE THIS IS NOT WHAT WE ARE TALKING ABOUT AT MY KITCHEN TABLE

his hed is pastede on yey Re: a bad photoshop drama in the LOTR fandom, reported, naturally, on the much-missed Fandom Wank

I find this exploitative targeting of confused people who often have very legitimate health concerns and often valid anger at establishment medicine just really sad and depressing. Especially his efforts to exploit segments like Lyme Disease patients. Unforgivable.

Counterpoint fuck him.

Oddly making me feel better about the Packers loss. When God loves a team this much there's nothing you can do.

Drunk Bears Fan Grating Ram

I'd just like to see a fraction of his fame and fortune accrue to a writer who can stick a landing.

My paranoid untrustworthy ally in the White House, who does a pile of chimp speed every morning and hates everyone he sees, would never betray me!

no honor, no dignity. a lifetime of trying to atone for the wrong they’re doing will not be enough. The appropriate posture for them all this morning is on their knees in the Minnesota cold begging the God of the universe, Who is against them, for forgiveness

I forget who said Trump voters mostly thought the president appointed the NFL commissioner but ... here we are.

you know this guy is a FOR REAL photographer because he's telling the story of his brutal, unconditional arrest by federal goons and can't help but slip in a gear review

Tell me does continuing to operate the gestapo that shoots people in the face come with any risk for the GOP?

Incredible moment here of Chuck Schumer refusing to do politics. Notable that this sort of pointed questioning comes from a student journalist rather than one of the networks.

I don't imagine when the Crusade knights came up with this rule in the Middle Ages that they were factoring in the vagaries of postmodern architecture imagine showing those guys a megachurch. congrats, buddies, your Christian dominionism thrives today. in beige arenas that look like ass. good job

y'all this guy is clearly engagement trolling ffs stop being marks

a big problem here is the way every scrap of a claim about Democrats supposedly selling out gets hyped and inflated, and then even when it turns out to be untrue people remember it as having happened, or as having almost happened. Builds bad mental models.

Original Homeland Security.

Pictures Bob waking up in the Vatican, being handed a note, and deciding to excommunicate all of America just to be sure.

Yuuuuuuuuup.

I think a lot about who we ask to answer for what, these days.

Holy shit. Renee Good was alive when the bystander physician asked to check her pulse. She was alive when ICE refused to let him help. She was alive when they told him “I don’t care.” www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...

Naaaaaaailed it

I said Nina Simone and Leonard Cohen already so let me just add David Ramirez. This song pretty much kept me alive in 2022.

I'm afraid of the city, so the feds are right to destroy the city and kill innocent people so that I can feel less afraid of the place I already don't go to, don't want to go to, and think myself too good to go to anyway.

Look at the mismatched surplus on Operation Dessert Storm up here. Look at these fucking clowns and their goddamn helmets. Look at their fucking Timberlands.

Nobody wants to reckon with the propaganda network that convinces people in one area that people in another area think about them at all.

My husband had a dizzy fling with wanting "land" and our realtor, the most patient woman alive, sent him pictures of wild animals eating other wild animals on various properties until he gave it up. She also threatened to physically fight another agent who was trying to steal our house.

Imagine thinking you could break a bunch of cities that drink iced coffee when it's five below.

This was Pritzker's calculation, too. If I order them to shoot and they don't, nobody really knows what day two of that looks like. Nobody knows what day two looks like if they do, either.

This dude rules

Obligatory:

The teams for World War III are Calvinball: Denmark, Sweden, Iran, Nigeria, Will Stancil, Canada, Ukraine, Brazil, transsexuals, and the second Star Wars sequel trilogy movie versus USA, Israel, El Salvador, 4chan, incels, Hungary, and Chick-Fil-A.

And I demand to know why they've dragged the Virgin of Guadalupe (patron saint of Mexico, beloved by Texans) into this shitshow?

Happening Now: Students have walked out of school and are protesting against ICE in Saint Paul, Minnesota

I would ask how Strickland, who Pope Frank fired for being a gigantic dick, is still allowed to call himself a bishop, but with everything in this administration the answer is that he has no shame and there's no way to stop him.

I think it's gonna take the Vikings coming back from Valhalla to personally kick these people's asses for appropriating their shit when the average ICE nard gets smoked in a foot race by a receptionist named Susan who hasn't worked out since Jazzercise was a thing.

Good god there's nothing they can't screw up. Just top to bottom incompetence.

If only the GOP was responsible for anything ever.

These fuckwads have Wal-Mart boots and gloves from the gas station. They don't fucking KNOW.

🎵Come out La Migra goons In your stumbling platoons Tell your wives how you ate shit on ice for quotas Tell her how despite your guns all you ever did was run from the cold and frozen streets of Minnesota!🎵

my friend is involved in this fundraiser to help support immigrant parents & families in south Minneapolis who are facing hardship—and in some cases eviction—because they can't go to work. please give if you can:

Part of the problem with the "and are your groceries any cheaper?!" add on is that none of this is worth it to bring down the price of eggs.

This hits on something I think about a lot, which is that this entire conversation is predicated on a patriarchal view of white womanhood that sees women as weak and in need of a man's protection. Trans boys playing boys' sports are not part of this conversation at all.

Really have to emphasize that this is not a thing that happens, ever, and you only have to have met one teenage boy to know that is the case.

This month in @damemagazine.bsky.social I wrote about the echoes of Iraq in the coverage of Venezuela, right down to the fawning OMG HAWT! sucking up of Bari Weiss's CBS News: www.damemagazine.com/2026/01/13/f...

She's gonna be so astonished when the money turns on her.

Trump, Vance, Miller and the rest of those sociopaths thought that we would hate our Somali neighbors as much as they do. Guess what. We don't. They thought that we would be as offended as they are by hearing Spanish or Hmong. They thought we were as broken as they are. Nope. They're wrong.

TV person here: pretty much any local news producer and anchor across the country can handle last minute changes even -gasp- breaking news in the middle of the live show without making any of these rookie mistakes. That's the job. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/b...

This is it, this is what they came for. What that scumbag at @nationalreview.bsky.social meant when he said Jonathan Ross can't become another Derek Chauvin. They don't just want to refute George Floyd. They want to refute Rodney King. Medgar Evers. Emmett Till. Dred Scott. All of it.