The part where our fascists are a bunch of baby shit failsons who think they deserved to be famous on the real TV except they suck is part of this.

one of my recent preoccupations is the visceral hostility the MAGA right has for the histories and traditions of the United States. these are people who spit on the Declaration and salute third-rate European despots!

“In 2029 we will freeze and seize all assets for Trump, his family, his organizations, his closest colleagues and they will have to prove any individual asset is legitimate to reclaim it.”

May 2026 be a year of justice, peace, love and strong democracy. Happy New Year!

Mamdani: For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty

Also, while I can sort of do the math on deductibles, out of pocket maxes, copays, coinsurance is such an awful concept from a consumer’s point of view. How can I possibly estimate the cost of medical procedures that I’d be paying coinsurance on? The billing itself isn’t even consistent

My globalism instantaneously leaves my entire body when Europeans start talking shit about America

It’s going to happen this year.

So my first and clearest 2026 New Year's resolution? I will work my local primary and general elections as a poll worker. I have a bunch of hugely important goals for this year, but I am going to do those 2 days plus the training.

You know what would be awesome? If a single one of these talking heads bothered to point out the Democrat's pledge not to use PACs (which voters demanded of them) is exactly WHY they can't launch national ad campaigns before the elections are officially underway.

We’ve gone so far around the bend with streaming that we somehow need TV Guide again but this is really fucking useful

Imagine that this was your heritage—a civilizational project stretching across generations and ethnicities, dedicated to freeing the world—and then you’re like, “No, I’m a conservative, I don’t want that. America is stored in the balls.”

Women: “we choose the bear” Media: “here are 1000 reasons women are responsible for male loneliness”

Just as a general thing, there is no amount of moving toward republicans that will make democrats more appealing to someone inclined to vote for republicans. They’ll be like “lol thanks cuck” and then pull the lever for the fascist. Make the case for what you believe.

Even made it onto SportsCenter, too. What a wonderful way to kick the year off.

Friendly amendment - this is the most *American* thing ever. Okay, maybe not the subway part, because we're bad at that most places. But the rest? Fuck yes.

Happy Public Domain Day, gang! Nancy Drew, The Shadow, Japanese superhero Golden Bat, and Betty Boop (dog version) have all just had their copyrights expire. Go nuts!

I posted that we should allow consumers to buy cars directly from manufacturers to break the political power of auto dealers, and someone posted a multi-skeet thread about how I was going to force everybody to learn how to repair their own cars, because only dealerships can ever repair a car now.

maria’s got the right of it

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.

Outlook for the new year ...

Should be a bombshell but basically totally MIA from the NYT. An interesting decision by them!

I don’t know who’s in Nova Scotia but yeah I’ve followed the other 3 and talk to 2 regularly

[narrator voice] the national guard were never deployed in portland

This snippet perfectly illustrates why we need to completely reform the Supreme Court Because it was a SCOTUS packed with MAGA judges-chosen by Trump himself-that shamefully deprived America of its rightful justice by granting him immunity and destroying any chance Jack Smith had to prosecute him

Literally this year the MN Speaker was murdered at her home when a white male MAGA chud dressed up as a fake cop & killed her Now mere months later, MAGAs are shocked that daycare operators in MN wouldn't open doors for white male MAGA chuds dressed up as fake journalists, demanding access to kids😐

orcas have the chance to do the funniest thing

if anyone was actually interested in running government like a business this is one of the first things they’d do

This is why I think the backlash to the GOP among minorities is gonna be biblical. They’re literally targeting anyone who isn’t white.

The NYT is reporting that YA sales dropped by a solid 12% this year, and once again, I am asking publishing to look at how chasing collector markets has historically worked out in comics.

What We Do in the Shadows continues to be a hoot

If I were actually a free thinker who questioned everything I might get to wondering why my government tries to make me mad at Somalis every time something new comes out about Epstein

It's stuff like this that makes it so amazing whenever somebody yells at Pete Hegseth or whoever in a restaurant and the entire news media superstructure spends 10 days fretting over civility and comity.

I don't think Biden ending the drone war or pulling out of Afghanistan or negotiating an end to the war in Yemen netted Democrats as single solitary vote in 2022 or 2024.

Don’t imagine that I have lost my temper, because I swear. I swear all the time. —Mark Twain, letter to his brother, December 29, 1888

I read this headline in the 70s and the 80s and the 90s and from the 2000s to 2025s. Just like Jesus; always coming back but never quite making it.

What fascinates me is how all of these countries would vote in, or have already voted in, their local equivalents of Trump with a minimum of fuss.

Easy to see why people say this now but *at the time* Clinton represented what was meant to be a radical reversal of Reaganism in key respects. He did *not* have 'no particular political agenda' in 1993 - he had a hugely ambitious one! It just got very effectively sandbagged

Not gonna stop digging. There’s a lot about that thug Bove that’s being covered up.

I actually think that we should shame people, but do so by focusing on what their votes have meant. We should be applying social pressure, such as saying to people, "No, I won't invite you to my cookout because you showed support for someone who wants to hurt people I care about."

Baby: can you watch me and not your phone? Man: but the Western civilization I pretend to love for you!

D+12 is the floor in 2026. Internalize it

I am shooketh that a white person defrauded the government. No, wait, I assume Aimee is a Republican because those motherfuckers love doing fraud. Ask Rick Scott, who should be in jail, not the Senate.

One of my NYR. MOAR BIKE - gonna get some proper gear for winter riding, I have a rack so kiddo can come, gonna master clipless...

fundamentally if you meet a man who can't stop screaming about how he's a genius and no one has the right to question him you should absolutely raise your doubt meter to ten thousand perswent

🧵 What @peark.es said. As I said: bsky.app/profile/mcop... We've been hearing this stuff from "fiscal hawks" for 50+ years. It's now how global finance & sovereign debt for rich countries with floating exchange rates work. It's macroeconomic illiteracy + idiosyncratic political preferences.

I still yell "DO IT, DOUG" at random.

Hard not to see this in hindsight as the prototype: factual error, claim criticism-as-harassment, instant “freethinker who isn't afraid to challenge the status quo" status. A very durable model.