Farewell in advance to Scott Bessent, US Treasury Secretary 1/2025-?/2026 Gone but forgotten www.cnn.com/2026/01/12/p...

NOPE This is basically a swing-district Republican talking point. A functioning Democratic minority leader right now would be saying "when we retake the House in November, we're zeroing out the budget for ICE"

America is now at the heavily armed secret police doing warrantless door-to-door house raids in search of undesirable ethnicities and/or political dissenters stage. The difference from well known historical cases is down to scale.

ICE must have hired whoever designed Amazon’s vesting schedule to come up with its bonus program

I just found out last night that the $50k enrollment bonus only pays out after 5 years of service, and reader, the laugh I let out when I read that woke the dog from across the house. These absolute fucking grapes aren't seeing a dime of that money. No way they can ride out 5 years of this job.

Man U scouts to winter targets: Do you love playing football AND having your midweeks free? WELL—

A tale of two media hits: Noem: "Every single thing I've said has been factual" Jake Tapper: no, it hasn't Noem: "Every single thing I've said has been factual" Maria Bartiromo: *helpful nod*

Sending out America's Racist Cop Uncle to call for civility after a year-plus of media hits justifying violence and repression is just beyond parody

this is soooo good

At last night’s candlelight vigil for Renee Nicole Good, Bishop Rob Hirschfeld of the Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire announced he had asked the clergy of the diocese to get their affairs in order and to make sure they have their wills written ...,

Quick, do it before JKR wakes up

"They *really* didn't think this through" is evergreen at this point

Despite how fucking insane the past week or so has been, Senate Democrats got a war powers resolution through from the minority & House Democrats got a 7th discharge petition through & are about to pass extending the ACA subsidies with a sizable chunk of Republicans despite being in the minority.

The man who literally wrote the book on the use of vehicles as ramming weapons says any claim Good used hers as such is false, and that her execution, followed by the false claim, is "death squad behavior."

“'The guy, I’m telling him like, "Please step off the school grounds," and this dude comes up and bumps into me and then tells me that I pushed him, and he knocked me down,' an official at Roosevelt High School said. 'They don’t care. They’re just animals. I’ve never seen people behave like this.'"

Walz: "I couldn't help but think, and it scares me a bit -- 'The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most important directive.' It certainly feels like that in this moment."

Correction: he is actively *talking about* buying Greenland. No discussion is occurring.

Not for nothing, but basically when asked this question, any Nobel Peace Prize winner would answer "wait, would that work? My country would be free from colonial oppression if we gave the oppressor this medal? Yeah, sure, fuck it, we can do that" Except Trump, who can only get one that way

they're literally reinventing the stenomask

In a study following 23 million people age 18-59 (pretty young) for 4 years…despite the fact that the ones who got the COVID vaccine were overall older and sicker at baseline, they not only had 74% lower risk of dying from COVID than the unvaccinated but 25% lower risk of dying from any other cause!

My current theory about *waves at everything* is that he’s always had a ”Greater America“ plan, but, well, _something_ has happened to accelerate that timeline, and now we’re doing it all without a plan.

Imagine winning your last 2 elections by 750k votes in a Democratic trifecta state and posting this twaddle

He means the support of US oil companies.

Definitely one of the stranger days to watch the American East Coast wake up to the news Europe woke up to a few hours ago. Hi guys! I’d recommend taking a big swing of coffee before scrolling further.

THREAD. Every year, I tell the story of Ezell Gilbert. It's the story of one of the most remarkable cases in U.S. history, and you’ve probably never heard of it. The story of what the U.S. government did to him is vital for understanding the current moment we are in.

On the NC terrorist plot: AFAICT, no sign that ISIS was ever actually involved; it was someone who tried reaching out to them, and ended up with a federal agent responding. Bookmark this for when the US attacks them anyway.

If you were looking for justification for an expanded college football playoff, I doubt you could do better than the 2, 3 and 4 seeds being eliminated in a 2-day period. It’s just a bonus that the 1 seed, a long-time also-ran, absolutely demolished a dynasty in that same window. #CFP

This is the most annoying ending to a bowl game. Jeez.

“post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, pearl jam, soundgarden, or alice in chains” first, admit that Seattle was the center of the musical universe for the first half of the 90s

What he’s saying is, Republicans want cost certainty on health care so badly that they’re okay with you dying if you aren’t profitable enough for providers to treat, or insurers to cover. Hope you don’t need an MRI, because you ain’t paying for that out of an HSA.

Why every vestige of Trump must be torn down www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-rena...

Ask yourself: If Donald Trump was a Russian asset, what would he be doing differently? If your answer is “nothing,” then ask yourself this: If the US President is a Russian asset, what should *I* be doing differently?

LeMonde said, not on our watch

post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, soundgarden, pearl jam, or alice in chains.

Vom. So much vom, omg

"[T]here must be an element of public participation in the ballroom’s destruction. ... The next president should make the ballroom's fate a cause for public celebration. Families should be there to watch it happen. ... Networks should broadcast it live. Americans should celebrate its demise."

Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.

In 2025 MAGA taught us that the opposite of DEI isn’t merit, it’s mediocre people running institutions into the ground.

Oh, look there: an editorial-interference canary.

Things are Terrible, but this isn't. Be weird.

Find me one motherfucker in that whole hall that ever apologized for being white, or was asked to. ONE.

THIS IS WHY YOU DON’T PUSH ON A FRIDAY

I love my two blackout drunk Minnesota sons

"I was surprised by it" He literally said "Trump-Kennedy Center" in a press gaggle and then corrected himself like two weeks ago

These people are OBSESSED with children's genitals. Real and imaginary.

Fact check: the only people asking for this are the gecko and the emu and so forth. Single payer now.

Just so I'm clear on this, computer memory has tripled in price because a bunch of it that hasn't been produced yet has been ordered to populate GPUs that aren't installed in data centers that aren't built yet in order to service a demand that doesn't exist to make profits that don't happen.

"Likes: being out in nature, meeting new and delicious humans"

You guys really need to develop the capacity of simultaneously holding the truth that the colonialist occupation and genocide of Palestine is unacceptable AND violent antisemitism is real Both are true