Fabulous essay by Nikhil Pal Singh on Trump’s Homeland Empire

This! Excellent article. I just can’t understand the SA’s decision to remove such a necessary powerful work from Venice

And now the sudden surge of China expert bots and trolls in Canada on social media….. 😂

Over 50 Dems have signed on to co-sponsor articles of impeachment against Noem. Use the link below to demand your members of Congress to get behind this!

🔴 Gaza Health Ministry Director-General: At least 24 people in Gaza have died from extreme cold and collapsing shelters, including 3 deaths yesterday & a child, bringing the number of children killed by exposure to seven (it has since risen to 8). The humanitarian crisis is worsening fast. While...

“I’ve had hotel staff sending post-it notes, bar staff sending DHS IDs, and loads of people saying their neighbour is an agent,” Skinner said.

A 🧵 about academic gatherings & mourning their lost, singular role. Didn’t see everyone I’d hoped to at #MLA26 in Toronto (sorry!) but I was happy to reconnect with many people, and happier still that the Radical Caucus’ motion regarding the Palestinian exception to academic freedom was passed! 1/

Friday once more

An ICE agent shot a woman to death in her car as she attempted to drive away. He was not in danger. She was not trying to hit him. You can watch her killing in multiple videos and judge for yourself. Meanwhile, at least 30 Asian immigrants died in ICE custody. www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

I'm an executive producer on this short documentary, WE WERE THE SCENERY, which is on the Oscars shortlist for best short doc (the preliminary stage before the nominations). You must watch it! And you can do so now, on Vimeo, where it's a staff pick for Best of the Year. 1/3 vimeo.com/1139491180

Take it from a Filipino, even if you despise the current rulers of your country, you will live to regret the day the United States comes in to remove them

🟣 Just In: Venezuela’s Supreme Court Constitutional Chamber has ruled that the Jan. 3, 2026 American aggression & kidnapping of President Nicolás Maduro constitutes an exceptional force-majeure event not foreseen in the Constitution. To prevent a breakdown in governance & ensure national defense...

Kinda funny, so much jingoism out there but no one is asking what’s happening in Venezuela right now

Originally posted on Jan. 1, 2026: ⭕️ Israeli authorities announced the death of detainee Hassan Issa al-Qash’aleh, from Rahat, a Palestinian Bedouin city in the Negev, inside Beersheba prison on Thursday evening. More than 100 detainees have been killed since the genocide began, with 86...

So many international law experts out there today.

Mark Carney turns off geolocation on phone just in case

A big mob boss just took out a small mob boss

Just read Macron’s statement and the French FM Barrot’s statement and ok, wth?

The president of Venezuela must be held legally accountable for his crimes, which the Supreme Court forbids to happen for the president of the US, who recently pardoned the president of Honduras for similar crimes.

This is not the first US imperial atrocity for oil —let’s not exceptionalize it— but wow is is it awful. And the violation of Venezuelans domestically in the name of a sovereign borders they actually dgaf about. As Aimee Cesaire put it— the price of imperialism is the empire’s own civilization.

Ever relevant, this poem by Mary Oliver, especially today.

We are a rogue state, run by a dictator, and the international community should treat us as such including all appropriate economic and diplomatic sanctions

New year, new war. The USA is a warmongering nation.

Jeanne Tripplehorn’s glorious rendition of “Luckenbach Texas” at the end of The Lowdown rivals Michael Caine’s magnificent “It’s Over” in Little Voice.

Israel becomes the first country in the world to ban the humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders. Let that sink in. File under "Things you do when you are committing genocide"...

We play this every year to annoy everyone (including the dog) because nothing’s better than a drunk-sounding nasal Bob wheezing out Hark the Herald Angel Sing

Really enjoying Christmas Eve writing my course syllabus

Love the writing here and thankful for this new magazine

Humans freezing in minus 30 windchill, dog, on the other hand

❤️🎄🇵🇸 𝐐𝐔𝐈𝐂𝐊: Buy “Lullaby” by Together for Palestine for £1.98 *right now* to make it the UK Christmas # 1. All profits go to Palestinian-led aid orgs. Together for Palestine are: Nai Barghouti, Brian Eno, Neneh Cherry, Celeste, Mabel & more. Please buy it & repost this! xx linktr.ee/T4Plive

Goodbye Joe Ely, it was a revelation when I walked into the City Winery NYC over a decade ago and you were playing. I went to Austin soon after - and enjoyed many more of your concerts.

“Tell your children who the cowards were.”

The British causing divisions among Nusantarans again

Missing Channel News Asia, surely there must be important news out of Hougang, Bukit Panjang - something like that.

Major loss to the world of photography. I love Martin Parr. www.1854.photography/2025/12/mart...

Canadian Soybeans making the best tofu desserts in Hong Kong @mark-carney.bsky.social

In Hong Kong now, shall I go to a 7-11 and look for expired pineapple cans?

Congrats Singapore for opening an Embassy in Mexico - let cultural exchange begin - my suggestion: El Hainanese Pollo Arroz

Hello Singaporeans, is CNA mostly a wellness programme?

Forgive me for fangirling - but Chow Yun Fat dancing with Gdragon is everything x.com/kalamaleila/...

Hello Singaporeans, really - it’s ok to stop platforming “innovation” in every aspect of social life. Sometimes, a kopitiam is just a kopitiam, and enjoying a Kaya toast with kopi C is just a daily pleasure.

Hello Singaporeans, srsly - crossing roads can be an amazing new immersive experience if you just look up from your phone.

Hello Singapore, please I beg you, no more Christmas music.

I did not know Alice Wong personally- I knew her writing and her relentless advocacy for the disabled and the marginalized. Her death hit me hard and I cried buckets of tears. May you cross the river to join your ancestors, Alice.

Back in Kuala Lumpur.

Singapore, it’s wayyy too early for Christmas

Loving the Cuomomintang jokes going around.

Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant."

I don’t usually read The Atlantic anymore. But I had to read this - and I’m reminded of what @wesleydean.bsky.social used to tell me about cats www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...