The vice president’s comments justifying the death of Renee Good are a moral stain on the collective witness of our Catholic faith, writes digital editor John Grosso.

I find it darkly amusing/annoying that the only reason Greenland is even slightly important strategically is because of Global Warming, which the administration insists does not exist. Minerals? Thank the melting ice sheet! Sea routes? Thank the brand new Northwest Passage!

In fact, the US has done little to upgrade its defenses in Greenland in years. We're not even using the opportunity we have to defend the Arctic.

Trump claims that the US has to take Greenland because Russia or China will take it, but Greenland is defended by all of NATO including the US. Nobody is taking Greenland and we can put as many troops, bases and missiles there as we want. US companies are free to do business there.

It keeps kind of getting lost among the horrors but it is truly surreal that Musk is still breaking so many content laws mostly unimpeded.

Kamosy, a train conductor serow (Japanese goat-antelope), is the mascot for JR Takasaki Station.

Carlitos Ricardo Parias, TikToker who was shot by ICE & then charged w/assault, whose case was dismissed after DOJ stashed him in a GEO prison and prevented his criminal attorneys has a (still sealed) habeas corpus case b4 same judge who dismissed criminal case. www.courtlistener.com/docket/72109...

back to bed back to relaity

'Tough break with your Aunt and Uncle, but they should have complied with the Stormtroopers'

casting spells

If you need a mundane example of how much people look at words/headlines and don't understand them, it's the number of times I track a citation of @richterscale.bsky.social's piece back and find it being used to argue that historians confirm the electricity biscuits theory.

He's probably be at least as good a Senator as Al Franken was, and, of course, light years above SC's current lapdogs

"I'm afraid there's many bad people around, but they have made scientific advances." - President of the Royal Society. The Royal Society continues to be happy to be associated with, indeed honour Elon Musk with fellowship, despite the Grok scandal. I will never understand this.

To add to the Macclesfield story, it's a phoenix club. Forming after the demise of Macclesfield Town

1909 - Macclesfield are the first non-league team to eliminate the FA Cup holders since Crystal Palace knocked out Wolves in the 1908-09 first round. Fairytale.

More evidence why the men’s US Open Cup should be protected and supported and there absolutely should be a women’s US Open Cup.

How can you not love the Cup competitions?!? This is awesome and with everything that’s wrong in the game, today’s FA Cup match that leads to the departure of the Cup holders is everything that’s right about it. On the day anything can happen, because it’s the Cup.

Siri, what is the most Crystal Palace thing that Crystal Palace could do after winning the FA cup in 2025?

It finishes Macclesfield 2, Crystal Palace 1. It's the biggest upset in FA Cup history. 117 league places between the two teams is the biggest gap overcome. Macclesfield are a semi-pro National League North team (sixth-tier), Premier League Palace are the current holders. #FACup #footy-live

Under Biden, the support for Ukraine was freely given. Under Trump, the support for Ukraine is contingent on Ukraine paying him bribes. Also, nobody's going to invade Russia, obviously, but "eroding Russia's military capabilities" really matters if you're, Poland, the Baltics etc.

A lot of leftists wielded Trump's promises of isolationism and reduced involvement abroad as a cudgel against Democrats and liberals and an excuse to say that liberals were no better than Trump, even as liberals were telling them that Trump is a crazy imperialist mafia boss.

As a matter of fact, given how many leftists legitimately believed (just look at Tyler Austin Harper, Ryan Grim, and many others!) that the US would be LESS imperialist under Trump than under Harris, I would argue Trump's naked imperialism is something a lot of leftists were actually wrong about!

[stares in King Juan Carlos]

In 1932, on the eve of seizing power, the Nazi goon army - the Sturmabteiling or SA - numbered 400,000 members. By 1933, it was over two *million.* DHS has 240,00 employees and lot of those are non-goons who have, you know, real jobs.

ICE and CPB have, I think, about 90,000 personnel between them. Now that number is going up, but the United States is also a *lot bigger* than 1930s Germany, which had ~65m people over; we have ~340m spread over a much larger physical space.

bsky.app/profile/pook... Fun fact: he died slowly, in excruciating agony.

The nazis who supported his weekly newspaper, were confronted each week with lurid stories of Jewish rapists, cartoons depicting Jewish people as pedophiles (not just in general, but *specific* people targeted). Readers thrilled at the sexual content each week. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rassens...

There is a reason Julius Streicher was the *first* nazi to be executed at Nuremberg.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Der_St%... One of the big features of Der Stürmer for the Nazis who financially and otherwise supported the media platform, was its nonstop graphic sexual imagery. It was chock full of cartoons full of sexual assault.

Much like “the Simpsons predicted this” actually being the show commenting on already then-existing issues, leftists are not so much predicting these sorts of things as talking about material reality already occurring that it takes years for the center to acknowledge.

If you have never heard Radio Soulwax’s 60 minute David Bowie mix nor seen the accompanying video, you are missing out on the absolute finest tribute to the man. RIP duke.

Again, think numbers: No Kings put something like 5 million people in the streets when Trump was more popular and s*** was more normal than it is now. 90,000 DHS goons - hell, 200,000 DHS goons - are not enough to beat that kind of protest into submission.

If I was Niamh Smyth, I would simply write to X and inform them the minister is coming to their office on Tuesday at 2pm with the expectation that she will speak with X's Irish managing director, CEO or a senior corporate officer with executive authority. End. Of.

Try to imagine a corporation suspected of breaking a country's national laws, and their response to a request for a meeting with a government minister was, "January's looking really bad for us, how's early February for you?"

The only way these fascist chucklefucks make this work is by succeeding in manufacturing the *appearance* of inevitability, because they *do not* have the force or skill to win a straight fight. In short, the only weapon that can deliver them victory is you: the fool doomer whose nihilism is poison

(And the more protestors there are, the more the chance that the troops side with them increases.) In short then, while I think MAGA and Trump are attempting an authoritarian takeover, I also think they are, from incompetence, failing and actually failing quite badly.

Ah, capitalism, the bubble making machine that will end us all.

Her *dog* was wagging his tail. I didn’t even know her dog was in the car. Every new fact makes my heart hurt worse.

I've been silent as thousands of "arrest ICE" posts have moved through the timeline. The MN FOP statement is one example of why this won't happen.

So from our perspective, are there a lot of challenges to digging out of this mess and getting our democracy running effectively again? Yes. Even if we get these guys out, they'll have broken a lot. But they're even further away from victory. They are not inevitable, do not make them so.

Deep in the Vatican's secret library, there are tomes with the names of all demons, forbidden Gospels, the *real* Necronomicon, and, of course, the Book Of Forbidden Marios. boingboing.net/2026/01/08/b...

PS: Spellcheck suggested "macroeconomics" for "Necronomicon", and I think it's on to something there.

There are still people out there, apparently, who believe that the police will police the police, who will then in turn police other police. This has never happened and will never happen. If it did, the system of policing would have to fall.

For those wondering why I spam my feed w/ Blue26.org fundraising links: —I’m not a soldier. —I’m not a lawyer. —I’m not a strategist. —I don’t have political influence. —I don’t like phone banking. —I’m bad at canvassing. I have one useful skill in the battle to save America: online fundraising.

Hahaha, I just picture you doing like - the michael scott "I declare bankruptcy" thing but announcing your age randomly, lol. but tbf that would be amazing if that was the tradition here for birthdays - the birthday-ee just screaming their age and shaking their fist in defiance at the sky lol

When I hit 47, I called it "When Sir Patrick Stewart became Captain Jean-Luc Picard years old." As a kid, I didn't think 47 was old, but it was definitely grown up. However, I'll he 50 in March & I still don't feel grown up.

It's weird being the same age or older than characters in shows I grew up watching (in this case, Jeffrey Sinclair, Babylon 5) and still thinking of them as 'old'. Like... no, valerian, you're the same age! actually, i think older, but still.

"when was the last time you tried it? 6 months ago? 1 month ago? 2 weeks ago? 3 hours ago? dude it's got so much better just trust me"

multiple of these in the wild recently