This just shows how absurd the whole "armed conflict" framing is. The men on the boats weren't members of an organized armed force, and therefore the question of "perfidy" is inapposite. The problem is that they were civilians who were murdered. @justsecurity.org www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/u...

News --> Senator Mark Kelly just filed a lawsuit against Pete Hegseth, alleging that his campaign of retribution violates the First Amendment and is designed to silence congressional criticism of Trump. He calls on the court to end this harassment. Strong stuff here:

Just started THE PITT and this is Master and Commander as a TV medical drama. I will not be elaborating.

EXTRA POINT DOINK a good, tuneful THUNK

Niners, baby!

I’m reading East of Eden for the first time, and, my goodness, this Cathy Ames is a real piece of work!

Today’s march took the same Fifth Ave route as the 1917 anti-lynching Silent Parade, one of the first American civil rights protests. Both started at 59th, by General Sherman’s statue, and headed downtown. For more on the Silent Parade: hyperallergic.com/naacp-silent...

Wow

Bob Weir kicked ass

an entire administration run by cranks who watched The Siege and determined Bruce Willis was the good guy

Elite pundits also tend to think that when a known cynical liar panders to *them* he's revealing his "real" self because they don't like to admit they're easy marks no matter how overwhelming the evidence gets

“I know, we’ll take this one American city, regarded as a hotbed of seditious sentiment, and subject it to a heavy-handed punitive crackdown. and that will cow the rest of the Americans into quiet submission and snuff out the embers of opposition at their source” the ghost of General Thomas Gage:

Happy Donald Fagen Day (his birthday) to all who celebrate (everyone) www.youtube.com/watch?v=w20X...

Make Liberalism Genuinely Terrifying to Despots Again

i'm not saying this as anyone who knows anything about health; i'm saying it as someone who is an alleged expert in interest group politics: the American beef industry is all over MAHA, wellness, and podcast spaces. remember "bacon mania?" totally a marketing strategy by the pork industry.

Finn Wolfhard looks like Donald Fagen.

An army of Israeli youths is being deployed to expel Palestinians in the West Bank www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Every Trump Executive Order

Stephen Colbert on the ICE murder of Renee Nicole Good: “The message from this administration is clear. Only they determine the truth. And when their forces come to your city: obey or die. And if you die, you clearly didn’t obey. This should be an alarm bell for the entire country.”

"Surely a situation that a reasonable civilian would not find to constitute deadly force is even less likely to be fatal for a police officer. ... But experience tells us that evidence-free handwaving in the direction of ‘split seconds’ is most often all that is needed to keep justice at bay."

Sonny Rollins is the cure for ADHD.

Newly-released footage reveals Renee Nicole Good’s last words.

herbstreit you cop the db was clearly grabbing the receiver

lane kiffin abandoned this team and they had their hands on a pass that would have put them into the championship game, stop paying coaches so much and pay the players more

California state Gadsden flag

Nick Caraway: "You can't repeat the past" Matt Taibbi: "But you can shit all over the only thing you've ever gotten right, retroactively. Old sport."

Yes, killing peaceful protesters is a sign of tyranny. www.nbcnews.com/world/iran/t...

Me discovering the 4K of MASTER AND COMMANDER would cost me $80

Remarkable statement from an elected official.

If ever there was an indication this was a fake problem, here it is:

The Ravens are the best job on the market, and John Harbaugh is the best coach on the market. I think they should look into each other

“ChatGPT started coaching Sam on how to take drugs, recover from them and plan further binges. It gave him specific doses of illegal substances, and in one chat, it wrote, ‘Hell yes—let’s go full trippy mode’” www.sfgate.com/tech/article...

Stealing our own tax money from us to send to Argentina and build his ballroom. Intolerable

It's Their Time

they literally wrote this into the national security strategy!

I was teetering before but now I’m ready to say it: I’m full Jags-pilled.

Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago

Wow

all this is both foolish and unnecessary

Not enough people have been posting ducks on ice. We can't fix all the problems in the world in 2026, but we can fix this. 🪶

We need to be more than half awake in this fake empire www.youtube.com/watch?v=70OE...

Anti-war march in NYC, organized overnight. Happening right now, 8th Ave. People care.