☝️Um, Actually returns to Dropout January 20th 🏆And to celebrate 11 seasons of Um, Actually, we're ending the season with a new Tournament of Champions!

Samuel Alito flew two flags used by insurrectionists. Clarence Thomas' wife plotted to overturn the 2020 election. Both justices refused to recuse themselves from SCOTUS cases related to the January 6th plot. It's a stain on our nation that this has effectively been forgotten.

"The next Democratic president has to be ruthless... [they] should run on a plan to prosecute Elon Musk... there has to be accountability... the [next] Democratic president has to put the fear of God into their Republican opponents" My advice to the Dems. Full discussion: zeteo.com/p/the-venezu...

The lesson of January 6th is that it does absolutely no good to prosecute the the violent foot soldiers if you're not going to prosecute the leaders and hold them accountable for their sedition under the full force of the law.

"You better run, cops!"

Yep, I've got a History degree and the lessons from it are far less predictive of what will happen in contemporary society than Gender Studies and Critical Race Theory, which are like that sports almanac in Back to the Future II.

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

What in the Gestapo is going on in Grand Rapids? Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.

amazing how the entire machine can pivot within 24 hours. no need to slowly upsell the argument; just issue new marching orders

“Hey c’mon! Don’t put your mouth on it!”

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

Porn and erotica are important and societally valuable forms of speech, and the defense of them, in the face of state and church attempts at repression, is a necessary political act.

holy fucking paragraph batman prospect.org/2025/12/23/n...

Per WASH POST, Stephen Miller will play an “elevated role” in Venezuela (what could go wrong!) and Machado won’t be president because she accepted the Nobel Peace Prize Trump wants (yes, seriously) Couldn’t make it up if we tried www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Anti-Imperialist posters seen in Quito, Ecuador

'Winter trees' textile collage with #embroidery, by UK textile artist Katy Rundle #WomensArt

Untitled - Scene with Marine Allegory https://botfrens.com/collections/63/contents/20864

Henri Cartier-Bresson, 1945.

The Art Nouveau spiral staircase and cupola in the Villino Broggi-Caraceni in Florence, Italy.

Evening in a pine forest https://botfrens.com/collections/210/contents/48537

The ornate interior ceiling of the Basilica of Notre-Dame de Fourvière in Lyon, France.

Japanese artist Kumi Yamashita winds a single black thread around a grid of nails on a wooden board to create intricate portraits #WomensArt

Path of Life II Colour https://botfrens.com/collections/12055/contents/938638

Vietnamese artist Vu Bach Lien, Snow path, 2014, woodcut print #WomensArt

Auditorium & Convention Center (Castellón, Spain), Office of Architecture in Barcelona (2004)

The first full moon of 2026 is known as the #WolfMoon when the wolves howl with hunger. Kiki Smith, Cathedral, 2012,  jacquard tapestry #WomensArt

Capture of the Tripoli by the Enterprise, by Thomas Birch American, born England, 1779–1851 1806–12 More info: https://www.artic.edu/artworks/120163

I made you a mixtape, your honor.

I cannot emphasize enough that the attempts to anthropomorphize an algorithm is a fundamental act of journalistic malpractice and an intentional act to shield the people responsible for this. It's fucking shameful.

Black eyed peas for new years day. Black eyed peas, chopped ham and bacon, bell pepper, onion, celery. Cajun spice blend and some thyme and bay leaves. Brown rice underneath cooked with butter, salt and pepper, garlic and onion powder. Paired with a gin and tonic.

It stands for "Banishing Ritual of Fuck Right Off."

A hope for world peace in 2026 ☮️ Artwork by Jackie Morris #WomensArt

Photos: Zohran Mamdani becomes New York City’s first Muslim mayor https://aje.io/kqqphz

Came across an old photoshoot with @madzuko.bsky.social and Vibralux from Lawrence, KS back in the day. I think we only had to try once or twice to get the doll in the perfect position. This band had the best after parties. #lfk #glam #localmusic #photography

Man in Steam, New York — Arthur Tress, 1968

THE DAY CARES ARE LOCKED BECAUSE YOU MADE A GENERATION-LONG EFFORT TO MAKE IT AS EASY AS POSSIBLE TO KILL THE CHILDREN INSIDE THEM YOU ABSOLUTE FUCKING GHOULS

New Year's Eve, and 125 years old today is 'The Darkling Thrush' by Thomas Hardy. (And when I myself read this poem, I often find myself becoming aware of that blessèd Hope from that frail and gaunt thrush ✨️)

I remember these from a @greatdismal.bsky.social novel, Virtual Light. Rydell was always an interesting character.

If asked i would say that the Rosetta images of the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko are tied with those of Satrun by Cassini as the most dramatic and incredible of a solar system object ever returned via spacecraft. Just look at the mood here.

French artist Emmanuelle Moureaux's 'Color of Time' installation #WomensArt

Our fundamental political crisis is that having cool stuff everywhere was only made possible by tamping down discrimination. Conservatives like artisan food and booze too, but hate that it comes with gay people living open lives and minority-owned businesses. -OS

Perspective for whenever Meghan McCain is up-in-arms about something and is certain that the entire world agrees with her and is furious, too - only, no one is.

Stop. Read the post below. Do what it says. Look at Earth - our home world - from the surface of Mars. You are a terranaut on that fragile planet. This moment brought to you courtesy of NASA Science.

Came across an old photoshoot with @madzuko.bsky.social and Vibralux from Lawrence, KS back in the day. I think we only had to try once or twice to get the doll in the perfect position. This band had the best after parties. #lfk #glam #localmusic #photography

Dr. Jo’s long-term research was interrupted by the closure of Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles’ gender clinic. If you hear these people saying “we need more research,” know that they are the ones shutting down the research.

Statement Re: OU Discrimination Investigation Today, my client, Mel Curth, submitted her appeal of the University's Institutional Equity Office finding that she engaged in arbitrary and capricious grading of a student's assignment in violation of that student's religious liberty.