Very good. I would add on “8)” - people going “it was a long time ago” are contributing to the same problem of “citizenship is conditional” that they are trying to oppose. He could have sent those tweets today and he would still be a British citizen.

In this clip from a right wing radio show on Friday, Trump claims that on Christmas Eve the US “knocked out” a facility in Venezuela from which the supposed drug boats launch. Has this been reported anywhere else? The station’s write up doesn’t mention it: wabcradio.com/2025/12/26/s...

Donald Trump has made several billion dollars this year.

This is so fucking dangerous.

US cybersecurity policy basically amounts to: "cybersecurity only matters if the object is physically Chinese, otherwise please just take off your shoes before you enter".

Zelensky lands in Miami. Not a single US official is on hand to greet him. In the language of diplomacy this send an unequivocal message of coldness and hostility. Compare it with the lavish pomp and red carpet shown to Putin when he landed in Alaska a few weeks ago.

He has been willing for some time to go to Costa Rica, which says it is willing to take him, and the administration's position is to refuse that because they want to send him to Africa instead. He is not even fighting to stay in the United States at this point, he is asking to be allowed to leave.

Also, in the scenario that we are offered of Badenoch leading her party into the election, a plausible objection to a coalition is likely to be the proportion of new Reform MPs who don't think she should be in the country, let alone government.

Yeah, I was going to point out “a name change doesn’t automatically invalidate a contract, that’s not a thing,” but my therapist says I don’t need to say all the things I think and they are not always welcome

So - 1, goddamn right there's no duty to sing or play for fascists but 2 - whether or not this lawsuit holds water will depend entirely on the nature of the contract the artist signed, unfortunately

“it is illegal for you not to like me”

DEVIL: You shall stay forever young, but this picture of you will bear the marks of your sin! DORIAN: Can I hide it? DEVIL: Well, yes, but— DORIAN: And there are no other consequences? DEVIL: This… This picture will become so foul! DORIAN: Again, probably I’ll hide the picture.

Kennedy says adding folic acid to tortillas is “waging war” against poor residents. Folic acid has long been added to cereal and bread and the CDC website currently says it’s safe for those with the mutation mentioned in the thread Kennedy is replying to.

Trump officials are no longer responding to Congressional invitations to testify, and the Republican Congress is calling fewer hearings. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/democrats-...

This story is like a Sudoku to me. I understand what the other independents wanted from Your Party. I understand what Corbyn wanted. Increasingly I don't think there is a *single* explanation for what Zarah Sultana wanted out of Your Party that you can reconcile with her actions.

"tell me we didn't just fire a dozen $500,000 missiles at a $200 camel" "sir, no evidence of any camel present, sir!"

Y’all might not appreciate it, but it took him 87 moves and 14 hours to get here

Britain: oh crap are we really going to have to do a nuclear war plan against the Americans France: oh yay we get to dust off our nuclear war plans against the Americans

Vance says this while helping give Saudi Arabia, a country that is of course at no danger of falling into the hands of extremists, nuclear capability.

Must be something like that. Part of that compact is that approved school shooters should be Palestinian or Trans or if not that at least super woke. And the last option shldnt even be that hard at brown and yet they failed

I had missed this. Perverse even by the standards of the Trump White House. They’re threatening to pull student aid from Brown over the shooting www.nbcboston.com/news/local/t...

"I think they probably just believe in *big* Jesus, Arieh" My wife in exasperation after listening to me speculate at length on how the Whos of Whoville, microscopic beings living on a speck of dust, came to celebrate Christmas.

The replication of think tank world, a version which doesn’t do any actual research but has the nominal trappings to gain entry to media, is sadly a great research project for someone.

someone once accused me of having the levels of self-confidence of a privately educated white man and.....I mean I'll take that actually yeah, cheers

We've always had these dead-eyed socipaths around. It's just a few years ago they were ignored and now they're "senior fellow" at places funded by evil millionaires + going on podcasts with a brain-rotted ex-PM.

First-ever US airstrikes in Nigeria put the second Trump admin’s 2025 combat actions at: —Nigeria—tonight’s strikes —Yemen—1,000+ strikes (Mar-Apr) —Somalia—120 strikes, 1 ground raid —Syria—78+ strikes, 3 ground raids —Caribbean—11 strikes —Eastern Pacific—20 strikes —Iran—3 strikes —Iraq—1 strike

ICE detain father shopping on Christmas Eve—then steal his family's groceries. Then 3 agents divvy up his paid for food—taking what they want for themselves. "Can I just get the wife's number to call and let her know?" woman asks. "No, guess he should've complied," agent says. Yakima, Washington

I did not understand this: one of the five Europeans the US has barred from traveling to the United States...is a permanent resident who lives with his family in the US. Now he is worried about being arrested and deported for the crime of monitoring online hate. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/25/u...

The blatant selling of pardons is perhaps the clearest instance of criminal conduct authorized by SCOTUS. Pardons are a quintessential "official act." So, even when Trump takes a bribe to issue one, he is presumably above the criminal law.

This is what it took to shame Kristi Noem into letting an Irish green card holder who bouncing $80 in 2 checks 10 years ago free after 5 months in detention: A veteran, Trump-voting spouse 9 US descendants Letter signed by 18 Senators 30 character witnesses www.star-telegram.com/news/nation-...

You will be visited by three spirits

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So this is something I've been noticing more lately: people seeing an image, wrongly assuming it's AI, and then confidently raging about it being AI when it wasn't. Example: the replies to this Pluribus-themed image Tim Cook posted on X.

And… TRO granted! A sweet Christmas present for @imranahmed.bsky.social, @counterhate.com--& for their mission of fighting antisemitism & protecting kids online. Also nice for our all-star legal team. A lump of coal in the stockings of authoritarians & the merchants of disinformation

"I think they probably just believe in *big* Jesus, Arieh" My wife in exasperation after listening to me speculate at length on how the Whos of Whoville, microscopic beings living on a speck of dust, came to celebrate Christmas.

Here’s the U.S. government being officially religious in a country with no official religion.

And Nicolae Ceauceacu ... ...who DID die!

Thanks to the new MAGA ban on the import of all new foreign drones, and thus on all even somewhat affordable drones, this may be the last real American Drone Crashmas for a very long time.

That peanut worm is a little too exciting for me you got anything else?

TikTok just randomly gave me a popup advertising a swastika necklace. Then on the TikTok shop homepage, that and an Iron Cross necklace are the top two recommended item 🫠

Hamlet: and I, Hamlet, vow to honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and ... Ghost: wait ... did you say Hamlet? Hamlet: yes? Ghost: not Scrooge? Hamlet: ... no? Ghost (scrolling increasingly desperately through Google calendar) oh shiii..

An enraging trend right now, from CBS to the CDC, of people actively undermining institutions, then taking the reins of those institutions and claiming they need to rebuild the trust they helped destroy. (Also, people already trusted 60 Minutes.) bsky.app/profile/just...

Why Christmas is a Christian Holiday A thread for Nittel Nacht ♟️

A small (personal) example of this book’s intellectual dishonesty: My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media. Huh? When did I say that?!

The thing that jumps out to me here is that Bari Weiss thinks it’s been a “slow news week”.

New on Twitter: The Justice Department didn't bother to get SDNY’s documents until now???

Also if enough of you do this I can go back to New Orleans for their national guard launch next week, which has the added benefit of being away from my stalker, who now hangs around outside of my gym waiting for me.