One piece of wisdom one acquires with age is the sheer number of ways one can injure themselves while asleep

What were electric eels called before electricity was discovered?

One example of how Grok is being used to target women. Swedish Deputy Prime Minister Ebba Busch being sexualised, degraded, and humiliated step-by-step by Grok. All the images accurately reflect the prompts provided.

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Meet David Hoch... The guy who brought Nick Shirley around Minneapolis. Gifted from the Star-Tribune, so you should be able to read it if ya want 🤮 www.startribune.com/who-is-david...

Pretty cool www.bbc.com/news/article...

The James Cameron blockbuster became one of only three Hollywood movies released in 2025 to gross over $1 billion at theaters worldwide.

From New Jersey to LaLiga 🇺🇸➡️🇪🇸 Pellegrino Matarazzo is officially the first American coach to lead a team in Spain’s top flight. His arrival at Real Sociedad could help open doors for USMNT players abroad. The European journey continues 👏⚽️

Stephen Schwartz, the composer of 'Wicked,' says he'll no longer host a gala at the Kennedy Center. "It no longer represents the apolitical place for free artistic expression it was founded to be,l Schwartz said. "There's no way I would set foot in it now."

Bigger than Teapot Dome in terms of scandals, but in the age of Trump, it doesn't even raise an eyebrow: Karen Budd-Falen, the No. 3 at the Interior Department, didn’t disclose a $3.5m water-rights contract between her husband and the developers of a Nevada mine approved by Interior.

The word “democracy” was not mentioned at today’s press conference, nor were there details about how U.S. leaders would stop drugs coming from Venezuela, Alan McPherson, a professor at Temple University, told NBC News. www.nbcnews.com/world/latin-...

NYT gonna NYT: "Both Mr. Mamdani and Mr. Maduro identify as socialists, though they have no relationship.” — would be funny if they did this every time you write about two capitalists. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/w...

Approximately 39% of US adults met criteria for metabolic syndrome in 2023, with persistent disparities by age and race highlighting the need for ongoing preventive efforts. ja.ma/4pAUbsk

Lane Kiffin earned a $250,000 bonus from LSU today for the Ole Miss playoff win over Tulane. LSU agreed to pay him whatever CFP bonus he would've gotten if he'd finished the year with Ole Miss. www.nytimes.com/athletic/685...

Massive Lake Superior waves pummel the shoreline in front of Split Rock Lighthouse in Two Harbors, MN 📷 Nathan Klok Photography

Reuters published some 1.6 million photos in 2025, capturing the personal and the political, triumph and tragedy, as photographers delivered news events and daily life from 150 countries to the world. Here's a visual chronicle of the year's most memorable moments reut.rs/4qCCEQQ

The final four teams in the College Football Playoff: Indiana Oregon Ole Miss Miami

Alabama’s more of a basketball school anyway

The US science enterprise came under extraordinary attack in 2025. Despite the trauma and drama, science soldiered on, @matthewherper.bsky.social reports. www.statnews.com/2025/12/31/2...

⚡️Ukraine enters EU's single mobile roaming zone. Ukraine formally joined the European Union's single roaming zone on Jan. 1, allowing Ukrainian citizens to use their mobile phone service across the European bloc without incurring additional charges.

I will buy a beer (or a drink of their preference) for whoever journalist asks Oz to explain 1500% drop in drug prices.

New years morning with Wrexham FC

Some reports say at least 40 youngsters have died & at least 100 injured after explosion & fire. “Many victims are believed to be tourists. Crans-Montana is a ski resort & it’s peak season,” said a TV reporter. Locals say the bar was popular with 16 to 25-year-olds. www.swissinfo.ch/eng/various/...

The U.S. Postal Service is making new changes in 2026, including adjustments to the postmark process, which could result in late fees and penalties for anyone mailing time-sensitive documents such as tax returns or bill payments. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

NEW: President Trump's first veto of his second term kills a unanimous bill to fund a major drinking water project in Colorado. Trump had threatened punishment for Colorado for imprisoning his ally Tina Peters. www.9news.com/article/news...

A subset of patients with NSCLC that have a specific ALK gene fusion in their tumors may need to target a third pathway for treatments to be effective.

NEW: Trump used his first veto to block a unanimously approved Colorado drinking water project. Lauren Boebert, whose district the pipeline project is in, slammed Trump, suggesting it was retaliation for her signing the discharge petition to release the Epstein files www.9news.com/article/news...

Former Colorado Senator Ben Nighthorse Campbell has died. He switched from the Democratic Party to the Republican Party on March 3, 1995. No Democratic Senator has switched to the Republican Party in the Senate since then.

Former US Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell, of Colorado, dies at 92

According to this interview with @timmiller.bsky.social, @jkbjournalist.bsky.social—who first broke the Epstein story in 2018–is hearing from new, international victims, like, right now podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

When GOP state Rep. Jim DeSana gleefully voted along to slash $645m in spending, he managed to do something comically incompetent, he also cut about $2 million in state funds meant to fix the roof on the James R. DeSana Center for Arts and Culture, a building literally named after his own dad.

Rest easy knowing that there are only a few more days until that first slice of king cake for Carnival. There’s new places to get them, new collabs with Emeril and Brigsten’s and more important news to know.

Eli Manning Named Among 15 Player Finalists for HOF Class of 2026 https://www.si.com/nfl/giants/onsi/news/eli-manning-named-among-15-player-finalists-for-hof-class-of-2026

BREAKING NEWS: Actual facts appear for the first time on "Truth" Social.

Vaccine Injury Advisors' Meeting May Portend a Contentious 2026 www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdi...

It's exhausting carrying a New York City franchise on your back for 15 years. Patrick Ewing doesn't receive enough credit.

Tatiana Schlossberg, a granddaughter of JFK, is dead at 35 after cancer diagnosis Schlossberg wrote in The New Yorker on Nov. 22 that she had acute myeloid leukemia, with a rare mutation called Inversion 3. www.nbcnews.com/news/obituar...

With Trump skipping church this Christmas season, it's now been over 4 years since he last attended a regular worship service (otherwise has only attended for special events like funeral & inauguration). I don't care if prez attends, but MAGAchurch leaders should quit lying about him being devout.

Deliveries of Chinese EVs to Mexico skyrocketed over 2,000% in November.

More musicians have canceled upcoming concerts at the Kennedy Center after the board voted to add Trump’s name to the venue. Singer Kristy Lee: "When American history starts getting treated like something you can ban, erase, rename, or rebrand for somebody else's ego, I can't stand on that stage."

Jazz supergroup the Cookers say they will no longer perform their New Year’s Eve shows at the Kennedy Center, days after a Christmas Eve concert was also canceled.

Netanyahu said Trump will be the first American to receive the Israel Prize, breaking with the award’s long-standing tradition.

Some of Scott Ritchie's choice of his best bird photos from 2025. whyevolutionistrue.com/2025/12/30/r...

[watching a pro athlete drop a pass] me: *eating spaghettios for dinner* “what a loser”

Walter Koroshetz tells staff his request for reappointment was denied, which will leave 13 of 27 NIH divisions with acting directors www.statnews.com/2025/12/27/n...

the NFL is cool this year because almost every playoff team simultaneously looks like a Super Bowl contender and a first round exit

Check out Zelenskyy’s face when Trump said: “Putin was very generous in his feelings towards Ukraine,” and that “he wants Ukraine to succeed.” Unfuckingbelievable.

IndyStar: Jeffrey Epstein appears to reference Trump in letter to Larry Nassar A letter from Jeffrey Epstein to disgraced USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar that mentions Donald Trump was released by the U.S. Justice Department. www.indystar.com/story/sports...

Lakota Accounts of the Massacre at Wounded Knee