A Paris court ruled that spreading false claims about the French first lady’s gender constituted cyberbullying #NOH8

Immunity at home destroys legitimacy everywhere else.

Oh, look--another friend-studded list for the Lefty Awards!!! Good luck everyone! gregwritesblog.com/2026/01/05/t...

Found ‘em!

OH. DID HE NOW? HMMM. Gosh, these guys are just rilly smort and figuring things out, I guess! www.marketwatch.com/story/this-h...

“Imagine calling yourselves the ‘master race’ but forgetting to secure your own website — maybe try mastering to host WordPress before world domination,” Root wrote.

It’s so cool to start off the new year with a short story published in @reckonreview.bsky.social , one of my favorite short stories magazines! Thanks to everyone at RR for the opportunity to publish in your pages! reckonreview.com/were-in-an-emergency-fiction-by-e-a-aymar/

Still looking for a New Year’s resolution? Carry Narcan in your work bag! Easy way to protect community during a commute.

New newsletter, in which I reread THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE. open.substack.com/pub/gregherr...

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

Comedians Meg Stalter and Paul Downs dressed up as Kylie Jenner and Timothée Chalamet to the 2026 #CriticsChoice Awards.

Smaug, a literal gold-hoarding dragon, the very epitome of obsessively greedy wealth hoarding, has like 8 percent of the current net worth of Elon Musk.

Something Like That: Monday morning back to the office blog, in which we are very busy at work today; had a lovely weekend; Paul came home after I went to bed; missing our first two cats; and getting back to work again. gregwritesblog.com/2026/01/05/s...

So many in media are ill-equipped to interview officials about what’s happening because they begin with the presumption of legitimacy and don’t know enough about history or U.S. foreign policy to foment intelligent pushback and hold officials accountable.

If We Make It Through December: Sunday morning blog, in which I had a restful day of errands, chores, and video; the disingenuousness of 'I didn't vote for this' because you actually did; college football is changing; and hope to have a lovely day. gregwritesblog.com/2026/01/04/i...

L. A. Freeway: Friday morning work-at-home blog, in which I had a lovely relaxing day watching college football; started reading a history of Alabama; having dinner with a friend tonight; and it's nice going into a new year feeling good. gregwritesblog.com/2026/01/02/l...

Younger Me: New Year's Day blog, with some highlights of 2025 that I forgot about yesterday; taking this day off from anything and everything; and my goals for 2026 are the same ones I've had every year this decade. gregwritesblog.com/2026/01/01/y...

The entire reason they’re locked is to prevent weird freaks like this who have no right to be there from marching in and endangering the kids.

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

We're right in the middle of the @barnesandnoble.com Pre-Order Sale! Get 25% off any pre-order with code PREORDER25. I recommend using it on Enemy of My Enemy: A Daredevil Marvel Crime Novel for any Born Again fans looking for more Hell's Kitchen action before season two!

I hope Bill is enjoying exactly the kind of quiet life he wants.

Old Hippie: New Year's Eve blog, in which I recap my year briefly. gregwritesblog.com/2025/12/31/o...

Heyyyy #booksky it’s my semi-regular reminder that Crime Writers of Color is here for your crime fiction fix! Find new reads + a speakers directory for book clubs etc. & sub to our free newsletter via crimewritersofcolor.com 🎯 Find new follows here too: @crimewoc.bsky.social &

New newsletter! In which I loved HEATED RIVALRY---more than I thought I would. open.substack.com/pub/gregherr...

Buy it, you fools

It would not be difficult, practically speaking, for someone from within the journalist/commentary clique whom Suzanne considers peers, to drop her an email and ask her what the 'killing off' of 'trans ideology' would look like, in real terms, including and especially for those immediately affected.

Boycotting Constitution Hall because the DAR won’t let Marian Anderson sing has costs. It may end opera. Is that worth it? By Megan McArdle, 1939

Keep repeating the truth: The Senate Intelligence Committee, chaired by a Republican, unanimously concluded that “the Russian government engaged in an aggressive, multi-faceted effort to influence…the outcome of the 2016 presidential election.”

See what they're doing, blaming the left for their stupidity. Trying to make it political by saying it's a right/left Democrat/Republican slant, when they, and we all know it's an orange, conman, rapist, creep, fat, small hands, mushroom dick slant. Nice try, but sleep in the bed you made, punk!

It's good she's doing this, but what a gigantic farce and an embarrassment for our entire profession that we're forcing a graduate student to waste precious time away from her studies to battle the Republican grievance machine on her own.

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She's in Love With The Boy: New Year's Eve eve blog, on the blog's 21st (!!!) anniversary; Paul is leaving today and Sparky will be needy; home alone for six days; and the sands in 2025's hourglass are running out. gregwritesblog.com/2025/12/30/s...

My gorgeous girl really deserves more attention. If more people understood what she teaches about know-your-place aggression, more “good” and “decent “ white people would realize it’s way past time for them to work deliberately to make society good and decent.

*pause for laughter*

Ed's on fuckin fire with this one

So proud of them for instantly devaluing their school and the degrees they offered and still continue to offer! The alumni must be so proud and happy!

You FUCKED UP, your LEFTY politics have ALIENATED the BILLIONAIRES who run the CHILD BONE EXTRACTION FACTORIES and now they will do a MASS EXODUS from your STATE or CITY. Don’t CRY to ME when you no longer see their CHILD CATCHING VANS in your STATE or CITY, YOU IDIOT

don't want to get super deep on Jon Stewart mask discourse but one of the main takeaways from 9/11 first responder fallout was that more people should be wearing more respiratory PPE more often than they think they should. it's disappointing to see him culture punching over it.

Artists show the way it's done.

Oh, no, I am a cook and gas attendant at a roadside diner with a Greek owner and his shady wife!

it's December 29, which means it's time for "this year in stupid: 2025 — part 1" — a three-part look back at an entire year’s worth of dumbfuckery. thanks for reading, and please sign up for my daily newsletter so you never miss a post —

CRIMINALLY! (see what I did there?)

Speaking of rewatching old soaps, is EDGE OF NIGHT from the late 1970s streaming anywhere?

“Just one more thing, Ms Bondi… … If The Epstein Files are a hoax, why the redactions?”

I wonder how past predictions of crises being resolved by Easter worked out?

They were too busy protecting the names of Epstein’s co-conspirators like President ⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️ ⬛️ ⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️

Remember: When Tylenol was poisoned *by an outsider* and killed people, the company recalled all their products & redesigned them. When Intel’s Pentium had a bug so obscure it affected 1 in _9 billion_ long division calculations, they recalled their chips. ChatGPT was made deadly *by its team*.

Post a random gif or else everything will go bad in 2026.

Don't Let the Green Grass Fool You: Monday morning of the last week of the year blog; I feel good this morning; didn't get that much done during my time off but that's okay; Paul is leaving tomorrow for a week; and a fascist died. Good. gregwritesblog.com/2025/12/29/d...