Ugh, that sickening feeling when being a decent person bites you in the ass. #vagueposting

One of the many striking things about this video is that when the woman filming tells the agents "I'm a U.S. citizen," they respond by asking her where she's from, as if being born somewhere else delegitimizes the fact of her citizenship.

Can’t help but think about the multiple people who lost their jobs for posting much less inflammatory statements about Charlie Kirk.

Connecticut Public's Daniela Doncel and Mark Mirko were on-scene at last night's vigil for Renee Good in Hartford. "A gray sedan and a white van, both unmarked, drove through the crowd, knocking a person over." www.ctpublic.org/news/2026-01...

what an image

On Wednesday, Renee Macklin Good was fatally shot by a federal ICE agent. Becca Good, her wife, shared the following statement with MPR News.

MPR playing an eye witness account right now of ICE shooting directly through the windshield at her face and not giving her medical care for 10 minutes.

Also, every time we get into the subject of American vs. British food, 99% of the time, there's a healthy dash of classism in every argument. Like, beans are nutrient-rich, easily prepared, accessible and CHEAP. Corn syrup/dyes/etc are in a lot of the cheapest/most accessible foods in the U.S.

ME ME ME ME ME

I've watched thousands of videos from the Jan. 6 riot as part of NPR's reporting and archive project on that day. Here are some of the lesser known videos that have really stuck with me. 🧵

NPR built a visual archive of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, showing exactly what happened through the lenses of the people who were there. In "Chapter 2: Stop the Steal," we look at how false claims of a stolen election mobilized Trump supporters.

I fell doing a jaunty little pivot while onstage during a Christmas musical. My leg suddenly wouldn’t hold my weight so I had to crawl offstage. Learned a couple years later that I’d torn my ACL.

Having now watched three episodes of Heated Rivalry, I can definitively say that I would've died of sheer mortification less than ten minutes into the show if I'd listened to my mom and watched it with her. Soul gone. Deceased.

The cats (plural, no less) were not involved in the affair whatsoever.

I did dead hangs and scapula shrugs for the first time and it already has me like 🤔 should I get one of those pull-up bars for the house 🤔🤔🤔

One Last Joke from 2025 on its way out: we just found a mouse in our pantry

It is, of course, true. And the bit after it, which is about rainbows being announced on the PA system, is also true.

You ever lay on the floor to cuddle with the the cat but the cat leaves so you end up laying in a random spot alone? Yeah…

Now why did my mom ask if we should watch Heated Rivalry while they were visiting me? Ma’am! I learned my lesson with Y Tu Mama Tambien! We’re not doing that again, watch on your own time!!!

When the cat’s walnut brain has no context for “my brother’s drone”

I was planning on making braised short ribs for dinner tonight and just realized I bought sliced short ribs instead of whole. It’ll still work, I think, but this is TEDIOUS.

Me, to everyone in SoCal where it's raining hard right now:

Just found out that my dad and brother both haven’t watched KPOP DEMON HUNTERS which I can’t abide by so this will be our Christmas Eve viewing 😈

CBS News chief Bari Weiss pulls 60 Minutes story Weiss said investigation had to include comments from Trump administration 60M's ⁦‪Sharyn Alfonsi‬⁩ said multiple US agencies refused to comment - and this lets WH veto coverage My NPR story www.npr.org/2025/12/22/g...

Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

The phrase “without setting up housing” is (perhaps unintentionally) putting the onus on the immigrants — while not acknowledging the vast myriad reasons why a person coming to this country would not have been able to “set up housing.”

[preparing to get screamed at] I think I officially don’t need to know if you’re mad that an article is paywalled. Perhaps that can be an Inside Thought

It took five minutes at the National Aquarium for my mom to comment “ya ho jiak” (“that’s delicious”) while looking at a fish.

Made a gay bestie at Costco because we both asked the butcher for a full uncut pork butt at the same time. He whipped his head around and went “so you know how to cook bc my husband thinks I’m wacky but YEW get it” lmao lmao I love us

“They’re denying that any of her birth certificates, which are from Laurel, Maryland, her records of immunization, medical records — they’re denying the authenticity of them. It is something I’ve never encountered.” www.huffpost.com/entry/us-cit...

Why do sports bras and swimsuits all come with those bra pads that move around and get all bunched up and wonky when you wash the bra? The answer is probably “bc it’s cheaper” and boy oh boy do I resent it.

Bill Watterson didn’t fight the merch machine — and win — for this man to be bothering him. Calvin & Hobbes is magical *because* of its format. Not everything needs to be IP.

Almost as bad as writing hundreds of nonsense words blaming DEI and George Floyd on your inability to get a TV writing job as a white dude is being a ticket scalper. Not only are you contributing nothing to society, but you’re actively making it worse.

Identities have always run newsrooms. They just used to be white and male. Now that they aren't, those white male identities are pitching hissyfits about jobs and promotions they /feel/ they are owed.

The writer of this "take" is Jacob Savage, a man who previously went viral for his essay "The Vanishing White Male Writer" which tells me all I need to know about this latest one.

I need recommendations for a quieter keyboard now that @dogunderwater.bsky.social is working in the home office with me.................my typing is disrupting their zoom meetings

found the guy doing 90 in a 35

I've lived in DC for 13 years at this point, and mostly walk or use public transit. If I had a penny (RIP) for every time I almost got hit by a reckless driver, I'd have enough to pay off my damn mortgage. I think I've earned my anti-car sentiments.

I'll be joining my dad on a China tour (Great Wall and Zhangjiajie National Forest Park) in February. Should be fun, I've never been as a tourist. Then, I head to Seoul for a few days on my own - where I have no plans except cafe hopping, maybe a facial/skin treatment.

I guess...

"Forever" just means "until a company decides to hold your grandma simulacrum hostage for more and more and more money to appease its shareholders".

Realized the other day that I still have extraneous details about the Twilight books in my head. What useful information has my brain jettisoned to make/keep room for that, you think?

“I know AI is going to change the world, it’s screwing everyone else up, I’m not in denial about that, I’m in open rebellion.” Going to start using this line when I explain why I have never used ChatGPT or its ilk.

Reading every development in this sordid Nuzzi/Lizza/RFK Jr like

Two single-celled organisms in American flag beanies just fake-coughed “fucking dyke” at me. One day, I’m gonna snap when someone calls me a slur and throw a punch. Today was not that day, but it grows closer.

going through blister packs of anti-nausea meds for thanksgiving gobble gobble

It’s Thanksgiving and I’m spending it nauseous, trying desperately not to vomit. I also had to cancel my flight home bc of my traitorous body. Still: thankful for a partner who takes good care of me and the cat who doesn’t.

More is more. We’ve got 380 (or so) of our favorite new books, right here:

well *actually* rogue one is great ... if you ignore its faults

Me, before reading: I do love mess… Me, after reading: