Nick Shirley at the US Capitol on January 6th, 2021.

My old pal @eniiler.bsky.social with a killer story. What we save defines us as a culture—the archive is our memory and our future. And we’re throwing it away? Madness. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/c...

“Gone are the days when companies like Instacart and DoorDash can bully their way into record profits on the backs of workers and consumers," said Sam Levine, the incoming head of the Dept. of Consumer and Worker Protection under Mayor Mamdani.

Shame on us. Gratis link: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/n...

WHICH MEANS ALL HIS SIGNATURES ARE INVALID!!!!!1

Dems could easily say "hey look at the perverts trying to spy on daycare kids, seems like they're all pedophiles like the guy in the White House" it would shame them and there's literally no argument against the accusation but I worry they don't because Dems don't want to offend their pedo donors

Starting tomorrow, federal agents who cover their faces can be arrested across the state of California. If your local elected officials have been crying about ICE raids for the past year, now they can direct the police who exist entirely under their control to do something about it.

remember when you could go online and search for "good pillow" and you'd get like blog posts reviewing and comparing pillows but now you just get an Amazon page for Good Pillow Great Sleeping Perfect for Single or Couple Great Soft sleepy Dream Pillow for soft Bedtime Relaxation pillow ($97.83)

Reminder that years ago it was found out that the FBI straight up made up a whole bunch of fake forensic sciences, plural. People have gone to jail and been executed due to literally pseudoscience. Hair forensics, for instance, is totally nonsense. They admitted it. slate.com/news-and-pol...

www.sanluisobispo.com/news/local/c... Lab error, even unintentional due to a software bug, is orders of magnitude more common than an actual false match. And it is *very* hard to actually bring up lab errors except years later when the damage has already been done

Like, even actual forensic science, not one that is literally entirely made up, can't be fully trusted. One person managed to use real forensic science, deliberately misused, to fuck over countless people www.cpr.org/2024/11/14/c...

🤔😕“Justice officials felt sure Homan would not be able to obtain a security clearance based on the evidence gathered in the corruption probe, which they and FBI agents believed had shown Homan unsuitable for a trusted senior role in government service…” www.ms.now/news/border-...

That “Ungrateful” train ain’t ever late.

The time between Christmas and New Year's eve

Yup. I'm telling y'all, these dudes don't know anything.🤡 Frank Sinatra was a vocal anti-racist. He fought racism with his actions, his words, and his money. Actions: Refused to stay at segregated hotels. Made sure Black artists got paid fairly. Words: Literally wrote an article in Ebony Magazine

Cancel culture warriors should be up in arms over a college student demanding that a college instructor be fired because she taught things the student found offensive, but as I discuss in my new essay, Little Fascists Everywhere, their outrage is highly selective: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

the least shocking thing in the epstein files that wont get enough attention. police regularly arrest and charge victims to coerce them into participating, often jailing them in conditions that are worse.

TBT. Way back in December 2010, the Mussel of the Month was Truncilla truncata! — musselpdb.org/motm/2010/10... #ThrowbackThursday #MusselMemory #MusselOfTheMonth #MUSSELp 🧪 Photo by Graf & Cummings

One of the earliest-ever modern portrayals of Santa Claus features him gifting Union soldiers with a jumping-jack doll of Jefferson Davis dangling from a noose - as drawn by political cartoonist Thomas Nast. www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...

I think it’s important to insist on recalling, at all available opportunities, that this was specifically an attack on a trans instructor over an assignment about gender. Neither of those details are incidental; they are the center of the story

I'll never pass up an opportunity to share this stunningly accurate portrait of the Australian mining billionaire who's obsessed with opening a mine in Alberta.

NFL going out of their way to force-schedule 3 games on Christmas Day featuring 5 of the best teams last year only to end up with matchups with 5 teams whose season is already over and will be starting backups is the holiday spirit we all needed

I love how Pam Bondi and the MAGA DOJ openly, shamelessly, and maliciously go after Trump's enemies, but Merrick Garland sat paralyzed for four years, terrified that prosecuting Trump for literally treasonable offenses would violate norms, precedent, and decorum. He must be so proud.

Fun Fact: Donald Trump has sued over 3,000 people in his life, but he's never sued anybody for calling him a pedophile.

look at how little effort it takes for someone on the conservative grievance circuit to destroy a life millions of college kids have half assed an assignment at the last minute, you eat the F and move on but the effort to push trans people out of public life will use whatever it can get

bari weiss saw this and decided that she had to hide it from the american public

The fact that so many Democratic electeds and pundits said that we should ignore it is a stain on the party. Voters want, and the country needs, an opposition party willing to act like an opposition party. Shout-out to those who refused to ignore it (e.g,. Chris Van Hollen).

It used to be that the United States would use Voice of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty to transmit truth across the borders of repressive regimes. Now the work of American reporters, having been censored, is being smuggled across the border to reach Americans.

The body cam footage from Beker’s arrest has been released. “Hey, this is Officer Hingiss with the Whitefish Police Department. Just out with a male that only speaks Spanish, wondering if you want to check him?” flatheadbeacon.com/2025/12/19/c...

In one fiery Model S crash, witnesses heard screaming, including a woman saying, “I’m stuck." Bloomberg obtained three 911 calls, including one made automatically by the Apple watch of an occupant inside the vehicle, on which people can be heard yelling and moaning. None survived.

The most infuriating part of this clip is that we all know the corrupt Democratic Party will do no such thing.

In the wake of the tragedy at Brown, online conspiracists rushed to pin the horrific mass murder on an innocent Palestinian student. One of them was Shaun Maguire, a partner at leading VC firm Sequoia Capital. www.fastcompany.com/91463942/seq...

The story of white America. "Lets have nice things." "Not if it means sharing them with black Americans." "Oh yeah, you got a good point."

“The Supreme Court decided not to have a Christmas party for 12 straight years because the justices couldn’t agree on whether to invite the Court’s Black employees” is about as tidy an encapsulation of the Supreme Court’s whole deal as I can think of

Why the First (and Only) VFW Post Inside a Prison Was Shut Down.

In that column, Brooks wrote: "I know a thing or two about the American elite, [whom I've criticized as] insular, self-indulgent and smug. But the phrase 'the Epstein class' is inaccurate, unfair and irresponsible."

16 Democratic senators joined Republicans in confirming a close ally of Elon Musk as head of NASA: Baldwin Cantwell Durbin Fetterman Gallego Gillibrand Hassan Heinrich Kaine Kelly Kim King Schiff Shaheen Slotkin Warner

Where did the donor money go?? “Meanwhile, The New York Times reported Wednesday that Future Forward USA Action, the dark-money group connected to the super PAC, took in over $600 million from donors in 2024 alone. How was that money spent? Where did it go?”

"We don't want to be Luddites --" brother, Luddites were opposed to bosses concentrating wealth by using technology to make inferior product with warehouses fulls of starving exploited child labor. You don't have to wear the team jersey but respect the game.

“Joe Campbell, a Pentecostal preacher who for half a century ministered to thousands of children across four states, has been arrested on child sex abuse charges, the Oklahoma Attorney General’s Office said Wednesday.“ Still not a drag queen.

BREAKING: The Democratic National Committee will NOT release its long-awaited autopsy on Trump's 2024 win. The report is completed but Dem leaders decided it could distract from their winning streak, so it will remain secret. Not good. Details here: newrepublic.com/article/2045...

The Onion, 23 years ago. theonion.com/no-blood-for...

He should have lost his license for unethical behavior. www.propublica.org/article/pam-...

AOC: “President Trump ran on a promise to the American people that ICE would go after the worst of the worst — What we have seen is that ICE is not overwhelmingly going after criminals — In fact, over 70% of people currently detained in detention facilities do not have a criminal record”

The Vanity Fair photographer with a lot more courage than many titans industry and brokers of power

This isn't hyperbole. In 2023, I watched Cigna revoke approval for my friend Carole's life-saving lung transplant *minutes* before surgery was set to begin—a decision that very nearly killed her. Public outrage in response to a viral post about her situation is the only reason she's alive today.

Not specific to this clip: If you're filming, periodically adjust position & get close-ups of faces, shoes, hands, gloves & tattoos. Make sure to film the agents milling in the background or in vehicles. If the situation warrants it, keeping quiet allows you to clearly record their voices as well.