Oh my god

It's wild that the PM of a NATO member feels compelled to put out a statement like this vis-à-vis the US government.

Last day of the holiday nostalgia train

In authoritarian regimes, underlings signal loyalty to the ruler by publicly attesting to obviously false claims

the administration wants to frame this (bizarrely) as law enforcement. but if law enforcement conducted a raid for a suspect and killed 40 people, including an unknown number of unarmed civilians, it would be treated as a clear disaster like Waco.

NYT: At least 40 people were killed in the US attack on Venezuela, including military personnel and civilians.

I'm glad that Congress isn't alive to see this

it is sort of important for people to remember that Putin did in fact try to do this exact kind of Cheeky Lil’ Armed Kidnapping maneuver on Zelenskyy in 2022, and it did in fact fail miserably

“He effed around and he found up” dude once you’ve abducted a national leader you should just say “fuck”

The Trump administration is lying to Congress and ignoring our constitutionally required approval for military action. This is what dictators do. This war is not just unjustified—it is unauthorized.

“Wegmans representatives did not reply to questions about how the data would be stored, why it changed its policy or if it would share the data with law enforcement.”

Trump pardoned the last Latin American president indicted and convicted of narco trafficking in the SDNY just over a month ago apnews.com/article/hond...

The superseding indictment against Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, has been unsealed in the SDNY. It alleges a narco trafficking conspiracy and names four others as defendants.

Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts. Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.

Trump on Democrats: "They should say 'great job.' They shouldn't say, 'Oh gee, maybe it's not constitutional.' You know, the same old stuff that we've been hearing for years and years and years."

Full official document: US Department of Justice indictment against Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores and others www.justice.gov/opa/media/14...

You don't have to listen to these professional liars who are barely trying. 9 months ago they were saying they were powerless to return a man they illegally sent to an El Salvador gulag because it would violate that country's national sovereignty

uh holy SHIT?

Another foundational American value, one enshrined in U.S. law to an extent unseen even in many of our peer countries: An aggressive press dedicated to government transparency and accountability.

News is not a “daily conversation.” News is news. If you want a daily conversation, go to your local coffee shop.

This is such an empty-brain statement from CBS. The government murdering people on boats and sending people to CECOT are contrary to the rule of law, so what’s their point?

New: We got an internal ICE document revealing its $100 million ad plan to bring in 14,000 new hires: deals with "tactical" influencers; ads to gun & military buffs; and geo-targeting phones around NASCAR races and gun shows. A "wartime recruitment" mode with paramilitary branding: wapo.st/44QrP5j

Hizzoner reads The News

Among the bills vetoed by Gov Hochul in the close of the year, the "Keep police radio public act," which would have ensured that police dispatch radio remained audible to the press. Encrypted radio communications make it much harder for the press to keep law enforcement accountable.

Love seeing the flags of all five boroughs hanging over the City Hall steps

“When I reached out to Brex to try to understand what its ad meant, no one answered.”

“Can’t believe NYC elected a Muslim as mayor.” In truth—a Black American Christian woman swearing in a Ugandan American Muslim of South Asian ethnicity as his Syrian American wife holds the Qurans he swears in on, all while standing on the steps of a subway station—is the most NYC thing imaginable.

A remarkable trend that will come as a shock to you if your only info about NYC is from this Fox News. Homicides in NYC... 1990: 2,262 1993: 1,927 1998: 629 2001: 649 2013: 335 2019: 320 2021: 488 2024: 382 2025 (as of 12/28): 302

Zohran Mamdani was sworn in as the 112th mayor of New York City in the early minutes of 2026. With @c-sommerfeldt.bsky.social www.nydailynews.com/2026/01/01/m...

If you are a huge nerd like me, you may be wondering, "what about No. 6 trains that use the old City Hall Station to turn around at the end of their runs? What will they do during the Mamdani swearing-in?" Fear not.

New York City Hall tonight

Like, this an actual post from an actual government social media account, posted in the last hour.

An official account of the United States government is dreamposting about deporting 80+ million citizens

In honor of the new year, bringing back an old tradition: reporter bingo.

Why decline all these chances to defend feminism? Because to participate would be accepting the premise that our rights and humanity are up for debate in the first place. Once you’ve conceded that it’s reasonable to ask whether women’s equality was a mistake, you’ve already lost.

you cannot talk about U.S. opinions or polling or electoral beliefs without centering on the fact that the U.S. information diet consists of billionaire-funded corporate rigt wing agitprop and raw sewage (the political press somehow does anyway)

Right now what counts as the public square for most Americans is an onslaught of unverified commentary, most of it shaped by algorithms or billionaires or both. Unless you live in one of our larger metropolises, the chance that any of it informs you of what's happening down the block is slim.

Nearly all city or regional newspapers have or are being bought up by private equity. Alden Capital alone owns 600-700, and they're one of many. It's the usual model, fire everyone, sell the data and real estate, then bleed them dry and toss away the empty husk.

Our photographer Alex Kormann captured the exact moment the presses stopped for the last time in Minneapolis, ending a 158 history of locally printed newspapers.

Heads up that this is authorization for Trump to create his own version of the Wagner Group. Which would bring the number of “armies” at his disposal to four: *regular armed forces (most regulated) *ICE (minimally regulated) *private mercenaries (?) *MAGA thugs/militias (rogue) All pardonable

To refuse to comment and then slam the press for what it prints is a transparent effort to discredit and sow doubt. That's another reason why, in this line of work, you bend over backwards for comment, and make it clear that you did.

April 18, 1930: The BBC announces there is "no news" that day and plays piano music. www.bbc.com/news/enterta...

Getting to the place where I'd take LoRa and GMRS over social media...

This is called "freedom" and it's pissing off the new Commissars who believe that artists must perform at the State's command

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*.

The President of the United States appears to be getting regular IV infusions, the public doesn’t know anything about it, & the DC media evidently doesn’t care. We are months into the mystery of Trump’s hands, the White House is lying, & I’ve seen a grand total of one serious news story about it.

Trump's DOJ was monitoring all the movements of the Miami Herald reporter who was covering the Epstein case.

We didn't survive and thrive as a species because we had warriors or hunters - pretty much every omnivore can manage that. We did so because we developed Grandmothers, and domesticated Dogs. Community is what defines us as a species, and every "self-reliant" libertarian shitweasel be damned.