These roadside signs will go out across Charlotte tomorrow in the places where CBP agents abducted neighbors.

Our litany from tonight, calling out dozens of sites of state-sponsored terror in Charlotte.

Original work from Charlotte artist Rosalia Torres.

Tonight in Charlotte. #AbolishICE

We are ruled by weenies.

i agree, and i think it is more important than ever to go out into the world and exist. go to a local school board or city council meeting pick up from the restaurant instead of door dash buy the things in the store instead of online etc

Pope Leo on Feast of Epiphany, and Closing of Jubilee Year: “A distorted economy tries to profit from everything. We see how the marketplace can turn human yearnings of seeking, traveling and beginning again into a mere business.” www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

I understand that stupid people can be incredibly powerful and violent, and do immense damage. But they are still pathetic. And stupid.

You’ll survive, but you’ll be funnier in a way that worries people

I'm super excited about playing a concert of the music of a favorite jazz composer this Friday in Durham. Rehearsed today with dear friends, and it turned my Monday around.

not beating the allegations that antivax beliefs are downstream of being afwaid of needles

At my house...

Nicolás Maduro Charged With Felony Oil Possession

AI deep fakes? Listen, man, I know some pastors impersonating pastors to try to scam their congregations. www.wired.com/story/ai-dee...

If no one circles back today, we can buy ourselves another week.

US military killed 80 year old Rosa Gonzalez while she slept www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/w...

I'll never forget this portion of Michael Greenberg's 2017 piece "Tenants Under Siege: Inside New York's Housing Crisis," where he describes what renters face when landlords decide it's time to "unlock value" from their properties by forcing tenants out. www.nybooks.com/articles/201...

Our politics have become so bleak that this effort from Mamdani feels almost otherworldly, as though it cannot be real that someone in government is showing concern for poor people.

This should exist in every city in the country.

Avarice, bloodlust, envy, pride, wrath.... Every time this man opens his mouth, the seven deadly sins pour out.

Decided in this moment to reread some Galeano. First page: “The more freedom is extended to business, the more prisons have to be built for those who suffer from that business.”

Stranger Things is on in the other room, and there are so. Many. Sounds.

Chauncey Gardener running two countries by a cell phone app, sounds great.

Colombian President Petro commenting on the US; “A clan of pedophiles wants to destroy our democracy. To keep Epstein's list from coming out, they send warships to kill fishermen & threaten our neighbor with invasion for their oil."

Expect to see a lot of this classic Onion headline, from 23 years ago, over the coming weeks.

Reminder that almost a quarter century ago, Schumer voted for the Hague Invasion Act, declaring that the US would militarily invade the Hague were it ever to be prosecuted by ICC for war crimes. Biden did too, it was an overwhelmingly bipartisan agreement to be unaccountable to international law.

Trump just posted this photo of the sharpest minds in our intelligence community hard at work during the Venezuelan operation.

Trump: "We're going to have our very large United States oil companies go in, spend billions of dollars, fix the badly broken infrastructure and start making money for the country. And we are ready to stage a second and much larger attack if we need to do so."

Entering our Too Lazy to Manufacture Consent era

Wendell Berry, from A Timbered Choir: The Sabbath Poems 1979-1997. (This excerpt from 1991, during the first Gulf War.)

He is himself an authoritarian, and the United States is now an authoritarian state.

Okay, who's drafting the articles?

BRB, looking for my early 2000s "Regime Change Starts at Home" sign.

New circle of hell: gambling on war crimes.

Pam Bondi fires DOJ ethics lawyer for insisting on adherence to DOJ ethics rules. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

In an 1829 letter, Simon Bolívar (VZ’ George Washington) wrote: “The United States appear to be destined by Providence to plague America with misery in the name of liberty.”

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.

Among the many reasons you don’t kidnap a foreign head of state at gunpoint even if you have the capability, is that it sparks consequences you can neither control nor anticipate.

I've read most of this to start the year, and it is fascinating. @tressiemcphd.bsky.social you familiar? Seems like something you would appreciate.

In 2026 I want all of the decent people to remember one thing. You aren’t meant to be this disciplined, this self-sacrificing to survive. The environment is supposed to support good living. We can have that. You are not a failure. That is politics. That is all.

I'm still tender enough to be moved by this kind of speech.

Happy New Year!

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

Old Greg and The Lady have been working a puzzle and watching The Sound of Music, as 80 year old 40-somethings do on #NewYearsEve.

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

Finishing up the year with a little DIY appliance repair, feeling like a real champ.

Spent my 40s so far doing a lot of running after avoiding it for years, and it has been one of the best things to happen to me mentally and physically.