“I’m sure you’re aware of our connections with the Trump Administration,” the North Carolina Republican Party's communications director wrote in an email response to us. “I would strongly suggest dropping this story.” We didn't. #ICYMI, read the story that he wanted dropped:

"AI is inevitable." (To use to harass people.)

Lovely. “I am an actress. He has used AI to falsely impersonate me [by] sending voice messages to people using my voice and likeness in an effort to destroy my reputation and disturb the peace,” Law stated in her filing.

Cops still have manuals that tell them to look in cars for a copy of the Quran as a sign you might be a terrorist; I am not kidding. The rot is deep.

when trump won nobody was like "he needs to extend an olive branch" and "he needs to move slow to not alienate people who didn't vote for him" but you're already seeing it with zohran

This has direct repercussions for the UK. The BBC has teamed up with CBS to share resources on reporting around the globe.

As an aside, there are virtually no western journalists operating within Iran. They’ve all been banned. The BBC can’t get a correspondent in there. The only information coming out is from opposition groups in the protests circulating videos or by locals phoning western media outlets.

Escalating. Protesters are now armed with Molotov cocktails and setting Basij forces ablaze.

"Magical thinking has no place in public health. Every scientist and health care provider has a duty to speak up against these misguided policies and positions". "... getting up and walking more" is 👍. As a pandemic preparedness strategy, however, a wee bit lacking. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

And please, PLEASE let us not forget that time in 2023 when Karen Smith was elected President of the school board in Bucks County, Pa and swore her oath on a stack of banned books. The most gangsta oath ever! Just brilliant. www.edweek.org/leadership/t...

The official said the funds will be released "only when states prove they are being spent legitimately."

Incredibly cool people full of love and energy and life vs. gross tasteless dead-minded people forever lecturing about death crime ruin and the antichrist, let's see, who should be running things

They gentrified the tinfoil hat

NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani has issued an executive order revoking all executive orders signed by Eric Adams after September 26, 2024, the date of Adams’ indictment.

I interviewed a woman for a @sciam.bsky.social story who had RSV two years ago, and is still coughing. www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...

If you're cold he's cold, bring him inside

This is not a hard message. Localize it. Embrace it. Win.

LAPD closed the year out with a shooting death, this time during a “physical altercation” with the suspect. That makes it 47 shootings by LAPD this year, a roughly 70% increase over last year. 15 people have been killed.

The thread as a shareable webpage: https://skywriter.blue/pages/did:plc:w57konlfq5hpe5x7jwabpviq/post/3mbetvcokp22t.

Last month, I wrote on all legislative races of 2025. There were still a few elections left in the year, however. But now, they're all done. And so we've updated the analysis: —Democrats flipped 25 legislative seats in 2025. That's 21% of the 119 GOP-held seats at play. —The GOP flipped 0.

A serious person is like a glass of water in the desert

i know how stupid this is but if official dem accounts decided to make these assholes internet famous by calling them perverted freaks it would end this daycare harassment campaign and im telling you i know how stupid that is…

"we're here to inspect your daycare center"

I'm sure this is Mar-a-Lago's combination bar and SCIF

Two people confirmed dead as Iran protests turn into ‘battlefield’

These guys want gratitude for fucking us over

LLMs enter their teenager era

Yikes 😳

I don't like reposting fascist propaganda, however, on the DHS posts, be prepared in 2026 for agitprop about "election fraud" based on the logic that "the votes of people who should be deported do not count."

Maternal and congenital syphilis are markers of under development and lack of public health infrastructure. Sad that we are adding " explosive growth in maternal syphilis" to the list of public health failures closing out 2025. www.cidrap.umn.edu/sexually-tra...

If you’re excited for 2026 you’re a fucking moron. Sam Altman is going to do a New York Times town hall with Alan Dershowitz called “Should Underage A.I. Marriage Be Legal?” ABC will launch “Ben 2 Ben” with Ben Shapiro and Ben Domenech. 20 young nazis from Jubilee are the new hosts of Meet the Press

Thursday?

“Pfizer announced the most list price hikes, on around 80 different drugs including cancer drug Ibrance… Most of Pfizer’s increases are below 10%, except for a 15% hike of COVID vaccine Comirnaty, while some of its relatively inexpensive hospital drugs saw more than four-fold increases.”

“And if you insist on asking what surprised someone most, then at least follow up with a more useful query: Why were you surprised? What misunderstanding lies at the heart of your surprise, and what is its source? Without those next steps, the first question is rendered useless.”

And several groups are coming together to fuel the protests, led by young women opposing decades of repression, and students. The one thing holding it back is that people can’t see what will replace the current regime. So there’s a watch and wait among many citizens.

This Iranian uprising is different to previous ones. It’s underpinned by a catastrophic economic situation that the government is incapable of solving. Food prices have risen by 70% in a year. Inflation is at 40% and rising. The currency is at its lowest level. People are finding it hard to live.

The statue of former Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi has been toppled in Ardabil in northwest Iran. It was only erected a few days ago.

The protest continues to spread. Huge crowds now flooding the streets in Harsin in Kermanshah for the first time.

Once you look for, "does this [article / op-ed / claim by a politician] consider the 80% of Americans who live in urban areas to be real Americans?" you will see it everywhere, because the answer is usually "no."

Farage confirms his party is a bunch of disgusting racists.

Minnesota "Operation Metro Surge": 670+ arrested in 2 weeks. Targets? Hardware stores. Gyms. Traffic stops. Schools. People detained include: Turkish citizen (no record), Somali torture survivor (no record), father of U.S. Marine (no record). www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...

If you're trying to cut back on exposing yourself to the Misery Machine, but still want to stay informed--a thing you could do is sign up for AP's Morning Wire. I'll post that sign up in the next skeet, but here is AP behind the scenes on some good stories from 2025: apnews.com/article/good...

Netanyahu was with Trump at Mar a Lago on New Year’s Eve.

Watching an episode of the watershed documentary series 'World at War' and cheering every time an allied AntiFa soldier slaps a captured Nazi upside the head

"It was the last year before an expected ban on unofficial fireworks, so the Dutch bought them in massive quantities."

It is kind of wild that no big media outlet has busted open the story of who is making DHS' posts on X. Whoever that may be is certainly plugged into hardcore white supremacist internet propaganda with a harder edge. "Groyper" would be underselling it. This is Daily Stormer-tier sludge.

Called it! www.washingtonpost.com/style/2025/1... This will make an interesting case in board powers, but I think not a difficult one. EO members may choose not to vote, but stripping them of power is a violation of the acting members' fiduciary duties.

Ask your historian friends what happens when the white supremacist government determines it can't reasonably deport 100 million people, but still needs a permanent solution.

white men aren't even allowed to design white supremacist propaganda in today's woke America