Talking about the Beatles with my 9 y.o. and asked if she remembered which two are still alive. Her response? "Paul and Rando."

So I have the cover story in next month's TNR. I interviewed the heads of police groups; immigration defense attorneys, ex-judges and ex-prosecutors; former DOJ and DHS officials, and the former head of Border Patrol. They're all horrified at what we've seen, and they all fear what's coming.

A positively delightful chain of events, well worth your time.

Best explanation of the liar's dividend that I've ever seen.

Not enough young men are getting vaccinated against HPV, and it's undermining the elimination of cervical cancer. If more boys receive the vaccine it will save numerous lives from HPV-associated cancers, including cervical, anal, penile & oral cancers. www.sciencealert.com/vaccinating-...

In 2023 I became obsessed with videos of dads in cargo shortswaiting in parking lots during Taylor Swift's Eras Tour. So when she came to town, I grabbed a camera and headed down to talk to them. I thought it'd be funny. It turned out to be something else entirely.

Well, happy anniversary to one of the finest of festive exchanges

My bestie Alex just started chemo for colon cancer and she asked me to use my platform to tell you to get your butts checked for tumors. We’re all fans of butts here on Bluesky, and we should do our part to preserve their bountiful beauty for all to enjoy. Let’s make 2026 the year of the colonoscopy

I hadn’t thought about 60 Minutes in forever, but then they started hiding the news, like a cool scavenger hunt.

For all the discourse about political violence this year…. this deserves to be understood as political violence too. A deliberate choice by particular people to ruin someone’s life, detain them against their will, rip them from their families - it’s violence

Seven names for ailments / illnesses in the Victorian era… 7. The collywobbles (upset tummy) 6. A queer cog (a rotten tooth) 5. The horrors (depression) 4. Dropsy (oedema) 3. Strangery (rupture) 2. Scrivener’s palsy (writer’s cramp) 1. The unpleasantness (nothing good)

Ready to start my new career as Seth Meyers in Day Drinking with Seth Meyers

This quote from the WaPo rocks. Artists with integrity are such badasses.

Being ungovernable under a fascist police state is our duty as Americans of good conscience.

#BREAKING: New drone video from Pacific, WA, on Tuesday morning following a levee failure on the White River at Pacific City Park. Whole neighborhoods are underwater as water continues flowing out of the failed levee. #wawx #flood #drone

Everyone wants to make “sense” of things, but we are all currently hostage to an irrationalist epistemic environment. You might as well just read the entrails of a slaughtered goat to divine where events are headed.

A week ago, I wrote that Democrats flipped 21% of all state legislative seats held by the GOP that were in play this year. Republicans, meanwhile, had flipped none. This KY seat was one of just a couple left before the end of 2025. boltsmag.org/legislative-...

will every NFL game have a moment of silence or is that only for white supremacists who were presenting a racist rationale for our unfettered gun massacre culture when shot

“Employees with driver’s license offices across the state, from El Paso to Paris to Plano, reported the names and license numbers of these people to a special agency email account.“

Frightening. Hegseth's cowboys will kill people. Pilot narrowly avoids ‘midair collision’ with US air force plane near Venezuela www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

For a moment, you can feel like you have the tiniest bit of power

When Rob Reiner was on his all-time epic run at the start of his career, he had an opportunity to read a script that was looking for a production partner, and he lost his mind for it. He decided Castle Rock had to have it, no matter what.

I rarely ask for things, but I will make an exception for my colleague and friend, Augustine Goba, who dedicated his life to saving others. Augustine was Director of the hemorrhagic fever lab in Kenema, Salone, and is struggling with PSP. Please consider donating. www.gofundme.com/f/augustine-...

“What I’ve been feeling most is just, like, how dare this country allow this to happen to someone like me twice?” Weissman told the New York Times.

This is the government of a country where mass shootings happen regularly & we’re told all they can do is pray. It’s b/c they want violence. They’re the ones who normalized it. They get a thrill from making people, here & everywhere, cower in fear. They care nothing for our lives or anyone else’s.

The most ugly of all American traditions is praying for the victims of gun violence.

Hello friends, I recently lost my health insurance + benefits & am currently looking at a bill of over $16,000 for which I cannot pay. This would not necessarily be an issue if I were not visually impaired and currently out of full time work, but I am humbly asking for assistance now. Any bit helps.

Just saw a Parkland survivor post about being on lock down at Brown University. We've failed generations of kids with our gun fetish

The Trump-Vance admin has been committing illegal strike after illegal strike. They're trying to normalize it. They're counting on you to lose track, to be too overwhelmed to remember the gravity of what they're doing. But we're keeping track of every single strike. So far: 22 strikes. 87 killed.

"Trump will just defy court orders, what's even the point of litigating" This, this a point

Trying to convince my partner I would not be upset if he started dressing like Peaky Blinders.

this is so real. the emotional weight of just trying to stay alive in this country is unending, and if you care about the people around you it's just stacking damage.

This is sad. I can think of 30 assigned books I read in high school in the 90s. They were the foundation of my whole career—and life, tbh.

A lot to unpack here about class, gender, and caring work 19thnews.org/2025/12/ice-...

I just led a focus group with OBs who serve undocumented immigrants, and the fallout from this admin's policies is devastating. As a mom, I can't imagine being pregnant and unable to access healthcare. I'm only alive because I had the full range of care I needed when I needed it.

If every Muslim voter in Dearborn voted for Harris, she still would have lost Michigan. If she had won Michigan, she STILL WOULD HAVE LOST THE ELECTION. If you want to blame voters for current conditions, feel free to blame the actual demographic responsible for Trump and that is WHITE PEOPLE.

404 Media is making a print zine! About the surveillance technologies used by ICE. 16 pages, riso printed. Shipping early January. Features reworked versions of our best reporting and a few new things. We're very excited! And hope to do more if people like it: www.404media.co/404-media-is...

I mean we are absolutely in a place now where the only solution to this information disorder is for everyone to constantly evaluate the source of information. Never trust a chatbot, but also don't believe a video unless you know and trust where it comes from. Unfortunately... that's a lot of work.

If you, like me, have long covid and want to help find a way to reduce symptoms, there are some spots left in this super smart randomized trial!

Do you wake up every day & think, wtf are we doing? Are you exhausted by going about your daily life while our government is doing fascism like it's 1933? Do you speak out, donate, help out but also weep, binge drink, get your meds increased? Wtf are we doing wtf are we doing wtf are we doing wtf

Between living in a state of hyper-vigilance, enduring widespread loss, and bearing witness to purposeful cruelty while powerless to stop it, we are all experiencing trauma—even if we as individuals or as members of a vulnerable group are not being targeted directly. Be gentle with yourselves.

Sending all my love to NOLA.

"Pete Hegseth seems to be a war criminal. Without a war. An interesting achievement… The killing of the survivors by this moral slum of an administration should nauseate Americans. A nation incapable of shame is dangerous, not least to itself.”

TN07 is a story about gerrymandering: the GOP cracked Nashville into 3 districts when it redrew the 2022 map, destroying the Dem seat there. Fast-forward: a section of Nashville, which just 5 years ago had a Dem representative, is now voting Dem by huge margins but it's been designed to not matter.

14% swing from 2024 when all is said and done? Pretty good considering just how high-profile the race became in the last week Turnout is currently *93%* of 2022, and it's also a 14% swing from 2022 despite similar turnout levels

Seems like a good time to drop this here www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/a-complete...

For Tennessee: 1. Secret City, or, They Didn’t Know They Were Making an Atomic Bomb 2. A Memphis Balcony, 1968 3. Kingston Coal Ash Spill 4. Too Loud in Music City 5. These Mountains Are Hella Old 6. Why Are We Going to Jackson? There’s Nothing There. 7. The Cherokee Town Under the Lake 5. Dolly

there’s a scene in the new documentary where Elizabeth Taylor is talking about the stigma of AIDS and how she got involved in the movement and it’s fucking everything

Most of my life is spent trying to get my kid to stop making so many mouth sounds.

This isn't any worse than any of the other illegal detainments but I love Marilyn and seriously with all my heart fuck these people sideways with a thorny rose bush.