God, the news is engaging and the takes on here are fucking awful. A great day to log off.

The idea that the US was more powerful and prosperous in the early 1960s than in recent decades is just bonkers, and yet it is central tenet of this terrible regime.

the venezuelan opposition desperately wants to be the aristocracy of a US-backed junta. absolute frauds

There are political and economic conditions that can make the public more likely to accept authoritarianism but they don't exist in this country so they're trying to manufacture them with memes. Pretending like this is 1990s Russia. Incredible to watch

Five years ago.

I didn’t see any of the movies but this title is really not trying. “The Fellowship of the Ring,” that’s trying. “The Two Towers,” man cmon. “The Return of the King.” Elite titling game. “The Hunt for Gollum” you basic ass bitches. Not a Tolkien stan but that dude should haunt your asses for this

Everything in this country and economy is now just one big scam

It’s genuinely wild that the United States spent decades building an elaborate rules-based international order which de facto cemented its permanent status as the dominant global hegemon, sustained by ideology rather than might, and now is just blowing it all up for literally no reason

Not gonna lie, seeing that Bryce Underwood is returning to Michigan next season was an actual weight off my shoulders.

neither pro-Stancil nor anti-Stancil, but a secret pro-third thing (going outside)

It's Their Time

I really fucking hate these goddamn Nazis in the White House.

This is extremely Jason Mendoza-coded.

I continue to be fascinated by cheap Kindle covers of public domain titles that have absolutely nothing to do with the content.

INBOX: Statement from Senator Kelly

I wondered how long the leash would be, considering his Hall of Fame status and their relative dearth of anything on the roster. Pretty short leash, as it turns out!

the 6% is the WaPo editorial board

This is true, but I also hope Kelly sues the ever-loving shit out of these fucking fascists.

The Browns need to fire their owner into the fucking sun, not fire the only good head coach they've had since they were reborn.

God, Walz seems like such a good dude. I bitterly regret that he's not our sitting VP and wish him nothing but the best.

there all is aching

Decatur, Illinois's minor league baseball team (d. 1974) was nicknamed the Commodores, after Commodore Stephen Decatur. They were popularly known as the Commies, even during the Cold War.

Eliminate the Executive Branch!

amazing how the entire machine can pivot within 24 hours. no need to slowly upsell the argument; just issue new marching orders

Jesus fucking christ

I always feel absolutely gutted for the kicker when this happens.

Great galloping ghosts.

That 4th down catch by Baltimore was absolutely insane.

What an unreal bust.

I would get a good laugh out of Atlanta hiring Belichick now.

all this is both foolish and unnecessary

oh that might be even worse than not telling the gang of eight before going in

yep. i can identify any number of structural issues but at the end of the day the basic problem is the republican party. this has been apparent for at least 20 years. it is also an incredibly unpopular observation to make among “serious” people.

One thing all Democrats running in 2026 and 2028 should be explicit about is a promise that regardless of pardons, the crimes committed by everyone in this administration will be investigated and published.

Nixon insisted the bombing of Cambodia was just targeting Viet Cong outposts there and not meant to undermine its government, but the bombings destabilized the Lon Nol government and paved the way for the Khmer Rouge’s killing fields and the massacre of more than a million people.

Marco Rubio’s history and connection to the drug world is pretty insane prospect.org/2025/12/23/n...

taking this stupid, tortured analogy seriously for a moment, the american people gave the republican party an exclusive two-year contract to handle extermination duties. you're mad at the exterminator you didn't hire because they're not doing the job you hired someone else to do.

If ever there were a time you might want a separate but equal branch of the United States government to run a check on the president, it would be now ….

okay so they literally expect to run another country by truth social post, I can’t see any way this could possibly go wrong

Just opened BlueSky and saw 10 posts in a row about John Schneider’s pit stains. This is a sports app!!!

Couldn’t have happened to a worse person!

The best description I ever heard of News Corp was from a Murdoch biographer who called it a kind of free-floating state television which various regimes could contract with to provide propaganda. The new CBS is actually lower than that, even.

I was wondering how this might all turn out to have been my fault

Thinking about this and the Polymarket stuff at the same time and frowning

16 hours in, my guess this was all intended basically as a coup to put VP Delcy Rodriguez in power (likely without her knowledge but 🤷). At least for democracy & human rights, that might be even worse than the "opening shots in a war" scenario. All speculation, but let me explain:

searching twitter while doing a warcrime is the stupidest osint ever. thank you for letting everyone know you can now manipulate the war room via hashtag

Strongly agree with @winwithoutwar.bsky.social: “Violence abroad and deprivation at home are all this administration has to offer the world. When the dust clears from this made-for-social-media spectacle, lives will have been unnecessarily lost, families in Venezuela will… (1/2)

Who did this 😂

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.