Looks like the EU-US trade deal is now dead, with all three major groups in the EU Parliament calling at least for suspension. The downward spiral has already begun.

the question to ask about this is, okay, he wants to cancel the midterms. how does he get the VA state board of elections to cancel the midterms? how does he get the georgia board of elections to do it? how does he convince republican house members to quit their jobs and give up their paychecks?

Part two of the guys who created Axios and Politico looking back on 20 years of their own disruption of political news. www.axios.com/2026/01/13/p... About the dark side of it: "We helped create a monster: politics as entertainment — and the dominant weapon in a never-ending cultural war."

What (and I can’t stress this enough) THE FUCK.

This is the "testing the waters" phase of the playbook. The GOP ecosystem targets groups like Somalis, Haitians, and trans people specifically because they've calculated that the average person's passive disapproval won't ever turn into active defense. They're exploiting public apathy.

ah yes, the best way to explain and understand the world is by ignoring experts and practitioners and turning our attention to the “average American,” whatever that means

“Stop stealing and start creating” is a real thing an “AI artist” said

This Yglesias piece in the NYT is horrifically bad. Almost every "fact" it cites is provably false. At best it is cocktail party banter from a pundit who knows nothing of energy. At worst, it was cut/paste from oil industry talking points. So, a rebuttal: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/o...

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Trump isn’t just attacking the Department of Education, he’s going after all public schools plus.flux.community/p/trump-isnt...

I'm at the local gym, enjoying the simple pleasure of finding it empty. I love people. I'm an introvert who nevetheless finds a deep joy in discovering the thoughts and perspectives of others, and being changed by them. But isn't it also really lovely when, just occasionally, everyone fucks off?

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it's utterly wild how the Heritage Foundation president talks about other people if you found a guy talking like this outside, you'd probably call the cops

So there were some AI-generated videos that purported to show Black women ranting about SNAP benefits, and... Fox News is reporting on this like these are real people. They're not! They're AI! This is truly insane. Total unreality. www.foxnews.com/media/snap-b...

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Trump is demanding his own administration give him $230 million. He's cutting himself a taxpayer-funded check, and paying for it by cutting your healthcare and food assistance. This is what corruption under authoritarianism looks like.

twitter is making mainstream reporters dumber, and because they're all getting dumber together, none of them can recognize it and they actually think they're getting smarter

Intelligence is serious business, and they can't afford to share information with foreign states that give it, or carelessly leak it, to their adversaries. If anything, it's amazing more intelligence agencies haven't cut sharing with the US. Well, they probably have, just haven't publicized it.

Q: What's your message to the 170 US citizens who have been detained by ICE? About 20 of them are children MIKE JOHNSON: I don't know what you're talking about with the children. I haven't seen that so I'm not going to comment on it.

my main takeaways from listening to the Supreme Court oral argument today are -the writing is on the wall for the Voting Rights Act -the Republican justices are now throwing racist spaghetti at that wall; they'll pass of whatever sticks as the opinion's rationale ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/calla...