This is extraordinary. I will miss Colbert so much, but he is going out blazing.

Former Rosie the Riveter, Jeanne Gibson, of Pinole, raises her arm and makes a fist, as friends and family sing “Happy Birthday” during a celebration for her 100th birthday held on the SS Red Oak Victory ship docked in Richmond, Calif., on Saturday, Jan. 31, 2026.

This is what it means to protect and serve. More of this (yes I know she's lucky her husband knows the police chief).

Bill Kristol to the left of most Democrats in Congress. Incredible.

Attacking trans rights was never really about "protecting women." That rhetoric was just a convenient way to make cisgender women complicit in their own oppression, and to make cisgender men feel like "good guys" while oppressing cisgender women and people who are trans.

One of the big media failures of the past decade is the ongoing search for the deeper side of Trump. There isn't one. His ideology, such as it is, is personalist, transactional, and zero-sum. That's as vain, vulgar, and wrong as you can get. He likes gold shit and applause. There's nothing beneath.

2026 is seeing that the U.S. Army is mobilizing a unit specialized for winter conditions, but not knowing if the intended mission is violent repression of an American city or stealing territory from a U.S. treaty ally.

Found this elsewhere on bsky 🤭

Tylenol during pregnancy is safe without increased risk of autism, ADHD, or intellectual disability of offspring A new review of the evidence just out www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

It means: we’re not going to identify or correct easily verifiable falsehoods expressed by right-wing actors on our programs, and we’re going to spin this as “trust” rather than an abdication of our most basic function as journalists.

ICE can't be reformed. It must be abolished

/6 ICE is a monument to totalitarianism, lawlessness, and bigotry. It should be ripped out and woodchippered root and branch and replaced with something focused on the concept that you can’t defend the rule of law by burning it down.

"Shifts in public opinion also lead to changes in election results. Later this year we will have a chance to replace a Congress that refuses effective oversight of ICE and DHS with one willing to try it." /4

"There is nothing wrong with activating awareness and public conscience about evildoing by those in high places. Peaceful protests can and do help change public opinion. What’s more, public opinion has been changing rapidly on these issues and even under this administration, that matters." /3

Good morning! In a world that feels loud, remember that your voice matters. Progress isn't always a straight line, but as long as we keep showing up, we’re winning the long game. Stay kind, stay loud, and stay engaged. ✊🏾✊🏼✊🏽✊🏿

They are a disorganized rabble way over their skis. They are no disciplined fighting force. If they blow this powder keg they know they risk personally getting caught in the blast

After kidnapping a man off 3rd Ave, goons left his car idling in the middle of the road. Having failed to put it in park, the vehicle rolled away and caused a collision. Minneapolis

The national media, the ADL, corporate leaders, etc. are not revisiting their decisions about Musk now afaict. Musk is just allowed to be a very public Nazi accelerationist as well as a CSAM publisher without any mainstream scrutiny.

Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG... www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...

I think I need to put this place back into my hidden apps for a bit.

So @tobymorton.bsky.social is a national treasure and Hilton is fucking up royally with this nonsense. www.hiltonice.com cc: @kenwhite.bsky.social

Back during the June No Kings protest, I posted something about it on Facebook. A friend replied that "a king wouldn't allow protests". I unfriended him. Sometimes I ask my husband if that same person acknowledges even one bit of the bullshit that's happened since, even though I know the answer.

I haven’t really posted anything in a few days because I don’t really have anything to say that’s not overwhelmingly obvious. this is all bad. it’s getting worse. we have to find a way to stop it. fascism is bad. not sure what new insights I’m going to have at this point.

If I order something to be delivered on a Monday, it's actually NOT helpful for it to be delivered early on Sunday (to a commercial address).

After 13 years on Lexapro I recently switched to Prozac and I'm like...oh...is *this* how I'm supposed to feel? Who knows if this feeling of calm will last but I'm sending this skeet to encourage you to maybe try another medication if you are on one and still miserable all the time. Love u guys.

TIL

"Fascists strive impotently for a bigness the shrunken aspirations of their soul can never reach. Fascism is the banal dream of tiny men and deserves its place in the sewage of history." Good @mattpolprof.bsky.social on fascism's hatred of left, relevant now: www.currentaffairs.org/news/why-fas...

This sounds like a plan that was developed by 3 semi-panicked guys standing in a hallway after hearing their boss make a stream of consciousness policy decision at a press conference.

Why yes, yes, it is about the oil. Oh, you thought we'd pretend it's not? Nah, we don't have to pretend anymore.

Trump: "We're going to run the country until such time as we can do a safe, proper and judicious transition."

I bet @thelouvreof.bsky.social is having a time today

With enemies like this, who needs friends?

Look at what the Nobel committee made him do by not preemptively rewarding him!

If their stupidity and arrogance didn't threaten literally the entire rest of the world, it would be comical how dumb they are. And yes, I mean literally.

This is a thread of major media outlets falsely anthropomorphising the "Grok" chatbot program and in doing so, actively and directly removing responsibility and accountability from individual people working at X who created a child pornography generator (Elon Musk, Nikita Bier etc) #1: Reuters

So the next time you want to ask Jacob Tierney or really anyone else why m/m romance is so popular among the girlies (gn), stop and ask yourself: why isn't it more popular among those who aren't? Because Heated Rivalry is proving that a love story well-told has immense and broad appeal.

I'm so obsessed with Heated Rivalry I'm making Shorts and TikToks about it for the podcast channel just for fun. I haven't been able to stop thinking about this one part about that one kiss scene that I haven't seen anyone else talking about... (spoilers) youtube.com/shorts/-CpSQ...

Slowly dying over here for a certain copyeditor's take on the finale of a certain hockey show.

Julie K. Brown is a reporter for the Miami Herald who did groundbreaking work on Epstein beginning in 2018, including groundbreaking work on the disgusting coverup by Alex Acosta. Her travel itinerary was released with some of the Epstein files. It appears the DOJ was monitoring her in 2019.

No sonic screwdriver?

Best book adaptations: Jaws Stand By Me The Shawshank Redemption Heated Rivalry

😭😭 #heatedrivalry

I need season 2 of #HeatedRivalry RIGHT NOW

Dean Martin, born Dino Paul Crocetti, son of Italian immigrant Gaetano Crocetti Frank Sinatra, son of Italian immigrants Antonino Sinatra and Natalina Garavanta Merry Christmas to everyone except Stephen Miller and his enablers and handlers

Cops are great Also: guillotines

I don’t mean to sound extreme, but I don’t think we should have torture camps for people with criminal records either.

James Talarico Exposes Insane Bill to Replace School Counsellors with Untrained Religious Chaplains in Texas

"What would it mean for more of our churches to teach that having emotions like anger and deep sadness and frustration after a tragedy or loss is OK? That to demand justice is a righteous act?" sojo.net/articles/opi...