Oh hey wouldja look at that! 🤔

I really enjoy Dennis the Menace’s meltdowns.

Um, what???

Thank you, @riotgrlerin.bsky.social for making my Poppy into art!

‘Why is it so damn difficult for so many men with so much to lose to keep their pants zipped?’ Via @rabcarian.bsky.social www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

From my “Letters I stopped reading after the first paragraph file”: Robin, Since you view all politics through the crotch I'm looking forward to your columns drawing a line from Swalwell through Chavez to Martin Luther King Jr.

Orbán's electoral crushing is a far greater achievement than most people outside Hungary realise. He systemically consolidated power for 16 years, fixed the electoral map, abused govt power for political purposes & censored media. The hurdles that Hungarians overcame for this moment were immense.

a while ago, Bolsonaro was fearing for his imprisonment he sneaked into the Hungary Embassy near his home and spent a couple of days there hiding. so this has sweet taste to us in Brazil.

Happy to report that JD Vance is having a super shitty week. (Hungary, Pakistan)

‘It sucks being from a country whose presidents do things like threaten to end a “whole civilization,” invade Middle Eastern countries based on lies about weapons of mass destruction, or insert themselves into pointless conflicts…’ Via @rabcarian.bsky.social www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

YESSSSS!!!!!!! Hungary’s Viktor Orbán, ally of Trump and Putin, concedes election defeat - The Washington Post

Fuck Eric Swalwell

The fact that JD Vance is campaigning for Viktor Orban should strike fear (and disgust) into the hearts of anyone who values a free press, civil society groups and the commitment to racial equality. Orban is a fucking fascist.

What an absolute tool. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

He is entirely correct! #usdemocracy www.youtube.com/shorts/TRbiU...

‘American voters have the opportunity to turn this tide, to reject the fearmongering, to embrace our roots as a nation of immigrants and kneecap the would-be dictator who is bent on wrecking democracy from his gilded palace on the Potomac.’ Via @rabcarian.bsky.social www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

This DOGE goon, Justin Fox, decided to kill funding for a documentary focusing on Jewish women used as slave labor during the Holocaust because it was "inherently related to DEI." HE CANNOT DEFINE WHAT DEI IS. www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpbG...

Gerard Baker, so on point, in the @wsj.com: "It was said of Winston Churchill that he mobilized the English language and sent it into battle. Donald Trump’s trick with the mother tongue is to douse it in gasoline, set it on fire and drop it in a dumpster in the middle of his own parade ground."

The lack of seriousness boggles the mind.

‘As different members of the administration & their allies give shifting versions of why Trump moved against Iran now, the question arises: Has the president achieved his presumed objective of knocking the Epstein files off the front page?’ Via @rabcarian.bsky.social www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

Sorry, LOL

Well worth a listen. Tangled web of Epstein, Trump, Maxwell père et fille, Putin etc etc etc

Hey @governor.ca.gov! Don't let your mouthpieces act like trashy Trump people. No one wants to see that. Your constituents deserve better.

Shockeroo!

Wonderful (and literary) wrap up of the Games by my very clever colleague @kbaxter11.bsky.social

Leave WHO, kill USAID, then replace it with an inferior system that will cost billions. So much winning.

Look what I found at my local Gelsons!

Brutal, just brutal. Should be required reading for the guy who snorts cocaine off toilet seats.

Another hero. Olympics edition:

I spent the morning at the DOJ looking at the unredacted Epstein files. Here are my initial thoughts and what I’ve found, so far.

My hero:

Howard Lutnick really should resign. What a pitiful liar.

OMG the details from this @nytimes.com story about Epstein's penchant for gift giving: "Not all of Mr. Epstein’s presents were warmly received....

I asked ChatGPT why the Epstein emails are so full of weird diacritical marks. Here is the response:

Word for word, one of the best and most depressing accounts of the Epstein files. They show "a hidden world oiled by porn-saturated misogyny." www.thetimes.com/life-style/c...

If I was still on Twitter, I would start a feed called @ScottJenningsPart. Who combs that dude’s hair? I cannot look at him on @cnn @abbyphillips without thinking “Hey! There’s Dennis the Menace all growed up!

Good news for democracy: www.latimes.com/politics/sto...

Among the many things I find galling about Bezos gutting the WaPo: Management has the absolute gall to tell the journalists they are not giving readers what they want. Well, guess what? READERS WANTED A KAMALA HARRIS ENDORSEMENT. Bezos killed it and lost 250,000 subscribers. Fucking liars.

‘It’s important — really important — to exercise our right to speak and to assemble. It’s so fundamental to what America is. We can’t just take it for granted… We have to exercise our rights if we want to keep them.’ Via @rabcarian.bsky.social www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

Great piece @rabcarian.bsky.social - I interviewed Downing for my book “A Place to Go, A Place to Grow” re his tireless suport in South LA. Amazing storyteller w/an activist’s heart - even got MacGuyver cast & crew involved. We need more like him today! enewspaper.latimes.com/infinity/art...

‘It has become clear that the administration is attempting a certain kind of psychological conditioning in the blue cities its agents are now terrorizing.’ Via @rabcarian.bsky.social www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

The extent to which the Trump administration is trying to pretend away what one former federal prosecutor called “the most documented crime in American history” is shameful. Commentary from @rabcarian.bsky.social at the Los Angeles Times.

RIP Bob Weir. Loved him, and have to say that his 1978 solo album "Heaven Help the Fool" is criminally underrated.

How do we live in a country so cold to human suffering? Bravo to @nickkristof.bsky.social for this heart breaking column. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/o...

Not a huge fan of criticizing fellow journalists, but this WaPo editorial on Venezuela is sub-literate: "Another bad outcome would be if the country falls into total chaos." Ya think? www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Gee, maybe they can send the DOGE kids down there. After all, they did SUCH a great job here. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...

Had my annual mammogram today. Always reminds me of what John Mitchell said about WaPo publisher Catherine Graham during Watergate. #IYKYK 😂😂😂

California county fairs: A hotbed of scum and villainy. Who knew? Great piece by @jessicagarrison.bsky.social

Move to California if you must. Malibu, even. But when you write about it, please don't try to channel Joan Didion. My column on Olivia Nuzzi & her new book: www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

‘For President Trump, it’s starting to look a lot like lame-duck season… The signs of lame duckery grow as Trump’s popularity dips… Now members of his own party are beginning to stand up to him.’ Via @rabcarian.bsky.social www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...