Why do I have to pretend that I'm going to print something in order to save it as a PDF. Why do I have to engage in a little ruse.

"of course people should have known, he didn't hide any of it!" is a valid complaint but the fact of the matter is that a lot of people self-evidently did not understand what they were voting for and they don't like it

One of the greatest bollard walks in history. #WorldBollardAssociation

I listened to several of these and across all of them two things are standard- the simpering nature of these calls which are always "oh I dont know theyre nice I'm sure why don't you lock them in a cage just in case" & how ENRAGED they get when they simply have their own words repeated at them

It’s giving middle passage

Yoon Suk-yeol has been sentenced to life imprisonment.

Wow.

watched TO SLEEP WITH ANGER yesterday and i know i'm late on this but what a picture. bona fide masterpiece of american filmmaking.

Raw numbers are that ICE arrested 340,000 people last year who have no violent criminal record.

Macbeth: SHIT

First shot: sugarcane The backbone of Puerto Rico's agricultural economy since colonial times Still used to make rum of course!

I never realized that "wherefore" is of a pair with "therefore" kinda cute. "Where" and "there" with a suffix become "why" and "thus"

who called it Heated Rivalry and not Fuck Ice

turns out when Bezos suggested "democracy dies in darkness" it was a goal, not a slogan

Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”

The guy who owns Amazon shutting down the books section of the Washington Post is beyond parody

As an Eagle Scout, let me say this is an opportunity for Scouting America to stop having a partnership with the U.S. Military.

This is our culture. Epstein isn't a freak exception, his elite friends aren't exceptions. He, and they, are a mirror. That's all.

Even in Elon Musk’s denial of his involvement with Epstein—which directly contradicts the available evidence—the world’s richest man is still claiming he knew all about “pedo island” and didn’t do anything to stop it. Even in their fantasies of innocence they’re still directly enabling child abuse

Quake!

“/pol/ was created after moot met with jeffrey epstein” is maybe the single most cursed true sentence I have ever had the displeasure of writing

A manual for ICE's immigrant-targeting computer system, Palantir ELITE, was leaked today. Let's look at it, then step back to evaluate how far we've come along a dangerous road and where that road might take us. 🧵

A Minnesota woman observing ICE agents in her car was cornered on one-way streets. An agent approached, called her by name—citing facial recognition. Days later, her Global Entry and TSA privileges were revoked, with no explanation.

Two shot putters from opposing countries have a gay romance, call that yeeted rivalry

brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis

ICE just shot another one of my neighbors. They had the person on the ground, being beaten by several agents, and then fired multiple shots. In front of the donut shop where we like to get donuts for our kids.

Singing

This is one of those mag articles I remember so well I still talk about it 15 years later. Customer profiles has only become more central to the online economy ever since. www.nytimes.com/2012/02/19/m...

“Look: Rome wasn’t burned in a day.”

@rianjohnson.bsky.social Is there in theater commentary for WUDM this go around?

At long last, we have created the tyrannical king from the classic declaration

A video of ICE agents conducting door-to-door searches today in Minneapolis The homeowner requests a warrant repeatedly, is told they don't require one, then is told they're getting it, then the agents storm in anyway They also point a taser at her to try and disrupt filming

Great question. We track ICE agents in real time, we show up en masse when they try to kidnap our neighbors, and we blow whistles and honk horns and bully them until they flee with their coward tails between their legs. We do this many times a day, every day. Thank you for asking

Has anyone analyzed trumps posts to see when he started talking in the full royal third person with “our” and “we”

None of my to-do list items include scrolling the feed but I am nonetheless finding it difficult to ignore Events.

the thing where decades of policy choices have made it so that it is mostly impossible to travel in this country without operating a deadly machine and now the government is using that as a priori evidence of murderous intent demanding deadly force in response is haunting me a little ngl

"did you try to bribe the president of the united states by giving him your nobel peace prize so he will declare that you are in charge of venezuela after abducting its leader by military force" is just a thing that someone can be asked in an interview now and we all have to deal with that

kind of darkly funny that "gender studies" is the stereotypical "useless degree" because gender studies will help you understand a large and important chunk of the current psychosis in american life

magical

WH sources say Venezuela's opposition leader committed the "ultimate sin": She accepted the Nobel Peace prize. “If she had turned it down and said, ‘I can’t accept it because it’s Donald Trump’s,’ she’d be the president of Venezuela today,” one said. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

New Interview: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

day one in mamdani’s new york

"its not clear what kind of move I was trying to do" is one of my all time favorite tweets, but as a public service I share this tumblr collection of the entire 26-tweet reply chain it was part of (courtesy of haywire4) www.tumblr.com/haywire4/173...

When I used to fly for work regularly and also carried a Leatherman often, I would keep a flat-rate prepaid box folded flat in my carry-on bags so I could mail myself anything that I forgot to check that couldn't clear security.

New, from me: The NYT reporter who specializes in profiles of beleaguered right-wingers on campus went to New College...and found out that things were going ok! So let me explain some pretty massive errors of omission: 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-nyt-re...

LEFT: @asharangappa.bsky.social four weeks ago RIGHT: new NYT report Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/27/u...

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

Avatar is the James Patterson novel of sci-fi films and everyone is getting mad that a James Patterson novel is popular instead of just putting down the James Patterson novel and picking up a non-James Patterson novel that they like instead.

This blistering review of the new avatar prints a quote I hadn’t seen before where Cameron just blatantly espouses the racism that defines the movies. The most spectacularly boomer movies in every sense of the words. filmfreakcentral.net/2025/12/avat...