My general opinion of the holidays. Doesn't help that it was over 70 degrees today, and I currently have a fan on.

"The reason so many of yesterday’s free-speech champions transitioned so easily into today’s pro-Trump censors is that their definition of free speech never included the right of others to talk back." @adamserwer.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

That’s like saying because the tech billionaires and Wall Street Bankers made and spent a lot of money, everyone else will get big raises.

Banks collapse economy MAGA: Bail them out! Auto & Airline Industries on brink of bankruptcy MAGA: Bail them out! Housing collapse about to wreck economy MAGA: Bail them out! Low income students suffer crushing debt MAGA: Garnish their wages! MAGAs serve 800 billionaires to destroy 45M students

HOLY SHIT 98% of gun violence is committed by men We don't have a male loneliness problem. We have a male violence problem. rockinst.org/gun-violence...

Remember, Marsha Blackburn introduced KOSA to “stop the transgender in our culture.” KOSA is a tool to bludgeon free expression and erase LGTBQ people. It is not about kids safety at all.

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Marjorie Taylor Greene Tears Into Trump After Latest Epstein Files Release: ‘Only Evil People Would Hide This’ Mediaite

The Dunning-Kruger Effect and the Streisand Effect, when merged, become the Bari Weiss Effect

It was the Dunning of tymes. It was the Kruger of tymes.

Yep. Ted Cruz is why Lauren Boebert went from being an honest sex worker to an absolute political whore.

Congrats again to everyone for pretending the far right authoritarian party’s assault on higher education was really about fighting antisemitism

Republican senator Massie dug up a still-published post from Vance in 2021. "What possible interest would the US government have in keeping Epstein’s clients secret? Oh…"

So, the answer is yes, he did move her to a Club Fed.

In a highly unusual move, the EPA is revising an assessment of the health dangers posed by formaldehyde, a widespread pollutant that causes far more cancer than any other chemical in the air. By @fastlerner.bsky.social

This was from 12/3 but it bears repeating.

Zoe Weissman survived the Parkland shooting. Now she’s at Brown, and it happened again. “Honestly, I'm really angry that this is happening to me all over again, and I'm just in shock.” We’re failing our kids. A gun-sick nation. 🇺🇸 www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork

Looking for an *L.A. based* artist who (against all odds) has time for a poster gig before the end of the year. It's for a science + art event. We can offer $500 for the gig. Dreadfully sorry about the timeline. Link a portfolio if you're interested, I'll delete this post when we found someone.

Democrat leadership is made of failure. The whole structure needs to be pulled out by the roots.

Anti-A.I. stamps! For illustrations, comics, photos and all your creative works, printed and digital! You can download the transparent file for free here: ko-fi.com/i/IT6T718NAKF (but consider donating please 😘)

Ahem

Disney has clearly never heard of Avenue Q... youtu.be/LTJvdGcb7Fs?...

Disney somehow forgets Rule 34 exists.

We're to the point where a military coup would be a vast improvement.

Democrats would be crazy not to make this comment super-famous tomorrow when the Senate debates health care. Republicans don’t want you to be cared for as a patient when you’re sick. They think of you as a “consumer”—and tough luck if you don’t have the money for the care you need.

Fine. Give us the Epstein files in Times New Roman, then.

That's not what is being proposed here. This is not speaking to your dead grandmother; this is deluding yourself that talking to a fucking computer program is the same as talking to a dead loved one. This is substituting a kind of infantile denial of death for healthy grief.

The US Govt — which bombed the Houthis for seizing ships that were enabling the Gaza genocide — has now seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela. The 2001 "war on terror" was a war for oil. The 2025 "war on narco terror" is a war for oil. This your "America First" POTUS. Are we great yet?🤔

@warren.senate.gov just co-sponsored KOSA again 🤦🏽‍♀️ You CANNOT claim to be an ally to the LGTBQ community and support this awful bill. Your office blatantly ignored our Boston coalitions pleas, so let’s see how you feel about those phones being melted. CALL HER!

Israeli National Security Minister Ben Gvir and other members of the Otzma Yehudit (Jewish Power) party wore golden noose-shaped pins to a Knesset National Security Committee meeting to discuss a bill to execute Palestinian detainees.

Daily Yes I do

Frank Sinatra loathed Donald Trump.

Did you know that before Nixon and Reagan, health insurance companies in America were non-profit? Yep, they screamed about "socialized medicine" and gradually shifted the focus of our entire healthcare system from public welfare to... making bucks off illness.

Many Say This All Started With Reagan.....

Elon Musk's "Free Speech" for me, not for thee.

Our collective task is not to save tech but to save us, our world. The resonant computing manifesto is too focused on means and not on ends. And that's basically the core issue. The belief in technological determinism.

The citizens are going to get rounded up and disappeared for weeks at a time with no due process because of how they look. THAT what there is to fear.

TRUMP: *calls Somalis "garbage"* OMAR: The president is a bigot NEWSMAX:

First Trump claimed his attacks on immigrants were targeting "illegals." Now people who followed the rules are being denied US citizenship. First Trump told Europe to pay more for defense. Now his National Security Strategy is bashing Europe for not being white enough. The common thread: racism.

Perfect

*youth pastor voice* Let me tell you kids about another carpenter who wasn’t very popular with the authorities

BERMAN: Would it be legal for police in Arkansas to kill suspected drug dealers on a boat in a lake? TOM COTTON: The premise of your question is not well-founded BERMAN: The answer is no. It would not be legal to kill them.

A gift for you: If you're a parent who is regretting letting the Elf on a Shelf into your home, here is a duty reassignment order you can show to your kids that the Elf was needed elsewhere. Printable png 8X10 300dpi so it can fit well on an A4 for non North American printers.

Oh no, we can't loose the strict adherence to traditional ideas of gender and sexuality that the Looney Tunes cartoons were so famous for.

"We've moved on from that."

I call my wood chipper Quentin Tarantino because it's all about feet first.

How much money does the military lose every year beyond being unable to pass an audit? Oh wait! The military is a government service the same as the US Postal Service!