it doesn't raise questions. it signals that the president is a violent fascist imperialist and war criminal. you're allowed to say that? like, you can just come out and fucking say it. don't be such fucking cowards, for fuck's sake.

This is billionaire-controlled media. They want to sleepwalk us into another forever war. We must break free.

I'm head-down finishing work on my manuscript until Monday, glad to know not much is happening in the world

I FEEL LIKE I AM LOSING MY MIND Trump has been deporting dissidents to Iran for months! One of them was so afraid to go back he tried to slit his wrists on the tarmac in Louisiana! But now Trump is their protector?!?! On the scale of global cop to ethnostate, HOW DID HE PICK BOTH BAD EXTREMES?!

If you're still on X even if your account is dormant, you're inadvertently helping M*sk monetise a platform riddled with paedophilia. You really need to delete that account.

in this first week of the new year I’m going to highlight a few writers I think are worth your attention in 2026. most of this will be digitally focused rather than traditional print novels: people whose work I might not have discovered browsing a bookstore but am very glad to have found.

It is honestly impressive that Hammam can still smile. Can we help him today?

Happy New Year to everyone who celebrated the end of 2025 last night. I will be celebrating on 1/6 myself, the traditional day of being done with my manuscript at fucking last

learning about a new community

made some bags yesterday (along with 8 NE-style hot dog buns, 10 burger buns, a double batch of sourdough Sofra Crick Cracks, and a double batch of challah dough)

Banning soda and candy from SNAP is about getting retailers to pull out of SNAP and denying low-income people access to *all* food. And boosting administrative costs to direct benefits. newrepublic.com/article/2048...

I admire the Dutch for many reasons, one of which is that they celebrate the New Year with doughnuts. I’ve taken a leaf out of their book, and so Oliebollen, the doughnuts in question, are #RecipeOfTheDay. And Happy New Year! www.nigella.com/recipes/new-...

The reason this Harvard history professor decided he was done with one of the best and most privileged jobs in the world was, in his own words, because he was forced to lecture in a mask during peak Covid. I’m not making this up.

this is one of the easiest things anyone can do. one dollar per drink (beer, coffee, cocktail) and 20% for restaurants (even counter service). there’s no counter argument. you don’t have influence on payment systems for service workers. and whatever your job is, service work is harder.

Shoutout to the prep cook who made an English Muffin Lizard

One of the best to ever do it

Rest in peace to Mike F, one of the all-time greats

It’s weird to me that “vanilla” is the term for straightforward sexual preference because the metaphor doesn’t work the other way. There’s no ice cream flavor that’s like…a choking hazard.

I also thanked The Store, which provides aid and agency to combat food insecurity. Important now more than ever (this one’s kinda personal)

Eric Adams is going to use cryptocurrency to fight antisemitism. Eric Adams is going to use samurai swords to fight food waste. Eric Adams is going to use 100 rubber duckies to fight prostate cancer. I would believe literally any combo of words hellgatenyc.com/eric-adams-s...

Some good news: “This year, 422 newly opened stores joined the American Booksellers Association — nearly a hundred more than joined last year.” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/30/b...

imagine being so rich that not even psilocybin can cause ego death

Some folks are in sandals or barefoot. Please help if you can.

Brazilian New Year's tradition! Lentils rather than black-eyed peas

> 3 million views. This motherfucker is trying to get my wife killed

The actor who played the iconic Senator Clay Davis on THE WIRE has left the building. RESPECT, Mr. Whitlock, and rest in peace. deadline.com/2025/12/isia...

The Colorado GOP is a disgusting group.

this is quite insane. the man is a true bonehead

What the actual fuck?

It's not specific to this piece of infrastructure, but I am struck by how many pedestrian/bicyclist conflicts arise because those of us not in cars are fighting over the tiny scraps of space that our leaders have not handed over to drivers.

I'm sorry, but this is not journalism. There is not a single quote from an activist or advocate on whether or not our Democratic supermajority is doing enough. It's a press release for Legislative Leadership with a few quotes from professors sprinkled in. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/29/m...

youtube.com/watch?v=UVvZ... Not sure how I’m just seeing this, and I hate to say it, but I think @pftompkins.bsky.social may have chosen the wrong career path because this is some top tier musical theatering.

i pay unrealized capital gains all the time except when you're not rich they call them property taxes

I feel like we’ve gone quite a few rounds of “this guy is unfortunately not the guy you want him to be,” and it never really sticks.

Trump was literally kicking himself that he waited so long to get in with the evangelicals because of how easily they were grifted during the Trump 2 campaign. Even he was surprised they thought he was God's Choice. But then he leaned hard into it.

Here’s a nice thing on the Internet. Kilmar in his backyard, posting TikToks singing along to praise music, and people commenting with their protest signs when they demanded his freedom. 🙏

If it's a horrible hot take about higher education in the NYT, you can pretty much assume it's Anemona Hartocollis. Great thread by Don on the person who gives us awful take after awful take.

This is ethnic cleansing.

Thinking about the airplay of this song in my white working class hometown in the 1980s. How it spoke to a lot of people’s imaginations. How it might have, in its original, moved those imaginations.

Health insurance inexplicably dropped me then readded me to a new number. The infusions of medication I've gotten every 8 weeks for the past 10 years? Next appointment cancelled hours before because the "new" insurance policy hasn't approved it. Why don't more people start a small business? LOL

Cosigned

post deleted but it’s abolish ICE now and always has needed to happen

How could it possibly do this when it is a plausibility generator? Why would I want the most likely sounding response if I am supposedly 'using it as a dialogic thinking space' why would I want any of it??? Why do you think it is possible to improve cognition by doing less of it? I do not get this.

"One judge moved house. Another had to freeze her credit cards after a security breach. Other judges have taken actions to adapt to the changing landscape by upgrading home security systems, changing the route they drive to work." This is fascism. This is what terrorist intimidation looks like.

If you're exhausted from a full day of cooking yesterday and just want something simple but nevertheless comforting, try some turkey & corn egg-drop soup, p. 22 in #AfterTheFeast!

A survey for those of you who cook and use the Celsius temperature scale: What's the increment between settings on your oven dial?

Home Alone is about a grieving mother who can’t accept it her son Kevin is dead, so she begins to fantasize that the reason he’s not with the rest of the family is not that he’s dead, but that he was somehow left alone, and he’s in danger, and if she can just get back to him it’ll all be alright.

I didn’t want to pay $45 to buy and ship a Marks & Spencer Big Daddy candy bar (one inch tall, four layers) so I made my own. Milk and dark chocolate, caramel, and crunchy peanut butter+caramel+chocolate+peanuts). 10/10 would recommend

now for the traditional eating of the christmas tree