One of the things that blows my mind about baseball hall of fame voting is what an achievement it is to simply be on the ballot. The number of first year candidates is tiny -- there's only 12 this year.

For @msnownews.bsky.social, I wrote an article about how ICE Watch is grounded in sociological theories of violence prevention. The reality is that most men will only commit public violence in extremely specific scenarios and ICE Watch disrupts the conditions necessary for escalation.

I'm sure I'm not the only one listening to the end of Act IV of Carmen while watching the Bills' pregame (mute with close captions, I'm not insane) but I bet it's a pretty small club.

The Revolution begins in Solvang! The Revolutionary Council will meet at Mortensen's at noon sharp. The password is "Kransekage". Please leave your emus and ostriches parked outside.

Watch this and I defy you to not have a much better day because of it

From the list of grievances against the King in the Declaration of Independence. I helpfully underlined things that have happened since last January 20th.

One of the things I really adore about George Takei is he is having a great third act. You'll be remembered by the last thing you did, people, make it a kind and wonderful thing.

First, the Pentagon kicks out reporters who reject gag rules. Now, Stars and Stripes applicants are asked how they’d advance Trump’s agenda. Access bans. Loyalty tests. This is not “merit hiring." It’s systematic censorship of military journalism.

And your regular reminder that during our only actual civil war (to date), we held elections -- that included significant remote balloting for US troops that was submitted in part via the US mail. 1864 peeps

Should I be concerned that digital downloads from the Library of Congress seem to have been constantly "busy" for the last week?

Worth every second

So this is another periodic reminder on the origin of death squads. Death squads in history have not typically been made up of randos who decided to go on super-villain like missions. They most frequently are tabbed from existing military and law enforcement units, as an extracurricular activity.

Not a penny for ICE

Don't be a useful idiot for the regime. Calls for escalation into violence will end very, very badly for the Republic and for thousands -- perhaps millions -- of people. Resist the way Gandhi, Dr. King, and the color-flag revolutions have. Make our numbers so large that they can't kill us all.

So, a few brief (?) personal remarks about Scott Adams. I corresponded with him quite a bit in the 80s and early 90s, particularly after he was the first (AFAIK) strip to put an email address (an AOL one) into the published comic (at a time when Internet access was uncommon).

He's literally calling it nation (re) building, after supposedly being opposed to the Bush administration's middle eastern project. But maga, right? In the meantime, big oil sees no way to invest in such a volatile...scheme.

Do they really believe the shooter's cell phone video corroborates a story of a crazed killer attempting to run down officers? She says "I'm not mad at you" with a smile, and he shoots her and calls her vile names. I really don't see how this is in any way exonerating.

I would have thought I would have unfriended everybody on my other social media by now who qualified as an idiot or sadist, but whaddya know, too now former real-life friends were shown the door today because they defended the murder of Renee Nicole Good.

The shooters at the Boston Massacre were regular British troops. The shooting was investigated by civil authorities of Massachusetts and the troops were arrested the following morning.

One of my wish list items for BlueSky is either some kind of automated method, or at least a social convention, for marking posts with links to paywalled sites. As much as I'd love to support every content-maker out there, I can't, and it's a big clickbaity waste of time to wade through such stuff.

Arguably we're already in a form of civil war -- a civil civil war, if you will, fought simultaneously with the coercion of the law and the blatant violation of it with respect to government. But even without bullets flying, people are being killed and injured. The GOP is a death cult.

I accidentally watched ten seconds of CBS News just now (had been tuned to the broadcast channel for sportsball on Sunday) and heard two outrageous lies, possibly three, during that span.

I'm trying to go all of January without ordering anything at all online, but I think I kinda cheated by ordering a dozen books the last two days of the year.

Well, it's January 3, and I've already read the number of books that the median American reads in a year. What am I going to do the next 362 days?!?

Serious question: how much of Venezuela is actually controlled by US Forces? How much *can* be run? It's a deeply divided society but all the current wheels are run by Maduro loyalists. I doubt seriously the regime change plan is more than "let's get our puppet in there".

Time for my periodic public service announcement about the Second Amendment. The plain text of the Second amendment starts with a qualifier: A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

Thanks to the new release of public domain material from 1930, I'm now planning on using this as my avatar next year's eve

Let's call it like it is: the US Constitution is fundamentally broken if no checks and balances have prevented all of this. At a minimum SCOTUS reform has to be a top priority. But we're going to need more than three amendments to fix this, ala the post civil war and progressive eras of reform.

So, Canada, you have helicopters that can fly as far south as the Washington environs, yes?

Gift article The only reason glyphosate aka Roundup is used so widely is to protect bioengineered seed strains (which are resistent to Roundup) sold by their patent-holder, which has its own problems for competition, fairness, and crop health/food security. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/02/c...

so much winning related: look for this feature to be taken off the SSA website soon

[Jeff Goldblum removing his sunglasses to look at a giant pile of dinosaur shit] It's time to choose the best opinion piece of the year

I rewatched the condensed version of Game 7 of the World Series again today, and it's amazing how gut-grippingly tense it is to watch again, even knowing the outcome. The game was not the crispest in major league history, but it had a little something of everything. Sheesh. I may never get over it.

How does the famously fact-checked New Yorker allow nonsense like this? "Millennials and Gen Z-ers also account for nearly 40% and 30%, respectively, of the country’s student-loan borrowers." Who are these groups, and how could this distinction possibly be relevant to anything? /1

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...

Jabeezus -- and that was the *first* administration.

Jabeezus -- and that was the *first* administration.

President Magic Eight Ball said that the war in Ukraine would either end, or go on a long time. That is some next-level prognostication.

“Everything that happened to me was excessive.”

remember when Christmas messages were like this, and not full of blood lust, revenge, paranoid rants, threats, insults, and calls for murder?

Santa and the reindeer are leaving a snowflake contrail on the NORAD tracker. Or is that a chemtrail? Magical reindeer scat? Frozen elf tears, perhaps, @angrysantaelf.bsky.social ?

This Christmas Eve, my heart is with Sophie, Colin, and the entire Hortman family after the unimaginable loss of Melissa and Mark — two extraordinary Minnesotans who gave so much to our state.

Look forward to this administration canceling a LOT of things for 'national security risks' without rational explanations. I've been at sea around wind farms. They don't do anything to interfere with radar, other than giving a very clear profile that actually helps delineate positions.

One of the rather disconcerting features of Google Maps Street View is the layers of different vintages of imaging -- I was just hunting up for an office building where I have an appointment, and on street view it disappeared as I arrow'd my way up the street to be replaced by a defunct gas station.

I feel like this hasn't really been getting enough attention, speaking of affordability. Despite record solar installations (for now), energy prices are going to go up 25% or more in 2026. Why? Crypto mining and AI data centers. Two pointless wastes of energy that produce nothing of value.

I realize Project 2028 is supposed to be about all the positive things we can do for the country, but seriously, we need a Detr*mpification Plan as well. Purging the government of the pernicious hangers-on, restoring administrative order, getting back to a functioning government is job one.

but we do have to apologize for JD Vance

Sounds like a great campaign platform to me Keep it up

I don't even know where to start with this one, just too easy Transportation Secretary's daughter calls to abolish TSA after 15-minute security delay share.google/dbHzxZ2f1Bgn...

Tyranny No legislation, just the whims of one demented pseudo king