Ahhh, so this is why Trump is constantly saying doctors kill newborn babies, a post-birth abortion as he thinks of it.

On Yousuf Karsh's birthday, my top 10 portraits: Angela Lansbury, 1946

this is insane to me. the doj had forever to look into this. now they're like liveblogging on x like they have no more information than a random person on social media

“Jeffrey Epstein’s brother, Mark Epstein, told the FBI in 2023 that Epstein was murdered in his jail cell because he was about to ‘name names.’”

🚨 The DOJ appears to have redacted Donald Trump’s name from the allegations made in this exhibit in the Epstein files. Trump’s name was in the original release. Now, it’s blacked out. See for yourself.

Of all the sins of AI, this is an unexpected and deeply annoying one

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/o...

The Onion, 23 years ago. theonion.com/no-blood-for...

Frost: If you want to protect children, why don't you ban assault weapons instead of health care?

Informative interview with photographer Christopher Anderson about his recent portraits of Trump's inner circle for Vanity Fair wapo.st/49ixYtq

Holy measles, Batman! 😳

One way that the reaction to Rob Reiner's murder mirrors Charlie Kirk's is that the best way to eulogize each of them is to quote their words, and in both cases, doing so pisses off conservatives.

The cultural impact of Rob Reiner cannot be understated. Legend isn't big enough a word. It goes to 11. You can't handle the truth. As you wish. I'll have what she's having. I'm your number one fan. You guys wanna see a dead body? The very idea of a bucket list. The West Wing. All from his movies.

Mel Brooks having to bury Rob Reiner is against all laws of nature and I’m not ok about it

It is newsworthy that the president of the United States is increasingly verbally abusive of women reporters and he should be asked about it.

If conservatives were for real, if they actually believed in the stuff their intelligentsia quote from Burke and Oakshotte, I actually think they'd specifically hate this. But alas far too often it's just a thin veneer of intellectualism over instinctive hates and bigotries, so here we are.

The girl who came forward first was 14

the thing of it is... russia's invasion of ukraine is already a decisive strategic defeat and has been for some time. -did not achieve war aims -minimal territorial gains, w/little economic significance -major loss of russian life/materiel -2 new nato members www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...

everyone's talking about how bright and charming zohran must be, which is true, but then you remember the spider-brained cryptkeepers trump's surrounded himself with since '15 and realize a single smile from mamdani must have hit like barbecue spare ribs down the gullet of a 12th century peasant.

The really fun part, every time the president says something utterly psychotic, is that right after all his little toadies and goblins go on camera to say that he didn't mean what he said and that you're stupid for thinking so, his next move is always to announce that he meant every word of it

Apparently it had its own custom projection! As far as I can tell, the Dudley Projection also faded into obscurity, as I find no other reference to it.

She simply quoted US Intelligence, it’s not ‘fake’ question, but triggered him so hard he had a 5yo temper tantrum! Trump is in a downward spiral. She’s a hero! Say her name Mary Bruce from ABC! 🏆

"Things happen" sometimes, like when you walk into an embassy to apply for your marriage license while your bride-to-be waits outside, but then you get bonesawed to pieces for having exercised freedom of speech as an US-based journalist and have to be carried out in a series of suitcases.

AOC: Trump has been saying the economy is booming, but it’s really only seven tech companies. They’re driving this growth in just one sector: AI. So the entire economic growth can be tracked down to seven companies and their AI expansion…

And now MBS is getting the blood-red carpet treatment to the White House. Vile and disgusting. Absolute thugs rule us.

I just don’t see how we can pretend even for a moment that anything involving our federal government is remotely normal when the president is covering up his involvement in a child sex trafficking ring. Like, what are we doing here

The important thing is not whether the Trump performing sexual favors for Bill Clinton thing is true. The important thing is that we all pretend it’s true, and that someone asks Trump about it every day.

every tiny crumb that leaks out is a career ending bombshell and we’re all just supposed to go on with our lives while our elected representatives shrug and tell us there’s nothing to be done about the president’s involvement in a child sex trafficking operation

To repeat: Maybe electing a life-long criminal to an office where he can pardon other criminals wasn't such a good idea.

The man who ended USAID is the world's first trillionaire

serious note: they're gonna try 5x harder to sabotage the midterms after tonight and we're gonna have to organize on a literally historic scale to stop them

This, from @attackerman.bsky.social, is brilliant and appropriately brutal. Must read. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Unfortunately, I find it easier to chart a concrete path towards a complete breakdown of the constitutional order than to envision a democratic turnaround: Escalate the conflict in the streets to declare “emergencies”; attack the elections; criminalize all opposition as “domestic terrorism.”

My assessment of where America stands, one year after the election. A fascistic movement controls the government; they are building an authoritarian state; but they have not been able yet to extend authoritarian rule across society. A democracy no more, but not a consolidated autocratic regime yet:

On All Saints' Day or All Hallows' Day a beautiful poem to remember our departed loved ones 🖤

This is why the right has worked so long and so hard to push the idea that tolerance doesn't mean accepting human brotherhood and free speech doesn't mean the right to protest, they both mean smiling politely when someone says the most fucked-up thing you've ever heard in your life

Aside from Andrew Mountbatten Windsor being a disgusting piece-of-shit who should be thrown in jail, it's pretty interesting from a comms perspective to watch how Buckingham Palace navigates their deserved PR crisis and it's unclear how long it'll take them to recover, if at all. (quick thread)

Very important not to become accustomed to the fact the US is literally in the "masked men are rounding up your neighbors" phase

It’s weird that of all the scifi media predicting the future Tim and Eric’s Celery Man sketch got it the closest

Apparently some folks are playing real dumb about skull symbols so let’s play a little game I like to call “Nazi skull or not a Nazi skull” First up, the Jolly Roger. This is a pirate skull, not a Nazi skull. It means you might get robbed, but prolly not genocided. With me so far? 1/x

That's no ballroom

This person is one hundred percent correct and it’s scary af. We will never “media literacy” our way out of this as a society. We are about to reap the whirlwind when it comes to misinformation, disinformation, and informational warfare.

"normies do not care about this thing and so it is no use raising a stink" is imho just an excuse for not doing politics, which is the job of making normies care about something

We're facing a political emergency: a high likelihood of an shamelessly authoritarian government in 2029. So we urgently need this basic safeguard: a codified constitution. This week's column explains what we're missing and why it's so important. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

It's going to be so amazing being alive in 2026 because the front page will say "BREAKING Mamdani Received Free Cheese Pizza From a Local Vendor, Calls to Resign Mount" and then on page 3 you'll see "Hegseth's Pentagon Rape Dungeon Raises Legal Questions."

Sunday President diarrheas on the country, Monday President bulldozes White House, Tuesday President steals $230 million, Wednesday President... fucks a horse? Let's see if he fucks a horse.