BREAKING: An American military operation in Venezuela killed 32 Cuban officers over the weekend, the Cuban government said in the first official acknowledgement of the deaths.

I am "oh wow columbo is pretty hot" years old

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...

The death toll from the attack on Venezuela is now at 80, per Venezuelan officials. That includes civilians. Every article about the attack, or how the US somehow claims it will run the country, should mention the fact that, you know, people died, including civilians. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...

The count is now up to 80 - including both civilians and security force members. blacksky.community/profile/did:...

For those of you who can’t get outside today, here’s a little armchair birding for you. #FindTheBird Beginner-level, because we all deserve a win sometimes. 🪶 (If you can ID it, the prize is a free hour of self-esteem.)

This annual marathon reading of Moby-Dick under giant actual whale skeletons in New Bedford is so awesome, if you ever get a chance to go

A dozen paragraphs in: At least 40 Venezuelans killed, and a half-dozen American soldiers injured. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/u...

You ever think about how the Roman Senate kept meeting centuries into the reigns of emperors. Hanging out, shooting the shit, giving speeches, and play-acting that their positions of privilege remained positions of power.

“There was zero plan, except causing pain,” said one U.N. official about the Trump administration’s decision to stop funding the group with no notice or communication. “And that is not forgivable.”

I am so tired of being on this merry go round of murder.

My villain origin story is going to be people saying "but he's objectively evil" JUST LIKE THEY DID WITH SADDAM HUSSEIN IN 2002 and 2003. WE KNOW BUT THIS IS ILLEGAL AND CORRUPT.

none of this is legal. none of this is normal. feel free to tell anyone who says otherwise to fuck off.

Nothing I can do online* so I’m going to go clean up my physical clutter, to clean up my mental clutter, so I have the margin to be kind in my own life. It’ll be but a pebble on a stream but better than being a bomb. *some people can galvanize for good so this is 100% not a slight at being online 🤍

Just woke up even angrier. Impeach, convict, remove. Draft articles now. Either we have a representative government or we don’t. Do not shut up about this until there’s a vote.

It's illegal for the president to relieve student loan debt. It's completely fine for the president to unilaterally decide to have the head of a foreign nation black bagged on foreign soil.

we can’t arrest / hold N or P accountable, in fact, we criminalize those who try, but we can do this bullshit and, yes, I’m posting through my feelings because even though I don’t have the expertise to intelligently comment, does feel like being on the record is important, if only to my soul

it really doesn't matter whether maduro was "bad"

All solidarity to the people of Venezuela and the spirit of anti-imperialism there. This is so fucked.

Based on how Trump does things this seems like the most likely outcome. With massive caveat that Miller et al try to expand their CECOT/concentration camp network in Venezuela. As ever anyone who doesn’t aggressively try to stop them (Jeffries/Schumer/Wasserman-Schultz etc) is responsible.

A few years ago I was reading a local paper in St Paul and it was (shamefully) the first time I learned about how there was a very loud anti-war movement prior to WWI, and how after we entered the war those criticisms became illegal. It’s with that knowledge that I say Fuck War.

I am a noted Rian Johnson apologist, and I really think WAKE UP DEAD MAN is him cooking at his highest level. The scene with Father Jud talking to Louise is especially so beautiful.

Every new network executive: What if we hired a new person to move the network to the right. Then we might get some Trump supporters watching

Y'all could have learned from CNN that it doesn't work

Hopefully we get past peak very soon. Wear a mask, vaccinate, ventilate, wash your hands .

Didn’t know he had a heart

His logic here tracks with me (not a doctor) and that’s how I know he’s officially lost it.

Whenever media say “end trans ideology,” they mean end the rights of trans people. Remember “gay ideology” referred to gay people marrying, having kids, not getting fired from work, showing affection in public without harassment (aka basic human rights). Transphobic rhetoric is recycled homophobia.

The thought of losing a career or home or vacation or retirement or a car - is simply terrifying enough to keep them from processing what they will lose if this democracy is lost. Which of course is far graver than any possible amount of money in a bank account.

The singular reason we are going to call it a constitutional crisis until the coup his complete is that Americans have become so fear-ridden they cannot conceive of losing a life’s worth of material gains.

I’ve been legit hoping for an update

They want to be right in their cynicism more than they want us to succeed in our idealism. 🔥 and a gentle reminder to myself to keep up the faith in good and hardworking people, even when my own fire dims. No projecting my stalling or challenges on others, no dousing others’ flames.

My New Year’s Resolution for 2026: I’m going to use social media more! This thing is hot and I’m gonna ride it till the wheels fall off!

This is not a hard message. Localize it. Embrace it. Win.

Tired: Free Coffee Wired: Free Nicotine Pouches The perfect accompaniment to 996 culture and being expected to work nights and weekends.

WILD! I don’t know how bad these are versus cigarettes but if a home insurance policy can ding someone cause they see a ladder they don’t like on a drone photo, I wonder what their health // life insurance providers are saying about this

Zohran's speech is likely going to say what he's been saying for weeks. The policies promised will only be won if New Yorkers make them happen. If you want to see universal childcare come to pass, then you have to MAKE ALBANY DO IT. Folks are organizing NOW. Anyone can join them.

Mamdani: For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty

May 2026 find you with a better world to witness !

They killed half a million kids in a year. I just can’t really stomach it. And they both mostly are getting a pass on it.

that comedy court podcast has made me a better, kinder patron since I started listening in circa 2013, like I am always barely making it but I took the lessons to heart and I am legit a better person now than I would have been if I kept being stingy (mostly out of economic fear) 2013 onward

Whatever your idea is about the American labor system and how it “should” work… you need to tip more. Just tip more. Tip generously. Tip!

Sauron's war has not just been on the fields with swords and axes but in the heads of the leaders with fear and despair. Sauron wishes to appear inevitable, which is why he has worked so hard to convince Denethor and Théoden that they have already lost.

Are you ready for the King? 'Cause he's ready for you! THE RETURN OF THE KING read through thread starts here! Will Sam save Frodo? Will Aragorn claim his birthright? Will Éowyn live up to the hype? Will Arwen finally say a word?!?!!! Let's find out!

PSA: You don’t owe anyone an explanation about the health reasons why you are wearing a mask. Badgering others about the tools they need to survive is stigmatizing and ableist, and should have no place in decent society.

My favorite regular American the damn Queen!

Bro do you know what the fuck America is?

Nothing too bad, but fascinating!

It is interesting to me that I get the most angry emails when I mention masks in an article than anything else I write about.