Just because they arrived in a helicopter doesn't make it not piracy

Breaking tonight - MTG traded an unrelated vote for a promise that she'd get a vote on a bill criminalizing health care for trans youth. They are in session for like 5 days out of 30 and instead of addressing the affordability crisis, MAGA are sticking their noses into private health care decisions

“We are targeting Venezuela because of DRUGS, not OIL, which is why we are blowing up boats without any drugs and stealing a tanker full of oil.”

Yoooooo! It's Storytime listeners! I narrated Caroline's magnificent "Rock, Paper, Scissors, Love, Death" earlier this year. You've told me that you loved it like I did, so I thought you would want to know this.

Israeli military chief Eyal Zamir says Israel views the "Yellow Line" dividing Gaza as its new border. Palestinians in Gaza report widespread demolitions east of the line, reshaping Gaza's landscape through force in what they call a “second Nakba.”

The "trained eyes" he's worried about here all reside in The Hague.

Southern Ocean net primary production influenced by seismically modulated hydrothermal iron 🧪⚒️🔬 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Is Trump pushing conflict with Venezuela with the intention of raising global oil prices to give Russia a bit more of a financial lifeline?

Remember when Qatar hosted World Cup and everyone was told to be respectful of local customs and culture? Let’s hear that same energy about Seattle culture.

Honduras AG has asked Interpol to execute a 2023 arrest order for its ex-President and drug trafficker Juan Hernandez who was just pardoned by Donald Trump. Hernandez is charged with money laundering and fraud which allegedly occurred while he was president. www.npr.org/2025/12/09/g...

"other things"

NEWS: Trump officials are worried the ICC may try to prosecute them for war crimes once Trump's term ends, and are threatening sanctions against the ICC to change its founding document to grant them immunity. (via Reuters / link in reply)

This is hilarious. I asked Kris Knoblauch about the hand pass controversy lately and he said they had one more guy added to the video team last night: “Connor (McDavid) picked up on it right away” and told Kris he should challenge. “So if this hockey thing doesn’t work out,…”

Remember Ostrich Osheaga? When a bunch of far-right convoy influencers, health nuts, antivaxxers and even RFK Jr himself waged war on the Canada Food Inspection Agency over an ostrich cull? Well, my friends at @nationalobserver.com got some wild insider info on the impact of this harassment:

‘Fewer than 60,000 people, 0.001% of the world’s population, control three times as much wealth as the entire bottom half of humanity. Wealth was even more concentrated than income, the richest 10% of the world’s population own 75% of wealth and the bottom half just 2%.’ TAX THE FUCKING RICH.

"You should enjoy games the way I enjoy games!" can and should be read as badly misdirected loneliness.

If you sell pies or something, and one day all the pies sell real fast, and so you just feel good and close up early? This feels like that.

The jaw-dropping Minerva Bowl from the Hildesheim Treasure, a hoard of Roman silver unearthed in 1868 in Germany. In high relief, Athena-Minerva sits on a rock, holding a cane or pedum, wearing her magnificent helmet. Note her little owl on the left. 🦉 🏺 1/ 1st c. CE, #AntikensammlungBerlin 📸 me

At @inthesetimes.com, we've been following how tenant unions are adapting strategies from organized labor. Here's a fascinating story about the flipside: a corporate landlord taking a page from anti-union employers, even hiring a "union avoidance" firm. (1/8) inthesetimes.com/article/tena...

On Thursday night, Edmonton Oilers captain Connor McDavid notched the 725th even-strength point of his already decorated NHL career. The point moved him solely into second place all-time in even-strength points in franchise history, surpassing Hockey Hall of Famer Jari Kurri.

The Ellison family’s desire to take over Warner Bros should alarm anyone concerned with U.S. propaganda & media consolidation— They would own Paramount, Warner Bros, CNN, CBS, HBO, TikTok & a host of major cable channels

Surprised that Putin has not done Fallon yet, seems like easy opportunity to get some humanization & love on US network TV.

"Over and over this year, DHS has assaulted opponents of ICE and then charged them for it. And these Signal texts sure seem to support that they knowingly did the same thing with Congresswoman McIver. And then buried it in a discovery violation."

The EPA has removed references about humans causing climate change from its website. No US government website can be trusted for science information.

'Fewer than 60,000 people – 0.001% of the world’s population – control three times as much wealth as the entire bottom half of humanity, according to a report that argues global inequality has reached such extremes that urgent action has become essential' www.theguardian.com/inequality/2...

BREAKING: Judge Breyer GRANTS Newsom’s motion for a preliminary injunction BLOCKING Trump from deploying the California National Guard and returning control of the guard to the governor. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Colbert on Paramount's $108 billion hostile takeover bid for Warner Bros: "Wow... If my company's got that kind of green, I'm sure they can afford to un-cancel one of their best shows..."

Stuart Skinner in overtime, looking for his teammates. #LetsGoOilers

Habs reds and Nords blues will be weird. #GoHabsGo www.sportsnet.ca/nhl/article/...

WITH ONE SECOND REMAINING THE EDMONTON OILERS TIE THE GAME AND SEND IT TO OVERTIME! 📹: Sportsnet

TRUMP: “I said why is it we only take people from shithole countries? Why can't we have some people from Norway, Sweden, Denmark… But we always take people from Somalia— places that are filthy, dirty, disgusting.” Such a mystery what he means when he says this stuff, isn’t it?

Trump reveals he was recently administered another cognitive exam — a test given to patients to detect signs of dementia.

Your library card may also give you access to Hoopla and Kanopy, where you can watch all sorts of movies, documentaries, and tv shows online.

If US Border Patrol ever gets their grubby little mitts on such a list from me, I'm going to be sure to 'accidentally' include the most disturbing erotic/fetish accounts I can find. Make sure and do a thorough examination, suckers. Take notes.

So Trump admits: He's had 3 separate cognitive exams (in front of large panels of doctors) He's had multiple long full physical exams at Walter Reed. He's having monthly check ups. But also, any questions about his health are treason. Yeah, it's Alzheimer's.

Yesterday, I testified on anti-feminist ideology before a House of Commons committee. The internet handled it…about as well as you’d expect. The part that I didn’t necessarily expect, however, was the unhinged nature of some of the questions I’d be asked. Come with me behind the scenes:

Happy 73rd Birthday to Michael Dorn. 🎂🎉

Here is a true story. During Trump’s first term, The Post got a tip that his doctor — the guy with the long hair who signed that first “healthiest guy ever” letter — wanted to spill the beans. He lived in Westchester, up near where I lived at the time. So I was tasked with talking to him. 1/

BREAKING: At one point, the Pentagon considered sending boat strike survivors to CECOT torture prison in El Salvador to avoid discovery in US courts. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/u...

In occupied East Jerusalem, the United Nations has condemned a raid by Israeli forces on the headquarters of the U.N.’s Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees, known as UNRWA. A spokesperson for the secretary-general said the raid directly violated international law.

As Picard and Dr. Crusher leave the cargo bay in “Symbiosis, you can see Denise Crosby waving goodbye. Filmed after “Skin of Evil”, but airing before, this was Crosby’s last filmed scene. I love that this was snuck in.

I'm not gonna lie, I'm actually very happy for both of them, and they're very well suited for what the other needs at this point in their life. #JustinAndKaty

I don't think enough attention has been paid to the influence and power Susie "Trump" Wiles currently possesses...

There's a special place in hell for someone who won't let you back into traffic after moving over for an emergency vehicle.

That is patently false: not only do immigrants score better than native-born Americans in tests, the mere presence of immigrants improve test scores for all students, when factoring in white flight sesp.northwestern.edu/news-events/...

immigrants score the lowest on tests, but they also take all our jobs, while at the same time taking all the welfare and buying all the homes

youtube.com/watch?v=duXD... My daughter wrote and directed this Please check it out Thom Lennon is incredible in it

It's complete BS to say "AI creates code in seconds." That's just a lie. AI creates a first draft in seconds, and that draft has to be extensively edited before it's even marginally acceptable as production-quality code. It moves the work from authoring to editing. 1/2

the mcdonald's AI ad was so telling, because the team admitted it took weeks of work to get even a few clips that looked like a commercial, and still you could see without looking closely that legs were bending the wrong way and stuff was levitating. garbage. complete scam.

“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.” - Nelson Mandela #RadioFreeAmerica