Slop-dealer depends on selling slop, is mad about slop market downturn.

This is why they want us talking about day care centers and $500 boots.

I used to think X had no public utility but it is developing into some sort of monument to billionaire hubris. It's a living museum of paranoiac mania, a Grey Gardens situation.

*smoking pipe in wood-paneled study* ah yes, the fabled "no, u" defense

Detroit swore in its first Black woman as Mayor today and there was no national or global coverage of it.

This man, is the America I know. I refuse to allow it to be anything but.

Leave, delete the app, salt the earth behind you, do not look back.

Oooo know what other great 1987 song there was? "Heart and Soul" by T'Pau, which HAS THE LINE "upside down" IN IT. One of my favorite songs. Also, they're named after a Star Trek Vulcan. www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwrY...

This would be so popular at the national level if centrist Democrats let us use those words in that order

🔥 MAYOR MAMDANI: "We will answer to all New Yorkers, not to any billionaire or oligarch who thinks they can buy our democracy… I will not abandon my principles for fear of being deemed radical.”

This is the America I grew up believing in. We can still make it a reality.

“Can’t believe NYC elected a Muslim as mayor.” In truth—a Black American Christian woman swearing in a Ugandan American Muslim of South Asian ethnicity as his Syrian American wife holds the Qurans he swears in on, all while standing on the steps of a subway station—is the most NYC thing imaginable.

Happy New Year!! Just a few of my favorite works from 2025

Media outrage would blot out the sun if Joe Biden was MC'ing an auction at his private golf club on NYE and blithely dismissing a $2 million bid for a painting as "peanuts" while Americans struggle to pay the bills and ACA health insurance premiums go up - today - by 100% or more

They mean white people

Fahrenheit 45-47.

it’s all i’ve got

Picture it. Los Angeles, 2003. (1/32 yeah it’s long just go with it)

Just making sure that 2025 is definitely over

I’ll never understand how our society, and our respective elected leaders, allowed for this to happen. Burn it all down and start over.

2025 will go down in history as the greatest year ever for corruption in US politics. In fact, it’s fair to expect 2025 will just go down in history. But whatever the case, it’s good to just see it go.

Here’s to an inspired, hopeful, democratic, lawful, and just 2026.

Ukraine Did Not Target Putin’s Home, C.I.A. Finds www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/u...

As someone who lives on the other side of the continent, I only glean most of NYC daily news and culture. That being said, two things; one JFC this video, and two, Im excited for NYC and them having a new person at the helm.

jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/we-cant-ha... @jysexton.bsky.social @daniellemoodie.bsky.social i get these in my email and the latest is a good one.

Smith straight out of the gate making it explicitly clear that in BOTH of Trump’s federal criminal cases, there was “proof beyond a reasonable doubt” and that Smith’s team would have prevailed at trial.

Nick Shirley at the US Capitol on January 6th, 2021.

House Judiciary Committee releases on New Years Eve (in an obvious attempt to bury this info) the Jack Smith deposition transcript. I recommend doing a word search for "proof beyond a reasonable doubt." And explanation of disenfranchisement of urban areas. judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

This whole Minnesota thing…they’re trying a hundred different ways to psych their base up to drag you from your houses and shoot you in the face. For real. If you don’t believe that, don’t worry, before the mid-terms you’re going to know for certain whether it’s correct or not.

Rage, rage against the dying of the light

Jack Smith is jurisprudence, if jurisprudence was a human man. Im 2:51 in on 8:20 and he’s like a legal robot and it’s inspiring. If we still have a Supreme Court in the future, I hope he’d consider service.

this is what happens when laura loomer goes from racist troll to presidential adviser, you get racist trash storming kindergartens for clicks and influence and money because thats the reward for being conservative trash in this country

theyre storming kindergartens because there was literally no price to pay for calling in bomb threats to children’s hospitals in 2023…its only upside for them

they wouldnt be doing this had the media shamed them for “theyre eating the pets” instead of treating it like a legit campaign issue. they wouldnt be doing it if the democratic leadership had made them pay a political price for gutter racist trash

theyre saying that people from somalia are genetically predisposed towards fraud, its so goddam racist and so fucking stupid

the racism coming from the entire conservative movement targeting the somali community is so goddam disgusting and its just being completely ignored

The New York Public Library's excellent research library and archive on Black culture is named for Arturo Schomburg, whose Qur'an Zohran Mamdani will be sworn in on.

Zohran Mamdani will be sworn in as NYC's first Muslim mayor on a Qur'an from the personal collection of the great Afro-Boricua intellectual Arturo Schomburg—as well as Qur'ans owned by Mamdani's grandparents. www.nypl.org/press/schomb...

Politico is poison.

BREAKING: The House Judiciary Committee has released Jack Smith's 255-page deposition transcript: judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

$7.25 an hour is $290 a week, or $15,080 a year (that’s 52 weeks, because people making the appalling federal minimum wage do not get vacations). Try living on that.

Beyond @atrupar.com’s on point description of this (and every other) unhinged, nakedly racist and fascist post from Trump, it is important to note that the regime has been intensifying attacks on opposition members of Congress. And I think that is actually a calculated strategy for what comes next.

It has been The Onion's best year since we broke Watergate and subsequently, personally had Richard Nixon removed from office. I'm going to share some personal favorite stories in this thread. Please add your own, and visit the Our Annual Year recap below. theonion.com/our-annual-y...

Cis comedians making great trans jokes is always such a treat

Saying goodbye to 2025 like…

The GOP’s midterm strategy is literally just Comet Pizza

First new essay I published this year, "Bodies Will Swing," last Feb. Portrait of just one MAGA woman, looking forward to what had been promised by the campaign. *That* didn't happen. Countless bodies, though, were beaten, disappeared, killed by other means. slowcivilwar.substack.com/p/bodies-wil...

"The spending would help President Donald Trump’s mass-deportation agenda dominate media networks and recruitment channels, including through ads targeting people who have attended UFC fights, listened to patriotic podcasts or shown an interest in guns and tactical gear..." 🎁🔗

ZETEO: “Amazon founder/Wash Post owner Jeff Bezos asserted control over the opinion section. On Christmas, the editorial board published a gift for him: a flagrantly misleading column opposing Medicare for All— as 🇺🇸 contends with a healthcare crisis.” zeteo.com/p/washington...