I generally don't like to post screenshots of text, but someone posted this in our local Strong Towns group and it was too good not to share here.

Exclusive: A year after Tenet Media was busted for funneling Russian money to MAGA pundits like Benny Johnson and Tim Pool, a Trump administration effort involving State and the FBI has welcomed Tenet's founders back into the US. @thebulwark.com: www.thebulwark.com/p/lauren-che...

Even the Chinese Communist Party had a "more candidates than seats" rule. What's the point of primary elections if they function as coronations for widely unpopular fossils

Nikola Jokic appears to hyperextend his knee and limps to the locker room after teammate Spencer Jones inadvertently steps on his foot, in more rotten news for the injury-plagued Denver #Nuggets, who are already down 3 starters in Aaron Gordon, Christian Braun and Cam Johnson

Cat Clinging To Side Of Christmas Tree Admits That Was Extent Of Plan https://theonion.com/cat-clinging-to-side-of-christmas-tree-admits-that-was-1849899567/

EXCLUSIVE: @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social will be sworn in as mayor on midnight on January 1 inside the old abandoned City Hall subway station, saying that he sees the venue as a symbol for the aims of his upcoming administration.

An essential development over the past decade-plus is that the ignorant went from feeling chastened when their ignorance was revealed to banding together and deciding that, actually, they were right. They might disagree at times, but they agreed that ignorance itself was an indicator of trust.

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.

This is a new level of institutionalized scientific racism

I'm with Eric here. Americans are about to learn what primate cities are, and why that could flip the Iowa and Nebraska political landscape upside down just like it did for Georgia and Arizona

If Kenosha, Wisconsin can build grassy tram tracks, so can your city. Yes, this is an Atlanta subtweet.

The greatest enemy that Zohran Mamdani faces in his mayoral tenure won't be Trump, Cuomo, or even Jonathan Greenblatt. It'll be The New York Times and other media executives that are enraged and terrified that a 34-year-old immigrant backbencher just casually showed the world they are hypocrites

LeBron at #9 in the Western Conference behind Deni Avdija, and Stephon Castle at #18 ahead of Chet Holmgren and Kawhi Leonard are two scenarios I did not think were possible at the start of this season

INBOX: @jkbjournalist.bsky.social, an investigative reporter at @miamiherald.com who has covered Jeffrey Epstein's sex trafficking story for nearly a decade, accuses the Trump Department of Justice for tracking her flight history in 2019 and releasing them partially unredacted in the Epstein files

something very important for Dems to realize is that the tech overlords are not people you can win back by promising a lighter touch and saying a few nice things they’ve gotten a taste of mask-off fascism and they are not going back, they don’t want to play nice with the peons anymore

If you and Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg and Charles Schwab and Mark Cuban all got together to pool your wealth, your group still would not have a net worth to match Elon Musk.

@pcheung630.bsky.social: “Journalism will stop relying on exposure to hold the powerful accountable." www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/jour...

The man accused of planting pipe bombs in Washington the night before the January 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol attack confessed to the FBI and told investigators he thought the 2020 election had been “tampered with,” according to a court filing from federal prosecutors.

My question is why is it not a violation of "objective journalism" to allow a high-profile man caught in a scandal to profile another high-profile man caught in a scandal.

[NEW] Psychosis affects 3% of Americans. For those living with it, holistic care can offer stability across daily life. But finding such support often feels like navigating a maze. We examines how the U.S. continues to fail people living with psychosis.

In 2025, our reporting reached over 3 million people; to continue doing in-depth reporting on global health and environmental disparities in 2026, we still need your help to reach our $30,000 goal. Here's why Jake, a physician from Iowa, just became our supporter: fundrazr.com/sustain-the-...

“I cannot see into her soul, but it demonstrates that even among many of the president’s strongest supporters, there’s opposition and disaffection about what the administration is doing,” Sen. Jon Ossoff said of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s shocking departure.

so it happened - greens just met labour in the polling average

Same reverend and lawmaker who offered a safehouse for the fugitive that murdered his girlfriend, folded her dead body into a suitcase, fled Taiwanese authorities, and triggered the 2019 Hong Kong protests? That being said, I'm noticing a softening in gay marriage opposition among Anglican clergy

Can't y'all just let our poor mushy brains take a break

What a haunting and urgent read. Aging population is a ticking time bomb that's going to hit East Asia like a ton of bricks

Luther Burden is both a wide receiver for the Chicago Bears and a description of Protestantism.

sorry but Luther Burden is an all-time cool name. his only career options were wide receiver, private detective, or jazz musician.

Ben Johnson you mad man

Issa Rae has canceled her sold out performance at the Kennedy Center. Pulitzer Prize winner Rhiannon Giddens, Peter Wolf, Low Cut Connie, and the Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, D.C., have also canceled. Lin-Manuel Miranda has canceled the entire Kennedy Center run of Hamilton.

In modern America, power is impunity. Therefore, it's not hard to see that the right-wing disinformation ecosystem is a lot more powerful than legacy media, or those seeking to hold the fraudsters taking advantage of Minnesota's social services accountable, or even the fraudsters themselves

The utter perversion of the #BrokenTimes' both-sidesing compulsion: Here it equates the right-wing ruin of New College with (checks notes) liberal (in any sense of the word) education, which it dismisses as just another "ideological bubble." Just fuck off.

asks the DOJ why they were *apparently* tracking & publishing her flight history?

This should give every journalist nightmares.

Uh,

Jesus Christ, that's more than what I made this year. Anyways @thexylom.com is 20 new monthly members away from hitting its year-end fundraising goal! And if you give in the next 72 hours, your donation will be matched! fundrazr.com/sustain-the-...

This is just going to always be my go-to response to this kind of thing anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...

Again, here's a starter pack for news outlets that explicitly avoid the use of Generative AI: go.bsky.app/8cn1XfT

When the White House press pool motorcade reporters used to wait inside Trump's country club in Sterling, VA in the first term we would get finger sandwiches & coffee. It wasn't free. Our news organizations were subsequently billed ~$70 per snack session.

A Hampton Inn in Asheville just canceled my family's reservation because our address (incorrectly) showed Asheville—and the hotel bars locals within 50 miles. When I asked why, they said, "because of our homeless population," adding that most hotels here have similar policies. This is outrageous.

Thank you, New York Times. I too agree that The Onion had the same level of cultural impact this year that Sabrina Carpenter did.

Trump's DOJ was monitoring all the movements of the Miami Herald reporter who was covering the Epstein case.

INBOX: @jkbjournalist.bsky.social, an investigative reporter at @miamiherald.com who has covered Jeffrey Epstein's sex trafficking story for nearly a decade, accuses the Trump Department of Justice for tracking her flight history in 2019 and releasing them partially unredacted in the Epstein files

We watching Giants Raiders as a family?

In 2026, writes @rodneygibbs.com, journalism will go from both-sidesism to backbone www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/from...

the panthers just kneeled in the 4th quarter on 4th down while they were losing. according to @stathead.com that's the third time a team has done that since 1978. here are the other two

100% this. I would also add that not just climate science has been under attack. I would argue that science in general, & the mechanisms for evidence-based decision-making more specifically, have seen systematic erosion & dismantling… and while the US leads the charge, this is happening globally. 👇👇

If Kenosha, Wisconsin can build grassy tram tracks, so can your city. Yes, this is an Atlanta subtweet.

ICYMI: Sen. Mark Warner (D–Va.) voted to confirm the following Trump administration cabinet members: · Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, · Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, · Secretary of State Marco Rubio, · Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer, and · Interior Secretary Doug Burgum.