The photographer on that boat was Christopher Anderson, who, 25 years later, snapped the famous photos of the Trump administration for Vanity Fair.

No big deal, but the Alberta government just increased the fee to submit a citizen initiated petition from $500 to $25, 000. After the separatism initiative was approved, but before Corb Lund's coal mining petition gets re-approved. No political shenanigans going on here.

Douthat’s entire career is a monument to the system rewarding (totally mediocre) white guys

Must-read series from @propublica.org painstakingly unravels what happened on the ground after Trump's foreign aid cuts This story describes one mother's struggle to keep her children from dying of malnutrition after the US abruptly cut aid to her refugee camp

now THAT is how you respond to destruction of Section 2

I was scrolling for a headline that called Bongino a whiny baby. 💯 Don't let the door hit ya where the good lord split ya, Danno.

i feel awful for the trans people whose photos post-surgery, probably meant to be posted for celebratory or other reasons, are now used as gore porn to argue against their healthcare

Note to historians: This is in 2025. 49.5% of us weren't ok with it.

"Well, what can I say? That’s the makeup that she puts on, those are the injections she gave herself. If they show up in a photo, what do you want me to say? " This was a really great read.

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

The Vanity Fair photographer with a lot more courage than many titans industry and brokers of power

If you don’t have one yet, you can come to our office at 7016 N Clark Street and pick up a whistle (and a variety of other necessities) free of charge.

ever vigilant

The entire essay is an extended proof of why the Turing test and pure cognitive functionalism were incorrect. It also shows why the media habit of letting ignorant people write about topics they have never researched is a really bad idea. Dunning-Kruger is a horrible way to run an opinion outlet.

If we are banning cell phones for kids we need to be talking about banning chatbots for boomers www.persuasion.community/p/my-chatgpt...

BREAKING on MS NOW: Jack Smith, in his opening statement to House Judiciary, says: "Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election and to prevent the lawful transfer of power."

The kettle on this list is a hate crime agInst British people. I didn't even know it was possible to hate crime us. So well done Williams-Sonoma for inventing that i guess.

Short version: chasing the hardline party’s voters without any real principles of your own makes you lose your own base and convince fence-sitters to support the hardline party, not you.

I am BEGGING you all to stop sharing that bullshit Compact Mag piece on the white dude who didn’t get hired by Brown because he was too RETVRN about the Roman military. The writer is a full time ticket scalper who has one beat: white-man grievance. $20 says the whole article is a work of fiction.

A reminder tonight that Venezuela has nothing to do with fentanyl. The vast majority of the fentanyl supply begins as precursor chemicals in China, is manufactured in Mexico, and makes it to the U.S. by land, mostly smuggled by U.S. citizens hiding it within lawful trade and traffic at entry points.

"I don’t care that it’s snowing; I refuse to wear anything but basketball shorts. I’m growing these ALMOST MAN LEGS and am workshopping MY NEWLY HAIRY CALVES to the world."

I thought Michael was joking. Michael is not joking.

tried to download a dating app but I accidentally got Kindr, the chocolate egg app and honestly this is a lot better

You ever think how Star-nosed moles are just out there existing without permission, all the time, even while you’re sleeping.

I'm genuinely about to start crying at this close up picture of Karoline Leavitt from Vanity Fair. this woman is 28 years old lmfao how are you going to believe in lip injections but not vaccines

the way my mood lifted on hold at the third pharmacy today trying to fill a paxlovid Rx when this was the hold music

this asshole is mocking the women who run the on-the-ground grassroots orgs i work with, the women who have shown up in person to do the practical work of politics for my entire life. fuck this loser. he does no real work or organizing for anyone or anything. clown just runs his mouth. useless.

they did it again

This is so funny

"Walkin’ in the Parlour" is the final track on on our GRAMMY nominated album: What Did the Blackbird Say to the Crow

One of the things that you see at the International Civil Rights Center & Museum in Greensboro, North Carolina is a Jim Crow era Coke machine that was designed to fit into a segregated bus station. One machine two sides. The Coke cost more on the Black side.

I'm going to do my best to alt text this because holy crap, everyone should know.

Letitia James could bring the funniest civil claim of vindictive prosecution.

Illinois just passed a law that limits civil ICE arrests near courthouses, hospitals, colleges, day cares, and schools. It also lets people sue if immigration agents violate their constitutional rights. Read: www.mystateline.com/news/local-n...

GIFT ARTICLE: "Ms. Wiles does not view her role as constraining Mr. Trump. Instead, she makes clear that her mission is to facilitate his desires even if she sometimes thinks he is going too far." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/u...

Unemployment the highest in four years. What a surprise. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/12...

The biggest question about Epstein is not who he associated with, but how he got rich in the first place. The NYTimes has done very good work on that in the past, and now pushes the story even farther. (Gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/m...

Straight up saying they are revenge seeking if you speak poorly of Trump. Mob boss behaviour "Trump’s Top Aide Acknowledges ‘Score Settling’ Behind Prosecutions" "Susie Wiles, the White House chief of staff, said President Trump “has an alcoholic’s personality,” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/u...

This makes me think of the women in Gone with the Wind. She's just a gentle woman, trying to keep her household in order at a time of chaos, who also likes the fact that she's surrounded by "junkyard dogs" who can do some "nasty work" if it's needed to, ya know, "protect the household from savages."

A big thing I learned from this is that Susie Wiles spent her childhood managing her alcoholic, famous father Pat Summerall...& that Trump likes her in part because he's a pathetic starfucker who thinks she and Pat have "good genes." She's managing Trump "an alcoholic personality" as she did her dad

Mick Foley is such a real one

I have met Susie. She could not have been more pleasant to me in person. It was also *palpably* obvious that she is Evil. I don’t mean that in a small way of she’s mean or devious, but a big one: she’d wear your skin as a suit in a nanosecond if it was chilly outside and never think of it again.

1. In Alaska, the right wing govt handpicked doctors to the Medical Board to ban trans youth care. A month after after, one anti-trans doctor was arrested for child porn. The day after he was bailed out, his home burned down, with reports suggesting he was found deceased. Our latest wild story.

Can't wait to see how this (further) wrecks Texas's education system.

this is not behavior becoming of a FIFA Peace Prize recipient.

Why is no one talking about the real victim of Trump’s Rob Reiner post - Mike Johnson who now has to lie and say “I don’t know, I haven’t seen that” when asked about it