I’m so glad my father got rid of everything when he downsized from the house I grew up in 15 years ago. And my in laws never bothered to upgrade from the starter home they bought in 1985 so they never had room to collect stuff anyway.

passed a billboard that said “shackled with lust? Jesus will set you free” leaving me with new questions about the services offered by Jesus

Not to continue to harp on my own points ad infinitum but I continue to only see a handful of Congresspeople, all Democrats, criticize the UAE openly for its role in facilitating the atrocities in Sudan, and those Congresspeople are all uniformly at the forefront of criticism of Israel as well.

Hoping the Islanders not only sweep the season from the Rangers but also shut them out for all 4 games is probably too tall an order, but we’re halfway there…

Insane NY Post column suggesting that the new First Lady who is sad about leaving her longtime neighbors in a not fancy NYC neighborhood is an ungrateful brown woman

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

It's quite possible that this is true but I think the pertinent issue which overrides these calculations in a more normal conflict is that Russia, like Israel, has more totalizing and irrational ambitions which involve the liquidation of an entire people and culture. The UK did too, but gave it up.

When you're a current DC resident who is Deeply Rooted in His Community.

I know people hate Will Stancil, but this is simply objectively true. The democratic socialist future is not piecemeal private mutual aid, it's sufficient taxation and spending to sustain the state capacity to bureaucratically ensure that no American goes hungry, homeless, or without health care.

Power restoration timelines in Kyiv remain unknown, according to DTEK. Around 500,000 households are currently without electricity as emergency outages remain in effect across the city.

"A buildup in pressure across the region is propelling wastewater up ancient wellbores, birthing [toxic saltwater] geysers that can cost millions of dollars to clean up." This in a region where oil and gas companies now take $$$$ in tax credits for squirting CO2 underground for "sequestration."

Adrian went from wanting Latin American immigrants to create the Empire of Our Lady of Guadalupe to joining the Heritage American side of the debate in the span of a few years

joining the "cybertruck owners only" group on fb is one of the best decisions i've ever made. every so often when i'm scrolling through fb getting pissed off, i get to see a little treat like this

Scenes from Kyiv, the terrorist attacks by Russia on the city have been ongoing nonstop for at least 11 hours.

This post makes me think of the vacation in Colorado I took in the summer of 2015. I lucked into seeing the most fun Mets team of my adult life play and win at Coors Field and lucked OUT of seeing the stars while camping in Great Sand Dunes NP because of an insanely bright full moon.

Ted Bundy? Amateur hour. You should see the guys I hang out with and how good they are at murdering and dismembering college-age women.

It is so wild to see the beliefs people on this app will project on Will Stancil, when his real problem is he never stops arguing

Speaking as a former Californian with continuing deep ties to the state: Go ahead and be Florida's problem, you greedy fascist fuckwaddles

This would be an incredible comedy premise though. A friend group realizes that one of them has been using the others for market research for a decade and they were all carefully selected/guided to be representative norms.

Feel like it was inevitable that they’d eventually “other” white people whose ancestors came here through Ellis Island (like me).

I need to get a Lindor jersey

"Sodium is nearly 50 times cheaper than lithium and can even be harvested from seawater, making it a much more sustainable option for large-scale energy storage”

Happy 34th anniversary to the fall of the Soviet Union! #FuckRussia

this is the simple answer to people who keep saying NATO expansion matters. Sure, it matters because it presented an obstacle to Russian imperial ambitions. Putin didn't invade because he hated NATO expansion, he hated NATO expansion because he wanted to invade

Like why not just flip it around: Isn't it great that almost all the best talent in the world want to do their research in the USA?

Happy Boxing Day!

Had an experience yesterday that’s the stuff of MAGA nightmares: went to the Asian supermarket in Mineola to get a few items because no other supermarket was open. I was the only white person in it, and the cashier didn’t speak English.

I like how “shepherds tending their flocks by night” only excludes one season — the season Christmas ended up being in.

The mayor of Bethlehem: "Yes we are dying in Gaza and in other cities in Palestine, yes we are targeted, yes we are facing immense hardships because of the occupation..." Christmas in Bethlehem.

It's all an insanely profitable grift. Nearly half a million in compensation along with $25k speaking fees, media deals, endorsement deals, book royalties etc. She's become a millionaire off of peddling hate. www.sportico.com/business/med...

I got the perfect shirt for this!

Given that the homeowner is likely Catholic based on the neighborhood, this is extra heretical. Thinking about driving past this place honking my horn when Trump finally keels over.

He was despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief.

"It is logically impossible to simultaneously be evil, corrupt, and incompetent" is an absolutely amazing take to have in the year of 2025

It's funny how us parochial Americans generally seem to perceive that the EV revolution is stalling or reversing when in fact it's accelerating rapidly worldwide. 25% of cars sold globally in 2025 were EVs! It's mostly just the US that's being left behind

The Olivia Nuzzi story and the Bari Weiss at CBS story are the same story, which is that the upper echelons of legacy media are absolutely rife with people who worship power and don't feel burdened by any sense of responsibility to their profession or the public.

Just want to point out that this man was leading the whole Turning Point USA crowd in prayer last week. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crim...

The “free speech” and “cancel culture” panics have led to overt state censorship because that was always their purpose. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

Idk what the Eastern European countries did to dismantle their security apparatus after the cold war but everyone should probably brush up on that

The attacks on our homes are revenge? Was the attack on children’s oncology revenge? Was the attack on a working kindergarten revenge? What was the invasion revenge for, existing?

I don’t mean to sound extreme, but I don’t think we should have torture camps for people with criminal records either.

"this could have been slop, but it's not" is rapidly becoming a surefire signifier of premium-ness

Circling back

It's actually worse. The Supreme Court has held 9-0 -- Clarence Thomas and other executive power fanatics included -- that detainees rendered to another country via the Alien Enemies Act are entitled to a pre-deportation hearing. There is no legal debate whatsoever.

Good morning to readers; Kyiv remains in Ukrainian hands. Pokrovsk, birthplace of 'Carol of the Bells', is being destroyed by Russian fire. That’s where Father Oleksandr built his church while working night shifts in the mines. But today, his city, and his church, are in ruins.

The two most common predictors in the modern era of the success of a modern welfare state are the level of homogenity of the population and the size of the country. Europe is a constant demonstration that you change no. 1 and the entire socialist paradise you've built goes entirely insane.