'neo-fascist hobbit camps outside of Rome' is not a phrase I ever thought I'd see. WTF...

I've watched thousands of videos from the Jan. 6 riot as part of NPR's reporting and archive project on that day. Here are some of the lesser known videos that have really stuck with me. 🧵

Either Abe Lincoln or Mark Twain.

This looks like the cold open to an SVU ep, I'm waiting for Ice T to open that dumpster and gasp

That guy who just laid down on the sidewalk in Radiohead's video for Just had the right idea after all...

Noticing that CNN is calling Jan. 6 a “riot,” not an “insurrection.” PSA: It was an insurrection.

I will never stop being white-hot angry over the attempted coup on January 6, 2021.

rowan atkinson is going to win an oscar for this role

The FEDS drugged and shot Fred Hampton in bed. Philly cops blew up a building in the 1980s and most people don't even know the MOVE bombing happened. I think you're downplaying how normalized US death is.

1. Did you know that Girl Scouts has, for a long time, accepted trans girls and nonbinary scouts? Trans kids are under attack. Every year, I make a thread of trans and nonbinary girl scouts you can get your cookies from. Lets get our cookies from them this year in solidarity!

30 years ago they were like we have to ban song lyrics for the children but it’s full steam ahead for the here’s how to do drugs until you die machine

Portland: In the absence of leadership on the transit funding crisis, @trimet.org now proposes VERY serious service cuts, with possibly more to come. These are a mixture of some restructuring ideas from our previous work, and some bad losses of frequency. 1/n

Call the sheriff.

“Immediately after the interview finished.” This is wild. Local police arrest demonstrator for… marching in a street.

I feel like we’re underreacting to the Trump regime kidnapping the leader of a sovereign nation. If another country did that, we would think it’s totally unhinged.

It's #MuralMonday 👀 🎨 Sky Walker 📍SE 12th and Ankeny Portland, Oregon

You couldn't publish this today. You'd have to cloak it under several layers of metaphor.

In a nutshell.

“Sometimes you don’t survive whole. You only survive in part. But the *grandeur* of life is that attempt. It’s not about the solution. It’s about being as fearless as one can and behaving as beautifully as one can under completely impossible circumstances.”

final stage of US empire sees us capturing several presidents, putting them in a house, and making a show. we will watch the presidents fall in love. we will watch them hate and despise and reconcile with each other. a thrilling conclusion to the american project. well then there's All Stars

Excellent presentation of the facts leading up to and around January 6, 2021 by @npr.org. This is what good, fact-based journalism looks like. apps.npr.org/jan-6-archive/

Dear news media, Why not spend a few minutes today explaining how the process of going to war is supposed to work in a constitutional democracy? Because it ain't this.

it's almost like having your media controlled by corporations and billionaires is actually bad when you want the actual news.

CBS is now state media instead of a news organization. Cool cool cool cool cool.

The fuck are you doing quoting a glorified chatbot, Reuters?!

This feels like a metaphor for something...

Head into 2026 with the confidence and production value of this Philippine Arline In-flight safety video. youtu.be/2UkTBuEx-ek?...

Here's three minutes of me cycling through Zwolle city centre on mostly motor-free or low-traffic streets. Everyone benefits from this design: more trade for cafés, pleasanter places to walk and cycle, quieter homes for local residents, and vibrant public spaces. Design for people and cities thrive

if you teach your parrot to say "awrk! i deeply regret that incident! awkk! i commit to listening and learning from this experience! whee-hoo!" you can also teach it to say whatever slurs you want

Imagine believing, and getting mad about, Somali daycare centers having contributed $35 million to the Democrats - a nonsensical, demonstrable, obvious lie. And yet some *billionaires* believed it and then spread the lie over on Twitter. Some of the richest people are some of the dumbest.

In Harney County, the occupation pit neighbors against each other. Since then, some residents say the county has tried to put their divisions firmly in the past and move forward together.

its 2026 and i dont know who needs to hear this but lets stop hating things with the intensity of a thousand suns. one or two suns is enough

Malheur is French for misfortune. A term of loss. I can’t think of a better word now for what happened ten years ago. www.pdxmonthly.com/news-and-cit...

Not for nothing, but if the social media platform I was on had an AI bot posting CSAM slop, I'd nuke my account immediately.

The Cuckold Bridegroom, by Jan Havicksz, 1670, 📸 by Justin Ford

We’re about to have four different kinds of hilarious possible champions, I don’t hate this at ALL

We should randomly make one bowl game trophy cake every year and tell no one until they go to grab it

This has been a very fun college football game to watch for someone who has absolutely zero connection to Georgia or Ole Miss.

The hell was the facemask flag on that drive? Holy shit

GET OVER HERE

An Indiana / Ole Miss national title game is the sort of outcome that would have normally led to a 9000 comment Reddit post about how the simulation engine for the EA Sports college football video game is hilariously broken

THE WIZARD OF THE WHITEBOARD

Turns out it was Pete Golding that was the special sauce being Ole Miss’ success this whole time. Just like we all suspected.

Stunned

What

Trinidad and Scramble-n-Throw

What if Ole Miss wins and it turns out Lane didn't have much to do with it?

Trinidad Chambliss:

hi i’m gunner stockton, welcome to jackass