New from the @nytimes.com Visual Investigations team: Detailed, second-by-second video analysis of all of the video footage of the killing of Renee Good in Minneapolis. www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...

I’m genuinely having a hard time falling asleep because I don’t want to wake up to news that we’ve invaded Greenland and are at war with NATO, which sounds nuts but already happened last week with Venezuela. So. They’re going to have to create a whole new classification of insomnia for this era.

“You have a collect call from….MOMI’MATTHEFRIENDLY’SCOMEGETMEANDCANYOUDRIVEHEATHERHOMETOOSHELIVESONCRANBER…. Do you accept the charges?”

So @hcrichardson.bsky.social has a post reviewing WWII War Department pamphlets teaching troops about how to spot and resist fascism. They seem awfully relevant. Give it a read, but mind Heather doesn’t steal your wife. heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/january-9-...

Jesse Welles doing that thing he's really good at

Watch this. Watch again. "This incredible thing last night... We have to do it again [in other countries]. We can do it again, too. Nobody can stop us."

This morning I am very, very, very worried about Zelenskyy.

Somehow we’re both a decade past this image, and two weeks away from it.

Get him out before the one-year anniversary of his inauguration. Americans like fixed numbers - 50 States, 250 years, etc. Impeach him at the one year mark. Can we all as a nation agree one year of Mad King is enough. We’re not going to make it another three.

Happy Deductible Eve, to all those who celebrate!

I have just finished enrolling in ACA coverage for 2026 and can I just say

This is Seth at his best youtu.be/CUW2GmKtqO0?...

Wealthy men getting bored by their own company, and deciding if they can’t have everything they want, they might as well entertain themselves through destruction. Just a bunch of psychopathic children with all the Legos money can buy.

Pantone choosing “white” as the color of 2026 is a bit on-the-nose for me. I don’t think you want to capture that particular zeitgeist, chaps.

Anyone doing an advent calendar of Trump Admin crimes yet? I’m not enjoying the surprise reveal setup we’ve got right now, would prefer to pick the moment I open the Window of Horrors each day. Bracket it with chocolate advent calendars, maybe.

Some days feel mean and small, and this is one of them.

Ugh, I think I’m having mod-related PTSD. Look. Mods do not actually want to take your posts down. Sometimes, despite knowing your comment was meant innocuously, they have to do it for consistency. There is a jerk somewhere doing the thing you did, but intentionally and evilly. 1/x

For those outraged by the decision here, when modding at scale, you get 2 options here: 1. Takedown and repercussions for posts that state a desire to shoot people 2. Allow a host of bad actors to post song lyrics from any moment in time, no matter how violent and direct. Modding isn’t simple.

@jkbjournalist.bsky.social is the one who lifted the lid on the whole Epstein shitshow in the first place. Follow her.

Why. Were. So. Many. Men. Regularly. Emailing. Jeff. Epstein. After. He. Was. A. Known. Pedophile?

I’m embarrassed it’s taken me this long to realize that when Republicans kept saying “Oh really, the Dems want to release the Epstein files, they realize they’ll burn their own guys in there?” they didn’t mean Dem politicians. They meant the money. They meant guys who give both parties money.

The constant wash of evidence that rich men, aided by amoral toadies, sexually exploited kids is a type of societal scarring that festers. It’s like getting stabbed in the soul, and everyone is shocked, but then the stabber says “yeah, but what are you going to do about it” and does it again.

Reposting this, as the SNAP stupidity sinks in. Don’t be afraid to cook things, but DO use the flavor wheels in the thread to pair a fat with a spice so whatever you’re making tastes pretty good! Many, many ways to flavor beans! But easier if it’s not Asian/Mediterranean fusion right from the jump

It’s going to be important that we rip down whatever Trump sticks on the footprint of the East Wing. Not just because he did it. Not just because it’s a security tech nightmare. But to make it clear: if you funnel shady funds to buy presidential favors, we will BURN that cash in front of you.

Tearing down bits of the White House should make it crystal clear: He doesn’t conceive of common property. He thinks he won it all in 2024. To him there is no yours, mine, ours - only HIS. He just brought a backhoe in to demolish a rental WE OWN. How many times does he have to tell you who he is?

Turn off your Face ID and Touch ID if you are taking your phones to the protests. Keep it in airplane mode and use encrypted apps where possible. Protect yourself. #3E #NoKings #50501Movement #indivisible #wearetheflood

I am enjoying that the No Kings/Trump Resistance is shaping up as a plague of frogs, partly because some future historians are going to guess it originated from Exodus and defying a Pharaoh’s power instead of “good-lookin’ inflatable costume on Temu”.

Hi, AI qual researcher here! Incorrect (and, like, WILDLY leading). By far, the strongest position in this debate is “I tried AI, it helps with some things but completely hallucinated others, so anything it does I have to double-check. I maybe use 15% of the AI tools my employer has launched”.

I know it’s hard and so many studies claim it’s completely useless because our lizard brains overpower our rational thought centers, but: Abstinence is effective against AI & surveillance-state shit. Just refuse it. Curate. It’s the only way to starve this particular beast, but you have to commit.

You know, I really would just like a couple sites that group most of my favorite reporters/topics. Two, maybe three subscriptions. And then I’d like generalized coverage that catches me up on important news of the day in ~20m. So I basically want a few good newspapers and the nightly news.

My dotty chemistry teacher also worked in a gov weapons lab. She once held up a skull and said “this is my husband’s skull”. Taught us diffusion by spraying perfume in the front of the room, telling us to raise hands when we smelled it, and saying “now you’re dead”. No rumor. Just… AWARENESS.

I’m not sure what Tom’s background and family makeup are, but - there are plenty of people currently self-censoring, cancelling trips, deleting accounts, limiting exposure. If we think in terms of concentric relationship circles, it’s shrinking month over month.

One thing that worries me about people who don’t read historical or speculative fiction: y’all are just not prepared. You are not prepared for how bad it can get and why. You have not exercised the “what if…?” part of your brains.

Every day I look at the news and it’s like a promo for Mars Attacks 2. What the hell are we doing, people. What the fuck.

I feel like everyone becoming a New Luddite is not just going to be the path to sanity, but tool for corporate punishment. I am going to make do with SHOCKINGLY little, you ghouls, to keep you out of my home and head and starve you until you stop being greedy little amoral shits. Fuck right off.

Ah, I see it’s going to be wall-to-wall Kirk funeral coverage today. Not just the broadcast but every other media touchpoint. Time to go to the library, get a book, turn off the tiny demon computer I carry everywhere with me, and sit in a park for a while.

I’ve been saying this for half a decade, but worth saying again: Make your digital/technological life as dumb as possible. Refuse internet connection. Chuck the voice assistants. Disable the AI. Most of this shit is not ready for prime time, and the rest is a trojan horse for marketeers. Curate.

Went to a vet today and there’s a sign on the wall informing you that your conversation will be recorded by AI and help with diagnosis - just say no if you want it shut off! So I guess that’s a fun new game: whenever you walk into a professional office, having to ask for any AI to be shut off.

Robert Redford on Richard Nixon's death. Not much changes, I guess.

[me, a journalist who spends all day every day on a social media app where the discovery algorithm is personally controlled by its owner, captain birdseye] you know, a lot of people are talking about fish fingers, we should probably cover that

If you’re overwhelmed right now may I recommend time travel? Traveling to the past (historical fiction) probably better at the moment than traveling to the future (sci fi). Dimensional travel (fantasy) also very valid.

I’ve recently been calling my Senator not to lodge an opinion but to get them to help me with broken fed agency processes: it strikes me everyone needs to do this more. Make it obvious that when a fed agency shifts to maddening AI phone trees, someone’s still got to provide constituent support.

I want to tell people to spend less time on social media, but then they say “how about a closed group chat?” and hey THAT IS ALSO PROBLEMATIC. Leaves me thinking that we need to get away from a default where the sole mechanism for social connection is the written word. It has to be “words AND…?”

Update: Civil War cancelled due to shooter being demographically uncooperative

If I were editing a column about Charlie Kirk’s political genius, I would tell the writer he needed to quote Kirk’s actual political beliefs. If the writer responded that doing so would weaken or distract from his argument, it’d be a pretty good sign that the column was not ready for prime time.

Look, I’m just as lost as anyone else as to how we go forward. Because a lot of things are horrible, and going back’s not an option. But one thing I can do to try and extend some safety to everyone is get vaccinated, so I did that today for flu and covid. No time like now. Took 5 mins. Go.

I’m sure you’re all hearing the same thing I am.

I feel like I’m responding to most news updates these days by howling “CALVINBALL!!!!!!!” in a tone better suited to a war cry. If they play Calvinball? WE PLAY CALVINBALL.

“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” And those who are too lightweight to actually do ALL the reading versus printing off the wikipedia summary are condemned to make themselves sound like simpletons. We’ve been calling him “the Mad King” for a reason, Brooke.