there’s the fucker

my festive spirit amidst our grimly stupid reality (2025)

Trump has revoked legal status for at least 1.6 million immigrants over the past year by cancelling programs like TPS and student visas. Remember: these are people who entered the country legally. Trump never cared about “legal immigration" — just inflicting cruelty.

Kavanaugh tries to put the "Kavanaugh Stops" genie back in the bottle

its not just that reactionaries dont read the western canon they valorize, its also that they *cant* read it, not in the sense that theyre illiterate, though they are, but in the sense that substantive engagement with the texts would demystify and refute their cloying, sophomoric disinterpretations

Adoration of the Magi by Lu Hongnian, mid-20th century.

"We Beat 'Em Before... (Portland's Version)" This idea came to me late. I think it fits really well since Portland Frog Brigade literally carries no weapons and yet ICE has no idea how to respond to them. Just feckless incompetent goons all around.

Official data is in today, and US solar continues to grow rapidly, with generation up 21% compared to last year!

BREAKING: The Supreme Court rejects the Trump administration’s request to deploy National Guard troops in Illinois at this time, over the dissenting votes of Justices Thomas, Alito, and Gorsuch. Background: www.lawdork.com/p/trump-admi...

and now a 🧵 of top *songs* from 2025... (1/10) Horsegirl, "I Can't Stand To See You." Best oh/oh/oh since the Misfits' "Some Kinda Hate." The kids are alright in Chicago.

My top albums of the year feat. (chronologically) Voice Actor/Squu, Whatever the Weather, HxH, Minor Hexachords, Purelink, Chiu/Honer, Jencik/Midwife, Sa Pa, Giant Claw, Vvarp, Marv, Blood Orange, Suede, The Necks, Oneohtrix Point Never, English/Vitiello, Loula Yorke andrew.ghost.io/the-top-albu...

Otl Aicher (also known as Otto Aicher) German, 1922–1991. Work from 1950 via @MuseumModernArt www.moma.org/artists/86

Bari Weiss has “a curiously narrow definition of free speech”—one in which free speech means whatever conservatives want to say, Adam Serwer argues.

I say this often, too. Descriptive stats are essential to understand more complex analyses. And put them in the main paper, not just a supplement!

#宇宙戦艦ヤマト　#Xmas #ちびキャラファンアート メリーXmas🎅🎄🧁🍀⭐🎉 フォロワーさん達、皆様方の願いが一つでも多く叶います様に☺️🙏🍀✨

This victim told a driver that she couldn't report Trump raping her because "They will kill me." In 2021, another victim said that Epstein told her girls who don't behave are fed to alligators and took her where they die. He threatened to kill her and her son.

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Remarkably few of the immigrants arrested in big-city ICE operations have had violent criminal records, via Albert Sun: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

No, people are not exaggerating the significance of what's going on at Heritage. We're talking massive capital flight, in every sense of the word. It will never be the same, and it will be less powerful.

Examining what it would cost to end extreme poverty using direct income transfers finds an estimate of 0.3 percent of global GDP, from Roshni Sahoo, Joshua Blumenstock, Paul Niehaus, Leo Selker, and Stefan Wager www.nber.org/papers/w34583

Making immigration easier increases international scientific collaboration. Using China’s staggered rollout of visa-free access in 2023, this paper shows a causal increase in Sino-foreign co-authored research.

Belatedly, this line from Weiss' memo is...something Let's get someone who says banishing to CECOT was legit, she says Here's the thing: There's a consensus among legal experts that *wasn't* legit You can find someone who says moon is made outta Fluffernutter. Doesn't mean you should quote 'em

1. Keep your eye on the ball, people That Epstein-Larry Nassar letter has fake written all over it -- N. Virginia postmark, after JE's death, in a handwriting that appears not his own It's hard not to think DOJ WANTED this out there to then be debunked and thus discredit every mention of Trump...

and now a 🧵 of top *songs* from 2025... (1/10) Horsegirl, "I Can't Stand To See You." Best oh/oh/oh since the Misfits' "Some Kinda Hate." The kids are alright in Chicago.

I didn’t even yell ‘LANGUAGE!’ from across the house this time

“…whenever the Church ‘reaches out to take hold of power…the face of Satan glimmers in her.’”

i think this is exactly right. she was hired to be a regime censor but that requires a bit of real skill and finesse to pull of successfully and she has neither.

Trump was a frequent traveler on Epstein Air, including trips with Epstein alone and a trip with just Epstein and a [redacted] trafficking victim.

punk’s not dead

Something very funny about de santis praising Coolidge for “immigration.” Coolidge’s immigration policy was that people named de santis shouldn’t be allowed to come here bsky.app/profile/anth...

my youngest just now, from the other room, after being subjected to an unwanted YouTube ad: “shut the fuck up, I don’t want to join ICE”

I missed the detail where the drawing of the Trump Class “Battleship” has a picture of himself on it.

BREAKING: Judge James Boasberg rules for those deported under the Alien Enemies Act on March 15 — certifying a class, finding the U.S. maintained constructive custody over them at CECOT, finding they were not given due process, and ordering return or that such process be given by Jan. 5, 2026.

The sky above the port was the colour of television, tuned to a dead channel

New: archivists have distributed the 60 Minutes episode Bari Weiss killed. iCloud, Mega, torrent too. Shows won’t be able to keep this episode offline www.404media.co/archivists-p...

Hi I’m Bari Weiss and Welcome To 60 Minutes *Corona by Minutemen starts playing*

this lady has been a member of our household for three years as of today

this just has me thinking about how so much of this government and the movement around it is purely a matter of aesthetics. is there a strategic reason for produce a new warship? maybe. but my hunch is that this is happening because the president thinks it will look cool.

Christmas cards circa the 1930s by Wiktoria Goryńska (1902-1945), woodcut artist and member of the Polish resistance movement against Nazi occupation during WWII. She was killed at Ravensbrück.

Details from the Bari’d CECOT story: I’m sure a Stephen Miller interview where he hears these details and slaps his hands gleefully would have added much more perspective

!! Here’s a link to full video of the 60 Minutes segment that Bari Weiss killed last minute, via @jasonparis.bsky.social: is.gd/paU8Ko (It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)

the anti-semitic Charlie Kirk conspiracy theories spreading like wildfire seems to have sparked a genuine panic among MAGA conservatives that the brand has turned so rancid, combined with, by and large, a complete inability to acknowledge that this was an inevitable result of the movement.

'Toilet Rat' is my new GBH cover band