This war/invasion/kidnapping is a lot of terrible and illegal things, but don't forget that one of them is a distraction from the still-largely unreleased Epstein files and what they may tell us about Trump's history of sex crimes.

Happy New Year! You can have a little Ai, but only to catch Nazis. “Imagine calling yourselves the ‘master race’ but forgetting to secure your own website – maybe try mastering to host WordPress before world domination.”

"We are going to run the country" until such time as we decide????? There is no low they won't stoop to - the utter contempt for democracy, law, the Venezuelan people - is just horrifying.

It’s not about drugs. If it was, Trump wouldn’t have pardoned one of the largest narco traffickers in the world last month. It’s about oil and regime change. And they need a trial now to pretend that it isn’t. Especially to distract from his sinking under Epstein and skyrocketing healthcare costs.

Three million people live in Caracas, five million in the metro area. It's one of the densest cities in South America. Remember this in the morning when they try to spin this as anything other than a cold-blooded attack on a major civilian center.

People are going to try and lure you into debates about whether Maduro was a good guy or not and the thing is, it doesn’t matter for the purposes of discussing whether violent kidnappings and extrajudicial murders by the US government are ok. No, they aren’t! End of convo.

@spikeeskin.bsky.social Hi I was wondering if you could repost This beautiful dog named MELIA. At the shelter 843 days. She needs a quiet adult only home with no dogs. Ok with cats. Town of Hempstead Animal Shelter (516) 785-5220 3320 Beltagh Avenue , Unit Wantagh, NY 11793

Stop calling it war. These are terrorist attacks being committed by the US government. Every foreign nation should be lining up sanctions.

In celebration of Mamdani's first day in office, the map from our 2016 NYC atlas celebrating Queens as the most linguistically diverse place on earth. (800 languages spoken in NYC, according to NY's Endangered Language Institute, which collaborated with us on this map.

Most of the derangement about Mamdani is for the obvious reasons but part of it is also that a surprising amount of people were committed to the Cuomo rehabilitation project because they hated the idea that anything could have consequences for men of the right class.

Mamdani: For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty

Clarification hardly needed.

So a fake reporter feeding bullshit to the ignorant maga cult, has been found peddling fake stories. And now he's running scared and asking for people to donate to his security. Hmmm, sounds like hes trying to stay relevant cause his lies are catching up to him. www.npr.org/2025/12/31/n...

Still a few hours to go. 🤡 mashable.com/article/elon...

Oh. my. god. This is the Asst. US Atty General calling people -- in print -- "hoes."

Must read www.forever-wars.com/watching-bar...

USPS quietly changed its postmark rules — mail is no longer dated when you drop it off. The “official” date is when it hits automated sorting — sometimes days later Which could have major implications for mail in voting — it’s a clever way to disenfranchise voters that’s going largely overlooked

Dems never ever should have dropped the "they're weirdos" attack line. Caldwell is doing phrenology for waving wtf

Today you're going to see the images of my ancestors dead and frozen in the snow in the aftermath of the Wounded Knee Massacre that took place today 135 years ago. This is what Chief Big Foot looked like when he was alive, because we're people before we're corpses white people can propaganize.

This bit was actually my idea. I was just a fan columnist, I made friends with Mark Waid, he knew I loved the Justice League and he let me read the early script. I said I loved it (I still do) but I thought Canary could have some cooler moments and suggested this and a couple other bits.

This is so bananas. Aside from the obvious prejudice, things like pipes bursting or house fires happen! Locals need immediate temporary housing for all sorts of reasons, and not everyone lives near reliable family or a support network!

Queen.

Here is my opinion. Black Canary is one of the best heroes in comics. She has style, wit, honor, integrity, empathy, and an infallible sense of devotion to doing the right thing. She will kick your ass if you need it, and then offer you a hand up off the ground. No one else quite like her. 1/

The Heated Rivalry discourse is just further evidence that people have gotten super dumb and we are all the worse for having no real essayist critics anymore.

This shit is made up, actually

Hey, @bk.drvip.com and @kravenslastbunt.bsky.social, I just ran into @imlukefoster.bsky.social at my LCS.

more confirmation that lurking clearly behind this idea of the “heritage american” is a straightforward contempt for the actual history and tradition of this country, such that vermeule has to hallucinate a framework to justify his desire to jettison the clear meaning of the 14th amendment

Hohoho! I drew this year's holiday card for my art rep, Felix Comic Art. I wanted the recipients to get something that looked like a piece of vintage original art, but also couldn't help poking some fun at Felix's love for Dark Knight Returns.

The government failed at actually redacting the Epstein files because DOGE cancelled the feds adobe acrobat premium subscription is the funniest shit.

Tesla doesn't recongise Trade Unions. Apple doesn't recognise unions. Amazon is anti-union. McDonald's is anti-union. Starbucks is anti-union. Google is anti-union. Walmart is anti-union. The big corporations are not on your side.

it requires an absolutely staggering lack of self awareness for chatterton to complain that he has lost elite opportunities because he has anti-woke views.

I’ve heard most journalists and politicians say that Trump hasn’t been directly accused of wrongdoing or implicated in the Epstein Files. But, there are repeated instances of Trump being directly named as a perpetrator—by victims and by Epstein. It’s not circumstantial, it’s direct.

Bari Weiss is so fucking stupid it's actually breathtaking.

A small (personal) example of this book’s intellectual dishonesty: My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media. Huh? When did I say that?!

LOL. It’s not funny but also it is so laughably predictable.

“.. He asked why she had weighed in at the last minute after not attending five screenings of the segment as it was being completed. “It’s not a part-time job,” Mr. Pelley said.” @nytimes.com $PSKY www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/b...

“I write separately to concur with the judgment but on narrower grounds and to ask you to stop calling me a racist.”

Year 1 data on congestion pricing in Manhattan… * Vehicle traffic: -11% * Foot traffic: +3.4% * Storefront vacancy: -0.9% * Pollution: -22% * Revenue for mass transit: $548M So YES this has been a huge success.

really cannot be emphasized enough that bari weiss has literally never done journalism. i don’t mean that in the pejorative sense. i mean that in the “has never performed the job she was hired to do” sense

She's an awful piece of shit. She has been a miserable fuck since college.

I used to think these people don't understand art/movies/etc but it's broader than that. They don't understand culture, not even their own. Perhaps that's why they end up with politics with little consistent ideology, just reactionary grievance and whatever this is. Santa's not even an American!

Anyone who sends people to concentration camps to be tortured should be tried and, if found guilty, hanged like the Nazis they are.

Worth revisiting this @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social piece in light of the Waymo meltdown over the weekend. Automated vehicles ignore social contracts and are only beholden to their corporate bosses. Humans are much better equipped to deal with unforeseen situations, and to prioritize human values.

Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.

UPDATE: in point of fact there is not an innocent explanation for this.

And there it is...

thinking for no reason at all about my very first job, which was at a censored newspaper in Myanmar and seemed very distant from my life and my country

Curious about what in the self-loathing is going on with Usha Vance to be married to a man who so openly seems to resent that she isn’t white. She’s where she wants to be but I sure want to know what pathology allows that.

This is straight-up, unvarnished Klan language from the Vice President of the United States. We've had a lot of racist vice presidents and this one might be in the running for top of the list.