On top of everything else, it seems like a good time to repost this one by @tomtomorrow.bsky.social, called "Distractions": www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

THIS MAN IS NOT WELL

huh. we're running venezuela now.

that yale law degree coming in handy

I can't take three more years of this

lemon it's january 3rd

love waking up to a friend texting "have you looked at the news yet"

ah, time to take a big sip of coffee and check the morning news, as is my daily tradition

The first things you learn in journalism school •love America •never apologize for it

every picture of bari weiss looks like an irritating precocious child up past bedtime pestering the guests

I do think it's funny that billionaires spent untold amounts of money and influence to turn CBS News into a propaganda organ and their chosen herald's big idea is to run the network like it's a high school newspaper in Anytown Indiana

Thank God that CBS News has made it legal to love America again, just like President Donald J. Trump made it legal to say Merry Christmas.

I was curious, so I looked it up. Trump's three cognitive exams were on 1/12/18, 9/13/23 and 4/11/25 — not, as he suggested today, recently. www.pbump.net/o/when-were-...

Here it is... bsky.app/profile/tali...

Mayor Mamdani hasn't moved into Gracie Mansion yet and remains in his Astoria apartment for now, his team says. He expects to move at some point before his lease is up Jan. 30. His team also shares this pic of him taking the W train to City Hall this morning from Astoria.

oh one more thing about the mamdani inauguration, I don't know if this was widely reported but I saw it on the video screen they had set up there, he arrived at city hall not in a chevy suburban, in the back of a NYC taxi.

this is not a complaint about the USPS, which serves a noble and necessary purpose, but there's a woman at my local post office who is basically the human equivalent of getting trapped in a really stubborn voicemail system, in which your input into the conversation is completely disregarded.

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.

Il mio amico @tomtomorrow.bsky.social non solo è un bravissimo fumettista politico, è anche un fotografo altrettanto bravo, ed è così gentile da essere spesso il mio fotografo per Il Manifesto. Nell'articolo aggiornato sull'online di oggi la fotogallery è la sua

Good morning Me heading into 2026

You can't really slap a "I was on Twitter before Elon went crazy" bumper sticker on your X account, though plenty of prominent people act like you can.

cartoonist slash international photojournalist

anybody know how to resuscitate a soft leather glove that took some weather damage (water and salt) and is now basically a hardened lump?

lmao jfc

Here is the editor of Tablet agreeably reposting someone calling nonwhite NYC immigrants "worthless biotrash." It's astonishing how quickly this stuff has escaped containment

as we head into this so called "new year," let's all take a moment to remember that andrew cuomo is not the new mayor of the city of new york

I would pay good money to see Trump draw a clock and identify a giraffe live on camera. ACED IT, SIR!!!!!!

This is a huge loss to New York City's vibrant GoFundMe Fraud Community. I expect to see more like it, sadly.

Captain Kirk: but I submit to you that YOU are stupid and incompetent!

I feel so much safer knowing that my president can answer correctly that the cow says moo.

jesus christ I just did it again. "It's monday, gotta start writing a new one." lol no it's friday I gotta file the one I already wrote, get a newsletter queued up, and then head into weekend #2.

oh good the president has passed yet another cognitive test

One of them most fascinating things about Bernie Wagenblast is that she is a *journalist.* Being a voice actor and announcer is the way she, like so many of us, cobbles together a career as a journalist. This is a VERY New York story.

January 1, 2026, new york city

having a weekend in the middle of the week is sort of confusing but I'm not mad about it.

So glad her husband got that job so at least one cartoonist in New York can have health insurance.

(warning, star trek posting) watching journey to babel, never noticed before that mccoy has the mirror universe tantalus field prop in sickbay

we're just gonna have years of "the mayor of new york city claims to be a socialist and yet does not dress in an old timey barrel hung from suspenders"

it was SO COLD out there today.

January 1, 2026, new york city

ran into @gregpak.net at the inauguration. I'm sure we'll both be posting photos after we recover from hypothermia.

Reading my copy of "Our Long National Nightmare" (great production values, btw) and, uh, @tomtomorrow.bsky.social , did you have to say this on page 22?

A message for you all to carry through the year

I'm entirely serious about this: until you internalize the view that urban America is Real America, you won't see the urgency of structural reform of an American government whose fundamental structures so disadvantage its population centers—the great engines of its prosperity, progress, & culture.

going down to the inauguration in a bit and I have so many layers of clothing on

🚨 Breaking: NYC no more affordable than it was 53 minutes ago. An exclusive on how it all went wrong for Mamdani.