'Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has made Tehran impossible to sustain' #Iran 🇮🇷

The work of Anna Monika Jost. CH, geboren 1944 via www.emuseum.ch/people/57161...

Happy Birthday Corita Kent. The Roman Catholic nun, pop artist, social activist, and educator, famous for many virtues including her serigraphs advocating for peace, was born today in 1918. corita.org

Salami Advent Calendar, Czech Republic. podnikovka.cz/uzeniny_c103...

French authorities are taking X to court because Grok is now doing straight up holocaust denial. Gas chambers intended for disinfection, cyanide residue tiny, ‘story’ persists because of taboo against critical examination. (Full translation in alt text)

A roundup of personal data consolidation, surveillance, and destruction-of-oversight news from the @unbreaking.org Data Security team, who will surely be having amazing conversations at various dinners next week.

The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation seems to be throwing some shade at ICE.

Sorry guys universe is splitting open starting today

With ICE and border patrol goons spreading out across the country, I put together a resource guide for buying, printing, and distributing whistles, based on my own experience. Now is the time to whistle up, hope this helps. dansinker.com/posts/202…

if i posted photos of someone like this my partner would be texting me with a link to the tweet accompanied solely with “?”

Mr. Bonta, I am very concerned about this as a Californian. We have good laws on the books regarding privacy and personal data. I think a mega-business making their ubiquitous product undeniably worse for customers who just want privacy is highly predatory. @agrobbonta.oag.ca.gov

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mamdani knows & understand’s walter trumbull’s saying: “Diplomacy frequently consists in soothingly saying ‘Nice doggie’ until you have a chance to pick up a rock.”

This week's link newsletter is out... www.westernbarbarian.com/jo/

This has been a heckuva Friday.

Someday you, too, could have the moral fortitude to look upon a years-long rape circus organized by the nation's most powerful elites and declare, "The people upset about this are speaking about it the wrong way."

No single person, especially someone with zero expertise, should be able to just change the CDC website on a whim. The fact that federal health and science pages are no longer trustable is a catastrophe for public health and democracy.

"In the end, I have come to realize that being authentic at work is not a weakness, but rather a strength." #ScienceWorkingLife https://scim.ag/49B7hRv

“THE NON-ARTIST FIXATION ON HYPERREALISM AS THE PINNACLE OF ART IS CLEARLY PART OF THE REASON SO MANY ADULTS THINK THEY CANNOT DRAW OR CONSIDER THEMSELVES TO BE FAILURES, KAWAII, FOLK ART, DOODLES, OR OTHER EASIER ENTRY POINTS ARE CONSIDERED CHILDISH, WHICH IS WHY JAPANESE DRAWING BOOKS ARE BETTER…”

Evil has always haunted our world, stealing souls and channeling strength back to their source. Until heroes arose to defend us, born with voices that could drive back the darkness, saying words of courage and hope.

re: roblox dude's interview crashout. the thing he wants to say but can't is "at scale, kids are gonna get hurt. that is the price for scale." the thing nobody wants to say out loud is "maybe scaling to a level where harm isn't manageable is bad, and scale should be contained"

Rep. Eugene Vindman: " I want to start by condemning the president for calling for six Democratic members of Congress, all of whom are patriots who served our country to be hanged. It is the kind of thing we expect from a Saudi Crown Prince, not an American President."

A horrifying graphic from Pew showing the fruits of the right wing war on public health. Only 48% of Republicans believe that vaccines prevent serious illness, while 80% of Democrats do. This is not a difference of opinion in science. This is the result of a ruthless disinformation campaign.

This was the look my high school girlfriend's grandma gave me when I told her how delicious her knishes were.

Damn, Rep. Thomas Massie went there. All the way there.

What the actual… 😳

I'm sure they've removed it now, but this is hilarious

The government has no business spying on court watchers' group chats. Monitoring the courts is First Amendment-protected activity. Period.

I have not used MS Office in more than a decade. I was on a Zoom call yesterday and someone was screen sharing a Word doc. It was like flippin’ whack-a-mole trying to close all the “can I help?” AI pop-ups and just show a simple six-item list.

About that exclusive, "closed-to-press" MAHA summit last week with RFK and JD Vance: I got in. Here's what I saw. 🧵 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Three years ago, @patagonia did something unprecedented: Instead of selling the multibillion-dollar retailer or taking it public, they created a new trust and nonprofit that would use the company’s profits to fight climate change and protect nature.

Reminder: SDNY "was running an active investigation into Jeffrey Epstein[’s] ... coconspirators. In January [2025], SDNY prosecutors were ordered to transfer the Epstein case files to DOJ headquarters in Washington, D.C. ... the investigation into co-conspirators has inexplicably ceased."

Our Holiday Sale is here early this year! ALL Haymarket Books are 40% Off through Friday, January 2nd!

People came together to talk about salting, a long-standing tactic for organizing the unorganized. Lots of fascinating insights and discussions in this piece by Amie Stager and Isabela Escalona.

Yeah—the reason why "are we the baddies" is comedy is precisely this. "Oops, I accidentally wound up an SS officer on the Eastern Front" isn't a thing. Sometimes folks do have a change of heart, and repudiate their past actions, but that's not the same.

Starbucks workers have been so consistently badass and ambitious and now they are putting it all on the line. Read about why they're on an open-ended strike -- a huge escalation -- to beat an employer that has tried to crush the union from day one. via @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social

Insanely charming! And also, no shade to Chris here, but even if Zohran knew what it meant, this move made sure the viewers knew too because the audience matters more than the two having the convo in situations like this

Finally a front page that does what it’s supposed to be doing

Kind of surprised they didn’t say this in fourteen words

My wife teaches preschool. One co-worker has stayed home more than once out of fear of ICE. Another, a naturalized American citizen, has decided to return to Mexico with her family rather than put up with the current terror. 😢

God, I hate these losers SO MUCH. We will never get out of this by relying on Democrats for anything. They keep proving over and over again how much they hate us, and they're laughing about it as they do so.

When Black Friday comes…

Houlahan: "I'm just continually stunned by the fact the commander in chief, the president, has called for my death. And that's something that should be chilling for everybody, and everybody should be worried about their safety in this nation when the president can yield that sort of statement."

"One constituent, a retired marketing executive named Susan, told him that she’s currently paying about $600 a month with ACA tax credits. Next year, that will jump to $2,120, a 250 percent increase." prospect.org/2025/11/21/a...

It gets lost in the shuffle, but the Speaker of the House is someone who, by all rights, should’ve had his career ended a decade ago by a Shreveport TV news investigative team.

"Antisemitism is bad" followed by "get out of my country go back to yours (and die so that Jesus can come back)" is both wild and a fairly honest take for a christofascist😑

so, so good. run it as a political ad.

“Several prisoners said their facilities had become stingier than usual with toilet paper, and women incarcerated in Carswell in Texas reported a shortage of tampons. “I was told to use my socks,” one said.”

Seen in Boston, Massachusetts in 1854.

If you see this, post your getaway vehicle.