Some beauty among the horrors: Valentine by Courtney Marie Andrews is the first great record of 2026.

The strictly business-brained NFL exec who months ago foresaw the February 2026 vibes and then hired Bad Bunny

BREAKING Greg Bovino has been removed as Border Patrol "commander at large" and will return to El Centro Calif, where he is expected to retire soon. A stunning turnaround after Pretti killing. Bovino's traveling blue city crackdown is over www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Absolutely inhaled this while snowed in this weekend. Astonishing reporting, outraged and humane, and essential reading in our Imperial Boomerang era

BREAKING: A young doctor who lives near where Alex Pretti, a nurse, was killed by ICE says in a declaration he saw the shooting, went out to help, was not let through at first then patted down before being let by, and was apparently the first to try and provide any medical assistance to Pretti.

Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."

UPDATE: @dropsitenews.com has obtained the very graphic video from the lady in the pink coat, which shows ICE executing yet another person in broad daylight:

The last few years have seen the largest wave of immigration in American history. All those images we carry in our heads about people arriving at Ellis Island — we just surpassed that. Crime went down. Real wages went up. This is a fake problem. Enough is enough.

Immigration is a fake problem. We have politicians on the one hand who want to use immigrants as scapegoats for our real ones and politicians on the other who are too cowardly to stand against them and tell the truth. That is the entire situation. Until that changes, people will continue to die.

Per this report ICE has detained several witnesses

I understand why some can’t watch the video and absolutely support that choice. But if you can, I think you should. Yes, there have been so many of these over the years; *and* these are escalating times. It’s not more the same, it’s worse, and we need to face that best we can to change it.

ICE just shot another one of my neighbors. They had the person on the ground, being beaten by several agents, and then fired multiple shots. In front of the donut shop where we like to get donuts for our kids.

Report from Schnucks on the Hill: it had better @&$!ing snow

Armchair meteorologists hyperventilating on Facebook about Euro vs. GFS models are the seers ranting in the town market about what they divined in the cat entrails of our dumb timeline. Yeah, buddy, we’re all screwed. No need to rub it in my face, ok?

Lots of heartbreaking, enraging, cortisol-dump-inducing images coming out of Minneapolis, but I'm stuck on this one, of a five-year-old in his preschool backpack just before being bundled into an ICE van and disappeared from his mother and brother and community. www.startribune.com/preschooler-...

Re: Jung Ho Lee: Boras has an incentive to play it all down as a harmless "paperwork issue" but I find it telling that Pelosi's office got involved. And it's not like our fucking out-of-control Border Patrol is entitled to the benefit of the doubt.

"Liam’s teacher, Ella Sullivan, teared up when thinking about Liam. 'He’s a bright young student,' she said, 'and he’s so kind and loving. His classmates miss him.'" www.startribune.com/preschooler-...

Well here’s some good news at least.

This is hilarious but “After the storm I see again a weasel” is a pretty amazing line in its own right

ICE has kidnapped one of my MN News Guild siblings

I wrote about Renee Good, Venezuela, Greenland, and what it means to be a human being. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I have seen enough four monkeys and a goat wandering STL memes, especially of the AI-generated variety. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Opening proofs this morning of the article I filed just before holiday break

Apropos of absolutely nothing, @lonesometoast.bsky.social got me this for Christmas and I highly recommend, especially the chapters on Puerto Rico and the Philippines

getting a lot of 2025 vibes from this 2026 here

60 books this year, No. 60 at the buzzer just now lol.

Shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit. RIP deadline.com/2025/12/isia...

Auld acquaintance be forgot, who dis

Tonight I had to ask the question that countless generations of parents before me have feared: “Which one of you left your school iPad in the bathroom?”

love to live in the Anthropocene Midwest

“It doesn’t surprise me there’s no railing on your current bed.” If you were on STL Twitter about a decade ago, this is the only answer.

I mean, yes I know I aged out of Pitchfork’s demo long ago but still

Ah yes, “you know what I really want for Christmas?” from the 8 year old at 8 pm Dec 23, all these years of parenting, never gets old that one

Merry Christmas, Gregory F.X. Daly 💸

MY 4-YEAR OLD: *calmly, while coloring a picture of the Grinch* If baby grinches die, we can eat them. If they’re clean. That’s ok

the new speed hump-crosswalk combos on the redesigned Tower Grove Ave by the BOTAN are going to take some fools out (complimentary)

This CMAT album is unreal, get her on SNL etc and make her a star here plz

Look this year has already been >enough< without this new iOS update at the buzzer

A staggering episode, beautifully shot, funny, moving, almost single-handedly renewed my faith in “prestige TV” or whatever you wanna call it

Paul Thomas Anderson filming Cameron Winter’s solo show in NYC the other night is a little too Ian’s 2025-coded even for me

Jeff Kent?

Spent so much at the Lego store for the double December whammy of my son’s 8th birthday and Christmas that the cashier called me Queeber

My bid of $5 for Warner Bros. with the plan “Mandatory Looney Tunes” seems not to have succeeded

A rare year with several of my favorite albums showing up on year-end lists (and not just because I’m fully on the Geese/Cameron Winter hype train lol), but this one has flown a bit under the radar: Low’s Alan Sparhawk with Trampled by Turtles. Stunningly gorgeous, sorrowful, joyful.