So Capitol Police officers were assaulted and injured on Jan 6th, the White House today is blaming them for the violence, and the people who attacked them have been pardoned and are back to mock and abuse them on the 5th anniversary. And the GOP is the party of the police? Really? REALLY??

You're not living in an authoritarian country. Except for the part where the president seizes unprecedented powers. And the part where he orders sham prosecutions. And the part where he invades countries to take their oil. And the part where his White House rewrites the history of his coup attempt.

I worked 694 overtime hours in 2025. That's 4+ *months* of overtime. Largely necessary, but in no way sustainable. Holiday time was great. Trying to do a hard reset now. "Forcing" myself to play a videogame and then go to bed early. 😅

“Oh but if Democrats did that Republicans would just vote it down, wouldn’t convict and would rally their base to defend Trump’s crimes.” Yeah, okay, make them do that then.

As the article points out, the entire supposed point of REAL ID was that it would prove you were who you said you were, and that you were a citizen or legal immigrant. It's invasive, requires A LOT of documentation & admin burden on both people & states, and is apparently... worthless to DHS.

It seems notable that Trump, in the midst of describing invading Caracas, decided to riff on invading U.S. cities. He rightly, tellingly associates those two things.

I'm deeply sorry to the people of Venezuela. There is no opposition party in the United States to counter the fascist regime's actions and the population is easily demagogued.

Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts. Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.

You don't have to listen to these professional liars who are barely trying. 9 months ago they were saying they were powerless to return a man they illegally sent to an El Salvador gulag because it would violate that country's national sovereignty

It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this

Secretaries Rubio and Hegseth looked every Senator in the eye a few weeks ago and said this wasn’t about regime change. I didn’t trust them then and we see now that they blatantly lied to Congress.

Ashamed and furious.

Are we at war with Venezuela?!? I don't know. You don't know either. It sure would be nice to have a legitimate Pentagon press corps right about now.

Oh, someone made an edit to a StackExchange post of mine from 10 years ago! I wonder what I'll learn about the way past me could have improved that question. The edit: "etc." -> "etc..." 🙄

Just roasted peanuts and like...how have I not done this before?! 15 min @ 400 or 425, shake them around halfway through. Then tiny bit of olive oil, toss some salt on, shake them around again. Delightful.

Happy birthday to all my security-conscious friends!

Boy, 2025 was a lot of bullshit in so many ways, huh? I hope, whatever your vantage point, the year gave you some (or many!) things to smile about too, and that you can look back on those things fondly.

abolish ice. theres no middle road on this and democrats will have to be held to it.

ICE saying that birth certificates, state ids like driver’s licenses, and U.S. issued ids are not not sufficient evidence of citizenship seems like a major question to me.

Had the good fortune to capture our 5yo's excited scream upon getting the thing he really wanted. Felt like magic. Wishing everyone happiness and peace.

I am in bed by 9:30. After the year I've had, this feels like a Christmas present to myself for sure.

I highly recommend watching this segment, not just because the CBS News execs and the White House didn’t want you to, but because these men were tortured and they deserved to have their voices heard.

Yearly PSA: did you get your kid a device this year? Turn it on, set it up, do all the device updates, and charge it.

An absolute bedrock institution for understanding how the planet works, just civilization-scaled vandalism by the most incurious morons on Earth

Friends don't let friends use Rackspace

Things we learn: 1. Bovino's existence is the result of chain migration, which MAGA wants to ban 2. His family arrived legally under an immigration law MAGA wants to repeal 3. His father killed a woman while driving drunk, a crime for which MAGA aims to deport immigrants And much more. Read it.

TN07 is a story about gerrymandering: the GOP cracked Nashville into 3 districts when it redrew the 2022 map, destroying the Dem seat there. Fast-forward: a section of Nashville, which just 5 years ago had a Dem representative, is now voting Dem by huge margins but it's been designed to not matter.

The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"

Amazing! Free Code Signing for Open Source software signpath.org

She's got 10 left, folks. Let's make it happen!

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Trump claims “any document” signed by Joe Biden is “hereby terminated.” He calls out executive orders later but obviously “any document” would be much broader and include legislation. (He can’t legally do that but, as always, we get to watch how far he can push this without repercussions)

What a great headline

I need everybody to read this and understand what’s going on. These are spouses of US citizens in the country legally. They have entry clearance and green cards, they’ve passed background checks and have no criminal records. ICE is taking them anyway. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...

To be clear (since NPR isn't), the "joke" is premised on the fact that Trump is kidnapping people w/o due process and shipping them to offshore concentration slave camps in defiance of court orders, human rights accordances, the U.S. constitution, all tenets of common decency, and international law.

Dude can't even talk about turkeys without being an asshole

Brandy you're a fine girl What a good wife you would be But my life my love and my lady Is the See

Some incredible details in this piece *one DOGE faction was planning the future of the US government at a venture capital firm *illegally communicating on Signal to avoid transparency laws was deeply embedded into organizational culture to be taken for granted

Welsh cookie baking day! My favorite holiday tradition. I bake hundreds of Welsh cookies (Welsh cakes I hear they're called elsewhere) and distribute to friends and family during the holidays. My grandfather was a baker and I learned it from him. Heart feeling very full.

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…

My 2025 car has a safety recall and when changing filters in our HVAC I discovered it was moldy, because both the UV filter and water sensor we had installed stopped working. And they're hard-wired. 😬 Banner day for appliances!

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Went to bed on time for the first time in weeks tonight so of course the UPS picked tonight to die and emit a constant electronic noise that woke us all up.

Time for @chrismurphyct.bsky.social to replace @schumer.senate.gov

His Richmond office voicemail is open

no matter what the circumstances, democrats are always saving their energy for a mythical future situation where they will do something good

Democrats: "hear me out: I know a bunch of people are suffering right now, but what if...*what if*...we could make sure it was for *nothing*"

Hear me out: Maybe we could harness the ability of the Democratic establishment to lose as some form of alternate energy source? Limitless capacity.