Goodnight, friends. In one of his Prayer poems, Rabindranath Tagore wrote, "Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless in facing them." That seems like something we could all use. I love you.

The Prime Minister of Denmark Mette Frederiksen to the United States: “The Kingdom of Denmark, and thus Greenland, is a member of NATO and is therefore covered by the Alliance’s collective security guarantee.” I “strongly urge the United States to cease its threats.”

Apparently George Will linked to my 2012 Wertham paper in an editorial on January 2. Peculiarly, my mom loved watching Will on the Sunday talk shows, so I think this must be making her smile from the beyond. #comics

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I promise you this: none of the widows and none of the kids of America’s dead soldiers are going to get a penny of Venezuela’s oil money, but Donald’s family will. steveschmidt.substack.com/p/this-aint-...

The US invades a sovereign nation and kidnaps its president and first lady and a story about it doesn't make the front pages of the four largest newspapers in NC. I know print is increasingly irrelevant but this feels like front page news, and some of the smaller "local" papers know it.

Goodnight, friends. Be kind to yourselves. Rest. It's ok not to be ok. We've got a lot of work ahead. I love you.

Goodnight, friends. Be kind to yourselves. Rest. It's ok not to be ok. We've got a lot of work ahead. I love you.

the first question congratulated the administration

I am struggling with what might be a generational experience. The gulf war was pretty politically formative for me. It’s not history so much as memory this time. It is destabilizing to see almost the exact same gameplan but this time without the guardrails that at the time I took for granted.

If you need me, I’m going to be disassociating in the corner for the foreseeable future while thinking about this sentence.

If you can't attend a protest, I would suggest speaking to your values in whatever ways you can, and attending to something *you can do*. Remember, many things are happening at once. They want to keep your head spinning. Let purpose preempt despair.

for real

the administration wants to frame this (bizarrely) as law enforcement. but if law enforcement conducted a raid for a suspect and killed 40 people, including an unknown number of unarmed civilians, it would be treated as a clear disaster like Waco.

Buddy, hope left the building, went to lunch, had 4 margaritas and a bloody mary, got into a fight with the server, was tossed through a window, severed an artery, had its leg amputated, spent three nights in ICU, got divorced, defaulted on the mortgage, and is living in a van down by the river

::sighs in Guatemalan::

These freaks want territorial expansion and they know Trump will do everything he can to deliver. This isn’t just a tweet from some random asshole either. This is Stephen Miller’s wife. Miller was in the room with Trump during the kidnapping of Maduro.

Blows my mind that some of the same journalists who see Trump as a want-to-be dictator at home are earnestly discussing the "challenges" for this same man to "bring democracy" to a country it just illegal invaded. Please grow up.

It’s all so so so stupid

Members of Congress: stop posting online and APPEAR, PHYSICALLY on the steps of the Capitol to decry this unconstitutional violation of domestic & international law. SHOW THE PEOPLE the level of danger we are facing as a country. @housedemocrats.bsky.social @senatedemocrats.bsky.social

This is billionaire-controlled media. They want to sleepwalk us into another forever war. We must break free.

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I am going to get stoned as a small act of self-care. I can't ignore what our government is doing, but I am going to take a small break to regroup.

Next stop on the War Tour: Trump to Fox: “Claudia Sheinbaum is a good woman, but the cartels are running Mexico. “She’s not running Mexico — the cartels are running Mexico. “Something’s going to have to be done with Mexico.”

Countries Trump Has Threatened With Additional Illegal Aggression in the Last 24 Hours 🇻🇪 Venezuela 🇮🇷 Iran 🇲🇽 Mexico 🇨🇴 Colombia 🇨🇺 Cuba He’s out of control. He’s deranged. This is the opposite of what he promised America when he ran for president. He said he’d focus on *us*.

Just because you can make an analogy doesn’t mean it’s a good one…

I’m sure the millions of Americans losing their healthcare will be heartened by this.

We are a rogue state, run by a dictator, and the international community should treat us as such including all appropriate economic and diplomatic sanctions

none of this is legal. none of this is normal. feel free to tell anyone who says otherwise to fuck off.

Trump going on national television and essentially saying that we just annexed Venezuela and are going to steal its most precious natural resource and will kidnap any Venezuelan leader who disagrees may be the craziest presidential address of my lifetime

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.

It's only a war if its made in the War river valley, otherwise it's just a sparkling military operation

White people solemnly intoning that WE must be ashamed of what America has become and that this war in Venezuela is the most indefensible thing WE have ever done. Sit down, Peter. This country was founded on kidnapping, rape, and genocide. This is who ✌🏾WE✌🏾 have been since this country’s inception.

Apropos of nothing

Oldie, goodie:

Okay, who's drafting the articles?

This is not the way to do a headline.

Fucking fucks.

Goodnight, friends. Resolutions are over-rated. Be you. Play to your strengths. I love you.

Goodnight, friends. Resolutions are over-rated. Be you. Play to your strengths. I love you.

Just finished this wooden puzzle (164 pieces) gifted to me a couple of Christmases ago. It ended up being easier than I expected.

In this Year of Reading, a gentle reminder: The best way to get your kids reading is to let them see *you* reading. The way to *stop* your kids reading is to criticize their choices, or to make reading a competition, or a punishment, or a race, or a learning tool. Let it be fun. Let them read.

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The next Democratic president needs to be prepared to do this immediately in re: every single one of Trump's executive orders since January 20, 2025.

This is the "testing the waters" phase of the playbook. The GOP ecosystem targets groups like Somalis, Haitians, and trans people specifically because they've calculated that the average person's passive disapproval won't ever turn into active defense. They're exploiting public apathy.

Dementia is a helluva drug

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Like, not even GRE scores. SAT scores.

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