BREAKING: A Russian newspaper today — “America no longer sees our country as a threat… The US leader’s philosophy is closer to the values of Russia’s president, not the politicians of the Old World… he sees Europe as a liberal stronghold that must be destroyed…” Read that again.

Soviet joke, loosely translated: Brigitte Bardot comes to visit the USSR. Brezhnev falls in love with her and says: “Brigitte, be mine. I’ll fulfill any of your desires.” She says: “Leonid, open the borders.” Brezhnev: “Aren’t you clever! You want us to be left here alone?”

Immigrant-hating Stephen Miller talks about Americans being "first to harness the atom." But the first controlled, self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction was conducted by a team led by Italian immigrant Enrico Fermi, who didn't become a U.S. citizen until a year and a half later.

I saw "Alien" on my Dad's pirated HBO when I was 5 or 6. Scared the snot out of me.

I've quietly watched Brynn go through this for the past year. It's absolutely heartbreaking. I'm glad she can share her story now but it's rough. She gave her life to helping people and doing medivac rescues with the California national guard and she's being tossed out line trash because she's trans

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Archive link. archive.ph/D4fCr

I told my story. It's behind a paywall, but here it is. www.sfchronicle.com/california/a...

Context you rarely hear: global stocks are up about 30% over the past year. U.S. stocks? Around 18%. That means American investors underperformed the world by about 12 percentage points, even while headlines called it a “fantastic year.”

There is nothing in the Constitution that forbids a president from mass redacting FBI documents to hide evidence of his sex crimes. So the Democrat Party's outrage du jour is, as always, much ado about nothing. by Jonathan Turley

If there was still doubt about the relevance of studying gender and politics, Trump 2.0 should have convinced the most hardcore skeptic by now.

I'd give Stephen R. Donaldson's Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the LOTR treatment. Alternately, I'd take his Gap Cycle series and develop it into a series like The Expanse.

I promoted Miracle on 34th St. in Tokyo in 1994, and it was SO much fun. I remember turning on the TV and seeing a Christmas special with Goofy, a girl in a Bo Peep dress, and a cursed witch’s broom. I had no idea what was going on, and I don’t think they did, either.

Family tradition fulfilled.

I concur with this assessment. The keel of this ship will never touch water. It's a paper design intended to appease the whims of a Mad King. www.csis.org/analysis/gol...

I grew up dreaming of a Star TrekbFurure, and got an Octavia Butler one instead.

You can tell which Democrats have moral courage, a conscience, values, and principles based on whether or not they're standing with trans people when it's unpopular.

Found the actual men in women's bathrooms assaulting women.

It's kind of hilarious that this is a downgrade from the retired, much lamented FFG-7 class, which at least had a single arm launcher for Harpoon and Standard Missiles (SM-1 and 2). The OHPs were great ships. www.twz.com/sea/navys-ne...

I hope to live to see the day when this gilded monstrosity is bulldozed, the debris dumped in a landfill in Maryland, the east wing restored, and the rose garden re-planted.

I remember another dictator famous for meddling in designs of military hardware, and sinking enormous resources into useless white elephant projects (like a pair of 53,0000 ton battleships that accomplished next to nothing) It didn't end well militarily for them.

People have known for decades that if you own a retirement home, and Mike Wallace or Harry Reasoner suddenly want to talk to you, the correct course of action is to STFU and say "no comment." Bari Weiss is either hopelessly bad at her job, or a liar.

I wrote about the conservative quest to restore the "true" Constitution, the Antebellum Constitution, shorn of the egalitarian nonsense in the Reconstruction Amendments, a document that replaces equality with a society of dominators and the dominated. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

This entire premise is so freaking stupid. Your average LGBTQ person, and especially trans people, are about as welcome at at 90% of churches as black people are at Klan cross burnings or a Jewish person at the Nuremberg rallies. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Like I wrote for The New Republic: it's all just vibes. No one gives a damn what he does or says, as long as his admin is hurting the people it's supposed to be hurting. Immigrants, transgender people serving their country, and gender variant kids. Because none of them deserve to live in MAGA-land.

If the stakes weren't so high, the sheer incompetence of this attempted cover up would be funny. Or maybe they just don't care if they get caught, because there are no consequences, and never will be. I'll eat a Buick if anyone ever goes to jail for this.

Name your most relatable villain. Me:

It's the First Annual Montgomery Burns Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Excellence. youtu.be/KrxPpjBASPA?...

Credit where credit is due: Sarah Paine called this exact scenario of China circling like a vulture looking to reclaim this territory from Russia about 9 months ago. medium.com/@cheslavsky/...

I've gone from Cassandra to Magneto.

Hey, look, it’s another orphan crushing machine.

I posted my latest DAME article on FB. Basically no one seems to have seen it. Pretty sure the algorithm is already de-boosting links and anti-Trump political content. techcrunch.com/2025/12/17/f...

Kind of a bold move claiming responsibility for the economy while saying it's great, when the public is overwhelmingly of the opinion it is not great. It's a two-fer: Baghdad Bob vibes while clainresponisbility for everything happening in Baghdad. www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-pre...

Under international law, a country may reject an ambassador. I would hope South Africa would send a message that, "Nah, keep your guy home and stop trying to clown us."

Here in Delaware we have a statue of Thomas Garrett, a white man found guilty of obstructing the recapture of fugitives from slavery – ordered to pay damages to the point of ruin for it. We don't, to my knowledge, have any statues celebrating the judges or jury members who found him guilty.

It's OK to not want to be around your family, no matter how much they and the WSJ guilt trip you. www.damemagazine.com/2025/12/18/i...

I told you being in a blue state would only delay the inevitable.

Dang. Yeah. This is the zeitgeist.

This article hits the nail on the head for all those anti-trans parents forums where members complain about their kids being stolen by the "trans cult" and never talk about what REALLY happened. Or how articles never interview the trans adult children of them. www.issendai.com/psychology/e...

My latest at The New Republic: The fascist movement that is the GOP will not be affected by internecine squabbling of right wing pundits. People will continue to vote for them simply based on "vibes". My parents voted Trump x3, and only know who Carlson is. newrepublic.com/article/2044...

I think most people are missing the point of this: Trump is pre-emptively justifying unilateral military action against basically everyone in the Americas. This will be the pretext for bombing Venezuela or Mexico, and ultimately annexing Canada. www.npr.org/2025/12/15/n...

After CBS News posted about Kirk’s interview three times in a row, users on X began to notice that a major news company wasn’t actually, well, covering the news. It seems Weiss's rather boring tendency to gravitate toward right-wing commentators will always come first. trib.al/gBJl41w

The economy is basically stagnant, or declining. And this is before the tech bubble bursts. Sky-high stock prices mostly affect the rich, not average Americans. However grumpy the public is now, it will be a lot moreso in 2026, 2028 will be ugly, and 2029 awful as the GOP steals the election.

Alaska brought in a "ringer" to it's medical board to ban health care for trans people. Turns out, he has tons of CSAM material, including of infants. He appears to have committed suicide in a fire. Tell me again that trans people are the baddies. www.erininthemorning.com/p/anti-trans...

A belief that humanity could be better. Last summer I rewatched the series finale of Star Trek: TNG, and wept. Whatever belief I had in my youth that people could be better, or even wanted to be, was gone. All that's left is moronic red hat wearing genocidal xenophobes elected by popular majority.

Compare and contrast. The United States willingly, and with full knowledge of what Trump is, chose this man to represent the country. I wear the title of American with far more shame than my LGBT status. The 5+ years to be a Canadian citizen cannot go by fast enough.

Revolutionarily good news that puts sunlight on track to be the leading energy source for people below 35º latitude, and either #2 or a slim plurality for people above that.

“We’re Jewish—we grew up knowing how hated we were just for existing,” That's the essence of being transgender in America today. The difference being, the government doesn't even pretend to be opposed to such hate. They lean into it. It's a feature, not a bug. And they want us gone. Eradicated.