This is a global far right power grab, so the sooner everybody realizes that and puts aside their deeply outdated notions around national identity, which got us here to begin with, the better. The only way out is through, but the only way through is all of us fighting these climate warlords together

I know you and your loved ones (outside the US) are very upset that the Trump regime is threatening you. Just to be clear, the Trump regime is also threatening me and my loved ones (inside the US), and it’s about a million times more likely that threats being carried out against us will happen.

How are you going to say “we all did this” when only 22% of Americans voted for it. We. Do. Not. Have. A. Democracy.

one thing I wish hardcore YIMBYs would be more willing to discuss is that supply alone is not going to return urban cores to being affordable to artists and regular folks like it was before, say, 2000. the issue back then is not just that there was more/enough housing but also that the urban 1/2

me (bursting open my apartment window like ebenezer scrooge): you there, boy! did it happen? boy (gloomily): no sir

This is Minneapolis: I’m at a major healthcare clinic (just here for a friend) and overheard the front desk staff mention they’ve had 97 missed appointments today. People aren’t getting medical care bc they’re afraid to leave home.

$40 million deal: "...the majority of theaters have sold fewer than 10 tickets per screening" www.yahoo.com/entertainmen...

Again. Dems need to be saying now that any future admin will not honor this and will return the island if he is so foolish and evil That’s how you “apologize” preemptively reject this. He wants a legacy to change the maps (like golf of America). Tell him now they will never be changed.

"Things in this country nowadays feel..." Out of Control: 71% Under Control: 18% YouGov / Jan 19, 2026

Rand Paul openly says he has abandoned his view that private online platforms shouldn't be regulated after someone said a mean thing about him on YouTube and the company won't bow to his pressure to take it down. nypost.com/2026/01/19/o...

It really should be more surprising that the only thing that got Democrats to talk about the crushingly high cost of living in this country was wanting an excuse not to have to talk about the fascist regime in power.

Maybe the stress of the entire European union telling him "are you fucking stupid you stupid asshole" will finally do it

I have never been so completely and utterly unshocked at anything

The French & Saunders parody of the Harry Potter movies for the Comic Relief special is retroactively even funnier considering that the first joke is that Harry Potter has grown up to be a woman with breasts. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9onI...

Between this & $3 taco lady, I'm genuinely surprised that we haven't had one of these ghouls look directly into the camera & scream "WE HATE YOU BECAUSE YOU'RE POOR & WATCHING YOU SUFFER IS OUR ONLY WAY TO REACH CLIMAX. MORE BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD!"

1. Mamdani had clear policy solutions to affordability. 2. Mamdani wasn't running for an office that gives him leadership of the alleged opposition party in Federal Congress, a level of government that is actively murdering and trafficking humans in the street right now with impunity.

Trying to think of things other than politics to post about but it's just "Oh hey I'm depressed because I live under the rule of an insane dictator who wants to invade an island" or "I might start a GoFundMe because I might not be able to afford the dental work I need even with insurance."

“A truly transformative agenda in the country’s largest city could reset the narrative. The ‘public good’ and the ‘commons,’ alien phrases in our kleptocratic neoliberal hellscape, might prove closer in reach than ever before.” @davidaustinwalsh.bsky.social on doing socialism in one city:

Seeing YouTUbers apologize not for using AI but just sponsoring products that use AI, so consumer outreach is going great.

trying to remember this one today

Tiamat still looks half-dead from her winter dormancy, even after I've trimmed some of the dead leaves, but she does look better than she did around Christmas and I think in this photo you can see the new growth.

Message from 1942. 1942. Everything old is still here... (transcript below)

Anyone unironically using the term "vibecession" will now have to try to rent an apartment on an Uber driver's salary.

Some good news is that I got a ton of work done on my big book project for the first time in months. I might almost be ready to end research for and start writing the next chapter. I almost forgot how great it is when you come across *that* primary source that clarifies and confirms everything.

“I don’t think the president’s personal militia recruited from white supremacist gangs can be reformed” shouldn’t be a controversial statement, or taken as anything but an obvious statement of fact, and yet here we are.

Yay being American I'm likely gonna get to know how Garak felt about being Cardassian by the end of DEEP SPACE NINE.

By the end of 2026 we will not have the same govt in power over the same unified territory it is now. Dunno if it'll be dissolution, the good thing happening, revolution, counter coup, civil war or what. But this governmental structure and state aparatus is on a clock

there are people with actually good politics who have been doing what he's doing for much longer and who understand it's best practice not log on and document your every move. he's obviously going to be so annoying about this the next time he sees someone complain about grocery prices or something

Trump doesn't stand a chance.

Yup!

Holy shit, they did the bit

I would like to think the Mad King proclaiming “I will continue to illegally raise taxes on the American people until the NATO alliance collapses” would be the type of statement to cause Congress to act, but I’m not sure there’s any red line the GOP Congress has anymore.

When I was in Japan, I'd constantly see news like "prefecture government deciding to fund flu cure or new train line" and then I'd check US news and it was invariably "Researchers develop burger made entirely of cheese; White House spox claims Trump defecated in public 'to assert dominance' "

I can understand why people want to believe Trump is a secret mastermind, but claiming like I saw one person do just now that he actually understands what tariffs are is a bit much.

I’m starting to wonder if looking genuinely happy and acting like you really love the city is a more effective way to campaign (and govern) than scowling about what a shithole the city is and how many more cops it will take to subdue it.

Incredible moment here of Chuck Schumer refusing to do politics. Notable that this sort of pointed questioning comes from a student journalist rather than one of the networks.

The Virginia legislature today passed four constitutional amendments, all by day 3 of 2026 session: —protect abortion rights —repeal the same-sex marriage ban —allow mid-decade redistricting —greatly expand voting rights restoration. These will all go to 2026 referendums.

For some reason I still remember one of my teachers in elementary school saying something along the lines of "Wouldn't the world be a boring place if everyone agreed with you?", and I piped up with something like, "I think it would be great!"

In life David Lynch was known widely for being the absolute king of weird beard arthouse filmmakers. In death, he is known mostly for his kindness, work ethic, and just being an all around rad person that made films HIS way. And I absolutely love that. What a legacy. Rest in peace, king.

Gavin Newsom is the Ted Cruz of Hilary Clintons

Timeline cleanse.

It does kind of support my "They're malicious and dangerous but they don't know what they're doing" theory that, instead of a city that's been demonized by right-wing media for years like Chicago or Portland, they're unleashing their full horrors on the city people associate with Rose Nylund.

Happy for them 😊

The Trump regime loves badass warrior cosplay, so it just declared war on the rest of society. i really think "what if we just killed all the doctors and teachers and garbage men and had a society that was ALL COPS? that would be badass" is an animating impulse for them

Someday I will be able to stop and process the unmitigated horror of existing in a world run by stupid, hateful rapists who long to destroy and violate everything good and beautiful and whose most nominally powerful opponent is a political party which thinks it's rude to point this out.

I'm enjoying this book about the gay relationships of James VI/I, but I am annoyed by it just because I should have written it.

Seeing Zohran instantly getting a bunch of shit done in like a week makes you realize that politicians could always do that on some level if they wanted it bad enough and very few of them actually do.

if Joe Rogan can namecheck Gestapo, why the hell are elected Dems incapable of doing so ...