På årets sista dag skriver jag om hur tokigt det är att sätta barn i fängelse. Som vanligt låter jag klokare personer från förr ta hand om argumentationen. Gott nytt år🥂💥 www.na.se/2025-12-31/v...

”I understood where I had come from: from a dreary tangle of sadness and pretense, of longing, absurdity, inferiority and provincial pomposity, sentimental education and anachronistic ideals, repressed traumas, resignation, and helplessness.” Amos Oz, A Tale of Love and Darkness

Serhii Doroshenko,a pediatrician from Mariupol,went to a military enlistment office on February 25,2022 Tetiana survived 86 days of Russian shelling in a basement with 3 small kids,living on buckwheat soaked in rainwater This year,Serhii was released in a prisoner exchange. 📹: TSN

Oh grow up.

💙💛 Please, don't ask Ukraine when the war will end. Ask yourself why Putin is still able to continue it. - President Zelenskyy .

It is a very old lie: see 1913

Russian media report that a former deputy to ex-defense minister Shoigu, colonel general Yuri Sadovenko, has died in Moscow. Sadovenko's entourage reported that he died on December 25 "due to heart disease." He was 56 years old.

So I have the cover story in next month's TNR. I interviewed the heads of police groups; immigration defense attorneys, ex-judges and ex-prosecutors; former DOJ and DHS officials, and the former head of Border Patrol. They're all horrified at what we've seen, and they all fear what's coming.

Hillary’s “basket of deplorables” speech *defended* conservatives. Paraphrasing: “Some call all Republicans racist, homophobic, and otherwise bigoted, but that’s unfair to millions. It’s only half, the rest are good people.” But the press made calling an openly bigoted campaign bigoted a scandal.

Extremely funny to call the pope “holier-than-thou”

FIFA Peace Prize laureate of 2025!

FIFA must be feeling pretty embarrassed now.

Any super-rich schmuck can buy a yacht. But, if a wealthy person aspires to be more than just another Kardashian, one asset rises above the rest: art.

"America will help you surrender on the beaches, we'll help you surrender on the landing grounds, we'll help you surrender in the fields and in the streets, we'll help you surrender in the hills..." -- JD Vance Cartoon by Kluddniklas

A former senior immigration policy official explains how the immigration system works, what has changed under the Trump administration, and what needs to be fixed most urgently. bit.ly/3LSrLet

✍️🌎Our team at @LatAmJournalism selected their most memorable articles of 2025 and highlighted others written by their colleagues. Read the most important articles on journalism innovation and press freedom in LatAm ➡️

You guys caught this too, right? “Donald J. Trump had raped her along with Jeffrey Epstein.” ███████ noted some girl with a funny name “took me into a fancy hotel or building, that’s how it happened.” Also this: she was advised to call the police. But she replied, “I can’t, they will kill me.” 1/2

One of the biggest drawbacks of being married to someone who loves Christmas is that I can't spend my day doing this. It's all I want today!

Jimmy Kimmel used his Christmas Day message to U.K. viewers today to declare victory for free speech over President Trump's calls to cancel his talk show.

The casual treason

This has nothing to do with faith or observance btw. It’s just about establishing an official hierarchy of citizenship where they are on top. bsky.app/profile/mark...

Try me, bitches.

cbs news is covering up torture for the government

A since-deleted tweet by former KKK grand wizard David Duke is nearly identical to the statement today made by Vice President JD Vance

Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.

In approx 74% of school shooting incidents, the firearm was obtained from the shooter’s home or the home of a close friend or fam member* Safe&secure gun storage—unloaded&locked up—saves lives. Spread the word: Firearm violence prevention is everyone's job 🛟🧪 * publichealth.jhu.edu/sites/defaul...

What historians (and other scholars do) is create knowledge. We should use that phrase more and talk about what it means. I think we don't, and it's part of why AI enthusiasts are confused when we don't readily agree that our work can be replicated/replaced by their products.

YES! Hundred times THIS!

Current issue of @theonion.com nails it again.

My Spanish-born grandfather and black Venezuelan grandmother had 9 children. He neglected his brown children and said he wouldn’t pay to educate those “negros”, but supported the white-passing aunties. It turns out wanting sex with ethnic minoritised people doesn’t mean you love or respect them.

What I possess, I see far distant lying, And what I lost, grows real and undying. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust

Jared Kushner is back at the center of Trumpworld, mixing foreign policy, war zone “reconstruction,” and massive media deals. From Middle East negotiations to a bid for CNN, the conflicts of interest are staggering and the stakes could not be higher.

What a terrible loss and gruesome ending. Thank you Rob Reiner. For your tireless work on and off screen. You bent Gen X into shape. Rest in power and peace. I hate this timeline with all my heart.

Hanukkah Sameach

But Fox News said...

Well, there's a photo I never expected to see in my life. Noam Chomsky palling around with Steve Bannon.

🇺🇦 Zelensky: Today is the Kupyansk direction, our soldiers who are achieving results for Ukraine here. Many Russians have talked about Kupyansk – we see. I was there, I congratulated the guys. Thank you to every unit, everyone who is fighting here, everyone who is destroying the occupier.

These east German numbers on afd support are remarkable. A complete failure of grass roots mobilization of CDU, SPD etc. Utter failure.

When a tyrant threatens you, and you stand strong – that's courage. Thank you, Indiana.

Must Read Levitsky, Way, Ziblatt: "[The] United States has descended into competitive authoritarianism...[Like] Chávez’s Venezuela,...Erdogan’s Turkey,...Orban’s Hungary ...[The] United States'... authoritarian turn was faster and farther-reaching than those." www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

In the last two days I have gotten several questions from Norwegians about Trump's new National Security Strategy. And yeah, Europeans *should* be worried. (Of course, they should have been worried since 2016.) I recommend reading Jeremi Suri's analysis: open.substack.com/pub/democrac...

The Kyiv Metro — a regular shelter for local residents — has become a place of joy, thanks to resilient people singing carols and celebrating Saint Nicholas❤️ Even in the darkest hour, Ukrainians find the light within and share it with each other, lifting their spirits.

This is a must-read, not just for the focus on Palantir, but for the broader criticism of neurodiversity hiring programs

This is the heart of the matter. Even after years of this behavior, part of me still finds it bewildering, and deeply distressing. It was this generation of conservatives who taught me to take judicial restraint seriously. Just, how could you?

Following ACIP's decision to end the HepB vaccine recommendation for all newborns, limiting protection for children from preventable disease, Trump ordered top health officials to review all U.S. childhood vaccine recommendations. A frightening day for children’s health www.axios.com/2025/12/06/t...

Key points from President Zelenskyy's press conference today: -The U.S. peace plan has been reduced to 20 points. The United States seeks compromises, but none exist when it comes to territory - Ukraine has no right—under its Constitution, international law, or moral law—to surrender territory

Been saying this for years, belt and road is going to provide economies of scale to the Chinese automakers that we’ve literally not comprehended. You think U.S./EU automakers are in trouble now, just wait a couple years!

we all got cowed into avoiding "virtue signaling" as if the public affirmation of socially agreed upon ethical principles was somehow cringey instead of a significant part of what a "society" even is. now all there's left is vice signaling, and it's reshaping society.

Alltså…bara NEJ. Man vill bara gråta. Det här kan inte få fortgå. OCH - det mest uppenbara: avelsverksamheten är misslyckad skulle jag vilja säga. I alla avseenden. Den bör läggas ner. Idag. www.expressen.se/nyheter/sver...