If you want to know who took all of your money, it's the people with all of the money. Famously, we know that's people working in child care.

Five years ago.

TAPPER: Can you rule out the US is going to take Greenland by force? MILLER: Greenland should be part of the US. By what right does Denmark assert control over Greenland? The US is the power of NATO T: So force is on the table? M: Nobody is gonna fight the US militarily over future of Greenland

yep. i can identify any number of structural issues but at the end of the day the basic problem is the republican party. this has been apparent for at least 20 years. it is also an incredibly unpopular observation to make among “serious” people.

A functional country would shut Grok down permanently. Like, immediately. Right now. Last week. Whatever. Just flip the switch. Obviously.

Cool shot from last night!

New euphemism for "bottomless corruption and naked abuses of power" just dropped

Because laws don't matter in our courts anymore, because we are no longer a nation of laws. One dictator kidnapped and jailed another. U.S. capture of Maduro may be illegal; that probably won’t matter in court www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

NYT gonna NYT: "Both Mr. Mamdani and Mr. Maduro identify as socialists, though they have no relationship.” — would be funny if they did this every time you write about two capitalists. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/w...

Nightmarish. CBS News is now running straight state propaganda. They handed Hegseth all three segments and are now tweeting flattering sound bites.

For nonlawyers, it’s worth noting that statements like this have—as a formal matter—important legal effects as a matter of international law. If such statements are *not* made, and in volume, future arguments that Trump’s invasion sets a legal precedent will stand on much firmer legal ground.

The Senate will hold a vote next week on another bipartisan resolution blocking the use of military force against Venezuela without the express authorization of Congress, Sen. Tim Kaine announced

Best thing I’ve read this morning, from a human rights lawyer in Mexico. Translation is in the ALT-text.

Spouse of shadow president promises occupation of a NATO ally’s territory. Surely just for likes.

If you let him get away with this, he’ll do it with Iran and whatever other neocon bugaboos have been lingering around conservative media since Obama first started running. Maybe Greenland but less intense because white. One of them will invariably respond in the mainland U.S. Stop him before then.

oh my god he posted so many action shots from the makeshift mar a lago situation room and they were just looking at tweets together on a gigantic screen

Trump is posting a bunch of photos without captions, presumably of him watching the Maduro kidnapping. Is this the inside of a SCIF at Mar-a-Lago or did they just toss up some pipe and drape?

7/10 Removing Maduro beheads the autocracy but doesn’t dismantle it. The coercive apparatus—and its ties to organized crime—doesn’t evaporate. The risk ranges from just a coup to even "warlordism." It remains unclear who will rule in a fractured, armed landscape.

But what if Maduro’s involvement in the drug trade was an “official act”?

So for months they have tried to blame the entire fentanyl crisis on Venezuela and the indictment only mentions cocaine, which they pardoned a different guy for weeks ago

Quick, someone contact the WHCA to ask if they know what type of marble he bought yet.

I feel like I haven’t even been properly lied to about the purposes of this war

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.

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.

Elon Musk’s XAI faced a huge backlash after its Grok chatbot generated and spread explicit & nonconsensual images all over the social network X… www.cnbc.com/2026/01/02/m... (tw - discusses csam / ncii)

This is a thread of major media outlets falsely anthropomorphising the "Grok" chatbot program and in doing so, actively and directly removing responsibility and accountability from individual people working at X who created a child pornography generator (Elon Musk, Nikita Bier etc) #1: Reuters

What Weiss and Adam O'Neal at the Post are really signaling is that nothing like the 1619 Project will be produced under their leadership. 1619 was not unpatriotic, but called for America to live up to its ideals, not its history and practices.

For the last few days on X, people (mainly women, and sometimes children) have had nonconsensual images of them in swimsuits (or much worse) requested by users and created by Grok. Musk's only apparent response thus far has been to crack jokes about it.

At least we don’t live in a world of staggering class disparity in which a tech magnate attempts to quash left-wing sentiment using sexualized artificial intelligence!

NEW: People are using Elon Musk's chatbot, Grok, to alter images to depict real women being sexually abused, humiliated, hurt, and even killed. futurism.com/future-socie...

It's amazing how many corporations -- much less private individuals -- still believe they need to stay active on the white nationalist forum and CSAM generator. Sure, you may have succeeded in blocking yourself from seeing these things there, but all of us still see you there alongside those things

lmao jfc

stop using "woke" the way racist fascists use "woke" 2026 challenge

Curtis Yarvin, JD Vance’s friend & ideological influence, ended 2025 by claiming “only Hitler spoke the truth” about “too many subjects” & “Hitler was a genius.” Extremism isn’t fringe on the right. Once marginal online extremists like Yarvin are influential at the highest levels of government.

Our last image of Antarctica: an ominous volcanic hand waving to us from the sea, off Deception Island. I’ve decided this is going to be my supervillain lair.

Elon Musk promised a lot of things by 2025 - colonists arriving on Mars - xAI achieving AGI - Tesla robotaxis serving half the U.S. - completely driverless robotaxis - a Tesla Roadster demo - DOGE cutting trillions none of them happened mashable.com/article/elon-mus...

Guy convicted of felonies for falsifying his business records and then who pardoned many white collar criminals in return for millions of donations says he's sincerely concerned about what now?

Microplastics are here to stay; that's why we need to eat them responsibly in the classroom

2026's First Light. This morning's sunrise in Chicago to start off the new year.

Is it legal to throw away taxpayer-funded, historical, not-yet-digitized resources at NASA?! And who is qualified to review the library holdings over the next two months to determine what goes in the circular file?! Will Congress step in? This is an outrage. 🧾 www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/c...

Always a sign of a healthy democracy when etc etc

What if America was a cigarette store just over the border in Indiana

do NOT make a lemon pig. the lemon pigs CAUSED THIS. you are messing with forces you DO NOT UNDERSTAND and CANNOT CONTROL.

I went to all 10 of the daycares Nick Shirley featured in his viral video. I got inside 4 and found children. Lots of children: www.startribune.com/day-care-fra...

once again: the onion called it

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Hot take: Stranger Things 5 is pretty good, and I am watching the outpouring of negativity with confusion and a little alarm.

a little more on one of my favored analogies youtu.be/Msz2daPeTyg

When Rebecca Solnit asks you to turn a thread into an essay, you fucking do it. jessica.substack.com/p/cbs-news-f... bsky.app/profile/rebe...