Everything is terrible, but I have good news: Jeremy Tan is here to blow your mind with a little card warmup. WHAT!?! Absolutely gobsmacking, and his delivery/execution is perfect. www.youtube.com/shorts/-eKkI...

the transit cliff is here, man

Five years ago, this great moment was captured on video:

The constitutional remedy for a president who launches a war of acquisition against an ally is impeachment, removal, disqualification, and ultimately a criminal trial. And the same is true for every member of his cabinet involved in such an illegal undertaking.

the real doom loop is service cuts to our transit system. if you cut frequency on an already infrequent system, it’s going to hurt ridership, which will lead to more cuts and fare hikes, which further hurt ridership. all of that of course adds future liabilities to the rest of the transport system

anyone who is not clear on this should note that as the author of the bill, ron wyden's statement of his intent in drafting the bill is probably a solid grounds for a legal argument

The dumbest saying ever.

Lift a glass to Jan. 6 hero Michael Fanone!

NEW from me: The US is losing blue-collar jobs for the first time since early COVID or the Great Recession—the country has lost 65k jobs over the last year as manufacturing, transport, & mining employment decline, while growth in construction has nearly zeroed out www.apricitas.io/p/america-is...

Precedents like this render him immune from future gov’t shutdowns. He doesn’t need the legislature’s funds if he can create massive slush funds for himself by looting foreign nations and extorting US companies. He’s achieving escape velocity from our system & Congress is just watching.

A heck of a chart: in every single one of the 10 major US cities that built the most housing between 2017 and 2023, rents for older, existing units fell—often by quite a bit.

“Hi, it’s Katie Miller.” I looked down to see a text message from Stephen Miller's wife. She was asking if I knew whether a specific street in the Palisades had burned down. Then she sent an address. www.ms.now/news/firesto...

It's becoming standard procedure across all news media to explicitly not mention in the obituary of a Republican member of congress that they voted on Jan. 6, 2021 to overturn the election

(Posting this from the scene.) Have confirmed Sloan’s death with his daughter, who pulled up to take photos of rhe pothole in hopes that it gets fixed bikeportland.org/2026/01/06/b...

6 insurrectionists who were pardoned by Trump went on to commit child sex crimes

someday a future generation of Chinese media will be able to climb the Great Firewall to inform Americans about what really happened on Jan 6.

Don't let this Jan 6th point get lost: Jack Smith testified to Congress he had "proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results of the 2020 election." In other words, he could prove in court that Trump attempted a coup.

The biggest benefit from artificial intelligence so far is people talking a lot less about the blockchain.

I get that nothing will come of this but if you want people to think a thing is bad you have to do things like this over and over, no matter how futile it feels or is. There's a reason the GOP voted at least 60 times on pointless attempts to repeal the ACA between 2010 and 2016.

Here's a thing that happened that I missed over the holidays arstechnica.com/science/2025...

Fact check true

Trump's obsession with making Greenland part of the United States because it looks big on a map and is colored differently from the states is a classic case of Mercator Projection

Always good and right to assert that the American Right did all this, conservatives and conservatism did all this, a majority of christians did all this and they all continue to do all this because they are objectively terrible people inside and out, top to bottom.

Zohran just went out and fixed the Williamsburg Bridge bike entrance. Just did it. No faffing, no nonsense. Bam. Fixed.

we get dozens of male loneliness articles but women being sexually harassed on twitter? not a peep

The court says plainly that *abortion is healthcare*, rejecting a dangerous conservative argument that's been gaining steam. The ruling could help be a legal model for fighting back - which we really, really need

Due to a lack of federal and state dollars, TriMet is cutting multiple key bus lines I take. I can’t drive. I don’t have a car. Not sure what people are supposed to do other than rage against the state legislators who let this happen 🤷🏻‍♀️ Feel free to name and shame in the replies!

I heard an NPR reporter refer to January 6th as "perhaps the most videotaped crime in history" which is a really good way to drive home just how ridiculous and brazen the Republican attempts to rewrite history have been.

one of the ways you can improve your experience on here is following satisfying bots

Obeying in Advance at the University of Kentucky www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/01/obey...

idk exactly how we do it, but we still have to work together, get creative, and go on offense. a great deal of our political pain (this hurts) is caused by our apathy and addiciton to reaction rather than action. all the good things we have now are because people worked hard together to create them

Guy who believes in UBI so that there will be more billionaires.

"If you want to know who took all of your money, it's the people with all of the money." I keep thinking about this post and how it's one of the best, most succinct messages Democrats could use in 2026 campaigns.

Five years ago.

PBOT will reducing driving space to add the bike lanes and on-street parking in hopes of lowering speeds and making the corridor safer and more pleasant for everyone. bikeportland.org/2026/01/05/p...

if you actually want all that good policy you have in mind passed, then this is how you get it done you elect an overwhelming number of Democrats because you pass the best legislation you have the votes for

This whole 🧵is a great illustration of how science funding works. It’s a constant struggle to get even a small amount of funding. Good people are going to leave the field, and I can’t blame them. It’s a heartbreaking self-inflicted wound.

Every time they start pulling shit like this suddenly and in unison I should really just look up what they're doing along with the phrase "Project 2025". www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

I've spent a couple of days working on this one, and it didn't end up quite where I expected it to. But I think this is the clearest way I can describe where my head's at, why I approach LLMs in the way that I do, and why, while it's describing-not-prescribing, it's a little light prescribing too.

Couple things regarding yesterday’s bar fire in Switzerland that I’ve seen discussed in a very long thread 🧵

Compare this to Biden leaving Afghanistan & think about what the incentives are for every American politician

it's parallel processing of the worst US reflexes and appetites a GPU for evil imperial bullshit

Looks like the Trump administration is going to force the oil companies to rebuild Venezuela's oil infrastructure so they can seize the country's reserves, which the companies neither want nor need. Let's hear it for free enterprise! www.politico.com/news/2026/01...

A little surprised to hear that CBS News already went ahead with Venezuela coverage given that they can't yet interview all the principals

It’s exactly 6 years since the strike of Soleimani you gotta be kidding me

Today is the precise 36th anniversary of the last time the United States used force to remove a Latin American head of state, in case you’re keeping score.

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.

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.

Mamdani : you trust fund bitches been whitewashing nazis too much

It’s FINE everyone. Excel apologized, you see.