THE U.S. HAS KILLED MORE THAN 100 PEOPLE IN BOAT STRIKES. WE’RE TRACKING THEM ALL. The Intercept is keeping count of all publicly declared U.S. attacks on boats in the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean. theintercept.com/2025/11/17/t...

Mood

The fascists aren't having fun. [yes I remind you of this weekly because it is true].

Immediately think back to that great line from Rules of the Game: “The awful thing about life is this: Everybody has their reasons.”

Research on "millionaire migration" shows that it rarely happens and that states could raise their top tax rates way higher. www.asanet.org/wp-content/u...

ICE detain father shopping on Christmas Eve—then steal his family's groceries. Then 3 agents divvy up his paid for food—taking what they want for themselves. "Can I just get the wife's number to call and let her know?" woman asks. "No, guess he should've complied," agent says. Yakima, Washington

Honestly this is the funniest thing. Bahahahahahahahhaha.

Important reporting. All of these impossible registry requirements do nothing to help victims and only make us less safe.

Think Tank Called ‘The Himmler Institute’ Assures Nation This All Legal https://theonion.com/think-tank-called-the-himmler-institute-assures-nation-this-all-legal/

Marijke Chartouni is an Epstein survivor. And she has read Trump correctly.

Israeli police release settler who ran over Palestinian man during prayer - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-police-release-settler-who-ran-over-palestinian-man-during

War on Christmas

Here’s the U.S. government being officially religious in a country with no official religion.

My Xmas hot take: John McClane was wrong to try to fight back against the terrorists.

Should sound familiar for someone appointed by Bush.

Shame on you for publishing this garbage, @princetonupress.bsky.social

ain't no fuckin way

Or you might call them "camps" where people are to be "concentrated" until they are deported. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

how did this guy run an investment bank?

"The conflict in West Papua may be the world’s most unequal war: raids on military bases have improved the TPNPB’s fighting capacity, but they still often face Indonesian jets and missiles armed only with bows and arrows." www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/de...

ICE is out of control.

It's funny how us parochial Americans generally seem to perceive that the EV revolution is stalling or reversing when in fact it's accelerating rapidly worldwide. 25% of cars sold globally in 2025 were EVs! It's mostly just the US that's being left behind

DHS has published its final rule to change the H-1B lottery to favor people in senior positions. By disadvantaging international students in the H-1B selection process, the rule achieves a longtime goal of Stephen Miller. @mclem.org @justinwolfers.bsky.social‬ www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...

One of the Europeans "sanctioned" received the Bundesverdienstkreuz, Germany's highest recognition of work for the common good, by the country's president in October.

These declines are MASSIVE. And the comparative silence in media coverage is absolutely DAMNING. “Why are ppl always so afraid of crime?” THIS is why. When crime goes up, media trips over itself to report it. Falls to pre-war (!!) levels? Just CRICKETS.

Official data is in today, and US solar continues to grow rapidly, with generation up 21% compared to last year!

"Kavanaugh Stop" went from a skeet on here to Bluesky meme to crosspollinating over on X to Brett Kavanaugh's burner account seeing it there to a whiny defensive footnote about it in a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States. Juice.

It’s an absolute disgrace that any justices would have let Trump deploy the NG to Chicago.

You do not, under any circumstances, gotta hand it to the Supreme Court

Also would be nice if they just actually listened to me.

"In short, the reason that banks combine lending with “deposit”-based funding is so that the process of exchange itself ... can take place on the basis of credit instead of coin or paper money." syntheticassets.wordpress.com/2025/12/22/i...

Tired of my endocrinologist not understanding like basic math. 🙄

We’re trying to imagine the Republican freakout if literally any of this was about Obama or Biden

On GDP: So you have GDP supposedly growing at a 4.3% annualized rate and a Fed member calling for jumbo rate cuts. That makes no sense to me.

I will heartily second this recommendation. An incredible novel, indeed.

He’s gotten terrifyingly farther in this project than we could have imagined. He’s shut down the WP and CBS. CNN is very likely going to go, one of his main targets though a problematic publication at absolute best. ABC and NBC are fairly constrained by corporate masters. Twitter is gone.

I’m not even sure she’s ever read or watched any real journalism.

really cannot be emphasized enough that bari weiss has literally never done journalism. i don’t mean that in the pejorative sense. i mean that in the “has never performed the job she was hired to do” sense

So apparently there are many Epstein files on the DOJ website where you can highlight the redacted text, copy it, and paste it onto another document to read the redactions

lol meant “war on Christmas”

I’m sure all those right-wingers who love to complain about the “death of Christmas” are gonna be up in arms about this. 🙄

This is the only Defiant I will ever recognize.

Sunday Taquitos #7: Raid at Santa’s Workshop Art by Ivan Ehlers.

Days before Christmas and masked federal immigration agents continue to take people from Chicago's streets. Video and photos shared to social media depict agents taking at least one man from the Logan Square neighborhood this morning, just west of the Armitage/Kimball intersection.

Chicago 😍

"Violent crime rates on the CTA have remained largely flat over the last year. There have been 933 violent crimes — including homicides, battery, assault, robbery and sexual assault — so far this year, 18 fewer than this time last year..." blockclubchicago.org/2025/12/19/c...

I'm seeing that T***p has ordered the withdrawal of nearly every US ambassador from Africa amid a general diplomatic pullback.

Hi.

The right, along the Roberts Court, is trying to nullify the Reconstruction amendments guaranteeing equality under the law, in order to restore the Antebellum Constitution, which envisions “liberty” as an eternal aristocracy of race and class (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...