"The next thing to go will be maple syrup. Every Tim Hortons will be shut down the next day, even the small ones in gas stations. And the Chinese will be going door to door to confiscate your Anne Murray and Tragically Hip CDs. Don't want to give them up? It's trouble for you, I can tell you that."

Diggins is a cross-country skier with a gold, silver, and bronze from previous Olympics.

M.D. = Major Dummy

🎨: Michael de Adder, The Globe and Mail.

According to analysis by various news agencies, Trmp is mentioned more than 38,000 times in the Epstein files. Depending on the translation, God is referred to in both books of the Bible a total of 10,000-14,000 times.

A little correction in the Guardian today. www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ja...

Trump: "These people were brought to our country to vote, & they vote illegally. The Republicans should say, we should take over the voting in at least 15 places. The Republicans ought to nationalize the voting. We have states that I won that show I didn't win. You're gonna see something in Georgia"

Between the typical fawning posts for Exene's birthday and the predictable "Why aren't they catering to me, who hasn't bought a record this century?" reactions to the Grammys, it feels like a cross between Groundhog's Day and Ostrich's Day, and, in any case, a good day for me to avoid social media.

Clever way to spin this considering that most documentaries cost $5 to make and get $0 in marketing, as opposed to $40M and $35M, besides more free publicity than any movie ever. "It did well for a movie that starts with M and ends with A as long as you don't count Moana, Matilda, or Mamma Mia."

Yesterday, today, and no tomorrow.

There's a campaign to make Michelle Obama’s Becoming the top stream on Netflix this weekend. I sometimes don't see the point of these kind of efforts, but I like this one. And unlike broadcast TV, you don't need to be a Neilsen household. I'm going to stream it on all my devices.

Brett Ratner is no Leni Riefenstahl. If the Third Reich had him as their propagandist, it would've all been over in 1933.

It's taken almost 50 years but we finally have a sequel, The Unhappy Hooker Goes to Washington.

Graham objected to unanimous consent. And he blocked the business of the Senate. Any Senate Democrat could do this.

"A chicken in very few pots!"

The Ziegfeld closed ten years ago tonight. 😥

Pam Bondi just sent a letter to Minnesota officials saying ICE will leave if the state turns over its voter database to Trump. Guess what? This has never been about safety or immigration. It’s a pretext for Trump to take over elections in swing states.

There’s a rally going on in Boston rn and they’re chanting “we’re not cold, we’re not afraid, MN taught us to be brave!” and I might cry

On a downtown street in Minneapolis, as people stream out from the massive march, Mary Tyler Moore says “fuck ice.”

This is a good lesson for the kids: No one wants to sit with a bully who smells.

¡No pensé que un leopardo se comiera mi cara!

DVR ALERT: Lucinda Williams on Colbert tonight.

Sorry, EGOT does not equal EGO+Tyrant.

Say what you will about Neville Chamberlain, he may have given Hitler the Sudetenland but not his lawn tennis trophy.

Brock Turner redux. FUCK YOU, CNN.

@govmurphy.bsky.social thank you for everything you've done for this state and its residents! Please sign the three immigrant protection bills on your way out the door.

And to the long and ever-growing list of things fascists are scared of, add pins and pigs. "The Sheriff spoke directly with the deputy to check on his well-being."

Iowa City.

🎨: Mike Luckovich for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

After Nikki Glaser alluded to celebrities being on the Epstein list, they cut to a shot of Bill Maher. A+

I will say that I'm loving the many videos of ICE agents slipping on the ice and hitting the pavement. It would be nice if Minnesota were their Russian front.

We're deluding ourselves if we think this is only about migration and only happening to assumed migrants, although those are still the ostensible targets and the most endangered. ICE is operating as the regime's secret police, bound by no laws, and we are all at risk.

This slogan adopted by Kristi Noem, "One of Ours, All of Yours," is taken from the Nazis, who retaliated for the killing of an SS officer by murdering all the inhabitants of the Czech village of Lidice, apparently none of whom had anything to do with it, and razing the village to the ground.