There is virtually nothing the Netanyahu gov't could do to lower its near-zero credibility, but this is annoying nonetheless. Mamdani was right to scrap the IHRA definition, which, due mostly to some of its accompanying examples, is a threat to free speech. 1/ www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

This is not a hard message. Localize it. Embrace it. Win.

Good morning and happy new year and NEW COVER REVEAL! 🎉🎉🎉 Elane Kim’s debut book of poems Antibody is out in February 2026, and we could not be more elated. Preorder here, and use the code 2025GIFT for 10% off your order and free shipping: riverriverbooks.org/store/-Preor...

Don't miss Sundress authors jason b. crawford and Ching-In Chen at Poets House 30th Showcase Reading on January 15th in NYC! poetshouse.org/event/30th-s...

*faints*

I fervently want the Iranian uprising to succeed. U.S. intervention would be a massively stupid way to make sure it doesn't. The Iranian people need to take control of their own destiny

So much to say here but it's yet another reminder that it is kind of a sick joke to suggest that the kids can be taught to "use AI responsibly" when the adults are and can not.

Thank you @100wordstory.bsky.social for this interview! Short and sweet, such a great idea for a series!

If this got more views on YouTube than the actual show, it would make my year. youtu.be/Y54OJC0FtCs

The emirate of Granada – Islam’s last polity in Spain – was surrendered to the Catholic monarchs #OnThisDay in 1492. ✍️ Mathew Lyons explains www.historytoday.com/archive/mont...

lol I just came across this post by Zoharn’s wife Rama Duwaji’s stylist and the boots were…. on loan open.substack.com/pub/brainmat...

As Mayor Mamdani gets to work, something to think about re conventional wisdom and the mainstream media

Your government will say “well that’s where the people are,” …and you can remind them that there are plenty of people on PornHub, but they don’t feel the need to establish a presence there… and PornHub actually self-police!

Can't wait! Come read with us!

this song makes me cry every time

This is one of the reasons poetry lives and changes lives. youtu.be/vTjdjw6a-is

Lorelei Cloud was born 3 years before Native Americans living on tribal lands in Colorado were guaranteed the right to vote. She is now vice chair of the Southern Ute Tribe. “I don’t want future generations to have to deal with any of what we’ve had to.”

day one in mamdani’s new york

I don't want thick blood pouring through my heart. I want nice, thin blood pouring through my heart. Does that make sense?

Shoot this right into my veins.

Every one of these deals exceeds the severity of the Clinton Foundation and Hunter Biden controversies by orders of magnitude. And there are already dozens, probably hundreds.

In 2026 I want all of the decent people to remember one thing. You aren’t meant to be this disciplined, this self-sacrificing to survive. The environment is supposed to support good living. We can have that. You are not a failure. That is politics. That is all.

Any society where some sleep on the street while others live in homes like this is profoundly broken. Tax the Rich

LIVE: Zohran Mamdani Sworn In As NYC's New Mayor An inauguration ceremony is held on the steps of City Hall for Mayor Mamdani with Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and other politicians and celebrities expected to attend. Tune in NOW: www.youtube.com/live/C3RRZNA...

Conservative outlets love this pocket-watching hypocrisy trope, especially as some sort of gotcha for WOC, by willfully conflating left politics with forced universal aceticism. To them, socialists are not supposed to be stylish or attractive. Rama's both, and on her own terms, not maga aesthetic.

Netanyahu was with Trump at Mar a Lago on New Year’s Eve.

This is the song that shepherded me from ‘25 into ‘26. I’m going to keep enjoying the song 15 year old me loved but had forgotten. Sing it out loud youtu.be/BKKZ9y_BpXU?...

The land has been year-walked. The future has been met in the lanes and ways. The cunning folk have conferred. On the doors of The Raven, The Woodwose's Crown and all the other pubs they use, the proclamation has gone up: 'This is the YEAR OF THE GREEN PATHS.'

Fantastic news for a new year www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/u...

well, 2016 was a hard year, but we made it through. hopefully 2016 will be better.

Happy new year everybody.

The subtitles are another level!

New Years Resolution for all Americans: Stop using ChatGPT. You don't need it, it pollutes and uses up all the water and energy.

On this day in 1977, #TheClash officially opened The Roxy in London.

They're going to *throw out* one-of-a-kind NASA archives?! Not even a year since the Inauguration & we're already at the 2nd-time-as-farce version of the burning of the Library of Alexandria.

We’re sleepwalking into a disaster

They've started replacing the "welcome to the borough" signs so they say Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani instead of Mayor Adams.

Happy New Year ✨

T’was the night before New Year’s and all through the town not a creature was stirring and especially not a graphic designer.

Trump Denies Writing 36-Volume Comic Titled ‘Don And Jeff: Time Pedophiles’ https://theonion.com/trump-denies-writing-36-volume-comic-titled-don-and-jeff-time-pedophiles/

So, the frog stopped the National Guard from coming to Portland, along with astute lawsuits by Oregon. Only part of what's happening, but hard to understate how fundamentally the Portland Frog changed perceptions and helped morale. Humor, imagination, courage, savvy.

Proud to have invested energy supporting those who made this finally happen. Green Korea United and WSPA helped make it possible for this change to happen. koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/2025-12...

2025 was the dysentery of Nicklebacks

We don’t need New Year’s resolutions, it’s the year’s turn to be better.

Resolutions.

Right-wing media spent weeks in a bad faith (or deluded) effort to cast this obvious investigatory step as partisan and devious. Senators tried to award themselves half a mill for it!