"Do these people have jobs?" -- Fox News's "hard news" show sneers at peaceful protesters

Stunning photos from Minneapolis, including this one by John Locher for the Associated Press. www.theatlantic.com/photography/...

2026 has me feeling like this random guy in Independence Day who is for some reason going to work during the alien apocalypse

Schumer as a major American metro is being brutally occupied by Trump goons: "The affordability crisis will be our focus throughout 2026 because that's what the American people are demanding"

OLD: The more we get together Together, together The more we get together The happier we'll be NEW:

This sign, "The Gospel Is Anti-Fascist," is at the First Baptist Church in America, in Providence, R.I. Link to the church's FB post of the photo: www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=...

"The Gospel Is Anti-Fascist"

This Post-ABC poll result from March 2016, explaining what factors made people more likely to back Trump in the GOP primary that year, was always underappreciated.

wikipedia turns 25 today! the last unenshittified major website! backbone of online info! triumph of humanity! powered by urge of unpaid randos to correct each other! somehow mostly reliable! "good thing wikipedia works in practice, because it sure doesn't work in theory" - old wiki adage

Hanging out with my friends on Bluesky like:

Sometimes you just have to throw on some Steely Dan and lock in.

Just an overwhelming cascade of horrifying news right now, and in recent days.

What will you do with your one wild and precious piece of broccoli

The fact that ICE is arresting Native Americans sorta tells the whole story of this country, in microcosm.

Good morning. Here's a recent photo I took of Jill, to bless your timeline.

On Fox 9 just now they interviewed a woman at the scene in Minneapolis. She says she’s not an activist but felt a call to action like she hasn’t felt since 9/11. She says she was raised to love America. She says she’s never felt scared of the government in her life, until now.

Saint Paul schools will be closed Tuesday and Wednesday to prepare for optional online learning. I’ve seen schools close for snow, for pandemic, for natural disaster. I’ve never seen schools close because of threat from our own government.

this is Minnesotan for "I am mad enough to bite through rebar"

A friend of mine who is an actor just unexpectedly showed up on an IG-stories ad for Chase bank while I was scrolling and I’ve never been so hyped for a sponsored post.

For anyone who believes that Americans dying of overdoses is anything but a convenient pretext to these ghouls. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/h...

This is eerie footage.

I wrote this piece for @columjournreview.bsky.social a million years ago (2016):

Also: @penamerica.bsky.social calls the search of the WaPo report's home by federal agents, "an extraordinary escalation that strikes at the heart of press freedom."

Here's the @pressclubdc.bsky.social's statement on the search of a WaPo reporter's home by federal agents. A quote: "While key facts are still emerging, it is extraordinarily rare — and deeply troubling — for law enforcement to search a journalist’s home and seize reporting devices."

Been reading this over and over and can't for the life of me understand what he's even trying to say. This is a lot of words to say... nothing.

It goes without saying that in the US you’re not supposed to have a masked secret police that snatches people off the streets without knowing if they’ve committed a crime. That’s about as basic a requirement for a democracy as exists.

Asking the ICE agent beating a guy up on the pavement to hold still so I can scan his QR code that he was required to wear instead of a badge that can simply be read

I am eagerly awaiting the WaPo editorial endorsing the FBI's search of a WaPo reporter's home.

Chat is is good when historians are saying stuff like this?

Holy shit.

"Mikaelsen, the student, said Greenlanders benefit from being part of Denmark, which provides free health care, education and payments during study, and 'I don’t want the U.S. to take that away from us.'” The people of Greenland absolutely get it. apnews.com/article/gree...

Some context for the FBI search of a WaPo reporter's home, from last May: "Press freedom in the U.S. now falls in line with developing countries, such as Gambia, Uruguay and Sierra Leone."

UPDATE: Jack Daniel’s parent co. Brown-Forman tells me it has nothing to do with CBS’ “Whiskey Friday” concept. “Jack Daniel’s is not involved in any such segment, nor do we have any awareness of the segment and any potential partnerships or sponsorships.”

“[I]t is exceedingly rare, even in investigations of classified disclosures, for federal agents to search a reporter’s home.”

“He’s the only client we have named Fig Newton and he’s the only one who has eaten a dryer sheet, ribbon, and wire!” Lovely vet tech listing all the reasons this guy is an icon at the vet’s office:

7 am in South Attleboro, MA

This week in the Readers Voices section of @thepvdeye.bsky.social: a photo essay from last week's anti-ICE protest at Providence City Hall. "Folding myself into that crowd of hundreds, I felt a little safer and a lot stronger," writer/photographer Rebecca Atwood writes.

Marco Rubio, June 2012.

President Trump made an obscene gesture with his middle finger and mouthed “f--- you” twice to a person who can be heard yelling “pedophile protector” at him during a tour of a Ford factory in Michigan — a reaction the White House said was “appropriate.”

I’m three episodes into “Heated Rivalry.” It’s very good.

When the fascist government says "Send us a list of all your Jews," that's not --- historically --- a "good" thing. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

We've already done a version of "one day the science fiction turns to science fact." It was called "vaccines." And we know how that turned out.

Maybe Rogan could have done the teeny tiniest bit of critical thinking and likely-scenario projecting before he endorsed Trump in 2024?

There is some kind of poetic resonance to the fact that the White House X account paid tribute to Scott Adams, a cartoonist, with what appears to be an AI-generated image.

This Bari Weiss edict is the most idiotic manifesto for a legitimate news organization that I have ever seen, and I cannot begin to tell you how many idiots I've come across in my career. Free link: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/b...

Jack gets fewer photos because he doesn’t sit on my shoulder but he is very handsome and sweet.

JFC.

Unfortunately intensely relating to Ahab as he indulges in his obsessive nightly doomscroll of nautical charts 🐋

I spent my whole long life in a world that loved the United Kingdom and the United States specifically because they saved democracy from the Third Reich Images like this, the reports of Nazis in the U.S., etc. are giving me such a brainsplitting ongoing cognitive dissonance

Who could have foreseen