Tesla took a hit because protesters like me picketed at dealerships as Elon Musk was vandalizing our government. Protests and boycotts can work, especially when they target oligarchs who care about money more than anything else.

we call this the Trump

Trump is shopping for marble as millions of Americans' health insurance premiums double and triple.

Trump is golfing and literally shopping for marble today while nearly two weeks in to vacationing at his private club but okay

The split-screen here is unbelievable - first from yesterday, the others from 2017. Musk’s Twitter has truly driven us mad. People absorb far more of their beliefs from their social environment than they realize, and we’ve created an environment where being a gutter bigot is the baseline expectation

Corrupt tech billionaires are buying power to tilt the world in their favor. Even the co-founder of Y Combinator is saying it. ⬇️ The radical death cult rising from Silicon Valley venture capital is metastasizing rapidly. It's an existential threat to democracy and humanity.

youtu.be/G0WXr_Uvl2Y?... @hcrichardson.bsky.social A true treasure for the current American people. We are proud of our country which is why we are concerned by what we have become. We're capable of doing greater things ✨️. Why do we allow others to diffuse our brilliance? Fight the Good Fight

Trump is posting more photos of dead birds and wind turbines today. In one photo he captioned “Eagles going down!”, it’s actually a photo of a red kite from 2010 in Spain. The other photo is from 2006 in Taiwan.

A recently released cache of surveillance video from the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York City is raising new questions about the prison cameras at the facility where Jeffrey Epstein died in his cell in 2019. The videos were among a huge cache of materials released on Dec. 23 by the

Zohran gets right to work going after bad landlords on day 1

This is the "testing the waters" phase of the playbook. The GOP ecosystem targets groups like Somalis, Haitians, and trans people specifically because they've calculated that the average person's passive disapproval won't ever turn into active defense. They're exploiting public apathy.

Trump posts that we’re “locked and loaded” to go into Iran, then goes marble shopping in Florida before golf.

Trump causes the illness and then offers solutions to the crisis of his own making — solutions that only make the problem worse. I believe psychiatrists refer to this phenomenon "Munchausen by Nazi” (pardon my accent) www.childrensmn.org/educationmat...

The words “Locked and loaded” coming from the mouth of an unstable, manic man with access to weapons would trigger an immediate 72-hour psychiatric hold if his family brought him to an emergency room worried about the possibility of violence.

A senile Republican president has turned America into a disease-ridden, economically stagnant police state. But my liberal neighbor is having a Hamilton-themed birthday party for his nine-year-old. I have never felt more politically homeless.

"If conservatives want someone to blame for the conditions that allowed for massive alleged fraud in Minnesota, they need only look in the mirror. They built this, and they spent years doing it." — @snipy.bsky.social

"Republicans are never going to fix that problem because they don’t want to. .. While that’s been a usual state of affairs for years, the Trump admin is turbo-charging it. Somehow, the alleged daycare fraud in Minnesota .. is now the basis for freezing all childcare funding." This is excellent:

"A normal federal government would not take its cues from a random YouTuber and make a viral video the basis for a whole-of-government effort to crush a state." Truth from @snipy.bsky.social in @atrupar.com's PN: www.publicnotice.co/p/shirley-vi...

Since Reagan, the GOP has systematically sought to increase the public's cynicism about our government by making our government more dysfunctional. It has worked.

"The evidence here made clear that President Trump was by a large measure the most culpable & most responsible person in this conspiracy. These crimes were committed for his benefit. The attack that happened at the Capitol, part of this case, does not happen without him." apnews.com/article/trum...

You could also poll boomer-era people on how often doctors have suggested they take a "Cognitive Exam." (Let alone, suggested it three times.) I'll start: Zero.

What does it mean when your doctors keep insisting you redo the cognitive exam

BREAKING: Swiss officials believe sparkling flares atop Champagne bottles ignited the fatal fire at a ski resort when they came too close to the ceiling.

New in PN: The blame for alleged fraud in Minnesota belongs to conservatives "Republican policies have created a perfect vicious cycle: Privatize services, let private companies run amok, then declare that the government is the problem. And the Trump administration is turbo-charging it."

“.. Again and again, Mr. Trump dares the system to stop him. He does so knowing that the same system that failed to hold him to account for Jan. 6 is unlikely to do so now. .. “.. In Mr. Trump’s second term, he has governed as if Jan. 6 never ended.” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/o...

A new feature-length Chevy Chase documentary is coming to the small screen on New Year’s Day.

Switzerland to hold five days of mourning after 40 killed in resort fire, as investigators rush to identify victims

This tired blame the media tactic that attracts the aggrieved billionaire set is not what the regular audience wants and displays an astonishing ignorance of what it does want. Most of all, it’s insider to the point of boredom and the opposite of creative.

For the last few days on X, people (mainly women, and sometimes children) have had nonconsensual images of them in swimsuits (or much worse) requested by users and created by Grok. Musk's only apparent response thus far has been to crack jokes about it.

As the president graffitis his name to beloved institutions and builds monuments to his own vanity, we must focus on how much fun it will be to tear it all down. trib.al/059XHbZ

To be clear, this risk is so high on X because the platform is owned by a person who does not see CSAM as disqualifying behavior on the platform, let alone objectionable. He will try to profit from this. bsky.app/profile/lora...

Swiss face arduous task of identifying victims of deadly bar fire reut.rs/3L6DZAh

South Park writer buys ‘Trump Kennedy Center’ domain name

Off to a good start

A clip that has not lost its relevance

Shorter CBS News: “We are dumbing down our coverage and gearing everything towards satisfying Trump, Bibi, and everyone else who has Bari Weiss in their pocket”

Trump's thin skin isn't a metaphor, but also it is.

One wild thing is how we are expected to accept this in place of actual medical records

Gill on Epstein Files: I reached out to sources and they say that not only did New York send over everything they had in March, but that the entire review process—using roughly a thousand analysts from the FBI’s Information Management Division—was specifically to review the files from New York

Curtis Yarvin, JD Vance’s friend & ideological influence, ended 2025 by claiming “only Hitler spoke the truth” about “too many subjects” & “Hitler was a genius.” Extremism isn’t fringe on the right. Once marginal online extremists like Yarvin are influential at the highest levels of government.

You know who else refused to wear compression socks? Logan Roy (R.I.P.)

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.

They're all laughing at you, dude

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Mamdani: "We will answer to all New Yorkers, not to any billionaire or oligarch who thinks they can buy our democracy ... I will govern as a Democratic Socialist"

Mamdani: "The cost of childcare will no longer discourage young adults from starting a family, because we will deliver universal childcare for the many by taxing the wealthiest few"

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