With all the bad things happening, the small good things of life are still good. Saturday, our bathroom sink clogged. After trying several things and failing, I bought a drum auger and managed to clear a clog that was at least 20 feet beyond the drain. So, yay.

When Renee Good said "I'm not mad at you" what the ICE goon heard was "I'm not scared of you." That's what enraged him. The populace wasn't fully terrorized and cowed into submission yet, so he acted to make that happen.

I love this so much

The number of people killed is greater than the number of trans athletes in the NCAA. Priorities

This is the point. They are using an immigraiton system that has long dehumanized people, that has long operated with a lack of due process, to create state police force, whose victims are by definition “domestic terrorists,” who have license to kill at will. This isn’t a mistake. It’s the point.

"You deserve to die if you disagree with us" is their position. bsky.app/profile/atru...

“The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears.”

This post will have Evangelicals and ExV’s of a certain age thinking about the late Tony Campolo.

Make it viral.

I know this isn’t new information but I just really gotta emphasize how goddamn difficult it is to successfully sign up for SNAP or Medicaid, even if you’re Good At Paperwork

They're calling him the Iggy Pop of the steppes

On Jan 6, I’m only aware of one in-person counter-demonstration held in DC that day against the Trump rally: a group of interfaith clergy who stood in a circle and prayed. They were harassed by Trump supporters. They’ve gathered every year since, and met again today. They mentioned Herod a lot.

The U.S. is a rogue state which should be sanctioned and condemned by the international community for our flagrant violations of international law and the peace of the world. We won't be, because imperialists tend to stick together. My latest in @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/worl...

I meant to post this before church on Sunday, but, yeah… He has shown strength with his arm//he has scattered the proud in the thoughts of their hearts. He has brought down the powerful from their thrones//and lifted up the lowly

I was teetering before but now I’m ready to say it: I’m full Jags-pilled.

We now live in the country the Jan. 6 attackers and coup plotters hoped to create.

Nature is healing

"If you want to know who took all of your money, it's the people with all of the money." I keep thinking about this post and how it's one of the best, most succinct messages Democrats could use in 2026 campaigns.

"this is not a war, this is a special military operation" sounded better in its original russian

this is small comfort given he has state power and i don’t but i am struck by what an obviously weak and fragile man miller is. a blubbering piss baby whose entire affect and personality is an attempt to make up for his profound feelings of inadequacy

This will help you make sense our our country’s non-sensical actions

This is my dilemma. I want to *have read* the Odyssey, but I don’t really want to read it.

And most of that 6% were the Post’s editorial board.

What in the Gestapo is going on in Grand Rapids? Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.

Broke: America is a violent, expansionist empire but we tell ourselves we're not Woke: Damn straight we're a violent, expansionist empire and we're not not going to hide it anymore

It's illegal for the president to relieve student loan debt. It's completely fine for the president to unilaterally decide to have the head of a foreign nation black bagged on foreign soil.

it is incredible that the entire high level legal apparatus of the United States is "anything that helps people is impossible, anything that kills people is permitted"

My word(s) for 2026 Drum Auger

When Nixon got drunk and started ordering up warplans Kissinger would hear him out then let him sleep it off. Now it’s eight guys with dilated pupils DMing each other racist gigachad memes.

Veterans of Gulf War I and II protests:

We are a rogue state, run by a dictator, and the international community should treat us as such including all appropriate economic and diplomatic sanctions

I just watched a food app driver park his car - GOING THE WRONG WAY - in a fast food drive through lane to make a pick up I’ll be happy if I can find just a fraction of his confidence.

Mamdani is hitting on only one of three millennial signifiers: ✅ iced coffee ☑️ over ear head phones ☑️ reading on his phone

Looking over my left shoulder, I see Mom staring at me, knuckles white on the handle of her cart. I turn my head to find Nana behind the avocados, glaring. My heart pounding, I raise a hand towards the shelf. A bead of sweat falls from my forehead, hitting the floor with a splat.

People don’t lose their spots by being wrong. They lose when they are right, but too early, or about the wrong things.

Real Talk: The Whole Bag

Historian Joseph Fronczak has described the political culture of fascism as “participatory anti-democracy.”

I’m sitting with my baby grandson while “Clair de Lune” plays in the background. So, of course, I’m thinking about Oceans 11

My brain is tired so I’m watching the NFL They just ran an ad for a schizophrnia drug. Do they normally do that?

Sat next to the late Biz Markie at LAX to wait for our 7:00 am flight to JFK Nodded and said “How ya’ doin’?” He sighed and said, “Not good, man. This is too early for me”

Was one of two men who lifted Landon Donovan on our shoulders when he was awarded the LA Riot Squad Player of the Year Sat next to and ate a hotdog with World & US 400m champion Jeremy Wariner Served then Dodger rookie (later MLB manager) Bobby Valentine at my Little League Pancake Breakfast

Ran into (literally) Stallone at Famous Amos on Sunset. He was not tall I’ve seen Jay Leno several times driving on the 10 and 101 Have been in the same movie showing 7 or 8 times with Michael Gross (Dad from Family Ties) - all in Pasadena Saw one of the BTS guys at a Dodger game.

Oof.

Merry Christmas one and all, from the Vaders 🎄

Today my son and son-in-law explained to me why we need kelvins alongside the other systems. But really, this is why. Prince is colder than absolute zero.

I’d LOVE to see Sinatra put PeeWee German in his place!

Here’s to 2026

For this man to also be named “Saxon” seems a little on the nose.

Dean Martin, born Dino Paul Crocetti, son of Italian immigrant Gaetano Crocetti Frank Sinatra, son of Italian immigrants Antonino Sinatra and Natalina Garavanta Merry Christmas to everyone except Stephen Miller and his enablers and handlers