How sad is this? The CDC closed its FOIA office, so this story could only be published because a Danish journalist provided Rolling Stone with the documents, after obtaining them through a freedom of information request to the University of Southern Denmark www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Impressive late attempt by Maria Corina Machado to outdo Robert Jenrick with something even more cringeworthy on this day of all the cringe

Not sure how to summarize this one. Wrote about the podcaster-occupied government invading for content, how the algorithmic internet is governed by the logic of reaction videos, and how it has contributed to a very nihilistic illiterate politics and culture of performance for imagined audiences

A scorched boat washed ashore on a remote beach in Colombia. Then mangled bodies. And then empty packets, a few with marijuana traces. We matched the physical and digital evidence to a U.S. airstrike — and found a fishing community terrified to go to sea. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/w...

It's straightforward to find what Trump actually did say on January 6. First he said they were going to walk down to the Capitol (which BBC used). And cheer on our brave Senators and Congressmen. Then he made it clear that the ones he meant were strong Republicans prepared to overturn the result.

🚨 NEWS: Colombian President Gustavo Petro accuses U.S. government officials of murder and violating Colombia’s sovereignty and says the Trump-ordered strike of a boat in the Caribbean killed a fisherman named Alejandro Carranza.

There seems to be some *confusion* among Reform supporters over Nathan Gill being one of them “But, but, Reform didn’t exist when he took his Russian bribes” “But, but he was in UKIP” “But, but it has nothing to do with Farage, he barely knew the guy” So here’s a little history lesson 👍🏼🧵 1/14

NEW WIRED led the way in reporting on Elon Musk's efforts to dismantle the US government. My colleagues and I spoke to 100s of employees at dozens of agencies to understand what happened. This is the definitive story of DOGE as told by those who experienced it www.wired.com/story/oral-h...

The H1-B visa thing is, like everything else in the Trump administration, set up to carve up exceptions for friends and punish enemies. It’s the authoritarian thru-line that stitches everything together.

Absolutely incredible video of a woman standing up to ICE. This is resistance 1/2

Interview is an obscenely corrupt absurdity but at least it did produce some comedy gold

So now there's a "25th anniversary edition" of what I still consider to be a late Smashing Pumpkins album. Just bury me already

If you’re wondering how ICE recruitment and training is going under Kristi Noem—South Park already nailed it.

South Park

Even without considering the pardon aspect, is Trump's line going to be: 'This convicted sex trafficker says I wasn't doing anything dodgy when I was constantly hanging around with her and her partner in crime' ?! Surely even the very dumbest of maga rubes are going to find this a bit suspicious

Dear God, look at the jobs report revisions for May and June! This is not at all the rosy picture it looked like to economists over the past few months.

Here's the very disturbing part of this The timing and Trump's knowledge: Year 2000: Epstein-Maxwell "took" Virginia Giuffre from Mar-a-Lago 2002: Trump said most infamous line about Epstein being a "terrific" friend and liking "younger" ones Only in 2004: Trump rupture with Epstein

Nice comfortable, relaxing win for England

Big news as Trump fires Comey. You absolutely sure we haven't just glitched into a time loop.

'updo' is in but 'ruck' is not. Justify yourself, Squardle

Kind of hilarious that Spotify users have been requesting a functioning queue system since 2012 without success community.spotify.com/t5/Live-Idea...

Okay so I've disabled autoplay. How do I stop videos from auto looping? That function is only ever required for exceptionally good cat videos