So many classics of the form, RIP to a legend

One of the best to ever do it

Yeah, I'm oversimplifying things, bc it's a big topic and I see it as part of a bigger trend. SCOTUS batted back Obama and Biden many times and liberals didn't criticize the institution. That is not going to survive the era of "Alito checked the constitution again, turns out Trump can do whatever."

People 300 years ago thought we'd never live in a world without kings.

The craziest thing is that Jeffries, despite him being useless and as ideologically captured as anyone, has apparently been better w AOC and other left primary winners than pelosi because he doesn't view them as illegitimate.

every new yorker's version of this map

The US is at war with Venezuela. No Congressional authorization, no public debate, no clearly stated goal, no casus belli, and a gradual ramp up rather than big opening, so many haven’t noticed (or deny it). But this attack removes the ambiguity. US is at war with Venezuela. With no end in sight.

sure why not (apologies for nightmarish alt text)

Walked past Jennifer Connolly riding a bike down the sidewalk. Train of thought as follows: "Damn that woman had BEAUTIFUL eyes. Like wow." "huh she looked a bit like Jennifer Connolly" "Wait doesn't she live in Park Slope?" "Huh Jennifer Connolly just rode past me on a bicycle."

I don’t know if the US did an airstrike on Venezuela on Christmas Eve. What I do know is a USAF Stratotanker (midair refueler for bombers & fighter jets) took off from MacDill about 7pm local, turned off all signals & didn’t turn them on again til final approach 7 hours later. And that’s abnormal.

can't wait to see how this works in concert with the "mailbox rule" for service, since the postmark could be way off from the affidavit of service. anyway, if you file your taxes by mail, get it manually stamped or metered if you can.

People forget Elon Musk said he'd end world hunger for a year if human rights orgs could provide the exact amount necessary and when they replied 6 billion he went silent. There's no "left wing billionaires" because to become one you need to exploit thousands of humans

you do not and should not hand it to MTG under any circumstances it is useful for us, politically, that she's broken with Trump - because "Rs in Disarray" is a good narrative but she herself is still a vicious antisemite and transphobe and nobody progressive should lose sight of that

Keir Starmer was the model for centrists and popularists who insisted that moving right on issues, especially immigration, is how you win at politics. Wonder if there will ever be any self-reflection here! Ah well nevertheless

I heard a bird sing In the dark of December A beautiful thing A sweet to remember "We are closer to Spring than we were in September." I heard a bird sing In the dark of December

yes, I once Banged the Drums of War. but please now heed my warnings about how it is Dangerous to be Mean to Me

The median American has $8,000 in savings in the bank. In other words, this is like giving the median American an opportunity to make a massive, scandalous crime go away for a fine of $240.

I'm not an IP guy but it's weird that the notoriously litigious Tolkien estate is so controlling in other contexts but, apparently, you can just gank his character names whenever you want to slap them on your company? How does that work? Are they actually licensing these?

look we're all making a big bet on AI! and if it pays off as big as we hope, well, it's going to make a handful of people super rich and you're going to lose your job but get to watch mickey mouse fuck geralt from the witcher. if it doesn't pay off well then you get to pay for the bailouts

Trump's DOJ was monitoring all the movements of the Miami Herald reporter who was covering the Epstein case.

Lots of people get worse with wealth. Young Sinatra was basically a social democrat old Sinatra was Reagan booster - but for some ppl like Bardot Kanye Elon whether they started cool mid or bad they become cartoonishly deranged & misanthropic. A lot of Silicon Valley is that too

Sometime in the 1990s or so, Democrats saw how Republicans juiced turnout by appealing to their base and went, “Wow, we should do that, too! We should appeal to the Republican base!”

People always cite "Arab Muslim and Christian members of Knesset" (they are almost all Palestinians) as evidence of the lack of apartheid but those very MKs themselves call it an apartheid state. Did Jim Crow stop existing because there were a handful of Black congressmen?

I’ve seen no serious engagement from senior Dems about what, exactly, they plan to do in terms of reasserting congressional power, as in identifying the available tools and thinking seriously about ways to use them to dig us out of the current state of total constitutional collapse.

One underrated reason Zohran is such a good politician is he immediately punches back against right-wing bullshit, whereas Democrats do their whole high road routine that lets attacks spread like wildfire

A Christmas Story (1983)

Barely a blip in the news. 🦗from the New York Times editorial and opinion pages. Compare with days of Hunter Biden Hysteria about unprecedented abuse of the pardon power.

Fucking furious right now. Got rear-ended by an undocumented person and told him to drive away before the cops showed but some fucking asshole thought he was being a hero and boxed him in and wouldn't let him drive away. Cops arrested him.

Bodied by my eldest , frankly

The definitive proof that ICE was always a fascistic institution is that Trump didn't needed to reform It. No mass firing, no change in training, no mass hiring. He simply said "go, my attack dogs, find brown people". And they went, because they were always fascists.

2025 in a nutshell

Every time I have to get a new laptop, it feels less like my own computer, and more like a screen Microsoft is grudgingly allowing me to borrow.

"Actually, the Constitution is best understood through the framework of Roman Law" is just "Charlie Brown had hoes" for bobbleheaded law dweebs. No it isn't. That isn't true.

They said the same shit about Massachusetts when we introduced the Millionaires Tax, and none of them left. Turns out, the ultra rich are already living where they actually want to live, and tax rates aren't high on the list of factors that go into that decision.

"The fashion industry is an immense cultural and social blight that only gets a free pass because its would-be detractors are scared it’ll start criticising their haircut."

Not to damn with faint praise, but in the NYPD, this would actually carry disciplinary consequences. They take theft relatively seriously...

This picture was taken in June 2024. 10 months into a genocide, and 3 months after Biden condemned the ICC for investigating Bibi. 4 months later, the ICC would issue a warrant for his arrest for crimes against humanity.

I want to *stress* that the backlash to this administration needs to be overwhelming, sustained, and come bearing legal consequences.

As someone who only learned about the genocidal Sullivan campaign by taking a pleasant vacation in the finger lakes, I am thankful to Ken Burns for telling this story at length. What the US did there is a crime that demands restitution.

Inside you there are two wolves. Both make good points.

John Oliver has said this explicitly FYI That without local news he couldn't do his show (and to his credit, he's pretty good about crediting his news sources)

Folks, you can't harass and intimidate people based on how they look. Please just let people live their lives without the fear of undeserved persecution!

Hilarious to call basketball a DEI sport when hockey is just a sport for rich white kids.

Frog and Toad join DSA

Me doing a Mercy to Tim Cook until he renews Frog and Toad for S3...

i sold my antipsychotic meds to buy my ai girlfriend a new model upgrade for christmas. but then i found out she sold her data center to buy me a gun

Look, I'm sure that Nolan's adaptation of "The Odyssey" will be fun, but I highly doubt it will be as good as the original.