The message from the White House this morning is that, once again, it falls on ordinary American citizens to remain calm and professional when dealing with the heavily armed agents of the government because they are very emotional and might fly off into a murderous rage at the slightest insult.

"Rise like Lions after slumber in unvanquishable number Shake your chains to earth like dew Which in sleep had fallen on you. Ye are many - they are few"

they didn’t leak it to make the shooter look innocent, but to make the victim look guilty. not guilty of a crime. guilty of having a visibly queer wife. guilty of liberalism. guilty of opposing the regime. they don’t seek to exonerate themselves, only to demonstrate who deserves to die.

This is the second time in three months a DHS agent called a US citizen a "bitch" as he shot her. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/whos-threa...

Common Sense, published 250 years ago today.

The big problem with the new food pyramid is that it encourages Americans to eat more beef and dairy—two of the most environmentally destructive foods when produced at scale. You can’t build a healthy society on top of an unhealthy biosphere. Seems like something RFK Jr. should know.

As shitty as some Catholics are being, it’s encouraging to see a bunch of priests and nuns that I appreciate and learn from all be Real Mad, repeatedly, re: all this American violence, rhetoric, etc., *especially* regarding immigrants. I love Sr. Theresa and Fr. Harrison and the quote is THE POPE.

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A woman recording an ICE agent tells him "Shame on you." The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?" "Learned what?" she asks Then he knocks her phone out of her hand

When it’s 35-7 instead of 350-0

"We tried to tell y'all." – Ancient African-American proverb

surrounding them after they just killed somebody and shouting “you can’t kill us all, nazis” is legitimate “ready to run through a wall” inspirational

The sheer number of videos of the shooting is horrific, but in the vein of what @prisonculture.bsky.social has been saying, it proves how many people cared enough to show up where ICE was and record them. It wasn't just one or two legal observers, and when Good was shot, they didn't abandon her.

Mayor Jacob Frey: "They are already trying to spin this as an action of self defense. Having seen the video myself, I want to tell everybody directly that is bullshit."

The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.

Tired: Everything evolves to be a crab. Wired: Everything evolves to eat ants.

the 6% is the WaPo editorial board

Ever relevant, this poem by Mary Oliver, especially today.

Get to start the new year with a beautiful (and grammar-based!?!) fairy tale courtesy of @amalelmohtar.com

I will be at the airport during this but glad it’s happening and spreading the word

days like these (inclusive of the last long time, but especially today) are days where we really feel the absence of the structures and narratives in place to pull off a general strike.

I know it’s probably deeply annoying to see Americans go “holy shit, the nakedness of this” after our history of indigenous genocide and global regime change, but what is especially scary about this is that the more recent bullshit alibis at least took some time to drum up and put into place.

america is always bad but you have to recognize this as being a couple standard deviations out from median badness at least.

He's doing foreign policy like a private equity firm.

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Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts. Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.

I cannot emphasize enough that the attempts to anthropomorphize an algorithm is a fundamental act of journalistic malpractice and an intentional act to shield the people responsible for this. It's fucking shameful.

Springsteen ass headline

This bird looks so rad, guys

There are a few really fine common names for birds out there - and near the top of my list are the "Go-Away Birds" from Africa. While many birds do indeed go away as soon as birders arrive, these don't seem to do it any more than most. The name is onomatopoeic for their call. #birds

Just learned of agami herons and now I’m low key obsessed

I am still learning this but it’s so true. Go out and do that six minute jog at a pace barely faster than a walk!

The 'kin' of ‘napkin’ means "little." ‘Nap’ comes from ‘nape,' which means “tablecloth.” So a napkin is a little tablecloth. 10/10, no notes.

Every Saturday should be followed by 8 additional weekend days

Number 5 in my favourite top 10 images of 2025. This year with dens being displaced by construction finding a den that allowed for backlight, minimal distractions and somewhere where I could just watch was a challenge . #redfox #fox #wildlife #wildlifephotography

Harvest mice on some lavender - older posting - Post your mice photos in the comments linktr.ee/vickyouten... #wildlife #ukwildlife #wildlifephotography #nature #ThePhotoHour #photography #vickyoutenphoto #harvestmice

Merry Christmas to all, especially Sexy Shelob

If you're in line for figgy pudding, stay in line

🎄#MerryChristmas to those who celebrate, please enjoy these festive-looking #hedgehogs.🎄🦔 (In the medieval bestiary, the hedgehog's story usually involved it rolling around and collecting fallen fruit on its quills to bring home to its children - fruit kebabs to go!)

Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

classic MO

sorry im late boss but as you know the NIST Boulder campus atomic ensemble time scale is fucked up now

and in framing themselves as the only True Knowers, the data boys fail to understand how they form part of the complicated, contingent outcomes they’re claiming to observe objectively. “We can only respond to poll numbers, not shape action,” is itself a theory of the world that evidence doesn’t back

Oh my god oh my god oh my goddddd the local aquarium has three new born otters and they CHIRP

It is utterly catastrophic that RFK Jr. plans to end CDC recommendations for most childhood vaccines. It’s a betrayal of science, ethics, compassion, and the people of the United States. And it was also a specific goal of Project 2025 (page 254).