As everyone knows, I am an extraordinarily brilliant person.

Over 100,000 people here at the #NoKings rally in St. Paul Minnesota. This amazing crowd continues to grow. Our country belongs to all of us, not one person. Trump is forgetting this. He acts like he owns America. He does not. On this day from Alaska to Maine we remind him!

There’s still snow on the ground here in Minnesota, but @dvr.bsky.social and @enosarris.bsky.social had me daydreaming about baseball and hot dogs on their latest podcast. As Jack Buck used to say, that’s a wiener.

The is the federal government telling news stations to provide favorable coverage of the war or their licenses will be pulled. A truly extraordinary moment. We aren't on the verge of a totalitarian takeover. WE ARE IN THE MIDDLE OF IT. Act like it.

Kristi Noem actually saying what is driving the extraordinary elections maneuvers. Flag this one.

Jeff Bezos’s wealth has increased an average of $70 million every day of 2026, meaning that he could have offset The Post’s losses with what he’s made since Monday.

I saw it too:

Today I saw ICE gas little white kids in the streets of Portland with chemical weapons. Imagine what they're doing to brown and black kids in the detention camps

I am introducing the Cut It Out And This Time I Really Mean It bill. It provides an additional $57 billion to the murder goons but they will agree to wear business casual Monday through Thursday and if they do any murders they have to put a dollar in this jar.

Do not fall for this garbage. DHS came into my city with an offensive posture, conducted itself as an invader, often attacked residents without any plausible connection to immigration enforcement, violently seized people off the streets. Now it’s our fault people died?

Of all the snakes, JD Vance might be the snakiest. He called Renee Good a deranged lunatic on the day of her murder. He visited town this week pretending that he wanted to “turn down the temperature.” Now he repeats the blatant lie that Alex Pretti was an assassin. JD Vance is dangerously heartless.

Alex Pretti wasn’t a part of “engineered chaos.” He was a nurse who cared about people. An individual. What is “engineered chaos” is what this admin is doing in blue cities to justify invocation of the insurrection act.

Journalists aren’t supposed to report “both sides.” They are supposed to report the truth. DHS is not telling the truth. Stop reporting their lies.

they're executing moms and nurses in the street. they're using preschoolers as bait. they're stealing people's dads and grandmas and children. they're tear gassing babies. they're staking out schools. there is no remedy but abolition. any proposal that doesn't start there is an act of violence.

Just staggered by the complete moral void of not even *pretending* to wait for more information before pivoting to “the opponent of the state deserved it.” It is so insanely depraved. Soulless.

Reminder: All it would take to end the murder of American citizens by an untrained government goon squad is 16 Republicans in Congress voting with Dems to defund ICE (or 23 to impeach and remove Trump — 3 in House & 20 in Senate). That’s it. 23 Americans can vote for the public and end all of this.

Minnesota is the best of us.

Brooklyn Park police chief Mark Bruley: "We're hearing people being stopped with no cause & being demanded to show paperwork to determine if they're here legally. We started hearing from our police officers the same complaints. Every one of these individuals is a person of color... it has to stop"

It’s genuinely bizarre that people who refuse to show their face or identify themselves are demanding identification from people who are fully visible.

I LITERALLY thought this was The Onion

Wow, they really are tracking down the most hardened criminals in America, even the bloodthirsty monsters who work at ... toy stores?

Having seen several abductions up close, it is really hard to convey how much the thing they’re doing is roaming in military convoys until they see someone who is alone and isn’t white, and then jumping out in large numbers, pulling them into a van, and screeching off, all in 90 seconds or so.

Jimmy Kimmel offers to let Trump have one of his trophies if he will pull ICE out of Minneapolis.

Jon Stewart on the disconnect between Trump excusing J6 protesters and MAGA condemning Renee Good

Infuriating.

Five years ago.

We’re not a serious country

Three seconds in and the @thedailyshow.com is already crushing it.

Really well done. Can this message still get through to all the people closing their eyes and covering their ears? I don’t know. I hope so.

Take it from Jake and Elwood, you do NOT want to start a war with The Penguin(s).

Really enjoyed this book. If you're interested in climate change, check it out. Tells an important (and often frustrating) story about truth vs. money. We've known for decades that we're destroying our climate, but a well-funded resistance has focused on creating doubt and uncertainty. It's working.

Joke's on you, @grantbrisbee.bsky.social. I don't have any hair! (Otherwise, this lead is speaking directly to me, thank you for this refresher as Spring Training approaches.)

Here's another gem from the obituary for Tom Robbins in the NY Times. Such a playful, creative mind who brought serious joy to so many readers.

Rest In Peace, Tom Robbins, and long live goofiness!

It's hard to pick a favorite Bob Uecker story, but here is one that always makes me smile. Great stuff.

Let's all be thankful for the Chicago Bears. Fewer people are bickering over their differences at the Thanksgiving table right now, and more people are coming together to laugh at the Bears' ineptitude. What a lovely gesture. Thank you, Bears.

Feeling a lot of pressure for my first post on this app. OK, here we go. Octopuses have nine brains, according to my oldest.