Trump in Davos, Switzerland: "Without us, right now you'd all be speaking German". German is the main language of Switzerland.

What more do you need to hear?

This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

every single goddam crisis happening right now is self imposed

USA leader fighting hard against evolution. #art #artist

Talked to a Somali man today who said his mosque last night was surrounded by neighbors ready to protect them against ICE if needed. Made me feel proud to live in this city.

I've said this before and I'll say it again. It would only take a tiny handful of Republican Congress members or senators to stop the slide of America toward authoritarian fascism, but nope. They're all in.

Andor was a textbook

Historian Alfred McCoy says global empires rise by mastering new energy systems, as China is currently doing with renewables. “China is absolutely dominant in every aspect of this green energy revolution,” says McCoy. https://www.democracynow.org/2026/1/13/alfred_mccoy_cold_war_on_five

Trump has transformed the justice system into a Putin-style autocratic protection racket. The wealthy are not audited or investigated, if convicted they are pardoned. Political opponents are targeted. Unidentified masked agents grab people off the street, and protesters are shot.

damn -- CNN put together a video of Kristi Noem claiming ICE officers are "highly trained and skilled" and "gifted" alongside to a clip of them beating someone nearly to death in Minneapolis

Excellent instructional video pass it on

On ICE and what Trump sees and wants. www.ms.now/opinion/minn...

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Holy hell, what an obituary

Here's the new #StarTrek 60th anniversary bumper video that will play before every new episode of the franchise in 2026, beginning with today's #StarfleetAcademy series debut

Statue of St. Michael fighting Satan at the Church of Our Lady of Victory in lower Manhattan. Who do you think Satan resembles?

“Tech fascists are working to establish their own sovereign, distributed state. This is the Network State: a new, billionaire-backed nation made up of crypto cities and colonies across the United States, Latin America, Africa, the Mediterranean, the Philippines.” www.vcinfodocs.com/venture-capi...

Every single day I strive to learn something, just a little bit, to stay more arrogant than I am ignorant.

Attempting to criminalize the actions of an independent public servant, Fed Chair Jay Powell, for the sin of acting independently is an outrage. It's bad economics, bad politics, bad for the rule of law, bad for the public sector, bad for American credibility and bad for Americans.

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The hearts and minds of the people are on our side. We will do everything we can to seek justice. We will fight with peaceful expression, in court, through public debate, and at the ballot box. Keep the peace. And keep the faith.

Common Sense, published 250 years ago today.

To paraphrase Margaret Atwood…”men are afraid that women will laugh at them, women are afraid that men will kill them”

Try.

Holy cow: TRUMP LEAKED THIS MORNING'S PAYROLL NUMBERS. At 8:20pm last night he posted a photo of a briefing he received from his CEA. It reveals market-moving numbers that were officially released at 8:30am this morning. (Note: CEA receives the data—confidentially—on Thursday evening.)

BIG FIGHT AT POLAND’S WROCLAW ZOO!!!

Home Alone 3 looks awful

“The new dawn blooms as we free it. For there is only light if we are brave enough to see it, if only we're brave enough to be it.” ~ Amanda Gorman ~

This is worth watching.

This keeps happening every day. www.elnuevodia.com/noticias/est...

Google the video & see for yourself. This is not law enforcement. This is murder. Sickening.

imagine telling yourself on january 6, 2021 that five years from now things would be so much worse

The American people electing Trump after he staged a coup attempt 5 years ago was a nail in the coffin of our democracy. You can rationalize it all you want - But inflation! But wokeness! - but ultimately it was a societal suicide attempt and probably the dumbest collective voting decision ever made

Hahahahaha But true

the main thing to know about the maduro arrest is there are hundreds of thousands of epstein files we still haven’t seen

This whole presentation is Imperial in the Roman style. Taking over countries, running them at the diktat of generals, letting the people have a degree of independence. Only it feels more like the last days of Rome.

Lemon it’s January 3

While the Senate is asking Trump why they started a war to kidnap a foreign leader perhaps they might also ask why Trump freed a former foreign leader convicted of the same kind of crimes.

Question: But the president’s statements that he believed the election was rife with fraud—those are statements protected by the First Amendment, correct? Smith: Absolutely not. If they are made to target a lawful government function and are made with knowing falsity, then no, they are not.

Smith: I think who should be accountable for this is Donald Trump. These records exist because, in the case of the senators, Donald Trump directed his co-conspirators to call these people to further delay the proceedings. He chose to do that.

"Where everybody lies about everything of importance, the truthteller, whether he knows it or not, has begun to act; he, too, has engaged himself in political business, for, in the unlikely event that he survives, he has made a start toward changing the world.” Hannah Arendt - "Truth and Politics"

“‘Theoretically, what happens if there is election interference and the people who are responsible for that are not held accountable?’ Democratic congresswoman Pramila Jayapal asked. ‘It becomes the new norm, and that becomes how we … conduct elections,’ Smith replied.”

Were 90s kids clamoring for a Batman cartoon with 1930s Art Deco aesthetics? Is that what the market demanded? Or did some really smart creative people have a vision and make a genre-defining hit that sustained 20 years of TV shows? If you want success look for vision, not just metrics.

George Clooney: "If CBS and ABC had challenged those lawsuits and said, 'Go fuck yourself,' we wouldn't be where we are in the country." "That's simply the truth." "Bari Weiss is dismantling CBS News as we speak," Clooney says. "I'm worried about how we inform ourselves."