Look there is so much more to criticize but Hair Gel's form just sucks. No momentum from the hips, weight is too light, fighting that thing instead of swinging it. As in all things, the guy's an amateur, just pretending he knows what he's doing and looking stupid in the meantime.

I am very aware he knows that the 'paid agitator' narrative is a lie; I do believe that he would be confused by the shock, horror, and involuntary screams of witnessing a murder, though, because he seems genuinely ignorant of how emotion should work. He's a broken man hellbent on breaking a country.

Here is a video of a frozen creek that had begun to thaw, and the water was flowing beneath the thin ice on top. I took this because it was soothing and wonderfully bloopy and I wanted to listen to it for hours. You are all welcome to enjoy it, too. Let your brain settle here and rest for a moment.

Currently enjoying the claustrophobic heat of @elizabethbroadbent.bsky.social short story collection Ink Vine and Other Swamp Stories for @undertakerbooks.bsky.social #FridayReads #booksky

I have found myself in positions where I was deeply unqualified to be performing the task assigned to me, but I can say confidently that I have never been as bad at any job as Noem is at hers.

Jacob Frey: "I mean, let's call a spade a spade here. I was listening to Kristi Noem speak minutes ago, and it sounded to me like someone that didn't believe a word that they themselves were saying. Let's be straightforward about this: this is not about safety, this is about terrorizing people."

The fact that this lie, like all the others, is so ridiculously unbelievable and implausible is the whole point. This administration and its enablers desperately want to hold a monopoly on reality.

I think we are seeing that the government does believe it has the right to murder US citizens as it sees fit. If they didn’t, it’d be pretty simple to sacrifice this one agent and go back to kidnapping.

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

One week into 2026.

Everyone should see this. apps.npr.org/jan-6-archive/

Four generations of my family have served our country. Service is in my blood. The President wouldn’t know anything about that.

Vile

The most effective way to resist this modern brand of fascism isn't to completely immerse yourself in its propaganda. You're actually helping their message spread. Go and make art or read a book or spend time with offline people. You can't marinate in the horror and emerge unscathed.

Seeing that Captain America panel posted everywhere again. The next two panels are worth checking out too. From Daredevil #283 (1990) by Ann Nocenti and Mark Bagley.

CNN just pointed it out, but since no one has posted it yet, I'll be that guy. Here's today's round of Kill Your Inner Mercator: Iraq, Afghanistan, and Venezuela in a way your brain can handle

hey remember when a bunch of middle-aged drunk korean lawmakers climbed the locked gates to the national assembly to hold an emergency session after the president gave illegal orders to the military, all of which ended with said president being sentenced to prison

“Thus he came alone to Angband’s gates, and he sounded his horn, and smote once more upon the brazen doors, and challenged Morgoth to come forth to single combat. And Morgoth came.”   (Tolkien “The Silmarillion – of the Ruin of Beleriand and the Fall of Fingolfin”)   🎨 P. Amachree   #bookwormsat

You have to go through Congress for anything resembling this type of war. Round up Massie and Paul types and have him removed. The people in this administration are on actual drugs and have insatiable bloodlust and bespoke mental illnesses. He has to go, and everybody with him.

CBS paid the president of the United States millions in bribe money and now they censor news reports so it does not annoy him. I don’t know how much plainer we can put this.

I am not sorry. This is simply true. Academics should be able to write fluently and express themselves clearly and academics should do their own work. It’s literally our job. It’s what we trained until 22nd grade to do. This is a simple observation that should require no explanation or defense.

The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality. And trans lives are grounded in reality. We see y'all. No matter what. www.popsci.com/science/tran...

The Onion, 23 years ago. theonion.com/no-blood-for...

Becky Spratford is the unassuming champion behind the rise in horror lit. “To me, Becky is the spark plug, lynchpin, head coach and fairy godmother of horror,” says author Daniel Kraus.

It's almost nice that over the last couple of decades, despite so much change and uncertainty, the sentence "Nick Saban should shut the fuck up" has been reliably true. Its the Polaris around which most takes in college football revolve.

America has always been this racist; never in my lifetime have those elements been this comfortable with openly bigoted rhetoric. While you might see a decrepit husk being coddled by a fawning pack of soulless jackals, too many others will see this and become emboldened to be their worst selves.

There are 75,977 people born in Somalia who are now citizens of the United States, including those specific people. He is talking about US citizens. He is talking about *us*. The truth is that none of us are garbage, and the job of the US president is to represent all of us. We, the people.

While Cabinet members praise his energy and fitness, Trump sleeps. No satire in the history of film and television has ever been this on the mark.

Gloves off, unfiltered racism, and silence from the rest of the right. Just another Tuesday in the USA in 2025.

Ilhan Omar rose from a single parent immigrant family where her dad drove a taxi to her current position. Trump is the kid of a racist wealthy slum landlord who headed multiple failed businesses. One of these people is the example of failed ambition and it's not her. What a racist piece of shit.

Do not, my friends, become addicted to water. It will take hold of you, and you will resent its absence!

This They Might Be Giants TONIGHT SHOW performance of "Birdhouse In Your Soul" from 1990 remains firmly lodged in my noggin thanks to the Tonight Show Band's full commitment and Doc Severinsen's incredible trumpeting... It took an already great song and made it transcendent.

I...I dont know what is real anymore.

As an Eagle Scout, I can confidently state that the inclusion of all genders into Scouting doesn't threaten boys or any version of masculinity that isn't insecure, superficial, and misguided. On the other hand, Hegseth and the Scout Law are incompatible. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Morning thoughts about "AI". Where do we go from here?

As I said in a reply to this, families are complicated and personal. Some people have no interest in learning what you do or why and are just kinda jerks. I'm sorry. But some people really want to understand, and too few scientists learn how to talk to non-scientists. I can help with that!

dems should be putting out new “dont follow illegal orders” videos every day, they should be replying to announcements of investigations of dems with new videos, they should be posting at hegseth to not follow illegal orders nonstop

Tom Nichols about Trump: “Places like Arlington Cemetery and people like Mark Kelly or John Kelly or Jim Mattis or others, they make him uncomfortable because they are a constant reminder of everything he is not.” @radiofreetom.bsky.social

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth chastised Sen. Mark Kelly for incorrectly displaying his military uniform medals, not comprehending that photographs reverse images from left to right. Here’s what that says about Joe Biden’s cognitive state.

If you read one #Bookseller article: read this: www.thebookseller.com/comment/dont...

If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?

Every Democrat in Congress should put out a video saying troops have an obligation to refuse unlawful orders. Make them prosecute all of you. This isn't a close call. I'd add Republicans too if I thought any of them had the courage to actually cross Trump on this.

2 ongoing convos are dovetailing rn: 1. a holiday shopping $ blackout aimed at big business; 2. worry over small presses closing or paring down. Let's talk direct action: YOU CAN DO BOTH😀 IT'S VITAL TO SUPPORT indie pubs that encourage risk & diversity. Here's a 🧵 of em you can support directly:

Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged. Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.

Wow! Jesse Welles performed his song “Join ICE” on the Colbert Show last night. 🏆

“While the AI industry claims its models can “think,” “reason,” and “learn,” their supposed achievements rest on marketing hype and stolen intellectual labor. In reality, AI erodes academic freedom, weakens critical reading, and subordinates the pursuit of knowledge to corporate interests.”

There's no bottom floor, is there? Every single time that I think I could respect a human being less, he proves me wrong.

NYT renaming a vast international child sex trafficking ring as a "clubby world that is all but gone" while the most-named rapist in the few documents we've seen is in the most powerful position in the world who is now operating an equally vast human trafficking/torture operation is fucking vile

HELL YES! My Jedi Council will consist of Hans Gruber, Sheena: Queen of the Jungle, Drunk Pea Commercial Orson Welles, Hans Gruber, Grimace, and the entire cast of Predator (collectively being a great grandmother, can't decide which one yet. Cannot wait to see what they have to say about prom!

An excellent, thoughtful piece. I profoundly love the works of Tolkien, & I know that he was a definite product of the culture he lived in, for good and ill. I also know he hoped his writing could "yet leave scope for other minds and hands, wielding paint & music & drama." He believed in Fellowship.