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“We’re not going to have the FBI conduct standard background checks for these insane nominees and we’ll sue any reporters who look into their records” is really inspiring confidence.

guzzling straight from the bottle with it pouring off his face onto his shirt is a perfectly normal way to drink champagne … if you’ve just won the World Series

I’m old enough to remember there was some lady (I think she was like Black and Indian or something) who told us he was gonna do this and it would be bad

A big unspoken key to Trump’s appeal is: “If a piece of shit like this can be president of the United States, what do YOU have to feel bad about?”

In a sense, this is the real culture war and the rest is window dressing. The GOP has rebranded itself as the Trash Party. Their fundamental promise isn’t really anything about policy. It’s that you have permission to be vulgar and stupid and hateful and not feel bad about it anymore.

during the 2023 presidential primary, the legal team for a major GOP candidate threatened to sue me if i wrote critically about the candidate's wardrobe

Me, a public health person, just sitting over here reflecting on the fact that the US has experienced a 7% increase in infant mortality post-Dobbs. Like, do you realize what that says about this society from an ethical perspective? That we made policy choices that caused this? #PHEthx

On This Day in 1978: I married my dental hygienist, Marilou York. She cleaned my teeth & the rest... is history. #HappyAnniversary2TheLoveOfMyLife. ❤️ 🎆 🙏

Way to go Liz. This is just insane

'Not going to cooperate': Border state sheriffs throw wrench in Trump’s deportation plan www.rawstory.com/not-going-to...

See below for my statement in response to Chairman Loudermilk's "Interim Report":

What an honor to be invited to The White House Christmas party,,, and special thankx to the great Dr Jill Biden for the hospitality and the opportunity to meet her husband,,, the PRESIDENT of the United States of America, Joe Biden.

Utter bollocks: GOP report recommends Liz Cheney be criminally investigated over Jan. 6 work thehill.com/homenews/hou...

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Oof: Stock market today: Dow logs longest losing streak since 1978 as stocks slide ahead of Fed decision finance.yahoo.com/news/live/st...

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When my son first started to really be able to read at age 5, he asked me why our neighbor has a flag that says "F*ck your feelings" on their house. There was a lot to unpack there, but I told him that they are doing us a favor and letting us know they are not worth knowing.

guy with a “fuck your feelings” shirt at the elementary school band concert. like what do you even do with that

Kremlin Insiders Spill Putin’s Secret Plan to Manipulate Trump - via @juliadavisnews.bsky.social at @thedailybeast.bsky.social www.thedailybeast.com/kremlin-insi...

The Trump economy? The Dow ends the day lower, suffering its longest losing streak since the Carter administration t.co/UuzokdpODE?s...

One of the defining features of the political culture of the current GOP is that it's reached into the brains of a significant portion of the party's leadership and activist class, identified the spot where Occam's Razor is located, and used a power tool to grind it down to a stump.

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Gubbio, a beautiful medieval town in the heart of Central Italy's Umbria Region, claims the world's largest Christmas tree. This is the 44th year for this tree display!

The principal Christmas tree at Sofia Square in Kyiv, Ukraine

Royal household staff pose for a photograph next to decorated Christmas tree at Windsor Castle England.

The original Christmas tree displayed inside the Galeries Lafayette department store in Paris.

Christmas tree at Rockefeller Center in New York City. Photo by Daniel SLIMAFP via Getty Images

Ireland’s media regulator has put social media giant Meta on watch over terrorist content takedowns again — it issued a decision against Facebook on Monday #EU techcrunch.com/2024/12/16/m...

Canadian Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland, long Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s most powerful and loyal minister, announced Monday she was resigning from the Cabinet apnews.com/article/fina...

Police say multiple people injured at a Madison, Wisconsin school shooting www.fox13memphis.com/news/police-...

Sharyn Alfonsi attempted to learn the Hermès signature saddle stitch — a technique that takes years to master. “I have to have the hands of a heart surgeon and the thighs of a professional wrestler,” she says. Via @60minutes.bsky.social cbsn.ws/3DrmeHr

A new House investigation says it’s likely a foreign adversary was behind many cases of Havana Syndrome, mysterious illnesses suffered by U.S. officials. @60minutes.bsky.social has conducted a five-year investigation into Havana Syndrome, that is ongoing today. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdPS...

Lovely full moon out 🌕

Delightful! EXCLUSIVE: Loro Piana Wraps Harrods in Cashmere for Whimsical Anniversary Takeover wwd.com/fashion-news...

New pic of a drone over New Jersey.

One thing that's pretty remarkable is how hard literal Nazis are working to try and turn tankies into Nazis using the current Israel-Hamas War as bait. And they're able to import a ton of antisemitic tropes the tankies are already using without modification to do it.

You meet your kids where their interests are, which is how I've bonded with my daughter over football and with my son over cooking. It's awesome. Imagine letting some dusty notion of "traditional gender roles" get in the way of all that.

Falling in love with Badgley Mischka again www.vogue.com/fashion-show...

Inspiring happy-dances always makes my day.

“When Assad was in power, the AfD wanted to deport people to Syria because it was supposedly safe there. Now that Assad has been overthrown, the AfD wants to deport people to Syria because it is supposedly safe there. Maybe the AfD doesn't care about security and just wants to deport people?!”

Elon Musk just can’t leave Donald Trump’s side Musk has joined Trump’s calls with world leaders, weighed in on Cabinet choices and been a regular part of the Trump family since the election. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Quick update Bluesky: ever wonder why there are no sharp images of these “drones” when many people have good cameras? 👇👇

Mark O'Brien was a journalist and poet. He was a member of my internet home, The Well. He used a wand to type his work. Why not his hands? He was in an iron lung. From 1955 til he died in 1999. Attended UC Berkeley in it. Because: polio. Fuck you, RFK Jr. pic: Poetry Foundation

Perfection.

Perhaps I've misunderstood all along and WaPo ownership views "Democracy dies in darkness" as aspirational.🤔

This is really wild. @stuartathompson.bsky.social went there so we don't have to: "I Traded My News Apps for Rumble, the Right-Wing YouTube. Here’s What I Saw." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

The key to understanding Trump's fixation on tariffs, even if they destroy the economy, is that he can use his presidential authority to exempt from them those supplicants of his choosing that ply him with favors pleasing to him.

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UUUUGGGGGHHHHH FUCK YOU www.bloomberg.com/news/article...