Just two sentences of this Reuters bulletin describe events that took place in the last nine hours. Yet the not-online-here people look at my quizzically when I say that mainstream media is normalizing lawlessness.

Reuters spent only two sentences of this bulletin on events that took place in the last nine hours.

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

I can’t repost this enough.

This is like an ICE kidnapping but on an international scale.

Rod Stewart's being interviewed on the radio and I always forget he isn't Scottish despite claiming to be, and that he now sounds exactly like Daphne's layabout brother Simon from the later seasons of Frasier.

First book purchase of 2026 "Children of Memory" by Adrian Tchaikovsky. My TBR pile is now at least 25% @aptshadow.bsky.social

Americans should accept that the US second republic (the one that lasted from the civil war until Trump) has come to an end and a new constitutional convention will be needed to found a third

The rolling horrified wtf alarm-clock moments over the past six-plus hours would be hilarious if it weren't a travesty. It's been far too long since there's been a jubilant rolling wake-up roll-call.

I’m thinking this morning about all the people I spoke to last year who were absolutely convinced, and tried to convince me, that Trump would be antiwar compared to Biden and Harris. In the past week alone he has attacked Nigeria and then Venezuela and also threatened to attack Iran (again).

Mean but true.

"You did something illegal but you did it really well" is a super weird take.

A lifetime of hearing US politicians solemnly intone about the glories of the constitution and the sacredness of law. Now they don’t even have the post 9/11 fig leaf. The whole vast military machinery is the plaything of a senile old man and his corrupt circle and most of them don’t care

pardon a vicious criminal convicted dictator of the Honduras, kill a lot of civilians to arrest a vicious dictator from Venezuela. It’s arbitrary and a wag the dog war to deflect from the Epstein files and access Venezuela’s oil. Trump criticized regime change wars: every accusation is a confession

Maybe we shouldn’t be able to bet on anything and everything

The Catalan edition of alien Clay is looking amazing. Editorial Chronos always have incredible covers.

Slow Epstein files release not as concerning as docs DOJ has withheld, says Ro Khanna - "We want to see the survivors' statements to the FBI, where they name other rich and powerful men who abused them or who covered up the crimes. www.npr.org/2026/01/02/n...

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overthrowing govs, sending people to detention facilities for torture, cutting taxes for the rich, slashing social spending for the poor, increasing military spending, promoting christian nationalism, demonizing gays, surveilling citizens under "national security." same old GOP.

No you left a voice mail on your reps phone line that ended in, "we don't need war, we need health insurance what the fuck is happening"

Clearly the scriptwriters for the 2026 season of "Planet Urth: 21st century" have given up on plausibility and are working their way up to the season finale, in which the POTUS pupates and emerges in his final boss form, or imago (see pic): it's the only explanation that makes sense.

Mamdani: For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty

Keir Starmer says he wants to establish facts by *watching Donald Trumps press conference.* People said giving him a second state visit was a genius move of strategy - really seems to have paid off. Special relationship - alive and kicking.

Why isn't there more shouting about this? This is the USPS undermining mail-in ballots. They find every opportunity to subvert voting and democracy. Ballots, tax returns and other important mail may not get postmarked the day you turn it in, USPS warns www.cnn.com/2025/12/31/p...

Cover reveal. It's about how & why colonies/states controlled international & domestic migration until 1888, why in the late 19th c the feds took over, & what it was like for politically disfavored groups to live under that arrangement of power. You can't understand voluntary migration history 1/

The Convicted Felon who has taken at least three cognitive exams & falls asleep during official meetings just bombed Venezuela and kidnapped its leader.

Every wildly wrong elite media flack gets a new year's $ bonus.

Already seeing accounts I follow go after each other for seemingly minor differences in phrasing and I think it perhaps worth reminding ourselves: 1) tensions, emotions and frustrations are high, 2) and we all agree Trump is the sole problem here. Be kind to each other and keep focused on the goal.

if you accidentally create a CSAM robot and do not instantly unplug it from the wall and beat it in with a hammer that is a choice

If, being incredibly charitable, you didn’t intend to make a CSAM robot, not immediately turning off the CSAM robot when you find out you accidentally made a CSAM robot should still get you put in the magnetic boots prison from Face/Off

Calling is better if you can swing it, but if you're phone shy here's a slightly augmented script I made for faxing/emailing/etc (feel free to steal in alt text). Find Your Senators: www.senate.gov/senators/sen... Find Your Representatives: www.house.gov/representati...

Live updates on the Guardian website: www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

Tonight, the President of the United States has launched an unconstitutional war of aggression, dooming another generation to spill their blood for oil, and lay waste to a sovereign nation. I demand that Congress exercise its power, halt this conflict, and impeach this war criminal president.

Anyone seen Congress lately? #Venezuela

No one is allowed to say anymore that Trump or MAGA give a fuck about borders.

expect efforts to deport Venezuelan nationals using this to look different now www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...

A Mad King has usurped the power of Congress—which represents the American people. That is, he has seized power that belongs to you and me collectively. He has declared war without consultation with or approval from Congress. And with no imminent threat. This is a profound betrayal of the republic.

Enraging. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/02/s...

The Trump administration’s justification.

only difference is that the president and vice president are much more outwardly racist, willing to use slurs online, and weirdly cagey about the epstein files.

Maduro has overseen the largest refugee crisis in Latin America, and at one point the second largest in the world. That still does not allow Trump to launch military attacks against a sovereign nation. If the benchmark was the leader was an inhumane arse then everyone would be invading America.

It's a hell of a thing to wake up and learn that an American president, who attempted to overturn a free and fair election, has kidnapped a foreign leader to stand trial in the United States.

Right now Greenland and Canada are watching the world's response to the motherfucker doing the illegal invasion he said he was going to do.

There's your Nobel Peace Prize winner, btw. Hats off to everyone involved. Great job.

We're challenging this terrible Labour Government. And we're ready to take on Reform. I spoke with the Guardian: www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

We're going to need a bigger Hague.

fwiw it’s been about six weeks since Trump pardoned the former president of Honduras who had been convicted of trafficking drugs into the US

You gonna put him on trial? This is gonna be the Habeas Of All Fucking Corpuses if you do.

"America is still living in a political era that began on Jan. 6, 2021. Recognizing as much is necessary to bring this era to an end before it has many more anniversaries." (Published on Dec 31, 2025.)

oh yeah? well, could a dying sex criminal do THIS? [bombs venezuela]