Petty and pathetic. We will overturn these vetoes. Good riddance.

NEW YORK (AP) — Democrat Zohran Mamdani sworn in as mayor of New York City.

Oh no, you may not have access to warm ham sandwiches.

She wrote in the essay, "During the latest clinical trial, my doctor told me that he could keep me alive for a year, maybe. My first thought was that my kids, whose faces live permanently on the inside of my eyelids, wouldn’t remember me."

I used Prime for one month while moving and canceled it BEFORE the renewal date… so of course Amazon charged me THREE TIMES for it

I used a tool to identify weirdoes who put me on weird lists, so I can block them. Someone then put me on a list of people who use a tool to see who puts them on lists.

Isiah Whitlock Jr, best known for his role as Clay Davis on “The Wire,” has died. He was 71

If I’m annoying you have to tell me btw

Another regional (AJC covers/goes way beyond Atlanta) news service shrinking when it’s needed most thanks to private equity

damn

Are white people aware that Trump won twice BECAUSE A MAJORITY OF WHITE PEOPLE WHO VOTED PUT HIM IN OFFICE?????????? Why is this consistently elided???? Stop being ridiculous.

yes! move around.

So back then you thought Moonlight was overrated™️ and Parasite was overrated™️ and Everything Everywhere all at Once was overrated™️…and now Sinners is also overrated™️ too? Oh.

I had no idea either, it was really like reading kim Novak gave money to the klan

You want to play the clown I can bring the circus

"Why don't the kids play outside anymore?"

Celebrating billionaires while people crowdfund for basics.

🇳🇬 🇬🇧 Former world heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua was injured in a fatal highway accident that killed two people Monday, his promoter and a Nigerian police source said. ➡️ u.afp.com/S88A

Jan. 6, 2021: “history will remember” The history rememberers:

Like every celebrity who came out prior to 2015 Jon Stewart keeps telling y’all who he is and y’all keep pretending he’s not and here we are

Does it matter if a comedian lies throughout a comedy special in which he is trying to teach the audience the “true history” of the country? open.substack.com/pub/toomucht...

Credit is a scam. Credit scores are a scam. Credit reports are a scam. The whole damn system is a scam. It should be illegal honesty. It feels like fraud or laundering or something. It’s not right

i can tell some of y'all about to read the "personal life" section of brigitte bardot's wikipedia and have a real bad day

Lays did some consumer testing and found that most people don’t know they’re made with potatoes so they redid the packaging and I wish I were joking

In Zelda 2, a woman appears in each town, beckoning Link into her home. They disappear inside and Link's health begins to refill. One reddit user recently asked if this scene was *intentionally* suggestive. While that seems very unlikely, I thought I'd look into it.

Christie's is auctioning off some things from Jimmy Carter's estate. Included are some things from his wardrobe (ties, peanut scarves, cowboy hat) and furniture he personally made. Auction starts in two weeks.

Technically, ‘should of’ is ‘should have,’ but we’re all about showing grace in the new year.

Korean adoptees were crucially involved in making these changes, which, though they don’t amount to full abolition, are nonetheless massive. In the US, by contrast, a single state’s decision to let adoptees see their own vital records is what passes for a major victory.

When I was on CNN's northeast desk, the first job at 6a every morning was to read the local papers. That guided some of what the massive CNN machine followed every day. When those papers die, CNN doesn't hire new regional reporters. What you get instead is more panel shows, more punditry.

She’s so bad at being original, Kara Swisher and Peter Kafka already have this market covered

I see Taylor Lorenz is spending her Christmas morning defending a right-wing US attack on European tech regulators on behalf of the billionaires of Silicon Valley 🫠

heartbreakingly bearing witness 💔 @mikemadden.bsky.social @hannahnatanson.bsky.social

Last year we can post this 🥺

No, she has every idea how insulting she is. When people show you who they are, believe them

In other news, water remains wet. More at 11.

Exactly the right frame.

Yeah the Amtrak is undefeated on the East Coast

PTFO collaborated with @msjpauly.bsky.social and @motherjones.com on an investigation into Riley Gaines. Riley’s messaging about trans athletes involves “predatory men” and “sexual assault.” But there’s an important story multiple ex-teammates at Kentucky want you to know: youtu.be/iKUl8lkuGOc?...

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So many folks who’ve shaped music died this year. This is a great comprehensive retrospective that’s also missing Chicago music folks such as Ron Carrol and Keith Nunnally from J.M. Silk. I wrote a few obits of more marginal local musical figures I’ll thread below.

as foretold by the prophesy

Another day of people realizing that press freedom and editorial independence is virtually non existent thanks to corporate America but people ignoring all signs until they’re slapping you in the face

Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

LOL "Bari killed this meticulous story because it was unfavorable to the Trump administration" is literally the story they're giving to their stenographer

VIDEO: 🇮🇷 Heavy rain turns Iranian beach a striking red Heavy rainfall on Iran's Hormuz Island carried iron oxide-rich soil to the sea, turning the coastline a striking blood red colour

Maximum kudos to @letterboxd.social for waiting until the year has actually f***ing ended before doing their “Wrapped”, unlike all these other apps where apparently December doesn’t matter.

TikTok has reportedly signed a deal to sell the US business, according to Axios. Deal closes January 22. Oracle, Silver Lake + MGX own 45%. ~33% owned by existing ByteDance investors. ~20% retained by ByteDance.

Just saw a clip of Jake Paul getting his shit rocked so good Friday night I'd say