Starting my day by reporting all the bigoted fuckwits blaming the murder of Jewish Australians on completely unrelated Jewish people in Israel.

I’ve seen two kids post that the Brown University shooting is the second school shooting they’ve survived. This should enrage and radicalize everyone. Kids shouldn’t have to survive one shooting, let alone two. No more thoughts and prayers. It’s time to address the guns.

If you are worried this is too big an executive function barrier you can go to a pharmacy and they will probably just jab you. That is what I did. I'm not saying it's necessarily the right way to do this, that is just how much I am not fucking around with the measles

Sometimes, I think about how lucky I am to be raising my kids in a time with vaccines, formula, good medical care, safe food, car seats, child labor laws, etc. How awful it must have been to deal with the grim reality of likely losing a child to disease or accidents. Yet, still there are guns....

On top of everything that’s wrong with this, Republicans JUST succeeded, after screaming about the need for it for YEARS, in forcing literally everyone to go and get their stupid, expensive replacement licenses, and now they’re no good anyway.

[tapping earpiece] I'm just now getting a startling revelation about the shocking thing in common between those who work forces and those who burn crosses

Perfect recent example: The Y2K bug. We averted disaster because of incredibly hard work by an army of coders, many of whom came out of retirement to do it, but now people act like it was never a problem in the first place.

Do you know how much you have to suck to make most of my friends root for the Catholic Church?

Oh, and in case anyone wondered: yes, we're near some of the flooding, but we haven't been directly affected as we live on a pretty high hill (and not near any sections that might have a soil-saturation landslide risk.) The river down the hill from us hit 5' above flood stage, though.

Somewhere in me is a very long thread about Transphobia and the intentional construction of gender as a power-stratification tool but the wee one and a power outage kept us up half of last night so I'm too fucking tired. Just pretend I wrote 20 or so hot-take posts about that.

*snort* In a well-run universe, all these dudes obsessed with AI would believe it and stop doing war crimes, but alas…

I honestly think it's time to use our Western States Compact structure to formalize coordination on disasters and other emergencies. We all know the Trump regime is never going to give us any real help. @governorferguson.bsky.social @governor.ca.gov @tinakotek.bsky.social

Kilmar Abrego Garcia speaks at the ICE Baltimore field office for a scheduled check-in. Abrego was released from custody after a federal judge ruled that the Trump administration lacked legal authority to continue holding him in an immigration detention center.

The EU indefinitely froze Russian assets to ensure Moscow-friendly Hungary and Slovakia can’t veto their use to underwrite a loan for Ukraine.

counterpoint: you should absolutely lose your job for shouting racial slurs at customers

California, other states sue Trump administration over $100,000 fee for H-1B visas

The DOJ reeeeally doesn't want to have its attorney testify in court next week about that supposed directive from Emil Bove to ignore judges' orders.

He’s been doing this to colleges all year. Of course he thought the States would follow suit.

And the nasty federal overreach requiring all that annoying waste of money on wetlands protection turns out to be good, actually.

In 2001 the tribes in Washington sued the state to open up the concrete culverts for fish passage, and they won. A lot of old concrete pipes were replaced with modern bridges over waterways. This may have saved our bacon this year, as the flooding would’ve been exponentially worse with the pipes.

Stephen Miller is such an asshole even CNN doesn’t want anything to do with him.

NEWS: Kilmar Abrego Garcia has been RELEASED from ICE custody following today's order from a federal judge

Lie and leave early.

lol wut. dropping from 42 percent approval to 36 percent approval seems pretty significant. apnews.com/article/trum...

Rough day on the “I-solved-eight-wars” beat. 🤡 @washingtonpost.com @wsj.com www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...

Attacking the ICC for the possibility that it might prosecute you sounds like a confession. newrepublic.com/post/204253/...

The only thing I hate more than, "The regime can't do that! It's illegal!" is the asshats whining, "Democrats aren't stopping this, therefore they're useless and I'm never going to vote for them again!" In both cases, my response is the same: TRUMP OWNS THE ENTIRE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, YOU DOORKNOB.

MAGAZINER: How many veterans have you deported? NOEM: We haven't deported veterans MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea

JUST IN: A federal judge has blocked DHS from enforcing a new prohibition on “unusual noise” outside a government building in Oregon, saying it unconstitutionally criminalizes and chills free speech storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

As I was saying about the Trump/Putin/Xi agreement to carve up most of the world between them.... Trump's dreaming, however, if he thinks the US can magically conquer the entirety of the Americas. Brazil alone is 2/3 of the US population.

So how close are we to, "They're just naturally suited to be slaves"?

uh, because it is literally a physical impossibility? *TRUMP: DON'T SEE WHY WE CAN'T HAVE 20%, 25% GDP GROWTH

Congrats. America.

I give up on the anti-science crowd. I have zero patience for picking through multiple layers of conspiracy garbage and religion trying to find the one entry point that might get them to see reality. Enough coddling. Start holding them responsible for harming their kids and fucking public health.

This Georgia flip is in a district that the GOP drew to drown Democratic voters in Athens into a neighboring red county, Oconee. But tonight, Dems in Athens were out in FULL FORCE to swamp that gerrymander.

Timely reminder: Make sure your emergency supplies and go bags are refreshed and topped off, because this regime's FEMA will be doing precisely fuckall, especially in blue states. Next fire, tornado, quake, etc., state resources will be stretched thin. Prepare to be on your own for a while.

Sounds like “death panels” to me.

Just in: Missouri organizers have turned in ≈300,000 signatures to block the GOP's new gerrymander there. That's an impressive haul in the very compressed window they had. They need roughly 110,000 signatures to succeed, though the GOP will now throw everything it has to disqualify them.

A British NGO files a complaint against FIFA -- for violating the international body's own code of ethics. @lemonde.fr www.lemonde.fr/sport/articl...

But the death threats we got were no big deal, apparently. Maybe I should play for her the ones I still have saved.

FOX: Do most Pennsylvanians agree that the economy is an A+++? SEN. DAVE McCORMICK: I think the starting point is we're digging out of a huge hole that we're in as a result of the Biden administration (That's a no)

Texas Democrats just did something historic under the leadership of new state party chair @kendallscudder.bsky.social. We have filed a candidate in EVERY 2026 race. U.S. Senate: 1 of 1 U.S. House: 38 of 38 State Senate: 15 of 15 State House: 150 of 150 State Board of Education: 8 of 8

The Trump regime has announced a new escalation in its war on free speech and civil society. Pam Bondi sent a memo to every federal prosecutor directing them to go on offense against all organizations connected to “ANTIFA” — a loose ideology rather than an actual organization or group.

The boat was rubble. The drugs were no longer "loaded up"... if there were drugs. The boaters were traumatized, shellshocked, and hanging on for dear life, incapacitated, incapable of doing anything. You had them murdered. Thanks for playing. Now release the video.

weird how this keeps happening, huh? www.newsfromthestates.com/article/gop-...

The Trump administration just announced its admission that October inflation was higher than they want you to believe

Russia is engaging in extortion. Giving in to people who are trying to shake you down never, ever works. It just tells them they can keep using the same tactics to bleed you dry.

Wins 2025 hands down

What’s about to happen at SCOTUS is why I’ve opposed premature declarations of Trumpism’s collapse. Drumbeat since ‘15. Just like Christian fundamentalism has been declared dead every 5-10 years since 1925. When I pub’d The Family in ‘08, interviewers asked why, since Obama was ending Right forever.