As a hockey guy this makes me physically ill. Saw this coming a mile away, which is why I paid zero attention to the men’s tournament

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken. Hundreds of kids are still detained. We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

It's actually easy: • marry someone with health insurance • get bosses who fired you to link your newsletter in a farewell • get virally lucky or have no bills for a year while you rebuild your audience • convince that audience to pay $60/year for one part of much bigger newspaper that was $140.

the guy who financed a propaganda film about the nazi first lady is killing a newspaper that writes unfavorably about her and her husband. this is how the club works.

definitely curious how Melania's widely reported $8 million opening weekend turned out to be barely over $7 million

A note from our editors:

Note to my 413 folks... our congressman is concerned, and calls for "reform and accountability" for our federal paramilitary death squads

can’t wait to kick back on this day, Whiskey Friday with Tony Dokoupil

im sorry i know it sucks but journalists are going to have to be willing to get fired for simply describing what they see happening with their own eyes, you look like fucking morons

@chrislhayes.bsky.social: “A 37-year-old American citizen, the mother of a young child is dead tonight. She was shot in the face by an agent of the federal government, and that government has spent the day telling despicable lies about her.”

masked, unidentified goons who assault and murder with impunity. a literal gestapo.

A touching tribute to Mike F

We're a little over a week away from our film screening at Visions Video of the new documentary THE STRINGER, to be followed by a conversation with photojournalist Ben Brody. We hope to see you there! More info and ticket reservations here: fundrazr.com/thestringer

NYT gonna NYT: "Both Mr. Mamdani and Mr. Maduro identify as socialists, though they have no relationship.” — would be funny if they did this every time you write about two capitalists. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/w...

Big congrats to the Nobel Committee for awarding the prize "for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy" just so she could immediately conspire with a foreign government to murder civilians on the high seas then invade and stage a coup.

Part of our spread for Moscow New Year. С Новым годом, ребята! 🎉

Here’s a thread of some work that I really loved this year from new-to-me artists. First is Belkis Ayón, a Cuban artist whose startling images grab you in whatever gallery you find them. These two are from the Tate Modern in London “La Cena” (1991), and “Sikán” (1991).

My formal choice as a guy of a certain age youtu.be/fl9KQ1Mub6Q

MTV is officially ending all of its music channels. In honor of that, what's your favorite music video?

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it took the Tories 15 years of fucking everything up to obliterate their party. Keir Starmer did it in 18 months

“The Adoration of the Shepherds,” Gaetano Gandolfi. 1798. At the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

IT’S CHRISTMAS EVE

For the holidays, Truthdig asked me to talk about the weird sensation of watching Hallmark gradually go woke(r) over the last five years just as one party is trying to turn the real world into it at gunpoint.

In 2021, Bari Weiss famously published a resignation letter by former Smith College librarian Jodi Shaw. Shortly after, I asked Smith if Weiss had reached out for comment first. “She did not,” spokesperson Stacey Schmeidel said via email. Weiss’ agents declined my requests for comment.

Intriguing time - just a few hours ago happened to see a random full MAGA troll on twitter float a "maybe it's time to move on to JD" post.

Around London today

This is even worse than I expected, and I was expecting the worst.

Today in Oxford

Stealworkers

"Strong floor, no ceiling" is very literally the basis of like every Gilded Age political cartoon

Our Spectrum Internet service has been blinking between 3 and 15 Mbps for hours. Their website has a speed test tool that claims we are getting 150 - and offers us to pay $10 for an upgrade to 'advanced' service. The crappy service is bad enough, but the gaslighting is really another level

Ah, that explains this curious email Monday

You think he’s hit bottom and bam, he always finds another level

Where "exile" is "chilling in a house in Malibu for a while, hiking & writing, until I'm ready to return as editor of Vanity Fair." God people are embarrassing themselves around this. It's so fucking gross.

The shameless lying makes it much worse

"A.I." is the tool of and the prevailing aesthetic of fascists leading to a world devoid of meaning or art.

A few pics from #NoKings in North Adams (courtesy of my wife!)

A perfect pick for 2025, to be honest

Everything he touches

Come on

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

perhaps instead of cowering under a blanket labeled "health care," democrats should respond and advance on the issues that move people. this, of course, would require a foundation of conviction and principle, which may be asking too much of the party's leadership and strategists.

Bombing my big stand-up special in front of a totally silent room of generals. "What else, what else. Bagram Air Force Base, we're going to do that again, okay? And we're going to do it the right way: through specific types of tattoos, and haircuts."

And yet, these two still haven’t given up the effort to find Bipartisan Solutions for the Kitchen Table Problems facing American Working Families

Trump, pounding shoe: "We will bury ourselves!"

Surely some countries on earth have enough self-respect left to start talking about moving the UN from the US?

Repulsed to see @neal.house.gov voted for this crap. Unacceptable.

I'm old enough to remember when Russian t.v. shows could make fun of their leaders www.nytimes.com/2000/06/18/w...