Lander has the kind of grassroots connections that you can’t buy, they can only be earned being a dedicated city / state level rep. Goldman skipped that to run for congress & outspending the other candidates by a factor of 10x from his own pocket to compensate for his lack of legislative experience.

Harvard has removed a resident dean -- a Black lecturer in psychology -- for writing posts critical of Trump and law enforcement www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...

Could write a whole essay about why NYE is the best time to binge watch the TZ. Something about the magic, mystery, and anxieties of the impending new year.

They had a day-long (days?) Twilight Zone marathon since the 80s lol

Ok Amy

I appreciate a lot of us will think "they've always been like this" but the utter moral decay on the right in the last few years has been notable. A shift from love the sinner, hate the sin fig leaf to "yeah, kill she/her, haha, pronouns in bio."

what you clearly see, CLEARLY, is a driver who is spooked by the agents grabbing her door, takes steps to drive away, and is immediately shot as moves her vehicle *away* from the agents.

And reporters who simply uncritically regurgitate these lies are acting as agents to fascism.

A GOP official snapped a creeper photo of a trans woman using the bathroom. She was charged with violating a Texas law banning recording in bathrooms. She sued and has gotten slapped down in multiple courts. Elon Musk, the CEO of a child porn site, is supporting her. www.chron.com/culture/arti...

“.. In the last four months alone, immigration officers have fired on at least nine people in five states and Washington, D.C. All of the individuals targeted in those shootings were, like the woman killed on Wednesday, fired on while in their vehicles.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/01/07/u...

When I see “Set aside race so we can address bigger issues”, what’s being said is that race and the racism that comes with it aren’t big enough issues to be considered. And that often tells me everything I need to know about the person making that statement.

One thing I learned from my worst job: Pearl-clutching over someone using "bad language" can be a tactic, a form of linguistic DARVO. It's used purposely to deflect from whatever point the speaker was making. Good on anyone who refuses to take the bait.

Dokoupil crisscrossing the country in a private plane, “even as he lectures viewers about ‘elites,’ has come across as deeply inauthentic. That dissonance has been amplified by the fact that CBS is footing the bill for the aircraft at the very moment execs are preparing for another round of layoffs”

I have only one thing to say to the FT in response to this - Fuck you, lousy fucking Nazi collaborators.

Meanwhile here’s Rubio and Schumer chopping it up today

Every second the murderer is not arrested is another second for feds to hide him in a place that would create a jurisdictional fight. He's on video killing a person. You have to arrest this guy an hour ago, but you might still have time now.

I have seen three videos now, all of them contradict Tricia's statement. And every single journalist who interacts with her knows that she lies all the time in ways that can be proven, which should also be stated in the piece.

Cut and dry murder. Arrest the officer right now.

Here's the ICE agent "defending himself" by shooting into the driver's side window of a car that's pulling *away* from him. Put this photo on the front page of every newspaper in America.

losing my mind at the "she should have followed directions" people really? really? you're cool with "if you don't follow directions, they get to kill you"? that seems like a good state of affairs to you? that seems like how law enforcement ought to work: instant obeisance or death?

Dan Goldman's condescending comment is also based on a false premise (that the Times should have noted). Brad's arrests were not civil disobedience. He was not trying to get arrested as a protest. He got arrested because he was helping migrants and ICE didn't like it www.nytimes.com/2026/01/06/n...

If the DNC had a sophisticated and strategic digital comms/advo operation they’d be launching multi channel online and offline blitz targeting every Republican (the party of Epstein) electeds and candidates to give back their money from Musk. This shouldn’t be difficult Dems.

To get to this, find X on the app store, scroll down, and select Report a problem

Just a reminder that George Conway is not fundraising right now to run against a MAGA republican. He is fundraising to run against progressive Democrats.

30 years ago they were like we have to ban song lyrics for the children but it’s full steam ahead for the here’s how to do drugs until you die machine

Anyway, fuck Dan Goldman. Every cynical accusation he has about Brad Lander is actually an admission of his own guilt.

"We took Daniel Sachs Goldman, one of the wealthiest elected officials in America, to hear his opinions while seated in a cheap diner not eating."

My pundit brain analysis is that Dan Goldman suffers as a congressional rep because he skipped doing time as a city or state level representative. He jumped over people like Yuh-Line to get a job that he did not have the qualifications for. And he doesn’t have the tight community ties to keep it.

People keep saying Brad Lander is like a Tim Robinson character, but really he’s the answer to the question “What if a Tim Robinson character knew with certainty, in the depths of his soul, that he was loved?”

This was really one of the strangest moments I can remember in American culture, there was a 10 day window where this man was considered a saint, like post-9/11 culture but on 4x fast forward

This account will be the only good thing still left being run by the government.

Hazard: You are sent to the bug planet.

It's becoming standard procedure across all news media to explicitly not mention in the obituary of a Republican member of congress that they voted on Jan. 6, 2021 to overturn the election

It's good to use the resources at hand to fight because sometimes you win. Also, I keep thinking of the period after this man was killed and how a group of people tried to impose a new social reality. It didn't work. This too is a lesson.

Yeah, yeah, not good practice in terms journalistic norms or whatever, but more to the point—that’s just fucking embarrassing.

Change in Headline

I mean when you consider that basically every other high-profile, hastily-assembled charging document these jokers have put together has crumbled under any scrutiny this seems like the logical path it will follow.

This is why it bothers me when eg a democrat like my rep Dan Goldman makes it sound like a border wall would be an ok idea if it was just more affordable, as opposed to pushing back on the very idea as being dumb. He immediately just cedes to the GOP that there is a border crisis in the first place.

IMO the argument is that you can make things into big enough deals that it matters. Khanna found Massey and found survivors and made the Epstein Files the gigantic story it should be. Only then did establishment Dems come along. You can, in fact, make things into big hairy deals if you do it right.

Every single Proud Boy we identified in the January 6th footage had spent the previous two years violently attacking innocent people in his own hometown. The only was this was even possible is with the cooperation of local police. Cops are a permanent Fifth Column of global fascism that YOU pay for

Microsoft is so fucking stupid. Microsoft renamed Microsoft Office to Microsoft 365 Copilot App I'm not joking

It's important to understand the intentionality of Grok becoming a revenge porn + CSAM generation machine. Devs would have had to *intentionally* train it on millions of not billions of porn images.

Where We're : 1766s

And Stanford is trying to squeeze $329,000 of restitution out of the students, some of whom are couch surfing and sleeping in cars, to bankroll their ✨building renovation✨ when Stanford’s facilities director has testified that the damage was UNDER $10K. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

When we all said "let's follow up in the new year" I meant like maybe mid-January once I remembered how to do my job, I am quite frankly shocked and a little appalled everyone in the world decided to pull the trigger on me the first Monday of January before noon oh my god happy new year

What would be amazing if the press wrote stories about this relentlessly and there were segments on it cable TV - relentlessly talking about it. I know chicken/egg - someone has to feed the reporters and producers of cable TV news shows etc.

This article would be significantly improved by providing the context that (1) Trump is a notorious liar; (2) the 18-month claim here is absurd; and (3) the legal authority for the U.S. government to subsidize such an effort — what is it? Otherwise they are just misleading the public.

jfc, @nytimes.com, can we please stop with the laziest headline crutch imaginable already it's 2026