“One morally vacant aristocrat could not have accomplished today on his own. Everyone who was supposed to protect [us] from this failed in unforgivable ways … Every institution you may have believed had value revealed itself to be for-sale or out-to-lunch.” www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

This man never left the toddler phase, did he?

Like everything else the republicans stand for, the war on drugs is a flaming pile of bullshit. trump commutes sentence of gop congressman's meth dealing son... people.com/donald-trump...

Just recently read the two books of The Mkalis Cycle by @kerstinhall.bsky.social - The Border Keeper and Second Spear. Fascinating worldbuilding. Loved Second Spear especially!

This whole comment thread is a joy to go through. So many really amazing cinematic moments, beautiful character bits, just lovely.

More than 200,000 Danish citizens have signed a petition to buy California as a response to Trump’s attempt to take Greenland. They say they will provide Californians with “rule of law, universal health care, fact-based politics, and a lifetime supply of Danish pastries.”

He’s turned the presidency into the world’s largest ATM machine.

In April 2024, Spotify implemented a new scheme: songs with less than 1k streams per year would no longer receive royalties. The data for 2025 was just released via Luminate, and 88% of songs have been demonetized. Read it again: 88% of songs on Spotify have been demonetized.

I just spent the last half hour cry-laughing my way through the last quarter of Payal Mehta's Romance Revenge Plot by @runwithskizzers.bsky.social )! OMG SO GOOD. And also I sense a wave of Bollywood movies in my future.

breathtakingly embarrassing for absolutely everyone involved lol

This is a watershed moment for Texas - for the first time ever, solar supplied more electricity than coal in 2025. I will say it again: At this rate, TX will likely decarbonize its electricity sector faster than CA. TX clean electricity is growing at 13%,m more than twice that of CA's at 6%.

My partner @jasoncapsaicin.bsky.social made a step by step guide on how to break up ice in your neighborhood in Minnesota. Enjoy!

Chilling.

Eric Adams, former NYC mayor, launched a memecoin (cryptocurrency) today. He marketed it as an “NYC Token” and used media appearances and his social media to promote it. Within hours, Adams then drained its liquidity, apparently having scammed investors out of $3.4 million—a move called a rug pull.

things off the top of my head that i can think of that conservatives have called tyranny - health care subsidies - seeing pronouns in an email - being suspended from a social media platform - pride month - baking a cake for a same sex wedding - legal rulings against donald trump - EV benchmarks

Frey: "You cannot drag pregnant women through the snow. You're not allowed to take teenagers out of their car and detain them when they are in fact American citizens. That is against the law in every state. That is against our US Constitution."

They lie and lie and lie and lie and lie and lie and lie and take a little break to not release the Epstein files and lie and lie and lie and lie and lie and lie and lie and lie and lie and lie and lie and lie and lie and lie and lie and lie and lie and naptime and lie and lie and lie and lie and

um, hey guys it almost seems like some of those who work forces are the same that burn crosses.

if you had a livejournal, you likely have lived in a world without ICE

FIFA’s peace prize scam pays off

London’s homicide rate drops to lowest in more than a decade

"You don't even know her..." You don't have to know someone to care when they are being persecuted. These people just don't seem to comprehend that.

Damn, sure is a good thing we've all agreed to not examine and critique the pop culture we consume in light of the world we live in. Excellent decision, really saves us a lot of discomfort.

The message from the White House this morning is that, once again, it falls on ordinary American citizens to remain calm and professional when dealing with the heavily armed agents of the government because they are very emotional and might fly off into a murderous rage at the slightest insult.

Holy crap. 😳

become ungovernable

I bet Storm never gets migraines because if the barometric pressure is bothering her, she can just change it. 😐

These defenses clearly preclude a night-time attack...

we need the illegal ballroom to strong arm private businesses into doing corrupt and unprofitable deals so we can justify the illegal seizure of another country’s national resources

Books don't tell readers who they personally are or who they are supposed to be. They do show readers a variety of characters. Implicit in that is this: "Here are some ways of being." Kids books aren't altering your kid to be someone new. They are simply showing them parts of humanity.

Kyiv is currently entirely without power and heating after today’s attack. Authorities urged people to leave the city if they can. This is a humanitarian disaster, in case anyone didn’t know

"Her worst fear has come to pass." Midwife who advocated for Black women dies after giving birth.

Isn't there a word for a leader who thinks there are no meaningful legal constraints on his or her power and that "My own morality. My own mind" is "the only thing that can stop me"? www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/u...

Snood

This is beautifully written, and I really appreciated it even though I only watched season 1 of Stranger Things.

Some signs that a nation has gone rogue: 1. Withdrawing from financial support commitments to ally nations. 2. Threatening ally nations with invasion. 3. Invading other nations under thin pretense and stealing their resources. 4. Withdrawing from treaties of international cooperation.

Make it viral.

if "pronouns in bio" is what they're going with to justify murder ... what can I even say

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?

cringe to call something “orwellian” anymore bc the world’s corniest co-opted it and used it incorrectly til it lost all meaning but watching something very clearly happen with your own eyes then having the government tell you it didn’t is just about as 1984 as it gets

Basic media literacy: there are multiple clips out there showing this shooting, mostly up close and unobstructed (except by the car itself). Trump’s social media post includes a clip from far away, through trees, and slowed to super slow motion. Those are *choices*

Democrats need to understand that they can just say “It’s insane to threaten Greenland” and “I don’t think ICE should murder Americans in the street” and you don’t need to pretend to link it to the affordability crisis. Say bad things are bad.

My kitchen table issue is “don’t shoot people at their kitchen tables”

The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.

It's like reading "The Monkey's Paw" and thinking "Man, I wish I had one of those."

"Hard times are coming, when we'll be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now, can see through our fear-stricken society and its obsessive technologies to other ways of being, and even imagine real grounds for hope...realists of a larger reality." Ursula K. Le Guin