„When human rights fall, everything else tumbles“ UN-Generalsekretär Guterres gestern in Genf.

Here we are at SOTU and no attack. Is Trump going to TACO the Iran war? God, I hope so.

Aside from this being a very bad thing, the timing suggests that extremists are trying to provoke www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

There are now 3 certainties in life: death, taxes, and the customer feedback survey

"A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people." —The Declaration of Independence

In an interview with NPR, Melinda French Gates confirmed that she ended her marriage with Bill Gates because of allegations contained in the Epstein files.

If the Republican Party could find a way to end women’s suffrage, they would do it in a heartbeat, and it would be completely consistent with their overall electoral strategy of disenfranchising demographics that skew Democratic.

This! MAGA doesn’t understand that creating a secret police force is the goal, immigration rhetoric is just the sand in the oyster. They think it’s deportation that we object to, not destruction of the rule of law.

Trump says Ilhan Omar’s assault was staged. Remember: every accusation is a confession.

“Centrism is appeasement” - @mizzwelch.bsky.social

"ICE will leave Minnesota if you hand over your voter rolls" tells you everything you need to know. This was never about immigration or fraud. It was always about rigging elections.

Suggested shutdown demand: no use of masks or chemical weapons by ICE

The NRA is a gun rights organization the way the Ku Klux Klan is a speech rights organization.

Great band names are out there, you just have to grab them as they fly by

Danish Parliament Deputy Speaker Lars-Christian Brask: "If I could come with some advice, it would be for the Senate & House to start to take control of political power in America because with this erratic & mad behaviour, you have to ask the question, is the President capable of running the US?"

The time to criticize sanctuary city policies was when Democrats held both houses and the Presidency. That might have actually been productive feedback. It wouldn’t have been BS blaming the victim, unlike today when it absolutely is.

One sad irony: it’s now very clear Greenland is becoming strategically important, because of that ‘ol “Democrat hoax”, climate change

/2 This will be grotesque. Edward R. Murrow didn’t have a radio show in 1946 where Eisenhower debated Göring about whether the Nazis had some good points. Today’s media would absolutely do that. Today’s media will platform people defending and rewriting Good’s murder for years.

Froze my ass off at the Iowa City anti-ICE rally, but it was worth it

Elysium is a movie that has really aged well, unfortunately. I would love to not be heading towards that dystopia.

They’re watching

Theory: the Trump obsession with Greenland is triggered by the fact that it looks really big on Mercator projections, which are used for grade school classroom maps. Always think shallow and petty with this guy.

I know we can’t because Republicans, but seriously it is time to consider the 25th amendment. If Rs had any spine whatsoever, Vance would already have taken over.

yep. i can identify any number of structural issues but at the end of the day the basic problem is the republican party. this has been apparent for at least 20 years. it is also an incredibly unpopular observation to make among “serious” people.

Republican senators: you’ve subpoenaed our phone records! This is an outrage, something must be done! Jack Smith: hold my beer

The Jack Smith video is dynamite. Watch how he turns an entitled weasel-brained question into an opportunity to nail Trump’s January 6 behavior to the wall.

50% of US consumer spending comes from the the top 10% of earners. That spending is driven by the wealth effect of a rising stock market. There’s a significant risk of negative feedback when the AI bubble pops and/or we experience an external shock.

It’s a Wile E. Coyote stock market - it’s already gone over the cliff, but won’t start falling until it looks down

It would be helpful to amend away the 2/3 requirements for both impeachment and the 25th amendment. Yes, Republicans would gratuitously throw out some good presidents, but that’s a small price to pay to avoid the kind of horror we’re facing now. It would diminish the presidency, a good thing.

Let’s talk about something not many people are chatting about and what’s actually happening right now. You might wonder why Imran Ahmed and the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) suddenly became targets of the U.S. government. The honest answer is that their research hit where it hurt.

Confronting a congressional candidate whose campaign is built on a message of hate:

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

AI has disproved Descartes’s Cogito Ergo Sum hypothesis: we now know that thought does not imply the existence of a soul. It’s going to take time to understand the implications of this revelation.

White House Begins Christmas Season With Ceremonial Lighting Of Cross

It’s going to be weird watching the Roberts court overturn every single executive power ruling they’ve made when a Democratic President takes office. Will Kavanaugh be outraged by their previous decisions?

WOW! AN HONOR! — GCN

I miss the days when mentors had protégés- “mentee” reeks of commodification

“Ah, just one more thing, sir. You’re blowing up those boats, saying they’re filled with drugs headed for the US. But then you go and pardon the guy who brought in 400 tons of cocaine. That’s billions of doses. Help me understand that.”

While we’re all freaking out about today, consider that Trump also gets along well with Lula

It occurs to me that candidates running as Democratic Socialists have an advantage specifically because they are not viewed as part of the Democratic Party. Very few voters are reading Marx, and some don’t care what “Socialist” means, but they know old line Democrats don’t like it.

Another red line that was crossed in the Trump/Mamdani love fest was Trump’s praise for FDR and the New Deal. This probably means nothing to most Americans, but at The Heritage Foundation it’s high treason.

Zorhan Mamdani just said Israel committed genocide while standing next to Donald Trump, and Trump let the statement stand

Cooking up some extra popcorn for the Trump/Mamdani press conference reaction

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Things I’d like to know: - was this capitulation baked in the cake from the beginning? Smug analysts are pointing out that R’s would never extend ACA subsidies. So why choose this as a core issue? - did Schumer orchestrate this? Clearly he’s at least incompetent, but did he support this privately?

Never forget who sold us out: Hassan King Cortez-Masto Shaheen Kaine Fetterman Durbin Rosen

One of the traitors was Hillary Clinton’s running mate 🤦‍♂️