if the us dollar falls another 15% this year, i don't think anyone in the us government is really contemplating what happens next...

States should really figure out how to use SALT to generate revenue. Charge state tax of the amount necessary to max out their SALT, then pay them enough that they end up not paying any more in tax, but the state then gets say an extra $5k per adult while the federal government gets -$5k per adult

Han wants some scritches

Han wants some scritches

"All entries are to the best of our knowledge. We’ll update with news of resignations as and when it arrives."

I know this isn't where everyone's headspace is right now, but I want to highlight some survey stories we published over the holiday period, since I think they're a good reflection of the breadth of public opinion reporting.

Most of these countries are having no trouble noting that the Maduro regime was systematically repressive while also pointing out that the U.S. has violated the UN Charter and international law. This is not actually that complicated.

could not draw as a kid. got essentially Ds in every grade for art in 1st-6th grade. had my kindergarten teachers call home and ask if something was wrong because all my stick figure drawings of people lacked arms. and yeah, lots of work after discovering I loved to draw in an art class in college.

if you call for doxxing someone *who you then go on to misgender* because they offered an explanation of something *that is not an endorsement*, i don't think you should be allowed to use this website, and if you follow someone who does that, i think worse of you as a person [sad trombone noise]

the donshead doctrine

if you notice certain groups of people getting funny sarcastic despite <waves hands around> sigh...

yeah, i should say so

I happen to know quite a bit about Venezuelan oil. TL;DR it’s hard to extract, notoriously investor-endangering, isn’t needed (global crude is oversupplied to the tune of 3.3 min bpd) and isn’t easily refined (it’s too dense so always sold at a heavy discount) www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/202...

Getting the feeling what the oil execs really wanted was Venezuela in effect not producing oil at all, allowing them to raise prices because world supply would be down. Not that they actually wanted to go in there and get the production.

Like this is the way you get super-unified messaging and why Rs have had in general that kind of messaging in the past 3 decades. If Ds were to have this, it would be Schumer's Baileys in charge. Or a billionaire making threats behind the scenes. Not progressives or leftists.

If you're Brazil, the number 5 team currently for the World Cup, are you risking Trump having ICE put your team into jails as retribution? How about Denmark at number 21? Spain is #1 and criticizing Trump strongly. How about them?

complaint department is on the roof

Six months ago in the post above I cited the same song in reference to the invasion of Los Angeles, but of course Kieran's right; the Venezuela invasion is *exactly* the kind of thing it's about. bsky.app/profile/kjhe...

complaint department is on the roof

I think we find out in February 2026 when American athletes probably get roundly booed at the Olympics. And someone pulls their country going to the World Cup soon after that and then there's a flood of them.

good thing 5 of the top 16 teams in the World Cup aren't from South America & Mexico...wait, being handed a note...

just in general, the us relies on the idea that our enemies will not behave in the way that hamas did, because the us has a lot of citizens overseas, whose presence there benefits the us, who are vulnerable to that tactic

yeah, either there's international law or there isn't. and the us is the biggest beneficiary of international law, so we'll see how that turns out.

Does Congress have any red line where they constrain Trump? He just unilaterally went to war against Venezuela. (Spare me any technicalities; we literally attacked them and kidnapped their president. That is effectively a declaration of war and he doesn’t have to put it on a scroll of parchment)

The legal justification the WH gave us for attacking Venezuelan boats in int’l waters without Congressional approval was weak, and exposes the WH and military staff to domestic and international criminal prosecution. They have not even sought to justify strikes within Venezuela.

"international law be damned, we should encourage an international response for democracy!"

Thankfully we don't have a global sporting event coming this summer where any blowback might occur...

Among the many reasons you don’t kidnap a foreign head of state at gunpoint even if you have the capability, is that it sparks consequences you can neither control nor anticipate.

So we declared war against another country and kidnapped its leader for vague reasons that are mostly about oil and empire. If we haven't convinced every country to treat us as a rogue nation yet...

Secretaries Rubio and Hegseth looked every Senator in the eye a few weeks ago and said this wasn’t about regime change. I didn’t trust them then and we see now that they blatantly lied to Congress.

decided to make the CBS "4. We love America" more accurate

decided to make the CBS "4. We love America" more accurate

Willems is such a picture book genius. He is so good at knowing what kids will respond to and enjoy. My older daughter loved the 3 Knuffle Bunny books. I’ve read them all so many times and yet they remain enjoyable!

"my slop told me it is good enough, smart enough, and doggone it, people like slop enough to call it something else!"

best way to end day 2: chicken roast and aloo bhortha from boishakhi

yeah, as someone who was once very good in a "could I not be completely embarrassed against someone who could score a few points on an olympic level player" i'm going to need to see the movie, but really wonder how uncanny valley the play will seem to me.

"We love America. We make no apologies for saying so." "Let's qualify that with an And."

Morning! Every day this look.

David Attenborough's voice cuts in, "And here we see two kitty cats about to go feral with disappointment, for fear of starvation..."

First art of 2026

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i got a d20 with printed body parts and adventurer gear floating in greenish liquid, as if the d20 was a gelatinous cube...

i can move my fingers on separate hands in circles in opposite directions

ffs

I've waited 3 years to make this post

i got a d20 with printed body parts and adventurer gear floating in greenish liquid, as if the d20 was a gelatinous cube...

hey i got that video of curtis sliwa after mamdani's inauguration that you were looking for

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Zohran’s inauguration brimmed w/the energy that NYC is “a shining beacon of possibility” per @jumaane.bsky.social. Amidst the darkness of authoritarianism, inequality & hate, we have a chance to show what’s possible. That’s always been our mission as New Yorkers—it was profoundly renewed today.