Democrat Eileen Higgins, a city elected former county commissioner, will be Miami’s next mayor. Her win is another electoral setback for Republicans — this time in an area where they’ve been dominant in local elections. https://wapo.st/4q7sIP7

My love for em dashes is as old as the hills and as mighty as my inability to make a transition between thoughts literally any other way and I will be damned if I let the clankers take that from me

Russian liquefied natural gas will disappear from EU markets by April 2026, and pipeline gas will follow 18 months later, according to a plan confirmed by EU ambassadors on 10 December. euromaidanpress.com/2025/12/10/e...

I really hope the people who are giving money to the leopards eating face party so that the leopards won’t eat their face pay attention to the fact that the closer you are to the leopards, the closer your face is to the leopards.

This post by the world’s richest and most divorced man on the site he bought to promote his far right extremism is ripped straight from the Klan messaging of the 1870s or the 1915 film Birth of a Nation that inspired the Klan’s rebirth as a PR stunt/Ponzi scheme/terrorist organization in the 1920s.

Ukraine holds free and fair elections and routines sees changes in power. Russian elections are rigged and there has been no change in power since the arrival of Putin about twenty-six years ago. So of course, Trump demands elections in Ukraine. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...

The White House has been hammering this message as they flail on affordability; nothing at all is our fault, while literally everything is the fault of undocumented immigrants, a group whose numbers we keep claiming are higher and higher every time we need a bigger scapegoat.

Important: Maryland senate leader refuses to redistrict to counter Trump/GOP, but Rep Jamie Raskin says if Indiana GOPers move, MD must act: "There’s nothing ethical or moral about unilaterally disarming before authoritarians in a game they’ve created." On the pod: newrepublic.com/article/2042...

Every part of this is bonkers. The intro is bonkers. The transition to his health is bonkers. The mention that other presidents didn't need cognitive exams is bonkers. The claim that this screening test is somehow hard is bonkers. The idea that criticism of him is treason is bonkers. All of it.

Fairly remarkable article here: ICE's acting director is publicly demanding that a parish in Massachusetts remove its nativity scene because it offends the administration. www.masslive.com/news/2025/12...

His brain is jelly but what he's regurgitating is a thoroughly Nazi argument that the (((doctors))) are not just decadent but malevolent. That they are so preoccupied with using medicine as a means to experiment on gender that they will use ill people's desperation to force them to become subjects

“I am so bored by AI. One of the things I love about the theatre is AI can’t do it.” Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻

DEMOCRATS HAVE FLIPPED GEORGIA'S #HD121 (Trump+12): Eric Gisler (D)- 50.9% Mack "Dutch" Guest (R)- 49.1%

You can tell it’s the product of the future because people keep begging you on their knees for you to please use it, please, please use it

YOUR STUDENTS ARE NOT YOUR CUSTOMERS. Get the fuck out of education if that's the way you're talking about them.

I think “the president’s allies are promising to destroy media institutions the president doesn’t like to curry favor with him” is very bad, actually

late last week, workers of different stripes gathered outside rockstar's nyc office for a protest in solidarity with fired devs in the uk/scotland. the message, as fired rockstar workers head into a hearing this week, is that they've got global support, and bosses can't hide

I live in DC. You think “official Washington” didn’t care what Trump administration 2 was likely to do? Talk to someone who works at NIH. Or State. Or CFPB. Or DOJ. They all knew what was at stake. They were all scared + furious. And reporters like Nuzzi saw none of it because they didn’t care.

JUST IN: DOJ confirms Trump asserted executive privilege to shield more than 4,100 documents form police and lawmakers suing him over the Jan. 6 riot. Our earlier story on the privilege claim: www.politico.com/news/2025/12...

The Supreme Court is almost certainly going to rule for Trump over independent agency firings that will transform the nature of the federal government. The only real question is how broad the ruling will be. My report from inside the courtroom: www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...

Every legal story now is either Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach or In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport

Thanks to Republicans’ chaotic policies: Small businesses have let 120,000 employees go. Grocery and utility prices are up. The cost of health care is skyrocketing. But instead of helping struggling families, Trump is looking into building a giant “Arc de Trump”.

Actor and Native American tribal member Elaine Miles “offered them her ID card from the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation in Oregon but was told by an ICE agent that ‘anyone can make that.’” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

It appears that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has, within the past week, scrubbed a large amount of climate change content from its official website, as well as *removed human-caused warming* from the discussion on its "causes of climate change" page.

no AI in Romeo!! we ❤️ artists 🫶

The floor for who I’m going to vote for in 2028 is rising quickly. You’re gonna have to tell me you’ll break up every monopoly, expand the Supreme Court, abolish and prosecute ICE, tax billionaires out of existence, and provide healthcare for all. Like this stuff is becoming non-negotiable to me.

Is The Temporary Foreign Worker Program working? We asked 4 Tim Hortons franchise owners, and one slum landlord

Trump-led cuts to Medicaid mean that premiums are going to double next week, and the Republicans still can’t scrounge together their own healthcare alternative. From Ryan Cooper: trib.al/rkgOgkz

Gorsuch leaning in to "actually, all these agencies are unconstitutional in their entirety" Gorsuch is very much not on board with "sever this and let the executive control it" Folks, we might be walking out of this without any executive agencies at all

Police look into claims Reform UK broke electoral law in Farage campaign www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

New from 404 Media: the creator of ICEBlock just sued the U.S. government over it pressuring Apple to remove the app earlier this year. Says it violated his First Amendment rights. www.404media.co/iceblock-cre...

NEW: Trump’s Own Mortgages Match His Description of Mortgage Fraud, Records Reveal www.propublica.org/article/trum... w/ @robert-faturechi.bsky.social @amierjeski.bsky.social

one of the many dangers of genAI is if you're a creator and are asked about AI and you give a cautiously optimistic response like "oh it looks interesting, we'll consider if it's right for us" you WILL be drafted onto the pro AI side and have your reputation damaged by disingenuous AI boosters

Look, we can all agree that a logging company making a small, temporary profit is far more important than preserving rare and ecologically crucial forests.

Two weeks ago I said that there were likely millions of uninstalled Blackwell GPUs sitting in warehouses as there is neither the data center capacity nor the power to turn them on. Michael Burry is looking into it and it looks like he’s got evidence I’m right. www.wheresyoured.at/the-haters-g...

I have no idea what Microsoft as a company believes in other than raising prices, pushing AI, and making Windows an actively user-hostile program to use. Can anyone name one useful thing they've done in the past five years?

Here's an idea: Any Democrat who wants to be taken seriously as a presidential candidate in 2028 must pledge to rip this cabal of anti-democracy tech fascists out of our government. Anyone who won't make that pledge is for the billionaires, not the people. This must be a deal-breaking litmus test.

He lowered Pennsylvania’s flags for 3 days when Charlie Kirk died and for 0 days when Melissa Hortman and her husband were killed.

So here's something shitty: Apparently when they moved to Disney, all the Netflix Marvel shows got their subtitles redone, & so now, when you have English captions on, there are No English-Translated Subtitles for non-English dialogue. Like… What the actual fuck is the good of that???

If the Sep. 2 boat really had "narco-terrorists" on board, questioning the survivors would have been a way to learn about how the organization worked, where more drugs were stashed, etc. But this isn't a counter-terrorism campaign. It's a shooting gallery with helpless targets.

Trainwreck? In October 2024, The Economist called Biden's economy "the envy of the world."

No story about Network States is complete without a dumbshit quote from Milton Friedman’s idiot grandson Patri.

to commemorate alan dye moving from apple to meta, here's one of his best quotes

“No human being is garbage, Mr. President, and shame on you for saying so,” said the Lutheran pastor.“In the name of Jesus, I rebuke those hateful words.The Somali community in Minnesota are our neighbors, brothers and sisters, children of God, fellow Americans.” www.startribune.com/twin-cities-...

When people say "Newsom is electable" what they mean is that he is palatably conservative enough for the corporations that fund Republicans to fund him, for the same reasons, and he is palatably covertly racist enough to appeal to white supremacists.

My teen, who had dreamt of being an astrophysicist, just told me he wants to go to law school because, “Science isn’t going to be a priority in the US in the future…I don’t want a job where I’ll be constantly worried my funding will be taken away.” Gutting. How many future scientists have we lost?

This sociopathic techbro billionaire dork likely picked his idea up from a Reddit post & is clueless that it's possible to study the deterrent efficacy of executions. Research shows that public executions do *not* deter crime. If anything, they encourage violence.

Stephen Miller thinks it’s terrible that I can vote

Also the story of "what if someone started questioning their gender identity but they live in 1960s rural Japan and so don't even have the words for that" is just way more interesting to me than "I'm a just a little sad guy whomst murdered his wife"