In America you drop your kid off at school, get your brains blown out on the ride home, then the Vice President drops everything for a week to call you a terrorist, to slander your family, to protect the circumstances that led to your death so they can do it again. It is government by Alex Jones.

Renee Nicole Good was 37. She was murdered by an ICE agent in the street in broad daylight. What really happened to her will not be forgotten, minimized, or ignored.

Tim Walz is mobilizing the MN National Guard, and reminds Minnesotans that the guard "is OURS - our teachers and our neighbors." He asks Minnesotans to respect them. "They're there to protect you and your constitutional rights. They don't wear masks."

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

Her vehicle's right front panel cleared the ICE agent who didn't open fire until after he was at the side of her vehicle. He used deadly force on a fleeing individual, which is against DHS policy. This is murder. He needs to be arrested.

“i thought of not voting but there isn’t time” — In a Few Minutes Before Later by Brenda Hillman

If your resolution this year is to support more independent bookstores, hi!👋🏽 We’re Bookshop.org, an ethical alternative to Amazon for buying books online where every purchase supports indie bookstores all over the U.S. 😌📚 (And our CEO has never gone to space, just saying)

Literally no mention in the mainstream news of the 5th Anniversary of Trump supporters attempting to violently overthrow the U.S Government.

“MLK said the U.S. was the greatest purveyor of violence in the world.” — In a Few Minutes Before Later by Brenda Hillman

Drones? Or bio-industrial? Or field recordings mucked about with til they are (often) unrecognizable? Genre me not, fair friends! Anyway, it's free and a couple hours of strange, with synths. wildergoose.bandcamp.com/album/drones...

This alone could get Mamdani reelected.

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Despite what we are often told, this line from Mamdani’s inauguration speech is what true pragmatism actually looks like: “Beginning today, we will govern expansively and audaciously. We may not always succeed. But never will we be accused of lacking the courage to try.”

Mamdani: For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty

Why do I even bother writing fiction?

We will pour libations for Poseidon. Do the thing, P God, do the thing!

Stephen Miller Is The New Republic’s 2025 Scoundrel of the Year - The New Republic

This looks killer!

Anybody gonna try a Frogtown Racer for New Years Eve? It's a whiskey punch made with maraschino (but, this is an 1893 receipe, and maraschino was a different country then), lemon, and a nice port. languagehat.com/frogtown-rac...

Loser Mike Johnson hopes we forgot about extending ACA tax credits while he was on Christmas vacation. Let’s make it very clear how wrong he is:

Pope Leo XIV: ‘There Couldn’t Be A Better Time To Get The Fuck Out Of America Forever’

evangelicals might be the largest grifters to ever exist in human history lol

“alcohol was only the answer if the question was ‘How can I make everything worse?’” — The Stranger Times by C. K. McDonnell

In case you need a positive reminder: How effective is protesting? According to historians and political scientists: very www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Dean Martin, born Dino Paul Crocetti, son of Italian immigrant Gaetano Crocetti Frank Sinatra, son of Italian immigrants Antonino Sinatra and Natalina Garavanta Merry Christmas to everyone except Stephen Miller and his enablers and handlers

Just another goodie for y'all, this time from Wilderegoose. Rmember: it's like wilderness but with less ness and way more goose. wildergoose.bandcamp.com/album/jazz-h...

The Indignitaries would like to wish you a belated socialist solstice with this gift of trip-pop theindignataries.bandcamp.com/album/pop-so...

Now, all natural and completely free. Downtempo brain docks for chilling inclined. thepluralmuses.bandcamp.com/album/all-th...

Just in Case You Missed This from Governor Newsom......

If you need some (not) Christmas music, please feel free to download my album "All the Squirrels in the World." It is free for the holidays! getmusic.fm/r/the-plural...

Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter

Part of the letter: “Our president also shares our love of young, nubile girls. When a young beauty walked by he loved to ‘grab snatch’, whereas we ended up snatching grub in the mess halls of the system.” The letter is signed: “Life is unfair. Yours, J. Epstein.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

"You know those stories about how the magic of Christmas miraculously restores your faith in humanity? It isn't working." That's because it's supposed to restore your faith in humidity; humanity is a malapropism.

Despite what RFK, Jr. and the CDC may want you to believe, the real correlation is not with vaccines. It's pumpkin spice.

“The sheriff’s men were later immigrants, they touch their stupid guns, they become magnetized with their elbows in 7s. Some hate their jobs, some like policing for the state. If love were kept from hurt it might bend metal.” — In a Few Minutes Before Later by Brenda Hillman

Miller hates the 5th amendment right to due process and has contempt for the 6th amendment right to jury trial because he prefers authoritarianism.

🧑‍🌾 SPOTTED in Jackson County, Wisconsin…

Garcia: If you are a whistleblower at the FBI, at the DOJ, if you worked hard to put the files together and are seeing your work now being hidden by your own DOJ, contact the oversight committee. We have whistleblower protections.

Generative AI is a poison that kills everything it touches all so people who are already rich get to be richer while you have to be poorer

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This week, Professor James Hansen and colleagues published projections that the global temperature record could reach +1.7°C by 2027. And if that number lands in your gut the way it landed in mine, good. It should. #climatecrisis #auspol www.lyrebirddreaming.com/post/two-yea...

Hard to beat these puppies.

"We ... are heavy with psychiatric diagnoses and self-knowledge, while paradoxically so moulded and trained by Silicon Valley’s behaviourism, and so bombarded by bots and slop, that we are unsure if our thoughts are even our own..." -Naomi Klein www.equator.org/articles/sur...