So a CBS Evening News reporter actually did a pretty solid breakdown of the ICE murder video, talking to a former agent who details all the ways Ross messed up. And yet: It didn’t air on the actual show tonight. CBS did post it to YouTube—and it has nearly 800k views already youtu.be/6ywLEESFDu0?...

Speaking of the jobs report, I've got like 1.5 months left before I'm plausibly homeless, so feel free to let me know if you've got any leads.

When a mutual who is annoyed by your posts mutes you instead of unfollowing

It should be bigger news that masked agents were filmed hours ago removing potentially inculpatory evidence from the ICE shooter's house, clearly lacking evidence tags or chain of custody stickers. Before we have word on whether he underwent a toxicology screen at the hospital following the killing

Oh, cool, yeah, in America we say. “not my bulls, not my rodeo.” Same meaning. I think in England it’s “not my glophers not my sheeznob.” I assume it’s also the same idea.

The works of Plato are now being banned at schools in the United States. Tell me again how censorship is a European problem? 🤔

Keep Grok and X in the app stores, sure, but god forbid ICE-tracking apps be allowed. I feel like I'm in upsidedown land.

No, arrest the murderer now. If he walks they will keep killing us.

Do any comics writers/ letterers I know want to answer a quick couple questions about emphasis in dialogue, on the record?

And another question, for readers: what's an example of a comics page w/dialogue where the emphasis/italics really seemed off, to you? What's an example of emphasis/ italics really done well? I'm trying to get a sense beyond my own taste, here.

Man, what can you even say to something like this? Just no lines left in his brain between reality, fantasy, and second-nature racist lies.

Elon Musk’s Deepfake Factory prospect.org/2026/01/07/e...

Minnesota elected officials can either arrest this ICE-uniformed killer, in which case they are on the side of their murdered people, or they can choose not to arrest him, in which case they are not. I don't think it's more complicated than that. They have already waited an hour.

Fuck Bari Weiss, fuck bootlicking regime propaganda

$400 not just donation, but for a "Graham Linehan Fundraiser Social." Paying hundreds of dollars to hang out with that guy and all the weird little freaks around him is wild.

the most concerning thing about them justifying murdering an obviously completely innocent murder by ICE is if they can justify and defend this, there’s nothing that’s too far for them. anything you can imagine them doing is very likely something they’ll stand behind

I go to the email from United Healthcare about reviewing my coverage and choosing a plan. I click the link. Put in my information (important: income will be about half what it was last year), see a plan that will save me over $100. Then I sign in, and it won't show me the cheap plans as options.

If the US holds Venezuela, we will seize 17% of oil -- yesterday's technology. If China uses this precedent to take Taiwan, it will own 60% of semiconductors -- tomorrow's technology. See what happens when you elect evil & stupid at the same time? Really American FB

There we go. That there’s a headline.

"Pope, you need to do better" is a funny way to end a tweet that's just "I, a protestant, think praying to saints is bad"

It was especially funny seeing people learn about the Q Shaman for the first time

I very badly want this, and I think it's further proof that a lot of the good stuff we abandoned in the last decade or two because shiny is making a clear comeback. Print is back, obviously, but also physical buttons, going to concerts without recording, and maybe even having a real-life girlfriend.

What in the world

not the most important issue in the world, but it is INSANE how bad concert tickets have gotten. $50 tickets scooped up by scalpers and sold for $500-$1000. it fucks over the fans, the bands, and the venue. but it makes a lot of money JUST for scalpers and ticketmaster. it really needs to be fixed!

"nearly all digital communities become incredibly toxic as a result of fundamental issues in how online socialization works" "What about [single example of a healthy community]" thank you for this incredibly salient counter argument.

And now she’s off the site. People screaming at Parker Molloy compares her to LibsofTikTok, and then just did the LoTT thing themselves, harassing a trans woman until she shuts down social media. Just nonsense.

the parker malloy drama is imo, instructive here in how stupid the firing squad stuff is now

Oh a trans woman got ran off social media after a mob harassed her for having a DEEPLY toothless opinion on a video game including many queer folks who branded her a traitor or bigot because they didn't like that she had a different opinion about a video game? Again? You don't fuckin say.

I think the AI angle of this is obscurant. It doesn’t matter that grok is “an AI” whatever you take that to mean. Suppose X hired a team of guys to photoshop the clothes off of women and children whenever anyone asks. That’s functionally identical what happening here. It’s not complicated.

believe me when I say this: the context to the screenshotted post here is even more stupid than anything you could imagine in your wildest dreams

I wrote about Grok's CSAM problem and how journalists keep fumbling the story www.readtpa.com/p/grok-cant-...

My personal take is that if you have to put boobs on a cartoon dog and you give them fewer than six to ten, you’re a coward.

just so that it is clear where I stand: it is weird to put tits on someone else’s cartoon dog and significantly weirder to harass someone for gently expressing the preceding If this marks the end of our friendship, so be it. I will not live a lie.

You couldn't publish this today. You'd have to cloak it under several layers of metaphor.

And another question, for readers: what's an example of a comics page w/dialogue where the emphasis/italics really seemed off, to you? What's an example of emphasis/ italics really done well? I'm trying to get a sense beyond my own taste, here.

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When they say “a free democratic Venezuela,” as I have heard CNN contributors mouth over the past half hour, they mean “a capitalist Venezuela.”

14 days since Trump blew his Epstein Files Transparency Act deadline. 10 days since the last Epstein document release. Nine days since DOJ announced that it is withholding “over a million more” Epstein documents. A total of zero “Epstein” headlines at @nytimes.com and @washingtonpost.com

*excellent* joke

Didn’t hit the goal in time so had to pay for the room for just today at the regular/non long term rate, so I still need to raise $600 by tomorrow morning before my shift at work or I’ll have to go day by day at much greater expenditure. Anything anyone is able to spare would be greatly appreciated!

Some days you think “have I ever done anything to make the world a better place” but then you get these texts

holy fuck what an intro

Do any comics writers/ letterers I know want to answer a quick couple questions about emphasis in dialogue, on the record?

"For Kirk and for much of society today, words are not expressions with referents, but rather, performative speech acts with specific functions" This is the key to so much of our discourse, our politics, our present reality. It's a bit beyond post-literacy; post-semiotics? post-communication?