Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago

Colombian President Petro commenting on the US; “A clan of pedophiles wants to destroy our democracy. To keep Epstein's list from coming out, they send warships to kill fishermen & threaten our neighbor with invasion for their oil."

“The longer Americans indulge this preference for the language of the law over morality, the weaker their moral voice becomes. They lose the ability to say, forthrightly, that what the Trump administration has done is cold-blooded murder for which they and their partisans should be ashamed.”

“A 2027 Democratic Congress could impeach any number of officials in the Trump administration and the judiciary, and conduct the trial with a secret ballot. That does not guarantee that they would get enough Republicans for any of them. But it would increase their chances.”

not too late for a flu shot btw, flu historically often peaks in february and by all accounts it is pretty bad this year

not sure if people realize this but a big part of the arguments used to advance prediction markets as a predictive tool -the entire claim to public utility of these things- is that they're supposed to work well because they incentivize people to do insider trading. it's more or less what they're for

I think it’s important to frame what’s happening as fully outside the realm of normal governance because framing it as a policy or even legal dispute grants it undue legitimacy. These are crimes that merit - require, really - a stronger response than a transition of power

0% chance they have a plan with venezuela btw. i mean i'm sure someone somewhere in the military has produced the 'official' one. but if you can look at trump and hegseth and tell me they have a clear understanding of how things there should be one week or one year from now you are a liar

Perhaps now people will stop wishcasting about the US military refusing illegal orders. That's not a thing that happens. The 100% compliance rate with using civilian boats for target practice was a bit of a tell.

With that as the case then I'm still 100% behind the idea of boycotting the World Cup despite my taxpayer $ in Seattle going to beautification efforts for it

We went to war for the Social Media Content, we did it For The Gram, we destroyed shit and quite possibly killed people For The Likes and Reposts. Whether we like it or not this is the new face of resource wars where the resource is the leader's dopamine levels.

A thing I think about a lot is how the hyper powerful and tech billionaires want to be seen as people saving humanity, which is why they create space companies to send us to Mars and invest in gen AI to render us more "productive" And yet, not a single one is working to solve climate change.

Ohio has our first pediatric #flu death of the season-- unvaccinated 16 year old, previously healthy. No child should die of this. Vaccination isn't perfect, but it's the best protection.

A real news outlet publishing the phrase "Grok apologized" should result in like a week-long timeout. Think about what you've done.

2026 is by necessity be the year we REALLY throw hands over this sort of shit, because at the rate it's going, the White House will put on a fucking minstrel show by April. You hear people shittalking Somalis (OR ANYONE ELSE), you step in and put a stop to it and shame them for racist bullshit.

I have to admit, I also always had kinda the wrong idea about Norman Rockwell until I saw the piece "Murder in Mississippi" as a teen in art history class

Strange takes on Mayor Zamdani swearing his oath on the Qu’ran. It has nothing to do with church & state. The point of the oath is for the person swearing in to do so upon some text that is sacred TO THEM. Some Presidents swore in w/o any book. John Quincy Adams was sworn on a law book. His choice.

Make 2026 the year most of y’all start using alt text.

but for real I genuinely hope during this year people finally fucking stop taking face value of smear campaigns and moral panics over simple kinks of (mainly) queer people as the world wants to erase us.

Mamdani took over the @NYCMayor account on Twitter but old Eric Adams tweets are still active. That means Mamdani's name and face shows up for old tweets he didn't send. You're probably going to see a lot of screenshots like this where Mamdani appears to praise Netanyahu, but they aren't by Mamdani

We tried so hard to raise the alarm. Is anyone paying attention yet?

Apropos of nothing, here's Walt Disney saying Compsognathus

i get why ppl want ai checkers to be a real thing but they are effectively just random number generators. i don't think it's because of ai being trained on existing books, it's because detection is just a parallel grift. that's where we're at: the technological countermeasures to scams are scams

Ok it’s Dec. 31, I’m calling it: “Sinners” is my top movie of 2025.

An analogue I’ve noticed between fundamentalist scriptural exegesis and jurispudential originalism as actually practiced in the wild: Both enable a kind of ventriloquism by assuming univocality in the texts they purport to interpret.

We're nearing the new year and we still need $350. Please help out how you can. Thank you so much. #TransCrowdFund #DisabilityCrowdFund

It's also useless to call for civil debate as "politics in the right way" because the framework wherein civil debaters were punished for lying or making bad-faith arguments no longer exists. There is no point in asymmetrical civil debate where one side feels bound by truth and the other does not.

•David Hume •Ta-Nehisi Coates •John Dewey •Jean-Paul Sartre (bits of “Anti-Semite and Jew”) •Simone de Beauvoir (“The Ethics of Ambiguity” specifically) •Walter Kaufmann •Elizabeth Anderson •Richard Dawkins (as an entry into evolutionary theory, not the religion stuff 🤦🏻‍♂️) •autistic self-advocates

Anti-trans legislation is *worse* when passed through a constitutionally valid procedure. Nullifying MTG’s law requires the passage of a new law, rather than an easily-issued executive order. And it makes it that much harder to turn public opinion against transphobia if it appears “bipartisan.”

MTG profited 476% off of Trump and insider trading. So stop praising her supposed newly found morality. She’s profited off Americans’ suffering under this MAGA regime #Voices4Victory #ProudBlue moneywise.com/news/investi...

“Platform people who never fell for Trump's EXTREMELY transparent grift, or, more realistically, who never saw him as an easy road to power. Platform people who aren't bigoted villains with grifts of their own.”

I am still in need of around $200 in order to stay afloat. Im sorry to beg but I do not have an ample support system beyond this.

It's almost the end of the year and it looks like I won't hit my subscriber goal for the year, but from now until the ball drop, you can get 40% off your first month/year off a monthly or annual membership to my Patreon by using code WB2026 at checkout. patreon.com/katelynburns

What is Canada doing about it? Not a thing.

I hate to ask and will explain in the comments but im in desperate need of 70 dollars today so I can combat an erroneous debt lawsuit of a debt i already paid.

I'm not great about tooting my own horn. But as an independent journalist whose work is reliant on contributions from my readers, it's part of the job. So here's a post and thread on my work over the last year and beyond -- and why you, reader, should subscribe. (Plus, shameless dog photos!)

I wanna share some silly dromaeosaurs that are inspired by pictures of corvids taken by satuliljeqvist on Instagram. www.instagram.com/satuliljeqvist I highly recommend checking out their bird photography. #art #dromaeosaur #dinosaur

Remember, masks aren’t just for Covid! They also help protect against colds, flu, measles, RSV and more. They guard against pollution, wild fire smoke and pollen. A well fitted respirator can keep you healthy while also protecting those around you. It’s radical community care.

My mother died of Covid complications this year. She not only refused to believe Covid was ‘that serious’ she also refused to mask when people visited her at our home in India. Anyone anywhere who wants to mock people who mask can fuck all the way off.

it is extremely funny that RFK both does not believe in the germ theory of disease and is a lab leak truther

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has stated that the 1918 flu pandemic was caused by a lab virus from vaccine research, a defective influenza vaccine. Let’s analyze what a lie this is. First, in 1918, 107 years ago, virology was in its infancy

It's been an incredibly tough year, but losing my job due to transphobia and being unable to find work for 8 months has been one of the hardest parts. Financially my family is in dire straits, and any small amount you can give will be appreciated forever. www.gofundme.com/f/support-da...

The administration’s policy is literally Bombs Not Food.

Always good to keep in mind that Guardian has a partnership with OpenAI.

will also add - yes, this is my personal crusade - that turning podcasts into videos implicitly asks women to once again make more effort than men, as the bar for "camera-ready" for one gender is obviously higher than for the other

Ok but this is a very 2000s reason to be anti-AI, really disconnected from what the actual problems with it (including for the labour market) turned out to be. For one, it's buying the hype.

The Washpost edit board calls Trump’s bombing in Nigeria “a welcome change in a part of the world that has always been little more than an afterthought for the president” — and has zero mention of the thousands in Africa facing starvation because of USAID cuts www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...