One hundred thousand people a year and y'all using past tense when you talk about Covid now jfc

A world so unreal and yet, at once, so frightening.

“Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok facing backlash from governments around the world after a recent surge in sexualized images of women and children generated without consent…” This is the “supercomputer” Memphis is being poisoned & taken advantage of for? www.bostonherald.com/2026/01/06/t...

If Trump is really stealing spending power from Congress then it would be insanity for Democrats to vote to fund the government later this month. Shut it down until the president stops wiping his ass with the Constitution.

If *I* was country’s maniacal dictator I’d memory hole Highlander 2 and demand a Remo Williams reboot.

he does want to cancel the elections, though! he’s been muttering about it since he found out Ukraine canceled elections

COVID19 data from a new paper: October 2022-September 2023 -43.6 million cases -10.0 million outpatient visits -1.1 million hospitalizations, and -101,300 deaths October 2023-September 2024 -33.0 million cases -7.7 million outpatient visits, -879,100 hospitalizations, and -100,800 deaths.

Jamie Raskin: Trump has to bribe the oil companies to sign up for the conquest of Venezuela, because they're not really interested.

"It’s unclear if ICE will target farm workers as it ramps up enforcement, but White House Border Czar Tom Homan told Reuters that immigration arrests will 'explode greatly next year,' and that enforcement would 'absolutely' hit workplaces." https://bit.ly/4qLfA2p

Powerful countries in the world need to act now, because this will only get worse.

The one thing I wish I could import to younger women? Notice when somebody keeps trying to tell you how you feel .

I added text to this one just now bc you know what, no one can stop me

company that creates deepfake CSAM raises $20 billion www.nytimes.com/2026/01/06/t...

Every piece of reporting I've seen on this is drastically understating the scale. These are from Grok's replies within a single minute. Time-to-reply is degrading because it has such a backlog of NCII/CSAM requests to fulfill. Conservatively I estimate it is producing more than 5000 of these per day

Trump keeps lying about this, but many 1/6 attackers were armed, @markfollman.bsky.social and I repeatedly showed. www.motherjones.com/criminal-jus...; www.motherjones.com/criminal-jus.... Few attackers were caught with guns because only a few were arrested that day, not because they were unarmed.

NEW from me: The US is losing blue-collar jobs for the first time since early COVID or the Great Recession—the country has lost 65k jobs over the last year as manufacturing, transport, & mining employment decline, while growth in construction has nearly zeroed out www.apricitas.io/p/america-is...

In a nation ruled by supremacy and all its many sabotages of the public good, every act of repair is a defiant act. *Every* act of repair is a defiant act.

the pointless cruelty of "take their coats" stuck with me, gave me a sick feeling about what might lie ahead if he somehow, unthinkably, won

“Because memory is not optional in a democracy. It is structural. It is the line between survival and collapse. A nation that erases its trauma doesn’t heal—it breaks again, deeper.“ open.substack.com/pub/jojofrom...

“Trump hates war” might be the dumbest possible statement to assert on Trump. He only opposes our alliances. He fucking loves violence!

Apropos of nothing, I was reminded that Trump said this last August: "... we're not doing wind. We're going back to fossil fuel. I hope not too many of you people are going to be upset, but we have to go back to what works. We can't be foolish.

Domestic terrorism in the United States

there are so many weird little things from the long trump years that stick in my mind, that will probably never be explained. like that presser where everyone referred to him as "President", rather than "Mr. Pres.", like it was a military rank.

Trump is insane. His inner circle is insane. They want to burn the world so they can loot everyone else’s wealth, feel like big tough guys, and hurt all the groups they despise. But the thing breaking the whole world is how everyone feels obligated to avoid stating this fact directly.

Vile stuff. J 6 insurrectionists Taunting police about their pardons from Trump as they use racial and homophobic slurs towards them. And nobody will bat an eye.

Samuel Alito flew two flags used by insurrectionists. Clarence Thomas' wife plotted to overturn the 2020 election. Both justices refused to recuse themselves from SCOTUS cases related to the January 6th plot. It's a stain on our nation that this has effectively been forgotten.

And I'll add that another area of noninterest is anything that hurts women.

Accountability is the guardrail. Remove it, and democracy slides fast.

Greenland is happening. Not a joke, not trolling, not a distraction. He has already made up his mind and nobody who matters in the inner circle will try to talk him out of it. Some of them want it precisely because it will destroy NATO. There are no adults in the room. They really mean to do it.

If we don’t get out of this, the tragedy won’t be that evil people managed to end the America experiment. It will be that such unimaginably stupid evil people managed to end the American experiment.

faced with hitler's propaganda machine the allied governments went to work on propaganda to rally their people to the cause. this is how you get people to unite for freedom. the playbook is obvious. you just have to use it.

this is why you see after every election the democratic political machine basically shuts down on the wednesday after the race. the gop just keeps the machine going and thats why it is winning the long war.

democrats operate like winning a presidential election is winning a video game. the evil boss is defeated and the kingdom is restored. in reality, its at best one level in a game and bowser/gannon/dr robotnik are still fully operational

I would like to see Democratic office holders speaking like this (especially) when they do intend to run for reelection. This shouldn't be the exception, it should be the norm.

Also another reminder that <10 people in Washington - all of whom are Republicans & all of whom keep getting total daily free passes from the media about their cowardice - could end most of the madness tomorrow by simply caucusing with the Democrats & giving them control of both the House & Senate.

Counterargument: the best number of followers is irrelevant. The best number of people you follow is the key, and it's way fewer than most people follow. Both here and at the old hellsite, people followed way too many people, and that brings so much bad into their timelines.

The lesson as always is block more people for less bad behavior and hope Bluesky kicks out more people over stupid bullshit, actually

I don't know how to describe it, but there's this profound brokenness in the American body politic where nobody can take the implications of anything seriously. People keep saying things that should be existential threats to the political system, and then everyone just keeps going on as normal.

needless to say, this is the kind of thing we all saw coming and its why you dont tell this piece of shit "welcome home" and pose for pics with him.

Pepperidge farm remembers when sex workers said their images were being stolen and nobody cared because society in general thinks that sex work isn't a real job and sex workers arent deserving of respect or labor rights. It would have been a good time to curtail AI.

The vibes are in shambles. Because the values, institutions, and norms are in shambles. And the horizon is hazy and uncertain. Try to be kind. To others and yourself.

It's good to be unapologetic and assertive about liberal policies. The oldest Republican move is finding a problem with a useful social program and using that as a pretext to destroy it. That's when they're not actively manufacturing those problems themselves. It's a sucker's game

Folks at the risk of patting myself on the back I think I might have gotten the closing line right.

Events have conservatives channeling their innermost feelings, such as How dare you be a foreign country

Ages ago i wrote a thing about how the antisemitic, anti-American statements that immediately and unequivocally ended Charles Lindbergh as a public figure seem quaint compared to what we see public figures say out loud with their whole chests every day now. Thinking about that today.

Smart glasses are all dogshit I’m sorry. Put all of these things in the trash

The IRS shut down its direct filing program for 2026, but some free filing tools remain—if you know where to look. Here’s how to navigate the free options that are still available. www.forbes.com/sites/kellyp...

/2 Put another way, say what you want about the tenets of national socialism, at least it’s an ethos. But some people have the souls of Nazis — a reflexive race and religion-based hatred — but lack the character to stand up and say “this is who I am.” They lack the character EVEN TO BE A NAZI.

Crazy how much of a value add it is to have a mayor who has actually interacted with the city in a normal way before