"The FBI interviewed this woman — who claimed that Trump forced her to give him oral sex when she was in her early teens, then punched her in the head after she bit his penis and kicked her out — at least four times." - @sollenbergerrc.bsky.social substack.com/home/post/p-...

Always remember that this is the leader of the Republican Party who owes his power exclusively to Republican Party voters and Republican officials.

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Project 2028: 1. Undoing the damage. 2. Undoing the causes of the damage. Number 2 might be doable faster.

The only biosphere in the known universe capable of supporting human life is being turned into a hell planet because most of Earth's governments refuse to stop trying to satisfy the insatiable greed of a plutocracy composed of people who already have more money than they could spend in 20 lifetimes.

In case you needed more evidence that billionaires tend to be idiotic degenerates...

Horrific comments by Ratcliffe today right when United appeared to making a charge. His comments stand against everything Manchester is about & its fanbase across the world. It’s also a disgraceful insult to our players and everything the United DNA stands for. I am appalled as a #mufc shareholder.

Yep. It's bad news for everyone who wants to believe or sell the idea that elections reward policy arguments, but presidential mass appeal is about brand. Brand strength implicates policy, sure, but especially for swing voters it's mostly about identity, looks, authenticity, charisma.

Resign, retire, repent.

NEW: There are 2,400+ elections for DA & sheriff this year. These matter hugely to criminal justice & policing—including: *these are often officials who decide ICE collaboration.* So I took a dive into these 2,400+ races to identify early hotspots and battlegrounds. Read, & check out our maps:

Wrote to @josephoneill.bsky.social to talk about authoritarianism, the horrors in Minneapolis, and what to do about useless Democrats

Unclear why Elon Musk isn't wanted by Interpol for sexual crimes against children.

I'll be in Hartford, CT, on February 12, talking with Omar Acevedo. Could be interesting.

Holy smokes - he opened with a reference to Vaclav Havel's "The Power of the Powerless," among the all-time greats of underground revolutionary literature (Havel spent years in jail for it, then became Czech's president after his release). Momentous speech. Read the whole thing.

You can picture how it must have felt in there. Four fucking Nazis with their shit-eating grins squeezing their fat asses into a booth at a family-owned Mexican place poisoning the entire room with their smug impunity. Desecrating a place of community www.welcometohellworld.com/we-must-love...

“Who knows. Who cares. Human society suddenly feels overwhelmingly trivial and stupid and not worth the trouble,” Joseph O’Neill writes in his short story “Light Secrets.” www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Clearly the US, indeed the planet, may not survive three more years of an insane Republican president + nihilistic Republican Party + Vichy Democratic leadership. We in the opposition cannot do much, yet, about the first two elements. We can do something about the last element.

This is what’s so stupefying about Congressional leaders: Republicans, Schumer, Durbin, Jeffries. My brothers and sisters. You are leading the U.S. Congress at a moment of INDESCRIBABLE world historic import. Your faces and names will be plastered all over history books. How do you think you

Why are Senate Dems embarking on a *bipartisan* mission????

Why can’t journalists at least say this out loud: “Many experts, commentators & political leaders are saying that Trump is clearly spiraling into madness & needs to be removed.”

Senior White House official says local and state police in Minneapolis “have been ordered to stand down and surrender.” What?

The president of the United States is insane, in the medical sense. It's beyond argument.

The incredibly lukewarm Democratic response on Greenland is being noticed in Europe, incidentally. Chuck Schumer not finding a stronger word than “quixotic” for Trump’s plan to seize Greenland has been name checked to me more than once.

I have a new story in the New Yorker. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

For EU officials wondering what they can do: they can actively (if informally) align their countries with the Democratic Party in opposition to the Republican Party. Inform, incentivize, influence. It could make a real difference in the electoral-cultural war now unfolding in the US.

Last week I reported on the 35 people ICE has killed in the last year. www.qasimrashid.com/p/did-your-d... Today Washington Post reports that on January 3, ICE killed another person, by choking him to death in prison. You don’t reform this. You don’t fix this by training. You ABOLISH this fascism.

participation trophy nypost.com/2026/01/16/u...

How can any senate Democrat, in light of a pronouncement like this, vote in favor of a budget to take effect just in time for Trump to wipe his ass with it?

The highly anticipated second book in Kent Priore's epic dark fantasy series is dropping this year. Check out IN THE WAKE OF GODS now! books2read.com/u/mZDjxl @kentpriore.bsky.social #darkfantasy #booktrailer #2026books #booksky #readersky #rowanprosepub

Of course it is exactly for this scenario--tyrannical government trampling over the rights to life and liberty--that Second Amendment proponents argue gives Americans the right to bear arms.

Trump administration is threatening to frame the Federal Reserve Chair unless he does its bidding.

“Sometimes public service requires standing firm in the face of threats, which is what this unambiguously is” How did the banker dude get here before the leaders of every self-mythologizing media organization or even Congress

AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU

Dan Goldman 2.0 (derogatory)

Why do I have to read an Irish paper for a feature about this?

Insightful essay by Sam Tanenhaus, who turns not just to political science and punditry but to “the lessons of art,” in particular the fiction of Joseph O’Neill, to shed light on the meaning of the Mamdani moment. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/02/o...

NYC is getting back to business.

UK Labour doing exactly what Nate Silver wants it to do has led it becoming the 4th most popular party in the kingdom.

Julie K. Brown is a reporter for the Miami Herald who did groundbreaking work on Epstein beginning in 2018, including groundbreaking work on the disgusting coverup by Alex Acosta. Her travel itinerary was released with some of the Epstein files. It appears the DOJ was monitoring her in 2019.

This level of personal-corporate wealth is inconsistent with basic givens of rule of law, national sovereignty.

Will the media--will the Democrats!--finally explode the biggest taboo* in US political life? *the prohibition against mentioning the GOP's tactical use of violence and intimidation, actual and threatened, to achieve its ends.

A DOJ memo to federal prisons explicitly instructs them to stop enforcing anti-rape laws against transgender & intersex prisoners. We are governed by monsters.

EU + UK must grasp that an adversarial relationship with the Republican Party can no longer be avoided--because it's already here, instigated by the Republican Party. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/t...

November was a terrible month for Trump, leaving the GOP highly vulnerable to durable negative branding on the economy, on corruption, on cruelty, on the basic ability to govern. The response of DC Democrats has been to lie low, let Republicans regroup.

The Russian capture and corruption of key British politicians/media figures has been obvious since the run-up to Brexit.

so now if you worked in content moderation you are visa-blackballed like you'd be if you're friends were all al qaeda

Time in Cork is always relative. #AboutNine

I very much enjoyed my conversation with the brilliant @bradlisti.bsky.social

A housing insurance collapse entails a mortgage-lending collapse. Lenders will not secure a 30-year loan on an uninsurable property.