From @acyn.bsky.social (posted on X) "Reporter: Do any of you have a favorite animal? Child: My favorite one is a gold snake that can move. It has gold eyes, and it has a super-duper tail… Reporter: Mr. Mamdani, the second question for you. Mamdani: Yes. It’s also the golden snake."

Will makes sharp arguments, does research, writes wonderfully, has a heart, unlike nearly all opinion columnists does outstanding reporting, & has been doing terrific writing about our government kidnapping, imprisoning, & deporting our neighbors.

PBS willing to call the video racist, but somehow the noun naming what was in the offensive image was a bridge too far? Trump shares a racist video that depicts the Obamas as primates www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

Maybe he can get They Might Be Giants to adapt their song "Bangs" as a campaign anthem "Bengs! He's like a pocket t-shirt! As casual as that while fully intentional" Democrats Can't Win In South Dakota. Senate Candidate Brian Bengs Gonna See If An Independent Can. www.wonkette.com/p/democrats-...

He's a long shot, and that's a damn shame, because we like the cut of his jib. Democrats Can't Win In South Dakota. Senate Candidate Brian Bengs Gonna See If An Independent Can. www.wonkette.com/p/democrats-...

Perfect combo here.

MAGAs can't even use the old cliché about how even Hitler loved dogs. This is one seriously evil bunch of creeps. Trump Fed Kicks Schnauzer Puppy In Memphis, Because That's What Happens Now www.wonkette.com/p/trump-fed-... By Evan Hurst @evanhurst.substack.com

Over on X, the Everything App, serious conservative thinker Dinesh D'Souza shared a video of an AI-generated woman on a fake podcast he seemingly thought was real, telling the audience that young women should get with older men. Dude, wtf?

Please listen to every Californian telling you Gavin Newsom is a terrible choice and you should not anoint him the Democratic nominee for 2028. The only thing Gavin Newsom actually cares about is Gavin Newsom. He will sacrifice anyone and anything you care about for his political ambitions.

a great piece, and since I'm not a scifi dude, I was totally unaware of what a pos Asimov was "women found excuses to be away from the building whenever he was scheduled to appear" www.publicbooks.org/asimovs-empi...

I need everyone to know that on the crochet subreddit the mods made a big post about how they're taking a week off because there was too much fighting/political posts. so there's currently no mods on r/crochet and people are being absolutely insane

Spoke an alumni today born outside the U.S. but here for more than a decade and is married and fully documented/permanent and nearing citizenship. And canceling flights and vacations due to the risk. That caution is the result of a campaign to terrify even the most law-abiding but not-white.

Is there any evidence that anyone really likes Lindsey Graham, just hears his name and thinks, "Now there's a GREAT guy"?

It's important for presidents to be able to recognize missiles and enemies, in case some slip past the Air Force. And if they're disguised as camels or elephants, he can still spot 'em.

Thank God someone is taking steps to defund public schools when teenagers protest ICE Nazis. Is Greg Abbott So Out Of Touch? No, It's The Children Who Are Wrong www.wonkette.com/p/is-greg-ab...

Y’all, I’m losing my mind over here. I need everyone to read this article. I can’t go it alone!!! “Epstein argues that teaching children to write may be harmful because writing forces “linear” and “narrow” patterns of thinking, whereas the greatest thinkers never wrote.”

These chuds try so hard to act like they don’t care what artists think while they’re fighting off tears. Every one of them desperately wants to be prestigious and it’s absolutely killing them that artists haven’t made a show of submission before MAGA, never mind a show of respect.

We are deciding right now whether we want to be a country with ethnic cleansing and concentration camps.

Good Morning 💙☕️

Literally killing one of the few things people look at this organization positively for! You’d be hard-pressed to find an American school kid who grew up in the digital age who didn’t have to use it on a project.

All of those who testified about being abused by DHS are US citizens, and allegedly have constitutional rights, if you can believe *that.* No Republicans Show Up For Joint House-Senate Hearing On ICE Murders, Brutality. Big Surprise. www.wonkette.com/p/no-republi...

Never heard of this?

Maga fuckhead on the road. His brain is squirmin' like a toad. Trumper So Inspired By Ice Goons He Attacked 'Foreign' People For Free. No Need To Thank Him! www.wonkette.com/p/trumper-so...

So much drama at the monastery. It was a total cloisterfuck.

So much drama at the monastery. It was a total cloisterfuck.

Presented without comment. I just want everyone here to know. I want you to know what you're looking at the next time you see this guy being interviewed or RTed by an Abundance bro. 1/8

Thorton really ties the room together.

The climate crisis is here. Right now.

This is genuinely good news, and means that -- with some notable exceptions -- Democrats have now gone to the mat to protect trans people, in the face of the reactionary centrists trying very hard to get the party to throw them under the bus

He and his supporters are the only people who matter, and the weird myths they believe are the only "reality" that matters. Your dumb "Constitution"? Nah. Donald Trump Says He Wants To Seize State Elections, Probably Just Kidding Again Because He's Such A Kidder www.wonkette.com/p/donald-tru...

When Great Leader said Republicans should take over the voting or nationalize the voting, he simply meant, uh, voter ID. And if you didn't hear him say "voter ID," that's probably because your lying ears hate America.

A white man in Dillard, Oregon was arrested for stopping people on the freeway to demand at gunpoint that they tell him if they were citizens. He shot and missed one + attempted to get another in his truck to bring to police. Before his spree, he called local PD to complain about "foreign" people.

Wait, we're back to doing "hipster coffee shop in liberal stronghold" AU fanfic? Does Jacob Wohl know Adams is ripping off his schtick?

The far right's smartest people are deeply ignorant. Here's Curtis Yarvin showing he knows nothing about the history of civil disobedience. Henry David Thoreau invented the term in 1849, to describe practices that had existed long before that.

Trump is just one of many Grand Pricks involved. The drivers will be required to do donuts all over the Black Lives Matter street painting, which will be restored in advance so it can be defaced. Stephen Miller will demand the Freedom 250 be banned because any government mention of races is DEI.

Autocratic regimes hate the free press. They hate journalism because they don’t want to be held accountable. These Minnesota journalists are being targeted because journalism has prevented this administration from doing even more insane things in Minnesota. Remember it was video that proved lying …

One detail getting lost in the coverage of Don Lemon's arrest? The church at the center of the case has ties to the Christian nationalist movement, including the “TheoBros," a loose network of mostly millennial, extremely online Christian nationalist pastors, podcasters, and shitposters.

Q: Why are you suing the IRS? TRUMP: Who are you with? Q: ABC News TRUMP: You are a loud person. Let somebody else have a chance Q: Can you answer the question? TRUMP: ABC fake news. I didn't call on you

According to Trump's lawsuit against the IRS, the Trump Organization “includes The Trump Organization, LLC, as well as 418 other entities that received notices” from the IRS. I am not a business reporter, so I don't know: Is 418 separate entities doing business under one company name *a lot*?

I just want to spit in the face of everyone who mainstreamed this contemptible freak.

The EPA's power to regulate climate change was built on a solid legal & scientific foundation. But as with the East Wing, nobody expected a madman with a bulldozer. Trump's EPA Having Real Hard Time Trying To Kill Climate Regulations, So That's, We Don't Know, Sad? www.wonkette.com/p/trumps-epa...

the White House's official X account gloats over the arrest of Don Lemon with a chains emoji

Who knew that trying to repeal rules based on hundreds of peer-reviewed climate studies might require more than one shitty "report" written by a group of cranks? Trump's EPA Having Real Hard Time Trying To Kill Climate Regulations, So That's, We Don't Know, Sad? www.wonkette.com/p/trumps-epa...

A reminder that there are only two days left to see John Akomfrah’s The “Hour of the Dog” at the @artbma.bsky.social. His stunning film installation features many of mugshots of young - very young - activists who were arrested during the Civil Rights Movement. Mugshots can reverse the narrative.

interested to learn what “at my direction” means because it sounds like “without a warrant”

Another excellent thread, this one on the bogus report from the Energy Department's now-disbanded "climate working group" that created the cherry-picked report behind the effort to roll back EPA's authority to regulate greenhouse gases 🧵

My colleague @bobkopp.net has a nice thread rundown of the many problems and illegal actions of the Dept of Energy Climate Working Group report based on the emails that came out yesterday from @envdefensefund.bsky.social lawsuit: www.edf.org/media/newly-... I would just add a few things re NCA5 1/

This is (or should be) effing big news! Paywall-sidestepping archive version here: archive.is/xQLlq

Newly disclosed records show the Trump admin ran a covert Climate Working Group to gut the EPA Endangerment Finding, sidelining real science and public health so polluters could profit. Their goal is money and damn the environment. #ClimateAction #ScienceMatters www.ucs.org/about/news/n...

"During my 17 years at the EPA I helped write the GHG Endangerment Finding and I helped defend it....I left EPA on January 24, 2026. The rollback may be finalized any day now. I know this document. I know what they’re getting wrong. And I’m going to show you." Seriously, subscribe.