PSA: twitter, X, is doing new terms of service that basically make it so that any comtent you share on there including DMs and photos is theirs and they can use it for "any purpose" including commercial use. So, if you have a page you’ve left up and don’t want them there’s time to act 1/

This is the kind of thing that the Founders explicitly designed our constitution to prevent; a president who has seized wealth for his own benefit without any intervention from Congress, which in our system is supposed to be the holder of the power of the purse.

The discourse about MBJ vs Timmy and Sinners vs One Battle After Another / Marty Supreme that has erupted on TikTok after the Critics Choice Awards is really something

one takeaway from the grok noncon porn thing is that much of the media just isn't interested in an issue they can't pretend has two sides or that doesn't give them an opportunity to shit on the left. Also it would be uncomfortable to justify remaining on twitter after acknowledging it

The cover of our new issue: reminding us all of a day that Donald Trump would like us to forget. And it goes with a remarkable story about a police officer who protected the Capitol and an ex-cop who attacked it. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

Democrats being unable to get the January 6th plaque hung up in time, and sanctimoniously complaining that Republicans are violating the law - all while failing to actually prosecute those Republicans in court - is the perfect metaphor for our times www.nytimes.com/2026/01/06/o...

The New Lost Cause

This “whistleblower” used AI to make a fake employee badge, then to make fake company documents. @caseynewton.bsky.social, a real journalist, caught on and knew better. I doubt the Nick Shirley’s of the world will. We are in a massive trust/information crisis 🚨

Deplatforming extremism, hate speech, etc was a net good. When Milo was banned, most people forgot about him. When Fuentes and his ilk weren’t allowed on mainstream platforms, they were just for the fringes of 8chan and wherever else. Giving hate a platform under the guise of free-speech is bad

this is how every outlet should refer to X

Quinn moves fast • How the team tapped 'Heated Rivalry' stars Hudson Williams and Connor Storrie to narrate their newest audio romance.

London Zoo are doing their annual stock take and it is a thing of joy (pics from Getty Images) www.gettyimages.co.uk/editorial-im...

All of the arguments about how futile or counterproductive or whatever impeachment would be fall flat when you're reminded Trump genuinely does not want to be impeached again, and that's the main reason he cares at all about the outcome of the midterms.

Five years ago.

Literally 1984 Orwellian do not believe your own eyes level gaslighting

the people who run prediction markets are not serious people

For most of my life, I really thought "Hitler was bad" was one of the few political beliefs all Americans beyond a tiny fringe shared. Sure, we might disagree on what made him bad, and many misunderstood his broader ideological framework, but we all agreed he was really bad. No longer, apparently.

Will’s GQ run kept the place in the conversation — kudos

“.. The president’s desire is different than the industry’s. And the White House would have known that if they had communicated with the industry prior to the operation on Saturday.” @cnn.com 🇻🇪 #OOTT www.cnn.com/2026/01/05/b...

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Like he said...

Calling this the Avatar Paradox Three of the highest grossing movies ever and yet nobody remembers the actual story

The president who presided over PPP loans arguing that a governor's responsible if people defraud the system? Sure why not

Some news: In an attempt to convey supposed transparency, the Pentagon told me that Pete Hegseth has granted anonymous background interviews on Venezuela to some "mainstream media outlets"—all while the Trump admin trashes anonymous sourcing. More in @status.news: www.status.news/p/pentagon-p...

COLLINS: Stephen, you're part of the group the president has said is running Venezuela. What are your day to day responsibilities? STEPHEN MILLER: ... heh heh. The president has asked Rubio to be the lead C: But what are you specifically doing? M: I don't want to talk too much about myself

The whole world is now being instructed that Donald Trump can just say shit like “we’re going to run Venezuela” and sometimes it means nothing at all.

this is small comfort given he has state power and i don’t but i am struck by what an obviously weak and fragile man miller is. a blubbering piss baby whose entire affect and personality is an attempt to make up for his profound feelings of inadequacy

Notice how she cites the indictment, which *does not accuse Maduro of trafficking fentanyl.* Tom Massie has been almost alone in the GOP pointing that one.

If the biggest donor to the DCCC/DNC ran a website where you could use AI to take women's clothes off I feel like there'd be a demand for Dems to give the money back.

"Here I am, once again, explaining why codifying a contested definition into law was always a bad idea—not because antisemitism isn’t real, but because there isn’t consensus on a single definition, and the definition some groups keep trying to enshrine has serious problems." @sikevin99.bsky.social

RFK Jr's HHS had a press call to announce they were — based on no new data — overhauling the childhood vaccine schedule. Senior officials at HHS answered questions but refused to go on the record, saying we could only attribute the quotes to "officials." www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...

Right-wing rage-bait “news coverage” account that is “powered by Polymarket” // Kalshi account itself doubles as a right-wing troll 🧐

Bill Cassidy — who voted to confirm RFK Jr — says his move to roll back vaccine recommendations “will make America sicker.”

It was very fun a few months back when people were talking about Bluesky’s user base / growth problems and the scolds on here shouted GO AWAY EVIL MONSTERS WE DONT WANT MORE PPL HERE

the number one risk this year is the us political revolution. trump is systematically dismantling checks on his power and weaponizing government against his enemies. (as he and his supporters believe they have weaponized it against him)

Casey did basic due diligence here, and it's depressing (and not even a little surprising) how many people wrote takes/stories on the post without doing that.

In the middle of a “save it for the bathroom”-sized post, but Zootopia 2 has now earned more in local currency than Avengers: Endgame, thus becoming the top-earning Hollywood export ever in China. It’s still behind ($602 million versus $633 million) in USD, but give it a week or three.

A reminder that Trump has been fantasizing about seizing oil from other countries for more than a decade, before he even ran for president: www.nationalreview.com/2015/07/dona...

Thursday can’t come any sooner

It's not the "Donroe Doctrine" and there is no grand strategy. The best way to describe Trump's foreign policy is simply the "FAFO Doctrine." www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

Mark Kelly said “refuse illegal orders”

I've been vocal in saying groups like the ADL are much too quick to label all anti-Zionism as necessarily antisemitism, and I will continue to say so. But if you want to see why many Jews instinctively feel like criticisms of Zionism are antisemitism, look at this. www.i24news.tv/en/news/inte...

Wrote about an obvious and yet profoundly underappreciated aspect of the AI boom: its total narrative capture by Elon Musk's X nymag.com/intelligence...

After years of railing against U.S. intervention abroad, MAGA media is now contorting itself to defend, or avoid criticizing, Trump’s America First foreign policy in practice as it plays out in Venezuela www.status.news/p/maga-media...

In 2025, “US equities underperformed the rest of the world by the largest margin since 2009.” @thedailyshot.bsky.social

NEW: More than 300 judges — including 33 appointed by Trump himself — have now rebuffed the Trump administration’s bid to dramatically expand efforts to lock people up while they fight deportation. www.politico.com/news/2026/01/05/trump-administration-immigrants-mandatory-detention-00709494

In truth, Trump's war in Venezuela does not actually serve the American oil industry's interests. It might nonetheless be motivated by oil, but only because Trump personally loves the idea of pillaging conquered lands www.vox.com/politics/473...

Walz drops bid for third term in Minnesota amid scandal over social service fraud in state government and Klobuchar appears poised to run instead. @tylerpager.bsky.social @reidepstein.bsky.social @londonoe.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/01/05/u...