"Commuting at Thalwil train station", a sculpture by Thomas Vontobel.

well played, chia pet. well played

Democratic leadership didn’t want to stick their necks out for him. The GOP didn’t want him even referred to as a “Maryland man.” Sen. Chris Van Hollen, his congressional representative fought for him. And we should never forget any of this. apnews.com/article/abre...

We'd never deport veterans, Noem says in earshot of deported veteran.

All I want for Xmas. 🙏

Found a @trimet.org fan

Boom!💥

Generations of steely eyed, take-no-prisoners Disney IP lawyers are screaming anew in hell today

You nibble on ONE prime minister and suddenly everyone is “Oh look at the prime minister eaters” ignoring all the national leaders who were never eaten at all!

This is totally normal, right?

“We are targeting Venezuela because of DRUGS, not OIL, which is why we are blowing up boats without any drugs and stealing a tanker full of oil.”

News is coming to me via friends on Facebook, and via Fancyclopedia, that John Varley, who wrote Millennium, Steel Beach, and the Gaea trilogy (Titan, Wizard, Demon) has died. He was an excellent writer in the Campbell/Heinlein tradition, and I dug him a lot in my teens and early 20s. RIP.

Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara to US citizen detained by ICE: "I apologize that this happened to you in my city with people wearing vests that say 'police.' That's embarrassing."

Share #Vietnam #fishing #overfishing "The Vietnamese government has temporarily suspended the enforcement of minimum size regulations for several key marine species, including various types of #tuna, following calls from local fishermen to abolish the regulation.* share.google/BLXSIhFmQR5D...

JUST IN: US judge orders Kilmar Abrego released from immigration detention reut.rs/48SyYmM

Why does anyone think this guy is some epoch-altering genius? Also...YOU'RE FROM SOUTH AFRICA. JFC. I feel like I am taking crazy pills.

Eight months ago vs today. 🤡 @atrupar.com @cnbc.com @cbsnews.com

TREVOR THE IGGY

White House Begins Christmas Season With Ceremonial Lighting Of Cross

Alan Moore calling the shot from 1988

finally reading "V for Vendetta," and of course one of the most prescient plot points (the focal point for the fascist regime is an AI, which the leader is, um, personally infatuated with) was cut from the 2005 film version

I've been drawing Somali kids in Sally Forth since I first started drawing the strip. They're a big part of where I live in Minneapolis. As with every other immigrant community that's come here, it's what makes the Twin Cities great! 💚

I only learned in recent years that the 25th Amendment was nearly invoked by Reagan’s own staff over far less outrageous behavior. I was completely oblivious to this at the time.

There was a thought to try to make an automated response LLM chatbot based upon the corpus of email, chats, and policies of various members of staff. That idea died quickly when I asked "How are you going to get the bot to stop swearing? Like, A LOT of swearing. Have you seen our chats?"

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A tanker? We just doing straight up piracy now?

My latest went out to Democracy Docket subscribers this morning. Never miss out on what is happening to democracy in court, subscribe now. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0

Emma Lazarus's The New Colossus. 2025 edition. Are you tired of the poor? You muddle headed asses yearning to fellate me, The wretched refuse of my golfing tours. Send these, the home wreckers, Trumpist-dross to me, My bucket for bribes sits outside the golden door!

The original. www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46550/...

ICE detain U.S. citizen for looking Somali—use illegal chokehold to tackle him to ground. Man repeatedly begs agents to look at his digital passport ID—they refuse. Drove him 7 miles away before releasing him alone into Minnesota snow storm—told him to "walk home" in freezing weather advisory.

Authorities say Grammy-nominated singer Jubilant Sykes was stabbed to death at his home in Santa Monica, California, and his son was arrested on suspicion of murder.

“gold bars and crypt billions for me, pencil rationing for you”

technically they're typefaces

"there's a new serif in town"

Hey world, maybe watch the World Cup and the Olympics on TV, yeah?

Following a briefing on Capitol Hill, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and Senator Mark Warner called for the release of the unedited video of a second military strike on a suspected drug boat in the Caribbean on September 2.

lol www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8UvLHp5/

In South Carolina, helping more than five people vote by mail makes you a felon. Three voters, all currently living in nursing homes, are challenging the law.

Reminder that Russia is planning terrorist attacks in the US, Canada, and Europe. Also, that on the 2024 US election day Russia sent terrorist threats to primarily democrat polling stations to aid Donald Trump. It's all connected.