Long-time buddies Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols were out for a pleasant van drive in Oklahoma when, all of a sudden, their lives would change.

Stories linking use of Ozempic to feelings of nihilism have me thinking it might be useful medicine for facing the nonstop firehose of maximum dipsh!ttery coming from the federal government.

Uh no...we definitely realize it.

War with Iran is yet another reason D.C.'s "taxation without representation" license plate slogan is appropriate nationwide. When only 27% of americans support something (like invading other countries) it is by definition not a government of, by, or for the people.

Chronic ocean heating fuels ‘staggering’ loss of marine life, study finds Fish levels fall by 7.2% with as little as 0.1C of warming per decade, northern hemisphere research shows www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Only a few hundred more powerful Americans to go...

Stock market is sh!tting the bed. Savings ⬇️ prices ⬆️, but at least we have war with Iran and armed kidnapping by federales to while away the time.

look at my country man, we’re getting out-No Kings’d by the fuckin’ british

Need a new global holiday where every human on the planet gets an "L" on our forehead written with "the ashes of critical thinking."

I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is

Look I get it, but don't post stuff just because it fits your political identity. This is fake. Do the work.

Sea otter pups can become stranded when storms separate them or when they drift away while mom is diving for food. Once alone, these pups have little to no chance of survival. This lucky pair was reunited quickly, found less than a mile apart. Learn more about sea otters: mbayaq.co/4re9yHY

I get that many republicans are worse, but democrats are led by people who are about as useful as Merrick Garland (i.e. not at all). What tF does "silent defiance" mean? IIRC House republiclowns disrupted Obama (& Biden) constantly, to the point I kept expecting the N-word (because, you know...GOP).

Monday ice update - #Arctic sea ice extent is currently the 4th lowest on record (JAXA data)... • about 120,000 km² below the 2010s mean • about 780,000 km² below the 2000s mean • about 1,360,000 km² below the 1990s mean • about 1,740,000 km² below the 1980s mean More: zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i...

Ossoff: We were told that MAGA was for working-class Americans. But this is a government of, by, and for the ultra-rich. It’s the wealthiest Cabinet ever. This is the Epstein class. They are the elites they pretend to hate.

Are we great again yet? I market news, "For a January, it’s the worst since 2009 during the Great Recession." I miss the senile guy with the ineffective AG and BEST economy in the G-20. Seems like yesterday...

Please read this extremely thoughtful & careful post on Tim Walz, Anne Frank, & the US Holocaust Memorial Museum from Martin Shuster, philosopher, Isaac Swift Distinguished Professor of Jewish Studies, former Holocaust Memorial Museum Fellow, & scholar of genocide, the Holocaust, & authoritarianism:

Gee who could have seen that coming...

Trump is privately worried about the "optics" of ICE raids and his advisers are looking for ways to soften them, Axios reports. I'm calling bullshit: The terror and violence cannot be hived off from the broader policy agenda. They are 100% intrinsic to it. New piece: newrepublic.com/article/2053...

Pollster: Would you support the American military indiscriminately killing brown people in— Republicans: Let me stop you right there, yes. Absolutely, yes.

Very nice email from @ifawglobal.bsky.social this morning with news of the passing of Kraig the elephant at the rip old age of 54 (sad) in Kenya's Amboseli reserve. If only all elephants could live into their 50s.

Stock market seems cool with masked federal gunman killing Americans in broad daylight for not complying with being told to move along fast enough.

remains striking the extent to which trump quite loudly does not see himself as president of the united states and more as a clan leader for his supporters

Needing #training wheels on your cross is the perfect metaphor for the kind of performative #Christianity of the #right.

Future biopic that includes a scene about this moment will have the actor portraying Musk look exactly like this picture while ordering his team to boost the sexualization of minors.

New Year’s nurse shark starts the year swimming through clear blue winter water. Let’s hope 2026 brings many more clear water days in the months ahead! 💙🩺🦈💙 #nurseshark #sharksofcoralcity #shark #newyearsday #clearwater #bluewater #coral #coralcitycamera #miami #portmiami #biscaynebay #coralcity

this is literally the dictionary definition of "chump change" and its why corporations dont feel any problem with fucking over consumers. the fines and settlements they pay out are so dwarfed by the enormity of their profits. this is like getting a speeding ticket for 2 cents.

Trump's white nationalist aides are churning out vile videos glorifying migrant suffering. But Trump-MAGA are *losing* the online culture wars over deportations, because the humane side is info-warring better. Check out @paulwaldman.bsky.social and me on this: newrepublic.com/article/2038...

“The decision was made to exclude me from the filmed production of Swan Lake because I was told my brown skin would disrupt the aesthetic.” ~ Misty Copeland When folks gripe about DEI, remind them who benefited from shutting out dancers like Copeland. That pattern runs through our whole history.

Dude ought to practice the Nixonian "I am not a crook" with refined jowl shake. 'Murka in a nutshell right here folks.

It’s almost as if cynically standing for nothing while allowing America’s slide into fascism to continue unchecked wasn’t a great strategy.

Breaking: Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died. She was 111 years old

Re: Epstein’s emails

We’ve served our country in uniform.  Now we are stepping up to serve again.  We are The Hell Cats — four female veterans that are going to flip the House in 2026. Join the mission →  hellcats.us

Eugenics was never just about genes. It was about power: deciding whose lives are “fit,” whose are a “burden,” who gets resources, and who’s written off as too expensive to save. @alyssamilano.bsky.social alyssajmilano.substack.com/p/its-eugeni...

Orwellian levels of wtf when the new "uhhh, we'll see" process is branded as "Unlimited / Discretionary Time Off" (a.k.a. DTO). Everybody just misses the old accounting accumulation approach.

When you've lost the historians without needing years of reflection on the magnitude of your buffoonery.

Absolutely, false bravery until they got some tactical win they wanted, then capitulation, it's democrats 101 stuff.

Chris Murphy: "There will be pretty substantial damage to a Dem brand that has been rehabilitated if on the heels of an election in which the people told us to keep fighting, we immediately stop... if we surrender without having gotten anything, I worry it'll be hard to get them back up off the mat"

Are we great again yet? ===== Consumer sentiment dropped to a three-year low and close to the lowest point ever recorded by the U of Michigan The November survey showed the index of consumer sentiment at 50.4, down a startling 6.2% from last month and it plunged nearly 30% from a year ago.

Have democrats caved on Medicaid and SNAP yet? Fresh off a fantastic election night I expect the party to squander their opportunity utterly.

"The day NYC elects a Muslim Mayor will be the day I die." --Dick Cheney probably

I hope someone is writing "12 Hangry Men" about the sandwich guy jury