ICE funding expires January 30. Call Congress to say whether you think it should be continued. US Capitol switchboard: 202-224-3121.

The thing I always come back to is how many people never despaired against longer odds, and how arrogant it would be to put myself above them.

If hell is other people than social media is like, super hell

it's important to treat these people like they actually believe the deranged shit they say. These are fascist babies who believe in fairytales their favorite podcasters and posters have told them. And they're running the United States government.

hmmmmmm

Sneezed suddenly while opening a restroom door and slammed my forehead into the corner of the door, nearly knocking myself out.

trump just announced cutting $10 Billion in funding for poor American kids

IT’S ALMOST TUESDAY, which means….  IT’S ALMOST ELECTION DAY!!! There are six elections this week, and they are all state legislative. We have AR HD70, SC HD98, GA HD23, VA SD15, and VA HD77 (HD - House District, SD - Senate District) 1/

Plain and simple my politics is that nobody should be wealthy enough to make their insecurities my problem.

Ask not what your representative will do for you (nothing), ask how you can make your representative so miserable they quit their job

For those of us not in the cult, this is what we hear when anyone from the Trump administration speaks. For the people in the back, this is satire and so well done…

Reagan, 1981: “In the present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.” Clinton, 1996: “I say again, the era of big government is over. But we cannot go back to the era of fending for yourself.” Mamdani, 2026:

forget the long arc of history bending towards justice, I need the rube goldberg machine of inexorable consequence to endgame the kind of profoundly ironic yet blackly hilarious karmic downfall that would’ve had ancient greek theatergoers hollering at the chorus

it is incredible that the entire high level legal apparatus of the United States is "anything that helps people is impossible, anything that kills people is permitted"

As you read the news today, watch who phrases the news as an "illegal invasion and regime change" versus "bringing democracy". It'll tell you everything you need to know about the news source you're reading, and frankly should decide whether you ever read them seriously again.

Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts. Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.

It’s not about drugs. If it was, Trump wouldn’t have pardoned one of the largest narco traffickers in the world last month. It’s about oil and regime change. And they need a trial now to pretend that it isn’t. Especially to distract from his sinking under Epstein and skyrocketing healthcare costs.

Remember how appalled we all were in 2022 when Russia completely unprovoked attacked Ukraine? That is what we’re doing tonight with Venezuela. We are the bad guys here. Everyone who supports this is supporting unprovoked murder. Fuck every last one of them

Any D who doesn't push for impeachment should get primaried. This is it. No excuses. No more.

call me crazy but it really feels like “World’s Richest Man Creates AI Chatbot That Generates Child Porn” would’ve been a huge international outrage requiring a governmental crackdown not even 24 months ago

This is not a hard message. Localize it. Embrace it. Win.

My son, Indy, is doing another epic fundraising walk for Ukrainian refugees via @ukforunhcr.bsky.social. He is walking the 102-mile Cotswold Way in the depths of winter, photographing the Ukrainian flag in the changing landscape as he goes. He's already begun & will post updates regularly.

You mean, like, the most recent thing that almost killed me, or do I get to pick? I was a Gen X kid. you’re going to have to be more specific.

Try to be positive in 2026! Instead of waking up and asking "Is he dead yet?" wake up with a smile on your face knowing, either way, we're all one day closer.

Not gonna lie, 2025 was a year of sadness, struggle, and loss for me. My mom died in January, there were struggles with physical and mental health, and in October I got laid off from my job of nearly six years. It's been hard, but I'm carrying on. I hope 2026 will be better for all of us.

Timezones are so weird. Australia is in 2026, Canada is in 2025, and the United States is in 1939.

How I'm walking out of 2025.

From the oldest survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre to the youngest of the Freedom Riders, the world said goodbye in 2025 to people who changed our world. Watch Allison J. Davis's video tribute: bit.ly/3KLjBof

"Trump will live forever, but only as a cautionary tale, one we tell successive generations to demonstrate that sustaining a democracy against the corrupt and the malevolent requires vigilance and determination." — @paulwaldman.bsky.social

It blows my mind that you can create a startup based on a fucking absurd series of lies and impossible promises, make billions of dollars while companies cut staffing believing the lie, then walk away from the smoldering crater without being guillotined straight to hell www.ft.com/content/9b1b...

Freaking love this city and all the people in it so much….a bunch of people went and turned the 4 train into the Polar Express giving out toys to kids along the way from the Bronx to Brooklyn….shoutout to the @newyorkers.live account on IG for doing this 🙏 www.instagram.com/reel/DSnsvWS...

Merry Christmas from Aces and all the other holiday black cats!

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from Miss Ninja the feral cat, who’s still a bit wary of people but loves her wet food and cozy blanket to snooze on. May we all know kindness and joy in the coming year.

Merry Fool of a Took-mas to all who celebrate.

Untitled, 2015 - by Ileana Serban

there is one and only one political strategy, and that is: “hang trump like an anchor around the neck of every single elected republican and the party itself.” no ‘friends across the aisle.’ no ‘the fever will break.’ anyone not on board with that has to go. no exceptions

THREAD. My parents' cat Bridget vanished. As the weeks dragged on they became ever more worried, so to distract himself my dad began to paint Bridget's adventures, imagining her travelling through time and popping up at some of art & music's most important moments. I've collected his work here...

Now would be a great time for a 10 episode, 20 hour prestige series about the ten years between 1916 and 1926, covering the establishment of the 8-hr work day & 5-day work week, in the US. Each episode would be one year & the middle episode should be entirely devoted to the Battle of Blair Mountain.

"concept artists can experiment with AI to make their lives easi-" wrong I smack you with Claire Hummel's immaculate and detailed understanding of costume design, which she got by studying historical references, which made her strong, which you will not become by relying on AI get good

people do not know the connection between the stuff they like and the political parties. you have to tell them. "do you like social security? the democrats made it and protect it. the gop keeps trying to kill it." basic shit.

New Illustration: "We Beat 'Em Before..." Taken from a British WW2 poster, the original features a WW1 German soldier at the top. I just swapped it for the Nazi soldier it had at the bottom.

A billion dollars is the socio-economic equivalent of a loose nuke, and we should work to prevent the acquisition of the former with the same urgency and ruthlessness we use to prevent the acquisition of the latter.

Clay letters from ancient Mesopotamia are alive with idiom, sayings, and everyday language that I love. Here are just a few random ones so you can enjoy them too.

Putting up the Christmas tree. Songs and carols playing and filling the room with song, as is our tradition. Janet sings along to her favorites. That first moment she sings, each and every year, is the moment Christmas begins for me.

Just so I'm clear on this, computer memory has tripled in price because a bunch of it that hasn't been produced yet has been ordered to populate GPUs that aren't installed in data centers that aren't built yet in order to service a demand that doesn't exist to make profits that don't happen.

Steve isn’t here anymore, but he always posted this picture on Hanukkah so I thought we could carry on his tradition and remember him.

TIL the original lyrics to Deck the Halls are awesome and “don we now our gay apparel” is temperance movement bullshit