Leftist Mamdani takes over as New York mayor under Trump shadow u.afp.com/S8aS

A remarkable trend that will come as a shock to you if your only info about NYC is from this Fox News. Homicides in NYC... 1990: 2,262 1993: 1,927 1998: 629 2001: 649 2013: 335 2019: 320 2021: 488 2024: 382 2025 (as of 12/28): 302

Sorry do your FEELINGS not like ROBUST CONSUMER PROTECTIONS?? Maybe you want to CRY ABOUT IT

The way we need to market this shit is to do what conservatives did for the past 30 years and write books like “The ten forbidden truths you’re not allowed to say on politically correct tv” and then it’s just cities are mostly fine and it’s good to get a flu shot

BREAKING: Zohran Mamdani is sworn in as New York City mayor as he seeks to advance his progressive agenda. nbcnews.to/4pYcvfb

BREAKING: Explosions felt across New York City as full socialism begins

2026: the year it happens

Happy New Year!

A major milestone for next generation Covid vax: The first clinical trial for a pancoronavirus formulation of an existing vaccine was registered. With more news incl trial results & 12 preclinical reports—in my monthly update @plos.org absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2025/12/31/m... #Vaccines

New: Cop City RICO Cases Dismissed Years After 61 Activists Charged as Criminal Conspiracy Racketeering charges against dozens indicted as co-conspirators in the Stop Cop City movement were dismissed yesterday marking a legal victory for the movement unicornriot.ninja/2025/cop-cit...

As Eric Adams heads off into that great Turkish Airlines lounge in the sky, we remember his legacy

There’s this muppet on TikTok who transcribes and then scats incredibly difficult jazz solos so well and I could not possibly love a thing more

It is kind of wild that no big media outlet has busted open the story of who is making DHS' posts on X. Whoever that may be is certainly plugged into hardcore white supremacist internet propaganda with a harder edge. "Groyper" would be underselling it. This is Daily Stormer-tier sludge.

It’s not even “are these people racist?” It’s “do these people have any beliefs at all besides white supremacy?”

I’m currently at the Washington Monument:

Breaking News: The Trump administration must return hundreds of California National Guard troops to Gov. Gavin Newsom’s control, a federal appeals court ruled.

Outlook for the new year ...

"No Way To Prevent This," Says Company Spending Billions Of Dollars To Encourage This

Not gonna tell you that I told you so. But I told you so...

Yep lol

So, the frog stopped the National Guard from coming to Portland, along with astute lawsuits by Oregon. Only part of what's happening, but hard to understate how fundamentally the Portland Frog changed perceptions and helped morale. Humor, imagination, courage, savvy.

This should not be shrugged aside. They have stopped with the fake 22 million illegal immigrants things and are flat out saying we want to deport 10's of millions of citizens and legal residents from "third world countries" Basically they are advocating removing 1/3 of the population on a gov site.

A must-read, exposing publicly what many in the criminal legal system already know, especially people wrongfully incarcerated based on false statements in search warrants. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/29/m...

NEW: Trump backs off National Guard deployments in Los Angeles, Chicago, Portland

THREAD: Verified videos of anti-establishment protests currently unfolding in Iran Protesters push back police and security forces on Tehran's Jomhouri Street. Location: maps.app.goo.gl/LKZH6YbnT2WE... @geoconfirmed.org

“many angry posts should have been naps or little packets of crackers” is deep wisdom and you don’t need to reproduce to embrace it!

Well that's some good news.

THE DAY CARES ARE LOCKED BECAUSE YOU MADE A GENERATION-LONG EFFORT TO MAKE IT AS EASY AS POSSIBLE TO KILL THE CHILDREN INSIDE THEM YOU ABSOLUTE FUCKING GHOULS

Yes, if you speak out against ICE they'll say you're a lunatic who wants to open the floodgates to scary immigrants. The correct response isn't cowering in a corner, it's asking whether people want to be terrorized by armed masked thugs as a part of daily life

If you're a Democrat, you're a sucker if you imagine this agency has anything to do with immigration. It is--and aspires to be!--a fascist paramilitary goon squad. You should start saying so and lay the groundwork for starving it of funding when you take power

All of the "fentanyl exceptions" in criminal law -- eg harsher penalties, exclusion from discretionary relief, and special crimes ("murder by fentanyl distribution") really paved the way for this.

mamdani promised to cancel this broken OMNY bullshit & go back to metrocards as soon as he's sworn in, right?

Flu numbers are high in most states and almost all cases are variants of H3N2 and the vaccine includes H3N2 Get your flu vax if you haven’t already! Even if you still get the flu, the symptoms will be easier to manage if you get vaccinated!

a vibe shift is occurring man

i too have begun watching the straight man hockey podcasts discuss heated rivalry. this is the forum of athens to me

continually tapping the "short form video is fundamentally evil and deleterious to society" sign

Take a bow RFK Jr He’s been working towards this moment for years abcnews.go.com/Health/us-me...

i follow a dj collective in brooklyn and their motto is no phones on the dance floor and they're the future

New York Public Library 1917

Exclusive: ICE officials plan to spend $100 million to recruit gun-rights supporters and military enthusiasts through online influencers and a geo-targeted ad campaign, part of what the agency called a “wartime recruitment” strategy to hire thousands of officers, according to an internal document.

This is the second pediatric #flu death I've seen in 2 days. I'm so sorry for the pain their families must feel. Unclear if either was vaccinated but odds are they were not, as most such deaths are in unvaccinated children.

Having to be constantly on alert for AI sludge is exhausting. If you wanted to invent a technology to suck the joy out of as many parts of life as possible you'd struggle to do better than this LLM shite.

After successfully fighting to un-dam the Klamath River, a land trust formed by 4 Northern California tribes just completed the purchase of a huge swath of land in the basin. They plan to focus on habitat recovery, cultural resource protection, & fire management lostcoastoutpost.com/2025/dec/29/...

Terrible, always a total magnet. His story about getting cast in Goodfellas, basically his first movie, is so charming www.avclub.com/isiah-whitlo...

An absolutely wonderful, versatile, powerful and powerfully funny actor who enlivened everything he was in, and a huge loss. I'm not going to say the word, but we're all thinking it in his honor. RIP Isiah Whitlock. deadline.com/2025/12/isia...

An absolutely unhinged font choice from the FBI FOIA office here

libsoftiktok is now the third most powerful branch of government after the president and supreme court