Here it is, your moment of zen.

I miss when you could post Brave Norman Rockwell Townsperson and the caption could be, like, “R.E.M was wrong to leave ‘Fretless’ off of Out of Time” instead of “The secret police should stop murdering people.”

Behold, the Unitary Executive!

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

So uh Ring just up and said they've got a huge centralized private surveillance network they can leverage all at once huh

Death Camp For Cutie over here

❌ protesting wine moms ✅ domestic terroirists

I’m struggling with how to promote this one, so I’ll just say I hope you read it and that it makes you feel less alone.

every time i see a white guy in their fifties radicalized by the twitter algorithm into racism and extremism i think about how it's a total failure of the youtube algorithm to instead radicalize him into home brewing, elaborate A/V setups, or DIY solar

A federal judge, in a published order, so very much on the record: “ICE has likely violated more court orders in January 2026 than some federal agencies have violated in their entire existence.”

One of the best things I’ve read in a while:

Protesters chanting "We're not cold, we're not afraid, Minne[apolis/sota] taught us to be brave" in Boston tonight outside Government Center station.

In more-civilized countries, guillotines would be the moderate option for this sort of thing

Protest is my cardio.

I'm at the civil war I'm at the NATO war I'm at the combination civil war and NATO war

if you can make it to the end without laughing out loud at "Lazarus was DEAD" you are made of sterner stuff than I

@maddow.bsky.social: “There are very few Americans right now who have any idea why the United States did this. If this was about drug trafficking then why did President Trump just pardon the former President of Honduras who was convicted of sending hundreds of tons of drugs into the US?”

Some Dems have told themselves only ~1% of the population is trans so they can dip their toe in the anti-trans filth and come out clean. I don't have any trans family members—but it still makes me irate. I see it as a huge red flag, a sign you are unprincipled and untrustworthy. And I'm not alone.

When I was in high school we made 69 jokes but the economy is so bad kids these days can only joke about 67

@magaziner.house.gov gets it: Human stories of suffering and disruption are what will make this country embrace empathy as a virtue again.

I know these people were mostly born without consciences but I do think if I had to be politely asked not to use the cartoon turtle for children to promote extrajudicial killings I would wonder, if only for a second, if I was a bad person.

Finally getting some theological clarity on the ethics of reclining in one’s plane seat

Finally home after 48 days in custody.

Rather than deal with the inconveniences of divorce — the paperwork, the math, the pitying looks — more and more women over 40 are choosing to just check out.

#BREAKING: A student intern at Rhode Island Superior Court was briefly taken into custody by ICE this afternoon before a judge intervened, 12 News has learned. Story by @jusolyn.bsky.social and @timwhiteri.bsky.social: ⤵️

Ellis repeatedly accuses multiple CBP and ICE officials of lying (under oath) and says their "widespread misrepresentations call into question everything" they "say they are doing in their characterization of what is happening." She broadly discredits their testimony as objectively false.

My “my 17 references to George Soros aren’t political” footnote is raising a lot of questions answered by my footnote.

Just to prove you are worth an 8p stamp.

"The fact that Trump and Bondi botched the appointment of Halligan is a helpful additional point of attack for Comey and James, but it should never have come to this. It’s almost a lucky break, where the incompetence overwhelmed the corruption."

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

@pressley.house.gov for anything she damn well wants.

Dear Jeffrey,

I really think this is it. Selling out the country for one Thanksgiving.

A lot of people have suffered, but at least it was for nothing.

WE WERE WINNING! Don't tell me less than 24 hours after your caucus engineered a massive, election-insulated betrayal that it's time to re-focus on beating the Big Bad Sleepy Guy, whom YOUR COLLEAGUES just saved from being The Man Who Ruined Thanksgiving 2025.

Resign.

remember that old episode of Twilight Zone where the couple are told that if they press this button they'll get $200k but a stranger will die? well the senate democratic caucus is mashing that button over & over just to avoid the possibility that their holiday season flights might get delayed

Caving now will teach Trump and Republicans that they can win any fight simply by threatening to cause terrible harm to regular people. no possible way that could have future adverse consequences

It would have been better to simply cave on day one than do this. how can you ask anyone to suffer through a shutdown ever again, if you can deliver *nothing*?

New Hampshire and Maine, call your idiot senators!!!! This is a terrible deal. Get an extension or stay strong.

"More than enough" Senate Democratic Caucus members to pass shutdown deal led by Shaheen, King and Hassan, source familiar with deal says - CR through Jan. 30 - ACA bill vote on bill of Dems' choosing in December - Minibus has RIF reversals and "protections" against them in future

football’s all like gimme that coconut i want it it’s beautiful but tennis is all like fuck this stupid lemon i hate it

Reader, I sobbed at the community response.

ah, perhaps instead of pumping millions into endless factional infighting Dem donors could invest in making local Dem organizations genuine civic spaces that can reach people during and between elections

Multiple immigrants detained at the facility say ICE officer demanded that they sign deportation paperwork, refused to let them talk to lawyers, and threatened them when they wouldn't sign documents in English that they couldn't read. Here's a representative example.

"Well, it’s been fun, but I should probably get back to work, checking in on the updates to my most active pages (Transnational Kleptocracy and Vaccine Denial in the United States, Part 16, April 2025–Present)."

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