Hey everybody! We're doing our annual Behind the Bastards Q&A for the top of the new year. Post your questions here and we'll try to get to them all!

Seeing Andrew Tate and Jake Paul get beaten in boxing matches this weekend was quite satisfying. I hope people realize that the actual boxing landscape is pretty exciting right now.

Day 388 of #GeorgiaProtests And still so many people in the streets! We demand new, free and fair elections, unconditional release of all regime prisoners, And international investigation into the use of chemical agents during November-December 2024 crackdowns! 📷 MOSE

It’s a mess over here in the USA. And, as I warned in my op-ed on The Angry Dogs, it’s about to get very ugly. Men like Trump, Musk, and Thiel don’t give up power willingly. This will be settled in the streets. open.substack.com/pub/mattppea...

He’s not a lame duck, he’s a dying soon to be dead duck. Make sure he experiences the pain of abandonment in these end times, and be casted out entirely by all so he can realize no one has loyalty for him when it’s over, which he demands so much.

The amazing series "Exterminate All The Brutes" came up in conversation today. This series radicalized me in a way I am grateful for. I would pay pints of blood to watch a lunch conversation between Raoul Peck and Werner Herzog. www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQ4r...

I just don't understand why people say "This is a hill I will die on." You're only dying on that hill if you are dumb enough to attack an enemy on that hill when they have a well defended position. I prefer "This is a hill YOU will die on." because it's my fucking hill and I've fortified it well.

🇺🇸✊ Reporter who asked Putin to stop killing civilians in Ukraine: Rachel Scott, senior political correspondent at ABC News

Tbilisi is as resilient as ever tonight. Crowds march requesting an international investigation into the chemical weapon use by the regime against peaceful protesters. Cars honk in support, neighbourhoods wave from homes. #GeorgiaProtests Day 374 Video: George Akhobadze Photos: MOSE

“The regime is poisoning us! We request an international investigation [into the use of a chemical weapon against peaceful protesters].” #GeorgiaProtests Day 374 📷 Shushana Matsaberidze

Mamdani: Oftentimes when we win elections, we tell people to go home and just trust us. But the message really has to be that we want you to come along with us… That’s something we’ve been looking to share with New Yorkers: We want to not only win with New Yorkers, but also govern with New Yorkers.

My unpopular opinion is that we don't really know any more about foreign accounts manipulating U.S. politics on Twitter than we did before this update. There's no way of knowing who specifically used a VPN and who didn't. It's obvious that this is a problem but we don't have better data on it now.

To recap: •Universal healthcare would save 68,000 lives & $450B annually •Every $1 spent on SNAP results in $1.80 boost to local economies & small businesses •The child tax credit decreased child poverty to a historic low of 5.2%, abolishing it increased it by 45% 1/2

What Pam Bondi and Lindsey Halligan did was not incompetence. It was intentional misconduct. They both must be disbarred.

Trump wrongly indicted me. I’ll rightly impeach him. Impeachment isn’t just an option, it’s a necessity. I know firsthand the lengths Trump is willing to go in order to silence dissent — but is it working?

Russia desperately needs its puppet regime in Georgia for sanctions evasion.

"I am afraid not of the imprisonment but of what I will see out there once I’m out." Mzia Amaglobeli, the Sakharov Prize winner, shares her worry about Georgia.

Who'll get there first? The marching protesters - to close the yet another road, or the police - to prevent this development 😁 There was a lot of this chase tonight at #GeorgiaProtests And of course there’s a stray dog too. 📷 Giorgi Romelashvili

FOX: Fox can now confirm that Eric Swalwell has been criminally referred to the DOJ accused of mortgage fraud.

Since Pete Boozebreath is going to pretend our atrocities are victories, let's remember all the fucked up shit we did to Mexico, Central American and South America. www.youtube.com/watch?v=GK87...

James Dobson was a bigoted monster who wanted marginalized people to suffer more. With the damage he has done, if his last moments weren't agony that would make me an atheist. I'll probably never know, but we can all fantasize what his final death throws looked like if a decent god existed.

According to wikipedia, she was 14 when she went to live with her father who was a maintenance man at Mar-A-Lago. Her dad got her a job there. It seems like she was 17 at most when she met Maxwell in 2000, she was already an employee at the spa at that time. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Do yourself a favor. It lives up to the hype. I don't think I was bored for a single second. www.rottentomatoes.com/m/sinners_2025

Did Obama fly to Epstein island? What's he got to do with any of this? Y'all remember that Epstein died in the federal custody of the Trump administration right? Do any of you still doubt Trump is a pedo?

Epstein died in the custody of the first Trump administration. Y'all remember that right?

Today, there was a protest march in Zugdidi in honour of regime prisoner Saba Jikia. #GeorgiaProtests 📷 Shushana Matsaberidze

A punk rock Superman is what's needed now. Even if this punk rock Superman considers the DCU equivalent of Blink182 punk. www.cnet.com/tech/service...

I didn't hear this song until I was in my mid 30s even though I think it defines my generation. youtu.be/NC42DqhQC6U

Virginia Foxx is an evil old crone. Imagine being so filled with hate that rather than retire you stay in congress long enough to see America go the fascist way you want. We need to stop pretending old white people who are just there automatically deserve respect. www.yahoo.com/news/maxwell...

"If Trump was on the list why wouldn't Biden use it?" is the cope I am seeing from Trumpers now. It's simple, some Dems still believe in "Going high" when they "go low". Also certain Dem grandees would also likely be on that list.

I knew it was a Russian Op. Real well meaning activists may have done some of this thinking this equipment was going to Israel, but it was directed by Russian assets like Fergie Chambers. Crack reporting by @dylanburnstv.bsky.social youtu.be/Wy6Ri9pdteY

journalistic objectivity is a tool that is useful for certain things. it's been turned into an ideology by bad faith actors and cowardly, self-interested hacks with family money. like all cults, it gradually destroys its adherents.

Day 214 of #GeorgiaProtests Thousands keep chanting “Until the end!” Until the end!

Whoa! Alligator Alcatraz is going to be complete by Tuesday and open for operation on Wednesday. Am I the only one wondering how Ron DeSantis got this together so fast? Floridians, make sure you remember this the next time a hurricane hits and you can’t get disaster relief in your state.

Hope and solidarity won tonight, and will win again in November. Congratulations, @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social

*Democratic Party hastily commissions a study to figure out why so many people preferred the attractive, energetic, charismatic guy with the fun name to the disgraced vampire*

Wake up Democratic Party old guard establishment. This isn’t about New York City. This is the way the wind is blowing. Step aside for young people who this country will need over the next several decades long after you are gone. Enough with your egos and the big money interests.

Just to illustrate how petty the Georgian Dream regime is: Irakli Okruashvili is a former Defense Minister, and he also fought in the Battle of Kyiv; They jailed him first for non-cooperation with the Stalin-era “Parliamentaty Commission” that investigates anything pro-Western basically. 1/

"Zohran's policies are unrealistic and costly" But if he was talking about tax cuts for millionaires and putting more police on the streets, that would be labeled "realistic" and the cost to all of us would be ignored. The Mandela quote he used was true. "It always seems impossible until it's done

If you don't support abolishing ICE, you support what ICE is doing. What ICE is doing is exactly what they were designed to do. There's no reformation possible. This is what ICE always was and always was intended to be. They are this cruel by design. Abolition is the only way

Why we fight - my interview about the Georgian struggle with Theo Allthorpe-Mullis available on various platforms, including YouTube. Theo does series of podcasts on freedom fighters around the globe. Please support him! m.youtube.com/watch?v=w5ik...

Day 198 of #GeorgiaProtests Heavy rainfall this evening. But our unyielding people are there, including the elderly who have seen it all. We must win soon enough for them to see freedom. Friends can aid us avoid costs that can be avoided by clarity, sanctions, etc. 📷 MOSE