Suki looks forward to the new year. I'm going to give this to her as I'm assured that cats have very good perception. Granted - this is from the cats.

this seems specifically designed to break mail-in voting (where deadlines are defined by postmark)

Traditions are odd things. We wrapped up another Christmas of my sisters-in-law visiting and many days of marathon Munchkin games. Alas, this year not as much @muskratjohn.bsky.social art as we played various themed expansion sets. But still there was that good-natured, cut-throat, geeky wackiness.

Once the presents are open, the winding down begins...

Nothing like asking career AUSAs who have been under assault for the last year, watched their colleagues get fired for no reason, and their offices taken over by incompetent boobs to volunteer their time to perpetuate a cover up of their boss's involvement w/a sex predator 🙃

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

I cannot imagine what could possibly go wrong in trying to court-martial an astronaut and pilot decorated multiple times for valor and exceptional service, who is also a sitting senator, for correctly making the point that service members are obliged not to follow unlawful orders

I swore an oath to the Constitution in 1986. I've upheld it through 25 years of service and every day since I retired. If Trump's trying to intimidate me, it won’t work. I’ve given too much to our country to be silenced by bullies who care more about power than the Constitution.

You mean the company that's currently being struck by its workers and the company that's currently being boycotted because of its terrible DEI policy rollbacks? Why not just call this the Chocolate Mint Racist Scab Frostie?

Mamdani is already getting the criminals out of NYC!

Opsec is hard.

Omg, the solution to CIA's Kryptos being discovered by someone becoming a subject matter expert, going on location, and finding the plaintext sitting in a vault several miles away is the absolute *perfect* ending to Kryptos. You couldn't write it. Just absolutely A+ www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/s...

Escalators. How do they work. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Isbj...

When people talk about Trump Derangement, it's because Trump is clearly deranged.

Talk Of Fascism Dangerous, Warns Ministry Of Compliance

Happy Rapture to those who celebrate!

Nothing new here - but its well presented. Even my parents could understand this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohPT...

Corporate consolidation means less kneecaps (and more vulnerable) needed to undercut Democracy.

Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.

"Why do they vote against their own self interest?" One possible series of answers / insights. www.youtube.com/watch?v=badG...

Violence Burns. Political violence is a wildfire that escapes containment and burns indiscriminately. A far-right coworker once opined that “when the civil war begins” there would be a blood bath. The “soy boys” don’t know how to fix a truck much less shoot a gun. I replied that we was wrong.

"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”

One take on Russia's play with drones and Poland. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAqH...

Not to bash on Josh nor kick anyone while they're down - but this is a good example of why "OpSec is Hard" ((tm) Barbie probably). Our better nature isn't always engaged and mistakes are made. In walks Bad Actor. www.linkedin.com/pulse/dancin...

The Trump Administration will use them as props and political cudgels but ultimately despises soldiers. www.rawstory.com/trump-infuri...

Burn all you want. We'll make more.

They gaslit you all throughout the election.

See how this works?

Atrocities Keep Getting In Frame Of D.C. Tourist’s Shot https://theonion.com/atrocities-keep-getting-in-frame-of-d-c-tourists-shot/

The Trump Administration is on theme again: fascism and incompetence both in geopolitics and business. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Qa9...

The MAGA lie last election was that "liberals" were too busy worrying about pronouns while your paycheck went to eggs. There was no counter-message. The con worked. The social order warriors and their culture wars do nothing that makes our lives better. www.youtube.com/shorts/oKCJD...

John Oliver peels back the MAHA grift. There's a theme here common to everything MAGA touches. It latches on to real problems. Then offers "solutions" that not only don't work but undermine actual work addressing the stated problem, ultimately for self-serving goals. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lzf...

This is how everyone should treat this masked thugs!! ‘This is cowboy country and we don’t get down with that bullshit!…You got two options you can get the fuck off my property or we can get down.’ Bravo, sir‼️💥🔥💥

Reminder: If Trump and Republicans actually cared about quality of life and safety in DC, they wouldn’t have rammed through a CR in March that slashed $1 billion from the city’s budget. And Democrats don’t get a pass—Chuck Schumer voted for it right alongside them.

The first time Charlie Chaplin used his voice in a film, he wielded it to forcefully condemn the rising forces of fascism around the globe. Will we listen to his words today?

80s. Distilled. With a smooth finish. www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAgn...

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

Our house just after and just before cat interplay. Something about the primal cat and flight-or-fight makes for a volatile... and sometimes hilarious... mix.

New at the Kennedy Center: Nero on the Roof.

South Park omg 😂

Something I haven't seen driven home... the dismal jobs report that has Trump in a lather... the industry that kept it from being worse is healthcare. And we just kneecapped that industry via recent budget cuts. So yeah. We got that to look forward to. Cooked books or not.

"Trump’s interference in the sciences is something new. It shares features with the science-damaging policies of Stalin and Hitler... But in the English-speaking world, it has no precedent, he told me: 'This is an unparalleled destruction from within.'"

Power knows how to handle a list. www.youtube.com/shorts/-v0_q...

Shit @rusty.todayintabs.com nailed it www.todayintabs.com/p/we-need-to...

Whenever a piece of media needs an image of Donald Trump, from now on it should be a still image from the recent South Park. Doesn't have to be one with the naughty bits.

For your consideration - two videos talking about the recent Jubilee Mehdi Hassan "debate." Mehdi talks about the experience: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhkz... Rebecca Watson talks about whether debates have value: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4px0...

Its got nostalgia and you can dance to it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlUJ...

Donald Trump is one of the "elite." Always has been. And now the con is falling apart. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-O50...

Focus here is on Trump's illegal abuse. But it also applies to whatever comes after Trump.