Something not talked about as much as the right wing's dismantling of democracy is what they've done to the supposedly sacrosanct market system. It's not good to let a dozen morons have all the money and make all the decisions!

No they won't

TIL the Loke language is spoken more widely in NYC than it is in it's origin country (Nepal). I also learned that Loke is a language www.elalliance.org/languages/loke

Jane Doe: - alerted DOJ officials over the weekend that her info was not redacted; - was told her msg would be passed to those handling redactions; - She followed up again on Sun. - Saw her name was *still visible as of Mon.* - Is still receiving unsolicited calls. 🧾 www.cnn.com/2025/12/22/p...

"'We request that the government pause apprehension activities during the Christmas season. Such a pause would show a decent regard for the humanity of these families.' The White House did not mention the holiday season in its rejection of the Bishops' request..." www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

J. D. Vance has “clearly made the calculation that anti-Semites are part of the Republican Party’s base, and he can’t afford to shunt them to the side as he plots his own presidential bid,” Franklin Foer argues.

A coalition of 19 states and the District of Columbia on Tuesday sued the Department of Health and Human Services over a declaration that could complicate access to gender-affirming care for young people. n.pr/453QS51

Sounds like what a Nazi would say.

it's only bizarre to us because we know these things; if we had communication avenues to inform people of facts like "Venezuela is not a source of or significant transit country for fentanyl" they wouldn't be doing it, but everything "bizarre" this admin does is based on Americans' general ignorance

I am reminded of Robin Sloan’s writing on “home cooked” software: www.robinsloan.com/notes/home-c...

And besides SCOTUS only holds that republican presidents can break the law

this is awesome. I had see exe.dev but it didn't really click. now I have to try it. I've been spinning up personal apps but authentication is something I've never seen done in a way I love. like in github.com/david-crespo... I do client-side API keys primarily to avoid having to deal with auth

We're all stuck in an episode of veep.

Bari Weiss’ two accomplishments so far are hosting an interview that she desperately wanted people to watch (but they didn’t) and trying to spike a news story that she desperately wanted nobody to watch (but they did)

Coleman Hughes got a BA in 2020 and has been writing conservative pablum blackly his entire career; what exactly is he going to add to an actual college or university

“I’ve been silenced,” I write in the Atlantic.

Massive thanks to a reader from Pittsburgh who donated $100 paydayreport.com/donate-to-he...

There’s a series of documents showing that law enforcement, Heritage Foundation and police stans planned all of this all along for when Trump became president. And also not all of the people doing this planning were MAGA.

42 Democrats voted for the Laken Riley Act knowing full well this was the plan. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Let us go home early from work, so long nap and Bach fest...coffee too.

Jack Smith is calling for the House Judiciary Committee to release the recording of his full closed-door deposition before the panel. "Doing so will ensure that the American people can hear the facts directly from Mr. Smith, rather than through second-hand accounts."

Link:

The NYT literally said this about Hitler, too

take them literally

“People take him too literally” is - literally - the attitude that is destroying the world

More trash from @theatlantic.com. Thomas Chatterton Williams is mad bc pretty much every interesting writer in America ignores his tantrums. Dude gets gold stars from the powerful but still wants to be loved. Can’t have it both ways hun.

THIS ISN’T CALL OF DUTY WE PROCURE MILITARY PLATFORMS BASED ON THEIR UTILITY IT DOESN’T FUCKING MATTER WHAT THEY LOOK LIKE

Aren’t “sex-based scholarships and academic opportunities”…DEI?

Last year, Riley Gaines took a pic of a minor child who was trans from the kid’s private Instagram story and posted it to harass her. There were so many threats the child had to take finals in a principal’s office because it was too unsafe to walk the halls at school. www.latimes.com/california/s...

NEW: Riley Gaines, the former collegiate swimmer turned right-wing media figure, made $474,313 last year from the conservative nonprofit org, the Leadership Institute. More striking than her total comp was the way it was structured. For @sportico.bsky.social 👇 www.sportico.com/business/med...

WaPo - ICE plans to speed up deportations by funneling new detainees to large-scale warehouses holding 5,000 to 10,000 people each, located in Virginia, Texas, Louisiana, Arizona, Georgia and Missouri. Sixteen smaller warehouses would hold up to 1,500 people each. www.washingtonpost.com/busine...

"bsky is boring" here's something you can use to entertain yourself instead: invent a new emotion. something even the germans couldn't construct a word for. try to feel it in your gut. with the same inescapable clarity as the last words she said to you. good. you get 300 characters. make me feel it

Failed Theater Kid

The real DOGE was the Department of Guarding Epstein.

These people are deeply weird and obsessed with controlling other people's bodies.

This is Western NY erasure

Happy birthday Max Miedinger. The Swiss type designer, most famous for creating Neue Haas Grotesk, which was renamed & marketed as "Helvetica," was born today in 1910. #typography

2025 Favorite #Vinyl Finds All found via digging here in Tucson.

Bari Weiss sends an email to CBS staff defending her spiking of a story that made Trump look bad. She claims her action got lots of attention because it was "a slow news week." Um, the news week wasn't slow. Her move got attention because Americans don't like CBS turning into state-controlled media.

Who'd've thunk Graun'd cover me favorably? But the US (less-TERF) desk did thanks to @joolia.bsky.social: "[Trump 2.0] demonstrates the weaknesses of Harris’ brand of feminism, even as it precipitated crises in every aspect of life that demand a feminist response" www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

Democratic board member sues to remove Trump's name from Kennedy Center

US authorities discover a million more Epstein documents, officials say

In Morocco, football has become a site for the slow re-Africanization of the country’s national identity. africasacountry.com/2025/12/afco...

how many more articles will you need to read to bring it home? perhaps you’ll find the ones i reference in this video to be impactful:

My suspicion is that A) there’s an op of some sort going on by forces that saw Palestine as a convenient wedge issue, and B) the sort of leftism that’s succeeding on TikTok is tankie authoritarian leftism over, you know, labor leftism/anarchism/etc. Which makes it easy for the right to co-opt.

And if you’re arguing with a Black person and a white supremacist sidles up and starts agreeing with you, priority one is telling the white supremacist to fuck off, because they are NOT AND NEVER WILL BE, unless they disavow being a white supremacist, community. They are just… poison.

You have less power to affect Israeli policy about Palestinians than you do to affect American policy about Black and queer and immigrant and disabled people in the US, and you put the oxygen mask on yourself and the person sitting next to you first.

Black women on TikTok were talking very explicitly about community: your first responsibility is to your vulnerable neighbors, because *they are the people you have the most power to affect.*

And by the time we got close to the election, the main way I could tell the difference between the only-Palestine-matters leftists and the alt-righters was whether they were using “clever” filter-passing ways to say the n-word. Beyond that, the rhetoric was largely the same.