I wrote a bit for McSweeney's about Isaac Chotiner interviewing Santa Claus. Just a little something for the holiday season. Enjoy!

This is a million times worse than anything Hunter Biden was accused of doing in even the most fevered right-wing conspiracy dream

Jacob Frey: "If we are now at the point where the federal govt is deploying agents on legal American citizens with a goal of uprooting people who have formed lives here, have families here, started businesses here, definitively made Minneapolis a better place, everybody should be speaking out."

All super rich guys sound the same now. It’s all “I sleep four hours a night and spend the other twenty hours a day developing a product that’s going to bring us the best widespread poverty anyone’s ever seen.”

If only there had been signs that a group of below average men who espouse misogynist views and are led by an adjudicated rapist would treat their female colleagues poorly.

Not enough folks know that the Foo Fighters are massive AIDS denialists and ran fundraisers for proto-RFKJ types that refused to treat children with HIV. FWIW: Courtney Love and Pearl Jam have both worked extensively with responsible AIDS orgs. #noalternativescience

If by “tragic irony” they mean “criminal corruption” then yes.

The DC National Guard won't tell me if a formal operations order had been issued for the deployment to the streets. If it exists, I'm going to find it. When I do, I'm going to remember who was jerking my chain around today.

The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"

Fossil fuels are more expensive and far less efficient than renewable sources of energy and doubling down on them raises prices. Trump’s efforts to revitalize the coal industry is saddling consumers with the costs of swaddling an expensive and dying industry.

Trump: we’re going to keep America safe. We’re keeping the drugs out! Also Trump: pardons a guy convicted of trying to bring *hundreds of tons* of cocaine into the US.

We all know how inaccurate AI can be, now they’re using it for law enforcement. Yes people have already been wrongly arrested.

Sadly relevant today.

I’ve never been a “defund the police” type of guy. I believe that police are necessary, despite their flaws. But ICE is different. I am 100% behind ending their existence and prosecuting every single one of them. ICE must go. End of discussion.

Department of Defense Law of War Manual, Sec. 18.3.2.1 states the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders. What’s its key example? Wait for it . . . It’s "orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."

In the wake of the longest government shutdown in US history, an ongoing self-inflicted tariff war, and his handling of the Jeffrey Epstein investigation, President Trump’s approval rating has cratered to 36 percent. Also tanking? His meme coins.

If the Venezuelan sailors were enemy combatants, then the 2nd strike is a war crime. If the Venezuelan sailors weren’t enemy combatants, then both strikes are criminal murder. It’s that simple.

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My periodic reminder that I am mouthy, opinionated, smarter than you, multicolored of hair, obstinate, eccentric, do not suffer fools, and have a literal graduate certificate in Women's Studies, and I have NEVER failed to attract and hold male romantic attention at any point in my adult life. 1/x

On cooking greens: My father would plant Georgia collards (smaller than the big flat kind), turnip greens, and mustard greens all together. We would pick them that way, cook with streak o' lean (fatback) and eat with pepper sauce.

this is just gutter racism

On this #blackfriday you can get my new book about Charlie Kirk and Turning Point USA’s plan to Christianize America from any independent bookstore for a discount off original cover price bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

🔥POWERFUL AD ABOUT ICE AGENTS: “What will you say when your kids ask you about your day? A mask can’t hide you from your neighbors, your family, God… you can walk away, but the shame will follow you home.”

“I’m doing this so my granddaughters will have the future that their grandmothers had.”

Didn’t the FBi pull a lot of personnel from anti terrorism to put them on deportations? Actually the whole security establishment pivoted

Everyone (esp media) pay attention. In 2021 almost every Republican attacked the Biden administration and State dept for being too slow in approving Afghanistan special visas as Afghanistan fell. Now they are attacking Biden for doing what they asked him to do.

It’s getting real for Home Depot. The flash mob is only the warm up, the nationwide boycott hits on November 27th. Chant: “Tax the rich tax, the motherf*cking rich.”

My reaction when threatened is total, truculent defiance. I hope and believe that enough other people share that trait that none of this is going to go the way the regime thinks it will.

I am 100% here for both the informative commentary via mac n cheese and the dig.

THIS 👉👉👉

We are not in a war. Killing soldiers on a street corner in D.C. is an act of war only if you are a legitimate combatant. Calling it terrorism is charitable; it is simply murder. It is also what I've been worried about for weeks. Soldiers on the street can't police. All they do is present a target.

The first official confirmation that Noem herself made the decision not to turn the planes around. A couple hundred men were tortured as a result — and soon after, the Supreme Court confirmed that the Trump admin’s Alien Enemies Act process was a total violation of due process.

Being among the first interrogated and ultimately fired by DOGE, I certainly felt we were facing the business end of a right-wing conspiracy theory 🧵

Denying food and health benefits to single moms doesn’t exactly scream: “pro-natalism.”

BREAKING: new emails CONFIRM my reporting that there are TRAINING VIDEOS instructing FBI personnel on how to review the Epstein Files. Plus, a lot more…

tech bro: i have made Artificial General Intelligence programmer: you fucked up a perfectly good calculator is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety

"Court video showed ICE agents, who allegedly had a 12-pack of Modelo in their car... "“This is great,” an officer said as they started following Martinez. “This is fun,” another replied. www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/c...

This is the best thing.

DeKalb County officials are challenging some of the conclusions of a study that found Tucker could provide better services by creating a city police department.

That sound you heard was every GOP elected official with a lick of sense absolutely SHITTING themselves thinking about the visual of Mark Kelly back in uniform before a military court as Whiskey Pete's handpicked chucklefucks try to railroad him on bogus charges.

The bill last numbered H.R. 9495 would empower the Treasury Secretary to designate any nonprofit the Secretary wishes to kill a “terrorist supporting organization” and revoke the tax-exempt status on which it depends for survival. Unconstitutional but lethal in the harm it would do while in force.

My post on Reddit yesterday was worded poorly. I said "Charlotte's Web Isn't Done Yet." Should have been "CBP says Charlotte's Web Isn't Done Yet." Because CBP was, in retrospect, plainly lying to the public. Again. A point I made in the story published today. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Crow: "It just tells us everything that we need to know that reminding people to obey the law, reminding people to obey the Constitution, is somehow criminal in Trumpworld and should be responded to with death threats. It's very, very telling."

ICE/Border Patrol vs North Carolina update: A bunch of unarmed North Carolinians chased a group of Feds into the woods and #YeeHawFuckTheLaw is trending.

This is Charlotte.

Now THIS???? is a white man! this is how you white man!!!!!!!!!

Home invasions. Child sex crimes. Homicide. Just a couple things that some of the 1500+ January 6 defendants have been convicted of since Trump released them back onto our streets. The GOP isn't the party of law and order. They're the party of lawlessness and violence.

Many people don't realise how climate change is already - not in the future - affecting our lives. And it's doing so in ways that, once our eyes are opened, we can notice! For example, food. h/t @climatecentral.org

As we contemplate the end of the shutdown, consider class issues here. Yesterday, I wrote that Democrats had been holding the line on the shutdown because they calculated that damage done to poor people on SNAP was acceptable to support working class people on the exchanges. Trump changed the math.