Because Trump is basically an internet troll with a huge monetized platform. Until he stops making money from his asshattery he will keep it up.

Can y'all convince me that I shouldn't just give up? We have replaced our government with an internet troll who is also threatening wars and attacking our own population, to boot. But still, >60% of the people around me would vote for him again in a heartbeat. It all feels so futile.

yeahhhhh i probably will be more willing to fork over the extra money for amtrak next time

sorry my mentions are a wreck now—will be sending photos and videos to the company tomorrow and will update if I learn anything about how this happened or what they did about it but uh, thanks for tuning in for this episode of “musicology duck gets briefly kidnapped”

It's important for everyone to see this

ICE: "followed by will stancil"

I wanted to make sure I knew the whole story, so I watched the original in its entirety. Perhaps our Republican Congresspeople should be forced to watch it, Clockwork Orange-style, until they remember that we should aspire to something better than what Trump and Pals are selling.

very true.

He's right. When we build real connections, we build power. Division weakens us, but friendship makes us unbreakable. Every bond formed is an act of defiance against those who thrive on fear and separation. Together, we're harder to control.

The emergence of Sam, still trying to think of something to proclaim:

Andor was a textbook

The people who advocate for violent resistance have virtually no plan to actually win. They are simply people WHO WANT TO COMMIT VIOLENCE, and have adopted "resistance" as a thin pretext to do so. They are sacrificing everyone else for their libidinal thrill.

What I hope we see on Jan 23rd... Not mass protests filling the streets. No. I want to see absolute silence. Empty stores, empty roadways, everyone just staying home for the entire day. A standstill. Give them absolutely NOTHING to crack down on. Locked doors and drawn curtains. Absolute silence.

There is a reason you couldn’t do Freedom Summer &the Civil Rights movement w/out training: 1: learning how things work civically (laws, elections, federal and local gov’t) 2: PLANS and practice. The elders KNEW - the system you’re fighting is itching for violence LISTEN LOCALLY then FOLLOW.

Cripes a’mighty people, Steven Miller is not staging a militarized ethnic cleansing and sending the border cops to murder people in the street to distract from the Epstein files. He’s doing it because he and Trump (and Vance and Homan and Noem etc) really really want to.

Joe Thompson and the 5 other Minnesota prosecutors who resigned are incredible public servants who led major investigations into fraud, sex trafficking, and missing people. The DOJ’s politicization of our justice system has resulted in a real loss for Minnesota and for public safety.

Yes, immigration agents not only took Arnoldo's phone, the 10th grader had to use Find My Phone to locate it — in a vending machine for used electronics, close to an ICE detention center. Read the full story here: www.propublica.org/article/vide...

I almost gave in and gone into a Target a couple of weeks ago. Thank goodness I didn't cave.

Who is Bovino's costume designer, I wonder?

"Cynicism teaches that the world you want will probably remain out of reach in your lifetime. It also teaches that this is not an excuse to stop paying attention." That part sounds like Christian faith to me. So the distinction lies in how we interpret how "savior(s)" work.

"Cynicism teaches that the world you want will probably remain out of reach in your lifetime....You may not believe in saviors, but you learn to gather people around you who also don’t believe in them."

They might not be fundamentalist Christians but they still believe in some kind of cosmic morality where the sincerity in their hearts matters more than their impact on the world.

Oh my gosh you guys! The House just passed my bill to extend the health care tax credits for three more years!

If you hadn’t heard the motion to discharge @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social bill, extending the ACA for three years, passed the house with nine Republicans and all Democrats. The final vote in the House should be tomorrow. Don’t let anyone tell you there aren’t cracks in the Republican Party

Better yet, disestablish all of DHS, and undo the nightmarish idiocies that we created in a panic 25 years ago. Reestablish the INS, get rid of ODNI, fix the damage from the Patriot Act, etc.

One of the most lopsided results you'll ever see in a poll, from our weekend Washington Post poll www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...

Where's the best place to find communities of people with specific experiences or stages of life? Is it still Reddit? Somewhere else? (FWIW: I am looking to connect w/ folks who have been caregivers for a parent(s), and people who are executors of an estate where family might get to arguing.)

I’ll be watching this 5,000 times

ITS THAT TIME AGAIN

I may just be a weirdo, but my musical tastes have change drastically at certain times in my life. In the 12 days since my mom died, I have cycled from hip hop through rock and have now maybe settled on Brandi Carlile? My Spotify history was already eclectic, but now it's positively bonkers.

Curtis Yarvin, JD Vance’s friend & ideological influence, ended 2025 by claiming “only Hitler spoke the truth” about “too many subjects” & “Hitler was a genius.” Extremism isn’t fringe on the right. Once marginal online extremists like Yarvin are influential at the highest levels of government.

Therapy. (Almost discontinued it in '25. But now seeing a new provider and now I would skimp on other things to afford my regular check ins with her, if needed.)

Rang out 2025 with fancy pizza, and I am ringing in the New Year with its leftovers. P. S. This has black garlic on it, which I had never heard of before. I am officially a fan of this delicacy, and wonder what else I should put it on.

Here's to the New Year. May she be a damn sight better than the old one.

Here's to the New Year. May she be a damn sight better than the old one.

For those following along with my adventures, we were home and putting on pajamas by 7:57 pm. Now watching The Blues Brothers, because we have learned that our daughter had never seen it.

I am sending 2025 to the hell with a pint of Emancipation Milkhouse Stout at my favorite brick oven pizza with my family.

Happy birthday, Henri Matisse (b. 31 December 1869). Among his final works are these beautiful ‘Tree of Life’ windows, and tiling (depicting Saint Dominic), in Chapelle du Rosaire aka “Matisse Chapel”

shocking observers, U.S. government says it will obey law

Any orchid experts here? My mom died and I now have 14 step-orchids that need care. It's watering day, and I know she did the dunking thing, but I don't know all the details.

I am honestly afraid of 2026, don't want to anger it. I don't think I can take much more of this "living in a dystopian novel" shit.

That Bra money is undefeated. 😉