This is a major Bluesky achievement.

It is time for every citizen of good faith and good conscience to get off X. I am not sure how you can justify contributions to a website that publishes sexualized images of children. I think it’s time to start naming and shaming those who donate their time to give free content to Elon’s X.

It's well past time for Canadian government officials to get off of X, @jameswsthomson.com writes. This latest — disgusting — incident is just one more reason.

Climate advocates lost some political battles in North America last year, but technology and economics are winning the war everywhere else. 2026 will make the inevitability of the energy transition even more difficult to ignore. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/01/02/o...

I just love real America so much

Breaking news: Tesla lost its crown as the world’s biggest electric-vehicle maker in 2025, as it was overtaken by Chinese rival BYD following a second year of declining vehicle sales. ft.trib.al/ai3CHsS

Hey, Canadians, ESPECIALLY in ALBERTA, read this article by @maxfawcett.bsky.social in today's National Observer. The world is embracing renewables and we don't want to miss the boat like the USA is. How to (still) be a climate optimist www.nationalobserver.com/2025/01/02/o...

when i say that democrats have got to stop worrying about what republicans will to do us and make republicans worry about what we will do to them, this is what i am talking about www.liberalcurrents.com/democrats-mu...

a Warrenite with Bernie's message discipline and Obama's charisma is a hell of a thing to watch in action

if you still use Twitter please understand that you are enabling and supporting this. It’s only going to get worse, so you may as well leave now and start rebuilding your “following” anywhere else.

one of my recent preoccupations is the visceral hostility the MAGA right has for the histories and traditions of the United States. these are people who spit on the Declaration and salute third-rate European despots!

Democrats’ national theme: “Corruption is unlawful, it’s personally disgusting, it takes money out of your pocket, and we’re treating every incident of it like an attack on the public interest” Probably a powerful message?

BIG 2026 ENERGY. I like it. Next POTUS: take note.

It's so fucking refreshing, and so fucking cool, to see a politician that loves the city he lives in and represents. Cities are the Real America. Both in practice and in the ideal.

We should all be so lucky to have someone who looks at us like this.

the Post is going to be monumentally unhinged about Rama the entire time Zohran is in office and it is going to get real, real weird (and racist, but it’s the Post so that goes without saying)

A List of Predictions Made in 1926 About 2026 🧵

I like how this looks like a scene in a TMNT movie where the mayor gets inaugurated in a sewer because he ran on a platform of driving the ninja turtles out of New York's sewers.

This remains the only countdown I care about on New Year’s Eve

I don’t want the central conclusion in this to be true (for selfish and broader social reasons) but worry that it very much is.

Trump posted a photo claiming it shows a bald eagle in the United States killed by a windmill. In reality, the image is of a dead falcon in Israel from 2017.

JUST IN: AG Pam Bondi deletes a post touting a chart as proof of the Trump administration's success in reducing drug overdoses—after being informed the data actually reflected the *Biden* administration’s record.

A former Infantry officer / FBI Special Agent I know just hit send on an application to work advance for Zohran Mamdani; huge pay cut, highly uncertain, career re-start, etc. He knows the soon-to-be mayor is the future. We’re going to win.

libsoftiktok is now the third most powerful branch of government after the president and supreme court

Daycare centers were also the primary target of the Satanic panic, because fundamentally American religious conservatism is opposed to women having jobs outside the home.

It’s amazing to me: we are by far the youngest people in our neighbourhood (Qualicum Beach, BC, retirement community) and everyone is like “FUCK America, I want nothing to do with it, ever.” I just could not feature that ever happening, much less so quickly. The damage is here to stay.

BREAKING NEWS: Actual facts appear for the first time on "Truth" Social.

Weird. These people are just WEIRD.

far right ohio being too racist to elect an indian american who is far right is the perfect encapsulation of modern american politics

Still mind-blowing that a top admin official was revealed to have taken $50,000 in cash in a paper bag from people looking for government favors, the reaction of the administration was "Whatever losers, this is how it works now" and bigshot news media said "If you say so, we'll forget about it"

This is not hard. Artists are not responsible for ensuring the Kennedy Center remains relevant and successful. The center’s board is responsible for that, in a fiduciary way. All of this energy being directed at artists should be re-directed at the board.

Today's entry in this week's Appalling But Not Surprising Sweepstakes

It's like the 9th stupidest thing in this one paragraph, but I'd direct the angry egg-shaped man to this speech from 2005 in which Obama literally namechecks like 50 White sox including (delightfully) Scott Podsednik. obamaspeeches.com/035-Chicago-...

No my man, the answer absolutely involves taxing those gains.

it can feel kinda crazy to see ppl idolize a past that exist only in fictional movies until you remember that bush senior was upset that ppl liked the Simpsons more than the Waltons and realize that this grift is decades if not centuries old

“It is financially devastating but morally exhilarating,” he said in an email.

"Following the Ukraine-US meeting, Trump lauded Putin, saying the Russian president “wants to see Ukraine succeed”. This is becoming farcical giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... via @FT

Evergreen

Moving into David Frum’s house to start an open-pit mine in his living room. Confident he won’t stand for “the country’s courts…inventing new obstacles to development.”

Yeah, man, the only difference between your career and Mark Rufallo’s career is the political stuff.

"Hello, I am Elon Musk, and I am requesting pictures of your children." [click, dial tone]

An essential development over the past decade-plus is that the ignorant went from feeling chastened when their ignorance was revealed to banding together and deciding that, actually, they were right. They might disagree at times, but they agreed that ignorance itself was an indicator of trust.

When John Doar was head of the Civil Rights Division, he quoted from Shakespeare’s RICHARD III in an eloquent closing argument in the case against Klan murderers. The current head is calling podcasters “hoes” for criticizing the president’s cabinet

Matt Taibbi is suing @eoinhiggins.bsky.social in a very dumb defamation suit. If claims this nonspecific and broad were actionable under defamation law, Taibbi would be financially bankrupt in addition to intellectually bankrupt. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

These parents killed their child and we need to say it

Four children who inherited their wealth and a crypto entrepreneur who went to prison. That’s…a look.

Today is maximum post-Christmas/pre-New Year “I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT DAY IT IS”

Four children who inherited their wealth and a crypto entrepreneur who went to prison. That’s…a look.