Wait, that was only last week? No, it's been like a month since then.

I reached out to more than three dozen X advertisers, xAI investors, politicians, and government agencies about the growing library of sexualized deepfakes generated with Grok—now including Renee Good. I only heard back from four, with three declining to comment. spitfirenews.com/p/grok-deepf...

I’ll be honest: I winced at Zohran Mamdani’s line last week about replacing “the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism.” I’m not surprised that Bishop Robert Barron went after this line. I also have some questions about what Bishop Barron does and doesn’t cross-examine.

Sums up this horrible time in history.

honest to god thought American Samoans were citizens. that's fucked

And the trick is that he has no morality.

Love Vadim so much. And that thing about transferable skills is worth highlighting: You may come into this field as a writer, but surviving for as long as Vadim has involves wearing a lot of hats and developing many areas of expertise. That's extremely useful.

Um, you're not allowed to go door-to-door hoping to randomly find someone violating the law. You need a warrant. That's is basic Constitutional shit.

I’ll be honest: I winced at Zohran Mamdani’s line last week about replacing “the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism.” I’m not surprised that Bishop Robert Barron went after this line. I also have some questions about what Bishop Barron does and doesn’t cross-examine.

Over ten years ago, when I made a meme of Trump as Jabba the Hutt, I could not have foreseen a day when MAGA Trump supporters would effectively *celebrate* Trump as Jabba with a meme like this.

According to a new report, 33 of the January 6 rioters Trump pardoned on his first day in office have since been charged, arrested, or convicted of new crimes. Trump is happy to put criminals back on our streets so long as they are loyal to him.

Erick Erickson making a strong bid to be the Worst Person in the World For a Day

ICYMI: everything I wrote in December, and my favorite pieces from 2025

Literally the U.S. government’s position is “The strong do what they can, and the weak suffer what they must.”

A titan, and a terrible loss. RIP.

A reminder that Trump has been fantasizing about seizing oil from other countries for more than a decade, before he even ran for president: www.nationalreview.com/2015/07/dona...

The December round-up from Dailies & Sundays, plus my top 10 favorite posts of 2025!

Best thing I’ve read this morning, from a human rights lawyer in Mexico. Translation is in the ALT-text.

Kyrie, eleison. Domine, exaudi orationem meam.

In case you're not keeping track, he's threatened Cuba, Mexico, and Colombia just this morning. Also, if it's fine to just invade anybody we have a problem with, there is no reason this government should oppose China invading Taiwan, right?

A new year, a new national nadir.

I bet FIFA feels pretty stupid right now.

Further proof of the violence and lawlessness of the New York City subway system

Anyway, real men wore bright colors and loud prints back in the day so show that they were confident, so I am amused by modern "tactical" guys who only wear black talking about the good old days. Prove it! Checked trousers or get out.

obviously not the biggest issue here, but an AI cannot feel regret or be sincere so this “apology” is utterly worthless

I was wondering what Mamdani's first executive order would be, and I'm not disappointed by this. He has wiped off the books EVERY Eric Adams executive order issued on or after September 26, 2024, the day Adams was indicted on federal bribery charges.

It cannot hurt that his mother is Mira Nair

I’m afraid that it’s already time to designate this as the all-purpose meme for press coverage of the Mamdani mayoralty

Delightful reading!

An absolutely wonderful, versatile, powerful and powerfully funny actor who enlivened everything he was in, and a huge loss. I'm not going to say the word, but we're all thinking it in his honor. RIP Isiah Whitlock. deadline.com/2025/12/isia...

As a general rule, the answer to “What about ____?” is “I liked ten other movies more.”

It is a magnum opus indeed, y'all!

The last book I read was The Gospel According to Luke, so . . . wow.

I’ve been hard at work on this all month: an epic history of the theme of Jesus’ birth and the Gospel infancy narratives in “Peanuts.” I couldn’t get it done by Christmas Day, but hey, it’s still the Christmas season! I hope you enjoy it. This is, I think my comics writing magnum opus so far.

It’s not the day after Christmas at the Grey Havens without The Muppet Christmas Carol

Just noticed that, a few minutes ago, typing a reference to the shepherds in Luke’s Gospel while writing about “Peanuts,” my fingers waywardly wrote “by nite.” HOW DOES THAT EVEN HAPPEN

Pope Leo XIV begged world leaders for 24 hours of peace on Christmas Day. President Trump celebrated Christmas by bombing Nigeria, claiming something something Islamic State something persecuted Christians, all which sounds fishy to people who know things and are tethered to facts and evidence.

the drive to create hollow feel-good bullshit for temporary online clout has resulted in so much abuse that it's sickening, whether it's exploiting children, animals, or in this case the elderly

Yea, Lord, we greet thee, born this happy morning; Jesus, to thee be glory given;

“Some of you may have heard it said that ‘a baby is God’s opinion that life should go on.’ … How much more this baby: Emmanuel, God with us, as one of us! The infinite, incomprehensible Creator of the universe now wears a human face.” — from my homily for Christmas Eve

“Some of you may have heard it said that ‘a baby is God’s opinion that life should go on.’ … How much more this baby: Emmanuel, God with us, as one of us! The infinite, incomprehensible Creator of the universe now wears a human face.” — from my homily for Christmas Eve

Near-perfect entry in the timeless genre of Holiday Staff Greeting From the Clueless Boss—"I was right last week and I'm right today, Merry Christmas and don't think you get a day off."

Just watched this. Heartbreaking and shocking. Watch it while you can.

just perseverating slightly on how Weiss’ insistence on flipping the numbers is rank admin apologism but also just terrible journalism. More Than Half of People Deported to Secret Prison Had Criminal Record is textbook dog-bites-man; its only function is to make the real story feel like less of one.

Spread this far and wide. An ethically and legally compromised editor at CBS killed this story by bowing down to bullies.

I really, really wish the US bishops were much more aggressive on this issue. The fact that any Catholic thinks they can support this in good conscience is a blot on our whole national church.

A copy on this at YouTube has already been killed by Paramount. Watch and share as widely as possible while we still can.

We posted an article about “Terry and the Pirates” and “Steve Canyon” creator Milton Caniff and how he depicted Christmas in his strips: www.hoganmag.com/blog/3349-4g...