Which is more vomit-inducing — our clown prez Donald snatching the fake FIFA medal invented just for him and putting ‘round his neck like Napoleon crowning himself emperor, or the fact that the FIFA leadership stooped lower than a limbo champion to give an imaginary award to an elderly 12-year-old?

Make the Twitter fine €1.2 billion

It's been over two weeks now and they still haven't released the Epstein files because withholding exculpatory evidence is clearly what you do when you're "innocent."

Cap’n Pizzagate: “they’re going to make Looney Tunes gay” 🥴 Looney Tunes:

Floridians were preparing new popular initiatives on behalf of Medicaid expansion, abortion rights, and other matters. Earlier this year, a new state law made these efforts a lot tougher, threatening volunteers with investigations and criminal punishment.

I think this is right. I also think it illustrates the thing I found most infuriating while watching the 08 Obama/Clinton primary alongside Prop 8: Candidates choosing political expediency over clear moral principles.

In the 4.5-mile bike ride to pick up my kids from school, I found the following in painted bike lanes: at least 6 trash bins, a parked car, a parked firefighter truck (likely lunch break), and a parked city maintenance vehicle. This is unacceptable, and another reason why paint is not infrastructure

Openly violating the Voting Rights Act is necessary to enforce the Voting Rights Act

Couldn’t get the real peace prize but got the soccer one

Bravo NOLA!

It's. Not. Legal. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Lle...

There are a BUNCH of Holiday Markets this weekend in NYC and the Skint has a few of them listed: www.theskint.com/fri-mon-12-5...

She’s an icon, she’s a legend, and she is the moment. Now come on now.

BREAKING: A Utah judge refused to halt her landmark ruling that struck down the GOP’s gerrymander — meaning a fairer map remains on track for 2026. Republicans claimed they had “no opportunity to appeal.” The judge flatly rejected that.

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Drug smugglers playing it safe.

4/ When it comes to the ongoing transatlantic battle over digital regulations, three separate stories drew headlines this week that together indicate an escalation of the dispute between Washington and Brussels and crystallize the broader narrative of which they are a part, writes Dean Jackson.

When will Dr. Bill Cassidy — the Senator from La. who chairs the committee that okayed the Health Sec nomination of RFK Jr. on his vow not to muck with vaccine protocols —develop a damn spine and do more than whine on Xitter about Kennedy’s betrayal? Like, say, get House members to impeach the man.

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Everyone of these assholes should be outed and treated like pariahs for the rest of their lives.

This is a psychotic reinterpretation of reality

Trump Nods Off, ICE Abuses Exposed, Economy Stumbles: A Wild Week youtu.be/Cu7_ilW05H8

I hate to say that sex workers tried to warn y'all this wasn't going to stop at just porn sites, but...

Biden never slept through meetings but Jake Tapper wrote a whole book about how he was too old.

… and he SERVED ✨

As we've previously noted, what many overlook is that fascism isn't merely a local or national concern; it's an inherently expansionist and parasitic ideology that disregards borders and refuses to remain confined on or offline.

For those interested, my 15 years of coverage of the Citizenship “debate.” authory.com/GarrettEpps?...

there are of course many examples of political constituencies that have in fact killed scores of children (en route to some other evil goal), but I can't offhand think of any historical examples of a political constituency organized for that specific purpose

The most important line in a solid piece by @iandunt.bsky.social "And yet for all its flaws, Bluesky offers something which is becoming vanishingly rare in the modern world: a vision of life without the algorithm. What I see is what I have chosen to see. We own our own destiny on Bluesky."

Just thinking about how fucked up mega-rich people must be, because they can't even enjoy their money properly, because the most enjoyable thing to do with money is to use it to fix people's problems.

Despite a recent high-profile shooting, 2025 is on pace to see the fewest homicides in over a decade. Robberies have fallen by over half in two years.

You could write this. Or you could write: “That notion, which has been the rule in nearly every country in the Western Hemisphere for over a century, is grounded in the language of the 14th Amendment.” All how you choose to frame it.

Great reporting and a knockout final line: “Not long after, as the sun was going down, an SUV with tinted windows and an out-of-state license plate was seen barreling down a nearby street. It was followed closely by three cars, with drivers laying on their horns and whistling.”

The current horrors are unevenly distributed. Not all of us are suffering the same effects of fascism. We have to do what we can to defend and protect the most vulnerable in our midst. We can do so while keeping grief close and tending to it. “ shorturl.at/Lk11O

Sincerely, if I was a Dem executive and had an idea this was going to happen, I’d deploy armed officers to bar any intruders from the citizenship ceremony until it was complete. A sacred space and a sacred obligation, and letting fascist goons pick people off at the front door is an abomination

I don't know exactly when they published the report, but it seems to have been after 4pm today, suggesting that CMS was actually trying to bury it. The fact that there's also no accompanying press release crowing about how successful OEP is going adds to this suspicion...but we'll see what happens.

Dozin' Donny 💤

vought is a psychotic fanatic whose malevolence planned for project 2025 with no 2026 or 2028, the whole plan's success and longevity both depend on the idea that there's no thermostatic reaction and that americans find the outcomes of it appealing. that's the idea of a fanatic, not a planner

part of the reason i've got such contempt for the doomerism around "they don't think they'll have to win an election again" is that this belief — which i agree some of them hold — critically endangers the entire project, it doesn't strengthen it. they are incapable of shifting strategy or pivoting.

it is actually a major fucking political problem for this administration that they have key decision makers who believe the GOP will never have to win a fair election again

the thing is, they've turned everything immigration-related to stephen miller, who has never run for office, has never held an elected position, and who could not win a popularity contest consisting solely of members of his own household. he is indifferent to the future of the republican party.

Trump has removed MLK Day and Juneteenth as national holidays for visitors to get free admission to national parks and replaced them with his own birthday.

Accountability needs to be one of the central planks for any Democrats running for office in 2026 and 2028. If Democrats don't pursue accountability we are going to go through the same nightmare all over again - and it will be worse.

In 2023, North Carolina prisons referred just eight people for medical release. Three were granted freedom. Four others died awaiting decisions. A new reform is supposed to make release easier, but many with terminal illnesses still remain ineligible.

Taxpayers and charities helped develop Zolgensma. Then it debuted at a record price, ushering in a new class of wildly expensive drugs. Its story upends the widely held conception that high prices reflect huge industry investments in innovation. (Published Feb. 2025)

THE BOAT WAS HEADED TO SURINAME, NOT THE US, BECAUSE OF COURSE IT WAS.

Not to defend Olivia Nuzzi, who broke every rule in journalism and promoted a charlatan to his current position. But it's incredibly telling that she will lose her job, but RFK Jr. gets to stay in his job despite the reports of his drug use, his affairs and his defenestrating of public health.

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