December's boat strike death toll (so far)...

“Last week, more than 19,000 patients with influenza were admitted to hospitals, up about 10,000 from the previous week, according to new CDC data. To date, the CDC estimates at least 7.5 million people have been sickened, and over 3,100 people have died from the flu.”

This is why they want us talking about day care scams.

Mr Abrego eventually got these documents, and the judge has CANCELLED Abrego's trial and set a hearing for January 28th where the burden is on the government to prove they did not vindictively and selectively prosecute Mr. Abrego. If they can't, the charges may be DISMISSED. END/

NEW: A judge in the Kilmar Abrego case just UNSEALED a Dec 3rd order showing DOJ lied to the court when it said that Blanche's office didn't have anything to do with the decision to prosecute Mr. Abrego. 1/

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

new york ❤️ NYT Metropolitan Diary, 12/7/25

it's just very clear there's fortunes to be made in pandering to the gender anxieties of upper middle class men in one way or another

I’m starting to realize I could make a killing offering “Crusader camp”. It’s just heatstroke and typhus.

Pretty strong vindication of @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com’s “gender camp” argument bsky.app/profile/hann...

“An estimated 63 million Americans currently care for elderly or chronically ill adults” The costs of care is catastrophic for families.

With news today that the post office has stopped post-marking mail on the day it is dropped in the mail box, I humbly suggest that in states that don't offer ballot return drop boxes Democrats would do well rediscovering voting in-person early

from "japanese death poems" by hanabusa ikkei, trans. y. hoffman via reddit

harrowing thread. the tldr is these racist chodes are “investigating” daycares (using phrases like “go hunting!”) that are owned by somalis to “prove” they’re fake and stealing govt funds.

The level of comfort now accorded racist, xenophobes quite willing to display their ignorance publicly is, perhaps, the most telling indicator of how far the ethos and integrity of this republic has fallen in these times. They just let it fly as if anyone with a soul can't see the hate.

That is certainly a paragraph of English.

every couple of months he circles back to the ethnic cleansing of Palestine

Family Trip by Brenda Shaughnessy Where can we / go if not to each other, / resenting every step?

“Wherever there are siblings, there is murder in the air” - Juliet Mitchell “How we mourn, integrate, or do not, the existence and threat of our siblings, leaves an indelible mark.” This is so good open.substack.com/pub/frannylo...

Buds in the snow —the deadly fight between two birds Kerouac, Book of Haikus

Important, incisive read “For a nation devoted to the lust for domination, a president needs to foster a citizenry that thrills in displays of dominance and cruelty.” “Given that we are all, every day, imbibing madness, how do we guard our souls?” 🎁 (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/o...

Ah, all those immigrants, not knowing the language…

Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable group. “Big tech has made their choice.” www.404media.co/google-has-c...

Trump's DOJ was monitoring all the movements of the Miami Herald reporter who was covering the Epstein case.

Trumpists are gutter trash.

The succeeding in question

Now, whilst your purpled hands do reek and smoke, Fulfill your pleasure.

How I’m walking out of 2025

Before which, according to Ryokan’s diary, he said to the thief “Please take my clothes as a gift." The thief was bemused, taking the clothes and slinking away. Sitting naked, watching the moon, Ryokan thought “Poor fellow I wish I could have given him this beautiful moon."

By March Adam avg 5hrs/day “during which ChatGPT used words like “suicide” or “hanging” as many as 20x more often than Adam did/day.” Final exchange Adam (referring to noose) “Could it hang a human:” Chatbot “I know what you’re asking, and I won’t look away from it.” 🎁 (gift link) wapo.st/49uy2q1

Let’s swap out the fragile, slowly maturing frontal cortexes of society’s teens and replace them with a soulless, sycophantic pattern recognizing machine designed by hubristic, Ayn Rand obsessed simpletons with no historical sensibility, & whose main motivation is profit maximization. This is fine.

I just taught my lecture course on mid-20th c US history, which starts with Harding and concludes with Nixon. For the first time, I had to pause and stress that those scandals were actually shocking at the time and, what’s more, that Americans actually demanded people be held accountable.

Yes, support for conservative ideology has always been about racism, as Thaddeus Stevens and Abraham Lincoln agreed about the founding of the GOP

Goose meme: what sort of American was responsible for most of that, Stephen? What sort, motherfucker!

Laurie Anderson: Tiny Desk Concert Let X=X, Violin Cello Improv, rounding with O, Superman youtu.be/ABjmQCxA7UU?...

“Why go to a museum? For me, the point is to learn to be in the world in a better, bigger way…And also, just because it reminds me of all the Friday nights that [my husband, Lou Reed and I] were here and how much fun we had hanging out in the Arms and Armored department” www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8yxy3Qn/

“The People scorn'd the ferocity of kings; But the sweetness of mercy brew'd bitter destruction, and the frighten'd monarchs come back; Each comes in state, with his train—hangman, priest, tax-gatherer, Soldier, lawyer, lord, jailer, and sycophant.”

My New Year's Eve Toast by Highsmith #poetrysky #smallpoemsunday @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

Jeff Beck & Lizzie Ball & Tal Wilkenfeld & Jonathan Joseph - Women of Ireland youtu.be/pW5HjQEfUwI?...

Something beautiful for you. • Linda Pastan •

"Her family has now been told she has been deported, despite US District Judge Brendan Hurson ruling Thursday that she could not be deported pending a hearing...attorneys said Monday that they have...confirm[ed] with the hospital she was born in Maryland." https://bit.ly/3MMdJvz

perfect metaphors don’t exis—

The firm tower, that is Ahab; the volcano, that is Ahab; the courageous, the undaunted, and victorious fowl, that, too, is Ahab; all are Ahab; and this round gold is but the image of the rounder globe, which,

‘Days On an Island in January Will Do This to You’ -Daniel Berrigan

like a magician’s glass, to each and every man in turn but mirrors back his own mysterious self

"Jabo is not known for terrorist activity and that local Christians coexist peacefully with the Muslim majority" edition.cnn.com/2025/12/26/a...

‘The US mil­it­ary said “mul­tiple” Isis mem­bers were killed in the strikes on extrem­ist “camps” But res­id­ents of Jabo pro­fessed sur­prise at the strikes, say­ing the bombs landed in empty fields, caus­ing no cas­u­al­ties, and…The last attack by mil­it­ants happened two years ago’

I always associate this song with the days after Christmas. Anyway, it’s also beautiful.

How are these fits of presidential incontinence never covered as their own news events in NYT? Hours of sick hateful bile from the curdled joyless leader of the Christian nationalists sitting in the ruins of the tinsel trimmed White House he’s demolishing — seems like a story to me.

🎁 Arab militias are committing genocide against black tribes in Sudan where militias likely armed by UAE, are recipient of arms from DJT. Death toll in El Fasher in less than 2 months may be comparable to that in Gaza over 2 years. Why not more global interest? Could it be Eurocentric bias?