Those $60 bamboo T-shirts you see in internet ads are actually great and I’m kind of mad that they’re worth the price

Update: was checking to see whether beans were cooked (they are) when partner started singing from the next room: “Why a bean great til it gotta be great…”

my 75yo mother told me last night that she’s planning to delete Instagram and Facebook because she’s sick of not being able to tell what’s AI and what’s not, and I genuinely don’t think tech companies have reckoned with this kind of move as an actual possibility

finally reading moby dick. why didn't anyone tell me that it's good

Just a small note from the annals of parental loss, I beg y'all to put together a comprehensive document for your family of where your assets are and how things like that work in your head.

Tonight's cooking adventures: a) chicken chili--used >1 lb of beans (good), but oldest beans stayed crunchy, so it's still cooking; I hope it's good tomorrow and the chicken doesn't overcook b) honey cake with blueberries--unexpectedly excellent

Way down the list on how insane and evil this is, but... just a point of con law trivia, I guess: the president doesn't have the power to annex territory. Like, even assuming we militarily occupied it. Just on the domestic law angle, it still wouldn't be "part of the US" w/o Congress saying so.

Decided to listen to a Frightened Rabbit station on Pandora, and the algorithm read me like a book. “Oh, that’s what you like? How about The National? Would you like some Arcade Fire? How about The Killers, you basic mid-aughts college grad?”

friendly reminder that they’re breaking the law to take childhood vaccines away and more kids are gonna die

I repeat this story every time a prompt comes around: I was wearing Groucho Marx novelty glasses. An eyebrow hair fell off and landed in my eye. Turns out the “hair” was made of plastic; it scratched my cornea.

Children will die with RFK Jr.'s new vaccine recommendations. We're NOT doing the "experts disagree" game. The US vaccine schedule was painstakingly constructed through a deep & thorough process by experts with unquestionable expertise. This is policy by fiat. It is pre-meditated murder. 1/

The most basic kitchen table issue is of course that some agent of the state should not get to come into your house and take your kitchen table, and anyone sitting at it, just because they feel like it.

Casey did basic due diligence here, and it's depressing (and not even a little surprising) how many people wrote takes/stories on the post without doing that.

I hate the whiplash from a lovely day with my kids (I taught them how to pick out onions and check beans for rocks!) to the fresh horrors that await me as soon as I pick up my phone.

Kelly should put out another video.

This is going to wind up with me supporting Mark Kelly for president, isn’t it

This administration has done incalculable damage to things I took for granted and assumed would always be there. I knew that the second Trump administration would be bad; I didn’t realize how bad and in how many ways.

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting has been dissolved, ending its 58 years as the primary funder for PBS, NPR and local TV and radio stations

For me, the phrase “showed their ass” has become a flag for this kind of behavior. Someone will say, “What did they do?” and someone else will say, “They were talking about X and they showed their ass.” It becomes a way of asserting bad behavior without explaining what exactly the person did.

Crappy news to kick off 2026: The owners of the Pittsburgh City Paper have shut it down. www.wesa.fm/arts-culture...

The Pittsburgh energy here is incredible

Another successful year for Mike Tomlin and his voodoo doll

You’re damn right it is

my strongest social media belief is that threads isn’t real

OMG OMG OMG Steelers victory squirrel OMG OMG

Trump looked like death warmed over as he returned to the White House tonight (Alex Wong/Getty)

Parenting thing that works for me: I put a plastic bin in the garage labeled SNOW DAY. It has the heavy jackets, the snow pants, the snow boots—everything I used to dig through the closet for on snowy mornings. It works. On snow days, we get outside faster with less stress.

Update: I have eaten so much pork and sauerkraut and we still have SO MUCH pork and sauerkraut

We have an absurd amount of pork and sauerkraut left over from New Year's, so I'm heating up a giant pot of it and tonight will be New Year's: Part Deux

A thing that remains heartwarming is that when my kids watch Star Wars together, every single time, the big one reads the opening crawl out loud to the little one.

Rough vibes on this website today, likely because people feel Hopeless and Helpless Because Can't Stop It and No One Who Is Supposed To Is Trying To So Now We're Fighting Each Other™. I recommend activities such as book, or potentially instrument if you like instrument, or even do talk on phone.

I know we’ve been living in Bizarro World for at least a decade now but the Prime Minister of Denmark felt compelled to make this statement today 😮

"No, I love that guy!" where "that guy" is a giveaway from a Sonic happy meal that I have literally never seen my child touch

Mandarin Ducks / Mandarinenten #snowy #birdoftheday (Mannheim, Germany) #ducks #birds #vögel #enten

A true & earnest thing: Despite the fact that I live & breathe politics professionally, voted in two elections, subscribe to lots of media, engage in political discourse, and gave to campaigns, I think our weekly dinners may have been my most meaningful political act of the year.

Endless Column, by Constantin Brâncuși, 1938, 📸 by @stephenmally

There’s a lot of serious stuff happening, but I still need to post about frivolous things. Unserious post forthcoming

Great turnout on short notice to protest illegal military actions in Venezuela. Singing and activism on a chilly Santa Fe night!

Please get your flu shot and make sure your kids do too.

Halligan: “Now even Borowitz is scoring off of me”

Anti-war march in NYC, organized overnight. Happening right now, 8th Ave. People care.

Emergency Protest tonight against the military actions in Venezuela -- 6:30 on the Plaza. indivisiblesantafe.org/2026-01-03-u...

The President does random stuff because he’s insane and Congress sighs is not a government.

hey remember when a bunch of middle-aged drunk korean lawmakers climbed the locked gates to the national assembly to hold an emergency session after the president gave illegal orders to the military, all of which ended with said president being sentenced to prison

Has anyone in Congress announced that they're starting the impeachment process yet?

building the case to the rest of the world isn’t to explain Trump’s actions are wrong—that’s clear. It’s to demonstrate elite dissent & rejection of Trump’s actions, to reassert Congress’s role in authorizing force, & to create the kind of public noisiness about policy that characterizes democracies

The arguments for why it's bad politics are all unpersuasive, but also no excuse even if it were true. You took an oath and that oath is not contingent on if the other members of Congress will join you in doing the right thing. It does not depend on which party is in the majority. Get caught trying.