“Traffic lights across the city were down, seemingly confusing the driverless cars — and halting them in their tracks. Riders and pedestrians posted videos of Waymos stuck at intersections, long lines of drivers behind them.” missionlocal.org/2025/12/sf-w...

Rated X for scenes of Melania Trump earning her Einstein visa.

Maybe one of the new MAGA patriotic cheerleader Pentagon reporters can check their sources for us and do a story.

There’s an Arabic version of “every cloud has a silver lining” that translates to “no cows, no feeding them at dawn.” A Scots version is “today’s rain is tomorrow’s whisky.” And a Romanian phrase for looking on the bright side is un șut în fund, un pas înainte, or “a kick in the ass, a step forward”

When the Department of Justice blatantly violates the law to protect wealthy and politically connected pedophiles, then we have no Justice Department and we have no justice.

Cartoon ✍️: Love what you do By Drew Sheneman More here 👉 www.dailykos.com/blog/Comics

This is just gutter white nationalist agitprop from Stephen Miller. A good time to read our deep dive into Miller's ideological fanaticism (see below)

I think bigotry has become a kind of loyalty ritual among young republicans, it’s how you show you’re one of them www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

For more than a decade, Trump has been promising a healthcare plan that simply doesn't exist. The truth is Trump and the GOP have zero plan to tackle the affordability crisis. #DonTheCon

Democrats are forever “in disarray.” Republicans are “in an uncharacteristic state of discord.”

mr stephen miller sir, have you considered taking up boxing

every single “masculinity” influencer should be required to get in the ring against a professional boxer once they hit 500 subscribers

Study in Helsinki indicating benefits of portable air cleaners on lowering infection risk in daycare centers, less absences & parent absences from work in intervention vs. reference (no air cleaner) groups. Cleaning indoor air is not difficult and it works. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Basically.

www.the-sun.com/sport/156748... Imagine people being shocked that Andrew Tate can’t beat up a normal man🤡🤡😂 it’s a little harder when it’s not just a young girl

jake paul and andrew tate are both the types of dude that hate anything that might threaten their masculinity by making them look weak and simultaneously the memes of them getting the shit beat out of them will never stop as long as they are public figures and I think that’s beautiful

Amid Southern US Raids, Who’s Making Money Off Border Patrol and ICE Contracts? Contracts for companies based in North Carolina and Louisiana total more than $341 million for fiscal years 2025-2026. | TruthOut www.facingsouth.org/2025/12/whos...

Fox reports that that while many of the redactions to the Epstein Files were made to protect victims’ identities, “the same redaction standards were applied to politically exposed individuals and government officials.” In other words, DOJ admits that they edited Trump and his pals out.

Solar is quite a solution for Australia!

here’s an Elon Musk Christmas Tale. Merry Xmas everyone ❤️

Next time you’re applying for a job, any job, be sure to mention you were able to pick out a giraffe during a regular dementia test. Let’s see how it plays out.

If Joe had won.

Despite your family’s apparent concern about how much you love Legend of Zelda, it’s about to be socially acceptable to fixate on nothing but a single day in the calendar for weeks on end (and that’s totally fine).

Andrew Tate when his opponent isn't an untrained woman :(

I lived thru the end of public smoking. Early in my career I presented to city councils who were smoking, in front of audiences who were smoking. Smoking in restaurants, airplanes, hospitals… All of that seems insane now, but it was very controversial when we DID change it. We CAN change things.

This is a good reminder that hardened opposition to good ideas can dissipate like … smoke

I don’t know how anyone can still talk about “the AI revolution” with a straight face. Reuters story about a railroad company that has sunk $300,000 into “developing AI products” and appears to have made…a chatbot that doesn’t work? archive.is/2025.12.17-0...

All of these “missed” Trump redactions that DoJ is redacting after the fact makes me think there are heroes “forgetting” to redact his name here and there.

“As a temporary fix though, beneficiaries can call us, and we will fill out the new form for them. We will then mail them the filled-out form so they can submit it to us via mail.” thesqueakywheel.org/social-s...

Satire, about accessible disability forms—but is is really? "Now, once this new form is submitted, we will send a letter to the beneficiary in the mail with a URL they can visit to retrieve the accessible version of the form. For extra convenience, we can also fax the letter.”

This is a very well-reasoned thread penned by a congressman that completely dismantled a brainless “thinkpiece.” Some pundits want the left to reject progress & civil rights & become GOP-lite, but Dems lose when they bow down to oligarchs & fascists. We only win when we fight for a better tomorrow

7. But even beyond the political conversation, you can't compare 2012 energy policy to 2025 without understanding the massive shift in US fossil energy production & net imports over that period. Look at the "net imports" line on this chart.

This Yglesias piece in the NYT is horrifically bad. Almost every "fact" it cites is provably false. At best it is cocktail party banter from a pundit who knows nothing of energy. At worst, it was cut/paste from oil industry talking points. So, a rebuttal: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/o...

When I was 4 or 5, I developed a serious fear of Santa and banned him from our house. My parents were like "That's ok. We talked to Santa and he doesn't want to upset you. Is it all right if Papa Smurf brings the presents instead?" And so I left cookies out for special Santa helper Papa Smurf.

so hey are we gonna talk about how the trump admin is now threatening companies that sell binders and forcing them to register as companies selling medical devices www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Core memory images of Jake Paul and Andrew Tate.

The primary long-term foreign policy goal of Putin for decades has been to separate the US from a united Europe militarily, economically, & diplomatically, breaking up NATO in the process. This Trump admin is what he’s been waiting for, but he would love a Vance admin even more.

i really think there is legit political space for running on "we are going to dismantle ICE"

It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans. 🧵 1 of 9

Liberals are complaining that the Justice Department has left in the faces of the little girls being abused while blacking out the photos of the rich, powerful men abusing them. But the rich, powerful men are the real victims of this investigation.

Elon Musk is spreading nonsense conspiracy theories about the 2020 presidential election again. This “report” comes from The Federalist, a propaganda rag for the Trump regime. Long story short: there was a statewide hand recount in GA. Biden’s victory confirmed. No law broken. This is nonsense.

Met a 40yo gallery-ist at a party in SF. We spent most of the party talking abt the art world, but mostly what she talked abt was how most of her life now is telling AI “artists” that they are not artists, she won’t sell their “work” in her gallery, & that “prompt writer” isn’t an artistic medium.

Jake Paul and Andrew Tate willingly getting the shit best out of themselves because they think they have talent because they are white dudes with podcasts is peak 2025.

It's not about the memorial building. It's about erasing the predominantly liberal message of the renowned cultural center. The center offers theater, dance, classical, jazz, pop, folk music & a National Symphony Orchestra. These were part of Kennedy's cultural legacy, something Trump cannot buy.