It isn't about fentanyl. If so, he would've attacked Mexico and China. It isn't about drug trafficking. If so, he wouldn't have pardoned the President of Honduras. It isn't about election integrity. If so, he wouldn't have tried to steal an election here. It's. About. The. Oil.

I distinctly remember in the first Trump years when people would be like “no, you can’t call them fascist”

Trump ran as an isolationist opposing foreign wars. Today's invasion of #Venezuela shows that was BS. Greenland may be next. Europeans need to wake up and understand the risk is much worse than they've been telling themselves. My piece from February:

Strange takes on Mayor Zamdani swearing his oath on the Qu’ran. It has nothing to do with church & state. The point of the oath is for the person swearing in to do so upon some text that is sacred TO THEM. Some Presidents swore in w/o any book. John Quincy Adams was sworn on a law book. His choice.

Going into 2026 like

If we could just take a fucking breath and admit "our kids are people, we don't get to decide who they are," and stop using "BUT THE CHILDREN" as a reason to attack trans people, and autistic people, and whoever else we've decided not to like, that would be cool.

Hyvää Uutta Vuotta!

I just thought I’d share this beautiful advice from Bowie to take with you into the New Year. No stress if you’re not there. I’ve been at this a long while, I think I’m finally starting to get it? Maybe this is your year? youtu.be/cNbnef_eXBM?...

The last five decades have been marked by an explosion in wealth inequality and a growing distrust of America’s institutions. Many Americans believe that the system as a whole is rigged against them. They're right.

Want to see what Marco Rubio sounded like in 2016 before he sold his soul for a little bit more power and the chance to remain relevant in a corrupt and fascist Republican party?

Boycotting Constitution Hall because the DAR won’t let Marian Anderson sing has costs. It may end opera. Is that worth it? By Megan McArdle, 1939

I got dressed in my warm clothes so we could go for a walk in the snow, but Kairo had a better idea!

With. A. Sledgehammer. www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-rena...

Thank you to all the performers who are canceling their events at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

BREAKING: A Russian newspaper today — “America no longer sees our country as a threat… The US leader’s philosophy is closer to the values of Russia’s president, not the politicians of the Old World… he sees Europe as a liberal stronghold that must be destroyed…” Read that again.

This is a SOLID litmus test.

2 months ago, I woke up in intense back/hip/leg pain. After several trips to docs and ERs, I've been put on tons of pain meds and told to rest, hoping it will resolve. Today I tried NOT taking more meds when the previous pill wore off. HUGE mistake. Top 10 most painful things ever 😫 0/10 recommend.

What these people are doing to the power of calling out real antisemitism, in an incredibly dangerous time of surging global antisemitism….man, it is just so worrisome

Disturbing af.

How do you just OOPS find a million documents?

BREAKING: Here’s the 60 Minutes Segment Trump and CBS News Executives Don’t Want You to See share.google/Zk59HoK7MaqQ... WATCH IT HERE FOR FREE...

BREAKING: WATCH the full 60 Minutes CECOT segment here. This was sent to me anonymously. It appears to be the segment CBS' Bari Weiss killed. www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...

Wut. Apparently part of the briefly posted tranche of Epstein documents tonight is a disturbing letter - purportedly from Jeffrey Epstein to Larry Nassar days before Epstein’s death in 2019 - in which Epstein says ‘Our President also shares our love of nubile young girls’.

Late-night cookie baking is a Solomon Family tradition 😁

Time for us all to do again what we did when they yanked Kimmel.

It's been stressful living in Europe on an American benefit over the past 11 months, because our Dear Leader tanked the US$.

60 MINUTES CORRESPONDENT: “Our story was screened 5x and cleared by both CBS attorneys and Standards and Practices. It is factually correct. In my view, pulling it now is not an editorial decision, it is a political one.” #CBSNewsMAX #BariWeiss www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...

I feel like I'm going to get a lot of use out of this Pluribus screencap

Happy 7th Night 🩵

Since yesterday, many people have DM’d to say that they were strongly affected by my essay & wished they could share it. So I've revised, expanded, & posted it for free on both Substack & Patreon. Please feel free to share. www.patreon.com/posts/this-i... catvalente.substack.com/p/this-is-wh...

Chag Hanukkah Sameach and Shabbat Shalom So many people are in darkness. Be a light for them. And for yourself. #Hanukkah #ShabbatShalom

I took muscle relaxants and forgot to light the hanukkiot. But the point is to share the light with others in darkness. So I'll share 5th night last year, here, where anyone can reach it. Baruch atah, Adonai Eloheinu, Melech haolam, asher kid’shanu b’mitzvotav v’tsivanu l’hadlik ner shel Hanukkah.

Guess I'll post this again

I'm in a town a 2-hour drive from where we live, cleaning and getting basic staples into our son's apartment, which is a 5 minute bike ride from campus. This feels so surreal!

we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫

It hasn't even been twelve hours, but all three of us have been overwhelmed with requests from media for comment and I'm mostly writing this now so they'll leave me alone.

How we spent the night before bed 💔💖 #RobReinerRIP

Hanukkah celebration in Helsinki tonight 🩵

First night #chaghanukkahsameach

Bless the Muslim man who disarmed a terrorist shooter in Australia!

My position on taking action. And on the important space between everything and nothing.

The ACLU has posted 17 sworn declarations from people locked up at the Trump Adminstration's largest immigrant prison camp, at Fort Bliss in Texas. In World War Two, the same site was called the "Fort Bliss Enemy Alien Detention Station." Read the declarations here: www.aclu.org/documents/fo...

Kairo in Downward Lying Boneless Dog pose.

WAKE UP DEAD MAN is a damn good one. And you should see it.

Anyone can become disabled. Anyone can become chronically ill. Anyone can become homeless. These are not moral failings. They can happen in an instant, often when you least expect it. It just takes one accident or illness to change your life forever.

So, like. WHY did we seize a Venezuelan oil tanker?

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I don't want a wave of hate aimed at her by a powerful ruler. Just like I didn't want her to aim a tidal wave of hate at everyone she's lied about.

TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque: "This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".