My apologies to France, I was not familiar with your game.

1. Trump certainly wants to fully rig elections. 2. He has no actual plausible plan to do so. 3. We should absolutely take the threat very seriously and actively do what's possible to protect elections and democracy. 4. What's actually likely is success or failure at the margins; every bit counts.

Kudos to Mayor Mamdani. This is what economic justice looks like. And it's a reminder of how we can fight corporate greed at the state and local level. https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/01/mamdani-ice-delivery-workers-settlement-backpay-uber-gig-workers-million/

Neologism: Pedantophile. Noun. One who argues a little too enthusiastically to demonstrate they understand the difference between pedophilia and ephebophilia.

GOP Rep. Thomas Massie: “How will we know if this bill has been successful? We will know when rich men are being perp walked in handcuffs to the jail. Until then, this is still a coverup.” #EpsteinFiles

“Terrible things are happening outside. At any time of night and day, poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes.... Families are torn apart... Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared... Everyone is scared." Anne Franke, 1943

Just for the record, and it’s insane that the mad king made me look this up, there is documentation of the US giving up all claim to Greenland to Denmark when we bought the Virgin Islands from them in 1916. history.state.gov/historicaldo...

I’ll never get tired of this ad at our local indie theater 😂

David Brooks: This is a war on blue states Bill Kristol: Abolish ICE Springsteen: ICE is the Gestapo Dems in Congress: Let’s talk body cams and QR codes

More than 200,000 Danish citizens have signed a petition to buy California as a response to Trump’s attempt to take Greenland. They say they will provide Californians with “rule of law, universal health care, fact-based politics, and a lifetime supply of Danish pastries.”

“We’re going to train the neo-Nazi who joined ICE in deescalation tactics” says the Democratic consultant who is entirely fine with ICE taking your children and putting three in your forehead

The Bondi Beach massacre would have been much worse without Australia's gun laws that forced the assailants to have to use a bolt-action rifle, writes @ryanlcooper.com. prospect.org/2025/12/17/a...

Michael C. Rockefeller got shipwrecked in 1963, washed up on an island, and was promptly eaten by cannibals.

so many of our current problems stem from americans not being able to comprehend that a guy they know from tv might actually be stupid

We're gonna need a truth and reconciliation commission and Nuremberg style trials to reckon with all of this evil, and any Dem candidate for office who shies away from a full reckoning in the name of "moving forward as a nation" can get well and truly fucked

I need people who are profiling RFK Jr to not recite, uncritically, the number of studies the man says he has read. One he lies Two even if he has read them doesn't mean he understands them Three it's more useful to take one and explain its problems.

It makes you think bsky.app/profile/mike...

A friend who teaches theology shared with me a post about CS Lewis's Mere Christianity, which discusses foundational Christian logic across denominations. It reminded me of Dale's tweet below, and I wanted to share some thoughts here regarding modesty and respectability, which are often hot topics.

Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷

Same energy bsky.app/profile/numb...

For Tolkien fans, a timely passage for No Kings Eve, from WH Auden’s review of Lord of the Rings.

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1. Just so we’re clear, this is the clip that got Jimmy Kimmel’s show shelved by ABC. If I’m missing any other clips please let me know.

JD Vance is doing the Reichstag Fire the right way. by Ezra Klein

FULL DISCLOSURE, MAGA Murder Budget is the messaging that I suggested and while I wanted to just ignore this new testing, now that it's out there, feels like I gotta wade in. Here goes - adventures in everything wrong with Dem message testing, a case study. /1

We are speedrunning the Declaration of Independence, folks.

I don't think I've ever seen someone destroy their own career with such elegant simplicity.

one thing democrats do need to do, if they aren’t already, is to build an infrastructure to respond to the inevitable attempt to nullify the results of the midterms

When AOC and Adam Kinzinger are both furious at Chuck Schumer, for the exact same reason, maybe you need to give up the idea this is just a backlash coming from far left activists.

love our strong, senile president

I actually think the dems should attend the SOTU, wait till the 2nd sentence, and then walk out en masse, that'll do it, there'll be no address, he'll just have a meltdown on national Tv

We keep hearing about masculinity from the Zuckerbergs of the world-- this woman has shown more courage in this 60-second clip than any of the tech billionaires have shown in recent memory as they grovel at Trump's feet.

it has always been a long reaction to the New Deal. from then to now, capital had seen the New Deal as the sin that must be purged so that the rest of us understand our place as grist for their mills

YouGov has just done a poll on whether Brits are happy or unhappy that Trump was elected US president: Unhappy: 60% Happy: 16% They then asked them to say why, in their own words, they felt this way. Leading "unhappy" reason: He's a criminal Leading "happy" reason: He's not Harris/Biden/Democrats

The North Carolina General Assembly’s GOP supermajority just approved a hugely corrupt power grab, seizing authority from the governor and the courts to prevent any meaningful check on legislative abuses. Authoritarian stuff. A very dark day for democracy in NC. amp.newsobserver.com/news/politic...

Newsletter: We're at peak AI - generative AI models have hit the wall where they won’t improve much further thanks to a lack of training data, killer apps or any kind of sustainable business model. The results of a collapse could be catastrophic. wheresyoured.at/godot-isnt-making-it

the frenzy over the hunter biden pardon is a good reminder that the press knows how to make something a scandal and has decided that nothing trump does is truly deserving of that treatment

FOX NEWSCASTER: Moreover there are claims that while at Fox News Hegseth got very drunk and vomited into my desk drawer. A desk drawer. The desk drawer of a colleague. Allegedly.

Joe Biden has abused the presidential pardon system. by Paul Manafort, Roger Stone, Michael Flynn, Joe Arpaio, Dinesh D'Souza, Bernie Kerik, Scooter Libby, Steve Bannon, and Charles Kushner

Joe Biden just handed Donald Trump a precedent for actions he already took 4 years ago

"Twitter isn’t real life" turned into "leaving Twitter is ignoring reality” very quickly!

Another story of how dismantling the New Deal was a disaster for poor people.

They want to shock you. The sex fiend! The dog killer! The Russian asset! The names matter, but as much as what Trump is going for - dominance, not only over Congress but over objective reality Stop fighting a president when we have a king. My new column🎁 share.inquirer.com/GlcsMN

as I’ve (repeatedly) said before, the maga chuds don’t WANT a space where they just talk to each other. that’s why they mewl so loudly when we leave and why they chase us around and try to shame us into coming back. without libs to own, they have no raison d'être.

I have no idea why so many people seem to believe that the most likely explanation is "they think Donald Trump is the best presidential candidate" is so outlandish and unbelievable vs "reporters really want to juice their employers' Q125 ad sales". 49% of voters voted for him! It's normal!