Five women authors by whom I've read at least five books: Jane Austen Toni Morrison Minette Walters Ruth Rendell Agatha Christie

Just pulled this bunch a spuds out of the garden. Planted three sad sprouty spuds in a raised bed in October last year and got these beauties

I think a thing a lot of people don’t understand is that propaganda does not convince anyone of anything through argumentation. It’s about frequency, not force. You get exposed to it enough and it changes how you think.

Don’t forget, when Pauline drops racist bombshells into the media for everyone to react to, she’s now being funded by Gina Rinehart, major contributor to racist propaganda group Advance and inspired by MAGA-guru Steve “flood the zone with bullshit” Bannon. The offence is the point.

What’s so awful and stupid about this is that it applies to every single right-wing “Intellectual.” The whole culture is a snake pit of race science cranks and misogynist perverts. They have not changed their positions meaningfully since the civil war began.

Elizabeth Bruenig is a bad person. She is morally reprehensible, but I mean she is a bad example of someone being a person. She humans poorly. She could stand to do it better

Just finished this while waiting to board my flight to Hobart. Weird and exquisite and humane

On January 24th, my parents home burned down. They and my disabled brother escaped with only minor burns but they lost everything they've ever had. I'm running a GoFundMe to help them recover and rebuild. I would be deeply grateful for any donations but also for any shares!

“You’re on mute”

OK, *ongoing* thread of books to read on Palestine. Some recent, some not at all so recent.

What a timely read. A young woman spends the night with a wanted criminal, and not only faces police interrogation for conspiracy, but becomes the victim of a vicious smear campaign and character assassination by a right wing newspaper. So good.

McKenzie Scott. Time to do something real with that Jeff money. Not just dribs and drabs here and there

The Greeks thread this theme throughout all their histories, odes and plays. You anger the gods of hospitality when you don’t offer people food and drink or decline it when it’s offered. Shit gets nasty fast

A friend has Niall Ferguson books on his shelf. I said “buddy, best you chuck these or burn them” & he got sniffy, asked me if my “perfect bookshelf” wasn’t compromised. No ones perfect & they’ve already got the sale but I ran all my Alice Munro through a shredder and used it for packing filler

Steel cut oats with cinnamon, fresh raspberries, walnuts and bananas washed down with Dilmah English Breakfast tea works over here

What is it with these Jonathans?

Lmao

Imagine facing off against Angus Taylor, David LittleProud and Pauline Hanson at the next election. The dingbat patrol. Albanese is truly the luckiest politician around.

Last month, a grandma to 7, also in Springfield, works without a salary at St. Vincent de Paul, trying to prevent family separations from Trump immigration policies: 19thnews.org/2025/12/spri...

A bunch of 🇺🇸’ans still awake huh? Hungry for news, huh?

Farmers love to act like they have no idea who’s responsible for their problems, like this guy speculating it must be some Washington functionary because he loves everything Trump does. He can’t bring himself to tell the truth because he loves white supremacy more than his own financial success.

County government in New Jersey is relatively obscure, but county government in New Jersey is powerful, flush with cash, and loaded with no-show jobs and rigged contracts—Hudson runs a $715M budget with a surplus, and my friend David is running to audit everything and use the savings for the people.

Look out New Jersey. Seems the votes in the statehouse were prescient. www.nj.com/cumberland/2...

Have watched this 25 times already

Nobel Peace Prize < Tracey Jordan’s Pacific Rim Award youtu.be/17o1W6oHTLQ

Stellan Skarsgard’s next role beckons

Counterpoint: it's rare that they become unpopular within the first year. Generally competitive authoritarian regimes, especially contemporary ones, enter on a wave of populist energy, engage in a lot of government spending and power consolidation, and stay popular for a while.

If Otto from A Fish Called Wanda were a book

Rhetoric about stuff like "training" has, time and again, in dozens of contexts that I studied, had precisely the opposite effect on the approach of liberals to addressing the violence, lawlessness, and ineffectiveness of the punishment bureaucracy. Jamelle, we should have a public chat about this!

Friends, Claudette Colvin—the 15-year-old who refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus in March 1955 & joined the federal case against bus segregation that went to the Supreme Court — died today at age 86. But there are lots of myths and mis-impressions about her. A short corrective thread:

And they have purchased an electric ferry made in Tasmania!!

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Just a reminder that George Conway is not fundraising right now to run against a MAGA republican. He is fundraising to run against progressive Democrats.

Amazing to live in a country where every day you can watch Republicans gin up issue salience out of nothing but attitude and 4chan posts and a sizeable chunk of people think Democrats' only power is to vote yes or no on bills placed in front of them

Argentinian gelato is better than Italian gelato

Can I recommend a few faves from 2025? Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver Little Bosses Everywhere by Bridget Read Shortest History of the United States of America by Don Watson

I love how in Andor the Imperial force flunkies all look like sallow bug-eyed lantern jawed mini-Goebels and the rebels are all hotties

I wonder if the basement-dwelling troglodytes who voted R are a wee bit worried about being conscripted

JFC how good is Andor?

[clutching my left shoulder after the third heart attack] it’s “the proof of the pudding is in the eating”

NYE - berry trifles, no booze and an early night with a good book

My greatest fear and certainty is that MTG will become prez before AOC

Someone at the Bulwark got it wrong. Pass it on

Are Michelle Goldberg and Jamelle Bouie still taking a paycheck from the NYT? There’s a delightful fluffy redemption-arc piece on MTG in the NYT magazine. Charming

Bluesky managing to delete an account immediately after I share it 🙄. Here is a video Amir made of where he is staying right now- he is really hoping to be able to rent a room ❤️

RIP Claudia Cardinale. Much like Robert Redford, she was a rare case of a beautiful performer with a filmography full of bangers who did NOT become right-wing later in life. Here she is punching fascist Brigitte Bardot in the face in Les Pétroleuses (1971).

Brigitte Bardot was a piece of shit. Pass it on