The Januaryists TV Dinner on the Radio Clamp Your Hands Say Yeah Harvey Danger to Himself and Others I tried not to repeat ones already in replies, including some greats such as: Modest Maus @angelasebastiana.bsky.social Iron & Whine @thehighsign.bsky.social DHS Soundsystem @cheatlines.co

There’s a direct line from Al Gore “creating the internet” to Hillary Clinton’s “deplorables” to Biden’s “nothing will fundamentally change” of popular people deciding to run with a made-up version of what was said rather than, y’know, the actúa reasonable thing that was said.

I would like a slice of chocolate cake

We may no longer have snow in Salt Lake City, but at least our air quality is also absolute ass and median home prices are $531,000, average $560,000 🙃

“You gotta pull yourself up by your bootstraps,” say the people who literally start crying if the government doesn’t protect their fake AI business with the violent force of the state

What kills kids in America: 1. cars 2. guns Guess what the GOP has worked relentlessly to support for half a century now?

GIFT ARTICLE (no paywall). Masterpiece reporting here from Adam. He deserves awards for this. “This is my first occupation,” Olsen said as I climbed into the truck. “Welcome to the underground, I guess.”

The new national industry.

Jack Smith: "My fear is that we have seen the rule of law function in our country for so long that many of us have come to take it for granted. The rule of law is not self-executing. It depends on our collective commitment to apply it."

Cancelling solar and wind projects while artificially propping up fossil fuels is a global surrender in energy, and it’s all because of reactionary political ideology. It’s an economic loss, a national security loss, a US jobs loss, a climate change loss (hence Greenland lol) — list goes on

“The country with the Statue of Liberty deprived us of our liberty without any kind of evidence,” Leonardo José Colmenares Solórzano, a 31-year-old Venezuelan who was held in CECOT for months, said two days after he was returned to his family. (Published July 2025)

This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

Jackson showing exactly why the Bruen decision is so laughably dumb (and demonstrating again that she’s the best justice on the court)

It seems to me that so many of our current era is that previously unaccountable people like Trump, Elon, Ack man, etc. were suddenly exposed to criticism and it destroyed their minds.

It really is just governance by petty, childish impulse

Eating a cougar to celebrate

That's just tasteslop. You only find it beautiful because it enables the free play of the imagination and the understanding

Only critique is that the article doesn’t show a larger photo of the man’s amazing suit

Should’ve been the headline instead of “sheds light on contested interpretations” or whatever they went with

Tfw you’re going to see a new Park Chan Wook movie after avoiding all trailers, reviews, and spoilers

1/ Ciji Graham was the mother of 2-year-old SJ, a sister to 9 younger siblings, a beloved friend. She's also the 7th case we’ve found of a pregnant woman in a state restricting abortion who died after being unable to access standard care. This is her story.

I know for a fact that, if Joe Biden had said fuck you and flipped off a heckler who called him “genocide Joe” at an auto plant, then @npr.org would’ve mentioned it in their coverage of the visit. But since it was Trump flipping off someone who shouted “pedophile protector,” NPR didn’t mention it.

A great example of what every university president, CEO, board chair, and law firm should’ve sent in response to the shakedown threats

Anyone who was serious about caring about the birth rate would be lobbying to fund research to make pregnancy and childbirth less physically onerous. Without that it's deeply unserious

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ending every thought with "the girl i've been dating for a month made me realize this"

Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting a day (or thereabouts) for 20 days, no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings. 7. James Tissot, La demoiselle de magasin, 1883-5. Art Gallery of Ontario.

Performative cruelty. Whether considered globally, nationally, or locally, current events show that one political party has completely abandoned any sense of decency, shared community, societal improvement, and institutional stewardship. It’s all just ideological posturing now

once again shoutout to every dipshit who insisted it was hysterical to talk about trump and white supremacy in the same breath www.rawstory.com/trump-267487...

If I was the commander in chief of the Imperial hegemon I would simply not dismantle the network of military and diplomatic alliances, favourable trade deals, and broad cultural paramountcy that had made my nation the most wealthy and powerful the world has ever seen.

America voters cried out for more war, fewer rights, higher prices, fewer jobs, less healthcare, more corruption, fewer allies, more bigotry, less equality, more lies, more criminality, and less democracy. And they got what they voted for, even if some didn’t realize that’s what they were doing.

Study of Trees 1904 Paul Cezanne. Fogg Harvard

Rare piece of good news. Collins, Murkowski, Fetterman (can’t believe I have to include him in this list lol), Todd Young, and Rand Paul all vote yes. This is gonna pass. Maybe a sign that major Rs are finally willing to do what’s right.

Two things mentioned in this headline. One is constitutional, done by a citizen with no real power; the other is something the constitution explicitly prohibits, and it was done by an agent exercising state power. KUTV leads with the former. This is grossly irresponsible “journalism”

hate it when the trump administration’s killing civilians abroad agenda is temporarily overshadowed by its shooting civilians domestically programs

Good social contract we have here. We pay money into the federal government so they can take away benefits of living in the United States and use our money to kill our friends and despoil our hemisphere

This tweet cost Tennessee taxpayers $500,000.

I’ve spent thousands and thrown countless handfuls of dice at a local gaming store. First name basis with the owner and a dozen regulars. Last time I went in, I saw a guy in a red hat that signifies intolerance. (Hanging out with the store owner, no less.) Haven’t gone back, won’t go back.

Five years ago.

Right. If you want a good explanation of why the American system of government worked well enough for 200 years and then suddenly stopped, it's because Republicans in Congress suddenly started letting their partisan interests COMPLETELY override their institutional interests

The same Supreme Court that gave Trump virtually unlimited power to do whatever he wants around the country and around the world decided that the less burdensome repayment options in Biden’s SAVE program for student loans was unconstitutional

A desperate dying man with unlimited power unrestrained thanks to an extremist party will gladly burn the world before he exits.

I can’t believe how fucking stupid we are as a country

It’s Dr. Slop’s monster, actually

I believe the “pressing economic needs” Greene had in mind were just the right’s usual canting fictions about burdensome regulation and taxation — purely ideological, and not anything actually rooted in material reality. This is a great example of “Marx turning Hegel right side up”

I’m always stunned to read passages like this. The human cost of not extending Obamacare subsidies becomes meaningful to a Congressperson only when she learns that “her two adult daughters“ will be affected.

Celebrating at home with the cat. I’m looking grumpy, but it’s just a candid pic. We’re all quite happy. Happy new year!

Shoutouts to everyone reading this post when they get up to pee at 2 am