This is an almost shockingly wise essay. I'm glad I've finally read it.

Trump’s White House UFC fight is an elevation of brutality. Fascism has appeal because its energies exist within all of us. We all have the capacity for hate and violence. What makes liberal democracy unique is how it asks us to transcend our basest selves. www.liberalcurrents.com/merry-christ...

How we tracked ourselves with exposed Flock cameras; a year in review; and our personal recommendations on all sorts of things.

Heritage Foundation implosion has been a wakeup call for some conservatives about dangerous trends on Trump-era right. I hope they will see that nationalism is inherently prone to bigotry, and reject it in favor of universal principles of the Founding: reason.com/volokh/2025/...

There are so many levels to this embarrassment—the Coldplay of it all, the HR violation occurring on jumbotron, etc—that one could likely write a doctoral dissertation on this 15 second video. But here's what it says about the future of surveillance: www.404media.co/the-astronom...

Graham Platner in Maine as perfect example.

How I'm turning up to the Bluesky Christmas party.

We *are* the Public Good. We are a country of ourselves, responsible for each other.

**raises hand** It's because they're black?

It's Sunday night, and the "Tom Nichols Rolodex of Troll Talking Points" is being thumbed through while Mr. Nichols himself enjoys two fingers of Oban 12. @radiofreetom.bsky.social

When you find out what was going on with your favorite childhood books, Frog and Toad.

We have an incredible paperbacks only shop by my house. Unfortunately for me, the overwhelming majority of them are mmpbs, but that doesn't stop me from going in every week just to make sure!

Happy Hanukkah to all. I lit a candle in support of the victims, and the heroes, of the terrible shooting in Australia.

Let's ROLL!!

Here is the patient zero post that's going to completely pollute my feed for the next four or five hours

"then explain why you pardoned him?"

I know we're all hating Netflix right now, but "The Beast in Me" was so, so good. Claire Danes and Matthew Rhys are two of the most best actors alive right now.

Worth re-reading this seminal 2017 essay from Ta-Nehisi Coates, in light of everything that's happened since. To say it still stands up would be an understatement. A genuine tour de force. Very impressive. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

The older I get the less interested I am in criticizing art of any kind that a human made.

The Republican Party really only has one core principle now: Everything the government does must either benefit Donald Trump and his allies or punish his enemies.

Exactly @louisevans.bsky.social

I wrote about the Olivia Nuzzi saga and how it reflects the voyeurism and indignity that drives so much of our media—social and otherwise. This is an essay about elite excess, The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives, and the crisis of our democracy. www.liberalcurrents.com/american-fre...

Literally, I could give a shit. Just seeing this movie again on the big screen in the original format for the first time since I was 8, is good enough.

Historically significant for the sheer number of STDs that were passed around that Safeway

@mikethompson.house.gov I agree Mike. Time for you to work up, or have someone help you work up impeachment proceedings immediately. I want you on every Bay Area TV station screaming about this from now until the end of the year

Muting "Platner" too

This is the only dentist that accepts my insurance.

I'm sorry, but everyone whether or not they are vaccinated against Hep B are 100% likely to die at some point.

Who is our John Ralston for TN-07? Going to need the super micro local on this tonight

Nuzzi = muted

To those who wish to respond:

Well we could just watch Michael Clayton over and over and over and over again. It's a perfect movie - like Jaws. I mean come on....

A person is not a people. If you are saying ‘them’ for the actions of ‘him’, you are wrong. And inevitably when the mob expands, ‘them’ will include ‘you’. And it will be too late for us all.

Democrats should be the party of America restoration, focused on sweeping away every last vestige of Trump's seedy third-world tyranny and exacting cold retribution against people who have betrayed our country and its Constitution for their own self-enrichment

I mean, I certainly do. Unrelenting opposition to corruption, prosecution and jail for Trump traitors, full-throated defense of the underprivileged, and celebration of America as a diverse and open nation where immigrants are welcomed, minorities are protected, and the government follows rules

It's cursed knowledge, just like finding out what really happened to the first Darren in Bewitched!

Maybe they can try to live their life so that when they see a sign says "we don't serve bigots," that they don't automatically assume they sign is referring to them.

Trump Jumps 118 Spots On The Forbes 400 List Thanks To Crime Spree Fixed that for you. This one is for free.

Muting Zohran Mamdani forever

Ranking the best of Star Wars: 1. Andor 2. Splinter of the Minds Eye 3. 2nd half of Rogue One 11. The one where Kirk fucks a purple man-alien.

"You'll be visited by three spirits." The three spirits:

"It’s too easy to say, Nothing matters, LOL, Supreme Court. But it matters a lot to have a judge say that the DHS officers themselves incited violence. They created violence and then they answered it with their own violence. And I think that is the moral of the story." @dahlialithwick.bsky.social

He's wasting $millions on vacations.

Cite

My guess is that he has a 'progeny room' where he implants his seed into random women from twitter. This room is like from 15 Million Merits, but instead of advertisements for porn, the walls are covered in screenshots of this shit and they're being read out loud in Maye Musk's voice. Over and over.

When someone argues with me after I truthfully point out that the Scarecrow was holding a pistol in the Wizard of Oz during a scene in the haunted forest.

Into the Wild* also! *Historical semi-fiction.

Bro

mute /nuzzi/ I mean, come the fuck on people.