New Year's Eve in Times Square in New York City.

It’s real now. www.youtube.com/live/zj4hZVx...

Is it good parenting if you let your kids stay up till 9pm PT to watch Andy and Anderson trashed and giggling while they read obscene Taylor Swift lyrics aloud, between episodes of Richard Quest swanning around dressed as Cleopatra and Shakira shaking her butt like the world’s most graceful 48yo mom

andy cohen's "am i excited about 2026? [pregnant pause] yeah. i... yeah. i mean, what's the alternative?" is the realest thing i've seen all night

You should learn how to say it www.instagram.com/reel/DLVvUmW...

Happy new year to the cake seasoned with chicken meat floss, which I contemplated but did not buy during NYE at the egg waffle store minimart

Just making sure that 2025 is definitely over

I've been following Yukio Akamine online for 20 years. During this time, the world has seen Myspace and Facebook get overtaken by blogging platforms such as WordPress and Tumblr, which in turn got overtaken by social media platforms like Instagram and Twitter. 🧵

Happy new year, everyone. I am in California, but I observe the new year of my people. Wishing you a 2026 filled with health, adventure, love, and joy. Let’s make things better.

The quiet dignity of a self-confident nation.

I do wish Trump had run more clearly on “I will deport 3/10 Americans”

I have no particular insight, but also getting a weird feeling 2026 could be a big year for JD Vance

IT’S HAPPENING

I get that it’s their whole shtick but it still very funny to me that every year CNN promotes its New Year’s Eve show with its lead evening anchor giving an expression of “ugh, THIS asshole again”, like every single time they got paired up by mistake and he is NOT happy about it.

Israel says it will suspend the licenses of dozens of humanitarian groups operating in Gaza on Thursday. Among the groups is Doctors Without Borders, one of the largest international nongovernmental health care providers there.

Cornelius Eady, a National Book Award finalist, will read an original poem at Zohran Mamdani’s swearing-in as mayor of New York City on Thursday. Read an excerpt from “Proof,” the poem he wrote for the ceremony. trib.al/i0Uhwxr

Massive data project by WaPo on dropping measles vax rates among kindergartners

I had missed this whole interview, but damn. Respect to Clooney

Seeking violent white nationalist men

FYI!

Superb and hilarious storytelling by the standards of any medium. I’ll let the pastor take it from here 🐍

Washington, DC, has incredibly restrictive rules about taking down mature trees as part of even private construction projects—people pay huge sums to relocate them under the law. Why do I feel like Trump was not out there measuring trunks trees.dc.gov/pages/tree-p...

Internet Killed the Video Star

The @wsj.com, which Trump is suing over it’s Trump/Epstein birthday card scoop, continues to break news about their relationship, here that many young women/girls working at MAL spa were sent over to Epstien www.wsj.com/us-news/trum...

This is so real. Thinking of it as a regrouping year — next year may all the flowers bloom

“The family reluctantly returned home in August… two months after a consultant they hired found lead — a dangerous neurotoxin — inside the house. After their insurer, Farmers Insurance, dismissed those findings and cut off payments for their hotel, the Van Nesses had little choice but to return”

World’s most slo-mo rickroll

this seems specifically designed to break mail-in voting (where deadlines are defined by postmark)

NYT just ran a bizarrely credulous piece about New College, the school that DeSantis and Rufo have turned upside down. There is one good outcome of the article: This @donmoyn.bsky.social post, which is one of the best pieces of media criticism I've read all year. open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...

does a movie need a plot. can it not simply have: a hat

Yikes

Welcome, my sisters and brothers and all beloved siblings, welcome to the Church of Love and Biscuits.

The actual best thing to do with nog is to stir a slug of it into your coffee

Here is a nice floor.

An important work from a rediscovered artist has been absent from public view since the 1970s. A New York curator is hunting for it. n.pr/4qfSDVj

Photos remembering Brigitte Bardot, the French 1960s sex symbol who became one of the greatest screen sirens of the 20th century and later a militant animal rights activist. She died at the age of 91.

Omg, finally. Last time we looked at cars we ruled out anything that had much more than music/maps on touchscreen

movies prepared me to be wrongfully accused of my wife's murder much more often than it's so far happened

One of the most incredible shots I've ever gotten, in Yellowstone. This coyote walked over a ridge in the blowing snow and posed for me, with a small grin on its face, the snowfalkes like stars in the background. The desolation and beauty of life and nature is grounding, and so good for the soul.

I hate to say it, but Katie Miller specifically really should retire from public life, as befits a lady. The rest of us can stay

I don’t understand it at all — it seems incredibly inefficient — but I do watch the smart Gen Zers I know do this a lot and YES there are a lot of conspiracy theories, but they do also know quite a bit of real stuff

I *know* I shouldn’t share the NYPost but I got served this BUTT PHRENOLOGY article !!!! And people should know that we have entered the era of BUTT PHRENOLOGY !!!!

Today, ecologist Matias Hernandez and I found THIS! A gigantic desert hyacinth (Cistanche phelypaea) like a sunbeam in the sand. To see a specimen like this in full bloom is magic💫

Attempting snow boarding lol

Yes—truly a bizarre spin on the facts

What a beautiful photo from last night’s snowfall. Photo credit: Adam Gray for The New York Times

Glad to see our president spent Christmas…bombing a field next to a healthcare facility in a peaceful village in Nigeria

Yup. I'm telling y'all, these dudes don't know anything.🤡 Frank Sinatra was a vocal anti-racist. He fought racism with his actions, his words, and his money. Actions: Refused to stay at segregated hotels. Made sure Black artists got paid fairly. Words: Literally wrote an article in Ebony Magazine

Honestly I know marriages that have happened for this metaphorical reason