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I bet after WWII even the Germans who opposed Hitler had to learn to deal with people immediately judging them as Germans, even though it’s not *really* fair. I don’t think progressive Americans should all don hairshirts or anything, but it’s a thing that’ll happen.
This sucks but I think non-Americans being justifiably angry at Americans for what the American government is doing and threatening to do, and Americans experiencing that anger and frustration personally in ways that are unpleasant, is probably an important part of any path back to stability
January 7, 2026 at 2:30 AM
I bet after WWII even the Germans who opposed Hitler had to learn to deal with people immediately judging them as Germans, even though it’s not *really* fair. I don’t think progressive Americans should all don hairshirts or anything, but it’s a thing that’ll happen.
This is fucking embarrassing.
Here's the clip of Tony Dokoupil ending tonight's broadcast by absolutely gushing over "ultimate Florida Man" Marco Rubio.
January 7, 2026 at 2:19 AM
This is fucking embarrassing.
SCOTUS: history and practice* clearly says that if a president procures money from unauthorized foreign policy adventurism, the doctrine of “finders keepers” applies and that money legally belongs to the president alone.
*Iran Contra
*Iran Contra
Trump: “I am pleased to announce that the Interim Authorities in Venezuela will be turning over between 30 and 50 MILLION Barrels of High Quality, Sanctioned Oil, to the United States of America. This Oil will be sold at its Market Price, and that money will be controlled by me, as President”
January 7, 2026 at 12:03 AM
SCOTUS: history and practice* clearly says that if a president procures money from unauthorized foreign policy adventurism, the doctrine of “finders keepers” applies and that money legally belongs to the president alone.
*Iran Contra
*Iran Contra
The ending of Terriers shouldn’t have been the end, but is also perfect and beautiful.
Given that apparently the Stranger Things finale was meh (idk, didn't watch it, just the scuttlebutt) and we're not that far removed from the disastrous GOT finale that retroactively made everyone have never cared about the show:
What's the *best* ending to a show you've ever seen? Quote/reply etc
What's the *best* ending to a show you've ever seen? Quote/reply etc
January 6, 2026 at 11:42 PM
The ending of Terriers shouldn’t have been the end, but is also perfect and beautiful.
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I kind of actually don’t like it when people die.
January 6, 2026 at 9:27 PM
I kind of actually don’t like it when people die.
So let’s say Trump did send troops into Greenland and said “this belongs to us now.” What happens? Is it a NATO article 5 event that compels other member states to respond, or does it break the alliance in such a way that they’re no longer legally compelled to? Either way, do they do it?
January 6, 2026 at 9:20 PM
So let’s say Trump did send troops into Greenland and said “this belongs to us now.” What happens? Is it a NATO article 5 event that compels other member states to respond, or does it break the alliance in such a way that they’re no longer legally compelled to? Either way, do they do it?
Yeah, like, they might offer to buy it, but at this point that feels unlikely even if Denmark agreed because they’ve already asserted the right to it. Why pay for what’s yours? Free association seems unlikely too because they want to change which parts of the map say “USA.”
TRUMP AND HIS ADVISERS ARE DISCUSSING OPTIONS INCLUDING PURCHASING THE TERRITORY FROM DENMARK OR FORMING A COMPACT OF FREE ASSOCIATION WITH THE ISLAND - SENIOR US OFFICIAL
TRUMP WOULD LIKE TO ACQUIRE GREENLAND DURING HIS CURRENT TERM IN OFFICE-SENIOR US OFFICIAL
TRUMP WOULD LIKE TO ACQUIRE GREENLAND DURING HIS CURRENT TERM IN OFFICE-SENIOR US OFFICIAL
January 6, 2026 at 9:03 PM
Yeah, like, they might offer to buy it, but at this point that feels unlikely even if Denmark agreed because they’ve already asserted the right to it. Why pay for what’s yours? Free association seems unlikely too because they want to change which parts of the map say “USA.”
Here’s the case for Donald Trump being a traitor by the constitutional definition, and it’s pretty simple: he levied war against the United States, amassed an army to overthrow the government, and we all saw him do it.
Okay, I did it
New at The Evening Constitutional! Why Donald Trump is an actual factual traitor, within the meaning of the Treason Clause eveningconstitutional.net/donald-trump...
New at The Evening Constitutional! Why Donald Trump is an actual factual traitor, within the meaning of the Treason Clause eveningconstitutional.net/donald-trump...
Donald Trump Is A Traitor
Today is January 6th, 2026. Five years ago today, the Congress met, as prescribed by law, to count the electoral votes from the 2020 presidential election and certify the winner thereof. This had happ...
eveningconstitutional.net
January 6, 2026 at 8:57 PM
Here’s the case for Donald Trump being a traitor by the constitutional definition, and it’s pretty simple: he levied war against the United States, amassed an army to overthrow the government, and we all saw him do it.
This is what I don’t get either. They say 2020 was stolen and they know who stole it and now they control DoJ and they haven’t done shit about it. If true it would be one of the biggest crimes in American history but it’s just a rage bait meme.
I'm not even talking just about Democrats here; Republicans claim to believe that there was a conspiracy to rig the 2020 election and almost none of them act like that was true. It gets treated with the same level of scrutiny and emotional investment as Cracker Barrel changing their fucking logo.
January 6, 2026 at 7:10 PM
This is what I don’t get either. They say 2020 was stolen and they know who stole it and now they control DoJ and they haven’t done shit about it. If true it would be one of the biggest crimes in American history but it’s just a rage bait meme.
So like if an incoming democratic Congress passed a resolution like this on 1/3/2027, what would happen then? Like mechanically, what processes would this set into motion?
There should absolutely be some papers laying out the argument that an incoming democratic Congress could take the findings of the J6 committee and the impeachment and the Colorado process and pass a bicameral resolution that Trump committed insurrection on 1/6/2021.
January 6, 2026 at 6:23 PM
So like if an incoming democratic Congress passed a resolution like this on 1/3/2027, what would happen then? Like mechanically, what processes would this set into motion?
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There should absolutely be some papers laying out the argument that an incoming democratic Congress could take the findings of the J6 committee and the impeachment and the Colorado process and pass a bicameral resolution that Trump committed insurrection on 1/6/2021.
January 6, 2026 at 6:21 PM
There should absolutely be some papers laying out the argument that an incoming democratic Congress could take the findings of the J6 committee and the impeachment and the Colorado process and pass a bicameral resolution that Trump committed insurrection on 1/6/2021.
I keep being genuinely surprised that they haven’t tried to move more aggressively to assert in some kind of official capacity that Biden was a usurper and his presidency should be considered annulled, but they keep inching toward it.
I’m afraid this is real and on the White House’s website www.whitehouse.gov/j6/
January 6, 2026 at 6:08 PM
I keep being genuinely surprised that they haven’t tried to move more aggressively to assert in some kind of official capacity that Biden was a usurper and his presidency should be considered annulled, but they keep inching toward it.
So at first glance, if this is what we get instead of a shutdown*, that’s probably a deal worth doing. It doesn’t fire Vought, but it strengthens the no-RIF provision from the last CR and in large part *neuters* Vought.
*still has to be signed of course
*still has to be signed of course
In ‘minibus’ spending package, lawmakers reject deep budget cuts, limit agency reorganizations
The minibus spending package generally seeks modest spending reductions for covered agencies, but departs from the Trump administration's calls for major cuts.
federalnewsnetwork.com
January 6, 2026 at 5:51 PM
So at first glance, if this is what we get instead of a shutdown*, that’s probably a deal worth doing. It doesn’t fire Vought, but it strengthens the no-RIF provision from the last CR and in large part *neuters* Vought.
*still has to be signed of course
*still has to be signed of course
The thing that’s so dumb about this is that there’s nothing legitimate about the strategic importance of Greenland that the US doesn’t get through existing alliances. Denmark isn’t impeding US strategic interests. It’s about them wanting to increase US land area by 20%.
Joint European statement on Greenland. They moved quickly after Miller’s comments about annexation last night.
January 6, 2026 at 12:48 PM
The thing that’s so dumb about this is that there’s nothing legitimate about the strategic importance of Greenland that the US doesn’t get through existing alliances. Denmark isn’t impeding US strategic interests. It’s about them wanting to increase US land area by 20%.
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So does this indicate that there’s not really appetite for another shutdown in the senate Dem caucus broadly? Does it mean that whether they’re close or not they can’t telegraph that they *want* things to shut down?
Schumer rejects idea of another government shutdown
Lawmakers returned to Washington from a holiday break Monday after seeing a record-long 43-day shutdown in the fall.
spectrumlocalnews.com
January 6, 2026 at 11:59 AM
So does this indicate that there’s not really appetite for another shutdown in the senate Dem caucus broadly? Does it mean that whether they’re close or not they can’t telegraph that they *want* things to shut down?
I mean my first gloss on it was that it was a play on the way that cops and their propaganda say stuff like “he was no angel” about their victims to justify their deaths. Maybe I’m wrong and it’s pro-billionaire propaganda but I would bet actual money that I’m right.
"The new Robin Hood movie has a poster saying "He Was No Hero" so the entire site has decided it will be pro-billionaire propaganda about how the poor don't deserve money" is the funniest bluesky thing I've seen in some time
January 6, 2026 at 4:48 AM
I mean my first gloss on it was that it was a play on the way that cops and their propaganda say stuff like “he was no angel” about their victims to justify their deaths. Maybe I’m wrong and it’s pro-billionaire propaganda but I would bet actual money that I’m right.
Like from Trump’s perspective all the territorial aggression is this at some level, right?
He wants to be a president who came into office with the US having one shape and left with it having another.
January 6, 2026 at 4:27 AM
Like from Trump’s perspective all the territorial aggression is this at some level, right?
I had someone last week in my mentions talking about how we should gas the rurals and he literally said “utopia for my friends, for the rest nothing,” and wherever he believed himself to be coming from ideologically, there lay a fascist.
Something way more people need to internalize and help their friends understand is that the *only* politics and culture that you can reproduce using pile-ons, networked harassment, doxxing, death threats and the like is a fascist one. It doesn’t matter what you think your motivations or politics are
Losers decided to do gamergate but pretend wokely 🤦
January 6, 2026 at 4:14 AM
I had someone last week in my mentions talking about how we should gas the rurals and he literally said “utopia for my friends, for the rest nothing,” and wherever he believed himself to be coming from ideologically, there lay a fascist.
The first year of Trump’s second term has done significantly more damage to our position on the world stage than all four of his first put together.
It’s genuinely wild that the United States spent decades building an elaborate rules-based international order which de facto cemented its permanent status as the dominant global hegemon, sustained by ideology rather than might, and now is just blowing it all up for literally no reason
January 6, 2026 at 3:54 AM
The first year of Trump’s second term has done significantly more damage to our position on the world stage than all four of his first put together.
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It’s genuinely wild that the United States spent decades building an elaborate rules-based international order which de facto cemented its permanent status as the dominant global hegemon, sustained by ideology rather than might, and now is just blowing it all up for literally no reason
January 6, 2026 at 12:35 AM
It’s genuinely wild that the United States spent decades building an elaborate rules-based international order which de facto cemented its permanent status as the dominant global hegemon, sustained by ideology rather than might, and now is just blowing it all up for literally no reason
Pathetic losers. Trump, Hannity, Machado, all of them. This idea that we’ve got to give this 80 year old baby a special prize he didn’t earn so he doesn’t get mad, my god.
Hannity: Did you at any point offered to give him the Nobel peace prize?
Machado: It hasn’t happened yet. We want to give it to him. Share it with him.
Machado: It hasn’t happened yet. We want to give it to him. Share it with him.
January 6, 2026 at 3:29 AM
Pathetic losers. Trump, Hannity, Machado, all of them. This idea that we’ve got to give this 80 year old baby a special prize he didn’t earn so he doesn’t get mad, my god.
So what’s up with like Congress and having laws about obligated funding and stuff?
BREAKING: The Trump administration is suspending $10 billion intended for child care and poor families in five blue states.
www.axios.com/2026/01/05/t...
www.axios.com/2026/01/05/t...
Trump administration to freeze billions in childcare funding in five states
The White House is pointing to reports of social services fraud in Minnesota to threaten funding for child care around the country.
www.axios.com
January 6, 2026 at 3:26 AM
So what’s up with like Congress and having laws about obligated funding and stuff?
9YO up and decided to draw this tonight.
January 6, 2026 at 2:56 AM
9YO up and decided to draw this tonight.