Abzeronow says Black Lives Matter and Trans Rights

Happy New Year. I don't give a shit about the 250th anniversary of the US this year but I'm glad 1930 works that fucking Nazis banned are now public domain. Please enjoy Betty Boop, The Blue Angel with antifa icon Marlene Dietrich, Nancy Drew's first books, Miss Marple's first novel.

When your toddler sees a bus and says “more more bus?”, thinking you can control the number of buses like you can give them more food. I wish.

RIP to an incredible actor, Alfred Bester is one of my all time favorite Lawful Evil villains

Over 2,000 alumni from Vivek’s all-boys catholic high school in Cincinnati have signed and circulated a petition demanding that he pull the ad and issue a public apology for “ignoring the moral responsibilities” of his Jesuit education. I think he’s pretty cooked.

Hey def a choice to write up "The President is credibly accused of a new rape" as "Dems call for special counsel to scrutinize ties" bsky.app/profile/ryan...

the biggest presidential scandal in history but the political media largely acts as if it's not happening. hasan piker has received more mainstream political media coverage over the last 6 months than trump's connections with epstein has

My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.

So GOP members of Congress are complaining their absurd defenses of the largest #Medicaid cuts in history still aren’t working (there are no cuts, they aren’t cuts because we’re only stopping fraud, ignore the cuts & look at the shiny new rural fund, & the new one here: they could have been worse).

Fuck.

NEW: "Donald Trump was an active participant in Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse of young women during the mid-to-late 1990s," per new House Judiciary Dem report. Report has new allegation that Trump raped a 24-year-old and then promised the victim a visa & NYU admission, demanding she stay quiet.

Look it's 2026 and I know "the president is a rapist" is already baked in to everyone's opinion but the president of the United States is a fucking rapist and I would really appreciate it if the media would treat this like the major earth-shattering scandal that it should be.

The long-serving strongman leader of Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic, has conceded defeat in an election that pitted him and his right-wing party against a diverse student-led opposition movement that spent two years protesting his government.

You've implied it, but to be clear: that episode was in 2007 (writing started early 2006) well before JKR and Roberts went mask off. It's also why "book 7", which wasn't out yet, gets a mention. And we dodged a much bigger bullet, thankfully: shannonsullivan.com/doctorwho/lo...

Meanwhile, pro-democracy, pro-Europe protesters in Tbilisi, Georgia, are tonight nearing their 700th consecutive day of protest against the pro-Russian government. They haven't missed a single day in the last 23 months.

None of us should forget this. Meta should be subjected to corporate death penalty and permanently broken up into small pieces.

Dredging up these elderly family members is a crime. His hate of those hi-jackers that killed his son has taken over his mind. This is elder abuse.

LAKSHYA HAS FALLEN I REPEAT LAKSHYA HAS FALLEN

"Tanks are worthless in Ukraine!" >Ukraine keeps asking for more armor and using it when they can >Russia is experimenting with APS and add-on armor that can withstand drone waves so they can resume maneuver warfare No one has learned anything from this war, have they?

GWOT brain makes Americans think "will take heavy casualties" means "obsolete." Not how big boy war works!

For anyone wondering, according to the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner, the cause was hypertensive cardiovascular disease, with other significant conditions being sleep apnea and Class 2 obesity. R.I.P.

It sounds like Trump thinks the “Taiwan problem” is Taiwan.

Lula won in part by banning online gambling

NEW: Ukrainian forces are making slow but tactically significant gains in the Oleksandrivka direction that may later threaten Russian logistics and efforts in the Oleksandrivka and Hulyaipole directions over the long term. Read more: isw.pub/UkrWar102526

reminder that the most terrifying animal in the world isn't even a carnivore

Lula wins fourth term as Brazil president after historic upset over far-right Flávio Bolsonaro

The ancient Egyptians were fucking TERRIFIED of hippos, for very good reason... If you were a fisherman, on the Nile, in a boat, and a hippo came up and smashed your boat... you were probably not going to be able to swim. And that hippo would gore you and your buddies to death and drag you around.

See? There is no secret “defeat fascism once and for all” belief system. You just do the work, every election. Far left, center left, it doesn’t matter. Learn the lesson: Stop pretending you’re special and just fucking vote for Democrats.

It’s with a sad and heavy heart that award-winning voice actor Eric Bauza suddenly passed at the age of 46 due to heart disease. Gone too soon but his legacy will live on especially for the #LooneyTunes characters he performed and countless others in animation.

Eric Bauza, the Emmy Award-winning voice actor of Looney Tunes characters Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck, has passed away suddenly. Bauza voiced Luke Skywalker in various LEGO Star Wars projects, EB-3 in Young Jedi Adventures, and Gorrak Wiles in Resistance.

I’m so happy that these were released and Eric was able to experience their massive success.

I started a new podcast about people who contribute to MediaWiki projects like #wikipedia called The Wikimedians. You can watch the first episode here: youtu.be/synUZxr_sgg My first guest is legendary developer and #union organizer Brooke Vibber!

Appropos of nothing: My favorite fun fact about Plato is that "Plato" was his wrestling pseudonym. It means "The Table", on account of his broad shoulders. Can you imagine? "The late 20th century philosopher, Macho Man Randy Savage, said..."

biggest surprise from the Lincoln bio I'm reading. The dude just loved to get into fistfights. He's cornered by a gang after beating their leader and yells: “I’m the big buck of this lick!” And they back down! Who knew the great emancipator had a little WWE in him?