Man found dead in tanning bed at Planet Fitness in Indianapolis 3 days after he walked into the gym An investigation is underway to determine what led to the death of a man whose body was found inside a tanning bed three days after he entered a Planet Fitness in Indianapolis.

If your gym smells like a dead body, skip your workout. www.fox4news.com/news/man-fou...

Democratic turnout plummeted in 2024 — but only in safe states | Semafor In four battleground states, Kamala Harris got more votes than Joe Biden. Donald Trump grew his votes even more.

Ah look, @daveweigel.bsky.social wrote up this very point

www.semafor.com/article/11/1...

The maps of swings in urban areas are masking (at least in NYC) enormous turnout decline. As much if not more a story about voters staying home as flipping to Trump.

And I never quote the Bible but if one thing seems true it’s this ⬇️

Clown President-elect’s presidency will be a disaster like you have never seen before.

For what it’s worth? I quit Facebook cold turkey about a month after Trump won. I never go back. I remember Twitter feeling awful because I didn’t quite get how it worked. I think we gotta stick with it and we will get the hang of it. It will improve too.

I really do think it's Prager at Education

Screen shot from scrubs where JD, Turk, and Elliot are all looking off camera confused.

watching cabinet appointments get announced like

I eat and I take prescription medication. Can I be commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration?

So glad I found you on here! I know this crap is so damn hard. We are in such a mess. But glad I found you and Frieda here. Take care of yourself.

but what about the norms

Bluesky has officially hit #1 on the App Store charts for Free Apps in both the UK and US.

Context: Elon Musk dislikes Scientific American’s editorial perspectives on social and climate justice, and has been fanning a targetted harassment campaign this week in an effort to silence the magazine.

It appears to have worked.

He looks like if Tommy Lee Jones ate Sponge Bob.

Anyone else having Tuesday night PTSD cuz of last week

Trump creating "MAGA Military" with purge of generals, veterans group warns Trump's transition team is considering a draft executive order that would establish a "warrior board" to review top generals.

Trump is going to fire generals who are not loyalists - turning the military into an enforcement arm of Trump.

He's going to turn the military against American citizens . . . and it's terrifying.

But eggs are expensive.
www.newsweek.com/trump-creati...

‘Fund the Police’ Backfired—and Gave Trump More Power Than Ever Democrats spent the last four years running away from police reform and instead chanted "fund the police." They lost.

Wrote about how four years of “Fund the Police!” did zero for the Democrats except legitimize GOP talking points, depress Dem voter turnout, hand Trump a well-funded police state, and make the world a crueler, more violent place. An abject failure. theappeal.org/fund-the-pol...

This comic remains undefeated

We live in hell
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

A 13-Year-Old With Autism Got Arrested After His Backpack Sparked Fear. Only His Stuffed Bunny Was Inside. Disability rights advocates said kids like Ty should not be getting arrested under Tennessee’s school threats law. And they tried to push for a broader exception for kids with other kinds of disabilit...

“I think they thought an actual bomb was in my backpack,” 13-year-old Ty told ProPublica and WPLN News.

But he didn’t have a bomb.

“It was just this, right here,” he said, holding his stuffed bunny Bonnie. “And they still took me to jail.”

Meanwhile, over at hellsite:

Disturbing scenario: Trump will take credit for the recovery that is being handed to him, then say his anti-immigrant agenda is driving it.

As @pkrugman.bsky.social points out, Dems leaving GOPers good economies is the story of our politics.

Our exchange on this:
newrepublic.com/article/1883...

After EVERYTHING Biden did for America in the last four years.

He was judged by ONE debate.

Trump speaks on Elon Musk Trump’s speech during the House GOP conference meeting touched on Elon Musk, the tech billionaire who has frequently been with the president-elect since last week’s election, according to a source in the room. “Elon won’t go home. I can’t get rid of him. Until I don’t like him,” Trump said.

Had to check that this was real and it is

thehill.com/homenews/hou...

Disturbing prediction from @pkrugman.bsky.social: If Trump's deportations really happen, inflation will spike, then MAGA loyalists will corrupt government info to mask it.

For autocrats, he says, "among their first targets are statistical agencies."

Our exchange:
newrepublic.com/article/1883...

Dear large accounts coming over from Twitter:
Follow back small accounts.
Make this a better experience for everyone.
You never know, you might enjoy rubbing elbows with the hoi polloi.

Oh boy, that last post

As many have pointed out, Dems faced the same environment that has been taking out incumbent parties everywhere.

A big part of this, however, is that Trump was allowed to rehabilitate himself and his first term relatively unchallenged by the media.

newrepublic.com/article/1882...