This is what it took to shame Kristi Noem into letting an Irish green card holder who bouncing $80 in 2 checks 10 years ago free after 5 months in detention: A veteran, Trump-voting spouse 9 US descendants Letter signed by 18 Senators 30 character witnesses www.star-telegram.com/news/nation-...

The Dao Prize was made up for them. It had never been awarded before. This year it went to the staff of the Federalist for their work on the “Russia Collusion Hoax” daoprize.org/award-winners/

trump admin sanctions are outrageous and purposeful: 1. ensure europe doesn't regulate their political allies on the right, enabling space for incitement, disinfo, propaganda. 2. promote muskian/big tech lawlessness 3. distract from its unprecedented domestic repression of speech

Thanks to the new MAGA ban on the import of all new foreign drones, and thus on all even somewhat affordable drones, this may be the last real American Drone Crashmas for a very long time.

No one deserves a dedicated hotline more than this man.

The least requested “six seven” scenario

Lee Greenwood has never been more in demand. apnews.com/article/kenn...

So I have the cover story in next month's TNR. I interviewed the heads of police groups; immigration defense attorneys, ex-judges and ex-prosecutors; former DOJ and DHS officials, and the former head of Border Patrol. They're all horrified at what we've seen, and they all fear what's coming.

Quick explainer I did last night for the other apps. Please watch and share- the Trump administration is trying to bury this arbitrary and cruel restriction of our colleagues’ rights during the holidays. Don’t let them.

I would rather have an actual TdA gang member in my home than Kegseth. First, I'll spend less on booze, and second, the TdA guy has murdered fewer people.

Axios has learned the White House has begun managing the DOJ's account on X to respond to posts highlighting mentions of Trump in the Epstein files. In typical administrations, there is a wall between the White House and what is supposed to be an independent Justice Department.

There are a lot of hot takes out there about BW/ CBS including credulous pieces that maybe just maybe censoring news was a good idea. What?! But this from @sulliview.bsky.social is spot on. If she says you screwed up, you screwed up. Bari, take note. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

In all, Dayana, a U.S. Citizen, was stopped three different times in roughly the same area of Key Largo and around the same time of day NOV 7: Dayana is stopped, her husband, the passenger, is detained and taken by #immigration agents NOV 15: Dayana is stopped, then let go DEC 3: This happened 👇

The American government is banning regulators from other countries at the request of the richest man in the world, in a display that confirms they will punish any country not willing to sell their digital sovereignty as cheaply as the US has www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/t...

Official data is in today, and US solar continues to grow rapidly, with generation up 21% compared to last year!

People who think evil, corrupt, and incompetent don’t go together have it backwards. Instead of looking to Hollywood to explain real world evil, look to Hannah Arendt. Uncorrupt people of integrity won’t do evil. And evil leaders work to elevate incompetents because that helps ensure their loyalty.

greatest generation update; ex-Marine traumatised in combat on Okinawa may have been both the Black Dahlia perpetrator *and* the Zodiac killer: www.latimes.com/california/s...

Proud Boy leader & convicted/pardoned seditious conspirator Enrique Tarrio tweeted out a link to an hour long video by a white nationalist in which she and her co-host read Chapter 2 of Mein Kampf aloud. At the end, their gloss was that even Hitler wasn't totally bought in on hating Jews, at first.

This is where he starts making noises (again) about naming himself Fed Chair.

cartoonishly evil, completely corrupt and bumbling incompetence are, like, *the* defining traits *and trifecta* of this entire stupid era

NEW: A variety of military and intelligence contractors have already signed on to help ICE's immigrant bounty hunter program. A review of procurement data shows 10 companies stand to make up to *ONE BILLION* dollars from the program by 2027. theintercept.com/2025/12/23/i...

I got the names and details, hence the article has been rewritten www.onestnetwork.com/post/u-s-vis...

We all know Neil’s mom briefly (and badly) ran the EPA under Reagan, but did you know he’s also related to the Colorado skiing clan that sells jackets like this to rich people. Neat family.

Brett Kavanaugh (September 2025): The facts and how they relate to the law don’t matter. Assume ICE and other federal forces always act with integrity, always respect rights, and consistently impose minimal burden. Brett Kavanaugh (December 2025): Should I not have done that? Was that wrong?

I count 10 cities in 2025 that are on track to have the fewest murders since at least 1970. Newark is on pace to have the fewest murders since 1956 (though only have data through Oct this year) and San Francisco is on pace to have the fewest murders since 1942.

In case people tell you that public criticism of the court doesn’t matter, here’s Brett Kavanaugh trying to walk back what he said in the ICE roving patrol case - when he blessed racial profiling & called the stops prompt. He was lambasted; @akalhan.bsky.social coined the term “Kavanaugh stops”

This is as easy a test of your belief in the American system as is conceivable: Should this be an acceptable argument from a president?

The “free speech” and “cancel culture” panics have led to overt state censorship because that was always their purpose. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

At 1pm PT today, I'll offer a brief (30 min) pop-up live update regarding the pair of very strong/high-impact storms which will bring major flash flood risk to SoCal/LA area tomorrow, plus the possibility of severe thunderstorms nearly statewide. #CAwx

Worth noting that the student admits that she just threw the thing together in 30 minutes without reading the paper she was supposed to be responding to.

“.. More than 42 million Americans hold student loans.” @cnbc.com www.cnbc.com/2025/12/23/s...

yes yes yes it was so good Mr President sir! absolutely it should be your full time job! much better than the presidency! the whole administration would make wonderful hosts actually! I’m always saying this

Scoop: The lone employee behind CISA's Pre-Ransomware Notification Initiative resigned on Friday rather than take a forced reassignment to FEMA. CISA says PRNI will continue, but sources said David Stern's loss will be a major setback for it. My story: www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/cisa-ra...

WASHINGTON (AP) - US consumer confidence falls again in December, sinking to the lowest level since Trump's tariff rollout in April. @apnews.com #ConferenceBoard

It’s interesting that the administration wants you to know that Bari Weiss is in league with them.

“There’s no worse feeling than knowing that you’re next.”

Real question: if he agreed to leave the presidency to become a full time emcee, would you allow the Kennedy Center’s new name to become permanent*? Also, why is he talking about leaving the presidency. *until 6/14/1946 - ??/??/????

no but seriously this is the sort of thing that would get you no-knocked by the secret service like a decade ago and now it's just an entire sub-genre of gift idea for the maga-verse. we are fully through the l̶o̶o̶k̶i̶n̶g̶ drinking glass.

Year 1 data on congestion pricing in Manhattan… * Vehicle traffic: -11% * Foot traffic: +3.4% * Storefront vacancy: -0.9% * Pollution: -22% * Revenue for mass transit: $548M So YES this has been a huge success.

A couple thoughts on reading this: - Epstein was a snake who when he wrote this in 2019 knew trying to make his links to Trump prominent would be an embarrassment for the admin, so it’s possible this was an elaborate ruse to seek a better plea deal. - Jesus Christ this is bad.

NEWS: Congresswoman Joyce Beatty sues Trump to block the renaming of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Read the complaint: washingtonlitigationgroup.org/news/new-law...

All of these bootlegged copies of the 60 Minutes segment flooding my feed (saying, ‘Watch it quick! Before it disappears!’) makes me feel like I’m in the Soviet Union and just got some black market foreign newspaper I need to hide under a floorboard in my house. This is where America is now

Trump's Gallup job approval rating now is 7 points below where Biden's was at the same point in their terms. Trump's 36% job approval rating matches Biden's all-time low (during the 3 weeks after their 2024 debate). news.gallup.com/interactives...

For many Black families, the American dream of home ownership isn’t stability, it’s survival. She’s raising money through GoFundMe to help rebuild her home. www.gofundme.com/f/help-rebui...

woof

Americans having to bootleg broadcast news about our government’s offshored concentration camp is a level of fascism that immediately precedes democratic societies dropping leaflets on us from weather balloons.

This is just so freaking fascist. These people are unapologetic irredeemable Nazis.