Trump built MAGA by normalizing cruelty and dehumanizing anyone labeled an “enemy.” It has worked for him for a long time. Lately, though, it’s starting to backfire. thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/trump-crue...

NEW: Wading through nonstop redistricting news because 77 million people voted for a convicted felon who will happily demolish democracy to retain power was not on our 2025 moodboard. But it happened, and we’re recounting all of the chaos below👇 ✍️ @jenrice.bsky.social

British campaigner launches legal challenge against Trump administration after deportation threat

PFAS are called “forever chemicals” because they don’t break down easily, and they’re everywhere, from nonstick pans to drinking water. These compounds raise big questions about health & environmental safety. Dive into my short video for the chemistry behind PFAS! 🧪 youtu.be/UcClQzBqLzo

"It’s a Gas" by @billmckibben.bsky.social for New York Review of Books: www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

The combination of federal funding cuts and rising prices is making it difficult for many food pantries to meet rising needs. Please consider supporting your local food pantry during this busy holiday season.

This is John Roberts' America.

12/25/2025- 'Twas the Night Before Christmas www.timesfreepress.com/news/2025/de...

Andrew Otazo has plucked, bagged, heaved and hauled more than 17 tons of trash from the mangroves in Florida. Every piece of garbage he removes reclaims space for what should be there: bird nesting grounds and fish nurseries. https://wapo.st/4oS36Vx

Northern California's largest healthcare provider will continue gender-affirming care for youth after their families spoke out.

Two very different Christmas messages

You can spot the narcissist at any holiday or gathering: 1. They will make it about themselves. 2. They will disrupt your peace. 3. They will malign you in the process. Sadly, we made one our President, so holidays are going to be like this.

Trump to child from Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania is great, we won Pennsylvania, actually three times. We won it a landslide.

“I voted once for Trump in 2016 — I’ve learned right wing media is just a propaganda machine… ask yourself if the principles of this administration are actually in line with the teachings of Jesus. All they’re doing is exploiting the poor for the benefit of the billionaires.”

Ouch — the Trump-hosted Kennedy Center honors just did its “smallest audience ever”, roughly half of the previous record low

US justice department still has hundreds of thousands of Epstein files due to be released

"This should take him down." On TNL, @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social , @jvl.bsky.social and @timmiller.bsky.social talk just how bad the Epstein files are for Trump

Watch it here: lnk.thebulwark.com/4qoa0mj

How did it change you as a law school to give torture memo author and evident war criminal John Yoo a tenured professorship?

Is Trump mentally OK? A look back at the president’s unusual behavior in 2025

Donald Trump has been accused of holding a party for prostitutes at his Mar-a-Lago resort in yet another FBI file relating to sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.

Macron and EU condemn US visa bans as row over ‘censorship’ escalates

Trump starts his Christmas celebration by demanding that Larry Ellison "put Stephen Colbert to sleep," which sounds like a death sentence.

Every winter day in a Maine backyard, dozens of deer eat oats, apples and acorns from wooden troughs. Unbeknownst to the deer, four cameras live-stream their every move to thousands of people.

kavanaugh not beating the allegations that he’s a dumbass

"Of the 346 donors identified by the Times, at least 197 have benefited, or are in industries that have benefited, from policies or actions of Mr. Trump or his administration."    This is corruption in plain sight.    www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

CBS News has capitulated but Democracy Docket never will. I created it without any corporate backers or private equity investors. It's only accountable to its members who help support its 22-person team. Become one now. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0

CBS filed a copyright claim against my YouTube channel for posting Canada's version of the CECOT story that Bari Weiss killed—SO—I downloaded the transcript and read the transcript verbatim. Here it is. Please watch & share to fight fascism & censorship. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uRf...

Oh wow. I actually wrote this short story. badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/ban-220-de...

"It's the worst delivery of a joke that I've ever heard in my life. He's got nothing. He's got zero rizz." @timmiller.bsky.social, @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social and @jvl.bsky.social discuss JD Vance's appearance at AmericaFest and his overall political viability.

Ouch, that #SpinelessSpeaker Johnson quote. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

I’m sure this will be popular. 5 million people are in default right now. The Dept of Ed estimates as many as 10 million by end of next year because of job market.

As governor, I’ll build more housing and give the very people who keep us safe, teach our kids, and save lives a real shot at owning a home in the communities they serve.

Trump leaving his golf club yesterday as millions struggle to afford Christmas gifts

We're well past Ted Cruz demanding everyone say "radical Islamic terrorism"; straight-up anti-Muslim bigotry is going mainstream on the Trumpian right. The latest edition of Press Pass from @cheetah.bsky.social: lnk.thebulwark.com/3N1wawd

If we want an independent media that isn’t the plaything of oligarchs, we’re going to have to build it together. That's why were offering 30 days free right now for Bulwark+. Get it here: lnk.thebulwark.com/48QbKyS?utm_...

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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?

Study shows atmospheric rivers to become more dominant force of flooding in California: Heavy rain and flooding problems experienced in the Northwest in recent weeks will shift farther south into California through Christmas Day. #WetTribe #TidetotheOcean

A powerful “Pineapple Express” storm set to hit California this Christmas will bring heavy rain, flooding, and winds up to 80 mph (bomb cyclone), with flood watches across California, and the likely need for evacuations and rescues.

“A Pineapple Express is a strong flow of warm, moist air (an atmospheric river) originating near the Hawaiian Islands, and travelling at high speed across the Pacific Ocean to drench the West Coast of North America.”

Bari Weiss Praised El Salvador’s Dictator Before Spiking '60 Minutes' Story on His Torture Prison Weiss touted El Salvador’s leader while her blog published jokes about immigrants sent to CECOT, writes @premthakker.bsky.social @andrewperez.bsky.social @swin24.bsky.social: zeteo.com/p/bari-weiss...

The White House appears to have touched up Trump’s hand for their official Trump and Melania Christmas portrait

Bari Weiss' reporting experience is summed up by the time the NYT bizarrely gave her the cushiest possible assignment - go to Australia and hang out and write about it - and she produced a story so bad and so wrong about basic facts of Australian life that it became a running joke there.

Trump began this administration with an executive order attacking offshore wind. A federal court held it to be illegal. 🧵

The Best Political Cartoons of 2025 open.substack.com/pub/borowitz...

The DOJ is both acting like Trump’s personal attorney and protecting co-conspirators Bondi said didn’t exist

Community Note: Basic History Contradicts Trump on Greenland Trump suggests Americans discovered Greenland 50 years before the United States existed meidasnews.com/news/communi...

On left: Bari Weiss: 60 Minutes segment failed to show Government view that CECOT detainees are due judicial review On right: Judge Boasberg Dec 22: "The Government itself has not even contested that the detainees who now make up the CECOT class received inadequate process prior to their removal"