Remember when Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump’s lawyer, Alan Dershowitz, wrote an op-ed trying to justify having sex with kids? Seems relevant now.

Now that Bari Weiss pulled a segment telling the truth about Trump's deportations to let Stephen Miller have his say (i.e. spread propaganda), it's a good time to check out our deep dive into Miller's real worldview and agenda, which doesn't pull any punches: newrepublic.com/article/2041...

He's a very sick man.

Finally a ruling from this Supreme Court that makes clear what all patriotic Americans know: No Kings.

The American people deserve to know the truth—did Tom Homan accept a bribe from undercover FBI agents or not? Despite what the government claims, his personal interests are not more important than the American people.

20 State AGs have sued Russell Vought for trying to starve the CFPB of funding. Since 2011, the CFPB has returned over $20B to consumers. Without the Bureau, financial predators and scammers will have an easier time picking your pocket.

you have to imagine that this probably also happens when there doesn't happen to be a Herald reporter randomly sitting there to see it happen

I’m not letting California sit back while science is attacked. I helped lead a 2026 ballot measure to protect research, innovation, and the people who depend on it. As your Congressman I will keep standing up to Trump, defending science, and fighting relentlessly for our future as I always have.

Kash lied to congress.

Things are really not good around the North Pole. Anomalous warmth continues, alongside record low #Arctic sea ice conditions. Nearly every time I check the data, there seems to be yet another new record this fall. More graphics: zacklabe.com/arctic-tempe...

3/ I archived the article where Mark Lutter discussed Venezuela. Here’s the link. web.archive.org/web/20251223...

This struck me too. As Anne Applebaum doesn’t mention, she wrote a classic history of the Gulag.

DOJ responds to the alleged Epstein letter to Nassar:

Trump says affordability is a “hoax.” Cool. Someone tell my grocery store, my electric bill, and the $7 strawberries. Scott Perry voted for the tariffs making your holidays more expensive. This isn’t a hoax. It’s a choice. And he made it.

1 - the exec branch can't decline to spend $ Congress appropriated 2- the fed govt can't use federal $ to extort states over policy/political disagreements 3-the fed govt can't use federal $ to impose conditions unrelated to the funding program 4-the fed govt can't use federal $ to coerce states

NYT shows how Bari Weiss really screwed this up. She didn't attend any of the 5 screenings of the story, which began on Dec. 12. She only first weighed in on Thursday, and the show incorporated her suggestions. She then waited until weekend to ask for more edits. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/b...

Trump orders 30 Biden-appointed ambassadors to return home threatening gaps abroad

Trump’s problem is that so many Americans — including his MAGA base — believed that he’d expose a powerful global elite. But every day it's becoming more and more clear that Trump is part of that global elite. Expect him to lash out as the walls close in.

I’m skeptical about that letter Epstein supposedly attempted to send to Larry Nasser, and I’m worried that if it turns out to be fake, it’ll be used to discredit + undermine otherwise credible evidence. Can we all pump the brakes on it until it’s verified by a handwriting expert?

Suggestion regarding Trump-Epstein: Don't focus on finding a smoking gun. There's already so much smoke. Most unconvinced by already-public evidence are cultists who'll deny forever (or like it). The goals should be truth, justice for victims, and an appalled scandal drumbeat that never goes away.

31/ Tech Bros think of institutions as “parallel” even if all they do is buy what someone else built & ruin it. X is a prime example & appears on Balaji’s chart. My guess is that they now think of CBS as “parallel media.” (They previously funded Bari Weiss’s Free Press on Substack). Next up: TikTok.

What’s happening with American media, American education, and America’s approach to places like Greenland & Honduras harmonizes with the “network state” movement (backed by Thiel, Lonsdale, Andreessen, etc), which calls for the construction of “parallel institutions” and “parallel societies”. 1/

CBS pulled the 60 Minutes CECOT segment, but Canada aired it anyway. The segment was streaming via Global TV and YouTube (since taken down). Having a VPN set to Canada helped. 🇨🇦 My take, there is no reason we shouldn’t see this. Most of it was known information, easily searchable. 1/5

This is a strong video that explains a lot of the nuance here. You can also watch the original, longer version, over on TikTok. 2/3 www.tiktok.com/t/ZTrvPF5TJ/

“He raped me.” “Donald J Trump had raped her along with Jeffrey Epstein.” “She was found with her head ‘blown off’… there was no way it was a suicide.” Now we’re starting to see why Trump was hiding the Epstein files, and it probably gets much worse.

Educate yourself as to what Peter Thiel and his elite associates are planning to do worldwide. Follow@jennycohn and prepare to open your eyes and let your jaw drop! bsky.app/profile/jenn...

4/ Peter Thiel and DOGE advisor Marc Andreessen are close with Curtis Yarvin aka Mencius Moldbug who wrote the following. bsky.app/profile/jenn...

1/ Peter Thiel-who backs the "network state" movement & the construction of charter cities—wrote a preface for "The Sovereign Individual," a book that states in part as follows:

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5/ Notice that Emergent Ventures and the Thiel Fellowship are included on this slide from Balaji Srinivasan’s “network state” conference. h/t @sf_mils on X.

4/ Link to Freedom Cities white paper on the Charter Cities Institute website. chartercitiesinstitute.org/wp-content/u...

2/ Link: content.sitemasonry.gmu.edu/news/2018-07...

Follow the money: In 2018, Tyler Cowen’s Emergent Ventures—launched that year with $1M from the THIEL FOUNDATION—bestowed a grant upon the Center for Innovative Governance Research DBA the “Charter Cities Institute” founded by Mark Lutter who is now a top proponent of Trump “FREEDOM CITIES”. 1/

“[W]e’re putting out a white paper looking at Venezuela … assuming this transfer of power does go through … And if you can get charter cities to be part of the conversation,” there is “opportunity there.” - Mark Lutter of the Charter Cities Institute, 3/31/19 80000hours.org/podcast/epis...

In Georgia, a mom facing eviction reached out to DFCS for help. They offered her nothing. Soon the agency took her kids away because of "inadequate housing." The state then paid *$6,200 a month* to house her kids in foster care. One of the most important and infuriating stories I read this year:

Heritage Guide to the Constitution? Must have been quite short: Step 1: Buy gasoline Step 2: Buy matches Step 3: Put Constitution on ground Step 4: Douse with gasoline Step 5: Light match

Trump and Stephen Miller kidnapped innocent people of color and just sent them to die in a foreign prison. Oh American taxpayer dollars - 6 million of them - went to pay Bukele of El Salvador for this dirty work.

If you're a staffer at 60 Minutes who worked on that CECOT segment that got yanked by Bari Weiss at the last minute, figure out a way to leak it. Not saying it's an easy decision or there won't be consequences, but ask yourself why you got into journalism in the first place.

So Bari Weiss’s first real editorial intervention at CBS is to repress coverage of American concentration camps.

A hateful appeal to intolerance, all the more loathsome because he knows exactly what he's doing

Expect a "revolt" among 60 Minutes staff over Bari Weiss pulling the CECOT segment at the last minute, one network insider told me. Another CBS News reporter added that a Rubicon had been crossed with this decision, which 60 Minutes correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi called "political" and not editorial.

As long as we can’t see the 60 minutes episode, I figured I’d reup this little chestnut (have to wonder whether this underreported angle featured in the segment) open.substack.com/pub/asharang...

Why did CBS delete this promo and cancel this from airing in full?

Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

In Moscow, they call her “our girl Tulsi” for a reason.

Oh there’s Mike Johnson. Let’s ask him about The Epstein Files.

Mike Johnson has lost control of the House, as we continue to push through petitions to force the votes he tries so hard to run from. Congress may be closed for the Holiday, but their inboxes aren’t. Let’s flood them with messages and urge them to vote yes on extending ACA tax credits!

This photo has been removed from the DOJ Epstein webpage. By whom? For whom?