Following an outcry over costly tickets, FIFA has announced a new batch of cut-price tickets for all matches up to the final.

Christie's is auctioning off some things from Jimmy Carter's estate. Included are some things from his wardrobe (ties, peanut scarves, cowboy hat) and furniture he personally made. Auction starts in two weeks.

I'm my state having the phone in your hand is illegal, but of course the little mounts aren't. I see people scrolling Instagram on the highway all the goddamn time

In many places, the law has been so poorly updated with time that it actually is perfectly legal to use a phone while driving unless you are texting. Cops in my area do not even try to enforce any distracted driving laws because they “can’t prove people were specifically texting” absolute nightmare

Joe Rogan confuses chickenpox with measles—also doesn’t know that measles wipes out your immune system’s memory to fight other germs: ❌"Measles was what everyone got when I was a kid…“❌ WRONG.

WASH POST: “Corporate bankruptcies surged in 2025, rivaling levels not seen since the immediate aftermath of the Great Recession, as import-dependent businesses absorbed the highest tariffs in decades.” www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

NIGERIA STRIKE BLUF: Operation Loomer-Minaj $20 Million Wiffleball - Swing & a Miss. Joba Sokoto State has no recent history of ISWAP & are happy Christian/Moslems. 3 of 12 missiles did not detonate. Near misses on local hospital. No casualties.

Fascism.

A day after part of a missile fired by the US hit their village, landing just meters from its only medical facility, the people of Jabo are in a state of shock and confusion villagers say Jabo is not known for terrorist activity and that local Christians coexist peacefully with the Muslim majority

All of the money that changed hands in the Teapot Dome scandal totaled less than $10 million after adjusting for inflation, and it was considered so corrupt we still teach it in high school government classes a century later.

Corruption so pungent, it wafts right off the page: Lobbyists who do pardon deals “say their going rate is $1 million. Pardon-seekers have offered some lobbyists close to the president success fees of as much as $6 million if they can close the deal.” Gift link www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

America's richest 10% now hold 60% of the nation's wealth. The bottom half of America? It holds just 6%. Wealth inequality is eating this country alive.

For a post on big gaps in reporting on Stephen Miller's reign this year, I went to Wikipedia to see if IT cited some of the articles I remember but couldn't find. It incorporates almost none of the abundant reporting on Miller from this year. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen...

Russia is a terrorist state and anyone who supports this or praises Putin is reprehensible This is what Ukrainians have to go through every single damn day

They’re again advocating against Denmark when it comes to Greenland

Hundreds of residents signed up for FEMA buyouts after Hurricane Helene. Not one has been approved.

NEW EPISODE: Cory Booker and I discuss the real and growing threats to American democracy. He warns that rising costs, collapsing trust in institutions, authoritarian abuses of power, and the politics of cruelty are driving cynicism and disengagement.

"Her family has now been told she has been deported, despite US District Judge Brendan Hurson ruling Thursday that she could not be deported pending a hearing...attorneys said Monday that they have...confirm[ed] with the hospital she was born in Maryland." https://bit.ly/3MMdJvz

"Russia only attacks military targets"

WATCH — @rokhanna.bsky.social : “Over 1200 survivors raped or abused, and you have rich and powerful men doing this - and this country did nothing.” (H/T @cwebbonline.com )

👀👆CRUELTY www.league.org.uk/news-and-res...

It’s the Boxing Day Hunt, Nigel Farage thinks packs of hounds should chase a fox and tear it to shreds.

🇨🇳‼️🇺🇦 I have not yet seen China's willingness to join the peace track, on the contrary - they have increased the volume of imports of Russian energy resources, - Zelensky "We always wanted China, and it is capable, to put pressure on Russia to stop this war. China did not do this, unfortunately."

This is Kyiv this morning. Russia yet again demonstrates its aspirations for peace by bombing apartment buildings and civilian infrastructure.

Meanwhile, Russia with the world's largest stockpile of nuclear weapons is waging a hot war in Europe...

JD VANCE THINKS BRITAIN & FRANCE ARE AMERICAS LIKELY ENEMIES. The world is getting bizarrely screwed with this kind of bull being spewed out.

When I wasn't happy with big law, I built my own law firm to protect democracy. When I saw what corporate overlords were doing to the media, I decided to build Democracy Docket. But I need your help for it to grow and thrive. Support its 22 person team by becoming a member today. hubs.ly/Q03CbHTt0

Denis Kapustin, founder and commander of the Russian Volunteer Corps, was killed overnight on the Zaporizhzhia front. According to the unit, he died while carrying out a combat mission, preliminary reports point to an FPV drone strike.

Good morning, world — greetings from the shelter as Kyiv continues to endure a barbaric russian bombardment.

Footage from Kyiv shows the moment a drone strikes a residential high rise in the Pozniaky district. Another direct and deliberate attack on civilian housing.

California High-Speed Rail Authority terminated Its lawsuit against Trump admin seeking to restore the $4 b the admin cut from the project, “reflecting the state's "assessment that the federal govt is not a reliable, constructive, or trustworthy partner in advancing high-speed rail in California."”

Phang: If that happened in January, how in the actual hell is Blanche now telling the American people that they suddenly discovered a million more documents? GTFOH. As far back as January, the entirety of the Epstein files were transferred to Main Justice at DOJ…

Artists are jumping ship because they added a feature to use Grok in the app to edit other people's pictures. It also does not credit the original post in any way and even automatically removes watermarks

When Italians came to this country, they were considered racially inferior and white society did not believe they could assimilate into US culture bc they were overwhelmingly Catholic.

The DOJ is trying to get all your individualized voter data (including SS number, DOB, current and previous addresses, voting records, etc.) in order to intimidate and undermine elections. Please listen to this and re-post on all your social media. Email this video to you friends & family members.

The fired Cinnabon employee who was rewarded financially by MAGA donors after going on a racist tirade has been posting bizarre product reviews videos for all the stuff she has been buying. This is Trump’s America.

The headline in this version put it this way: ‘steal’ <— 😡 But in the BODY of the article: “… the woman was shocked to see them not only pocket the man’s cellphone, but also start looting the groceries he had just purchased from the store." www.inquisitr.com/masked-ice-a...

ICE detain father shopping on Christmas Eve—then steal his family's groceries. Then 3 agents divvy up his paid for food—taking what they want for themselves. "Can I just get the wife's number to call and let her know?" woman asks. "No, guess he should've complied," agent says. Yakima, Washington

PARDONS FOR SALE Trump has turned presidential pardons into a shopping experience, with lobbyists openly quoting a going rate of $1 million and a faster “track” if you can corner him at Mar-a-Lago or a White House event.

Texas A&M University will not reinstate a lecturer who was fired after a video of her teaching about gender identity in a children’s literature class went viral, despite a faculty appeals panel unanimously concluding that her dismissal was not justified.

New in PN: Trumpers are *still* scheming to overturn the 2020 election "Trump’s conspiracy theories, threats, & endless lawsuits aren’t simply about proving non-existent fraud in 2020. They’re part of an *actual* sprawling plan to sow doubt in future elections — specifically, ones Republicans lose"

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 I filmed the @SDNY press conference when #Epstein was arrested. Geoffrey Berman stated exactly what was confiscated by the FBI when they raided Epstein’s mansion. Tapes, hard drives, 1700 photos on the walls. They fired Berman not long after www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZHc...

Seems bad

Swaths of the Permian Basin appear to be on the cusp of geological malfunction. www.wsj.com/business/ene...

Have worked psych units on the holidays and can confirm a decent number of patients are happier to be there than with their families.

This is Kristina Solovyova. Russian terrorists killed her in Zhytomyr striking residential buildings with drones on December 23. She was only 4🕯

At the current rate, DOJ will be finished releasing the Epstein files in July, 2030* *15,000 documents/30,000 pages per month, provided they're being honest about how many documents they have.