to be clear: Jesus also said denying help to the poor is rejecting God.

merry Christmas!

wow, was he DB Cooper too? was he Grassy Knoll Guy? was he Jack The Ripper. amazing

thinking of the fugitive slave act and people who profited from it

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what a useless heap of shit

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funny to think Bari would be unemployed already if her bosses were not somehow even dumber than she is

the principles, you say

really cannot be emphasized enough that bari weiss has literally never done journalism. i don’t mean that in the pejorative sense. i mean that in the “has never performed the job she was hired to do” sense

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CBS paid the president of the United States millions in bribe money and now they censor news reports so it does not annoy him. I don’t know how much plainer we can put this.

7 Dems joined House Republicans in voting for a bill that would enable ICE agents to strip search 12-year-olds. Henry Cuellar (TX-28) Don Davis (NC-01) Laura Gillen (NY-04) Jared Golden (ME-02) Vicente Gonzalez (TX-34) Adam Gray (CA-13) Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (WA-03)

This Yglesias piece in the NYT is horrifically bad. Almost every "fact" it cites is provably false. At best it is cocktail party banter from a pundit who knows nothing of energy. At worst, it was cut/paste from oil industry talking points. So, a rebuttal: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/o...

gonna thread some blogs i did in 2025 that i’m happy with

Hey, so. The world is awful, etc. And because of that, I'd like to ask a favor: Please spend a few minutes between now and New Years sharing the work you were most proud of this year. People might have missed it, but also, it's nice to see people feel good about the work they do

🎶The Free Press can go straight to hell Hurrah Hurrah Take CBS News with you Hurrah Hurrah Bari Weiss And Larry Ellison Can go directly to hellison Things will Be somewhat better With all those creeps in hell🎵

I love my two blackout drunk Minnesota sons

A lot of once-unionized journalists have been forced to go independent on a bunch of platforms so we will have to organize the people on the platforms. I predict. www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/more...

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@oversightdemocrats.house.gov hi, I have a question about the tranche of Epstein photographs released today; is there someone i could speak with via phone or email who might be able to shed any light on the photographed event at which both Epstein and NYT columnist David Brooks appeared?

Like you could open a factory that does nothing except fill swimming pools with water and vaporize them with a high powered laser and it would still somehow be a net water savings if the land you built it on replaced an almond farm.

Americans are tired of what coastal elites have been shoving down their throats, so I think elevating fresh voices like the vice president, the head of one of the most valuable companies on the planet, a Times columnist, and a Jeffrey Epstein associate who teaches at Harvard is a risk worth taking.

I read American Canto and I think it’s wonderful. haha jk

I did a deep dive last night and it boils down to: very independent daughter tells clingy AF mom that she doesn’t need to travel to Australia for her wedding bc she’ll be having a party in the US too, mom keeps insisting otherwise until daughter insists she can’t come but will see her in the US

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a great goddamn blog, here www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/abominatio...

The pair of agents restrained a woman on the ground as a crowd gathered near Pillsbury and Lake Street. Videos show them dragging her on the road towards their vehicle as protesters hurled insults and snowballs. The agents eventually left her in the street as they hurried to their vehicle.

Counterpoint: Trump's reaction to Reiner is actually good because he just guaranteed that the party is gonna be an 11/10 when The Big Day comes.

Primary them all and block anybody who comes with the “at this crucial juncture the most important thing is that we win.” if they believed that they wouldn’t do this and with friends like them nobody needs enemies

like his complaint is literally that there are people who believe in things, believe those things are right, and believe in those things regardless of whether they are popular.

It is important to promise, now, that whatever Trump builds at the White House will be torn down as soon as he leaves. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/if-he-buil...

loath to be too precious about this stuff but I want one lesson of defector to be "you can choose to not do stuff that sucks" even if "doing stuff that sucks" is the default

shoutout to the crowd that insisted it was a political loser to stand up for abrego garcia’s rights

The democrats allowed transphobia to be enacted in to law so they could give Trump 900 billion dollars just as he is flirting with invading Venezuela. Something something good governance resistance etc.

life in the 2020s provides a really incredible bounty of opportunities to use the words "evil" and "satanic"

hm. that is not at all how i recall the reaction to this trade in 2013

i will probably keep saying some variation of this because its inevitably going to happen but dems campaigning on “reform ice” need to be met with the same reaction as a someone asking if they can kick your child in the head

washington post reporter code-switching on twitter and bluesky like a key & peele sketch

Frank Gehry, 1929–2025 www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/a...

"more children should die" is a cornerstone tenet of American conservatism

focusing on the second strike and its legality or illegality begs the question of the first strike being legal

Pantone's 2026 Color Of The Year Is 'Not'

Pretty insulting to have her peers insist to us that she's a great writer. She's not even a mediocre writer, she's exceptionally bad. Have some self-respect for god's sake

Liver cancer prevention in children. That is what RFK Jr trying to "scale back on" today. He is a monster.