Trump’s Tangled Web of Deal-Making, Policy and Riches An illustrated guide of the first year of profiteering. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

This post from @mollymckew.bsky.social is well worth your time...... I agree with her that one of the central failures of the West, and of Democrats in the US in particular, has been our struggle to understand the nature of the conflict we now find ourselves in.

This is a brilliant line that should make a lot of folks…in both parties…very uncomfortable. Yes. Good.

Open looting - directly providing favors and funds to Trump allies at the Kennedy Center's expense

This Jack Smith deposition makes one thing abundantly clear: If Donald Trump wasn’t re-elected, he’d be spending the rest of his life in prison. And he should be.

Zohran Mamdani sworn in as mayor of New York City www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... happy new years!

Artificial Insanity "New research estimates AI data centres could emit more CO₂ in 2025 than New York City, driven by the rapid growth of electricity-hungry AI systems" Data scientist Alex de Vries-Gao estimated AI-related emissions at 33-80 million CO₂ metric tons, more than countries like Chile"

Finnish police interdict a Russian cable cutting vessel red-handed in the Gulf of Finland. poliisi.fi/-/poliisi-tu...

Newsom’s comms shop keeps showing us the way forward. You must contest all spaces, 24/7/365.

Holy shit.

Here we go people! Please spread far and wide!

DC does not have a triumphal arch, despite all its other Roman architecture, because they are an imperial and not a republican symbol. They became reserved for the Caesars, and the Arc de Triomphe is a monument to Napoleon. If this dumb thing gets built, the only acceptable course is to demolish it.

Praise be.

❗️The US National Security Agency and the CIA have concluded that Ukraine did not attack Putin's residence on the night of December 29, — WSJ.

Jack Smith: “Our case was built on, frankly, Republicans who put their allegiance to the country before the party.” Trump also had a “pattern” of rejecting information that didn’t fit his false narrative.

As every fully functioning American knows, Jack Smith was right about everything. The lifelong criminal in the Oval Office staged a violent coup against the U.S. government. www.cnn.com/2025/12/31/p...

“What kind of country are we if our institutions allowed this.” Indeed. Now there’s a quote that can be applied not just to the Epstein sex trafficking & rape saga but to an endless list of horrific crimes by politicians and other powerful people as well. 👇Recommended watch.

New: We got an internal ICE document revealing its $100 million ad plan to bring in 14,000 new hires: deals with "tactical" influencers; ads to gun & military buffs; and geo-targeting phones around NASCAR races and gun shows. A "wartime recruitment" mode with paramilitary branding: wapo.st/44QrP5j

Increasingly it appears that Trump was a pimp.

Inspiration for the battle ahead youtu.be/aHF52LMaLdA?...

ICE goon admits to sexually abusing detainee for 3 straight months

Every single Arizona Republican voted to rip away your health care and instead give $170 billion to DHS and ICE. That money is now being funneled to private prison corporations to detain tens of thousands of human beings based on insane, fake quotas. It’s authoritarian and deeply corrupt.

Meet Aimee Bock, mastermind of Massive Minneapolis Minnesota fraud scheme. She lured Somalis into opening daycares & wellness centers promising millions in Fed Govt funding. Most never got paid, she kept $250M and they closed. Ain't no ICE issues. Somali's were the victims, whistleblowers.

Senator Bernie Sanders says he’ll be introducing a national wealth tax to emulate California’s — as billionaires park their yachts together for new year’s while health care premiums skyrocket for millions. Fighting this insane inequality isn’t radical. Defending it is.

A bill with bipartisan support to bring safe drinking water to people in Colorado is vetoed by Trump. Why? It appears he’s pressuring Colorado to free his crooked ally who is imprisoned for tampering with voting systems. Trump doesn’t give a crap about anything but his own money and power.

MErlin’s on it! @merlinmm.bsky.social @6cats4adomino.bsky.social @filosia.bsky.social @coko.bsky.social @gdad1x7.bsky.social @dpfrazier22.bsky.social @laurieagard.com @frankiemillie10.bsky.social @mrsdeborahlynn.bsky.social @jaybird54.bsky.social @sentenne.bsky.social @journeyled.bsky.social

Happy to have contributed to this week's @spiegel.de cover story. www.spiegel.de/ausland/wie-...

Link: macspaunday.substack.com/p/moscows-or...

Sarah Rogers, the State Department official who hectored Europeans about free speech, is seen here with a far-right German AfD deputy, Markus Frohnmaier, whom two Kremlin documents obtained by @spiegel.de described as "a parliamentarian under our absolute control." spiegel.de/politik/ausl...

@michaeldweiss.bsky.social Excellent interview with Michael Weiss regarding #Ukraine & Trump‘s dodgy negotiations with the Kremlin… youtu.be/QX1T0nmb6bU?...

Grateful for those few brave among us who lived this way in 2025.

No one cared when I wrote this, but it was obvious that this was always the plan: theconversation.com/donald-trump...

Authoritarian PT Barnum has arranged an outrageous stunt daily to control the public sphere. It's quite boring, actually.

"Please be kind enough to explain when and where and under what authority you gained access to this material.” Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse & Sen. Dick Durbin write letter to White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, asking how she's "read the Epstein files"

A large-scale blackout has occurred in the Moscow region. It is reported that more than 600,000 subscribers are without electricity, and a UAV threat has been declared in the region.

House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries has announced in a 'Dear Colleague' letter that House Dems will hold a 'special hearing' on January 6 to "examine ongoing threats to free and fair elections … and detail the threats to public safety posed by the hundreds of violent felons who were pardoned."

More musicians have canceled upcoming concerts at the Kennedy Center after the board voted to add Trump’s name to the venue. Singer Kristy Lee: "When American history starts getting treated like something you can ban, erase, rename, or rebrand for somebody else's ego, I can't stand on that stage."

Fact check: true

I’m shocked - shocked, I tell you - that refusing FBI criminal background checks likely resulted in… criminals in the administration. To be fair, that was also the entire point - there were several Trump appointees who wouldn’t have passed an FBI background check.

Bove needs to be removed from the bench. His confirmation was outrageous. This is about the bribery investigation that was in progress against Tom Homan (the guy who looks like a mob bagman from central casting) - the so-called "border czar" youtu.be/BEYR0P_QD54?...

Trump’s funding cuts put America’s consumer watchdog on the brink of collapse www.reuters.com/legal/litiga... What a tragedy for American consumers.

L.A. Taco just shared this over on Facebook. Nailed it! This is your MAGA Trump follower out defending Trump on social media right now today.

Still mind-blowing that a top admin official was revealed to have taken $50,000 in cash in a paper bag from people looking for government favors, the reaction of the administration was "Whatever losers, this is how it works now" and bigshot news media said "If you say so, we'll forget about it"

Now this is ACCURATE!

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MTG tells the Times that when she threatened to expose the men who abused Epstein’s victims, Trump called to scream at her. “My friends will get hurt,” he said. This shouldn’t surprise anyone, but it’s still shocking to read. Maybe don’t be friends with pedos, just saying

Incredible reporting here from the @nytimes.com......(gift link). Colombian fishermen scared to fish for fear of being killed by the US military in waters their families have fished for generations.... www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/w...

Toby Morton, a 'South Park' alum, bought www.trumpkennedycenter.org months ago on a hunch that the ridiculously vain Donald Trump would rename the Center. Donald’s stupidity is only exceeded by his predictability.