Year-end tally of Trump admin combat actions in 2025: —Yemen—1,000+ strikes* —Somalia—140+ strikes, 1 ground raid** —Syria—78+ strikes, 3 ground raids*** —Iran—3 B-2 strikes —Iraq—1 strike —Nigeria—1 set of TLAM strikes —Caribbean—11 strikes —Eastern Pacific—20 strikes —Venezuela—1 known CIA strike

The worst possible move. Another war.

Retired immigration judge to @radleybalko.bsky.social: "It always starts with the minorities. It always starts with the immigrants. If we don’t stop them, it will be American citizens. We need to be screaming that this isn’t America—that this isn’t who we are" newrepublic.com/article/2042...

Mamdani is out here reducing crime on day one.

Trump says he's dropping drug prices, 400, 500, 5000%. This is what actually happens. www.reuters.com/business/hea...

Just making sure that 2025 is definitely over

"In 2020, interest payments totaled $345 billion at the start of the COVID pandemic. Now that amount has just about tripled only six years later,... Since foreigners hold about one-third of all U.S. debt, it means a larger chunk of U.S. income will flow overseas." qz.com/us-national-...

“I’m sure you’re aware of our connections with the Trump Administration,” the North Carolina Republican Party's communications director wrote in an email response to us. “I would strongly suggest dropping this story.” We didn't. #ICYMI, read the story that he wanted dropped:

Whether it’s Barack Obama being the editor of Harvard Law Review or Donald Trump narrowly passing a cognitive test used to detect dementia, there’s plenty of serious intellectual accomplishments on both sides of the aisle.

Bloomberg has a really good story on how scandalous Trump's pardon of Juan Orlando Hernández is. This is just the first ¶ of 3-¶¶ on sources, but gives a sense of who would want to tell similar stories. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Take a screenshot of this GIF, and whichever new word you land on is YOUR word for 2026. Let's. Go.

For the last few days on X, people (mainly women, and sometimes children) have had nonconsensual images of them in swimsuits (or much worse) requested by users and created by Grok. Musk's only apparent response thus far has been to crack jokes about it.

Curtis Yarvin, JD Vance’s friend & ideological influence, ended 2025 by claiming “only Hitler spoke the truth” about “too many subjects” & “Hitler was a genius.” Extremism isn’t fringe on the right. Once marginal online extremists like Yarvin are influential at the highest levels of government.

Mamdani: For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty

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

AOC: My name is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. and it is my deep honor and privilege to welcome you to the inauguration of our new mayor of New York City. Zohran Kwame Mamdani

Our imagination has failed us, we live worse because of it, and our zealotry is now exporting ideas abroad that inspire not enhanced liberty but sharper tools of oppression We’re losing what we are as a nation, and bringing the rest of the free world down with us www.greatpower.us/p/2025-the-a...

Caviar station and ice sculpture at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago party as food banks continue to be stretched thin

Smith: I think who should be accountable for this is Donald Trump. These records exist because, in the case of the senators, Donald Trump directed his co-conspirators to call these people to further delay the proceedings. He chose to do that.

1/Fascinating @nytimes.com reporting documenting rise of Trump’s neo-royalist regime. Foreign affairs -- chip deals, crypto, trade — used to extract wealth for insider cliques. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

like 75% of dem messaging right now should be “the party led by epsteins best friend is breaking into pre-k childcare centers so they can record your toddlers and put the videos on internet”

Finnish police forces have boarded and seized the 132-meter-long Russian shadow fleet cargo vessel Fitburg moments after it destroyed 5 submarine telecommunication cables between Finland and Estonia by dragging its anchor on the seabed. www.hs.fi/suomi/art-20...

BREAKING Zohran Mamdani has been sworn-in as the 112th Mayor of New York City.

Yearly reminder that you CAN just become a different person, you're not as imprisoned in your life as you think. You can just be the one who dresses nice or exercises or reads a lot, or whatever. You can just start doing it, some people might make fun of you but they don't really care.

They're going to *throw out* one-of-a-kind NASA archives?! Not even a year since the Inauguration & we're already at the 2nd-time-as-farce version of the burning of the Library of Alexandria.

Here’s hoping it happens in 2026

The GOP’s midterm strategy is literally just Comet Pizza

As we bring in the New Year today, I have some bittersweet news to share...Today will be my last day working on Bluesky as a part of the core team. The past two years that I have been here have been an absolute blast and undoubtedly will be a few of the most memorable of my life...1/x

The final Calvin and Hobbes, which appeared in papers 30 years ago today.

SCOTUS gave Trump and all future presidents a “get out of jail free” card by conferring near-total immunity from prosecution. So, looking at other democracies that hold leaders to account, it’s fair to ask: Which country looks like the banana republic now? www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

unvarnished gutter racism and Nazism from the president. a disgrace to our country.

The American President is a classless piece of shit Trump Attacks Kennedy Family Hours After Death of JFK's Granddaughter www.tmz.com/2025/12/31/t...

I’ve spent this morning morbidly watching the MTV channels close down and the final songs played were: MTV Music - Video Killed the Radio Star (Buggles) Club MTV - Don’t Stop the Music (Rihanna) MTV 90s - Goodbye (Spice Girls) MTV 80s - Together in Electric Dreams (Oakey and Moroder)

Large law firms are siding with Trump over their clients and employees. Let me give you one statistic to exemplify this: DOJ is suing 22 states for access to sensitive voter data. My firm of 60 lawyers is fighting in all 22. Not a single big law firm is fighting along side us in any case.

18 years for having a stillbirth. Medical testing showed meth but a med examiner testified he couldnt say it was the cause of death. She’s 1 of at least 20 Alabama women who suffered miscarriage/stillbirth then faced sentencing as severe as for murder, rape or kidnapping. www.al.com/news/2022/09...

Who agrees? ✋

Saudi bombed a UAE weapons shipment tonight in Yemen lmfao

An attack in violation of Article 2(4) of the UN Charter and the Take Care Clause of the Constitution. Seemingly conducted as covert action and then casually disclosed by POTUS while calling into a radio show. www.cnn.com/2025/12/29/p...

As of 12/24/25, USPS changed policy on when they postmark mail. Mail dropped off is no longer guaranteed a same-day postmark. Tax returns & other time-sensitive items are now stamped when they reach a regional processing center, which may be days later. Plan deadlines accordingly to avoid penalties.

Newly released footage of ICE goons in LA cornering, shooting and abducting journalist Carlitos Ricardo Parias as he is clearly unarmed. Carlitos is still in ICE custody. (published 12/28/25)

NEW from me — I broke down Trump's claim on local right wing radio that the US carried out a Christmas Eve land strike in Venezuela, how he doubled down Monday, the subsequent media reports with no substance, the potential role of social media rumors about an actual fire, and how we need the truth:

🧵Where did Alexia Palmer go? Another Trump-Epstein accuser who has vanished She sued a Trump-affiliated modeling agency in federal court, produced docs alleging visa fraud & exploitation, and then disappeared from public view Her case should have triggered a congressional inquiry This is why:

Don’t mistake progress in stopping a U.S. sellout of Ukraine with progress in ending the war. The conflict will end only when Putin is convinced that he can’t achieve his military objectives. Until that point is reached, peace negotiations aren’t going anywhere. wapo.st/3N5e24y

One year of Trump marks the rapid curtailment of US power and influence around the world. Our erstwhile allies are now persuaded that we are ruled by a corrupt, foolish plaything of Vladimir Putin's, who is using his influence to run the country into the ground. And that's a solid analysis.

The opening of a land war by Trump in Venezuela is headlines this afternoon in the London tabloids. In US media, it's eerily absent.

Still unreported, should be investigated: ICE shot Richard outside a mall. I visited mall security office. Guard said ICE and LAPD came in, used thumb drive to copy mall’s video footage, and THEN DELETED THE EVIDENCE from mall’s local drives. He showed me the missing timeline part saying “no data.”

Remember: When Tylenol was poisoned *by an outsider* and killed people, the company recalled all their products & redesigned them. When Intel’s Pentium had a bug so obscure it affected 1 in _9 billion_ long division calculations, they recalled their chips. ChatGPT was made deadly *by its team*.

The President of the United States appears to be getting regular IV infusions, the public doesn’t know anything about it, & the DC media evidently doesn’t care. We are months into the mystery of Trump’s hands, the White House is lying, & I’ve seen a grand total of one serious news story about it.

"Following the Ukraine-US meeting, Trump lauded Putin, saying the Russian president “wants to see Ukraine succeed”. This is becoming farcical giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... via @FT