Trump to Reuters about the midterm elections: "When you think of it, we shouldn't even have an election." www.reuters.com/world/us/fiv...

The main bank account holding revenue from the Venezuelan oil sales is located in Qatar. “There is no basis in law for a president to set up an offshore account that he controls so that he can sell assets seized by the American military,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren. www.semafor.com/article/01/1...

WATCH: Trump shows his middle finger and appears to say "fuck you" after Ford worker yells "pedophile protector" - TMZ

We seem to have confirmation they were a married couple. At least outlets are reporting it. FBI Portland deleted their post for some reason.

Democrats will continue to vote for Republican judges (like this guy, who refused to say who won the 2020 election) until Democrats are punished for voting for Republican judges

Lol how can you tell this administration is lying to you? Because oil hasn't been shipped in actual barrels in over a century www.cnn.com/2026/01/06/b...

The agency we all just watched murder a US citizen with impunity is on the verge of being rewarded by having their budget quadrupled within the next three years. July was the best time to stop this. Today is the next best time.

Will Cain: “If you fly a flag in the Western Hemisphere, that flag might be soon the stars and stripes”

Churchill and FDR were independently among the earliest and most outspoken opponents of the Nazis in each of their countries well before either of them were heads of state, for one simple reason: They *actually read Mein Kampf* and believed that Hitler meant every word

JOHN EASTMAN DID J6 pass it on

Venezuelan opposition figure María Corina Machado told Sean Hannity that she hadn't spoken to Trump since Oct. 10, when she won the Nobel Peace Prize he coveted. So she made her pitch to him to lead Venezuela on Fox News. www.mediamatters.org/sean-hannity...

So, something we got into a bit for the space book is the idea of resources as the source of wealth, because (a) it's widely believed, and (b) it's a claim used to justify all sorts of outlandish space ideas. The short version is that resources are a teeny tiny fraction of wealth.

The Venezuelans will greet us as liberators.

Never gets old.

This has been a really hard year. But here we are on the cusp of a new one. And you know what? We are still in this fight. We are standing up and standing together. We’re not accepting defeat. The dreams we imagine for a better country are still possible—and we will win.

uh www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

CBS News chief Bari Weiss pulls 60 Minutes story Weiss said investigation had to include comments from Trump administration 60M's ⁦‪Sharyn Alfonsi‬⁩ said multiple US agencies refused to comment - and this lets WH veto coverage My NPR story www.npr.org/2025/12/22/g...

"Well, here comes the future and you can't run from it / If you've got a blacklist I want to be on it" --Billy Bragg, "Waiting For the Great Leap Forwards" abovethelaw.com/2025/12/ice-...

Wemby absolutely ate Chet up

You can oversee the bloody dismemberment of a Washington Post journalist with a bone saw, and the president of the United States will smile, shake your hand and threaten to pull the license of a news outlet whose reporter asks you a question about it. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...

I don’t want to hear about norms, I don’t want to hear about looking forward not back, I don’t want to hear about “bipartisanship” I want the filibuster gone, the court packed, new states, and a top to bottom cleaning of the federal government that ends with a lot of people in jail

I'm disappointed but not shocked to see Blue Prince miss the cut, given that it's English only and many of the judges are outside of the US/UK. Not much suspense here - Clair Obscur is the fan favorite and has the best narrative (ex-Ubisoft devs go indie), even if there are more interesting games

I just don’t see how we can pretend even for a moment that anything involving our federal government is remotely normal when the president is covering up his involvement in a child sex trafficking ring. Like, what are we doing here

GOP Rep. Kevin Kiley, who did not support the Epstein discharge petition, says he will vote yes next week on releasing the Epstein files

Can't overstate how fucked up it is that unraveling what is arguably the greatest achievement in the history of humanity is now a motivating issue of one of the two dominant parties in the U.S.

I've built a socioeconomic system that depends on everyone to do useful work and act ethically except the people at the top, who get unimaginable rewards for being antisocial frauds and criminals. And I think it will stand the test of time

Gonna talk in entomology class today about how Jewish scientists forced to work in Nazi concentration camps secretly sent fake vaccines to the eastern front and managed to kill 4,000 Nazis with typhus.

Bonus panel here: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/asteroid #smbc

Just disgusting.

Jess Waters recycling the same guy over and over to represent “former” different enemies

The Trump administration will stop annual reports on hunger in America—right after Republicans made massive cuts to food assistance programs. This is yet another example of Trump hiding numbers he doesn’t like. Meanwhile, children and families will go hungry.

JUST IN: Hamas says it agrees to release the remaining Israeli hostages in exchange for Palestinian prisoners, but did not confirm its agreement with the full peace plan presented by the U.S.

1/ Today Boston senior federal judge William Young has issued a clarion defense of the 1st Amendment rights of non-citizens which may go down as the most notable decision of his 47-year career. It begins with an unheard-of preface *above the caption* which reproduces a threat he received in chambers

After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.

"The U.S. agricultural workforce fell by 155,000 — about 7 percent — between March and July, according to an analysis of Bureau of Labor Statistics data. That tracks with Pew Research Center data that shows total immigrant labor fell by 750,000 from January through July."

Political violence disproportionately hurts people with less power, not people with more power. Political violence will disproportionately hurt people of color and women and LGBTQ people. It’s not fair, but that’s the way it works. Celebrating political violence means at best indifference to that.

It's time to realize that efficiency is a property for humans to use, humans are not for it to use. It's time to realize that human society is not a corporation, and we are not its employees, and that its profits are ours. www.the-reframe.com/our-purpose-...

#HongKong: RSF condemns the authorities’ decision to deny Bloomberg journalist Rebecca Choong Wilkins a work visa without providing any explanation. Choong is the 10th journalist since the enactment of the #NationalSecurityLaw to be targeted by Hong Kong’s policy of weaponising visas.

Here is how the media should be reporting this morning's news. As part of a growing pattern of political retribution, Donald Trump's FBI has raided the home of a prominent administration critic. In this instance it happens to be John Bolton. The pretense is largely irrelevant.

"everyone will see how criminal and corrupt these people are so we don't have to make that argument ourselves" is one of the most singularly wrong pieces of conventional political wisdom in Dem circles and yet it will not die

For today’s bonus “One First,” I wrote about Abraham Lincoln’s commitment to holding the Election of 1864—even when he thought he’d probably lose and his successor would sue for peace, thus ending the war (and, likely, the Union). Respecting and preserving the will of the people was more important:

Just to say this plainly: what you're looking at here is a federal police force accountable only to the president rolling up to intimidate the governor of California as he announces his plan to counter a federal legislative coup out of Texas which will ensure their permanent presence in our streets

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

Exclusive: The Justice Department told President Trump in May that his name is among many in the Epstein files.

They say never meet your heroes but I disagree

INSEPARABLE??? www.thebaltimorebanner.com/education/hi...

Fox News right now

"Mr. Murdoch stated that he would take care of it" 👀 Can we take a moment to appreciate how THAT RIGHT THERE is what, in any other age, would have been a presidency-destroying scandal???