"We have growth everywhere, all of December — growth across all sectors. But not positive growth, negative growth." - Samara governor Fedorishchev carefully and thoroughly described the situation on the Russian market.

Putin complained about the negative trends in Russian demography and said that "our long-term historical task is to preserve and increase our nation’s population." That's why he's sending hundreds of thousands of Russians to die in the war.

Is This The End of the Free World? open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

in terms of cognitive effects it seems like antisemitism is the equivalent of getting kicked in the head by a horse

Sotomayor with the lament: 'Neither the king not parliaments nor prime ministers nor England at the time of the founding ever had an unqualified removal power' 'You're asking us to destroy the structure of government'

Well Roberts just referred to Humphrey's Executor as a "dried husk" if there are any optimists out there holding out hope

Republicans in Congress have: No plan to lower costs. No plan to protect health care. No plan to deliver for the American people. www.notus.org/congress/hea...

YRS ago on the ol bird app I reminded Jason Calacanis (weirdo “businessguy” twat & Musk lackey) that he’s in Epstein’s black book (+ screen shot). Got me an INSTA block lol & OFC all the RW Epstein-pilled poasters YASS’N Calacanis & Musk 24/7 were always “never heard of it” 🙉🙈 archive.today/H4RD2

Trump and Putin national security strategies align perfectly. How is that possible? This headline captures the moment we find ourselves in: “The Kremlin praises new US security strategy as Russian strikes kill 4 in Ukraine.”

Former Indiana Gov Eric Holcomb (R) says the Trump attacks on Ivy League universities like Harvard rests on a gushing stream of malicious bullshit, much of which is given strategic support and validation by Trump's key ally in the process, Jonathan Greenblatt and his ADL.

Why 1839?

Better in the original Russian

No one saw this coming.

Paramount does not have an easier path to approval of swallowing Warner Bros. than Netflix because state AGs can, will, and should challenge both of them, because they are definitely illegal. www.axios.com/2025/12/08/j...

"Individual liberty" is when conservatives decide everything. Their concept of liberty is just domination, not freedom to do what they want, but freedom to force everyone else to do what they want. bsky.app/profile/donm...

Also, who is "their client" here?

That’s pretty rich given that Musk virtually attended a meeting of German Neo Nazis in the AfD a few months ago

Donald Trump’s agenda is backfiring — hurting our farmers and the American people.

Also my impression. Agarwal's presentation and question response is so bad, it's embarrassing to listen to it. Far from effective.

It’s well known among reporters that Trump answers his cell phone. If you can get the number, he picks up.

In Colorado town built on coal, some families are moving on, even as Trump tries to boost industry

the whole structure of this argument — independent agencies are politically unaccountable therefore the president must have removal power — treats congress as if it were a total nullity, or as if only the president truly represents the public.

not sure you can talk coherently about maintaining the rule of law without promising serious court reform

The pipe bomber is an all-in MAGA Trump supporter, a fact which he freely admits. But Kash Patel and the DOJ have labored feverishly to cover that up. bsky.app/profile/muel...

Trump's hurried new “affordability tour” follows shortly after his rhetoric turned so sharply dismissive on economic concerns that even his most loyal surrogates have been scrambling to explain it.

lol, lmao, lol

ICYMI - that patch on the helmet is a Jerusalem or crusader's cross, which has been co-opted by white supremacists and the far right. Hegseth has a tattoo of that cross on his chest.

Calling your troops warfighters or warriors means you do not value the norms and values that constrain the behaviour of soldiers and officers as members of military institutions with legal obligations to state and society. It is the triumph of militarism over the military way.

you get the feeling that if we get a post-term Yoon Moment, the NYT is going to run a piece by Senator Schmitt in defense of the establishment of post-constitutional government or a NYT op-ed on the need to give Anduril 10x more money

The practical effect of overturning Humphrey’s will be that Republican presidents can stack the formerly independent agencies with their copartisans and SCOTUS will be cool with everything they do but when a Dem POTUS does the same Roberts et al will declare all those agencies’ actions unlawful.

If I ever started a media outlet, rule #1 would be that individual journalists would not be permitted to use personal social media accounts for any other reason than direct communication with sources. Way, way too many journalists have been absolutely cooked by social media culture

“No more leftovers for women.”

Kavanaugh pretty much just said this out loud

Nice Work If You Can Get It What are the odds? "Using transaction-level data on US congressional stock trades, we find that lawmakers who later ascend to leadership positions perform similarly to matched peers beforehand but outperform them by 47 percentage points annually after ascension.…

Rough Diamond

I'm not going back to the Snyderverse. You can't make me www.axios.com/2025/12/08/j...

This Day in Labor History: December 8, 1886. The American Federation of Labor formed at a meeting of union officials in Columbus, Ohio. No one in the labor history world really likes the AFL, but let's try to understand what it was about and how it adapted to Gilded Age realities.

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

Ever noticed the exact date immigration went from noble pioneers heroically setting out to weave their story's thread into the vibrant tapestry of a new nation to a vile invasion by unwashed savages looking to mooch off our golden birthright tends to be the day after the speaker's ancestors arrived?

As always with the Trump administration, there's a dual frustration of what he's trying to do, and how he's trying to do it. Setting everything else aside, China hit back against Trump's tariffs in exactly the same way they did last time. This was obvious. Predictable. Why the 10 month delay?

Very Serious People are standing up in Washington, DC, at this very moment, claiming that the US President has absolute sovereignty to fire+replace *everyone* in the Executive Branch, without exception. No independent central bank. No inspectors general. No whistleblowers. No guardrails.

Old system: China pays us lots of money for our goods New system: We pay lots more money for Chinese goods, China pays us no money for our goods, and then we pay even more money to support the people that China is no longer paying

Sotomayor (calmly, slowly, but basically): My conservative colleagues think they are more qualified to interpret the Constitution than Congress or all the esteemed previous justices (Brandeis, Holmes, etc.) who preceded us. That they were all wrong, and it is for us to finally fix their error.

🇭🇺🇹🇷 Orban in Türkiye: "We believe the Ukraine–Russia war has no solution on the battlefield, and that peace is necessary. We commend President Erdogan’s efforts as the only successful mediator so far."

Don’t forget the Gaza redev deal. Pure evil. But no laptop involved.

we never should have hurt that Gorilla

Why is Jared Kushner

Garbage Old People