All of the money that changed hands in the Teapot Dome scandal totaled less than $10 million after adjusting for inflation, and it was considered so corrupt we still teach it in high school government classes a century later.

The trophy is a toaster! www.espn.com/college-foot...

Update. The ICE supervisor, who is 47, was arrested for domestic violence against his non-citizen partner who he started a relationship when she was 18 and he was 40. www.fox19.com/2025/12/22/i...

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I somehow missed this www.texasmonthly.com/being-texan/...

Randi Weingarten is a dangerous sellout who has no business being near children, educators or the labor movement

if the campaign works as a mutual aid hub, doesn't that signal the kind of constituent services the candidate will deliver once elected?

Bullshit. They're not going anywhere. They're like cops, threatening to storm off whenever things don't go their way. Where you going, bitch? Iowa? I don't think so, you live in CA for a reason.

Protecting abusers is a full time job

“Finding flour alone took five full days,” says Dema Al-Buhisi, who continued baking in Gaza amid famine and bombings.

Holy fck, this rag just can't help itself.

Confirmation that the New York Times has changed their internal style guide to cease using the term "gender affirming care" and instead use the term "gender related care."

Happy holidays to all the Jewish organizations that thought American Jews could remain a specially protected minority group, à la Court Jews, so long as "campus antisemitism" served as a useful pretext for this administration to gut higher education.

Russia just bombed the main highway leading into Kharkiv - heavy traffic with families returning home after Christmas - cars are burning with people in them. And we discuss signing something with them?

It’s very very frustrating to know that there isn’t much chance of any accountability for this behavior after Trump

The Trump Country Diner trope has returned

Israel’s public broadcaster Kan airs footage showing the total destruction of Jabalia Refugee Camp in northern Gaza: Video: Mosab Abu Toha via X (@MosabAbuToha)

It's a true wiki, it even has a "Featured agent" section.

Tonight the president bombed Nigeria on Christmas in defense of "innocent Christians," but the US will never take action against the genocidal Israeli state when they beat, arrest and kill Christians in Palestine because the US has, historically, not considered Palestinians to be fully human.

NYT provides no evidence here, probably because the claim is flatly untrue. See eg recent Pew data, or many posts on the subject from @gelliottmorris.com this year www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u...

Curious. If someone with millions of followers tweeted “enjoy what may be your last Merry Christmas” at people in the Trump administration, what do we think the FBI would do?

In the name of ‘urban renewal,’ Israel is trampling Lod’s 2,000-year-old heritage The municipality is encouraging real estate sharks to tear up the city’s history in order to build towers that will likely drive out Palestinian residents. www.972mag.com/lod-urban-re... @mekomit.bsky.social

"there's more to people than just a number, just an ID, we are all human first.”

They survived two years of war only to be killed during a “ceasefire”. “For Ali al-Hashash, 32, death came…on Nov. 6 while foraging for firewood east of the Yellow Line to help feed his pregnant wife, whose due date was days away, & their 4-year-old son.” Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/24/w...

Yeah this is just what his communications team wants right now

Fewer than 50,000 Christians now live in Palestine under threat from Israel’s illegal occupation and attacks.

Israel has bombed Lebanon once every 4 hours on average since a “ceasefire” took effect in late November 2024, according to ACLED, an independent conflict monitor.

We don’t spend enough time discussing how the entire MAGA movement is kept afloat by the constant threats of stochastic terrorism orchestrated by the president of the United States. Congress, the courts, much of the media … all kept in line by the mob boss and his army of anonymous goons.

One confusing thing about liberal media outlets like the NY Times and CNN is that they're extremely right-wing: open.substack.com/pub/thecolum... by @ahjohnson.bsky.social

How do we manage a Supreme Court when at least one Justice (Alito here) relies on factually incorrect descriptions of situations? How do we deal with incompetence at this level? Sure impeachment is supposed to be the correction. But too many people gain from his votes on the court.

The Biden administration’s failure to prevent a second trump term is a permanent and unequivocal condemnation of that administration that overwhelms anything good they might have done.

The Atlantic suggesting, without evidence, that Canada's Global TV broadcasting the '60 Minutes' segment on CECOT that CBS distributed to it may have been an act of "treachery." 🔗: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

This really is stunning to see compressed into a short narrative. It was truly four years of cronies whose only limit to how much taxpayer money they could steal was how amoral they could be.

Randi has a storied history of being on the wrong side of key political issues when big money is involved (see also: healthcare). Almost makes you wonder why this person has been president of one of the biggest labor unions in the U.S. for *seventeen* years now.

Now if we could just get people to view US prisons through the same lens they view CECOT.

this is ridiculous

Israel Katz says military units will be established inside the Palestinian enclave, in contravention of truce agreement.

2 years old! Both parents deported, weeks ago! Her sister got the call, ‘We’re being detained. Take care of Sofía.’” Sofía wakes in the middle of the night crying out for her mother and “takes her mom’s photo and hugs it." Sister needs $ for basic expenses as they work on reuniting the family.

ICE has posted a video of Santa Claus arresting immigrants. Your government is hijacking a symbol of charity to spread fear and hate. it’s up to all of us to defeat these twisted fascists.

"[He] carried unimaginable sorrow" that left him dealing with severe mental health issues, including "depression, guilt, emotional instability, and long periods of isolation [which] replaced the vibrant young man we once knew." people.com/parkland-sch...

we, in the United States, through Trump’s mass deportation scheme, have engaged in abductions and torture for the past year, none of it in secret, much of it attested to in legal documents. there is nothing to expose, only to face.

If you’d like to know what it was really like inside CECOT for an innocent man who was wrongfully deported by this administration, we interviewed a pro soccer player and youth coach named Jerce Reyes two weeks ago: youtu.be/vlz3eGwHZBY?...

In the summer of 1950 most US newspapers ran an AP story about how race had become the main issue in the upcoming Georgia governor's race. Segregationist Herman Tallmadge, governor from '47 to '55 and then a Senator until 1981 made a name for himself by refusing to "apologize for being a white man."

All of these links went to promotion of this story earlier today. All these links are dead now — that's how thoroughly they've scrubbed this.

"We determined it needed additional reporting."

Sad death of CBS News as actual journalism And a reminder that CECOT is a human rights travesty, and everyone up and down the Trump admin involved in illegally sending people there belong in The Hague.

Israel kills two Palestinians, including 16 year-old, in West Bank https://aje.io/z3xen7

all while bari introduces this into the discourse