Whew, that’s some lineup. Looks like Megyn Kelly finally got a seat on the D-list dais. And I wonder if Vance knows he’s playing second fiddle to a hankie…

One under-appreciated part of this: note the bit below about “and their dependents.” Under the Trump admin’s new policy, dependent children of visa applicants are not allowed to have their social media set to private during the entire visa process. They MUST make their social media public.

"Some people hate the whole concept of marijuana because it does bad for the children, it does bad for the people that are older than children" www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Books about “Asian wife sharing” that included detailed descriptions of orgies and scenes involving “ladyboys.” That’s what our reporter discovered on a Goodreads page tied to the email address of a top Pentagon official. What came next was even wilder.

Papua New Guinea grapples with HIV epidemic as it battles stigma and US aid cuts

mainstream MAGA media is just unvarnished white nationalism now

We're deporting the wrong people. kstp.com/kstp-news/lo...

Trump: "We have to be unified. China is unified because they have one vote -- that's President Xi. He says 'do it' and that's the end of that. We have a different system."

This isn’t conservative. This is fascist.👇

Wynne Kelly led the department's efforts to hold immigration judges accountable for misconduct. In this Substack post, he warns the administration has thrown away reforms right when the potential for misconduct could not be higher.

BREAKING: Home prices in the US go negative for the first time in over 2 years, per CNBC

MAGAZINER: How many veterans have you deported? NOEM: We haven't deported veterans MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea

"The Russian President expressed solidarity with the Venezuelan people and confirmed his support for [the Maduro] government's course in defense of the country's sovereignty."

Ok, here is what AI itself says!

ZACCARDI: “.. Going forward, a politically motivated Fed could be the new normal ..” @mikezaccardi.bsky.social articles.stockcharts.com/article/2026...

CNN dredged of a clip of Tom Cotton going on TV in 2018 and lying about Trump describing countries with Brown and black people as "shit holes," even though he was *in the meeting* when Trump made that comment, which he now admits he made

For those wondering, yes he is apparently a deadhead www.cnbc.com/2023/06/21/listen-to-the-music-play-fed-chair-jerome-powell-admits-to-being-a-deadhead.html (Ch)air is weird

I understand the necessity of min reqs, but you know this regime will use this to make immigrants feel even further unwanted in America. Yet one more hit to the economy... www.axios.com/2025/12/10/t...

Veteran detained by ICE: I identified myself as a US citizen and a veteran, but that didn't matter. Agents smashed my window, sprayed tear gas into my car, dragged me out. Even after I complied, I was held for 3 days without charges. No phone call, no lawyer, no medical care

Reporter: What changes do you want to see at CNN? Trump: I am not involved in that, I will be probably involved maybe in the decision... I think CNN should be sold because the people that are running CNN right now are either corrupt or incompetent.

Q: What happens to the oil on the tanker you seized? TRUMP: Well we keep it I guess

This may be the first time ever, just as Trump said, where something actually does reduce by 500%.

“Deadhead Fed hair”. Maybe time to limit his public events.

The U.S. is not a member of the ICC, but the court can still prosecute individuals for actions carried out on the territory of ICC member nations.

NEWS: Trump officials are worried the ICC may try to prosecute them for war crimes once Trump's term ends, and are threatening sanctions against the ICC to change its founding document to grant them immunity. (via Reuters / link in reply)

Excellent essay today by Heather Cox Richardson, @hcrichardson.bsky.social on just that topic, focused on Faux News.

Started//Going #trump

The Center for Biological Diversity is suing the Trump administration to have Trump's face removed from national parks passes. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Strange that House Republicans weren't able to solve this problem in a two hour meeting after procrastinating for all of 2025 and generally failing to come up with a health care plan for the last 16+ years

Masked ICE Agents with no warrants and no identification are pulling immigrants out of line, moments before they get their citizenship. We’re raising money to build www.PAXIS.app a way to give immigrants, their families, friends, neighbors and allies the correct, legal on the spot information.

There's a lot you could say about this unhinged, late night rant from the President. But the most reckless part is how easily he throws around the word "seditious" whenever someone says something he doesn't like. It undermines our democracy and puts people in danger.

Last week's false earthquake warning in Northern California hammers home the real-life impacts of the Trump Administration's incompetence and neglect. Their disaster strategy endangers Californians and our response to future earthquakes, hurricanes, tsunamis, and floods.

Text from (almost certainly) Steve Bannon to Jeffrey Epstein on 8/30/2018

Reminder that Trump denied calling nations with lots of Black and brown people "shit holes," but now he admits it. So he lied.

Eileen Higgins just became the first Democrat elected mayor of Miami in nearly 30 years.

Breaking News: Miami voters elected Eileen Higgins as mayor, choosing a Democrat to lead the city for the first time in almost 30 years.

JPMORGAN: “.. A key ingredient to our constructive global outlook is a fading of business caution that will lift the pace of job hiring. Today’s US [JOLTS] data provides support for the outlook .. sent a reassuring signal with respect to hiring ..”

They've been saying "two weeks" for like the last 15yrs! It would be comical if it wasn't so serious a topic, and they weren't actively dismantling the ACA. In fact the ACA is largely kaputs with everything they've already done to it since it became law.

Funny thing about soybean exports during Trump years. 🤡 @taxfoundation.bsky.social

CBP *still* claims that it has no deal with Meta and that these are personal glasses owned by the agents. If they're personal glasses, though, then it is illegal for the agent to record

New: A CBP agent in Charlotte wore Meta Ray Bans to an immigration raid and used it to record, based on photos shared with 404 Media. We've seen them wearing these glasses before but this is the first specific evidence we have of them recording www.404media.co/border-patro...

Paramount ‘hacked’ on social media and labeled ‘fascists’ over Warner Bros buyout offer

1. Paramount's hostile takeover bid for Warner Bros. Discovery exposes Jared Kushner's game Kushner is not running a private equity fund. He's running an influence peddling operation. It's spelled out on page 42 of Paramount's new SEC filing

Today is the 68th anniversary of the creation of the DOJ Civil Rights Division, and over 200 recent employees have shared an open letter decrying the near-destruction of the division’s mission and expressing the hope to one day rebuild it.

We are not buying gifts. We are donating to community food banks.

The majority are not spending because the economic environment has impacted them significantly. Yet the gluttonous minority skew this fact. @50501 has done an excellent job breaking down the Bullshit on Spending- worth a read.

Rand Paul on his healthcare plan: "What if you could join Costco? Costco has 44m members and if one person negotiated for all 44 and they bought a group plan like Toyota or General Motors does, they would be the largest collective entity in the country. They would drive prices down by sheer might."

“Americans expect to dial back holiday spending significantly this year.” (Per @gallup.com / Arbor Data) (via Liz Ann Sonders)