“You are not entitled to a response from us, or anyone, ever.” — Madison Biedermann, whose entire, taxpayer-funded job is to serve as a spokesperson for the US Department of Education Via @charlesornstein.bsky.social www.propublica.org/article/prop...

DOJ official Todd Blanche promised to dump his crypto holdings no later than 90 days after his Senate confirmation in March. But about a month into the job — before divesting — he ordered an end to investigations into crypto companies. By @coreygjohnson.bsky.social @shaw.al

RFK: “Where did all this autism come from? It never existed when I was a kid!” “A Christmas Story”, a 1983 movie based on a 1971 memoir about a childhood in the 1930s: “This is my brother Ralphie. He has a ton of sensory issues and behaviors we don’t understand. Every family has a child like him.”

Second-term presidents typically wind down fundraising after their inaugurations. President Trump has ramped it up. We traced $500 MILLION back to 346 DONORS, and found that MORE THAN HALF have benefited from actions taken by Trump or his administration. (2/2) www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

➡️ 15 Ambassadorships ➡️ 2 Pardons ➡️ Hundreds of White House invitations ➡️ 13 Dropped investigations ➡️ Dozens of executive actions Inside Trump’s FUNDRAISING BONANZA at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. W/ @kenvogel.bsky.social (1/2) www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

A+ data journalism. @karenyourish.bsky.social @kenvogel.bsky.social and @charliesmart.bsky.social analyzed 346 donors who gave more than $250,00 to Trump. They found that more than half, “benefited, or are involved in an industry that has benefited,” from Trump. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Love this Wendell Berry quote sent my way by Anne Lamont. Perfect for the holidays — “Be joyful, though you have considered all the facts.”

🚨Extraordinary, relentless, detailed data investigation from @karenyourish.bsky.social @kenvogel.bsky.social and Charlie Smart showing who has given more than $250,000 to Trump causes and passion projects and who has benefited from the administration in pardons, jobs, access and more.

Opinion: What Ozempic might tell us about the future of Alzheimer’s www.statnews.com/2025/12/22/o...

Olive grove by olive grove, sheep pasture by sheep pasture, village by village — over the past two years, Israeli settlers, often with Israeli military support, have escalated their unrelenting campaign to seize land and erase its Palestinian presence. Paywall free: nytimes.com/interactive/...

GIFT LINK: Brilliant story and presentation @stuartathompson.bsky.social & Michael Grynbaum www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

A total of 16 photos were taken down at some point on Saturday from the website that the Justice Department created. One featured an open drawer containing other photos, including at least one of President Trump. From NYT Politics: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/20/u...

Sad news. He was a great and fair journalist, and a truly lovely person. I borrowed a quote from one of his books as the first words of the preface of mine. -- Lou Cannon, Post reporter and preeminent Reagan biographer, dies at 92 www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2...

Today, my colleague David Yaffe-Bellany and I published an investigation into the frenzied world of crypto unleased by Trump. Risk taking, profiteering & yes, innovation, as crypto bros sense that this is the moment crypto will go mainstream in the U.S. Free link: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/t...

Updated: Our online tracker, now with 25 U.S. military strikes on suspected drug trafficking boats that have killed 95 people since the campaign began on Sept. 2. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

The director Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele Singer Reiner, were found dead at their home in Los Angeles on Sunday. He has said that falling in love with his wife inspired him to give “When Harry Met Sally…” a new ending.

NEW: One of the most significant accomplishments of the Trump Admin: Decimating the US's humanitarian aid. We went to S. Sudan to see the effects. Rubio says no one has died from the cuts. Spoiler: That's not true. @annamaria.bsky.social & Brett Murphy: www.propublica.org/article/usai...

every post is like i bet you didn’t know this absolutely wonderful thing about rob reiner and each one is different

Let me just say that I do not work at an outlet with an aggressive paywall, but I will also instantly block this kind of nonsense. How does anyone think not paying to be informed is a flex? We have to support real news and indie outlets. The alternative to paying is AI slop and Billionaire PR.

"OpenAI’s new guidelines ask its chatbot to celebrate ‘innovation,’ contradicting its stated goal of objectivity—and raising questions about what objectivity even means." www.theatlantic.com/culture/2025...

NEW: Trump’s Own Mortgages Match His Description of Mortgage Fraud, Records Reveal www.propublica.org/article/trum... w/ @robert-faturechi.bsky.social @amierjeski.bsky.social

NEW on CNN: In several old videos we found, Pete Hegseth blasted Trump in 2016 warning he could issue unlawful orders that troops should refuse, calling him an “armchair tough guy” with five draft deferments. Now he’s attacking Democrats for saying same. LINK: www.cnn.com/2025/12/08/p...

NEW: The Trump administration has argued that Fed board member Lisa Cook may have committed mortgage fraud by declaring more than one primary residence on her loans. We found that Trump once did the very thing he claimed could be a crime.

Trump administration makes Trump's birthday a free-admission day for national parks while canceling free admission for Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Juneteenth, according to park service web site. www.usatoday.com/story/travel...

🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨 The idea that a global cabal of Jews is "replacing" white people with immigrants (Great Replacement Theory) now appears to be entrenched in US National Security Strategy. Does the new Strategy say "Jews"? No. Is this how coded white-supremacist racism, misogyny and antisemitism work? Yes.

The white nationalist conspiracy theory that Western "elites," often manipulated by Jews, want to “replace” white people is now embedded in the Trump administration's national security strategy. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/w...

In Aug., the NY Young Republican Club posted a statement to its website in support of the AfD. The statement concluded with the phrase “AfD über alles” in bold, a play on the line “Deutschland über alles,” which was frequently used in Nazi propaganda www.politico.com/news/2025/12...

Reuters reached out to everyone that Trump or his subordinates singled out publicly for retribution, and reviewed hundreds of official orders, directives and public records. The result: the most comprehensive accounting yet of his campaign of payback. www.reuters.com/investigates...

NEW: AI “recipe slop” is overrunning search and social. Food creators say Google’s AI Overviews and glossy fake food pics are drowning out real, tested recipes — collapsing traffic and setting home cooks up for disaster, especially this Thanksgiving. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

NEW: ProPublica has found multiple cases of women with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions. Tierra Walker, a 37-year-old mother, was told by doctors there was no emergency before preeclampsia killed her.

I remember back in the late '90s -- when magazine writers were still getting big book and movie deals -- an editor of mine who'd worked with a bunch of them sighing and saying, "The story no one will ever publish is the exposé of which famous writers can't actually write at all."

Just the person to talk to this week for our @newyorker.com pod w/ @janemayer.bsky.social @eosnos.bsky.social about Trump, Epstein, and the changing Washington scandal — the legendary @misikoff.bsky.social Listen here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Updated: Our tracker on the military strikes on boats in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific, with 20th strike disclosed by Southcom, the Pentagon outpost in Miami. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

NO ONE, EVER: "What I really want is a car that can sense my key and open the trunk whenever I'm within six feet of it." CAR DESIGNERS: "Oh that's a great idea."

GIFT LINK: America’s Roman Catholic bishops on Wednesday rebuked the Trump administration’s aggressive deportation campaign in a rare and near-unanimous statement that framed the immigration crisis in starkly moral terms. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...

NEW: How Trump Has Exploited Pardons and Clemency to Reward Allies and Supporters, by @jeremykohler.bsky.social

Kimmel said that he and Escobedo, who led Cleto and the Cletones on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!,” had been “inseparable since I was 9 years old.” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/a...

The videos surfacing online from Sudan are horrifying, and I say this as a journalist who has sadly become an expert on violent videos and images uploaded to the internet over the last decade. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/w...

Allan Brooks, the corporate recruiter from Canada I wrote about in August who went into a 3-week-long delusional spiral with ChatGPT, sued OpenAI Thursday, alongside six other plaintiffs. They blame ChatGPT for their mental breakdowns and for four suicides. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/t...

NEW: Foreign food safety inspections have hit a historic low after Trump staffing cuts. The dramatic shift in oversight comes as the U.S. has never been more reliant on foreign food. “It’s only a matter of time before people die,” one expert said.

Two bishops with ties to Trump’s Religious Liberty Commission, including Bishop Robert Barron, criticized the administration’s treatment of Catholics detained by immigration officials this week. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...

Mikie Sherrill elected governor of New Jersey after a campaign that pounded away at her Republican opponent, Jack Ciattarelli, for his allegiance to Trump. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...

Re-upping my column from last year on @MikieSherrill and @SpanbergerForVA. A really fun interview. -- Can these Capitol Hill roommates lead Democrats out of the wilderness? www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Follow live results from the Virginia governor election.

www.nytimes.com/interactive/... Our forecasting model now sees Spanberger finishing with around 57 percent of the vote.

“Selma van de Perre, a valiant Jewish secretary who during World War II covertly transported suitcases bulging with cash, seditious newsletters, identity cards and ration books to Dutch resistance agents, even penetrating Nazi headquarters in Paris, died on Oct. 20 in London. She was 103.”

In a shocking reality check, @wired.com is not, in fact, bankrolled by “donations from far left organizations.” We actually rely on an amazing and growing audience of subscribers to support our journalism, so please subscribe to WIRED if you don’t already.

🚨EXCLUSIVE🚨 Many things are changing before our eyes. Others are harder to see Like the US economy Americans are spending more 💲 recovering from disasters and preparing for the next one. 36% of US GDP growth since 2000 is related to climate disasters. Welcome to the Disaster Industrial Complex 🎁🔗

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “The private conversations in the Young Republicans’ Telegram chat were only marginally more racist and hateful than the language that’s out in the open, common on the most popular podcasts in America,” our columnist David French writes.

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