I disagree with Will here, obviously, and the primary reason is someone in need got to use one of those 5,600 tampons. Win or lose, lives got easier. But also: her campaign manager's car was literally clown-car level FILLED with tampons, and we did spend the night praying he'd get pulled over.

GREENLAND UPDATE: 🇬🇱🇬🇱🇬🇱🇬🇱🇬🇱🇬🇱 Message from the Premier of Greenland

"tell me we didn't just fire a dozen $500,000 missiles at a $200 camel" "sir, no evidence of any camel present, sir!"

Frankly, I have always wondered why more campaigns didn't do this. Constituent services are such an important part of good politics.

joining the "cybertruck owners only" group on fb is one of the best decisions i've ever made. every so often when i'm scrolling through fb getting pissed off, i get to see a little treat like this

Oof. Sad news, guitarist from Wish to The Cure s/t, a big reason the band stayed relevant through the 90s.

Dean Martin, born Dino Paul Crocetti, son of Italian immigrant Gaetano Crocetti Frank Sinatra, son of Italian immigrants Antonino Sinatra and Natalina Garavanta Merry Christmas to everyone except Stephen Miller and his enablers and handlers

Jealous Trump Boys Try To Convince Father That Barron A DEI https://theonion.com/jealous-trump-boys-try-to-convince-father-that-barron-a-dei/

Among Trump's 200+ Christmas Day screeds was this gem, which started off with what reads like a confession of his twisted relationship with Epstein. Later in the same rant, Trump (of course) reverted to his usual pattern of blaming everyone else for his own actions.

Der US #Trumpismus lehrt, wie man DE mit Fakes regiert. #GermanProject2025

The pedophile Trump regime that occupies the United States Government is now actively aiding and abetting Neonazis in Europe to destabilize EU governments. That’s just a fact now after this week’s meltdown and tantrums by the State Department on behalf of malign tech oligarchs in Silicon Valley.

Atomwaffen Division: el grupo neonazi que pretendía instalarse y ‘pasar a la acción’ en España. Considerado terrorista en varios países y con varios muertos a sus espaldas. Una investigación compartida con @qbadiamasoni.bsky.social www.eldiario.es/catalunya/at...

my favorite past time when talking to much younger men is to give them advice on wooing women that is really just care and feeding instructions for iguanas

The Center for Countering Digital Hate does crucial research in this space that doesn’t pull punches, and the administration’s targeting of them here is despicable and cowardly. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

Jacob Wohl is the guy of “I overheard people talking in a hipster coffee shop about how much they love Donald Trump” fame. He’s apparently now making six figures securing pardons for fraudsters.

Merry Xmas! The NBA paid tribute to a young man returning home to OKC after “9 months deployed with Nat. Guard.” They didn’t say where he deployed. I looked up Ok deployments: would’ve been Kosovo, Middle East, or DC. His dad looked happy but not blown away to see his kid. I think he was in DC (1/2)

Merry Christmas yall

The Grinch: dead at 37, got into the chocolate

Tenet Media founder Lauren Chen, who secretly took money from two people with ties to Russian state media to involve conservative influencers in an unwitting propaganda scheme, is back in the US after being deported to Canada under President Biden. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Trump has already publicly bragged about murdering one American citizen without trial: Michael Reinoehl. Anyone that thinks it’s out of the realm of possibility isn’t dealing in reality.

Jeffrey Epstein’s brother Mark was convinced that Donald Trump signed off on the murder of his brother. He went so far as to report a tip to the FBI. Mark said Jeffrey was killed because he was about to name names.

Seeing Christmas photos from people who’ve mounted their TVs above fireplaces

i don’t have a pope (jew) but it’s my understanding that among catholics he is, in fact, holier than thou

The blatant selling of pardons is perhaps the clearest instance of criminal conduct authorized by SCOTUS. Pardons are a quintessential "official act." So, even when Trump takes a bribe to issue one, he is presumably above the criminal law.

In retrospect the Bush-era War On Christmas stuff seems more ominous than it did at the time. It was just cable news guys crying about dumb/fake shit, then and now; I mean the campaign to turn Christmas, which most everyone likes and feels warmly about, into just another thing to get mad about.

One thing I learned while reporting this is that social media monitoring firms now use AI to scan for logos, so your smiling selfie in a team hat is getting scooped up too! Merry Christmas from the capitalist surveillance state!

Santa Claus Pikachu at the Shibuya Pokemon Center in Tokyo

Stayed at the small town Japanese bar for so long that the proprietor evaluated my appearance very carefully and then put on The Cure, before coming over to confirm that, as he suspected, I fucking love The Cure

Solidarity with everyone else spending the holidays alone

something i learned when a fact checker hired by @swordsjew.bsky.social called me is that books only have fact checkers if the author insists on it or even hires one themselves. you can put anything in a book. that was the only fact checker i’ve ever talked to but i’ve been quoted in other books

I’m shocked, shocked I tell you, that the administration of grifter pedo Nazis did not stand by their promises

I’ve been worried about this. People who signed up for a US ‘self-deportation’ scheme say their payoffs were delayed, misdirected or never arrived – leaving them empty-handed in their home countries.

if i had 300 million dollars i'd spend all of it making a gritty, ultra realistic movie about the WW1 christmas truce that's a 3 hours long treatise on the pointlessness of war. all so i can have the lead offhandedly call another soldier a grinch 50 years before the book was written

“We are blessed to share a nation and a savior”. Through the official messaging channels of a Cabinet-level department. Christian Nationalism 101.

“Prime but with human beings” is how you get cattle cars and crematoriums

… were they still in the Mar A Lago bathroom?

A small (personal) example of this book’s intellectual dishonesty: My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media. Huh? When did I say that?!

There's a much better chance someone in this administration would sexually assault my child than anyone they sent to CECOT

Underdiscussed point: how much responsibility Substack bears for Bari Weiss being in the position she is now in. Fuck substack

“Like prime, but with human beings”

concentration camps.

I’ll just note that the US didn’t do this to China, which outright bans US social media websites

Now Miller demands that CBS fire those involved in the CECOT story: www.tiktok.com/t/ZTrcmYBkm/ Government censorship in practice

NEW: A variety of military and intelligence contractors have already signed on to help ICE's immigrant bounty hunter program. A review of procurement data shows 10 companies stand to make up to *ONE BILLION* dollars from the program by 2027. theintercept.com/2025/12/23/i...

The designation has no equivalent in German law. It's based on a single case with extremely questionable evidence. The German government has not adopted the designation, repeatedly emphasizing that the purely legal construct "Antifa East" poses no significant threat. rote-hilfe.de/meldungen/ko...

Shea Reynolds & Dee Duffy, Irish republicans, were sentenced to 11.5-12yrs (before a court without a jury in Belfast) were accused of installing a surveillance camera in the driveway of a retired police officer’s home in Northern Ireland to gather information for an operation against him.

White House Senior Advisor Stephen Miller has spent years weaponizing hatred to become the mastermind of Trump’s crackdown on marginalized groups. Zeteo traces his most hateful, strange, and downright cringey moments along the way.

lol