Presenting: Christmas lamby

If anyone is feeling particularly generous and itching to support independent journalism, I will personally send you a hat and tote

lol yeah that’s fuckin airtight wrap it up everybody no one’s ever been stupid and evil at the same time

"It is logically impossible to simultaneously be evil, corrupt, and incompetent" is an absolutely amazing take to have in the year of 2025

Related: We at @autonomynews.co had this story early, but we got scooped by staff writers at bigger publications, simply due to capacity. But @susanrinkunas.com stuck with it, reported an incredible story with previously unknown info, and got the goods: accountability.

NEW: the embattled interim CEO of Planned Parenthood Southeast Mairo Akposé has stepped down, per sources

To recap: One of the country’s most notorious pedophiles wrote a letter to another one of the country’s notorious pedophiles to say that the president of the United States has similar interests

In case people tell you that public criticism of the court doesn’t matter, here’s Brett Kavanaugh trying to walk back what he said in the ICE roving patrol case - when he blessed racial profiling & called the stops prompt. He was lambasted; @akalhan.bsky.social coined the term “Kavanaugh stops”

"Kavanaugh Stop" went from a skeet on here to Bluesky meme to crosspollinating over on X to Brett Kavanaugh's burner account seeing it there to a whiny defensive footnote about it in a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States. Juice.

You do not, under any circumstances, gotta hand it to the Supreme Court

Hageman held a town hall in March, where about 500 people showed up, and told them, “It’s so bizarre to me how obsessed you are with the federal government,” and “You guys are going to have a heart attack if you don’t calm down ... I’m sorry, you’re hysterical.”

The DOJ lawyer who cleared the way for this abortion ban is Josh Craddock, a fetal personhood devotee who believes the 14th Amendment requires states to ban abortion. He also wants to revive the Comstock Act: ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

The Trump DOJ is running scared and so they're putting out this kind of dreck on social media:

jesus christ: “Our president also shares our love of young, nubile girls."

You would think my exes would understand this and yet

i say this with nothing but love for all of you to whom this applies, but the moral rot in elite journalism is because journalism is a trade and it should be done by tradespeople and instead it's been professionalized in a way that makes it cozy to capital instead

ha ha ha YES

New Forbidden Course at Bari Weiss’s University of Austin: watching bootleg copies of 60 Minutes smuggled in from Canada

Americans having to bootleg broadcast news about our government’s offshored concentration camp is a level of fascism that immediately precedes democratic societies dropping leaflets on us from weather balloons.

Yes, CECOT is a concentration camp in the guise of a prison. The Venezuelans were the first people to *ever* be released from CECOT since Bukele opened the prison in January 2023. Seriously. The first.

The Free Speech wing of the Free Speech party has made it so you have to upload journalism like it's an ISIS video

there is one and only one political strategy, and that is: “hang trump like an anchor around the neck of every single elected republican and the party itself.” no ‘friends across the aisle.’ no ‘the fever will break.’ anyone not on board with that has to go. no exceptions

bari weiss saw this and decided that she had to hide it from the american public

Weissand Effect

The Streisand effect remains undefeated

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

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really cannot be emphasized enough that bari weiss has literally never done journalism. i don’t mean that in the pejorative sense. i mean that in the “has never performed the job she was hired to do” sense

Trump's DOJ is trying to overturn D.C.'s ban on assault weapons ... while claiming to be SO concerned about crime in the District that it must flood our streets with National Guard troops. I think a president worried about D.C. crime would not be trying to arm criminals with especially lethal guns?

This is what is filling the vacuum in hostile states - because they are the ones with the funding. As we prepare for 2026, won’t you consider a donation to make sure ACTUAL comprehensive sexual and maternal health remains an option? wawchealth.com/donate/

We really needed more interviews with the Abu Ghraib wardens to get their side

"The only newsroom I'm interested in running is one....where we assume the best intent of our colleagues." Bari's editorial choices over the last decade plus show she has not earned the presumption of good intent. The exact opposite, actually

Folks can submit comments opposing these transphobic proposed rules here:

This is mob shit and they could try to use it on any other kind of medical care they don’t like. Abortion, birth control, childhood vaccines

Can’t stop thinking about this. The Trump administration is essentially extorting hospitals into dropping gender-affirming care—without Medicare or Medicaid they’d go bankrupt. It’s akin to a backdoor ban even for people with private insurance, a proposal that wouldn’t pass Congress.

A fantastic NYT report: Donors to Trump get pardons, jobs, & access - and benefited from regulatory decisions the Trump admin has made. SUPER timely as SCOTUS is about to kill agency independence & give POTUS more control over agencies (likely to donors' benefit) www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

We'll be leaving 2025 with the terms "Kavanaugh stop" and "Weiss-washed" in the lexicon

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.

Breaking: CBS News will be renaming 60 Minutes to “88 Minutes”

now seems like a good time to remind you all to support independent, worker run, billionaire free, and/or reader funded news how and where you can.

CBS News postponed a "60 Minutes" segment Sunday because it lacked a Trump admin interview, per an email we obtained from correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi, who said the decision by EIC Bari Weiss gave the White House a "kill switch." with @liamjscott.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Tell Garnet stuff!!

You’ve likely heard of “Baby Olivia” bills, model legislation enacted in six states so far requiring schools to show a biased, inaccurate video about fetal development from the anti-abortion group Live Action (or a similar video). The lead sponsor of Ohio’s version runs a crisis pregnancy center.

Rep. Melanie Miller is behind a bill that advocates say would stigmatize abortion and send more clients to her nonprofit. “Crisis pregnancy center director introduces anti-abortion model legislation” is a ready-made headline—so why was this fact only a footnote?

"Has feminism failed women brought to you by bank of america" is my MKULTRA sleeper agent activation phrase

They came to me and they said "Sir it's time for your weekly cognitive test, something we make all healthy presidents do" and I said thank you. That's very nice

BREAKING: At least 16 files from the Epstein release disappeared from DOJ's webpage, including a photo of Trump, with no explanation.

This is no different than calling people warning that Roe v Wade was about to fall "hysterical"