This is why America can't have nice things.

This is amazing. How is *Curtis Sliwa* the sanest conservative I have heard from in twenty years??

If 2025 didn't stop you nothing will

I don't want thick blood pouring through my heart. I want nice, thin blood pouring through my heart. Does that make sense?

Well this needs much more scrutiny. When they did the CT, Trump's doctor said it was age-related preventative. Now he says they scanned to "definitely rule out" cardio issues. Rule them out for WHAT? This quote is very concerning. Very.

happy birthday all horses (northern hemisphere)

It's official: Congress and Donald Trump have allowed the enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies to expire. Millions of Americans will either lose their health coverage or face dramatically higher premiums.

Another good practice for the New Year would be for all the non-fascists in America who want to opine about politics to really begin believing that urban America is Real America & that its denizens are The Authentic People. Get some self-respect & drop the volkish nationalist view that they're not

JACK SMITH: “We had proof beyond a reasonable doubt Trump engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results of the 2020 election, prevent the peaceful transfer of power, retained classified docs, obstructed justice… I’d charge an ex president again regardless of party.”

so old i remember an entire summer where obama had to distance himself from jeremiah wright. i dont think the msm has ever once asked trump or vance about yarvin.

House Republicans asked Jack Smith about me. I continue to live rent free in the heads of these MAGA idiots. h/t: @emptywheel.bsky.social

'South Park' alum Toby Morton responds to unnamed lawyers regarding his registering the Trump-Kennedy Center domain names: "Satire is protected speech... I'll proceed accordingly while you go f^ck yourselves."

like 75% of dem messaging right now should be “the party led by epsteins best friend is breaking into pre-k childcare centers so they can record your toddlers and put the videos on internet”

Just making sure that 2025 is definitely over

Curtis Yarvin, JD Vance’s friend & ideological influence, ended 2025 by claiming “only Hitler spoke the truth” about “too many subjects” & “Hitler was a genius.” Extremism isn’t fringe on the right. Once marginal online extremists like Yarvin are influential at the highest levels of government.

Marked safe from whatever nonsense this is. 🫠

We’re sleepwalking into a disaster

here’s hoping 2026 is just one year

It is kind of wild that no big media outlet has busted open the story of who is making DHS' posts on X. Whoever that may be is certainly plugged into hardcore white supremacist internet propaganda with a harder edge. "Groyper" would be underselling it. This is Daily Stormer-tier sludge.

Millions of peoples' health insurance skyrockets in a few hours. Let's check in on the president.

FEMA without core, experienced staff? What could possibly go wrong. Congress may actually try to derail this one, because they know FEMA is responsible for getting them out of dodge if the balloon goes up.

This will not end well.

just want to remind folks that pushback and public outrage stopped them from closing the CDC library. i bet pushback will stop them here, too

It really is a fitting metaphor for the current decline of the United States that the Trump administration is just literally throwing away NASA materials

They're going to *throw out* one-of-a-kind NASA archives?! Not even a year since the Inauguration & we're already at the 2nd-time-as-farce version of the burning of the Library of Alexandria.

Jack Smith: “Our case was built on, frankly, Republicans who put their allegiance to the country before the party.” Trump also had a “pattern” of rejecting information that didn’t fit his false narrative.

the onion has had many “please put down the lathe of heaven” moments but this one tops them all

So the “closed” daycares…were closed during the last week of the year, during which most daycares are closed. And the doors were “locked,” which they are at every daycare. And they wouldn’t let in a “journalist” with a camera…which they wouldn’t do at any daycare. Got it.

“Would you be surprised if President Trump directs the DOJ to indict you?” Jack Smith: “No.”

Question: Did anyone from the White House, including President Biden, ever tell you they expected you to bring charges against Donald Trump? Smith: No.

NEW: Per WSJ, U.S. national security officials confirm Ukraine did not target Vladimir Putin or his residences in a recent drone strike, despite Trump spreading Putin’s lies. www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

KEEP TELLING BULLIES "FUCK YOU, MAKE ME"

Stupid things Jim Jordan lawyers say when they're trying to make a case, but in turn provide useful evidence in other cases.

Score one for “fuck you, make me”

This unbelievably dim loser thinks he comes off well in this video, as he tries to force his way into a daycare. The employee asks “what department” they’re from, and he says “we are from ourselves” — because being an entitled white man empowers you to act like a vigilante, apparently?

Pushing back works

Jim Jordan staffer: Why did you subpoena Jim Jordan's phone records? Because Mark Meadows told us he had never seen Jim Jordan scared before. legacy.www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

Smith: He was getting calls from people he trusts, people he relies on—and he still refused to come to the aid of the people at the Capitol. That’s very important evidence for criminal intent in our case.

Half way through the Jack Smith transcript and it’s become abundantly clear why Jim Jordan didn’t want public testimony. Jordan spends a lot of time whining about the toll subpoenas, and Jack Smith shuts him down every time.

Jack Smith, p. 27: "There is no historical analog for what President Trump did in this case … [W]hat he was not free to do was violate Federal law and use knowing-- knowingly false statements about election fraud to target a lawful government function. That he was not allowed to do."

Question: But the president’s statements that he believed the election was rife with fraud—those are statements protected by the First Amendment, correct? Smith: Absolutely not. If they are made to target a lawful government function and are made with knowing falsity, then no, they are not.

Trump pulling out National Guard is also a sign that he isn't really deploying quite the dictatorial power that Stephen Miller apparently wants him to, and that the courts are still functioning, at least to some degree, as I suggested in this piece:

In case you were wondering, Jack Smith's testimony was the *opposite* of "total exoneration."

Donald Trump’s lying again. He lost in court when Illinois stood up against his attempt to militarize American cities with the National Guard. Now Trump is forced to stand down.

There are only 45 million foreign-born people living in the United States right now, about half of whom are naturalized citizens. So this ridiculous edge-lord post by taxpayer-funded trolls is suggesting deporting 55 million native-born citizens.

Surely Jim Jordan didn't think it would go this way.

Huh. What a coincidence.

You’ll never see this bit of transcript on Fox News—so enjoy Jim “loves live hearings for Hunter but somehow got camera-shy” Jordan getting abused by Jack Smith after Smith is asked about Trump’s Jan6 culpability.

On Jack Smith deposition, now released: 100% obvious why GOP refused to allow this as open testimony, aired live. It's damning. Testimony from John Dean or Alex ("wiretaps") Butterfield in Watergate days would have 1/10th the impact if just in print. What Smith says is far more incriminating.

U.S. Finds Ukraine Didn’t Target Putin in Drone Strike www.wsj.com/politics/nat... Disclosure of the findings comes as Trump appeared to play down the Russian claim of an attempted drone attack.