"You don't check in with the aggressor when you're talking to a putative friend and ally, and you don't report in afterwards. You talk with your friends, with your allies, with Ukraine, and then you tell the Russians, 'Here's the offer. Here's what you need to do.'" Tom Nichols of The Atlantic

“America, when we address the issue of whose side we’re on, you can’t be America first and be pro-Russia. Russia is a self-declared adversary of the United States. And, you know, here they are, mercilessly killing Ukrainians and trying to take Ukrainian land.” Rep. Mike Turner (R-Ohio)

Trump is playing 3-Dementia Chess

"They blame the low income women for ruining the country because they are staying home with their children and not going out to work. They blame the middle income women for ruining the country because they go out to work and do not stay home to take care of their children." -Ann Richards

How could Trump heal a headshot in 4 days, but not heal a hand bruise in 4 months?

Well lookie here - there's a 39% chance of another government shutdown by January 31.

Just like Hitler wanted Poland to succeed. "Russia wants to see Ukraine succeed. Putin was very generous in his feeling toward Ukraine, succeeding, including supplying energy, electricity and other things at very low prices." Donald Trump

I asked AI to calculate the correlation between states voting for Trump v Harris and how high they ranked in safety. livability, jobs, raising a family, and retirement living. In each category, states that voted Harris rated higher.

Trump now says Jeffrey Epstein was a pervert. Why did he think that? And did he ever actually look into it? Did he check what Epstein was doing to underage girls, kids, or anyone else?

SEXUAL ORIENTATION IS NOT A CHOICE. RACE IS NOT A CHOICE. PLACE OF BIRTH IS NOT A CHOICE. ETHNIC GROUP IS NOТ А CHOICE. HATE IS A CHOICE.

"so, apparently, the five stages of MAGA grief are denial anger podcasting publicly making out with JD Vance selling merch" Jeff Tiedrich on Erika Kirk

“Peter Thiel is leaving California if we pass a 1% tax on billionaires for 5 years to pay for healthcare for the working class facing steep Medicaid cuts. I echo what [FDR] said with sarcasm of economic royalists when they threatened to leave, ‘I will miss them very much.’” Ro Khanna

Robert Tucker, the outgoing Commissioner before Bonsignore’s appointment, also never worked as a firefighter. I must have missed the outrage.

“He could probably win in a few years. Listen, he couldn’t have existed before, right? Ten, twenty years ago, couldn’t have existed. Now, super popular. What’s twenty years from now look like?” Joe Rogan on Nick Fuentes running for president

Every time Trump posts, MAGA loses a seat in 2026.

The War on Christmas is being waged by those trying to make our country less welcoming for refugees. That is an attack on the very spirit.

Rob Reiner Special on CBS Ratings: 6.2 million. Trump Kennedy Center Honors on CBS: 2.6 million. Lowest audience ever.

The evil is thick and tangible—you can sense its weight pressing in. It assaults every sense, poisons our shared humanity, and shreds what little civility remains. Truth is drowned in deception and twisted narratives. We’ve sunk into a festering pit.

Anyone else remember when you didn't have to check to see if an article was Borowitz or The Onion to know if it was satire?

So they're garnishing wages for student loans but cut IRS agents who audited billionaires. Priorities.

Redacted doc recounts a limo driver hearing Trump mention “Jeffrey” and a girl; a woman later alleged Trump and Jeffrey Epstein raped her, said she feared being killed if she reported it, and was later found dead in Oklahoma in a disputed suicide.

"An absolute travesty. In firing nearly 30 career Ambassadors, the Trump Administration has weakened U.S. diplomacy worldwide. No President has done anything like this in the 101-year history of the Foreign Service." Nicholas Burns via NYTimes

Seasons Greetings 🎅

"Trump has not been accused of wrongdoing." Axios www.axios.com/2025/12/23/d...

So Trump's health care plan, ten years in the making, is asking drug companies to lower their prices?

Democrats on Democrats in Congress Appove 42% Disapprove 48% Republicans on Republicans in Congress Approve 77% Disapprove 18% poll.qu.edu/poll-release...

"You grow up reading Superman and you learn to value truth, justice, and the American way. And then you start to realize, especially over the last year, you don’t know where that all went. You don’t know what the American way even is anymore.” Jimmy Kimmel

'Astonishing': Internet erupts after canned '60 Minutes' segment leaked This could wind up being the most-watched newsmagazine segment in TV history!!" ex-conservative lawyer and Democratic candidate for Congress George Conway posted on X. "Congratulations to the Ellisons and Bari Weiss!"

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The NRA claims another. “He Carried Unimaginable Sorrow”: Parkland Shooting Survivor Donovan Metayer Takes His Own Life

Maybe CBS can just drop the C.

If radar interference is the issue, then offshore oil rigs—far larger, more intrusive, more hazardous to workers, and vastly more complex—should be halted on exactly the same grounds.

So they're determined to prosecute her but not the Epstein perps.

I guess "battleships" are new. Like "groceries".

Ro Khanna & Thomas Massie drafting impeachment against Pam Bondi over Epstein files. Massie says there’s twelve to fifteen Republicans who would support impeachment. Brian Tyler Cohen

Erika Kirk has endorsed JD Vance for 2028. I'm sure she'd love to be First Lady. But what will they do with that inconvenient Indian woman?