I lost my job, my kids have measles, and there’s no toys under the Christmas tree this year. But at least now there aren’t any black wise men in my town’s manger display.

On Christmas Eve, these shitbag thugs are out hunting today's Jews and fugitive slaves for fun and overtime. May every last one of them die painfully of boils and fulminant syphilis as every member in their families is too ashamed to be glimpsed near their lonely deathbed.

If Network NEWSCASTS, and their Late Night Shows, are almost 100% Accurate about a Pathological Liar and Convicted Felon who Incited an Insurrection, tried to Steal a Fair Election and is Covering up Sex Crimes against Children, shouldn't his Disgraceful Presidency be terminated? I say, YES!

2025 was a very strange year to be a person whose Wario is Bari Weiss.

This issue alone is going to cost them seats in places they don’t expect. They don’t understand the grass roots anger and hostility there is about this, and billionaire CEOs of Cantor Fitzgerald like Lutnick aren’t going to fool them with their con men sales pitches.

“The Holdovers” is a great, under-appreciated Christmas film — and it solidifies Giamatti as one of our finest screen actors. 💕 (Payne, 2023)

The 2025 Headline of the Year Nominees 🧵

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The rich and powerful don’t get their wages garnished when they default on a loan. They declare bankruptcy and end up paying pennies on the dollar, if anything. Like Trump did many, many times.

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Oh.

The permanent constitutional condition of the manufactured man, thought Ahab, is sordidness.

I have some bad news

Turning Point USA was founded in 2012 by Charlie Kirk and Bill Montgomery Two of their major policy pushes were a more prominent gun culture and zero COVID restrictions Bill Montgomery died to the COVID virus Charlie Kirk died to gun violence

Holy shit these unredacted files are insane.

weirdly terrifying moment in this explainer video about how Beethoven was able to "hear" music after he went deaf

"Maybe it’s the age, maybe it’s my age; whatever, it’s hard to insist on the importance of movies when your country is sinking into totalitarianism. Yet it’s what I do, so, like most of us who feel caught in the amber of our own powerlessness, I keep on doing it." Here are the year's best films.

The Trump admin sanctions several European officials today after Elon Musk was fined for several violations of their Digital Services Act.

“He raped me.” “Donald J Trump had raped her along with Jeffrey Epstein.” “She was found with her head ‘blown off’… there was no way it was a suicide.” Now we’re starting to see why Trump was hiding the Epstein files, and it probably gets much worse.

“They wanted to get me for something, so they got me for something.” Hunter Biden tells conservative podcaster Shawn Ryan why the gun charges he was hit with were unconstitutional (and not used against anyone else) — and how Don Junior played a role in his being charged.

New ‘The Bear’ Season Features Mutant Carmy Terrorizing Chicago After Falling Into Vat Of Beef Juice https://theonion.com/new-the-bear-season-features-mutant-carmy-terrorizing-chicago-after-falling-into-vat-of-beef-juice/

As for understandable doubts about economic stats: seems impossible for Trump to rig them. GDP is reported by the 500-employee BEA, with a director appointed in 2022. Job-wage-inflation stats are from BLS, whose boss now was the #2 last 11 years, 2,000 employees. Both are career fed statisticians.

Sabrina Carpenter Undergoes State-Mandated Lobotomy To Cure Nymphomania https://theonion.com/sabrina-carpenter-undergoes-state-mandated-lobotomy-to-cure-nymphomania/

On left: Bari Weiss: 60 Minutes segment failed to show Government view that CECOT detainees are due judicial review On right: Judge Boasberg Dec 22: "The Government itself has not even contested that the detainees who now make up the CECOT class received inadequate process prior to their removal"

#GDP 🇺🇸

“.. More than 42 million Americans hold student loans.” @cnbc.com www.cnbc.com/2025/12/23/s...

🔥 @jessicatarlov.bsky.social : “J.D. Vance’s speech was incoherent— saying everyone is invited and then saying you don’t have to apologize for being white and we’re a Christian nation, doesn’t feel particularly inviting… Trump’s approval with Gen Z voters is at 29%, 32% with Latino voters…”

Earlier this year I gave a talk to the Akron Roudtable about sports gambling. Here's the text of that speech alexshephard.substack.com/p/sports-gam...

Bari Weiss is destroying CBS.

The maga divide summarized: does the gutter racism that is the mortar of our coalition apply to Jews or not? And if it doesn’t do we mean that or are we just pretending for the moment?

Ian Parker on Pete Navarro is every bit as elegantly savage as you would hope. A profile in hack politics for the ages.

I feel like my experience after 3 months back on LinkedIn might be a microcosm of society right now? Zero job leads, many requests from people I don't know for favors, and now I'm mostly just being encouraged to play online games instead.

if you're not dropping n bombs in the group chat, can you really be trusted?

I think bigotry has become a kind of loyalty ritual among young republicans, it’s how you show you’re one of them www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Vladimir Putin wanted useful idiot Steve Witkoff to represent the US because he targeted him as someone whose greed would be easy to exploit. And when it comes to the Trump admin, Putin gets what he wants. www.wsj.com/world/putin-...

Andrew Tate and Jake Paul losing the same weekend. Sad.

The author is super cool.

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

Why might GOP's refusal to extend the ACA subsidies be a political loser? Well, in new polling, record-high share of Americans say it's the federal government’s responsibility to make sure all Americans have health care coverage. Also... (short 🧵)

FLASHBACK… Seems relevant today…

They are suddenly no longer interested.

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TRUMP SUPPORTER: “The claim he walked into dressing rooms during Miss Teen USA is a complete lie.” REPUBLICAN: “He admitted it on Howard Stern.” TRUMP SUPPORTER: “He was clearly joking.” REPUBLICAN: “We can all go back and watch it for ourselves.”

Trump hypes his new healthcare plan of asking healthcare companies to lower prices

Trump proposed UBI with his HSA plan and no one realized it. It's say $3k every year, direct to lower income ACA plan holders who qualified for subsidies. Most don't pay income taxes. Under HSA, they can pay a 20 pct penalty to take the cash out. So they net $200 per month. Thats UBI

Nerdpost alert: Played a green black mill deck this morning in magic arena and he was kicking my ass until he got greedy, played his win con (resurrecting all his dead guys) and milled his own deck and lost (hubris wins are so good)