Reagan, 1981: “In the present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.” Clinton, 1996: “I say again, the era of big government is over. But we cannot go back to the era of fending for yourself.” Mamdani, 2026:

Please give a thought to people whose New Year’s Eve was spent in bomb shelters because a criminal invader was trying to destroy their energy infrastructure.

more on the nightmarish situation on X where users are apparently generating non consenting pirnographic imagery & sexual images of minors (csam) using xAI’s Grok. Musk merged xAI and X (fka twitter) last year.

so x dot com’s ai generated CSAM and they admitted it may violate US law and … i haven’t seen in anyone in power say much at all or call to stop using the platform

I can’t imagine why Trump, Bondi, Patel and Mike Johnson have fought so hard to cover up the Epstein files.

'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."

unvarnished gutter racism and Nazism from the president. a disgrace to our country.

In a win for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, a federal judge blocked the White House's attempt to defund the agency

50 ICE agents swarming a public library to arrest one person. This isn’t policing — it’s authoritarian spectacle. Armed intimidation, fear as policy, and taxpayer money burned to terrorize communities. This is fascism in plain sight. #TrumpWatch #Resist

PART 3 HAS ARRIVED! A comprehensive, chronological list of the 500 worst things Trump and his administration did in 2025. This installment covers April–June. We are documenting it all. Read and share:

A nice thread in which an actual expert patiently explains why the Secretary of Health and Human Service is not simply a liar, but an especially stupid one.

DOJ official Todd Blanche promised to dump his crypto holdings no later than 90 days after his Senate confirmation in March. But about a month into the job — before divesting — he ordered an end to investigations into crypto companies. By @coreygjohnson.bsky.social @shaw.al

Corruption so pungent, it wafts right off the page: Lobbyists who do pardon deals “say their going rate is $1 million. Pardon-seekers have offered some lobbyists close to the president success fees of as much as $6 million if they can close the deal.” Gift link www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

December 26, 2025

I'm sure the 22 million people whose healthcare premiums will triple in six days are delighted by this news, you inhuman fuck.

NO, NYTIMES, IT IS NOT THE DEPARTMENT OF WAR https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/26/world/africa/trump-isis-strikes-nigeria-christians-facts.html

Imagine how fried-by-white-supremacist-over-online-bullshit your brain needs to be to think that Britain or France's immigration policy is a greater threat than the nuclear arsenals of actual geopolitical rivals like China, North Korea or Russia.

The third paragraph reads as if the Russians wrote it. Maybe they did. In any event, it is an atrociously big lie; 1984-grade, as Aaron Rupar rightly says.

December 25, 2025

Remember when Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump’s lawyer, Alan Dershowitz, wrote an op-ed trying to justify having sex with kids? Seems relevant now.

concentration camps.

The CBS investigation portrays a modern concentration camp, similar to the Soviet GULAG (like CECOT, an acronym): sadistic guards, 24 hour lighting, isolation cells. Americans once opposed this inhumane system. The Trump administration sent innocent people there to suffer.

I highly recommend watching this segment, not just because the CBS News execs and the White House didn’t want you to, but because these men were tortured and they deserved to have their voices heard.

The video has been taken down from YouTube. You can still download it here: is.gd/paU8Ko

I wrote about Bari Weiss doing the hard work of defending the rich and powerful www.thenation.com/article/soci...

CBS News may not want you to see its CECOT reporting, but I'm happy to share this powerful video that our team produced this year.

So Bari Weiss’s first real editorial intervention at CBS is to repress coverage of American concentration camps.

Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

Why did CBS delete this promo and cancel this from airing in full?

Noteworthy use of term “Trump Department of Justice” in this public statement

In case people need a refresher: The Trump administration is fighting contempt proceedings y in federal court over what happened “inside CECOT” to human beings unlawfully renditioned there. Bari Weiss’s CBS News is now part of the coverup.

Vance comes down against “purity tests”—i.e., against criticizing the neo-Nazis. He’s happy to have them as part of his coalition.

the vice president is a klansman

This is a modern day Klan rally. Religious extremism at its most toxic and exactly the kind of dangerous fundamentalism that the US used to claim to free other countries from. Darkness.

Well, the masks weren’t on very tight to begin with, but they’re fully off now. Weak, pathetic, hateful, insecure weirdos.

Nothing to see here, just a right wing hyper-nationalist government going to their party’s youth event sponsored by a group with a martyred leader they’ve pledged to avenge, recruiting people to join their masked police force devoted to removing auslanders from ze homeland.

If Jeffrey Epstein did nothing other than procure massages for his friends, then there’s no crime here. by Robert Kraft

“.. The past few months have shown that even vague claims of ‘national security’ are enough to establish a new and dangerous norm that allows presidents to insert themselves in the management of private companies.” @reason.com @scottlincicome.bsky.social reason.com/2025/12/19/m...

Wedding Experts Say Engagement Ring Should Cost At Least Three Diamond Miners’ Lives https://theonion.com/wedding-experts-say-engagement-ring-should-cost-at-leas-1834915832/

Representative Jim Himes, the senior Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee: “Pete Hegseth happily releases a video after each strike... He recognizes when the American people see this video, they will be repulsed. It is basically the summary execution of two people clinging to wreckage.”

We were dead and now we're the hottest country in the world, the first country—quite frankly the only country—where a box of breakfast cereal costs $11. We're saying Merry Christmas, and also the r-slur, and we're getting back to saying "gay" so it means "stupid" again. Grown-ups are doing it now,

January 6 was like a much dumber version of Hitler’s Beer Hall Putsch and yet a plurality of American voters were like, Yeah, let’s give that guy the nuke codes again. An absolutely world historical debacle of societal ignorance. I’ll never understand it.

“When the German nation was, thanks to the inflation instigated and carried through by Jews, deprived of the entire savings which it had accumulated in years of honest work..when we were divested of the whole of our colonial possessions” Adolf Hitler, 1939 There’s not much difference

Trump's hastily delivered end-of-year address left people on both sides of the aisle scratching their heads: "What the hell did we just watch?"

Trump sounds like a maniac at some sort of demented open mic

It's one long run on sentence. Did he get into his son's stash?

If your grandfather acted like this, you would wait for him to fall asleep and then take away the car keys.

They updated the website today to remove the word "independent" Before (left), after (right)

Impeach him the second you get a majority, imo. Let this guy lay it all out.