Kevin’s chart really says it all. this is what it looks like when a vulnerable user gets sucked in by an engagement optimized chatbot

“I’m sure you’re aware of our connections with the Trump Administration,” the North Carolina Republican Party's communications director wrote in an email response to us. “I would strongly suggest dropping this story.” We didn't. #ICYMI, read the story that he wanted dropped:

Imagine if France (and the EU) had a simple portal where anyone could demand that data brokers delete all their personal data, like in California. #CNIL #EDPS @ec.europa.eu @europol.europa.eu #GDPR

Trump’s Tangled Web of Deal-Making, Policy and Riches An illustrated guide of the first year of profiteering. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

This means the VA won't cover abortions EVEN in the case of rape, incest, or serious threat to the health of the patient. The DOJ memo was authored by Josh Craddock, one of the chief legal advocates for fetal personhood, i.e. imposing a nationwide abortion ban through the courts.

31 December 1931 | A French Jewish girl, Felicie Rajter, was born in Villerupt. On 14 September 1942 she was deported from Drancy to #Auschwitz. On 16 September 1942 she was murdered in a gas chamber near #Auschwitz II-Birkenau.

"The dismissal or sidelining of senior military leaders by the secretary—often without clear explanation—began from the start of this year, and it sent a troubling signal throughout the force that professional disagreement may carry extreme personal risk. That perception alone is corrosive."

NEW: President Trump's first veto of his second term kills a unanimous bill to fund a major drinking water project in Colorado. Trump had threatened punishment for Colorado for imprisoning his ally Tina Peters. www.9news.com/article/news...

Destruction of science in USA continues: Koroshetz’s departure means 14 of NIH’s 27 institutes and centers now lack a permanent leader #NIH #Neuroscience

30 December 1937 | Dutch Jewish boy, Jacob Sack, was born at The Hague. He was deported to #Auschwitz from #Westerbork in February 1943. He was murdered in a gas chamber after the arrival selection. --- ▶ The first two gas chambers created near Auschwitz II-Birkenau: https://youtu.be/Rr6lF75fDmU

NEW: America’s stillbirth crisis. A threat in your medicine cabinet. The drying planet. Here are some ProPublica investigations you may have missed this year.

"His overall behavior in recent months, she told me, was that of a president who would stop at nothing to remain in office even after his second term expires. 'In my opinion,' Greene predicted, 'we’re going to see more war. ... {gift link} www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/m...

Hope legacy media will do a better job reporting on Trump in 2026. Stop sanewashing. youtube.com/shorts/epoCY...

Insight: Trump’s funding cuts put America’s consumer watchdog on the brink of collapse reut.rs/4qvP4JZ

defence24.com/geopolitics/... @museumofloot.bsky.social

Donald Trump and the DOJ are breaking federal law by continuing to cover up for Jeffrey Epstein's decades-long, billion-dollar, international sex trafficking ring.   We’re fighting for justice for survivors, accountability for abusers and safety for the public.

“You are not entitled to a response from us, or anyone, ever,” is what a US Education Department spokesperson wrote to one of our reporters, @megomatz.bsky.social, after she repeatedly tried to get comment from the department and its officials. My column on the condemnation of good journalism.

Exclusive: A year after Tenet Media was busted for funneling Russian money to MAGA pundits like Benny Johnson and Tim Pool, a Trump administration effort involving State and the FBI has welcomed Tenet's founders back into the US. @thebulwark.com: www.thebulwark.com/p/lauren-che...

Remember sitting in history, thinking “If I was alive then, I would’ve…” You’re alive now. Whatever you’re doing is what you would’ve done.

New, from me: The NYT reporter who specializes in profiles of beleaguered right-wingers on campus went to New College...and found out that things were going ok! So let me explain some pretty massive errors of omission: 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-nyt-re...

NYT just ran a bizarrely credulous piece about New College, the school that DeSantis and Rufo have turned upside down. There is one good outcome of the article: This @donmoyn.bsky.social post, which is one of the best pieces of media criticism I've read all year. open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...

Trump's DOJ was monitoring all the movements of the Miami Herald reporter who was covering the Epstein case.

2025 is the year the question “Could it happen here” got answered.

The DOGE-triggered brain drain has destroyed government science, endangered research, and left America fading to black.

I feel like the Framers were very specific about this not happening

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

#Ukrainians do not need to be persuaded that peace is needed. Ukrainians want peace more than anyone else, because war is our daily reality. A lasting peace and a ceasefire depend on Russia, which started this war and continues to wage it. There is no peace because Russia wants war⤵️

J. D. Vance has “clearly made the calculation that anti-Semites are part of the Republican Party’s base, and he can’t afford to shunt them to the side as he plots his own presidential bid,” Franklin Foer argues.

🇺🇸 L'Académie américaine de pédiatrie poursuit en justice le ministère de la Santé, qui lui supprime des millions de dollars de financements. Elle y voit une vengeance politique, n'a "aucune autre source" pour compenser et s'attend à devoir licencier.

A map of Russia's attack overnight and this morning. Russia has been terrorizing Kyiv for more than 10 hours. As of now, it is known that 28 people were injured, 13 of whom were hospitalized. The attack continues.

Russia attacked Ukraine with 500 drones and around 40 missiles, including Kinzhal missiles. The main strike targeted #Kyiv, hitting energy facilities and civilian infrastructure. The Russian attack left nearly one third of Kyiv without heating. Russia is a terrorist state.

How are these fits of presidential incontinence never covered as their own news events in NYT? Hours of sick hateful bile from the curdled joyless leader of the Christian nationalists sitting in the ruins of the tinsel trimmed White House he’s demolishing — seems like a story to me.

Here’s the U.S. government being officially religious in a country with no official religion.

‘We Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet’—Trump’s Mass Deportations Will Only Grow From Here www.wired.com/story/expire...

Legacy media doesn’t seem to think that crazy demented behavior by the president is newsworthy if the president is Trump? How to lose trust 101, #journalism

President Donald Trump gifted the world with nearly 200 Truth Social posts (and counting) on Christmas Day, where he amplified conspiracy theories about the 2020 election and called for a member of Congress to be deported.

Neither the New York Times nor the Washington Post published stories about Trump writing 200 unhinged posts on Christmas Day

I did not understand this: one of the five Europeans the US has barred from traveling to the United States...is a permanent resident who lives with his family in the US. Now he is worried about being arrested and deported for the crime of monitoring online hate. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/25/u...

A bipartisan group of US senators released a statement on Russia's Christmas attacks of Ukraine,calling Putin "a ruthless murderer"with no interest in peace They reiterated that Zelenskyy agreed to a Christmas truce,while Putin declined Thank you for your support! foreign.senate.gov/press/dem/rele…

Don’t mean to be a bother, but it would be so nice if The Economist informed its loyal readers about this behavior and what it means. #journalism #UK #financial

DON’T. PRINT. LIES. IN. THE. NEWSPAPERS. Every damn day. It’s exhausting.

"It is essential people know what malign information's influence is and what the techniques behind it are, as knowledge goes up, our chances of being influenced goes down, and that builds up societal resilience".

More than 2,900 attorneys quit the Justice Department or were fired during the first 10 months of this year -- about triple the number who depart in a typical year. personnel records obtained by Reuters show.

GOP operatives Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman, convicted election fraudsters, were paid $960,000 in the second quarter to secure a pardon for a former nursing-home operator who defrauded the government of $38 million. Trump pardoned the man, Joseph Schwartz, last month.

So I have the cover story in next month's TNR. I interviewed the heads of police groups; immigration defense attorneys, ex-judges and ex-prosecutors; former DOJ and DHS officials, and the former head of Border Patrol. They're all horrified at what we've seen, and they all fear what's coming.

NEW: last night, the US govt launched an assault on the ‘global censorship industrial complex’, aka European tech researchers/campaigners. It’s a deeply chilling move & speaks as to why we need international solidarity more than ever. open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

Former EU commissioner and activists barred from US in attack on European tech regulators

Can’t understand why The Economist finds it impossible to report on Trump’s involvement with Epstein in any meaningful or timely way. If that’s not news, I don’t know what is. Tired of waiting. Cancelled subscription.

CBS has become state regime media.

Boycott CBS.