MFP News Editor Ashton Pittman spoke with at least one federal employee who described being “shocked and chilled to (her) core” after receiving an email directing them to turn in coworkers thought to be working against efforts to find and cancel DEI programs.

“the Copyright Office has maintained – correctly – that AI-generated works cannot be copyrighted, because copyright is exclusively for humans…[this] means that the only way [Getty or Disney or Universal or Hearst] can get a copyright is to pay humans to do creative work.”

"Everywhere I went in Chicago, there were community members patrolling streets, following government agents, warning victims, and pushing back any way they could — and always, the whistles around their necks, the sign you’re around allies." (via @hammerandhope.bsky.social)

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

Talented white guys have no problem getting good jobs. Any white guy complaining about discrimination or wokeness is, by definition, a mediocre loser. If you can't succeed in any industry as a white guy, it's because you have serious personal defects or skill deficiencies worthy of self-reflection.

This renewed push for sex-segregated education is a counterrevolutionary project aimed at undoing constitutional equality and reinstating a rigid vision of sex roles under the guise of civic renewal. trib.al/QpUlr5L

Biggest free speech "warriors" keep trying to censor everyone critical of them. Many such cases

This is perfect. The DOJ's embarrassing snafu with disappearing redactions was the fault of Elon Musk. Musk cancelled government subscriptions to Adobe programs that would have made the redactions permanent. What a pack of fools.

HHS is trying to force Seattle Children's into doing a Sophie's choice of abandoning trans youth or see kids with cancer or other serious illness have their coverage and care disrupted. That's what this is about. Hopefully, the courts put a quick stop to this like the subpoenas.

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This administration lied about the people it sent to an overseas torture prison. It lies about the people it’s deporting. It lies every day to gain political advantage. Not a chance in hell they won’t lie about huge swaths of people they suspect might vote for the other party.

I’m going to need to see the declination memos from DoJ where they declined to prosecute the Epstein co-conspirators, and I’m gonna need to see them for every single person they declined to prosecute.

This is a great article that continually steelmans the opponent's arguments and finds that every argument isn't supported by the data.

Walmart has long been a facilitator of fraud on a mass scale, a ProPublica investigation found. More than $1 billion in fraud losses were routed through the company’s financial services between 2013 and 2022. (Published Jan. 2024)

Two workers who make Pennsylvania’s minimum wage would each have to work 96 hours per week to afford the area’s median asking rent.

MIT’s NANDA initiative found that 95% of generative AI deployments fail after interviewing 150 execs, surveying 350 workers, and analyzing 300 projects. The real “productivity gains” seem to come from layoffs and squeezing more work from fewer people not AI.

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

This is what every institution he threatens with frivolous defamation suits should be doing

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...

How interesting. Nigeria is still sitting on about 36 BILLION barrels of oil. 🤔

Well... yeah.

🔥APATOW: “Trump doesn’t go after ‘South Park’ because they know how accurate the criticism is, and they don’t want more people to know about it.” (H/T Daily Beast)

um...

The Department of Homeland Security finally has a leader cruel and campy enough to match its stated mission. trib.al/6dPG1WZ

"These words of Pope Benedict XVI remain a timely reminder that on earth, there is no room for God if there is no room for the human person. To refuse one is to refuse the other." Pope Leo XIV, Christmas Eve homily, Dec. 24, 2025. Image: Christ in the Rubble, by Kelly Latimore Icons

Trump has found an aesthetic to define his second term: grotesque AI slop. www.404media.co/the-ai-slop-...

Merry Christmas to all, and to Donald Trump, good night

I am really glad I stopped posting there, especially any photos of my dog Max or the art I reported on

From classrooms to communities, health workers in Ghana are ensuring girls like Rosemond, 13, receive the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine and are not left behind in the fight against cervical cancer. Learn more: https://unicef.link/3Ml2I49

Extremely funny to call the pope “holier-than-thou”

“Finding” a million additional Epstein documents on the day everyone is distracted with their families is as competent as Pam Bondi’s coverup is ever going to get.

I worked for DOJ. I don't think people realize how dangerous it is for the White House to takeover the daily operations of the Justice Department.

Everyone saying this in the ramp up to the election were correct and the party loyalists still argue online for free that the Dems can do no wrong.

Tesla doesn't recongise Trade Unions. Apple doesn't recognise unions. Amazon is anti-union. McDonald's is anti-union. Starbucks is anti-union. Google is anti-union. Walmart is anti-union. The big corporations are not on your side.

Dr Assal Rad— “𝘋𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘩 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦 is such a weird way of saying Israel killed them.”

A child being interviewed live on TV about the snow uses the moment to call for a free Palestine. Children are the very best of us. 🫶🏻

Fewer than 50,000 Christians now live in Palestine under threat from Israel’s illegal occupation and attacks.

Having a normal Christmas morning

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A US official told Reuters that Washington will focus on targeting Venezuela oil in lieu of 'military options'.

it's crazy that 500 years ago, you would see the ruler of your country maybe once in your life and hear whispers that they're the Sun God, but now with social media, you get to see on a daily basis that they're the most unhinged, idiotic, and unhappy person you know

While I hope everyone celebrating Xmas today has had a lovely, peaceful time, my heart remains in Palestine, with the people of Palestine. 🇵🇸 #StopIsrael #FreePalestine

Educators can learn caution from AI mistakes in Los Angeles and San Diego. But they also face pressure to adopt the technology quickly

As a new year approaches, people in #Gaza share their hopes for the days ahead. They imagine homes rebuilt and classrooms reopening — holding on to hope despite everything they have lost. Every person, every child, has the right to live, learn, and dream of a better future.

“Something like the plate tracker helps to encourage and promote legal transparency and legal accountability, especially when they're going around, switching plates, trying to hide, trying to be undetectable,” said Sherman Austin. Full story: lataco.com/ice-license-... By Aisha Wallace-Palomares