The DOJ is lying when it says they *just now* received Epstein files from the Southern District of New York.

Anyway, if you want to help families be able to afford to eat this holiday season and beyond, consider making a regular cash donation to your local food bank. And if you’re in Chicago, bring by your spare winter gear, books, toiletries, and supplies! We could use them in our mutual aid shelves.

And I’m not pro-commercializing the shit out of holidays. I just think it’s probably a recession indicator when even corporations are ditching significant sales and events so they can squeeze every penny out of us, rather than their usual song-and-dance every December. Maybe I’m imagining it idk

Look….. I know I’m an adult so it’s different…… but I feel like this year’s Christmas is the least Christmas-y I’ve ever experienced. Personally, because of all of the horror we’ve had this year. But also commercially, I feel like even companies are phoning it in or not even acknowledging it.

This is a lot of words to say that DOJ is in violation of the statutory deadline and will take even longer to produce records that were due last week.

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!

SpaceX doesn't inform the FAA about its explosions. Because Elmo thinks he's too wealthy to have to obey laws. www.flyingmag.com/spacex-waite...

I’ll take immigrants over pederasts any day.

Pompous and arrogant is no way to run a network

It’s no surprise — @profgalloway.com has noted this gilded age issue for months. www.politico.com/news/2025/12...

Did you forget to order a Christmas present and now it's fuckin' Christmas Eve? Are you boned six ways to Sunday? Fucked beyond belief? Good news! You can get them an Onion subscription! They'll get a year of papers in the mail AND an emailed PDF certificate to print out instantly. Christmas saved!

If only we had an amendment to the Constitution that protected speech . . .

Ouch, that #SpinelessSpeaker Johnson quote. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

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Soon we’re all going to be penalized for speaking unkind words about the führer and liberals — the resistance will be labeled as “Enemies of the State” and become National Security Threats. They’re going to take away our voices if we don’t stop them.

This is sinister. If you're wondering why so many people don't report sexual assault, this is why.

A little message from me that might help anybody who finds this time of year a little tough. niallharbison.substack.com/p/to-those-w...

💚 Colbert!

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One final image of the interior of the Natural History Museum of London…for now! September 2025 #Photography #InteriorArchitecture #Museum #London 📷

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Mockler: He said he grabbed women because they let him do it. You heard that clip, right? Abuse of power dynamics. Now that he's in office, he's abusing these same power dynamics to cover up the files, delay the releases, redact.

Kash lied to congress.

I've now watched the censored 60 Minutes report on CECOT. If you watched it too—and if you have any decency at all—I'm sure you came to the same conclusion I did: winning elections won't be enough; people like Stephen Miller and Kristi Noem will need to be charged and imprisoned.

Mitt Romney said the quiet part out loud: the rich should pay more in taxes. The Wall Street Journal attacked him for it. But he’s right—and ignoring the math is how democracies crack. open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

This boy badly needed our help today. To anybody who comments on my posts / shares / supports my work this is the only way I can say thanks. By using the good will and support to spend time helping the dogs who need it most and who have no one. Have a lovely holidays 💕

Read Rayne on the human cost of having a conspiracist crank as HHS Secretary. www.emptywheel.net/2025/12/23/n...

Putz. Prove me wrong.

I, however, did read the book, and I reviewed it, here. Though I did incorrectly predict Taibbi wouldn't sue as his lawyer would be competent. The complaint isn't based on anything Eoin alleges but on what he believes is implied by the cover and title, an implication that is clarified in the opening

Matt Taibbi wants "in excess of a million dollars" from @eoinhiggins.bsky.social for writing a book he probably didn't read and certainly didn't understand. Being that Taibbi's recent hobby has been filing and celebrating SLAPP suits, this isn't unexpected, nor is the childishness of the complaint.

“All I’m saying Suzie is be careful around stairs and windows.”

Holy shit! On the morning of the Delaney Hall confrontation, an ICE thug who would shove @replamonica.bsky.social later in the day used a racial slur. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The sentencing of Miles Guo, the Chinese exile and former billionaire convicted in July 2024 of stealing hundreds of millions of dollars from followers of a cult like anti-CCP group he started with Steve Bannon, has been delayed again, from January to April.

Politico's report that Amazon was stonewalling the Epstein investigation is one of the more interesting details to come out from the dumps. www.politico.com/news/2025/12...

I mean yeah it’s an authoritarian takeover but can we take some comfort in the fact that the people doing it are INSANELY stupid?

The DOJ identified at least 10 co-conspirators who worked with Epstein and Maxwell. It’s obvious to anyone with two eyes that Epstein and Maxwell were engaged in organized crime, yet NO ONE ELSE involved in Epstein’s sex trafficking ring has faced criminal charges. Why?

It turned my stomach. It’s difficult to watch, but we must. And we need this same transparency on the similar atrocities we KNOW they are committing in detention centers here on US soil. It must end.

BREAKING: Huge loss for Trump administration at Supreme Court, which rules that the Trump administration had lacked authority to federalize and deploy the National Guard to execute laws in Illinois. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

Never let it be said that a single former OLC law prof can't preserve federalism. @martylederman.bsky.social

He was also in the SHU, so his emails would have gotten even more scrutiny. In fact, you might just assume the audience for this was BOP.

The commonality bt the 60 Minutes Fiasco and the failed Jeffrey Epstein rollout is the incompetence of the person leading the effort.

“Why isn’t there a White History Month?” Because every month is White History Month. History is written by the victors — and colonizers. Much of the American history and literature we learned for generations erased the contributions of marginalized groups. open.substack.com/pub/jesspipe...

5. These people are all incredibly stupid but also venal but also certain they can get away with it. Maybe they can, but it’s game over for Trump with this latest Epstein dump and the ever shittier polls, so the timing of these nincompoops is exquisitely boneheaded.

4. Nepo Baby was about to announce the back stopping of the Warner deal by his rich daddy and did not want any more trouble with Trump complaining about 60 Minutes, so this seemed like a good idea. Now he will have to increase the price by a lot to get it. What a dope.

2. She was only paying superficial attention to the piece and did not do any in depth checking of the issues she raised. 3. See billionaires reference above: someone in power who is also incompetent and in over his skis whom she reports to directly told her to spike it and she complied.

This is an excellent explanation of how unbelievably incompetent and full on nonsense the note from Weiss was. My guess: 1. Someone who has very little experience is journalism (and not the stuff that tickles billionaires) is clearly a mile wide and foot deep as an editor and in far over her skis.