The unhoused hero of the Brown - MIT investigation. Details on Substack at: substack.com/@thefrankfig...

Today in the casual media normalization of personalist, nepotistic authoritarianism. Jared Kushner holds no senior Senate-confirmed post in the US government. He is the son-in-law & business partner of the president. This is unprecedented, massive corruption & media outlets should treat it as such.

STRICKLAND: Participate in the UFC White House event? "Just to go hang out with the fucking Epstein list? I'm good, dude."

Hi All, Timothy Snyder and I held a Substack Live a little while ago, and ranged widely on the Russo-Ukraine war. It ended up being divided into two parts. Here is part one where we talk about views of Russia, Ukraine and war in 2022. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...

The Trump administration’s rollback of environmental programs and policies has set Colorado back about a year in achieving its goals of cutting greenhouse gas emissions, the state's energy director tells @thenoellephillips.bsky.social

“At no time in history are the good guys shooting kids”

Former Ohio State athletes want creep billionaire Les Wexner's name removed from athletic facilities Wexner has ties to Epstein & a youtu.be/u29r-FD7kQc?...

Gregory Bovino and Trump's reign of terror have returned. I'm fighting to bring it to an end.

After seeing this you'll understand why there are so many wind turbines in Wyoming.

Mitt Romney is in the New York Times saying we should tax the rich.

People say you’re driving a moral panic, that you’re blocking good regulation, that there’s no point in resisting. And then you enforce a phone ban and miracles happen (qualitatively): nymag.com/intelligence...

⚡️President Zelenskyy met with Polish PM Tusk, thanked Poland for backing the EU’s €90B loan. Tusk said Ukraine’s fight is a shared fight for all of Europe.

Deputy AG Blanche just said the Trump DOJ will miss the Epstein files deadline. He says "several hundred thousand" docs will be released today, "and then over the next couple weeks, I expect several hundred thousand more." All files are required by law to be released today.

Here's my response to Trump's endorsement of Paul LePage last night. In short: I handled Trump and I'll handle Paul too.

UnitedHealth sued The Guardian after we reported on bonuses it paid nursing homes that cut hospital transfers for seniors. We kept reporting. Now we’re publishing this on allegations that delayed or denied transfers led to the deaths of nursing home residents: www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

The Alliance Defending Freedom helped to overturn abortion rights in America. Now they are bringing the blueprint that has been very successful here around the world, with a special focus on Europe www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

This catches something really important. The risk is less that this crew changes the regime and more that while trying to do so they cash out the whole thing. Which is one more powerful reason why resistance is patriotic.

Married to a US citizen, no record, ICE didn't care. Kidnapped Cell designed for 1 person, but he was in there w 9 others & left there for days, "without access to bunks, bedding, soap, showers, toothbrushes or clean clothes,” virtually no heating while nighttime temps dipped below freezing

It’s concerning that we’re enabling a police and surveillance state of unprecedented scale at the same moment when the veracity of any textual or visual document has become structurally suspect

Mr. Siemer, executive director of Mobile Care Chicago, a nonprofit converting RVs into mobile medical units for underserved Chicago communities, died Dec. 13 in a car crash. He was 43.

NYT: “In a newly obtained recording of a phone call from late 2020, President Trump can be heard pressing the speaker of the Georgia House of Representatives to hold a special legislative session to overturn Mr. Trump’s election loss.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/u...

I'll be rooting for District 13

ICE is refusing to provide emergency medical care to people in their custody. We're demanding a federal judge intervene so our clients can get the lifesaving care they need.

This is a drug commonly prescribed for the pain of urinary tract infections. The fact that there’s a photo of it in these files is a chilling reminder of one tiny detail of the toll his enterprise took on these young women’s bodies.

Not going to repost the images, but the first few feature the first paragraph of Lolita written in ink on the skin of a woman (or girl, impossible to tell)

This is great information. I have a feeling we will need this more than we realize.

Have you told your low info or MAGA family about this story of #ICELawlessness where #immigration officers who knew this woman was pregnant forced her on her stomach during detention & put their knee on her! This is rough, but we must bear witness! We must speak up, call Congress & tell others. 🧵

Rep. Joyce Beatty says she was muted during the Kennedy Center renaming vote. Read the full story at bit.ly/3YyZ610 #KennedyCenter #Congress #Trump #PoliticalDrama #Accountability #Politics #PoliticalNews

Particularly Dangerous Situation for fire conditions across much of the Foothills tomorrow. Hopefully we don’t see major fire storms.

A Chicago story — a 23-year-old U.S. citizen on his way home from the gym who ended up handcuffed by immigration agents — was in my report yesterday on 100 days of Kavanaugh stops: www.lawdork.com/p/100-days-o...

#1 gross #2 why do these people have so much free time and then choose to do all this horrible shit with it?

Shocking new target floated in Trump's rebrand crusade: 'Makes Stalin look humble'

Forget about the nonsense stories like the Kennedy Center being renamed or whatever Bari Weiss is doing At least 3,800 immigrant children were detained in 2025. Now, kids are not supposed to be kept more than 20 days At least 1,300 of them have been held longer than 20 days-some for over 4 months

By my count, Cristal Caballero would be the 14th Operation Midway Blitz defendant to have criminal charges dropped, with 17 defendants remaining. No convictions so far.

Denmark accuses Russia of having carried out two “destructive and disruptive” cyber-attacks in what it describes as “very clear evidence” of a hybrid war. The Danish Defence Intelligence Service (DDIS) announced on Thursday that Moscow was behind a cyber-attack on a Danish water utility in

I had to block 3 responders to this for arguing “free speech” or for once again inserting Palestinians into the mir response.

Ru is NOT winning. It’s gradually losing its grip. It’s time for the West to back Ukraine to win. « Novorossiysk was treated not merely as a fallback, but as a sanctuary — a place where submarines and surface vessels could operate, rearm, and launch strikes.. open.substack.com/pub/shankarn...

REP. @crockett.house.gov: “Speaker Johnson loves to run when things get tough. That's not leadership, that’s cowardice. We are supposed to be in till Friday. He has decided that our last day is going to be tomorrow.” (Epstein files deadline is Friday)

8yo is angry that Pajama Day stops at 2nd grade. He has written to the principal and started a petition. I think he read @rezekjoe.bsky.social’s NYT piece on Thomas Paine.

@ncar-ral.bsky.social President Dr Antonio Busalacchi is giving an emergency press briefing at #AGU25 Says he has really seen outpouring support from community today at AGU NCAR is the "jewel in the crown" of efforts to predict the Earth as a coupled system, he tells journalists

It's been a long time since I covered straight finance, but to see analysts -- and Bloomberg -- questioning the reliability of US inflation and labor data like this is remarkable. Strange(r) times ahead, I guess. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

All that said, the Democrats could sell renewables better (and so could the mainstream media, starting with not publishing garbage like this). Not least by preaching the gospel of how cheap it can be. It'll be free in the middle of the day in parts of Australia. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

TikTok will now be owned by the Ellisons, Jared Kushner's firm, and Abu Dhabi's state investment fund.

Thousands Tell The Patent Office: Don’t Hide Bad Patents From Review We filed our own comment with the USPTO regarding their attempt to weaken the important inter partes review (IPR) process that has been hugely helpful in getting rid of bad patents. Over at EFF, Joe Mullin wrote up an analysis of…

"All rise." The judge enters. The next question from the jury: "We desire clarity as to whether or not Judge Dugan needed to know the identity of the arrest warrant — for example, his specific name." The parties disagree as to the answer to the jury's question.

Larry Ellison will own a part of TikTok alongside the Chinese. Great job @schumer.senate.gov and team, you really solved the social media propaganda and privacy threat

Masnica: "How could you intentionally obstruct a warrant for someone if you don't know who it's for?"

These two democrats are killing it with this rapid response video to the corrupt Kennedy center name change ‘vote.’ Wow. Keep up the good fight @repbeatty.bsky.social & @pingree.house.gov 🔥