love that software developers are advertising AI functionality in every single app now and it's up to you to try to figure out if they mean "this has spellcheck" or "everything you create in this app will sync in real-time to sam altman's personal laptop" or something in between

Among the newly-released Epstein files. This Justice Dept email from Jan 2020 'I wanted to let you know that the flight records we received yesterday reflect that Donald Trump traveled on Epstein's private jet many more times than previously has been reported"

*sips coffee* “Wonder what’s happening in national news this morning, let me just open BlueSky … “

Left: Greta Thunberg arrested for holding a placard in London Right: Labour's Baron Hain, "This gov is treating Palestine action as equivalent to ISIS or al-Qaeda, which is intellectually bankrupt, politically unprincipled and morally wrong. I'm deeply ashamed"

New post just out: My 2025 audit - looking at what I got right and wrong this year. And picking out lessons to improve my commentary in 2026. (Free to read) open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/t...

If they had any credibility before it's fully gone now that they're openly doing crisis PR for the president. Still funny that the best they could come up with is "The evidence you're about to see is fake"

RIP Slava Ukraini

This is a really important point from @jasonkoebler.bsky.social — could be a real document from 2019 but falsified that it was by Epstein bsky.app/profile/jaso...

Holy shit, was googling around to find out if this could possibly be real and came across this Rolling Stone June 2023 story about the EXISTENCE of this letter, but the content wasn’t known — until now www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

I’ve always believed that the biggest defence against a Farage win is not (sadly) the actions of a serious progressive govt improving things but the likely nature of the 650 REFUK candidates…

The shropshire canal 'sinkhole', the most exciting natural event of shropshire's year/decade, has been recategorised "giant hole". This often happens shortly after big hole appears and everyone denies responsibility. Not definitive. Developing... www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Even by my low expectations for Kemi Badenoch ‘violence against women and girls is something done by immigrants and nobody else’ has shocked me.

I’m no expert, but this is spot on and mirrors what we’ve been saying. Trump has dementia and is visibly declining. The rambling, the speed, the confusion, the fixation, the sundowning. It’s happening before our eyes. Watch this breakdown.

On the other hand…it looks as if some such letter to Larry Nassar has been known about for a while. www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

"Our President also shares our love of young, nubile girls." Written by Epstein, just before he died.

“The US Navy will lead the design of these ships, along with me because I’m a very aesthetic person,” Trump said.

“A breakthrough in talks,” they say. For the third day in a row, Russia is striking the Port of Pivdennyi. Ukraine’s largest port is burning for the second day straight. If this is a breakthrough, what does failure look like?

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

England water company CEO says long-term water security is under threat. Customers already paid, companies didn't build reservoirs, dumped sewage in rivers, neglected investment, paid dividends Now want to charge customers again, not raising capital from shareholders. End the scam. Nationalise.

Post Office had deal with Fujitsu to fix Horizon errors 19 years ago. They lied to courts, parliamentary committees. Postmasters knowingly wrongfully prosecuted, Lives destroyed. Compensation being paid from public purse, none by those who profited from the scandal. No one charged for conspiracy.

sad chart of the day showing fewer Britons are giving to charity - from a column by @johngapper.bsky.social on how venture philanthropy can transform small charities www.ft.com/content/3c24...

It's important to note for the consultant people: Kat is tied for first place, she's raised more money in this race than anyone else, and she hasn't used Twitter in months. It's a website filled with racist AI snuff films and it's rigged against you specifically. There's no good reason to use it.

Exclusive: I spoke with the SFPD officer who identified Luigi Mangione about whether his mother made those incriminating comments about him www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult... @rollingstone.com

Since the start of the full-scale invasion, Russia has been increasing its war spending every year. In the 2026 budget, the Kremlin plans to spend 12.93 trillion rubles ($163,4 billion) (almost 30%, a record since the Soviet era) on the war, the army, and weapons purchases.

I keep thinking of JD Vance's boast at his speech: 2.5 million people have "left" America (forcibly, cruelly, inhumanely, shattering families, invading cities, wrecking labor sectors, all for an evil desire for ethnic purity described as identical with economic success)

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

The very rarely-seen #journalese quadfecta. This is a back bench at the top of its game.

The Telegraph here advocating an surprisingly aggressive response to unwanted Christmas gifts.

the entire movement Shapiro supports has been crawling toward the inevitable gutter of anti-semitism, and he owns this too.

This is what captured media looks like.

Imagine any other POTUS whose chief of staff casually confirms, “Why yes, he does appear extensively in child sex-trafficking documents.”

Oh right

A story about a word. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/20/u...

🚨 The DOJ appears to have redacted Donald Trump’s name from the allegations made in this exhibit in the Epstein files. Trump’s name was in the original release. Now, it’s blacked out. See for yourself.

One thing worth remembering as all of this Epstein stuff roils is that we know of multiple occasions in which women were paid to keep them from talking about having sex with Trump.

HUNT: So do you think the actions the DOJ is taking this are specifically designed to protect Donald Trump? JAMIE RASKIN: Well, what else? Yeah

BLANCHE: What President Trump is saying is not that the Epstein files are a hoax. It's this game that Democrats have been playing for months around them that is a complete and total hoax. WELKER: Some Republicans are pushing for their release too, to be clear BLANCHE: Well, that's different

Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy

US seized another tanker carrying Venezuelan oil, this one not already on the sanctions list for Russian oligarchs and Iran. Panamanian flagged and belongs to a legal, China-based oil trader. Unclear what US will do with the cargo, but this looks like at least a partial blockade, an act of war.

"We've now been able to confirm that this image was in the back garden of Royal Lodge" Political Correspondent Joe Pike says Prince Andrew hosted Harvey Weinstein, Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell at Royal Lodge. #Newsnight

Pt1, 8/17/25, 60 Minutes Australia #EpsteinFiles 🧐 Why is Donald Trump refusing to release the Epstein files? www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMIP...

This is the shit that'll get them. We already have footage that all the public has seen (even the dopes) & photos of them together. A smart crook would leave a few photos/emails/notes in the files to show that what contact he did have with Epstein wasn't as bad as others, but instead they do this

Woman comes to US at age 6. Graduates nursing school. Work permit. No criminal record. Snatched and imprisoned by ICE for 6 months now. About to be forced back to Honduras. A life destroyed and one less nurse. Merry Christmas. www.nola.com/news/educati...

Cartoon by @andertoon.bsky.social. #EpsteinFiles

The Epstein file is the only thing Trump has ever taken his name off of

Antifascist stickers spotted in Dundee, Scotland