“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:

People like this are why prison abolition is a terrible idea. Pulled off a massive fraud. Got his sentence commuted by defrauding people, including his original victims, into believing he'd rehabilitated. Immediately lept into a third fraud. Reform? Desperately needed. Abolition? Never.

"While Dems are likely to retake the House, they’ll need everything to go right to win both chambers. But if it happens, a year from now we’ll be talking about Trump's full lame-duckification & what it means for 2028. That’s a nice note on which to end a year in which hope was in such short supply."

I mean, let's talk about the obvious.

What's interesting abt this story is 18-yo who returned to MAL saying Epstein had pressured her for sex is not clearly IDed as girl whose father was MAL member who really let Trump have it. She could still be, but if not, it would be THREE (known) MAL girls Epstein assaulted before he was reported.

Articles. Of. Impeachment.

i recorded like 30 minutes of footage for this 15 minute video. youtu.be/j2_o-YK8tJo?...

He was supposed to serve 10 years and pay $36 million in restitution for defrauding investors. Never served a day. Not Somali.

They really cut $1 Trillion from Medicaid then put $50 billion back and think we’re all too dumb to notice

WSJ breaks significant news reporting that Mar-a-Lago’s spa *for years* regularly sent young staffers to Epstein’s home purportedly to give him massages, contorts its scoop to find a more flattering angle for Trump, and still gets an icy blast of a comment from Leavitt. www.wsj.com/us-news/trum...

A maternity ward doctor donated his own blood during surgery to keep a pregnant patient alive. One woman gained fewer than 10 pounds over her entire pregnancy. Another collapsed and had seizures during labor.

The results of Musk’s chainsaw.

BREAKING: Democrat Renee Hardman just won a special election for the Iowa State Senate, according to the AP — a result that prevents Republicans from reclaiming a supermajority in the chamber.

Trump freezes all childcare payments to Minnesota while he pardons multiple fraudsters and drug dealers. That's the real headline.

youtube.com/watch?v=h4Qs... Trump yells at MTG: "DON'T GO AFTER THE EPSTEIN FILES. YOU WILL HURT MY FRIENDS". They have never spoken since. Don't misunderstand me. MTG is still a sh*tty scumbag. 🐷 Her only human value is that she hates pedophiles as much as normal people. Get him, miss Piggy. 🐷🍄

NEW: A judge in the Kilmar Abrego case just UNSEALED a Dec 3rd order showing DOJ lied to the court when it said that Blanche's office didn't have anything to do with the decision to prosecute Mr. Abrego. 1/

“But in a modern, free, and truly democratic society, it should not be a mystery for days to its population and its voters whether or not their president has just bombed a new sovereign nation, without any declaration of war – all while the federal government that’s funded by our tax dollars…

The entire conservative legal movement and philosophy of “originalism” is premised on the illegitimacy of any SCOTUS decision that doesn’t fit the GOP party platform

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...

Trump commuted the sentence of a convicted healthcare fraudster who was serving 20 years for a $1.3 billion Medicare fraud scheme, one of the largest in U.S. history, and that person has since been arrested again on new criminal charges.

idols indiana jones wasn’t expecting: thread

This is the very essence of Twitter under Musk. Did you know that the biggest Medicare fraudster in Minnesota—Philip Esformes—is a well known MAGA activist who was pardoned by Trump? He then moved to Florida, where he was arrested again for fraud activities. Medicare fraudsters should be prosecuted

Bill Barr had the reporter who broke the Epstein story surveilled. Nothing to see here, folks.

2025 isn’t quite over yet, so you still have time if you hope to win the Absolutely Most Absurd Editorial of the Year. But you’ll have to beat this banger, and good luck with that.

Hey so this seems like something more people should be talking about 🤔 🗳️ www.npr.org/2025/10/23/n...

Trump is increasingly worried about his own mortality, and he's trying to use government to create a physical legacy that will outlive him. Which is why every bit of it must be torn down and smashed to bits. My latest at Public Notice: www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-rena...

Why was the Trump administration surveilling one of the journalists who broke the Epstein story?

There’s a reason the political right wants to keep people dumb.

Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up. I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.

Back from a week in Canada visiting my in-laws. Normally we get together in the Poconos, as it’s central for all of the families, but the in-laws aren’t comfortable coming here under Trump’s new rules so we moved it all north of the border. That’s probably $8k that would’ve gone to Pennsylvania.

This was literally one of the concerns raised during the immunity case, and the majority hand waved it away.

Trump Appoints Beauty Salon Owner To Oversee Entrance To The US

There are more criminals in the ICE forces capturing immigrants than there are among the immigrants, chapter 3,472: This ICE supervisor, 47, was arrested for domestic violence against his non-citizen partner who he started a relationship when she was 18 and he was 40. www.fox19.com/2025/12/22/i...

How is it that South Park knows everything Trump is going to do well in advance. people.com/south-park-w...

He’s blocking the Epstein files from being released unredacted. And Jack Smith’s testimony from being released. Because he wants Americans to hear his lies instead of seeing the truth for themselves.

voteinorout BREAKING: Leaked audio reveals Trump pressured Georgia House Speaker Ralston to falsely claim fraud and overturn the election, asking, “Who’s gonna stop you?” Extreme corruption.⁠

The people who claim that we shouldn’t have free school lunches because people with means may abuse it, are the same ones advocating to take public school funds and give them to rich people to send their kids of private schools. Make that make sense. Fucking ridiculous hypocrites.

Under Kristi Noem, ICE is essentially little more than a criminal syndicate.

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.

Just spent 5 mins patiently explaining to Saoirse why "I'b dot sick" isn't the resounding argument she thinks it is.

Kavanaugh tries to put the "Kavanaugh Stops" genie back in the bottle

Kavanaugh goes out of his way to pen a footnote not having to deal with the case at hand. He appears to be trying to narrow the forces he unleashed with his prior opinion allowing for race- and ethnicity-based #KavanaughStops

Bari Weiss just sent this Christmas Eve email to the CBS News staff about "building trust," which includes her tripling down on spiking the CECOT piece "to make sure it's comprehensive and fair." One CBS staffer tells me: "She really has no idea how insulting she comes across."

Interesting aspect of this one: Trump had argued his decisions on the Guard were effectively unreviewable by the courts. Apparently, SCOTUS isn’t quite ready to put itself completely out of business.

I just got a DM from someone that pirated my game. They said (paraphrasing) that with hindsight the game was absolutely worth the price, and were asking my preferred avenue for them to buy it (Steam vs Itch). I've gotten a lot of great DMs from players, but this one is probably my favorite.

And as I wrote in my book, this period was also when there was a surge in school construction thanks to the baby boom.

Gosh - so shocking something like this has gone sideways www.nytimes.com/2025/12/24/b...

Man, this is a real shocker, but it almost seems like she doesn't remotely know what the fuck she's doing and has no right being in this important role?