"America’s wealthiest tech billionaires added more than $550bn to their combined net worth this year, as they benefit from an investor frenzy around leading artificial intelligence companies."

Militias and far-right extremists believed they would be central to Trump’s mass deportation plans. Instead he militarized law enforcement agencies. www.wired.com/story/expire...

Per "internal documents written between 2023 and 2025 and viewed by The Washington Post... Instagram staffers considered the mandate to boost teen metrics their top goal last year," including "boosting their messaging activity... to set up an early pipeline for lifelong use of Meta’s platforms."

The New York Times is joining nearly 40 scientists on an expedition to Antarctica’s fastest-melting glaciers. Our reporter shared a look inside his survival training before the trip. Learn more and send our Climate team your questions: nytimes.com/antarctica?smtyp=cur&smid=bsky-nytimes

"'We request that the government pause apprehension activities during the Christmas season. Such a pause would show a decent regard for the humanity of these families.' The White House did not mention the holiday season in its rejection of the Bishops' request..." www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

NEW: A federal agent has fired shots in Baltimore, and two people have been taken to the hospital. www.thebanner.com/community/lo...

Every year, the Audubon Society’s Christmas Bird Count, one of the longest-running citizen-powered data projects in North America, draws tens of thousands of birders for the 126-year-old event that blends birding and data science.

Some Trump not winning data from Economist/YouGov. Approve/disapprove: 25%-61% - Tearing down the East Wing 19%-60% - Invading Venezuela 18%-66% - Renaming Kennedy Center And by 74%-11% Americans want Trump to get Congressional approval for invading Venezuela. Thread 👇 bsky.app/profile/simo...

WaPo reports that ICE is planning 7 massive human warehouses holding 5,000 to 10,000 people. Recalls the acting ICE director 2015 statement that he wanted to see a “business”-oriented approach to deportations, “like [Amazon] Prime, but with human beings”. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Rather than shuttling detainees around the country to wherever detention space is available, ICE aims to speed up deportations by renovating industrial warehouses to hold more than 80,000 immigrant detainees at a time, according to a draft solicitation. https://wapo.st/4aqyir8

WHO GIVES A DAMN? It’s a public service, right there in the name. It exists as a public good for all the people in this country. It’s not supposed to turn a profit, you dolts. Go audit the Pentagon and see what kind of return on investment we’re getting there.

The jokes write themselves

This Admin has been a Big Tech coup from Day 1. Now 5 Europeans who have regulated or monitored big tech for hate and disinformation are barred from the US. Chilling stuff. According to Rubio, the infraction is: "targeting American speakers and American companies.” ‪

The government official who sent migrants to gulags is now urging the the firing of the journalists who reported the story and objected to it being killed. bsky.app/profile/thet...

Every single democratic senator voted to confirm Marco Rubio as Secretary of State. Every single one. Not one “no” vote.

I’m sure this will be popular. 5 million people are in default right now. The Dept of Ed estimates as many as 10 million by end of next year because of job market.

After Bari Weiss, the new CBS News editor in chief, abruptly postponed a segment of “60 Minutes” that was critical of the Trump administration, several veteran correspondents questioned how she had handled the segment after she defended her decision on a call with the newsroom. trib.al/nS4UDkt

Doug Burgum isn’t this stupid. He just hopes you are.

CBS News may not want you to see its CECOT reporting, but I'm happy to share this powerful video that our team produced this year.

a suicide note whose existence and content federal authorities appear to have concealed for years while conspiracy theories about Epstein’s death in their custody raged out of control

This is as easy a test of your belief in the American system as is conceivable: Should this be an acceptable argument from a president?

The U.S. Coast Guard is reportedly attempting to seize a third Venezuelan oil tanker in the Caribbean Sea, escalating its pressure campaign against the Nicholas Maduro regime.

The CBS 60 Minutes Doc confirms what we knew: The U.S. is currently using our tax dollars to imprison brown people with no criminal record in torture camps overseas. It’s no wonder administration shill Bari Weiss pulled this off the air: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjY7...

A dangerous sequence of storms from the Pacific Ocean is sweeping through Northern California and the Sierra Nevada Mountains –– prompting heavy flooding and road closures across parts of the region during the busy holiday travel season. https://cnn.it/49arCLr

hard to overstate how bad this is for discrimination against everyone but white people. I'm saying we are undergoing a wholesale revision of equal protection and anti-discrimination law so that it only protects white people. Let me explain:

They're just taking an ax to the Civil Rights Act

James Talarico: The Bible doesn't mention abortion or gay marriage, but it goes on and on about forgiving debt, liberating the poor, and healing the sick. The closest thing we have to the kingdom of heaven is a multiracial, multicultural democracy where power is truly shared among all people

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Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.

Why did CBS delete this promo and cancel this from airing in full?

Never forget this: The GOP’s nonsensical culture war is meant to distract you from corporate corruption, worker oppression, and staggering wealth inequality.

What changed between now & Friday’s press release about this now delayed (or actually canceled?) @60minutes.bsky.social segment on the CECOT torture prison? Seems very odd. Anyone know if 60 Minutes has ever delayed a piece at the last minute before? www.paramountpressexpress.com/cbs-news-and...

MAGA: “We’re making a list of all who mock Charlie Kirk’s death” Also MAGA: “We’re gonna reenact Charlie Kirk’s assassination soon”

WELKER: Why was Ghislaine Maxwell moved just days after you interviewed her? BLANCHE: That's a Bureau of Prisons security issue that I will not talk about WELKER: Did you have anything to do with it? BLANCHE: I am responsible for the Bureau of Prisons, so every decision they make lands on my desk

For months I’ve been pleading with major media to say TRUMP IS BUILDING A DICTATORSHIP But instead we get soft-serve headlines like this one in the New York Times. 1/4 🧵🧵🧵🧵

And may every day be another wonderful secret.

BREAKING: RFKJr directs that the US instantly stop recommending all vaccinations for children. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

Here's a quilt of Volume 4 of the Epstein document dump. Gives you a 10,000 foot view of the redactions. that's 2,704 docs.

Trump hypes his new healthcare plan of asking healthcare companies to lower prices

In the Epstein files: Maria Farmer reported Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell's activities to the FBI in 1996. Read the FBI report:

Trump’s rant against the Somali community in Minnesota is disgraceful Nazi incitement and then he pivots to endorsing Mike Lindell for governor

Hey! Remember when Barr (Bondi) withheld the Mueller (Epstein) documents for weeks so he (she) could mischaracterize what was in the Mueller (Epstein) Report and spin the findings for three weeks and then over-redact them? I sure do!

"Beachside luxury resorts. High-speed rail. AI-optimized smart grids. Welcome to 'Project Sunrise,' the Trump admiistration’s pitch to foreign governments and investors to turn Gaza’s rubble into a futuristic coastal destination."

There's a series of things (like the ballroom, Gulf of America) that we're going to have to *undo* the moment this guy is out of office. And yet I can already hear future Democrat presidents saying "I'm focused on the people's work, not the knucklehead stuff" and just leave this man's shit up.

static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics... Here’s one that matters, a lot, to #MariaFarmer. Her complaint, filed in Sep ‘96, was designed to protect her sister & other girls, & was both largely delayed & minimized by the FBI. Ms Farmer cried when NYT contacted her about this: “I’ve waited 30 years.”

1996!!! Such an indictment of our justice system that it failed to protect all the victims who came after Maria. I’m in awe of their courage & I hope they will receive some type of justice one day!