Trump Is Getting Weaker, and the Resistance Is Getting Stronger FIREWALL "It’s become, over the past year, easier to imagine the moment when his mystique finally evaporates, when few want to defend him anymore or admit that they ever did." 1/2 www.nytimes.com/2025/12/26/o...

Remember when Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump’s lawyer, Alan Dershowitz, wrote an op-ed trying to justify having sex with kids? Seems relevant now.

and just to muddy the waters, the existence of this letter has been known about since 2023 — but the alleged text of the letter wasn’t revealed until yesterday. which proves nothing.

Kelly: For any leader to basically say, “Shut up. You’re not allowed to ask questions,” I don’t know who Hegseth worked for when he served as a junior officer in the National Guard, but it appears to me they were not very good role models of leadership—because this guy has no idea what he’s doing.

Although this is the first year they'll actively be trying to shoot him down.

Ötzi and a 45,000-year-old Siberian were both infected with a cancer-causing strain of HPV. This is fascinating, and a reminder that we have a vaccine that *prevents cancer* and everyone eligible should get it.

NASHVILLE - TN HS Dems Tennessee High School Dems deliver a petition to Senator @MarshaBlackburn to stop the just-announced government partnership forcing TP USA chapters into every school in Tennessee. (“to stop far right extremism”)

In Lexington, Nebraska, where the Tyson beef plant is by far the largest employer, is set to lay off 3,200 people when the company closes its facility on Jan. 20 after three decades of operation. So much Trump winning.

Happy holiday If you're shopping at Amazon this holiday season, can you chip in to help unionize Amazon? >> laborforce.co/l/iEqrbz The Labor Force

If you’re PO’ed about the use/misuse of AI start pointing fingers at this WH! Unbelievable! Take a listen!👇🏼 🎥:@thedabblingchick on IG #talkaboutdeplorable #pinks

“We’ve seen rapid normalization of abuses we once associated with authoritarian regimes or the old Iron Curtain countries. It’s now routine for masked, unidentifiable government agents to sweep people off the street and whisk them away in unmarked vehicles.”

not an expert, but this feels like it might be more effective as psychological warfare than actually taking dudes out

How embarrassing it is to watch our once-esteemed Department of Justice behave like this.

“I’m 84 years old. Threats against my life expectancy are kind of hollow. I don’t have much time anyway. I’m more concerned that our democracy is at risk because of the trends against the rule of law.” www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...

"If you squinted hard, you could see they were the true, classical liberals. *Except they weren’t.* And all their work dismantling the social safety net and regulatory state served only to concentrate power in a demented demagogue and his chattering coterie of clout farmers." — @lizdye.bsky.social

If Trump wants to be the most transparent president in history, he can waive his 60 days and ask Judge Cannon to release Jack Smith’s report now. thehill.com/homenews/adm...

Another brilliant idea by the Trump WH to put the ‘Rapid React’ campaign ‘own the libs’ juvenile delinquents in charge of DOJ comms. Very professional.

Gift article: WPost On AI: "The changes were subtle at first, beginning in the summer after her 5th-grade. She had always been an athletic and artistic girl, gregarious with her friends and close to her family, but now she was spending more and more time shut away in her room.' 1/2 wapo.st/4sdUoDs

Boycott Bank of America.

"Has feminism failed women brought to you by bank of america" is my MKULTRA sleeper agent activation phrase

Merry Christmas Eve, Bluesky lovelies! Thanks for all the inspiration you share. Wishing all of you a beautiful day♥️🎄🦌🎶🕊️Photo: Mt. Shasta, CA.

There really is nothing that comes close to the sociability of a cigarette in the the us at least. You just meet so many people sorry but alcohol and coffee don’t come close and vapes aren’t the same

Worth every minute of your time to listen to this devastating account of actual baby killing reported by the underage mother.

The Truce Is 2 Months Old. So Why Have Hundreds of Gazans Been Killed? FIREWALL "Death can come for Gazans while on a family outing or sleeping in a tent." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/24/w...

First line of 39-page opinion from Judge Amir Ali in DC: "The Constitution forbids government officials from using their power to retaliate against people for their speech.. even when the speech is critical of the government" Judge restores security clearance to whistleblower attorney Mark Zaid

Email from victim: "I told him some other important info about other high profile individuals involved in my sex trafficking and the murder and disposal of my newborn daughter ... I I gave birth to her while in the middle of this sex trafficking ordeal and cannot remember the detective's name .."

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My plan is to tax Trump's grown kids at 99% to provide education debt relief for a few million Americans. May not be Constitutional but I'll also be expanding the Supreme Court to include all of Park Slope.

🙂🙂 Andy Borowitz brings some smiles. Happy holidays, hope they're going as well as they can in the middle of what's all around us.

The ruling elite who have purchased every level of government without earning it are not indicative of Americans and the spirit of rebellion that moves throughout this nation. They use their media platforms to present the story as if we are 50-50 divided nation, but the truth is they are a fraction

Bending your institution to meet the prejudices of your dumbest, meanest students is a surefire way to destroy a university. Now any student can just scrawl “the Bible says this is wrong” on any test and skate to an A at the Oklahoma Football Outlet and Diploma Factory.

When government is actually organized crime, war becomes the tool of thieves. The west should approach it as such. From the Kyiv Independent

Palm Beach Rallies Behind a Restaurant Manager Held at ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ - FIREWALL LUCKY FOR SOME "On Dec. 10, Mr. Gonzalez, 53, was stopped by Florida Highway Patrol while driving a nephew’s pickup truck. The apparent offense was having tinted car windows." 1/2 www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/s...

“On the merits, the very idea of putting someone like Weiss at the head of CBS News is preposterous. Her prior journalistic experience would not have qualified her to run your average college newspaper.” prospect.org/2025/12/23/b...

Local Family’s Christmas Photo Captures Exact Moment Uncle Was Banned from Future Gatherings

New in PN: Heritage Foundation killed by MAGA "RIP to the Heritage Foundation, which functionally died this week, as its most prominent staffers made a beeline for the exit. The Suspect: Trump and his posse of online shitposters. The weapon: Antisemitism. The room: Phoenix Convention Center."

In a profile of Stephen Miller with @swin24.bsky.social, we reported he’s privately laughed off immigrant families’ “sob stories.” www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol... Speaking last night on Fox about the spiked CECOT story, Miller laughed about how ‘60 Minutes’ is “trying to tell sob stories."

Happy holidays to all.

“What the Univ of Michigan law professor Nick Bagley calls “the procedure fetish” became in the past half-century an obstacle to important collective projects like green energy and public transportation. If process means self-destructive obstructionism ..” ½ www.nytimes.com/2025/12/24/o... FIREWALL

Trump’s new foreign policy is an unprecedented and abysmal mess.

We are being humiliated, and the world looks upon us with disgust.

"Inviting a Zionist perspective would be like inviting a Nazi perspective during the Holocaust."

“They are making antisemites. Tucker is not making antisemites. They are,” the former Fox News host told the outlet. On Weiss in particular, Kelly said she “has made her career on the anti-cancel culture thing. Meanwhile, she’s never been canceled." 1/2

I see there’s a post about microplastics going around with a photo of drinking straws, so here is my semi-regular reminder that the 3 biggest sources of microplastics are tires (45%), synthetic clothing particles (35%) and paint (~10%). Lay article attached: