Breaking: Federal judge in Pittsburgh blocks DOJ's invasive trans care subpoena open.substack.com/pub/chrisgei...

Spotted a Mustang convertible with the top down traveling on route 51 and Allegheny County look like a younger driver. I wonder if that car was a Christmas present?

24 December 1905 | A Dutch Jew, Henri Emile Mossel, was born in Amsterdam. A clarinetist and saxophonist, the leader of the AVRO dance orchestra, music store owner. At Auschwitz from 25 March 1944 No. 175312 He perished at Auschwitz III-Monowitz on 4 August 1944.

Watch this video before you do any last minute holiday shopping on Amazon.

It's Trump policy that U.S. tech must be globally dominant. It's also US policy that its tech corps must be free from: Regulation. Taxation. Fact checking and monitoring for hate lies, disinformation. All are now being treated as attacks on the U.S. itself. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Literally any other attorney general before Bondi would have fought tooth and nail and then resigned over this alone. Letting White House staff take over making public statements in the name of DOJ is in and of itself completely insane.

Do they have the same rule for the Department of Defense?

In an unusual move the American Foreign Service Association (AFSA) has made public a report "At The Breaking Point:The State of the U.S. Foreign Service in 2025" after a global survey of 1000s of U.S. diplomats who say they're unable to carry out their work due to lack of resources. It's a crisis.

Oh my god.

We don’t spend enough time discussing how the entire MAGA movement is kept afloat by the constant threats of stochastic terrorism orchestrated by the president of the United States. Congress, the courts, much of the media … all kept in line by the mob boss and his army of anonymous goons.

So... the next questions for 2026 will be: A: Does Trump just ignore this and send the National Guard anyway, and what, if anything, will SCOTUS do about it when they are ignored? B: Will Trump send the Army and violate Posse Comitatus? C: Will the Court cave on what Posse Comitatus means?

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.

If the Democrats retake Congress this must be on the priority list of legislative initiatives. Yes, Trump will veto it. But signing this bill must be a campaign issue for any 2028 Dem candidate. reason.com/2025/12/17/t...

Folks, you can’t have Christian Nationalism without the antisemitism. It’s a central tenet of the ideology. The fact some of these Jewish Heritage folks are just realizing this is wild to me.

The US government made CBS pull the 60 minute segment. Is the government now censoring the news?

This holiday season, give the gift of online privacy. Protect your loved ones from online tracking by helping them install Privacy Badger--a free browser extension from EFF. privacybadger.org/

Bari Weiss Praised El Salvador’s Dictator Before Spiking '60 Minutes' Story on His Torture Prison Weiss touted El Salvador’s leader while her blog published jokes about immigrants sent to CECOT, writes @premthakker.bsky.social @andrewperez.bsky.social @swin24.bsky.social: zeteo.com/p/bari-weiss...

It’s interesting that the administration wants you to know that Bari Weiss is in league with them.

Americans are going bankrupt for basic care, and so many of my Republican colleagues can't be bothered to bat an eye. I have family members and constituents who are already feeling the burden––it will only get worse if we don't act now to extend the ACA subsidies.

Corporate media is dying...

Why would anyone risk themselves to go on 60 Minutes after this? How can viewers ever trust CBS News to report fairly on topics this White House is sensitive about?

Censorship

Firetruck santa came to town. #WestmoCo

What a shameful question. First, it is not what Congress "asked for." It is what a federal statute REQUIRES. Second, WTF does "spirit but not intent" even mean? CBS bent a knee and paid Trump, it has a new owner who wants to please Trump, and sadly this is the result.

Danish postal service to stop delivering letters after 400 years

Ukraine war briefing: Russian oil rig hit in Caspian Sea over 700km from Ukraine

NIST tried to pull the pin on NTP servers after blackout caused atomic clock drift

"Barenaked For The Holidays" -- Barenaked Ladies -- #NoShuffleSaturday

Deplorable.

Ladies and gentlemen of Pittsburgh I just transited a squirrel Hill tunnel without stopping. I did in fact have to slow down, but I did not touch the break. And this was on Friday before the holiday of Christmas.

A retired Tennessee policeman who spent more than a month in jail over an anti-Trump Facebook post is suing the authorities responsible for his arrest. “In America, we do not jail people for political speech,” the lawsuit states. https://wapo.st/4j4NKv6

this article really lays it all out on how much we rely on section 230 please do not rest on your laurels, contact your rep and advocate for protecting Section 230! www.congress.gov/members/find...

David Brooks, who wrote in the NYT last month, "The Epstein Story? Count Me Out" is... in the latest Epstein photo dump published by @oversightdemocrats.house.gov. He should absolutely be fired by NYT for this. Major conflict of interest that he didn't disclose.

ICE involved as feds violently detain Latino man in Mt. Washington https://www.newsbeep.com/us-pa/64027/ Neighbors living on Norton Street in Pittsburgh’s Mount Washington neighborhood woke Wednesday morning to sounds of screaming. Witnesses…

Allegheny County: A #datacenter gets approved for a conditional use permit to build in Springdale Borough last night. PennFuture & @conservationvoterspa Allegheny County Civic Engagement Coordinator Natalie Davidson recorded this video from the council meeting. Councilmembers voted 5-2.

An absolute bedrock institution for understanding how the planet works, just civilization-scaled vandalism by the most incurious morons on Earth

RIP, loved this show as a kid. Still have a Twiki action figure

This is so fucking embarrassing

How can Democrats regain the working class? By fighting corporate America's ability to: —Raise prices higher than their increasing costs. —Suppress wages and bust unions. —Bribe lawmakers to cut their taxes and dole out corporate welfare.

Can the CDC survive under the ledership of the "flock of quacks" Donald Trump has put in charge of it? Dr. Debra Houry, former CDC official and new senior medical adviser to the California Dept. of Health, is losing hope: "I don't know if the CDC will survive this year if it continues like this."

Former FBI official Chris O'Leary explains that part of why it will be difficult for the FBI to recover from the damage of the Trump era is that the experienced agents are leaving and "what's going to be left is loyalists to this administration." Replacing the seasoned professionals will be tough.

a few days ago ICE took someone outside my house. tonight someone else came by with a sign and asked if they could put it on our property because ICE has been destroying signs

Here's interview with US citizen scanned by ICE's facial recognition tech. Walking home from gym, authorities come over. He says he's a citizen. Put him in car. Only release after scanning his face “Flagrant violation of rights and incompatible with a free society” www.404media.co/how-a-us-cit...

Mel Brooks having to bury Rob Reiner is against all laws of nature and I’m not ok about it

OMG

"Vampire Weekend" -- Vampire Weekend -- #NoShuffleSunday

Just when I thought I couldn't admire the man more... 🎯 🎯 🎯 💯 💯 💯 👍 👍 👍

Maybe we should get rid of guns and not vaccines. www.huffpost.com/entry/brown-...

NEW: an activist has been charged for allegedly wiping a Google Pixel phone before CBP could search it. Search was by a secretive CBP Tactical Terrorism Response Team, which ACLU says "interrogate innocent travelers." We uploaded the indictment here: www.404media.co/man-charged-...