New Year off to a good start now that I’ve discovered Jesse Welles. www.youtube.com/watch?v=EeI6...

shel silverstein was a prophet

Make him famous. The woman lost her baby. #BrendenCunt/Cuni

The rich and powerful don’t get their wages garnished when they default on a loan. They declare bankruptcy and end up paying pennies on the dollar, if anything. Like Trump did many, many times.

Trump: “I was never on Epstein’s plane” AUSA: “Trump traveled on Epstein’s private jet many more times than previously reported, including during the Maxwell charging period”

The 60 Minutes piece on the Trump Administration’s torture prison that Bari Weiss doesn’t want you to see has leaked.

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

Environmental law has been captured—not by environmentalists, but by wealthy interests who can afford to litigate indefinitely. Fixing abundance means reforming the legal system.​​​​​​​​​​​

I'm an "A.i." abolitionist. Here's why. gregpak.net/2025/12/19/i...

BREAKING: The Democratic National Committee will NOT release its long-awaited autopsy on Trump's 2024 win. The report is completed but Dem leaders decided it could distract from their winning streak, so it will remain secret. Not good. Details here: newrepublic.com/article/2045...

Is this a secret plan is to convince Americans that Medicare for All is the solution? youtube.com/shorts/o_x8D...

Metropolitan Detention Center is waiting in your district for an oversight visit. 80 29th Street, Brooklyn. @repdangoldman.bsky.social @velazquez.house.gov @voteyvette.bsky.social @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social

This is metal

This is a clinical study of pressured speech. Pressured Speech is characteristic of: Mania or hypomania Acute psychosis Severe anxiety Substance intoxication Neurologic conditions

This is excellent. Treating Trump like an office holder instead of wanna-be king is cruicial. It’s not his house. “No president is legally allowed to tear down portions of the White House without any review whatsoever—not President Trump, not President Biden, not anyone else,” says the lawsuit.

8. Like the media and other sectors, the healthcare economy has been consolidating into the hands of fewer corporations that have the power set prices that your insurance is forced to pay. There’s nothing wrong with Obamacare that antitrust law enforcement can’t remedy.

I am really grateful to Indiana Republican legislators today. Historically significant.

EVERYONE should watch this jaw-dropping exchange. Bennie Thompson asks simple questions and receives stammering answers, highlighting the political BS like nothing I’ve ever seen. Astonishing.

Why doesn’t the press talk more about the fact that DHS power couple Corey Lewandowski and Kristis Noem are openly romantically involved while married to these other people? If only to make cultists defend this, too.

Bring the bill up for a vote @nycspeakeradams.bsky.social

I bet Cheryl Hines exchanged some vows about fidelity with RFK. Time has shown she’s not really in the know. Maybe ask Livvy, instead. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Call Halligan and Pulte. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

I rediscovered this post I wrote in May, about how Trump has shifted the money the US used to spend on curing cancer into snatching your neighbors. I think I'll keep harping on this point. www.emptywheel.net/2025/05/09/s...

Know your rights. Protect your neighbors. New York is — and always will be — a city for all immigrants.

Join us for a festive (if barbed) Malliotakis Monday tmw at 77th & 3rd in BK — kick off at 4:45 to bid farewell to her departing staff & stay til 5:30 chatting with neighbors — plus some parody carols, including “The 12 Days of Congress!” @riseandresist.bsky.social www.mobilize.us/indivisiblen...

Pass it on 💙

We checked the list twice and yep… GOP and Nicole Malliotakis still naughty 🎅 SNAP & Medicaid cuts and 20M with skyrocketing coverage ... not nice! Join us for carols + accountability: 12/8, 4:45–5:30pm, 7716 3rd Ave, Brooklyn. 🎶 www.mobilize.us/indivisiblen... @indivisible.org @1199seiu.org

Religion note: Remember that pastor who was arrested protesting an ICE detention facility outside Chicago recently? The one who was photographed on the ground as officers arrested him? That's Rev. Michael Woolf, and this is his church.

RFK Jr. is praising private insurers for removing prior authorization while he is ramping up a pilot program requiring AI-led prior authorization for Medicare patients in 6 states, including WA state, which will delay and deny care for seniors.   No AI prior authorization. No way.

Liberty forum of silicon valley 2016, Pete Hegseth

Thank you @aftynbehn.bsky.social! Can’t wait for the the sweet aftermath of your great race. “If our victory margin is single digits, the conference may come unhinged,” one unnamed House Republican told Politico just before Tuesday’s election.

File under: Use 👏 every 👏 available 👏 tool 👏

I’m not as smart as most journalists. So take this with a pinch of salt. But here’s a suggestion. Ask Mike Johnson about the [horrible thing that Trump did that violated the Constitution, pissed on Congress, and was a lie] from LAST week. And then let him hang when he says he still hasn’t

Text-book terrible NYT headline. Restates the lie, front and center. Better: Government Officials Say Hegseth Ordered Boat Strike; Deny He Authorized Killing of Survivors or Accounts Differ on Hegseth’s Orders in Boat Strike as Questions Grow About Government’s Version

Why doesn’t the press talk more about the fact that DHS power couple Corey Lewandowski and Kristis Noem are openly romantically involved while married to these other people? If only to make cultists defend this, too.

What is happening in Indiana is a profound threat to our democracy. Trump has unleashed a vote-my-way-or-risk-your-life climate on Republican legislators that makes democracy near impossible. For starters, all of us should be flooding these legislators with thanks and support for braving this.

Pleased when my @repdangoldman.bsky.social filed suit to assert oversight power in Noguse v. ICE. That was stayed for the shutdown but needs new attention. Look at today’s report of what we’re up against. Also, maybe let Jessica Tisch know who the problem is. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Felt good today to buy only a Christmas tree today, from the most local source I could find. #WeAintBuyingIt

If the ICE crisis weren’t a tragedy, it would be farce. Apparently the immigration “problem” they seek to solve, involves targeting indigenous people, now. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

National Guard members do not want to be used as political props. They want to be home with their families. The only person who wants them here is Trump. Police killed three people in DC last week and now this. When will this administration stop escalating and putting people in harm's way?

fuck everyone involved in this decision. scum.

Nothing about the conduct of the Trump II White House would suggest that Noem was running the Alien Enemies Act operation herself, let alone out there freelancing on her own. But we’re supposed to believe that the buck stopped with … Kristi Noem. talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...

Maybe you've learned about the whistles. Hopefully you have one. But it’s still a trick to understand the forces on our streets. Study up here. www.nytimes.com/video/us/pol...

Shit St Paul ICE agent aims gun

This seems like an indulgent way of saying the President and his people submitted lies to the Supreme Court. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...

Start your holiday off by standing in community with and for our immigrant neighbors 🕯️ 6pm outside the Metropolitan Detention Center in BK www.mobilize.us/indivisiblen...

Are you a business that's colluding with ICE? Caving to the biased attacks on DEI? Funding this administration for tax cuts? Guess what? #WeAintBuyingIt Nov 27–Dec 1, instead we are putting our money where are values are.

Wow NYC, we see you @handsoffnyc.bsky.social!! This training is at FULL capacity, they had to turn people away…