How was your year? Probably not as good as the year the 500 richest billionaires had. www.howtoreadthisch.art/its-beginnin...

I'm not sure why anyone should listen to someone who thinks this way about the sorts of life- and world-changing policies he covers. www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/20...

Former NSA employee (16 years) with a pro tip for you. Released controlled document on the left, Epstein on the right. See the difference? In real redactions, some words, headers, and bits will almost always still be visible, but especially classification headers. These documents are UNCLASSIFIED

Addison highlights these types of comments from American conservatives, and I’ve seen this all the time and always think it’s especially deranged. America has the lowest density, most “single-family” housing stock of basically any modern nation and it’s still not enough for these people!

Andrew Torba, the CEO of Gab, a social media platform known as a haven for white nationalists, falsely wrote this week that Ohio GOP gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy — who was born in Cincinnati, Ohio — "will never be an American."

Yale epidemiologist Harvey Risch, who has entertained a connection between Covid vaccines and “turbo cancer” and promoted ivermectin, says he'll chair the President's Cancer Panel.

DHS just shared this video to X with the caption "This Christmas, our hearts grow as our illegal population shrinks." The video is set to a version of Mariah Carey's "All I Want For Christmas Is You" and has text that reads "Christmas after mass deportations." The end reads "Mirthnuke." Evil shit.

Because this is Maurene Comey and she's suing. Can't remind people that she's one of the good guys.

Jamie Kirchik has a longish piece in Politico pointing out how the Kremlin has long used "peace" as a cover for their power grabs. The parallel with Witkoff's words is clear. Only one way he has been duped. Whatever one may think of Kirchik, the parallel is there, and I hadn't thought of it.

“.. Not since the U.S. allied with Joseph Stalin during the Lend Lease Act has a White House official enjoyed such frequent, personal access to a Russian or Soviet leader. “Witkoff has yet to visit Ukraine.” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/world/putin-...

Yes please: abcnews.go.com/US/providenc...

“He tells judges that sending armed troops against civilians would lead to chaos and bloodshed, saying that a commander who carried out martial law poorly would go down as ‘a sinner in history.”’ A good reminder for all public servants. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/w...

‘I Hereby Give Myself $1 Billion.’ President Donald Trump bragged about his demand that the U.S. government give him a huge payout, and said he would be the ultimate arbiter of whether he will receive the money.

I wouldn't sleep on the filing fee either. Immigration fees have to be set by regulation, and there has been no regulation, but only an arbitrary $15,000 amount set by proclamation. If these fees aren't pursuant to INA §286(j) and (m), where is _that_ money going?

Every Democratic candidate for president should pledge to revoke whatever benefits people got by paying $1 million for Trump Gold Cards by executive order on day 1 with no refunds.

We've never seen corruption in government like this. This isn't about violating the rule of law; it's about utterly disregarding it. It isn't about selective corruption. It's corruption as the baseline.

This Yglesias piece in the NYT is horrifically bad. Almost every "fact" it cites is provably false. At best it is cocktail party banter from a pundit who knows nothing of energy. At worst, it was cut/paste from oil industry talking points. So, a rebuttal: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/o...

Here’s a redacted grand jury transcript from the Epstein SDNY case in 2019 www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

NEW: The DOJ has now dropped more data sets of the Epstein Files: www.justice.gov/epstein/doj-...

If immigrating from England makes you a "heritage American" then I guess I'm one too.

GOP Rep. Thomas Massie and Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna plan to draft articles of impeachment against AG Pam Bondi over the DOJ’s failure to release all Epstein files as required by law.

I have a sneaking suspicion that no one involved in this farce, especially Trump, has the foggiest idea what "Memorial" means. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/u...

CATO INSTITUTE: Despite DOGE slashing jobs, government spending in every month of 2025 “was greater than in every other year .. An observer who did not know when DOGE started could not identify it” on a chart. 🤡 www.cato.org/blog/doge-pr...

"To exist in Donald Trump’s mind palace is to exist in a place where, comparing him to a really decadent Roman emperor or totalitarian dictator living on the other side of the planet, is not a stretch." — Political reporter for Zeteo, Asawin Suebsaeng. trib.al/h2ee8OW

It's certainly a useful exercise, but this piece ignores the dramatic ways in which our monument landscape has expanded and become more diverse. I would prefer to leave the Emancipation Memorial as is and place it in conversation with other monuments/statues. 🗃️ www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...

A reminder if you're visiting New York for the holidays that the city's unnaturally high hotel prices result from a shortage of room space that was purposely engineered by city law, policy, and regulation, much of it at the behest of interest groups.

Woman comes to US at age 6. Graduates nursing school. Work permit. No criminal record. Snatched and imprisoned by ICE for 6 months now. About to be forced back to Honduras. A life destroyed and one less nurse. Merry Christmas. www.nola.com/news/educati...

one of four in a week www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/n...

“Joe Campbell, a Pentecostal preacher who for half a century ministered to thousands of children across four states, has been arrested on child sex abuse charges, the Oklahoma Attorney General’s Office said Wednesday.“ Still not a drag queen.

“One of the great virtues to have [in Trumpworld] is that you got caught doing bad things and not giving a fuck… That’s the definition of Donald Trump’s career. He’s been caught over and over again. I think they value that greatly.”

“Over the last three years, Duke Energy’s rate increases have significantly outpaced inflation, gouging customers to defray their own costs and protect investor returns. Duke recently filed requests for additional rate hikes in 2027 and 2028.” 🔌💡

Although the corporate media is refusing to cover the case of Marcus Mitchell, the Dine Standing Rock water protector blinded in his left eye when he was shot by a mercenary cop, Censored News is on it

Today’s NYT story left out Stefanik’s most craven acts — trying to overturn the 2020 election, and then stabbing Liz Cheney in the back. See this excellent CNN 2021 recap, via Daniel Dale www.cnn.com/2021/05/06/p...

"If I'm sounding more worried to you than I've sounded in months, it's because I am."

Americans in their 20s and 30s may not feel that they’re richer than their equivalents 60 years ago, but they’re objectively wrong. It’s fascinating how important it is to some people not to say “I’m struggling, it’s hard” or “I need help”—objectively true—but to instead insist they have it worse.

It’s official: House Speaker Mike Johnson is letting the Affordable Care Act subsidies expire—and Republicans are pissed. One lawmaker described Johnson’s decision as “absolute bullsh*t.” trib.al/2YQAGNX

Donald Trump's war on the Statue of Liberty my @zeteo.com column please read, share and subscribe zeteo.com/p/trump-us-p...

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A Trump-appointed judge was so upset with the living conditions in which ICE detained an immigrant in Long Island, New York, that he threatened to hold the government in contempt. “I have never encountered anything like this." trib.al/2393f4A

this isn’t how you legally redact documents. there’s always some segregable text that isn’t sensitive, whether it’s headers, dates, or whatever. this is almost passive aggressive.

Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵 Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...

“Facing an economic spiral and depleted conventional forces, Vladimir Putin is entering a window of maximum danger. We must prepare not for a resurgent Russia but for a desperate one: 2026 will be the year of hybrid escalation.” www.rusi.org/explore-our-...

The chocolate milk lobby lost a true warrior.

You have to read to the 23d and 24th grafs of the Times story on Trump's big drug-price "deals" to see that they're basically hype. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/h....

🩸🩸🩸 I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what the 34x POS convicted felon who incites political violence, adjudicated rapist & pedophile Trump did 🩸🩸🩸

NEW: Welcome to Wikileaks 2.0. The Trump administration’s slow-drip release of the Epstein files guarantees a weeks-long feeding frenzy that will keep Washington on edge — and Trump’s relationship with Epstein in the news. w/ @hassankanu.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2025/12...

An investigation conducted by The Washington Post and Bellingcat concluded that Operation Narnia, targeting Iranian nuclear scientists, killed at least 71 civilians. www.jpost.com/israel-news/...

Trump and Bondi are in flagrant violation of a law passed unanimously by Congress. It’s a huge and shocking f-ck you to the survivors, Congress, and the American people.

So last night as I was wondering why Pam Bondi diverted almost 200 National Security attorneys who should be chasing hackers and spies to redact the Epstein files, I remembered that John Eisenberg, who heads it, is the guy who altered the Trump-Zelenskyy transcript.

For a man that regrew his ear it’s strange that his hand is always in recovery mode