In theory, I want to give you more detail about my column, but I'm also struggling to find anything more concise than: We Live in Hell.

Donald Trump is good at one thing: making everything more expensive. And while energy prices climb, he’s ripped away critical funding that helps low-income families heat their homes. The Trump agenda: tax breaks for billionaires, higher costs and painful cuts for working families.

I have advised journalists who are striking out on their own and the dangers of litigation are always a sobering discussion. Good anti-SLAPP laws help protect journalists from ruinous litigation costs in defending against abusive defamation suits by deep-pocketed & angry subjects of articles.

Btw this is one of the biggest reasons why it’s not as easy as people think to start up independent newsrooms or just be an indie journalist on substack. If you are actually holding powerful and rich people to account, you WILL need legal representation. Not a matter of whether but when

Modern day Gestapo www.washingtonpost.com/technology/i...

Putin needs no disinformation campaign of his own. He has the Trump gang.

State media serving Dear Leader.

Multiple envoys selected by Putin meet in warm American city to discuss future of Ukraine

Helpful

“I will let bridges collapse unless states are racist enough” is really something

He is promising, on camera, to break his oath to the Constitution by illegally and unconstitutionally usurping the exclusive authority of Congress. Sprinkle in a little 'blowing up the Union' to boot

If we want an independent media that isn’t the plaything of oligarchs, we’re going to have to build it together. That's why were offering 30 days free right now for Bulwark+. Get it here: lnk.thebulwark.com/48QbKyS?utm_...

NEW in Bolts: Ohio is the fourth GOP-run state this year to ban ballots that are postmarked by Election Day but arrive after. A Supreme Court case could force that policy nationwide next year.

Also, we don’t send murderers to foreign concentration camps where they can be tortured and sexually abused, without contact with family or lawyers. So just journalistically, this quote adds nothing to the story. I’d still include it, but simply as a way of showing how deficient their defense is

As people comb the Epstein files for some crime they can get Trump on I’m thinking about how he was found with boxes of stolen top secret files in his possession and somehow that ended up being impossible to prosecute.

Really perceptive piece, by two of my brilliant @jhu.edu colleagues, @himself.bsky.social and @radchenko.bsky.social.

The Social Security Administration aims to cut visits to field offices by nearly 15 million annually. This is making it harder for Americans to access in-person services—and their benefits. This is not "modernizing" Social Security.

Yikes - no wonder the DOJ is scrambling to tell us not to believe what’s in the files about Trump. www.mediaite.com/media/news/o...

People dont feel it.

Julie has been covering this longer than most. The DOJ is not following the law. #TrumpEpsteinCoverUp

to Bari (verb): To attempt to bury a damaging political story—only to amplify it massively by drawing attention to the act of censorship itself. Example: “They tried to Bari the segment, but it got Streisanded and everyone watched it twice.”

How is that owning the Libs thing working out for you?

Imagine interviewing a victim of torture and independently confirming the details of his torture and then being told you can’t broadcast it because the people who ordered the torture wouldn’t give their side of the story.

"The US press have suffered about as many assaults this year as in the previous three years combined, the organization states in a new report." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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"must be dealt with and stopped"

Where is the footage Jeffrey Epstein secretly recorded of people in his houses?! We know Epstein secretly recorded people. We also know the FBI took possession of Epstein's hard drives. This footage could finally lead to justice for survivors. My article deanobeidallah.substack.com/p/where-is-t...

The Intellectual Dark Web, folks

ICE is one of the most heavily funded federal police forces in US history and has a budget larger than most national militaries, yet internal chats show that their primary concern is videos for social media. We’re told we can’t afford health care, but don’t worry, ICE needs views

As you see what the new owner of CBS/Paramount Larry Ellison is doing to 60 Minutes and CBS News, please understand he is planning to do that to Tik Tok as a new owner and what he will do to CNN if can close deal to buy that network. This is how oligarchy works. And Trump/Vance are 100% on board!

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?

JD Vance will soon announce a Trump Administration plan to penalize American universities for failing to promote antisemtism.

If you read memo from Bari Weiss on 60 Minutes segment on El Salvador prison she killed, you understand she will be censoring every single news segment on 60 Minutes and CBS News. All segments must line up with her right wing political views or be killed. www.mediaite.com/media/news/r...

Has Speaker Johnson not seen this yet?

Normie Americans are willing to give the benefit of the doubt to a popular administration that generally allows society to function well. They’re much less likely to do so for an administration that has been cruel and capricious and dysfunctional, which is why the 60 minutes piece might hit hard

This is a government of the billionaires, by the billionaires, and for the billionaires. People need to be reminded of that.

This is the kind of stuff that happens when the agents doing the redacting are sufficiently disgusted that they’re just going to do the minimum in the way of redaction. Hope he finds out the hard way if they serve pierogi in prison.

Jerry Christmas, Bluesky!

Is Bari Weiss doing double duty by putting out press releases for Trump's DOJ?

Nativist italian americans are so funny. Wym your whole personality is being italian and then talking about immigration the way people used to talk about your ancestors

Something very funny about de santis praising Coolidge for “immigration.” Coolidge’s immigration policy was that people named de santis shouldn’t be allowed to come here bsky.app/profile/anth...

Humiliating. @politico.com www.politico.com/news/2025/12...

Robber Baron.

Yes, CECOT is a concentration camp in the guise of a prison. The Venezuelans were the first people to *ever* be released from CECOT since Bukele opened the prison in January 2023. Seriously. The first.

“We both know Trump is the guilty one, fucknut.”

The guy who famously crosses every border in one night without documentation?

bari weiss saw this and decided that she had to hide it from the american public