“Trump’s presidency is enabled, normalized, and protected by a wide class of political, legal, media, and economic elites who chose caution, self-interest, or fear over civic responsibility… The most conspicuous retreat came from Republicans in Congress.” open.substack.com/pub/marcfrie...

Safe and happy holiday, everyone!

"It's A Wonderful Life" isn't just a feel-good holiday classic (and my favorite movie of all time). It's also a warning about what happens when greed runs the economy.

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BRICS offloading their US dollar holdings, so far over $27billion the last few days. This matters b/c they want to end the US dollar as world’s reserve currency - and the domestic problems we have right now are making that a lighter lift. If it happens, it’ll cause a Great Depression 2.0 for us

NORAD is using "Gulf of Mexico" on their Santa tracker. That's hilarious!

But I thought all the reporters and govt people said there was nothing in the Epstein Files implicating The Felon in anything illegal 😒

Love to see BlueSky grow, but every influx brings some of the pestilence that has infected our country. Dealing with rethuglicans on BSky is as easy as 1-2-3...

Perjury. Contempt of Congress. Lying to the public. It’s all there in the files. Documents show that federal investigators knew of at least 10 co-conspirators. Why were they never prosecuted? Why is the Admin shielding their names? Why did they lie to Congress? We will get to the bottom of this.

Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse; The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, And 1 million Epstein files appeared from thin air

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i would remind anyone that if you used twitter since like mid 2024 you've legally consented to grok training and modifying your art. if you didn't know this, now you do. if you need twitter for a living, limit what you upload but otherwise just leave

Peace on Earth. Goodwill to all.

Jury nullification. Wow.

A small (personal) example of this book’s intellectual dishonesty: My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media. Huh? When did I say that?!

They’re now calling this a K-shaped economy. Guess which part of the K most of us are?

Watching “Sum of All Fears” for the billionth time because it makes me feel better to pretend Russia isn’t run by a madman and that we have an intelligence community who permanently solves risks to the US.

"'I am so disgusted with this administration,' said Haley Robson, who voted for Trump, told CNN. 'I think Kash Patel and Pam Bondi both need to resign, and I would love to see Number 47 [Trump] get impeached over this.'" {gift link} www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...

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They got caught. They’re backing down. But this isn’t over. There needs to be a class action lawsuit. Instacart admitted it was using AI to charge different people different prices for the exact same items. Algorithmic price gouging. That scam could cost a family of four $1,200 more a year.

BREAKING: Activists who removed Trump's redactions uncovered a document stating Epstein's lawyer Darren Indyke paid off Russian models on behalf of Epstein. He now works at a law firm that represents guess who - wait for it… Pete Hegseth. 😎✨

Clinicians who actually saw the horrors of COVID (and didn’t get infected, because masks fucking work 🤷🏻‍♂️) are pretty pissed at this. Especially the @newyorker.com - I expect better 🤦🏻‍♂️

The thesis of the book is that early COVID lockdowns weren't worth it and mid-COVID mitigation measures like masks, contact tracing and business closures don't work. This is laughably false and the authors have endorsed the people now running Trump's HHS.

Turning Point USA sought to cancel Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl performance because MAGA hadn’t realized Puerto Ricans are U.S citizens. Bad Bunny is a U.S citizen Nicki Minaj isn’t. Pass it on.

A prime example of letting the perfect be the enemy of the good. Bernie wanted a bigger bill, so he blocked a bipartisan kids' cancer research bill that would have given children access to experimental life-saving treatments. But given his legislative record, will a bigger bill ever get passed? 1/3

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.

Khanna: You’ve got the DOJ releasing the names of survivors—which they are not allowed to do by law—but not releasing the FBI interview files with those same survivors. Those FBI interviews contain the names of other men: Wall Street tycoons and politicians…

Alito is an actual idiot. Federalized NG = functioning as regular forces because they’ve been called into active duty. Jfc. There’s a reason Sandra Day O’Connor overturned Alito’s opinion on the regular. He’s an actual idiot.

I’ve just stopped reading SCOTUS opinion on this. Majority gives a correct, but convoluted, 2.5 page opinion summed as “you failed to cite your legal justification.” Kavanaugh’s concurrence shows he can’t do reading comprehension, and stopped at Alito/Thomas dissent due to the idiotic reasoning.

Kavanaugh literally said it was totes fine to stop people based on race and ethnicity in a recent opinion. Now, he says the opposite. Unreal

About the card Jeffrey Epstein purportedly sent to Larry Nassar: * The postmark is from Virginia, not New York where Epstein was jailed * The return address is incorrect and doesn't include his register number * FBI sought a handwriting analysis. Don't know outcome. www.reuters.com/world/us/jus...

So I hate to be That Guy, but we're entering into uncertain territory here with the Epstein Files, and it's more important than ever that we make sure we know all the facts before we blow things up. I'm talking now about the "tips" that DOJ is now releasing. They sound super salacious and evil.

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And then there’s this FBI request to have a lab examine the letter to determine if it was written by Jeffrey Epstein or someone else. Makes me think DOJ didn’t think Epstein killed himself. Why else question the authenticity of a letter signed with his name and found in his cell? 🤔

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

I bet not. Future revisions will come and will almost certainly show things slowing, and it’s important to keep in mind 40% of our current GDP is being driven by AI investment. Then there’s the I E hiring spree to consider, too. Consumer spending isn’t the reason. www.nbcnews.com/business/eco...

Well this is just super special…found in recent batch of Epstein Files, Epstein commiserates with fellow sexual assaulter Larry Nassar then directly implicates The Felon. FYI, you can see this letter for yourself in the Epstein Files by searching for the word “nubile” 😒

(Reuters) - China imported no soybeans from the United States for a third straight month in November, as buyers turned to South American supplies amid fears of a shortfall if the trade war with Washington dragged on. @reuters.com www.producer.com/daily/china-...

Deporting a US citizen who provided proof of citizenship is the Red Line that should end ICE for good. Where tf is the ACLU? Jfc 😡

I didn’t try this on every redaction, but the ones I did try the day of the release were not done sloppily enough for this to work.

All of these bootlegged copies of the 60 Minutes segment flooding my feed (saying, ‘Watch it quick! Before it disappears!’) makes me feel like I’m in the Soviet Union and just got some black market foreign newspaper I need to hide under a floorboard in my house. This is where America is now

if they had just shown it on 60 Minutes nobody would have seen it

YT posts are getting blocked. You can still get it here (for now) bsky.app/profile/pale...

S5:Ep20 of The West Wing, Toby lambasts Will about how he could end up getting the imbecile Russel elected POTUS. It was meant as a slap to people who helped elect Bush Jr, but man… the way that slap applies to those who got The Felon elected even after the first term disaster. Oof.

The Russian Foreign Ministry has begun the evacuation of Russian diplomats and their families from Venezuela - Associated Press. 😂 The Russian Foreign Ministry denied the evacuation of the Russian embassy from Venezuela.

Even if you were unaware with how central Hans Von Spakovsky has been to right wing conspiracies about nonexistent “voter fraud,” you would still be right to think it’s a bad sign that someone named Hans Von Spakovsky thinks Heritage has gone too far to the right

No, we really do not

All of MAGA was built on blatant provable lies, and none of the MAGAts were smart enough to see through it. Now, the remaining ones are in so deep the Lying Liars who hooked them are having to make up new lies to take them back from other Lying Liars lying to them.

I would never have bothered to watch this 60 Minutes segment if the Propaganda Director at CBS hadn’t pulled the segment. Streisand Effect alive and well.