I used to think they were all nuts when they’d carry on non-stop about deep state cabals, powerful pedophile rings and highly connected sex traffickers. It turns out they knew exactly what they were talking about. They were talking about themselves.

The Palm Beach Police helped to victimize child trafficking victims. It made victims not cooperate with the federal investigation. Here is the 2007 federal grand jury testimony showing that they threatened to charge victims who came forward.

The first time I searched Trump, there were over 900 records found. I also confirmed there are now 332.

Delvin Francisco Rodriguez, 39, an immigrant from Nicaragua, was declared dead at Merit Health Natchez in Natchez, Mississippi, following a “failed test to determine brain function.” Previously, Rodriguez was detained at the Adams County Correctional Center.

Did the United States really spend trillions of dollars on winning the Cold War, only for its president in 2025 take orders from a Russian dictator? This is an earth-shattering humiliation for America of which its reputation may never recover.

The Court finds the deployments in violation of Posse Comitatus, Justice Kavanaugh even questioning whether there is any authority sufficient for deploying military for law enforcement.

Still unreported, should be investigated: ICE shot Richard outside a mall. I visited mall security office. Guard said ICE and LAPD came in, used thumb drive to copy mall’s video footage, and THEN DELETED THE EVIDENCE from mall’s local drives. He showed me the missing timeline part saying “no data.”

Best explanation I have seen. A must. youtu.be/B04RdVc3ChM?...

Award worthy

This is not how a normal Justice Department talks about an ongoing investigation—or about putative targets and their uncharged conduct.

They’ve been slashing healthcare due to “waste, fraud and abuse”. Telling people they must “prove they matter” to receive Medicaid. Yet this man frauded the system of $1.2 billion dollars and what does he get? A pardon! It was never about saving money. It’s eugenics.

“The Court got a very big one right—in ways that will almost certainly make it more difficult, as it should be, for the Trump administration to attempt to militarize domestic law enforcement based on dubious factual predicates.” Me in today’s “One First” on four takeaways from Trump v. Illinois:

Trump-Musk defunded USAID. As of Nov 2025, this caused as many as 600,000 deaths – 342, 000 of them children (Boston Univ). If USAID or some type of equivalence is not reestablished, by 2030 the death-toll will be 14 million – 4.5 million of them children under 5 yrs old (Lancet). This is Genocide.

The economic disruption/sabotage of deporting millions of workers at time of near full employment is only just beginning to be felt. “Construction can’t continue”: South Texas builders say ICE arrests have upended industry www.texastribune.org/2025/12/24/s...

Good morning from the river's edge. #StormHour #Photography #Nature #Abstract

Lobbyists close to Trump say his going rate for a pardon is $1 million www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

So not a meeting. A spectacle.

Bottomless corruption.

Perhaps the guy who doubled his net worth by raking in billions via crypto dinners could put up some of his own cash instead of scamming your grandparents out of $2,500 during the holidays.

Trump offering states a "deal" like the higher ed compact that would vastly and unconstitutionally expand the federal government's powers (in this case, over election administration)

Trump and his DOJ are again making noise about the ghosts of 2020. At the epicenter—Georgia and Fulton County, which next year will once again play a major role in deciding the balance of power in Washington. More at today’s PN with @atrupar.com: www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-geor...

Russia just bombed the main highway leading into Kharkiv - heavy traffic with families returning home after Christmas - cars are burning with people in them. And we discuss signing something with them?

271,000 people have lost their jobs and federal spending has ctually increased. So people get less services, while we added debt paying for private jets for Kristi Noem, bulletproof cars for Kash Patel. This is what the rust belt voters demanded.

Every Democrat running for office needs to promise investigations and full prosecutions from top to bottom, remove its funding bloat then break up the agency and distribute its core remaining useful functions across other agencies.

NEW: A prominent free speech group helped right-wing dark money score a legal win against an Ohio school board and its anti-bullying policy, which protected transgender and nonbinary students. www.importantcontext.news/p/how-a-free...

Tenenbaum’s Garden www.chicagomag.com/chicago-maga...

"Donald Trump calls himself the “Peace President.” But this week, as he outlined his plans to capture Greenland and hijack Venezuelan oil, his real agenda became obvious. It’s not peace. It’s extortion, conquest, and theft." open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

I always thought Plato was pretty pollyannaish on this point, but this is decent evidence for the view that a man of bad character will therefore be unhappy even with every external trapping of success and good fortune.

Wow

The top is after Trump’s DOJ redactions below is without, I can almost figure out who they are protecting

@katherinepomps.bsky.social, Olivia Manes, @ericcolumbus.bsky.social, Loren Voss, @sranderson.bsky.social, @atabatabai.bsky.social, @tylermcbrien.com, Jakub Kraus, @kevintfrazier.bsky.social, @noupside.bsky.social, and @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org. youtu.be/e_kgbelGiMI

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As the president outlined his plans to capture Greenland and hijack Venezuelan oil, his real agenda became obvious. It’s extortion, conquest, and theft. Remember when he was the peace president? Today's Morning Shots, from @saletan.bsky.social and @cathyyoung63.bsky.social:

Merry Christmas! It’s going to be 80 degrees here in Flowermound Texas please enjoy any snow that may come your way! Sending love and light and lots of hugs to all! ❤️❤️❤️

As Trump increasingly enables plutocrats, his kids, and other allies to take more than they give, this formulation seems like the inversion of reality, except insofar as Trump, his children, and Elon Musk are themselves immigrants or the children of immigrants.

Here’s the U.S. government being officially religious in a country with no official religion.

Too subtle for Trump and MAGA?

Kennedy Center Christmas Eve jazz concert canceled after Trump name added to building

Resist!

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?!

Someone needs to take the keys away from Grandpa. "We were there with boats too" is not a foreign policy.

… were they still in the Mar A Lago bathroom?

They have acquired the Supreme Court, the executive branch and much of Congress. They’re openly grabbing billions in government contracts and subsidies, orchestrating the largest transfer of wealth in American history. I’m on team pitchfork.

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…

Make America Weak open.substack.com/pub/aaronrup...

The Trump administration, at the President’s personal direction, is in the process of moving every death sentence commuted by Biden to this prison. They will be isolated 22 hours a day with one hour per MONTH of contact with the outside world. In a sane court, that is cruel and unusual punishment.

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“I’m 84 years old. Threats against my life expectancy are kind of hollow. I don’t have much time anyway. I’m more concerned that our democracy is at risk because of the trends against the rule of law.” www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...