US issues visa sanctions against five European figures, with demands that boil down to Europeans can’t enforce their own laws and must give special treatment to Trump-favored tech oligarchs. The sensible response from Europe would be a hard no, and deeper regulation enforcement. Are they up for it?

He was despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief.

The State department continues to use false allegations of "censorship" to censor people, or in this case sanction them www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/t...

The American government is banning regulators from other countries at the request of the richest man in the world, in a display that confirms they will punish any country not willing to sell their digital sovereignty as cheaply as the US has www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/t...

Trump is now calling for Stephen Colbert to be killed

I'm not saying something that people don't already know. But it's worth making the issue explicit. We have an elaborate jurisprudence of probable cause, rooted in explicit strictures in the constitution that places big limits on what police can do to you. Those limits may be honored in the breach...

Here's a downloadable link to the 60 MINUTES piece that Trump's enablers at Paramount's CBS refused to air. Share it far and wide. Thanks @jasonparis.bsky.social for posting. #60Minutes

download your own copy. make this thing samizdat, until CBS is forced to air it.

Just within the past hour, nearly a dozen YouTube accounts have posted the pulled 60 Minutes CECOT story. CBS and Google can keep trying to take them all down, but it's sort of pointless now.

Mirrored here for when that gets taken down: archive.org/details/3mam...

OK I've watched it. One key piece that hasn't been discussed: DHS didn't just decline to comment, they explicitly referred all questions to El Salvador.

WATCH: Here's the segment CBS News pulled from "60 Minutes" last night

Bari Weiss is just the oligarch's tool. Larry Ellison is the oligarch buying up the media to crush opposition to Trump.

ICE agents illegally break into a woman's bathroom in a NY nutrition bar manufacturing plant. "Pull up your pants," says a male agent. The agents only had a warrant to review employer documents. They didn't have a warrant to search for, detain, or arrest anyone there.

The Oath Keepers built a massive stockpile of guns for Jan 6th and kept them in a hotel in Virginia because of D.C.'s strict gun laws.

Bari Weiss’ CBS is what the tech fascists mean by creating “parallel” journalism. Create new fake brands (“The Free Press”) or hollow out existing brands and replace with right-wing clones. Or both! That’s why I included her in the “Mirror World Mafia” last year.

The right, along the Roberts Court, is trying to nullify the Reconstruction amendments guaranteeing equality under the law, in order to restore the Antebellum Constitution, which envisions “liberty” as an eternal aristocracy of race and class (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Greenland alarmed after Trump appoints special envoy to make country ‘part of the US’

From 2022: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Andrew Johnson illegally fired Edwin Stanton on Feb 21, 1868. The House voted, in a one-sentence resolution, to impeach him on Feb 24. The actual articles were adopted March 2-3. The Senate trial began on March 4. Twelve days from the offense itself to facing trial for it.

Let's do the fucking [file not found]

Speaker Mike Johnson: "We're going to work on that [Charlie Kirk] statue in the Capitol."

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...

🚨 The DOJ appears to have redacted Donald Trump’s name from the allegations made in this exhibit in the Epstein files. Trump’s name was in the original release. Now, it’s blacked out. See for yourself.

When Trump came back to office, Putin studied psychological profiles of his circle and decided he wanted to deal with Witkoff not Kellogg. A year later, Kellogg is out and Witkoff, who Trump says "knew nothing" about Russia, has been to Russia six times. www.wsj.com/world/putin-...

The White House has been caught. The administration inserted a photo of Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross into the Epstein files and falsely implied it showed them with victims. In reality, it’s a publicly available fundraiser photo featuring Jackson and Ross’s own children.

A key to understand how the Bondi DOJ may be trying to hide information on other men implicated in Epstein's crimes: Note how Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche's letter to Congress says DOJ is redacting information not only permitted by the Epstein Act but also ... the Privacy Act.⬇️

By essentially redacting most photos but Epstein and Bill Clinton, the DOJ is further undermining any pretense that the agency is anything other than a Trump goon squad. And for what, bc this ploy is not going to pass muster with victims.

They're not waiting on the Supreme Court to tell them they can ignore the clear, plain text of the 14th Amendment that everyone born in the US is a birthright citizenship. They are trying to erase the citizenship of anyone with skin darker than Stephen Miller's through administrative action alone.

Noem is using the Brown University shooter to end an entire visa program, but it should be noted that Pete Hegseth, just today, murdered more than twice as many people

“They’re denying that any of her birth certificates, which are from Laurel, Maryland, her records of immunization, medical records — they’re denying the authenticity of them. It is something I’ve never encountered.” www.huffpost.com/entry/us-cit...

The White House claims the vote to rename the Kennedy Center was “unanimous.” That is false. I was muted on the call and denied the opportunity to speak or register my opposition. That is not consensus. That is censorship.

Our new golden age of free speech, where opposition to immigration enforcement can trigger a federal investigation

"manufactured as a basis of targeting authority with no basis in law" www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Sounds crazy, I know, but this crowd really believes that most people share their worldview and personal bugaboos, and the only reason it looks otherwise is crusading Moaists captured all institutions and used their dominance to force people to parrot radical leftist views. No, seriously, they do.

those who predicted authoritarianism were both dismissed, & deeply misunderstood, by the media my latest for @newrepublic.com newrepublic.com/article/2042...

very weird feeling watching a seemingly coked out president yell at you for 20 minutes straight

The Bundy occupation at Malheur in early 2016 (and the lack of consequences they faced for it) was a sign of what was to come. Right wing white anti-government vigilantes cast as “patriots.”

Mad king watch. Maduro is vile but this is just the same shakedown playbook he uses against everyone weaker than him. It could lead us to war.

The power combo for every right-wing populist party is “we’ll kick out the immigrants, and spend the money we save on YOU.” Republicans are too anti-welfare state to go there. So their version is “your house will be cheaper when the migrants are gone, also here’s a massive healthcare bill.”

A deeply dangerous — and blatantly retaliatory action against Colorado — by the Trump administration. NCAR is one of the most renowned scientific facilities in the WORLD — where scientists perform cutting-edge research everyday. We will fight this reckless directive with every legal tool we have.

Hearing this is payback for Colorado not honoring Trump/Peters ‘pardon’

Trump has served a default on the folks running the public project so he can take the course and turn the national park courses into, it seems obvious, a high end private course administered by his own golf company golfweek.usatoday.com/story/sports...

Via our friends at TheLandCle.org in Cleveland, a story about how "Trash Fish" and his lake monster are helping clean up Lake Erie. Couldn't help thinking: Just the kind of saga Rob Reiner would have loved. More from Deb Fallows here: www.ourtownsfoundation.org/plastic-mons...

People support him because he reflects their values and character. He reflects their souls.

I’m just going to tell the story. Back in 2000 I was volunteering for the Gore campaign when he came along with Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Alfre Woodard and Dule Hill to a GOTV event here in MN. He ended up sitting down across from me stuffing his envelopes.

Shocked by the awful death of Rob Reiner. I spoke with him for over an hour last night. We talked about his work and his plans for the future. I always enjoyed his company. We met at his Dad's in 1975. Last thing he said to me was "See you next year.." Such a terrible end. Such a sweet man.

musk's narrative is very, very classically fascist - the latest posting spree is straight early hitler i know you're not allowed to compare people to hilter, i know that's taken as a sign you're being unserious but honestly, the biggest difference is hitler's a better writer