2025 will be remembered for the 4chan-ification of federal social media open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

A free press cannot function if the government is able to exercise veto power over critical reporting simply by refusing to engage. The public has the right to question how CBS will ensure the independence and integrity of its journalism going forward.

I revisited the administration's most unhinged social media production of 2025:

In case you're unclear on what JD Vance is trying to do here maybe it will help to recall Italian writer Ignazio Silone's 1938 description of what fascism is: “Fascism is a counter-revolution against a revolution that never took place.”

Sure sounds to me like he’s picking a side bsky.app/profile/atru...

This is NYT headline morning after JD’s grotesque hot blast of white supremacist nativism at Turning Point’s hate-fest?!

Trump just blocked 5 offshore wind farms, upending billions in investment. The administration cited "national security" concerns. But this is Trump's (dirty) Energy Dominance agenda at work...

Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

Happy solstice

Research shows “Christian nation” language signals: 1. 👑 Desire for traditional social hierarchies 2. 🚧 Commitment to strong ethno-racial boundaries 3. 💰 Idealizing free-market capitalism 4. 🔒 Preference for authoritarian social control 5. 🌀 Embrace of populism, victimhood & conspiracies

The white nationalism is unvarnished. These people are repellent

Moscow

Oh hi Richard Branson

Who is the birthday buddy?

Omg

Hello! I write a newsletter. It comes out in 12 hours. It is free. Would you like to sign up to get it? You would? Nice! Thanks. Here’s a link. howtoreadthisch.art

You really get a sense of what degenerate wastrels these folks are

NEW: I was just on a call with @rokhanna.bsky.social — who says just 2.5 gigabytes out of a total of 300 gigabytes of the Epstein Files — have been released by the DOJ.

There's a section of the new files that has poorly reproduced thumbnails of photos that seem more 😬

HUGE NEWS from the new Epstein files: Records show that Maria Farmer, who worked for Epstein, filed a "child pornography" report to the FBI in 1996. The FBI has never before acknowledged that complaint. The case went nowhere, and mass abuse followed. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/u...

Like I dunno if it matters if you didn't go to the island if the party plane looked like this

Other shots from the plane

This guy is a meme waiting to happen

Clinton's statement

Quite a trip!

Not great, Bill

More Bill.

Well...

Bill Clinton in a hot tub with a redacted individual

Bill Clinton and Ghislaine

Is this who I think it is?

More persons unkown

The pants are a crime unto themselves

Wag the dog

Ok here's a little something. #golfcartguy

Some of these people redacted themselves

Some of these redactions are almost like modern art

When in doubt redact i guess?

Tariffed penguins, sabotaged escalators, and tin-pot parades, oh my...

“Anyone who survived the first Trump administration knew the second term would be a wild ride. But the 47th president’s preposterous behavior in 2025 has left even jaded observers of American democracy in a state of shock-and-awe.” @timdickinson.bsky.social

We made it through a lot this year. A look back at 15 moments where you probably felt insane...

Vandalism, but make it narcissistic

Five years ago today, Trump summoned a mob to Washington, DC for a “protest” on Jan. 6, 2021, tweeting: “Be there, will be wild!” Rightwing extremists began planning for violence almost immediately. www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/...

Sen. Ron Wyden on the Trump DOJ not producing all of the Epstein files, as required by law: "Anything short of a full release today is a violation of the law and a continuation of this administration’s coverup on behalf of a bunch of pedophiles and sex traffickers."

Moderated by an AI hologram of Phyllis Schlafly I'm presuming?

Venezuela is not a Pacific nation.... So whose nationals are these?

Trump's speech, the remix

Woke math